I love this show. Even better than season 1.
Still intense, there are more upbeat, happy moments.
Sam Elliott plays Tommy’s estranged father. Always great. I’d nominate him for a supporting actor award.
Demi Moore has a bigger role as the sole owner of M-Tex Oil.
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Billy Bob Thornton is terrific as Tommy Norris, a petroleum landman in season 1, then VP at M-Tex Oil, finally President of M-Tex.
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A 3rd season is expected.
Fool Me Once is a British television series … adapted from the 2016 Harlan Coben novel of the same name.
… As of 12 March 2024 it is the eighth most viewed English language Netflix series of all time …
Michelle Keegan as Maya Stern carries the show.
Adeel Akhtar as DS Sami Kierce is excellent. A memorable performance.
All of the cast is good, actually.
A newly single mom is grieving her husband when, just two weeks after his funeral, she sees him appearing alive and well — on her nanny cam.
Was he actually murdered?
Or are there darker powers at play?
Reviews are mixed. But my only major complaint is too frequent use of flashbacks.
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I read the book, as well. Not nearly as good as the TV adaptation.
Have you watched this weird, original, unpredictable TV show?
Pluribus is a post-apocalyptic science fiction series that follows Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), an author who finds herself angry and isolated after an alien virus transforms the rest of humanity into a peaceful and content hive mind. …
The hive mind happily accommodates the wishes of those who remain unaffected, but admits that it will ultimately seek to assimilate them when it figures out how to do so. Carol is adamantly against their efforts as she searches for a way to reverse the Joining. …
It wraps up Dec. 23rd on Apple TV.
Personally, I would probably have gone all Samba Schutte as Koumba Diabaté. He definitely understood the assignment. 😀
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I got hooked on the first season.
It includes some excellent dialogue. Kudos to the writers.
Always been a fan of Billy Bob Thornton.
Cast is great. Paulina Chávez is very believable in her role. Jacob Lofland, too, as her love interest.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made a memorable cameo as himself in episode 9 where he shared a powerful, emotional monologue about how his early oil and gas ventures. His genuine emotion, including tears, made the scene incredibly impactful, with many feeling he stole the show from the main cast.
I understand there’s some truth to the depressing environment of the PetroToxin industry down there.
Landman is set within the world of oilfields in West Texas, where “roughnecks and wildcat billionaires are fueling a boom so big it’s reshaping our climate, our economy, and our geopolitics.”
The lead character, Tommy Norris (Thornton), can be abrasive, as is the out-of-town lawyer Rebecca Falcone investigating a fatal accident early in the season.
Rotten Tomatoes approval 78% based on 37 critic reviews. That sounds about right.
I can see why some wouldn’t like this show. The only positive role model for women is Paulina Chávez.
On the other hand, the men are pretty much all disreputable and/or immoral, as well.
Colm Feore as Nathan, an oil company attorney, is about the only man you can cheer for — aside from Billy Bob Thornton.
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The Last Frontier is worth watching — but not for the plot which is absurd.
Dominic Cooper as Levi Taylor ‘Havlock’ Hartman, a CIA asset who escapes from custody, would have died for sure 4 times? 5 times?
Falling hundreds of feet from a cliff, for example.
I mainly watched for the Alaska scenery.
Jason Clarke as Frank Remnick is good.
Haley Bennett as Sidney Scofield is not so much good, as mysterious. Which makes sense for this role.
Some of the side stories are interesting.
The excessively sentimental drama Frank’s family is going through is one of the weaker aspects for me.
Apple TV+ Thriller “The Last Frontier” Gets Snowed Under In Pulpy Action and Cheap Melodrama
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The Impossible Fortune (2025) is the 5th book in the Thursday Murder Club series, written by the always entertaining British author and television presenter, Richard Osman.
The cast of the Netflix film is impressive:
Ibrahim is my favourite, for sure.
Four pensioners, friends at a retirement village in Kent, England decide to solve murders as a retirement hobby.
This book is a little different. They investigate a crypto scheme. Not a bad plot.
In her Library Journal review, Liz French wrote, “The crime, though ingeniously plotted, with many red herrings, is not the main attraction. It’s the growing love and respect among the Thursdays and their kith and kin, including a few criminals and cops, that is the biggest draw.”
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Well … season 4 of The Morning Show MIGHT be the best, so far.
Drama at the network trying to roll out Paris Olympics coverage.
Yanko has a more important role. That character has really evolved over the years.
I do like how this TV show addresses issues of the day.
Parent issues. Assisted suicide of the elderly, for example.
Kara Swisher has a cameo. That I enjoyed.
On the other hand, I’m sick of Jennifer Aniston whining about EVERYTHING. Why did she take the job if there’s zero enjoyment?
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John Candy was born 1950, seven years before me.
Like pretty much every Canadian, I was a huge fan of SCTV, the low budget, super hilarious, Canadian television sketch comedy show about a fictional TV station.
Many of those comics went on to have great careers, including John Candy.
John Candy: I Like Me is the 2025 documentary on Prime about his all too short life. He died age-43 while filming a movie in Mexico.
I saw most of his TV bits and films, but — looking back — it’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) that I remember best.
Some feel that Uncle Buck (1989) was even better at portraying John the man.
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Excellent TV.
I liked it — though there are some bad reviews.
This psychological drama on Amazon Prime has a male protagonist. (Most of this genre are based on women. )
The limited series is not based on any of his books.
Lazarus is a horror-thriller television miniseries …
A forensic psychiatrist (Sam Claflin) investigates cold case murders after returning to his family home following the death of his father (Bill Nighy).
David Fynn is very good as Seth McGovern. Believable.
I do recommend it.
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Slow Horses series 5 may be my favourite, so far.
Roddy Ho features prominently in the plot. Honey trap.
Nick Mohammed as Zafar Jaffrey, the Mayor of London is good.
James Callis as Claude Whelan (series 4–5), the bumbling, over-promoted new Director General of MI5 or ‘First Desk’ is fantastic.
Bad guys are Libyans.
I laugh out loud at every episode. Especially at Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) being so hilariously inappropriate. 😀
Looking forward to season 6.
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Rick McCharles 