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Television Roundup....
Feb. 17th, 2024 10:55 pmStill furious about the CPAP debacle. I was blatantly lied to.
But alas, there's nothing I can do about it tonight.
Here's a picture from my walk today to the grocery store in Ditmas (aka Flatbush) Brooklyn. It's the area of the city that looks like Greenwhich, CT. In fact you wouldn't know you were in NYC walking through it. It's south of Prospect Park.
We got about four to five inches of snow last night. It quietly fell until around nine am, this morning. It's pretty. I missed it. (I don't have to shovel any of it, or put down ice - so not an issue.) Also I like snow.
I don't really think I can live in areas without it or Winter. I like the turn of seasons.
The walk cleared my head a bit. Plus sunny with blue skies.
Came home, had a gin and tonic - which numbed my wrath, and my aches & pains. And watched Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I on Paramount Plus.
It's not a good movie. Too much exposition needed to explain the plot, which isn't that interesting. The stunts and chase scenes were however fun. I rather liked the train sequence. Cruise handles action sequences well.
My attention kept wandering during it - the only scenes that were interesting were the insane stunts. But it's free on Paramount Plus.
Tried:
* Tracker - got bored after about fifteen to twenty minutes. Gave up. It's basically about this guy who was trained on how to track people as a kid who has set up a tracking service to track missing people. His lesbian sister and her partner, and a lawyer help him. (I think?) And the back story appears to be that his dad took off, he tracked him down and found him, dead? I stopped somewhere around there. The writing and production are kind of lackluster. I'd say the acting was - but I've seen in the actor in other things, and he is a good actor. He just doesn't have much to work with here. It could just be the pilot though. Pilots tend to be clunky for the most part.
LouderMilk - about a scruffy therapist running a group AA clinic out of a church. The priest tells him to help a parishioners daughter deal with an addiction in return for keeping his clinic in the church. Apparently they've gotten complaints on how he runs it? (Netflix) - I gave up ten minutes in. It could be me.
Orion and the Dark - (Netflix) may go back to. It's told in an interesting way - but the animation is kind of substandard? Although I do like the use of felt for some of the characters, and how it does Dark, Sleep, Sweet Dreams, Insomina, Weird Noises, and Quiet. Quiet is rather cute. The human characters, sigh. I don't know why animators struggle with human characters in these things. It did surprise me in how they are telling it - told as a story or riff by a father to his daughter at night, to help her deal with her fears. And it shifts back and forth from the story, to the father/daughter talking about the story, and him telling it. Kind of like The Princess Bride?
Makami House - (Netflix) - this is horribly dubbed, which I found distracting. The lips don't match the dubbing. I hear them talking but the mouths aren't moving, or they are moving late. Also the close captioning doesn't match. It gave me a headache. I gave up. But I loved the concept - about a girl who tried to become a Makami, but becomes their chef instead. And is an amazing chef.
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Landed on Rustin - Netflix. This was produced by the Obamas. And the lead performance was nominated for Best Actor (made history as the first Latino African-American to be nominated). It's about Bayard Rustin's push for and organization of the 250,000 Civil Rights March on Washington - which lead to MLK's I Have a Dream Speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It was the largest protest march of its time. And resulted in the Civil Rights Bill being passed. Or aided its progression. The focus though is on Bayard Rustin - a Black homosexual activist.
And it's excellent. Held my interest, and surprised me. The lead actor, Colman Domingo, is excellent in the role. I looked for it - because of an Actor's round table that I saw with Cillian Murphy, Jeffrey Wright, Colman Domingo, Mark Ruffalo, and Paul Giammaiti. Domingo really impressed me.
So I hunted down his film. And he is amazing. (I'm sorry Paul, but between Murphy and Colman, you are outgunned in my opinion. I may hunt down American Fiction with Jeffrey Wright, flirting with the Holdovers, which is either Peacock (I don't subscribe) or $5.95.
But alas, there's nothing I can do about it tonight.
Here's a picture from my walk today to the grocery store in Ditmas (aka Flatbush) Brooklyn. It's the area of the city that looks like Greenwhich, CT. In fact you wouldn't know you were in NYC walking through it. It's south of Prospect Park.
We got about four to five inches of snow last night. It quietly fell until around nine am, this morning. It's pretty. I missed it. (I don't have to shovel any of it, or put down ice - so not an issue.) Also I like snow.
I don't really think I can live in areas without it or Winter. I like the turn of seasons.
The walk cleared my head a bit. Plus sunny with blue skies.
Came home, had a gin and tonic - which numbed my wrath, and my aches & pains. And watched Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I on Paramount Plus.
It's not a good movie. Too much exposition needed to explain the plot, which isn't that interesting. The stunts and chase scenes were however fun. I rather liked the train sequence. Cruise handles action sequences well.
My attention kept wandering during it - the only scenes that were interesting were the insane stunts. But it's free on Paramount Plus.
Tried:
* Tracker - got bored after about fifteen to twenty minutes. Gave up. It's basically about this guy who was trained on how to track people as a kid who has set up a tracking service to track missing people. His lesbian sister and her partner, and a lawyer help him. (I think?) And the back story appears to be that his dad took off, he tracked him down and found him, dead? I stopped somewhere around there. The writing and production are kind of lackluster. I'd say the acting was - but I've seen in the actor in other things, and he is a good actor. He just doesn't have much to work with here. It could just be the pilot though. Pilots tend to be clunky for the most part.
LouderMilk - about a scruffy therapist running a group AA clinic out of a church. The priest tells him to help a parishioners daughter deal with an addiction in return for keeping his clinic in the church. Apparently they've gotten complaints on how he runs it? (Netflix) - I gave up ten minutes in. It could be me.
Orion and the Dark - (Netflix) may go back to. It's told in an interesting way - but the animation is kind of substandard? Although I do like the use of felt for some of the characters, and how it does Dark, Sleep, Sweet Dreams, Insomina, Weird Noises, and Quiet. Quiet is rather cute. The human characters, sigh. I don't know why animators struggle with human characters in these things. It did surprise me in how they are telling it - told as a story or riff by a father to his daughter at night, to help her deal with her fears. And it shifts back and forth from the story, to the father/daughter talking about the story, and him telling it. Kind of like The Princess Bride?
Makami House - (Netflix) - this is horribly dubbed, which I found distracting. The lips don't match the dubbing. I hear them talking but the mouths aren't moving, or they are moving late. Also the close captioning doesn't match. It gave me a headache. I gave up. But I loved the concept - about a girl who tried to become a Makami, but becomes their chef instead. And is an amazing chef.
***
Landed on Rustin - Netflix. This was produced by the Obamas. And the lead performance was nominated for Best Actor (made history as the first Latino African-American to be nominated). It's about Bayard Rustin's push for and organization of the 250,000 Civil Rights March on Washington - which lead to MLK's I Have a Dream Speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It was the largest protest march of its time. And resulted in the Civil Rights Bill being passed. Or aided its progression. The focus though is on Bayard Rustin - a Black homosexual activist.
And it's excellent. Held my interest, and surprised me. The lead actor, Colman Domingo, is excellent in the role. I looked for it - because of an Actor's round table that I saw with Cillian Murphy, Jeffrey Wright, Colman Domingo, Mark Ruffalo, and Paul Giammaiti. Domingo really impressed me.
So I hunted down his film. And he is amazing. (I'm sorry Paul, but between Murphy and Colman, you are outgunned in my opinion. I may hunt down American Fiction with Jeffrey Wright, flirting with the Holdovers, which is either Peacock (I don't subscribe) or $5.95.