ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING s4: Funniest season yet.
SHARDLAKE s1: Not really sure I can root for any of these people, whose moral compasses seem to fluctuate wildly. Maybe if I'd read the book, or lived in the 16th century, I'd understand better. Doesn't matter, I guess, with Henry VIII as king. They'll all be executed eventually.
DARYL s2: They seem to have completely forgotten that one of the terrors of combat specific to this world is that when you kill an opponent, you will see them again in a very short time. People fighting in catacombs and tunnels and castles kill people on this show and leave them behind, which is a recipe to being bitten from behind. But the writers never use that gun on the mantlepiece. Even Daryl is just morning-starring away, and leaving potential walkers on his six, but nothing ever happens. Also, the walkers in France are supposedly more dangerous: Some have acidic blood, others are fast zombies. etc. But it seemed a lot more dangerous in the U.S. for some reason. If you ignore that part, it's a pretty good show. And short!
THE PENGUIN: Great crime show, with great acting.
WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS: We're three episodes into the last season. So sad that it's the last season, because it's still great.
I happened to see a listing for the Gilligan’s Island episode called “The Kidnapper” (Don Rickles). I recorded it. The first image on the screen was of several palm trees against the sky. For some reason, it jumped out at me that the trees were perfectly trimmed. Since this is an uncharted island, they should look like this:
Not this:
JD DeLuzio > Richard WillisNovember 29, 2024 at 5:48am
Waaait..... Are you saying that Gilligan's Island wasn't realistic?!?
It was amazing how much luggage most of them took on a three-hour tour.
Captain Comics > Richard WillisNovember 29, 2024 at 3:52pm
That's because Thurston Howell was on the run from the Mob, and took all his money with him in a bunch of suitcases. His mistress, Ginger, brought half her wardrobe. Because the plan was to meet another ship (or seaplane) out at sea, where Thurston and Ginger would be taken to safe haven somewhere in the South Pacific. The Minnow would be sunk, and when a few drowned bodies turned up, it would be believed that Howell and Grant were dead as well. Safe from the Mob, Thurston and Ginger would live it up in some tropical paradise.
It's possible the Skipper was in on it, as he might have had to know where the rendezvous point was. But maybe not, as the other ship might be able to find them by shadowing the Minnow on its tour route and using radar/sonar. And it's difficult to say whether Grumby put to sea with a hurricane offshore because he's an idiot, or because he was in on the scheme and planned to use it as cover. It's likely he did know Howell's plan, or he might have asked some questions about all the suitcases. Or maybe Howell just bribed him to STFU, and he remained ignorant.
Either way, I suspect the Skipper would not have survived the rendezvous. Howell would want to tie up that loose end. Ginger might also have met with a grim fate, too, as hot babes are a dime a dozen to a rich man. Who knows when dealing with Thurston Howell III?
We'll never know. Alas for Thurston's scheming, fate intervened when the Minnow was almost sunk for real.
The Baron > Captain ComicsNovember 29, 2024 at 4:39pm
There was an episode where it was revealed that the radio station the Skipper listened gave the previous day's weather report by accident. Still kinda sus, I'll admit.
Of course, there was another episode where it was revealed that the Howells, Ginger, Mary-Anne and the Professor were all suspects in a murder case. I always wondered what Five-O thought of that when all of their suspects just happened to get on the same tour boat which then vanished off the face off the ocean.
JD DeLuzio > Captain ComicsDecember 10, 2024 at 8:26am
This does make a small amount of sense of the series. Perhaps the island sits in some mysterious reality vortex that draws all manner of things to it: floating cargo, rock bands, surfers....
Simultaneously making my way through Agatha All Along (2024) and Tiny Beautiful Things (2023), which both feature Kathryn Hahn in wildly different roles. I'm liking both shows for different reasons, though I get thrown a little by some of TBT's fractured narratives, and I'm no stranger to fractured narratives.
Although the "Young Clare" parts of TBT are based on the author's (Cheryl Strayed's) life, the "Adult" parts are almost entirely fictional, drawing from her column/podcast and ideas about what her life might have been if she had made different choices. Some of her actual adult life was chronicled in Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Trail Coast (2012), which was made into the movie, Wild (2014). It stars Reese Witherspoon, who produced TBT. I've neither read the book (a bestseller, though one which received mixed reviews) nor watched the movie, but I think I might do both at some point.
Both Agatha and Clare frequently make terrible life choices.
Mutsuko Erskine appears in two episodes of TBT, her second role ever. I immediately recognized her from Pen15 (2019-2021), where she played Yuki Ishii-Peters. She took the part at the urging of her daughter, who co-wrote and co-stars in the show and thought her mother would work well playing her character's mother. So far as I know, she had never acted previously. She did so well that she has an episode of her own in Pen15's second and final season.
I watch a lot of documentaries. Most recently I saw the new Beatles '64, which covers some generally familiar territory in a great deal of depth, and gave me another look at my birth year.
Atomic Reaction (2023): after a slow start, this develops into a thoughtful look at Canada’s involvement in the production of uranium for the Manhattan Project, and the after-effects for the Japanese, the Dene, and the people of Port Hope (the Ontario town where the uranium was processed). Canada was the world's largest producers of uranium for a few decades, with basically one client. Port Hope is now better-known as a place where people shoot movies when they want a stereotypical picturesque small town, but the town is still dealing with the consequences of the uranium processing. A lot of people took superfluous building material from the facility (with the company's blessings), spreading contaminated material throughout the region. That they filmed most of Stephen King's It Parts I and II there now seems chillingly appropriate.
