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Oct. 8th, 2023 08:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatFound three new television series today.
1. Restaurants on the Edge (Netflix) - this reality series is about three friends who wander around the world helping struggling restaurants reconnect to their community and thrive. What they do - is Karin, the designer, explores the community for ways to redesign the look of the restaurant, while Dennis, the chef, hunts for ways to incorporate the community's local produce, meat and herbs into a new menu, and third friend hunts for ways to bring in new drinks and spirits. The first episode was in Slovenia - and they helped this failing restaurant redesign itself to meet the needs of its community, by doing a mosaic fireplace, painting the walls, doing a flower wallpaper, bringing in local wild herbs, honey, and a rare orange wine only made in Slovenia. All affordable. The second episode was in the Okinawa Valley in Canada, where Karin hails from, and in that episode they helped a local pub that was failing rediscover the community around it - the redesigned the interior, made it warmer and cozier, brought in local made vodka and spirits, also a wine from a place called Frequency. Frequency ferments wine with musical vibrations, and has a sparkling wine called Gratitude on the Vine, where you buy one bottle, and they gift you a second out of gratitude. They made a grape sorbet from this wine.
It's kind loving show about helping eateries reconnect with their communities, and teaches you something about each area - and provides local establishments with a platform to advertise themselves to the world at large. Watching it made me happy.
This is currently on Netflix.
2. Spy X Family (dubbed on Hulu and Crunchy) - it's adapted from the magna comic book of the same name, and hilarious in places. It's about a Spy (Twilight aka Lodi Forger) who is tasked with infliterating an upper crust school to get intelligence on the Grand Headmaster, by getting close to his kid. In order to do this he has to acquire a child from a local orphanage who can infiliterate the school, and a woman to pose as his wife. Which he does with mixed results. The child he adopts, Anya, turns out to be a precocious telepath who escaped from a scientific research lab (he doesn't know this - all he knows is she's been in multiple orphanages and had multiple families who threw her back into the orphanage. The woman who agrees to pose as his wife, Yuri (aka Thorn Princess) is a secret assassin, who he doesn't know about - he thinks she's a civil servant with insane fighting skills. (Possibly due to yoga and kick-boxing classes.)
It's adorable, relatable, and rather funny in places. I binged through four-five episodes today.
3. Surreal Estate (on Syfy on Wed, and Hulu - the second season starts this Wed on Syfy, the first season is on Hulu) - it's a combo episodic and serial (the characters are serial, but there's cases of the week that are neatly wrapped up). Falls under urban fantasy. The set up? It's about a real estate firm that specializes in haunted houses. They basically fix the problems with the house and sell it to a new family. It's rather clever and has some decent one-liners. I'm enjoying it far more than expected.
Binged through four to five episodes today.
I got two of these recs via tv talk. My only difficulty with tv talk is that a lot of the folks on it watch stuff on their lap tops via bit torrent (which does not work for me) or transfer via USB cable to smart tv's (also doesn't work). So a lot of shows that they rec - I can't see. Also they've no clue how to view them outside of stealing (cough) - getting them from bit torrent sites.
1. Restaurants on the Edge (Netflix) - this reality series is about three friends who wander around the world helping struggling restaurants reconnect to their community and thrive. What they do - is Karin, the designer, explores the community for ways to redesign the look of the restaurant, while Dennis, the chef, hunts for ways to incorporate the community's local produce, meat and herbs into a new menu, and third friend hunts for ways to bring in new drinks and spirits. The first episode was in Slovenia - and they helped this failing restaurant redesign itself to meet the needs of its community, by doing a mosaic fireplace, painting the walls, doing a flower wallpaper, bringing in local wild herbs, honey, and a rare orange wine only made in Slovenia. All affordable. The second episode was in the Okinawa Valley in Canada, where Karin hails from, and in that episode they helped a local pub that was failing rediscover the community around it - the redesigned the interior, made it warmer and cozier, brought in local made vodka and spirits, also a wine from a place called Frequency. Frequency ferments wine with musical vibrations, and has a sparkling wine called Gratitude on the Vine, where you buy one bottle, and they gift you a second out of gratitude. They made a grape sorbet from this wine.
It's kind loving show about helping eateries reconnect with their communities, and teaches you something about each area - and provides local establishments with a platform to advertise themselves to the world at large. Watching it made me happy.
This is currently on Netflix.
2. Spy X Family (dubbed on Hulu and Crunchy) - it's adapted from the magna comic book of the same name, and hilarious in places. It's about a Spy (Twilight aka Lodi Forger) who is tasked with infliterating an upper crust school to get intelligence on the Grand Headmaster, by getting close to his kid. In order to do this he has to acquire a child from a local orphanage who can infiliterate the school, and a woman to pose as his wife. Which he does with mixed results. The child he adopts, Anya, turns out to be a precocious telepath who escaped from a scientific research lab (he doesn't know this - all he knows is she's been in multiple orphanages and had multiple families who threw her back into the orphanage. The woman who agrees to pose as his wife, Yuri (aka Thorn Princess) is a secret assassin, who he doesn't know about - he thinks she's a civil servant with insane fighting skills. (Possibly due to yoga and kick-boxing classes.)
It's adorable, relatable, and rather funny in places. I binged through four-five episodes today.
3. Surreal Estate (on Syfy on Wed, and Hulu - the second season starts this Wed on Syfy, the first season is on Hulu) - it's a combo episodic and serial (the characters are serial, but there's cases of the week that are neatly wrapped up). Falls under urban fantasy. The set up? It's about a real estate firm that specializes in haunted houses. They basically fix the problems with the house and sell it to a new family. It's rather clever and has some decent one-liners. I'm enjoying it far more than expected.
Binged through four to five episodes today.
I got two of these recs via tv talk. My only difficulty with tv talk is that a lot of the folks on it watch stuff on their lap tops via bit torrent (which does not work for me) or transfer via USB cable to smart tv's (also doesn't work). So a lot of shows that they rec - I can't see. Also they've no clue how to view them outside of stealing (cough) - getting them from bit torrent sites.
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Date: 2023-10-09 10:57 pm (UTC)Susan is played by Sarah Levy, the OTHER talented child of Eugene Levy. I think I like her because it looks like she's studied Catherine O'Hara as much as her dad.
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Date: 2023-10-10 01:08 am (UTC)Not a fan of Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara or that brand of "embarrassment/humiliation" humor. Never have been. I find it cringe-inducing. I am among the minority who found Schitt's Creek unwatchable. I tried. But it was cringe-inducing. Embarrassment humor doesn't work for me - it makes me want to leave the room. I can't watch Eugene Levy, his son, or Catherine O'Hara without wincing.
I'm glad you enjoy them, but not my cuppa. Hard pass.