TV Series

[Motown Bombers]

I've been getting back into older shows and rewatching them. I started Lost again. It really started out great but I'm in season four and I'm ready to check out. I've watched it before so I know how it ends. There's too many characters and half of them I don't care about but I still have to see their back story anyways. I liked in the beginning when it was more mysterious and now it's just more supernatural. I wouldn't mind some sort of reboot perhaps with different characters and a different scenario. 

[IdahoBert]

I am struggling a little bit with Foundation S-3 on Apple based upon the Isaac Asimov trilogy (which was originally short stories later stitched together into book form). I have absolutely loved the first two seasons.

I don’t really have a problem with the series as much as I do with Asimov’s source material itself.

I’m not giving much away here, but in S-3 there’s an ultra-powerful character called “The Mule” with amazing powers of psi-based mind control allowing him to bedazzle entire planets and armies. This is the first time in 20+ episodes where I have felt bored.

For me this is just a lazy way that atheist intellectuals account for the unaccountable in human existence and come up with a cheap substitute for what has since time immemorial been seen as “the divine.”

This lazy slant on things is seen in the way the once-popular fraud Uri Geller was lionized in the ‘60s while every stage magician of any worth knew what he was doing and could replicate his cheap tricks.

Deterministic scientism is pretty boring so you have to come up with a way of accounting for the unaccountable that can be reduced to deterministic scientism, in other words “the mule.“ The fact that Asimov could fall for this if only as a literary device is kind of disheartening.

Maybe he was just having fun and was trying to get a paycheck when he wrote these stories and it was the kind of thing that was in the air at the time. But now it just seems lame.

[Hongbit]

Bear season 4 has been much better.  I’m 6 episodes in so there’s still time for a swan dive.  I’m about 50/50 on whether it happens or not.  

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

On 7/22/2025 at 12:41 PM, Hongbit said:

Bear season 4 has been much better.  I’m 6 episodes in so there’s still time for a swan dive.  I’m about 50/50 on whether it happens or not.  

IMHO, it doesn't. Enjoyed it immensely. I did finally have to read an "explainer" about who is actually related to who on that show. It blew my mind that "Uncle" Jimmy is not actually related to any of the other regular characters.

[slothfacekilla]

I have never seen any of the Alien properties (I am generally a big wimp when it comes to movies) but I'm really enjoying Alien Earth so far.  I think I'll have to go back to watch the movies now.

[Biff Mayhem]

On 6/26/2023 at 6:44 PM, smr-nj said:

Just finished Jury Duty.

Man, there were some literal laugh/snort out loud moments in those episodes. 😂Just great.

Just started this. High Larry Us!

[Deleterious]

 

[Tigeraholic1]

On 9/4/2025 at 9:07 PM, Deleterious said:

 

Sam Elliott at 81 still cranking out great work.

[Tigermojo]

I really enjoyed Dark Matter on Apple TV. It's about traveling through different dimensions.

[antrat]

2 hours ago, Tigermojo said:

I really enjoyed Dark Matter on Apple TV. It's about traveling through different dimensions.

The book was even better.

[IdahoBert]

On 8/25/2025 at 9:17 PM, Biff Mayhem said:

Just started this. High Larry Us!

David Brown, who played the odd guy Todd Gregory in the show was one of my daughter‘s best friends in high school at Boise High. He was the class valedictorian and a real interesting guy. I spent a lot of time around him. I’m happy for whatever success he gains. He’s lately been in insurance ads with JK Simmons.

[GalagaGuy]

On 10/1/2025 at 6:52 AM, Tigermojo said:

I really enjoyed Dark Matter on Apple TV. It's about traveling through different dimensions.

I was just thinking about this show today.  Seems they finished filming season two a couple months ago and were expected to need about 6 months to have it ready to release. Hopefully we get a release date soon.  

[StrangeBird]

Task on HBO Max is really good. For fans of shows like Ozark and Mare of Easttown. 

[antrat]

8 hours ago, StrangeBird said:

Task on HBO Max is really good. For fans of shows like Ozark and Mare of Easttown. 

Yep. We watched the latest episode last night. Gripping story and great acting. HBO does it again.

[GalagaGuy]

Task has been very good.  I like the fact that I'm rooting for the "bad guy".  

