What was the last TV show you watched?

[Fading Fast]

...Kirk (mounting his bluff to the First Federation ship that says it will destroy them): "It may interest you to know that since the initial use of corbomite more than two of our centuries ago, no attacking vessel has survived the attempt. Death has little meaning to us. If it has none to you . . . then attack us now. We grow annoyed at your foolishness."...

You chose the best of the best with this one - Shatner gets everything plus from an already great speech. While, as noted in earlier posts, Shatner has limitations as an actor, he owns Kirk and Kirk is the master of the bluff, he uses it often and incredibly effectively.

Now, darn you, I'm going to have to find time to watch that episode.

 

[Benzadmiral]

You chose the best of the best with this one - Shatner gets everything plus from an already great speech. While, as noted in earlier posts, Shatner has limitations as an actor, he owns Kirk and Kirk is the master of the bluff, he uses it often and incredibly effectively.

Now, darn you, I'm going to have to find time to watch that episode.

I remember it in particular because I heard it first on radio.

Well, sort of. When ST was in syndication in the early '70s, there came a day when our TV was on the fritz. I know, rarely happens any more, but this was in the picture-tube days. "Corbomite" was going to be on that afternoon, and I didn't want to miss it. Now you'll recall, in the pre-digital broadcasting era, that there were such things as TV-sound radios -- ones on which you could tune in to the sound of local broadcast TV channels. I didn't have one, but ST was being rerun on the local channel whose frequency, 88 FM, overlapped with the lowest frequency on the FM radio band. So I could pick it up on my FM radio!

As I recall, I found it riveting. It worked as a radio program, I guess, because I knew the characters and the setting (the Enterprise), and could use my (often over-vivid) imagination for the rest. When I finally got to see the real show a year or two later, I was startled because I had "blocked" the movements of Kirk, Spock, and the others quite a bit differently than this episode's director, Joe Sargent, had.

 

[Touchofevil]

I see a lot of love here for Peaky Blinders. I watched the first season and could barely stand the trite and predictable love triangle between Shelby, Inspector Campbell, and Grace. From what I remember Grace left at the end of season 1. My sigh of relief didn't last long after hearing she was back for s2! Does season 2 get any better or does that hackneyed storyline continue??

I have so far really enjoyed the series. I feel it has gotten better. Grace has annoyed since her first appearance in episode one. After watching the first episode we did not watch Peaky for a year. When we finally gave it another chance we became hooked, flaws and all.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Tyrant. Finally turned my back on that mindless tripe.

John Oliver. Great episode on the 2016 conventions.

 

[Touchofevil]

Another good episode of The Night of. John Turturro shines.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Last night, Part I of Star Trek's "The Menagerie," the original series' only two-parter. Most of us have seen these shows more than once, so my only comments are these, one I noticed long ago and one I picked up last night.

1) When the star base commodore and Kirk are leaving the former's office, we see a yeoman seated at a desk outside, and she immediately jumps to her feet as her senior officers pass by. Never spotted that one before.

2) When Spock surrenders himself to arrest for mutiny (he hijacks the Enterprise, if you recall, though in a good cause), he says to Dr. McCoy, "As senior officer present, I submit myself to you for arrest." And it's true: McCoy -- whose rank is about the same as Spock's, I think -- is senior to the other officers on the bridge, including the occasional character Lt. Hansen. But it's Hansen who takes temporary command until Kirk arrives, not McCoy . . . because McCoy is not qualified to take the big chair. He would be a staff officer, not a line officer.

My point is that Roddenberry, Gene Coon, and the others working on TOS had been in the military, and knew these things. The new films from J.J. Abrams do not display any such sense. I get the impression the only knowledge of military protocol and chain of command Abrams and his people have are from . . . Star Trek itself. (So is a lot of mine; but I've supplemented it with reading novels and nonfiction about Earthly navies throughout history.)

 

[Feraud]

Thanks for the replies. It's been a while since I watched season 1 of Peaky Blinders. I'll eventually give S2 a go.

 

[Touchofevil]

Cops

 

[Touchofevil]

The Night of
Really well done episode.

