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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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French Rage said:
Huh, Ruth Langmore is married to Foster The People.
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She is so good in that role. It's the quintessential supporting character role and she just nails it. I would've been pretty disappointed if they gave that Emmy to Meryl Streep, and I say that as a big Meryl Streep fan. Her role in Big Little Lies was not that good.

I've been watching Succession these past few weeks. Almost done with season two. Was surprised and delighted with Jeremy Strong's win. He seemed sincerely stunned by it. And it's always a good Emmys when former Boston University Terrier track star Uzo Aduba wins an Emmy.
 
SJHovey said:
I started watching The Vow, the limited documentary series on the sex cult/pyramid scheme started by Keith Raniere in the Albany, NY, area. It's an HBO show.

To this point (I think the show is halfway through?) I'd describe it as ok. It's not a ringing endorsement, in part because I think they could have condensed it. However, one of the great features of the show is how much video and audio recording they have of the participants.

I can't say that I'd recommend it, but if you have an interest in the sort of mind control used by guys like Raniere or David Koresh, you might find it interesting.
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That seems to always be the case. HBO and Netflix make them way too long.

I will check it out at some point.
 
I watched the four part series on Netflix regarding the Challenger space shuttle. In my opinion it was outstanding.

Each of the parts is 45-55 minutes long, so it isn't too daunting of a watch. As with other limited series like this one, it probably could have been slightly condensed, but in this case it kept me interested throughout.

It gives a good accounting of the history of the space shuttle program and the enrollment of the astronauts into it. We hear directly from many of the astronauts who went through the program with some of the Challenger victims, and we also get a lot of back story from family members of the Challenger crew.

But then, mixed in with the general history of the program and the crew, we have a pretty detailed and frank discussion of the 0-ring problem, the history of that problem, and the relationship between engineers at the contractor, management at the contractor pulled between their engineers' science and their customer's pressure, and NASA officials who insisted they launch.

The current day interviews with the contractor management, and with the NASA officials, is astounding. When the NASA official who made the call looks into the lens and says, "knowing what I know today, I'd still order the launch," you want to reach through your tv screen and shout, "dude, it blew up!"
 
I finally got around to start watching The Last Dance and through E4 this is one series that I can say so far finally hasn't been too long. Actually The Challenger 4-part series was the right length also but that's been few and far between lately.

I started re-watching Sherlock and I'm through S2. I really did not care for the Hound of Baskerville episode but the other 5 so far have held up. Moriarty remains one of the best evil men on TV ever.

I hope they bring at least S1 of Broadchurch to Netflix someday.
 
I am watching the show Away on Netflix. It is about the first man mission to Mars. It is up and down so far but I am enjoying it so far.
 
SJHovey said:
I watched the four part series on Netflix regarding the Challenger space shuttle. In my opinion it was outstanding.

Each of the parts is 45-55 minutes long, so it isn't too daunting of a watch. As with other limited series like this one, it probably could have been slightly condensed, but in this case it kept me interested throughout.

It gives a good accounting of the history of the space shuttle program and the enrollment of the astronauts into it. We hear directly from many of the astronauts who went through the program with some of the Challenger victims, and we also get a lot of back story from family members of the Challenger crew.

But then, mixed in with the general history of the program and the crew, we have a pretty detailed and frank discussion of the 0-ring problem, the history of that problem, and the relationship between engineers at the contractor, management at the contractor pulled between their engineers' science and their customer's pressure, and NASA officials who insisted they launch.

The current day interviews with the contractor management, and with the NASA officials, is astounding. When the NASA official who made the call looks into the lens and says, "knowing what I know today, I'd still order the launch," you want to reach through your tv screen and shout, "dude, it blew up!"
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I just watched this...and agree with all of this. The arrogance of the people at NASA was ridiculous but the dude saying he would make the same decision now made my brain hurt.

The fact that NASA ignored the warnings from the company who built the boosters is just a level of stupidity that cannot be overstated.
 
Finished Season 6 of Homeland last night. I think Season 6 of Homeland tells us more about America than any other show I have ever watched. Well done. Two very important characters saw their swan songs in the season and the setup for season 7 was predictable but sad. Kind of like the state of the nation today. Predictable and sad.
 
S4 of Fargo. E1 was a banger and extremely stylish. Jason Schwartzman is completely miscast imho but even with that I'm on board at least after E1.
 
Final season of Sherlock disappointed me. It died of "can you top this" disease. Too bad, it was a good show over all, though nothing will ever beat S1 and they could/should have stopped after it.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Finished Season 6 of Homeland last night. I think Season 6 of Homeland tells us more about America than any other show I have ever watched. Well done. Two very important characters saw their swan songs in the season and the setup for season 7 was predictable but sad. Kind of like the state of the nation today. Predictable and sad.
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I still get mad at what they did to my fav character
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Finished Season 6 of Homeland last night. I think Season 6 of Homeland tells us more about America than any other show I have ever watched. Well done. Two very important characters saw their swan songs in the season and the setup for season 7 was predictable but sad. Kind of like the state of the nation today. Predictable and sad.
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Scoob, you can spoilerize it for me to not ruin it for others who may not know, but i don't remember two. I know one, Quinn, but who was the other?
 
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