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shadowkat1. Watched the first episode of Picard S3 on Paramount Plus tonight (only one has dropped so far) and it's excellent. Better than the first episodes of the last two seasons (which were good as well, but not excellent). This one delivered. You do however have to watch it movie style - with the lights turned off, on a big screen television set.
They've wisely only brought back Orla Brady (Laris), Michelle Hurd (Raffi) and Jeri Ryan (Seven) of the first two season's cast. The others were kind of weak. Also Brent Spiner's Lore appears to be in there somewhere, although not featured in this episode.
Beverly Crusher, Will Ryker, Picard are all in the first episode. And the episode is gripping, with a nice mystery component.
Here the Trailer.
This episode also mentions that it is for "Annie" at the end - "Annie" refers to the actress who played the "Borg Queen" and recently died of cancer this year.
2. Recently a few authors on Twitter commented on how matching a writing style to a reader is hard. Not all books (or television) shows work for all people. Humor in particular is in the eye of the beholder.
I have a very dry and offbeat sense of humor, as you've no doubt figured out by now. My sense of humor is all over my journal entries. I inherited it from my Dad who has a very dry biting wit. One online friend, Andrew Jorgensen aka D'Herblay once informed me that I had the funniest dry wit he'd encountered. It doesn't work for everyone. My father once said - "it can often turn off your fellow humans..." more or less as a warning.
My father and I also share(d) the same sense of humor. We like subtle wit.
Parody and satire rarely works for us - since it's often done too broadly or as my father would state, it needs a light touch. Movies like Austin Powers tended to annoy me, or make me cringe. But I did like Stephen Colbert. And found Trevor Noah hilarious.
Witty comedies like Cheers (early Cheers), Fraiser, Night Court (early on), News Radio, WKRP....worked for me. But a lot of the later more recent ones, I feel are too broad. And I can't watch Everybody Loves Raymond or Threes Company, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or god forbid Fleabag. I tried 30 Rock - Tina Fey and I are unmixy things. Her brand of humor makes me cringe. I don't do insult humor well, and I don't like embarrassment comedy - which my mother once stated that anyone who has ever been the brunt of, most likely won't be able to handle. My father hated it as well.
This proves true with books as well, I've tried a lot of comedy writers. Christopher Moore ( who was okay, and funny in places, but I got bored after a bit - it drug), Grady Hendrix (sigh, I got bored and annoyed - he's a writer I wanted to smack), Carrie Fisher (she has a dry wit - and self-deprecating), Chuck Windigo (sp?) (also smack), the writer of Wherever did you go, Bernadette (I didn't find it funny and got bored), Sophia Kinsella (just no); I did like Helen Fielding - the first Bridget Jones Diary was hilarious in places.
I don't like satire or parody all that much. It bores me. The only episodes of the Good Place that I loved were the ones making fun of philosophy, the others irritated me. My favorite Season was S2. My least favorite was S1.
I hated the Office, not a fan of any of the documentary style sitcoms, She-Hulk wasn't funny, nor was Ms. Marvel. I did however laugh at Captain Marvel (I found the cat hilarious).
I think it's really hard to understand another person's sense of humor. And those we spend or want to spend the most time with - usually share it. Wales and I have the same sense of humor. My brother and I? It varies. Everyone in my immediate family has a morbid sense of humor.
Humor is painful. It's offensive to someone. And it's hard to explain. And impossible to recommend.
3. Watched The Company You Keep - I think that's the name of it? Is on ABC on Sunday night, or was this past Sunday night. Also streams on Hulu. It stars Milo V (from This is Us and Gilmore Girls), William Richter (a talented character actor), Polly Draper, and a few others. Milo plays Charlie, who is a con man in a criminal family - they run cons. During his last con - his fiancee rips him off - stealing their take and disappearing.
Depressed he hooks up with a beautiful woman at a hotel. The woman at the hotel is a CIA agent, who had just discovered her boyfriend, fiancee cheating on her in a hotel room - which he'd been doing for a while now.
Neither knows what the other one does for a living. And we go from there.
It has potential, even if the pilot is a bit on the clunky side or clunkier than I'd like. I feel like it's a bit rough around the edges, and needed a bit more editing and fine tuning before airing. (But I've also been watching a lot of high quality stuff on PBS, NETFLIX and PARAMOUNT PLUS...so there's that.)
They've wisely only brought back Orla Brady (Laris), Michelle Hurd (Raffi) and Jeri Ryan (Seven) of the first two season's cast. The others were kind of weak. Also Brent Spiner's Lore appears to be in there somewhere, although not featured in this episode.