 

[Fading Fast]

Watched the first episode of "Peaky Blinders" last night because of all the good mention it gets here. I also understand that it picks up (as a lot of good series do) several episodes in, so I'm going to stay with it, but so far the story is kinda cookie-cutter neighborhood gang, early 20th Century Irish politics. That said, the period details - sets, clothes, architecture, etc. - are very thoughtfully done and gorgeous to see.

 

[Zombie_61]

Watched the first episode of "Peaky Blinders" last night because of all the good mention it gets here. I also understand that it picks up (as a lot of good series do) several episodes in, so I'm going to stay with it, but so far the story is kinda cookie-cutter neighborhood gang, early 20th Century Irish politics...

This occurred to me while I was watching Black Mass (2015) recently--after you've seen enough of these gang/mob/mobster productions you realize you're watching essentially the same story again and again with minor changes in some of the details. I watched the first two episodes of Peaky Blinders myself earlier this week, mostly because of the praise it has received here on The Lounge, and haven't been in a rush to watch more because I'd like to give it a chance to stand on it's own merits rather than relegating it to "just another gangster show".

 

[HoosierDaddy]

UFC Fight Night

 

[Worf]

Did the French make more than one series? I adore zombie films, but this was such a fresh take on the genre, it was outstanding. There was also a film (on which the TV series was based), but I've yet to see that

They made a second season, starting that tonight. It was definitely "different". Don't know if it qualifies as "zombie" per se in that the resurrected can think, speak, have sex, impregnate folks and don't go around devouring the flesh of the living.

Worf

 

[Bushman]

The Olympics. They're doing the finals for women's swimming right now.

 

[Stearmen]

Colorado Experience: Amache. The Japanese American internment camp down by Granada, Colorado. Interesting! Governor Ralph L. Carr, championed the rights of these citizens, this of course ended his carrier with both parties. Amache had the most volunteers for the armed forces of any of the camps. Very interesting relation ship between the detainees and the local town folks. We forget that the government forced land owners to sell tens of thousands of acres to construct these camps.

 

[Fading Fast]

This occurred to me while I was watching Black Mass (2015) recently--after you've seen enough of these gang/mob/mobster productions you realize you're watching essentially the same story again and again with minor changes in some of the details. I watched the first two episodes of Peaky Blinders myself earlier this week, mostly because of the praise it has received here on The Lounge, and haven't been in a rush to watch more because I'd like to give it a chance to stand on it's own merits rather than relegating it to "just another gangster show".

It's one of the things I liked about "Boardwalk Empire," while the framework of the story was the same one we've seen time and again, the character of Nucky was not your average gangster which made it, sometimes, feel fresh.

 

[MisterCairo]

Two more episodes of Longmire, season four. Absolutely loving it.

 

[Zombie_61]

It's one of the things I liked about "Boardwalk Empire," while the framework of the story was the same one we've seen time and again, the character of Nucky was not your average gangster which made it, sometimes, feel fresh.

Boardwalk Empire slipped under my radar. I had seen the promotional commercials but neglected to note the date it would premiere, and by the time I realized it was airing it was already somewhere in the tail end of the first season (I think). I tried to watch an episode or two, but I had no idea who the characters were or what relationships existed between them so it didn't grab me.

 

[Fading Fast]

Boardwalk Empire slipped under my radar. I had seen the promotional commercials but neglected to note the date it would premiere, and by the time I realized it was airing it was already somewhere in the tail end of the first season (I think). I tried to watch an episode or two, but I had no idea who the characters were or what relationships existed between them so it didn't grab me.

I think Touch of Evil will back me up on this, but it is well worth going back and watching it from season one, episode one. Well better than the average show. As you noted, though, not one you can jump in the middle of: They really built a five season arc into it.

 

[MisterCairo]

I tried to watch an episode or two, but I had no idea who the characters were or what relationships existed between them so it didn't grab me.

As you noted, though, not one you can jump in the middle of

That's why it's great it's available on blu-ray and streaming - it's a great show and I also highly recommend it from s.1. ep. 1 onwards! Some seasons and episodes are stronger than others, but overall it's a great ride!