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ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING s4: Funniest season yet.
SHARDLAKE s1: Not really sure I can root for any of these people, whose moral compasses seem to fluctuate wildly. Maybe if I'd read the book, or lived in the 16th century, I'd understand better. Doesn't matter, I guess, with Henry VIII as king. They'll all be executed eventually.
DARYL s2: They seem to have completely forgotten that one of the terrors of combat specific to this world is that when you kill an opponent, you will see them again in a very short time. People fighting in catacombs and tunnels and castles kill people on this show and leave them behind, which is a recipe to being bitten from behind. But the writers never use that gun on the mantlepiece. Even Daryl is just morning-starring away, and leaving potential walkers on his six, but nothing ever happens. Also, the walkers in France are supposedly more dangerous: Some have acidic blood, others are fast zombies. etc. But it seemed a lot more dangerous in the U.S. for some reason. If you ignore that part, it's a pretty good show. And short!
THE PENGUIN: Great crime show, with great acting.
WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS: We're three episodes into the last season. So sad that it's the last season, because it's still great.
I happened to see a listing for the Gilligan’s Island episode called “The Kidnapper” (Don Rickles). I recorded it. The first image on the screen was of several palm trees against the sky. For some reason, it jumped out at me that the trees were perfectly trimmed. Since this is an uncharted island, they should look like this:
Not this:
Waaait..... Are you saying that Gilligan's Island wasn't realistic?!?
It was amazing how much luggage most of them took on a three-hour tour.
That's because Thurston Howell was on the run from the Mob, and took all his money with him in a bunch of suitcases. His mistress, Ginger, brought half her wardrobe. Because the plan was to meet another ship (or seaplane) out at sea, where Thurston and Ginger would be taken to safe haven somewhere in the South Pacific. The Minnow would be sunk, and when a few drowned bodies turned up, it would be believed that Howell and Grant were dead as well. Safe from the Mob, Thurston and Ginger would live it up in some tropical paradise.
It's possible the Skipper was in on it, as he might have had to know where the rendezvous point was. But maybe not, as the other ship might be able to find them by shadowing the Minnow on its tour route and using radar/sonar. And it's difficult to say whether Grumby put to sea with a hurricane offshore because he's an idiot, or because he was in on the scheme and planned to use it as cover. It's likely he did know Howell's plan, or he might have asked some questions about all the suitcases. Or maybe Howell just bribed him to STFU, and he remained ignorant.
Either way, I suspect the Skipper would not have survived the rendezvous. Howell would want to tie up that loose end. Ginger might also have met with a grim fate, too, as hot babes are a dime a dozen to a rich man. Who knows when dealing with Thurston Howell III?
We'll never know. Alas for Thurston's scheming, fate intervened when the Minnow was almost sunk for real.
There was an episode where it was revealed that the radio station the Skipper listened gave the previous day's weather report by accident. Still kinda sus, I'll admit.
Of course, there was another episode where it was revealed that the Howells, Ginger, Mary-Anne and the Professor were all suspects in a murder case. I always wondered what Five-O thought of that when all of their suspects just happened to get on the same tour boat which then vanished off the face off the ocean.
This does make a small amount of sense of the series. Perhaps the island sits in some mysterious reality vortex that draws all manner of things to it: floating cargo, rock bands, surfers....
Simultaneously making my way through Agatha All Along (2024) and Tiny Beautiful Things (2023), which both feature Kathryn Hahn in wildly different roles. I'm liking both shows for different reasons, though I get thrown a little by some of TBT's fractured narratives, and I'm no stranger to fractured narratives.
Although the "Young Clare" parts of TBT are based on the author's (Cheryl Strayed's) life, the "Adult" parts are almost entirely fictional, drawing from her column/podcast and ideas about what her life might have been if she had made different choices. Some of her actual adult life was chronicled in Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Trail Coast (2012), which was made into the movie, Wild (2014). It stars Reese Witherspoon, who produced TBT. I've neither read the book (a bestseller, though one which received mixed reviews) nor watched the movie, but I think I might do both at some point.
Both Agatha and Clare frequently make terrible life choices.
Mutsuko Erskine appears in two episodes of TBT, her second role ever. I immediately recognized her from Pen15 (2019-2021), where she played Yuki Ishii-Peters. She took the part at the urging of her daughter, who co-wrote and co-stars in the show and thought her mother would work well playing her character's mother. So far as I know, she had never acted previously. She did so well that she has an episode of her own in Pen15's second and final season.
I watch a lot of documentaries. Most recently I saw the new Beatles '64, which covers some generally familiar territory in a great deal of depth, and gave me another look at my birth year.
Atomic Reaction (2023): after a slow start, this develops into a thoughtful look at Canada’s involvement in the production of uranium for the Manhattan Project, and the after-effects for the Japanese, the Dene, and the people of Port Hope (the Ontario town where the uranium was processed). Canada was the world's largest producers of uranium for a few decades, with basically one client. Port Hope is now better-known as a place where people shoot movies when they want a stereotypical picturesque small town, but the town is still dealing with the consequences of the uranium processing. A lot of people took superfluous building material from the facility (with the company's blessings), spreading contaminated material throughout the region. That they filmed most of Stephen King's It Parts I and II there now seems chillingly appropriate.
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