So we also finished Ted Lasso and it was a beautiful ending. Loved it!
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Finished a lot of shows in the past couple weeks:
Letterkenny Season 12: Final season of one of my favorite shows of all time, but I finished it a bit disappointed. So many characters were underused or completely ignored, there wasnât a big sense of finality or continuance, and the episodes in isolation just werenât particularly funny. No such thing as bad Letterkenny, but this was one of my least favorite seasons.
Archer Season 14: Another final season of one of my favorite shows of all time, but this one stuck the landing. Archer was never much about pathos, but the ending was surprisingly touching and bittersweet, and I liked it a lot.
Reacher Season 2: Not as good as the first season, but still enjoyable. I like that it doesnât even pretend that its main characters are in real dangerâyou know at every step that theyâre going to pull it off, and the fun is in seeing how that happens. Not something I want from every series, but itâs appreciated every now and then.
Fargo Season 5: An excellent season of TV, but not a good season of Fargo, in my opinion? It felt so much more straightforward than I expect from the showâwhich was necessary given the pure evil on display (domestic abuse and abuse of power arenât exactly grey areas), but still took the show away from its roots. Thatâs not bad, but comparing it to previous seasons of Fargo is like trying to rate an incredible hot dog at a hamburger competition.
I also want to give special attention to The Floor, a new game show that I think is a truly inspired bit of TV. 81 constestants are arranged in a 9x9 grid, with each contestant an âexpertâ in a specific categoryâmedical devices, horror movies, whatever. One contestant is chosen at random, and can challenge any adjacent person in that personâs category, at which point they have to quickly name items in that category as fast as possible. The winner takes over the loserâs entire territory on the board (which starts at one space, but will grow as you win more and more challenges), and the contestant with the most territory each night wins money.
Itâs really cool! The actual âgame showâ part of it is something different than just trivia, and thereâs some fun board-gamey strategy in the decision of who to challenge and when to return to the floor. If you stop challenging, you essentially get to bank your existing territory, but then you wonât be able to win the nightly prize if you arenât in the leadâand if you are in the lead, you have a huge target on your back, and thereâs a higher chance a randomly-selected challenger will be able to challenge you, because youâre adjacent to so many people. Itâs kind of hard to explain through text, but I highly recommend itâmaybe the best modern game show Iâve ever watched.
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I have only ever watched Fargo Seasons 3 and 5 (I should watch the others, but I donât have that particular streaming service). I think I understand what youâre saying about 5. The villains were very arch (including the one who made a partial turn by the end). There was a touch of surrealism. I loved the throwback to the movie with a throwaway line referencing VINs. It was an enjoyable show with interesting twists (sans a couple of really dumb character actions in the last episodes) that will surely rile the anger of some who share political and personal views as the villains.
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Reacher was entertaining enough, but some of the dialogue was as clunky as hell, which I donât remember being as bad in season 1; though it might have been.
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Binged Fool Me Once during the weekend, recommended by my better half work colleagues. Enjoyed it, had us guessing a few times, and it had a couple of moments where my suspension of disbelief struggled a bit, but overall we really enjoyed it.
Then, after speaking with a work colleague about killer whales (weâve had some spotted here locally on one of the beaches we often go to) I watched Blackfish. I hardly ever feel like stopping watching documentaries, and I did have several occasions where I nearly did. Shocking documentary about what has happened through history in places like Sea World, and mainly I wanted to watch because they go over the accident that happened around 2010 in Loro Parque, in Tenerife (neighbouring island to my homeland, Gran Canaria). I will not go into details, but sometimes we humans can be shockingly obtuse. To put it nicely.
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Blackfishis a very hard watch but very well done. I nearly stopped a few times too.
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After finishing Ted Lasso we finished the next show for the moment: Abbott Elementary season 2. Great comedy show about an American black elementary school. I can recommend that 
Yellowstone is on German Netflix now, curious about that one. Anyone watched it?
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The one with Kevin Costner? I think its great - Iâve really enjoyed it
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Thanks, thatâs the one I meant.
Oh and I also forgot to mention The Diplomat. What a fast paced and funny political thriller.
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Absolutely loved The Diplomat, that was my no1 show of last year alongside The Peripheral.
SO funny, great acting, has some of my favourite actors in it (including David Gyasi from Carnival Row).
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Beware that they split the 5th Season (partially due to writing strike) and 2nd half of it is not airing until November this year.
Iâve been meaning to check out the Diplomat.
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I couldnât stop myself and last night I watched Top Gun Maverick again, as soon as they put it on Netflix. Still enjoyed it. A lot. Itâs simple, it delivers, it does the job.
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Basically Star WarsâŚ
Stay on targetâŚ
But with two tricky shots one after another⌠And no light sabres.
Light sabres add A LOT to Star Wars.
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Having enjoyed Ms Marvel this felt like Ms Marvel - The Film, it was pretty fun.
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Last week I watched a film called Nobody which seemed to be billed as something of a blackly comic action thriller. It wasnât terrible, but itâs not one Iâd want to watch again, and I canât recommend it. However it did make me want to re-watch A History of Violence, so I made it a double-feature and reminded myself what a stunning film the latter is. Today I watched the behind-the-scenes content I didnât get to last weekend, and then I watched the film again with the directorâs commentary. If someone suggested watching it tomorrow, Iâd willingly see it again. That is a film I can recommend.
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Yes A History of Violence is a great film but I actually enjoyed Nobody - it wasnât the best film I have ever seen but it was entertaining in a ridiculous kind of way. And it was kinda fun to see âSaulâ being a badass
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I wasnât familiar with the actor, but he did clearly put a lot of effort into the physical requirements of the role, and he played it well enough for what the film was â I just wish it had been something pretty different.
I watched Knives Out today, which was very enjoyable (even if Daniel Craigâs accent was tremendously confusing in the early going, until Iâd gotten accustomed to it :).
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