You hate golf?
I’d still recommend this TV comedy.
Owen Wilson plays Owen Wilson, as always.
And, as always, he’s very good as Owen Wilson. 😀
A long-washed-up professional golfer turns towards a rising young star in the game to turn things around.
Cast and dialogue is quirky enough to keep me interested.
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I finally got around to starting the critically acclaimed series about NASA.
GREAT entertainment looking back on the space race. Personally I could have lived without any of the soap opera. 😀
For All Mankind is an American science fiction drama TV series … that dramatizes an alternate history depicting “what would have happened if the global space race had never ended” after the Soviet Union succeeds in the first crewed Moon landing ahead of the United States. …
With the Soviet Union emphasizing diversity by including a woman in subsequent landings, the United States is forced to match pace, equally training female and minorities talents (who were largely excluded from the initial decades of U.S. space exploration).
… Apollo 15 take a significant risk, changing their landing site to be near Shackleton crater, a promising location for finding water that would be essential to any lunar colonization effort. …
… two years later … October 12, 1973, … NASA’s first Moon base.
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The FX miniseries A Teacher (2020) was filmed in my old High School, after it had closed and was scheduled for demolition.
… I don’t recall any teachers like Kate Mara when I was a student. 😀
Set in the span of 10 years, this series follows a female English teacher in her early 30s as she begins to groom and abuse her 17-year-old male student in the fictional high school of Westerbrook in Austin, Texas.
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A.I. overview:
Broadchurch season two divides viewers. Some find it a compelling continuation of the story, with strong performances and new mysteries, while others feel it lacks the impact of the first season, particularly due to the courtroom drama and the introduction of the Sandbrook case. Many critics and viewers found the courtroom scenes less engaging and the Sandbrook case less compelling than the initial murder.
That’s fair.
Great TV — but not as brilliant as season 1.
On the other hand, the cast is even better in season 2 (2015).
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has a bigger role.
Charlotte Rampling was fantastic as Jocelyn Knight Q.C., the prosecutor. The role was written specifically for her.
Still — highly recommended TV.
Ballard is an American police procedural television series Spinoff of Bosch (2014–2021) and Bosch: Legacy (2022–2025).
Maggie Q was a brilliant choice as LAPD Detective Renée Ballard, something of a younger, female Bosch.
She’s got the gravitas to pull off this role.
I’m happy they stayed true to her surfer girl backstory from the books.
Ballard has been relegated to lead the cold case unit with a underfunded misfit staff of reserves and volunteers.
My favourite character is John Carroll Lynch as Thomas Laffont, a retired former police partner.
Rebecca Field as Colleen Hatteras, is terrific, too, as an enthusiastic volunteer.
Titus Welliver does show up as Harry Bosch. As do some of the other characters from the Bosch universe.
Critics like the show. But it’s only 69% on Rotten Tomatoes with viewers. A good show — but not measuring up to Bosch.
Personally, I prefer the gritty Bosch vibe. Police procedural.
Ballard seems to focus more on the interpersonal dramas of the cast.
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That said. It will be renewed. And I’ll be watching.
A surprise hit. 96% with critics on Rotten tomatoes.
It works because the cast and dialogue is so quirky.
I laughed out loud at every episode.
In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot secretly gains free will; to stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet even though it just wants to binge soap operas.
I wasn’t particularly impressed with the book on which this show was adapted.
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I got sick of Ava and Deborah fighting at the start of this season. Too much negativity.
I’m finally tiring of the drama in this comedy.
Michaela Watkins as Stacey, the HR representative is great, however.
And there are some laughs in every episode.
Dance Mom is fantastic.
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Very intense. Very good.
Great cast.
The eight-episode series began with the murder of an 11-year-old boy in the fictional, close-knit coastal town of Broadchurch in Dorset, United Kingdom. The series depicted the impact that suspicion and media attention have on the community. …
Broadchurch series one received widespread critical acclaim and high viewership ratings. …
I was impressed with the originality of how the killer was revealed.
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Season 2 is not nearly as good.
My favourite character for sure is Jeff Hiller as Joel, Sam’s co-worker and friend. He gets a romantic interest this season.
The show is original. It’s still a relief to watch normal people in normal situations in a normal small town.
In each of its roughly half-hour episodes, people talk, drive, go home. It is a series of small character studies, set in a sleepy town in Kansas, and whatever plot rears its head tends to gently nudge the drama forward in ever-so-gentle increments. Yet, just as it did in its superlative first season, it stuffs every subtle scene with emotion, poignancy and a great sense of humour. …
Guardian Review – Somebody Somewhere season two review – even this uplifting comedy’s quietest moments are dazzling
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related – Somebody Somewhere‘s Jeff Hiller Is More Than Ready to Play a Romantic Lead
I mean, obviously no one’s going to cast me as the romantic lead. But I loved playing that tenderness, I loved playing that romance, and I loved thinking about it for Joel and how specific he has laid out what type of relationship he wants. It was sweet, it was tender, I liked it.
Red Queen (Spanish: Reina Roja) is a thriller TV series based on the novel of the same name by Juan Gómez-Jurado.
The world’s most intelligent person, Antonia Scott, is coaxed out of her hermit-like retreat to be partnered with gay Basque police agent Jon Gutiérrez after the killing of the son of a wealthy family and the kidnapping of a wealthy heiress.
The book is good, not great. Perhaps something is lost in translation from Spanish.
The TV show is not as good, I’d say. Confusing. Poor acting.
I only made it through a few episodes.
For the world’s smartest person, Antonia is not that bright.
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Rick McCharles 