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What TV are you watching and how would you rate it? [Revive from FRDB]

Let me mention the Canadian series The Newsroom, all available on YouTube (each episode divided into P1,P2,P3). If you want to know how perverse Swammi's sense of humor is, WATCH THIS!! It puts me into stitches. (It was a decade ago that I first watched it.)

This is NOT HBO's The Newsroom with Jeff Daniels, which strikes me as the sort of pretentious elitist rubbish which eventually turned the American electorate to the dark side. No, I am speaking of CBC's  The_Newsroom_(Canadian_TV_series). Season 1 was in 1996 with Seasons 2 and 3 airing several years later.

(My sister recommended  The_Newsroom_(American_TV_series) not knowing a CBC show had the same title. I tried YouTube and stumbled on the (little-known?) CBC series with the same name.)

I hope some of you click and watch a bit of it. If one of you also finds it uproariously hilarious, I've found a kindred soul!
 
I'm watching Borgen (2010), about a woman who becomes Prime Minister of Denmark. I just finished Season 1, only to discover there are two more seasons.

It's much more subdued than American movies or series about Presidents, etc. (An American series would have had an assassination, a car chase and a military confrontation in the first ten episodes, but the biggest crises here were a small bribe and a few extramarital affairs.) The woman becomes a great politician, but sacrifices her family. The stupidity with which she throws away her happy marriage annoyed me, but I guess they wanted to suggest the personal sacrifices needed for a job like that. All in all, I recommend the series, though 8.5 IMDB and 100% Rotten Tomatoes seem a bit much.
 
Second season of 1923 has started. 3 episodes so far and it is good. Shocking the amount of blatant racism depicted in the show. (none of it involving black people so far) Glad they are not white-washing history on this stuff.
 
I just finished Season 1 of Big Little Lies (2017), a black comedy drama; and loved it. Black comedy drama seems to be my favorite genre. I loved Succession; some of The Wire was almost black comedy; and so on. Big Little Lies now advances onto my Favorite TV Series of All-Time List. It gets 8.4 at IMDB; and 93% Rotten Tomatoes. It deserves that or more. (I've not yet started Season 2. A Season 3 is planned.)

In Episode 1, there are flash-forward scenes with cops, etc. so we know a murder(?) will occur but we're left to guess who murders whom. This seems like an interesting device. The series is based on a same-named novel. (But could that plot device work in a novel?)
 
Watched the finale of Severance season 2 last night. All I'm gonna say is damn it, Mark! 🙄

Renewed for season 3 by the way.
 
Patooka said:
GenesisNemesis said:
Watched the finale of Severance season 2 last night. All I'm gonna say is damn it, Mark! 🙄

Renewed for season 3 by the way.
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I dunno, I sympatize with both Marks. Each raise valid arguments.
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An argument can also be made that innie Mark isn't the true self-actualized Mark however, and outie Mark is the suppressed Mark. But I am more biased towards that view.
 
Swammerdami said:
I'm watching Borgen (2010), about a woman who becomes Prime Minister of Denmark. I just finished Season 1, only to discover there are two more seasons.

It's much more subdued than American movies or series about Presidents, etc. (An American series would have had an assassination, a car chase and a military confrontation in the first ten episodes, but the biggest crises here were a small bribe and a few extramarital affairs.) The woman becomes a great politician, but sacrifices her family. The stupidity with which she throws away her happy marriage annoyed me, but I guess they wanted to suggest the personal sacrifices needed for a job like that. All in all, I recommend the series, though 8.5 IMDB and 100% Rotten Tomatoes seem a bit much.
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Loved Borgen. I'm with Rotten Tomatoes.

No explosions, no fist fights, just great character analysis and the knowledge that the PM of Denmark can ride her bike to work.
 
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I stopped watching TV when I was about 12, though over the years there have been some TV shows I will watch. Sci-Fi channel's Dune, Classic British like Father Ted, Fawlty Towers, Absolutely Fabulous, Classic American shows like Twilight Zone, Homicide: Life On the Street, Northern Exposure, Roseanne, Mom, and the two best TV shows of all time, South Park and House M.D.

 
Star Trek: Lower Decks - Been enjoying this one. My daughter likes watching it, but is frustrated when I'm laughing at old school references she has no idea about. I keep telling her there are five plus decades of programming/movies they are fishing from. My favorite was the "space whales" mention as a fadeaway aside.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Star Trek: Lower Decks - Been enjoying this one. My daughter likes watching it, but is frustrated when I'm laughing at old school references she has no idea about. I keep telling her there are five plus decades of programming/movies they are fishing from. My favorite was the "space whales" mention as a fadeaway aside.
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I did like the crossover episode with Strange New Worlds, in "Those Old Scientists" ha. Funny that they look just like their voice actors, wonder if it was planned for that.

SNW is allegedly coming back this year.
 
Wolf Hall on PBS. I had given up on a season two. Nine years between seasons. Worth the wait. The sets, the costumes, the acting is all wonderful. I like that it centers on Thomas Cromwell and the way Mark Rylance carries himself in the role. And I'm a bit of A Damian Lewis fan too.
 
Didn't want to start a whole new thread about this so I'm dropping it here.

Francesca Fiorentini and the Young Turks have broken up. She was a regular on The Damage Report with John Iadoroa on the TYT network. TDR is the only show I watch on TYT. I stopped watching Cenk a long time ago. His skin is so thin it's almost translucent.

And that's what caused the breakup. Francesca criticized Cenk and called him a "bitch" for engaging with Dr. Phil, a guy who's joining ICE raids on innocent people.
 
John's Damage Report is the best thing on TYT right now. I can understand Cenk's point about reaching out and finding common ground with right-wingers, because you need them to come over to this side to win elections. But the journalistic standards seem to have dropped, like he still occasionally repeats the claim about a Venezuelan gang taking over an apartment building.

For other news sources there is The Majority Report and Belle Of The Ranch (formally Beau Of The Fifth Column). Oh, and did you see the Jubilee debate of Sam Seder vs 20 Trump supporters?

 
I've been a Sam Seder fan for a long time. Don't get to catch him as often as I would like.

Cenk's point about reaching out to the right is valid. Bernie and AOC are doing just that.
 
ZiprHead said:
Cenk's point about reaching out to the right is valid.
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Disagree strongly. You're never going to separate MAGA from their dear leader. What would be more productive is reaching out to unmotivated/unlikely voters. Every time elections have a significant turnout Dems win handily.

Gotta say, watching Cenk and Ana emulating Jimmy Fore and Dave Rubin is disappointing, but unsurprising at this stage. I reckon it's a sure thing they'll be on Tim Pool, PBD and Crowder in a few months time.
 
I don't watch that chud, but that move did not go over well with their audience, going by the comments. Click on Top comments.

 
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