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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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Watched the pilot of Black Summer based on the RT (terrible for audience, great for critics -- an excellent sign).

It wasn't good. Maybe it gets better down the road.
 
So, there is this new show on CNBC called Super Heists. It airs on Monday nights. Basically, it's a one hour show each week about a notorious robbery or theft, with interviews with the actual participants from the side of law enforcement as well as the perps.

Last night's show was excellent. Jimmy Hoffa paid Nixon millions of dollars, and gave a promise of union endorsement in the '72 election, in exchange for a pardon. Nixon commuted Hoffa's sentence, which got him out of prison, but didn't allow him back into the union leadership, so Hoffa was understandably unhappy.

He used his mob connections to contact the preeminent bank robber in Cleveland, and told the guy about the $30 million cash slush fund maintained by Nixon in safe deposit boxes in a small community bank in a strip mall in California a few miles from San Clemente. All Hoffa asked in exchange was for his bribe back.

Following the robbery, the FBI assigned 125 agents to the theft, the largest such assignment outside of the JFK assassination, although the FBI maintained there was nothing special about it, and Nixon wasn't involved.

Well worth a watch.
 
SJHovey said:
So, there is this new show on CNBC called Super Heists. It airs on Monday nights. Basically, it's a one hour show each week about a notorious robbery or theft, with interviews with the actual participants from the side of law enforcement as well as the perps.

Last night's show was excellent. Jimmy Hoffa paid Nixon millions of dollars, and gave a promise of union endorsement in the '72 election, in exchange for a pardon. Nixon commuted Hoffa's sentence, which got him out of prison, but didn't allow him back into the union leadership, so Hoffa was understandably unhappy.

He used his mob connections to contact the preeminent bank robber in Cleveland, and told the guy about the $30 million cash slush fund maintained by Nixon in safe deposit boxes in a small community bank in a strip mall in California a few miles from San Clemente. All Hoffa asked in exchange was for his bribe back.

Following the robbery, the FBI assigned 125 agents to the theft, the largest such assignment outside of the JFK assassination, although the FBI maintained there was nothing special about it, and Nixon wasn't involved.

Well worth a watch.
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If they do one on the Gardner Museum heist I'll watch it. I was in the museum shortly before it happened so I have always been fascinated by it.

Also: M-ssholes, if you have never been please go. It is a wonderful place.
 
Kepler said:
If they do one on the Gardner Museum heist I'll watch it. I was in the museum shortly before it happened so I have always been fascinated by it.

Also: M-ssholes, if you have never been please go. It is a wonderful place.
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I thought the Netflix documentary on that heist, This Is a Robbery, was pretty good.
 
Slap Shot said:
I want to 'like' it but I really don't care for shows when there are virtually no redeeming characters whatsoever. I get it - humans are flawed. But my goodness.
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Belinda and the wife in the newlywed couple aren’t terrible
 
MinnesotaNorthStar said:
I didn't even know that was Uncle Rico.

Not a big fan of Jennifer Coolidge's storyline in it. Right now it seems like a distraction. Maybe that will change though.
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That last scene with uncle Rico was so uncomfortable, but it was supposed to be. She’s just great in everything she does
 
state of hockey said:
Uncle Rico has been a pretty straight shooter.

Also, I don't think Zahn's character is a bad guy. He just isn't a terribly good one, either.
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I kind of hope it’s molly Shannon’s character that’s in the coffin.
for those who think I just spoiled something I didn’t - opening scene of episode one is a coffin being loaded into plane so you know one of the hotel guests died during their stay
 
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