Beverly Crusher, Will Ryker, Picard are all in the first episode. And the episode is gripping, with a nice mystery component.
Here the Trailer.
This episode also mentions that it is for "Annie" at the end - "Annie" refers to the actress who played the "Borg Queen" and recently died of cancer this year.
2. Recently a few authors on Twitter commented on how matching a writing style to a reader is hard. Not all books (or television) shows work for all people. Humor in particular is in the eye of the beholder.
I have a very dry and offbeat sense of humor, as you've no doubt figured out by now. My sense of humor is all over my journal entries. I inherited it from my Dad who has a very dry biting wit. One online friend, Andrew Jorgensen aka D'Herblay once informed me that I had the funniest dry wit he'd encountered. It doesn't work for everyone. My father once said - "it can often turn off your fellow humans..." more or less as a warning.
My father and I also share(d) the same sense of humor. We like subtle wit.
Parody and satire rarely works for us - since it's often done too broadly or as my father would state, it needs a light touch. Movies like Austin Powers tended to annoy me, or make me cringe. But I did like Stephen Colbert. And found Trevor Noah hilarious.
Witty comedies like Cheers (early Cheers), Fraiser, Night Court (early on), News Radio, WKRP....worked for me. But a lot of the later more recent ones, I feel are too broad. And I can't watch Everybody Loves Raymond or Threes Company, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or god forbid Fleabag. I tried 30 Rock - Tina Fey and I are unmixy things. Her brand of humor makes me cringe. I don't do insult humor well, and I don't like embarrassment comedy - which my mother once stated that anyone who has ever been the brunt of, most likely won't be able to handle. My father hated it as well.
This proves true with books as well, I've tried a lot of comedy writers. Christopher Moore ( who was okay, and funny in places, but I got bored after a bit - it drug), Grady Hendrix (sigh, I got bored and annoyed - he's a writer I wanted to smack), Carrie Fisher (she has a dry wit - and self-deprecating), Chuck Windigo (sp?) (also smack), the writer of Wherever did you go, Bernadette (I didn't find it funny and got bored), Sophia Kinsella (just no); I did like Helen Fielding - the first Bridget Jones Diary was hilarious in places.
I don't like satire or parody all that much. It bores me. The only episodes of the Good Place that I loved were the ones making fun of philosophy, the others irritated me. My favorite Season was S2. My least favorite was S1.
I hated the Office, not a fan of any of the documentary style sitcoms, She-Hulk wasn't funny, nor was Ms. Marvel. I did however laugh at Captain Marvel (I found the cat hilarious).
I think it's really hard to understand another person's sense of humor. And those we spend or want to spend the most time with - usually share it. Wales and I have the same sense of humor. My brother and I? It varies. Everyone in my immediate family has a morbid sense of humor.
Humor is painful. It's offensive to someone. And it's hard to explain. And impossible to recommend.
3. Watched The Company You Keep - I think that's the name of it? Is on ABC on Sunday night, or was this past Sunday night. Also streams on Hulu. It stars Milo V (from This is Us and Gilmore Girls), William Richter (a talented character actor), Polly Draper, and a few others. Milo plays Charlie, who is a con man in a criminal family - they run cons. During his last con - his fiancee rips him off - stealing their take and disappearing.
Depressed he hooks up with a beautiful woman at a hotel. The woman at the hotel is a CIA agent, who had just discovered her boyfriend, fiancee cheating on her in a hotel room - which he'd been doing for a while now.
Neither knows what the other one does for a living. And we go from there.
It has potential, even if the pilot is a bit on the clunky side or clunkier than I'd like. I feel like it's a bit rough around the edges, and needed a bit more editing and fine tuning before airing. (But I've also been watching a lot of high quality stuff on PBS, NETFLIX and PARAMOUNT PLUS...so there's that.)
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Date: 2023-02-21 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-21 04:47 pm (UTC)That's a slightly better set-up. Also, Charlie is more likable, and charismatic than the Peter Krause's lead was. And there's more chemistry with him and the CIA agent.
The Catch is similar in a way - except it's more about an security firm's obsession with one guy. Which is interesting - but in order for it to have worked, they needed two charismatic leads, they didn't have them.
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Date: 2023-02-22 01:37 am (UTC)Same. I get second hand embarrassment way too easily.
I wanted to see The Company You Keep. It sounded interesting.
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Date: 2023-02-22 03:31 am (UTC)Company You Keep is available for streaming on Hulu, and on Sundays on ABC.