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What was the last TV show you watched?

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If the Hallmark Channel did things better, it would make shows like "Doc Martin." And I mean that as a compliment, as I like DM for a respite the harshness of the world and most TV today, but as opposed to Hallmark, it isn't cloying or overly simplistic.
It is a nice escape from the harshness of the real world. The humor and picturesque settings of the make for an enjoyable evening.
:D
 

Ernest P Shackleton

One Too Many
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Looks like Counterpart has been canceled, but it also seems they were given enough notice to properly close up the series. Final episode airs tonight. This is premature, but it isn't making a lot of sense right now because the showrunners are saying they will shop the series to other networks. There is a lot there with which to play, but I'm still scratching my head a bit. But this also means that there are only two seasons for anyone who was curious and hasn't seen it yet. It's worth it.
 

MisterCairo

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Back from TD, caught up on the "mid-season premier" of The Walking Dead.

Remember when shows simply broke for a bit before and after Christmas? Now we have "mid-season finales" and the like.

Any hoo, started off slow, but sped up in time for some interesting developments.
 

Julian Shellhammer

Practically Family
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Starting last week, the Missus has been binging on The Good Witch, and I will catch some shows now and then. The Hallmark Channel programs seem to be strongly formulaic, with pristine, perfectly coiffed characters living in pristine, perfectly coiffed small towns working at lovely antiques stores, cozy catering companies, or at a house remodeling company where at the end of the day the owner and workers are as pristine and perfectly coiffed as at the start of their shift.
Which is not to say I sneer at elegant sets, excellent lighting, and nice-looking characters delivering romantic comedy: I sit down and watch these stories with my sweetie for the sheer light-as-a-bubble entertainment.
 

Worf

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An episode and a half of "The Umbrella Academy" - Interesting, quirky and gory. Imagine if Professor X of the "X-men" was an out an out madman who got his hands on 7 kids with special powers. Don't know if I'll stay with it. Saw a Youtube vid about the comic upon which it is based. Not sure if they can really translate all that craziness to the screen but they're trying.

Worf
 

3fingers

One Too Many
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Illinois
Starting last week, the Missus has been binging on The Good Witch, and I will catch some shows now and then. The Hallmark Channel programs seem to be strongly formulaic, with pristine, perfectly coiffed characters living in pristine, perfectly coiffed small towns working at lovely antiques stores, cozy catering companies, or at a house remodeling company where at the end of the day the owner and workers are as pristine and perfectly coiffed as at the start of their shift.
Which is not to say I sneer at elegant sets, excellent lighting, and nice-looking characters delivering romantic comedy: I sit down and watch these stories with my sweetie for the sheer light-as-a-bubble entertainment.
My wife started watching the show shortly after it was put on. I agree with your assessment, but I have had a crush on Catherine Bell since Jag days so it was an easy watch for me in spite of the syrup the entire show is covered in.
 
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Sex Eduction, the first season from Netflix
  • Like most TV shows about high school, everything is exaggerated and amped up, but oddly it all works in a crazy way
    • Be aware, the show is not shy in talking about and showing all types of sex / I assume kids are much more active today than in the '70s (when I was in high school), but holy cow, this show argues it's a brave - and very sexually active - new high school world
  • The premise - a kid with a sex therapist for a mom teams up with a pretty, anti-social girl to offer sex ed advice for pay to the other kids - is, of course, ridiculous, but it's just a ploy to do what good shows do - build three-dimensional characters that have real-life interactions amidst the TV scripts' excesses
  • All the modern political pieties are bowed to and, even though I agree with most of them, the agenda pushing and virtue signaling is obnoxious. Hollywood just can't seem to help itself
  • But as noted, if you let the extreme moments go by and aren't jarred by the graphic sex show-and-tell, then you can enjoy the interesting high school characters facing real life problems that - while in a modern context - are still pretty timeless
 

Julian Shellhammer

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A tv show on youtube, the Kevin Brownlow series Hollywood. Watched it the first time years ago on PBS (unless I'm misremembering). According to someone somewhere, the lack of a dvd release is due to rights and licensing issues: they cover a lot of films from a lot of studios in the episodes.
 

MisterCairo

I'll Lock Up
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Gads Hill, Ontario
Sex Eduction, the first season from Netflix
  • Like most TV shows about high school, everything is exaggerated and amped up, but oddly it all works in a crazy way
    • Be aware, the show is not shy in talking about and showing all types of sex / I assume kids are much more active today than in the '70s (when I was in high school), but holy cow, this show argues it's a brave - and very sexually active - new high school world
  • The premise - a kid with a sex therapist for a mom teams up with a pretty, anti-social girl to offer sex ed advice for pay to the other kids - is, of course, ridiculous, but it's just a ploy to do what good shows do - build three-dimensional characters that have real-life interactions amidst the TV scripts' excesses
  • All the modern political pieties are bowed to and, even though I agree with most of them, the agenda pushing and virtue signaling is obnoxious. Hollywood just can't seem to help itself
  • But as noted, if you let the extreme moments go by and aren't jarred by the graphic sex show-and-tell, then you can enjoy the interesting high school characters facing real life problems that - while in a modern context - are still pretty timeless

So, hard pass on that one.
 

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