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TV 20 - Sorry no fancy title

I watched Apollo 13: Survival on Netflix. Maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind because I was a bit underwhelmed. However I also recently rewatched Apollo 11 (2019, fantastic), In the Shadow of the Moon (2007, fantastic) and From the Earth to the Moon (1998, fantastic).

Through this it jarred my bad memory of what I swear was a 3-part series that would have come out about 10-15 years ago that for some reason I didn't finish it at the time. The opening montage includes a very haunting instrumental piece. And for the life of me I can't find out what the hell it was called and I've tried every Google search I can think of.
 
SNL was great. Grande is an excellent entertainer; I never knew. Did everyone have the weird cut out for 2 minutes right before "Edge of Seventeen"?
 
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So apparently Threads got played again on TV in Britain recently, only like the third or fourth time.

Great movie but it has a common problem that afflicts all of the 80’s “nuclear war sucks” movies: The story of the path to war is pretty bad, at least in hindsight. Threads probably having the worst of them (The US coups Iran. The Soviets, already mired in a quagmire in Afghanistan, decide that two quagmires is better and invade Iran. War escalates.). The Day After (The Soviets suddenly decide to invade West Germany) isn’t much better. I get that it’s not the main plot of the movies but it’s just something that has always bugged me.

The only two that I’ve seen that have remotely believable war plots are Countdown To Looking Glass and Der Dritte Weltkreig.
 
Dana Carvey is great at picking up a particular mannerism for his impressions, but he drives it into the ground so easily. Three episodes in and I'm already sick of his Biden. It's like there's a clock off stage with a ten second countdown to let him know when he can return to "Guess what? And by the way!"
 
Mein Gott, the new show Dr Oddyssey is so, so bad.

don Johnson as ship captain, Joshua Jackson as the hot ship doc

I’ll probably hate watch another episode this is amazing
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Dana Carvey is great at picking up a particular mannerism for his impressions, but he drives it into the ground so easily. Three episodes in and I'm already sick of his Biden. It's like there's a clock off stage with a ten second countdown to let him know when he can return to "Guess what? And by the way!"
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Agreed. He's an eminence gris so he gets to do what he wants but it's cringe.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Mein Gott, the new show Dr Oddyssey is so, so bad.

don Johnson as ship captain, Joshua Jackson as the hot ship doc

I’ll probably hate watch another episode this is amazing
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When I saw commercials for this, I thought, you got to be kidding me. How many possible believable medical emergency stories can you create on a cruise ship that you cannot simply replicate in a normal hospital medical show, when the later premise would present way more drama? Heck, 90% of the time they are just going to helicopter you out. Then, I saw the commercial showed the scene where they are doing an emergency appendectomy just when a massive wave hits and the people lean from one side to the other like the horrible special affects of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Talk about cringeworthy. Since when does a massive wave like that hit a cruise liner. And just as a medical procedure is being performed. And the network is claiming "24 million people watched the premiere." Yeah, okay........
 
Russell Jaslow said:
When I saw commercials for this, I thought, you got to be kidding me. How many possible believable medical emergency stories can you create on a cruise ship that you cannot simply replicate in a normal hospital medical show, when the later premise would present way more drama? Heck, 90% of the time they are just going to helicopter you out. Then, I saw the commercial showed the scene where they are doing an emergency appendectomy just when a massive wave hits and the people lean from one side to the other like the horrible special affects of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Talk about cringeworthy. Since when does a massive wave like that hit a cruise liner. And just as a medical procedure is being performed. And the network is claiming "24 million people watched the premiere." Yeah, okay........
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Are you actually questioning dramatic license for a regular broadcast network updated Love Boat? To quote President Biden - C'mon man!! :) I thought the first two episodes were formulaic and entertaining enough but last week's plastic surgery themed episode was too Nip/Tuck for me. It's on my DVR season Pass but would not miss it if I don't watch it.
 
The ironic thing about Carvey is he thinks it's funny that Biden repeats himself and Carvey has been banging the same drums since 1992.
 
5 episodes into Lord of the Rings Cosplay and...it's just so...meh. Like its bad enough the timeline makes zero sense and that half the characters are either terribly written or just plain dumb but for all the money they spent they couldn't get better cgi or sets? Are they using that crappy Star Wars tech with the projection backgrounds because none of it feels real...

To me this feels like Lord of the Rings for people who know nothing about Lord of the Rings. Seriously if you read the books or even watched the films none of this makes any sense. And it tries to manipulate you with epic music and long pauses but mostly it's just rather bloated with characters with memorable names. Its like Solo only better. (Don't get me started on the "hey it's like Aragorn only not" bs story)

I hold out hope but it's fading like the Light of the Eldar :p
 
Handyman said:
5 episodes into Lord of the Rings Cosplay and...it's just so...meh. Like its bad enough the timeline makes zero sense and that half the characters are either terribly written or just plain dumb but for all the money they spent they couldn't get better cgi or sets? Are they using that crappy Star Wars tech with the projection backgrounds because none of it feels real...

To me this feels like Lord of the Rings for people who know nothing about Lord of the Rings. Seriously if you read the books or even watched the films none of this makes any sense. And it tries to manipulate you with epic music and long pauses but mostly it's just rather bloated with characters with memorable names. Its like Solo only better. (Don't get me started on the "hey it's like Aragorn only not" bs story)

I hold out hope but it's fading like the Light of the Eldar :p
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Season one was perfectly cromulent. The big reveal(s) was no shock to anyone but whatever. It was entertaining fantasy fair, even if fairly forgettable. Take the LotR label off of it and you'd be perfectly ok with it.

I'm only 2 episodes into season 2, so can't comment on it really. But seems like much of the same.
 
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