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And still more television reviews...
Oct. 4th, 2018 10:27 pmTaking tomorrow off - and get Columbus Day off (yes, I know), so four day weekend. I may go shopping on Columbus Day -- there's apparently great sales. According to cubical mate -- it's the biggest shopping day of the year. So, hmmm, maybe not? Also depends on how my back feels. Going to a play at the Irish Arts Theater with DS tomorrow night. It's entitled "A Man Walks in a Woman's Shoes" - a one man show put on by a guy who went and interviewed a lot of people and then wrote a play about it. She'd seen his first play and it was hilarious and moving, so invited me along to try out the second. Off-Off-Broadway, so only $43 each.
Will let you know how it goes.
Eh, television reviews...
1. Lethal Weapon Reboot Take 2 -- they had to fire the first guy, because he basically pissed off everyone on the show, and is now banned from the set. (They killed off his character. Shame, the actor playing him had screen chemistry to spare, and well, was the only reason I was tuning in on occasion. But he directed a few episodes, and a few people got injured, he got blamed, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah, bang, out.)
So they replaced him with another actor (which looks really familiar) and is sort of a less crazy but highly efficient version of Riggs. He's CIA and rarely uses a gun. Riggs always used guns and explosives.
I watched the first two episodes. Got bored. Surfed the net. So...not a keeper. Sorry.
2. The Cool Kids
Tried the pilot on Hulu...it's actually on network television. No idea what night. Stars Vickie Laurence, Leslie Jordan, David Alan Grier, and Harvey Gorman. Takes place in an old folks home. I found it silly and boring and cliche. "Cocoon" it's not. Actually made me want to watch that flick again, nor is it Mamma's Family.
I couldn't get past the first fifteen minutes. Not funny. More cringe inducing. In comedy? Dialogue matters and so does witty banter. If you don't have it -- you don't have it. And I'm picky. Note, I'm not looking for warm meaningful scenes in a situational comedy. Drama or Dramedy, yes. Comedy, no.
Nor do I need rapid fire jokes. And well, the reason comedy is so much harder than tearjerker, is it's so subjective. What might make one person laugh, might turn off someone else.
So, sorry, not a keeper.
3. A Million Little Things
Saw the pilot on Hulu, because I forgot to tape it. It's on Wednesdays or Tuesdays at 10pm after This is Us. But on ABC. I think.
Eh.
It's not bad. It's not good either. I'm on the fence about it.
Sort of Thirty-something meets This is Us by way of ONCE (that failed series by the writers of Thirty Something...). With a lot of platitudes. I think some of the writers formerly worked for Hallmark.
( Spoilers )
As an aside to the above, yes, there are good television series on. There are over 1000 television shows, movies, documentaries, etc on various distribution channels. The only way you can prove there's nothing good out there or it's not expansive, is to watch all of them, which is humanly impossible. So don't bore me with the whine that there's nothing good on television. My mother does this to me on a weekly basis, it's getting old.
Will let you know how it goes.
Eh, television reviews...
1. Lethal Weapon Reboot Take 2 -- they had to fire the first guy, because he basically pissed off everyone on the show, and is now banned from the set. (They killed off his character. Shame, the actor playing him had screen chemistry to spare, and well, was the only reason I was tuning in on occasion. But he directed a few episodes, and a few people got injured, he got blamed, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah, bang, out.)
So they replaced him with another actor (which looks really familiar) and is sort of a less crazy but highly efficient version of Riggs. He's CIA and rarely uses a gun. Riggs always used guns and explosives.
I watched the first two episodes. Got bored. Surfed the net. So...not a keeper. Sorry.
2. The Cool Kids
Tried the pilot on Hulu...it's actually on network television. No idea what night. Stars Vickie Laurence, Leslie Jordan, David Alan Grier, and Harvey Gorman. Takes place in an old folks home. I found it silly and boring and cliche. "Cocoon" it's not. Actually made me want to watch that flick again, nor is it Mamma's Family.
I couldn't get past the first fifteen minutes. Not funny. More cringe inducing. In comedy? Dialogue matters and so does witty banter. If you don't have it -- you don't have it. And I'm picky. Note, I'm not looking for warm meaningful scenes in a situational comedy. Drama or Dramedy, yes. Comedy, no.
Nor do I need rapid fire jokes. And well, the reason comedy is so much harder than tearjerker, is it's so subjective. What might make one person laugh, might turn off someone else.
So, sorry, not a keeper.
3. A Million Little Things
Saw the pilot on Hulu, because I forgot to tape it. It's on Wednesdays or Tuesdays at 10pm after This is Us. But on ABC. I think.
Eh.
It's not bad. It's not good either. I'm on the fence about it.
Sort of Thirty-something meets This is Us by way of ONCE (that failed series by the writers of Thirty Something...). With a lot of platitudes. I think some of the writers formerly worked for Hallmark.
( Spoilers )
As an aside to the above, yes, there are good television series on. There are over 1000 television shows, movies, documentaries, etc on various distribution channels. The only way you can prove there's nothing good out there or it's not expansive, is to watch all of them, which is humanly impossible. So don't bore me with the whine that there's nothing good on television. My mother does this to me on a weekly basis, it's getting old.