[StrangeBird]

1 hour ago, GalagaGuy said:

Task has been very good.  I like the fact that I'm rooting for the "bad guy".  

By the bad guy, do you mean Robbie? I would say he‘s a very gray character. Obviously has done some bad, stupid **** but wants to avenge his brother and do good for his children. I loved the conversation in the car between him and the FBI agent.

The biker gang dudes though, not so gray.

[GalagaGuy]

14 minutes ago, StrangeBird said:

By the bad guy, do you mean Robbie? I would say he‘s a very gray character. Obviously has done some bad, stupid **** but wants to avenge his brother and do good for his children. I loved the conversation in the car between him and the FBI agent.

The biker gang dudes though, not so gray.

Yep, Robbie is who I'm referring to.  I don't see things ending well for him, I just hope he gets the chance to avenge his brother before he's killed or captured.  

[Tigeraholic1]

Black Rabbit with Jason Bateman and Jude Law on Netflix is phenomenal. If you liked Ozarks you would love it.

[romad1]

21 hours ago, GalagaGuy said:

Task has been very good.  I like the fact that I'm rooting for the "bad guy".  

Concur, its been a very good procedural.  I am wondering if Eastern PA has a problem. 

[gehringer_2]

On 7/22/2025 at 12:17 PM, IdahoBert said:

I am struggling a little bit with Foundation S-3 ..

I remember one of my kids read Foundation, I forgot which. I think the only thing I ever read by him myself was 'Fantastic Voyage'. That would have been about JHS for me and that's about the lit level it felt like. Of course,  in retrospect I have to believe that was a screenplay pitch/commission that was fleshed into a full novel semi after the fact but in those days we didn't know such things were done. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

At any rate, while it was fun (and Raquel made the movie fun as well) it didn't motivate me to find anything else of his. I also remember he had something to do with a very weird early puzzle style sci-fi video game called RAMA, which both my teen kids and I got too bored with to ever bother successfully figuring out at all. LSS - not a fan either.

Edited October 9 by gehringer_2

[IdahoBert]

53 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I remember one of my kids read Foundation, I forgot which. I think the only thing I ever read by him myself was 'Fantastic Voyage'. That would have been about JHS for me and that's about the lit level it felt like. Of course,  in retrospect I have to believe that was a screenplay pitch/commission that was fleshed into a full novel semi after the fact but in those days we didn't know such things were done. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

At any rate, while it was fun (and Raquel made the movie fun as well) it didn't motivate me to find anything else of his. I also remember he had something to do with a very weird early puzzle style sci-fi video game called RAMA, which both my teen kids and I got too bored with to ever bother successfully figuring out at all. LSS - not a fan either.

As it turns out, I really liked what they did with Foundation S-3 on Apple.

I found all the jumping back-and-forth between new characters difficult to keep track of but they wrapped up the season pretty well and according to people who are familiar with all the associated books there’s a coherent logic to it that is consistent with the drift of what Asimov originally wrote.

Season four is a couple years away, and who knows if the world will still even exist then.

[GalagaGuy]

Can't wait to watch this one.  

 

 

Edited October 9 by GalagaGuy

[IdahoBert]

Just watched the first of eight approximately 1/2 hour episodes on HBO of Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company. I really enjoyed Detroiters, and sometimes cringe comedy is too much for me, but the added elements of mystery and the surreal in this first episode and where it might lead really has me hooked. It’s cringe and Lynchian at the same time. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Has anyone here been watching Alien Earth on FX? I have and I have been enjoying it quite a bit. I am hoping for a Ripley cameo or appearance at some point, but that doesn't seem likely from what I've read about the series production and what I've watched so far.

[ewsieg]

On 10/14/2025 at 6:51 PM, IdahoBert said:

Just watched the first of eight approximately 1/2 hour episodes on HBO of Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company. I really enjoyed Detroiters, and sometimes cringe comedy is too much for me, but the added elements of mystery and the surreal in this first episode and where it might lead really has me hooked. It’s cringe and Lynchian at the same time. 

He's different for sure.  His 'I think you should leave' skit show on Netflix at times had me wondering why I was watching it at times, yet other times laughing so hard that I'd wake up my wife from the other room.