Hi, friends!
How is your day going? Topic of the night is old reliables – movies and tv shows you can watch again and again. Whether because you are feeling a certain mood that they jive with or just good background noise or something you get wrapped up in despite seeing it repeatedly, let’s talk about it.
I think something in my DNA determines that if I know Jurassic Park or Ghostbusters is on TV, I have to watch it.
I got a coworker who harps on superhero movies because they’re too formulaic, but that’s a strength to me. I enjoy the Marvel movies that I’ve seen a bunch when I’m working out. Good distraction but not something I get so wrapped in that I trip off the treadmill, etc. Recently I started Star Trek Discovery for the fourth or fifth time and yep, that’s one I definitely am still engrossed with.
Based on Amazon Prime/Netflix viewing
Coupling (BBC)
Seinfeld
Star Trek
Married With Children
Archer
Is Archer worth watching? I stopped at the Sci-fi season.
I love the Spy era. The last two seasons are kind of melancholy because of Jessica Walters death. They surprisingly handled it well, but the dynamic isn’t the same obvious.
The Coma era, I didn’t mind. It was just different.
Have you seen its predecessor Spy Groove? The jokes might not stand up to current mores but at the time I liked it.
It is fun watching chaos at work as long as you don’t get caught in the tidal wave of shit or get caught smirking… not that it happened to me.
I’m rewatching Trailer Park Boys because it’s funny as hell and I need a laugh.
TPB holds up.
I dipped my toe into a rewatch of Review With Forrest MacNeil, but I don’t know if I can maintain it. It’s awfully, awfully dark.
https://movieweb.com/review-andy-daly-comedy-masterpiece-tv-show/
The Thin Man movies, over and over again, all six of them. If books count, I currently have at my bedside a first edition hardcover of David Halberstam’s The Fifties, which I’m reading for the fourth or fifth time.
I will always watch any Thin Man movie. William Powell and Myrna Loy are just delicious, and the bit players are always good. I love that they always drink through the entire movie. The guy who plays the detective, Lt Abrams (Sam Levine) in the middle batch is a favorite.
If you like the drinking parts, Song of the Thin Man, the last of the six, is good. Without giving too much away, Nora meets Nick aboard a party boat. Nick has been there for some time, drinking. He tells Nora how many he’s had. She requests the same number total from the waiter and says something like, “I have to catch up, Nicky.”
Is Song of the Thin Man the one where the hipster lingo that jazz musicians use plays a big part? I love that one.
Oh yes, the party boat band members and the orchestra leader and the boat owner—you know the one I’m thinking about. There’s also a femme fatale.
I’ll watch (or have as background noise) shows from the 1960s. Bewitched, The Munsters, The Addams Family, Gilligan’s Island, Star Trek, etc. Super childhood nostalgia.
i will watch the replacements whenever its on….and sometimes when it isnt coz i have the dvd…
same thing for equilibrium
never gets old…now on netflix
or kurt russels soldier