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

[TSwizzle]

Bosch: Legacy, season three, 9/10; Streaming on Amazon Prime I think this is the final season. It was very good. There are a few plot lines in the series which makes it a bit busy but there are 10 episodes in this series. There was a particularly shocking event to a regular character. The final episode was unexpected and jammed in to tidy up a loose end. A really good series.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Watching the 1995 version of The Outer Limits. Were some great episodes from what I remember and it's looking like it holds up very well so far.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Just finished up the latest season of Black Mirror.

Man, it makes me realize how ripped off we should all feel by the terrible scripts and money-grabbing reboots that Hollywood is putting out these days.

 

[ZiprHead]

Watching an H&G Tv program called Castle Impossible. A Young California couple inherited a huge castle like French chateau. 500 years old and history has it that French kings and queens stayed there. The first floor is three huge beautiful ballrooms they rent out for weddings. The top three floors of the building is still almost untouched and crumbling. Their plan is to rehab the building to its former glory.

They are staying in one of several out buildings on the property while the work is being done.

It's interesting the old architecture and dealing with the huge beams used to hold the structure together, Only two episodes in and they seems to be tackling one room at a time. If that's the plan for the program to show should be on for ten years. There's that many rooms.

High School Sweethearts Inherited a 500-Year-Old French Chateau. Now They Have to Save It (Exclusive)

The new HGTV series Castle Impossible presents a married couple with the ultimate restoration mission — renovating a 500 year old French chateau with no financial safety net.

people.com

 

[thebeave]

Watching an H&G Tv program called Castle Impossible. A Young California couple inherited a huge castle like French chateau. 500 years old and history has it that French kings and queens stayed there. The first floor is three huge beautiful ballrooms they rent out for weddings. The top three floors of the building is still almost untouched and crumbling. Their plan is to rehab the building to its former glory.

They are staying in one of several out buildings on the property while the work is being done.

It's interesting the old architecture and dealing with the huge beams used to hold the structure together, Only two episodes in and they seems to be tackling one room at a time. If that's the plan for the program to show should be on for ten years. There's that many rooms.

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High School Sweethearts Inherited a 500-Year-Old French Chateau. Now They Have to Save It (Exclusive)

The new HGTV series Castle Impossible presents a married couple with the ultimate restoration mission — renovating a 500 year old French chateau with no financial safety net.

people.com

They'll be divorced long before they finish all the rooms. Assuming that haven't already killed each other.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Children of billionaires? Places like Boldt Castle are taking forever to manage. Stan Hywet in Akron was given up because it was simply too much to manage.

How do these two manage to afford this?

 

[TSwizzle]

Watching an H&G Tv program called Castle Impossible. A Young California couple inherited a huge castle like French chateau. 500 years old and history has it that French kings and queens stayed there. The first floor is three huge beautiful ballrooms they rent out for weddings. The top three floors of the building is still almost untouched and crumbling. Their plan is to rehab the building to its former glory.

Very similar to a series called Escape To The Chateau.

 

[TV and credit cards]

PBS NOVA Ultimate Crash Test S52 E10&11
Four average people remotely controlling four different vehicles on an airstrip set up as a three lane roadway. There are four other vehicles controlled by team members. All eight individuals are driving via cars parked in a tent with large screens in front of each displaying the road ahead of their remotely controlled vehicles. Then suddenly a semi pulling two trailers crosses in front of them. The road just before the semi is coated with small gravel and gravel dust to give a loss of traction and visibility. We then see how our four unaware participants react to the situation.
There's a young twenty something boy racer controlling a VW Golf GTI. A nineteen year old girl (new driver) controlling a Porsche Boxster. A fifty something male driving a Ford pickup with a motorcycle and ladder in the bed. And a sixty-six year old grandma who is every bit the grandma driving a Prius.
Great fun. Part one is all in the remote control set up and the comms issues they had with the cars. Part two analyzes the aftermath including decisions made by the participants, two accident investigators coming in cold to determine what happened, and who would have survived.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

PBS NOVA Ultimate Crash Test S52 E10&11
Four average people remotely controlling four different vehicles on an airstrip set up as a three lane roadway. There are four other vehicles controlled by team members. All eight individuals are driving via cars parked in a tent with large screens in front of each displaying the road ahead of their remotely controlled vehicles. Then suddenly a semi pulling two trailers crosses in front of them. The road just before the semi is coated with small gravel and gravel dust to give a loss of traction and visibility. We then see how our four unaware participants react to the situation.
There's a young twenty something boy racer controlling a VW Golf GTI. A nineteen year old girl (new driver) controlling a Porsche Boxster. A fifty something male driving a Ford pickup with a motorcycle and ladder in the bed. And a sixty-six year old grandma who is every bit the grandma driving a Prius.
Great fun. Part one is all in the remote control set up and the comms issues they had with the cars. Part two analyzes the aftermath including decisions made by the participants, two accident investigators coming in cold to determine what happened, and who would have survived.

