Hi, friends!
Let’s have a recommendations or a nope don’t recommend that post.
Specifically, if you’ve watched something on tv or streaming recently that sucked and isn’t worth watching, let us know.
I’m really underwhelmed with the new HGTV show “Old Houses” because nothing happens on the show. It’s hey lets find some beat to shit old houses and walk around then, and then go talk to someone who renovated a different old house near that one we just walked around. Like I’d watch this as a 5 minute facebook video, but fucking worthless as a tv show.
I mentioned Unforgotten in BrainDrain. It’s a sad 3-season series that ends with an unexpectedly sad finale. It isn’t that it is unrecommendable, it is just depressing.
I just finished all of the available episodes of Dexter.
Do not watch past season 4. It will retroactively make earlier seasons such.
Now excuse me while I let this 4 year old boy onto a treadmill and hit the button that says WARP 9.
I liked season 5…I know I am mostly alone in that.
I did a meaningless “ranked” post no one paid any attention to on which I ranked season 5 second:
Honestly the A plot of season 5 was good. The Dumbest Police Squad In America subplots, less so.
While on vacation one of my nieces kept turning on the Price is Right w/ Drew Carrey as host. I remember the show as a kid & it is still awful. In fact, it is 10x awfuller (yeah, that’s my new word!). Let’s turn a commercial for shitty household items & the cars nobody would ever buy into a game show. How could that not work?
Try to find videos of “The Price is Right” from the 1970s. Inevitably one or both of the showcases will feature a car. It will be the size of an Olympic-size swimming pool and Johnny Olsen will be heard saying, “This sporty two-door features power steering and…”
About 20 years ago I watched a vintage episode with a younger friend and she said, “Huh. So that’s what they looked like new. You still see them but they’re these busted up old wrecks and you always feel bad for the owner because it’s possible they might actually live in the thing…”
As a most definitely recommend: Reservation Dogs.
It’s getting attention in part due to Taika Waititi’s involvement as an Executive Producer, but it has a terrific roster of Native American, First Nations talent affiliated, including writer and creator Sterlin Harjo, actress Devery Jacobs, actors Zahn McClarnon, Dallas Goldtooth, and Gary Farmer, and music duo Lil Mike & Funny Bone.
Also, it’s a great opportunity to recommend the book There There by Tommy Orange, which is a compelling story of “urban Indians” set in Oakland, CA (sort of where I imagine the Rez Dogs in the show wanting to escape to eventually).
@ meh-zuzah Thanks for reminding me, I’m going to watch this.
Skip – Miracle Workers season 3. I love the cast and the first two seasons were good. Season 3 started of mediocre and went downhill from there. It’s a disappointment.
Oh damn I was waiting for a good time to binge season 3.
Thank you for the warning and I will save my time!
That looks great. My book club read There There; it’s great!
Half way through The Serpent on Netflix. Not bad, the story is compelling (70s shady asshole preys on hippie backpackers in Asia, a real case), and the 70s verisimilitude is top-notch (they even had my dad’s first car in it!).
One bit of drag is the unnecessary jumbling of the timeline.
I just finished watching Orphan Black last night. the fourth season got a little weird, but I liked it overall. Thought the final episode was really nice. Helena is clearly my favorite.
I don’t really know if I have any recs/nonrecs. I’ve relatively recently started using a pair of hearing protection ear-muff thingies with built in bluetooth headphones, and so far I like it, but I haven’t been using it long enough to say anything as to it’s durability/longevity.
Do you mean “Cheap Old Houses”?
I’ve been following their Instagram account for a while, but the people behind it don’t translate to tv. They’re kinda…. Well… Irritating. I only saw the first ep so far and it did seem kind of directionless. Though I greatly enjoy looking at old houses and appreciate people who nerd out about stuff like pocket doors and Nutone blenders, my biggest fear about this show is flippers will hear about this untapped market of cheap property and then *poof* there goes a huge chunk of not only American history but possibly the last slice of affordable housing left. So, i kind of wish they stayed underground.