Pulling that up right now. Thanks!

 

[Jarhyn]

Watching an H&G Tv program called Castle Impossible. A Young California couple inherited a huge castle like French chateau. 500 years old and history has it that French kings and queens stayed there. The first floor is three huge beautiful ballrooms they rent out for weddings. The top three floors of the building is still almost untouched and crumbling. Their plan is to rehab the building to its former glory.

They are staying in one of several out buildings on the property while the work is being done.

It's interesting the old architecture and dealing with the huge beams used to hold the structure together, Only two episodes in and they seems to be tackling one room at a time. If that's the plan for the program to show should be on for ten years. There's that many rooms.

View attachment 50463

High School Sweethearts Inherited a 500-Year-Old French Chateau. Now They Have to Save It (Exclusive)

The new HGTV series Castle Impossible presents a married couple with the ultimate restoration mission — renovating a 500 year old French chateau with no financial safety net.

people.com

They'll be divorced long before they finish all the rooms. Assuming that haven't already killed each other.

Or they'll end up like most independently wealthy couples in a loveless marriage with too many idiot children in an oversized house that doesn't make them happy and reminds them both every day how much they hate each other, but for the money.

 

[ZiprHead]

Watched the first three episodes of Poker Face. By the end of that third episode I got it. It's a remake of Columbo.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Move to Heaven

I thought it was very good. Perhaps, 10/10 good.

 

[Jarhyn]

Move to Heaven

I thought it was very good. Perhaps, 10/10 good.

My husband and I watched this one together.

As a synopsis: an autistic person runs a business with their dad cleaning out the spaces of those who have died, and figuring out how to use the knowledge they gain through their work to help those who remain.

 

[Swammerdami]

I started Maid (2021), ten episodes long but I'll probably stop now in the middle of episode 3. It's about a single mother, almost penniless, who leaves her abusive boyfriend, finds the system stacked against her, but persists with great mettle.

Good story, great acting; the series won awards. I don't object to its high 8.3 IMDB rating. I agree with reviews:

Maid takes great care with its sensitive subject matter to craft a drama that is not always easy to watch, but undeniably powerful, grounded by an outstanding performance by Margaret Qualley.
...
Parts of it are deliberately difficult to get through, yet the show is surprisingly watchable given the nature of the story, and at times even light and charming. Much of this is a credit to Qualley, who delivers a movie-star-level performance.

I especially agree with the "not easy to watch." I like FUN shows; grimness should be combined with comedy or anticipation. I just don't see myself enjoying another 6 or 7 episodes of unrelenting grimness, and see more and more obstacles hampering the heroine.

One reviewer calls it "surprisingly watchable." Perhaps I get too immersed, and have too much pity for fictional characters. But I want a series I can enjoy.

 

[TSwizzle]

The Four Season, 8/10; Streaming on Netflix and starring Steve Carrel and Tina Fey. A six episode series that shows a group of long time friends, three couples (one gay couple, of course) who are spending the weekend together to celebrate Nick (Carrell) and Anne's wedding anniversary. Nick reveals he is not happy and plans on divorcing his wife of 25 years and is in a relationship with a much younger woman, Ginny. This is an adaptation of a 1981 movie of the same name. Alan Alda who starred in the movie makes a brief appearance in the series. It does get a bit sentimental at times but it has some funny parts but the humor is subtle and not lol. there are some touching and poignant moments and Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" is used a lot. This was a pretty good watch.

 

[DBT]

Started watching the Snowpiercer series. With interesting characters the story is engaging, even while a train circling the earth as the last hope for humanity doesn't make much sense. Ignoring that, I'd rate it 7/10.

 

[WAB]

In season 2 of the South Korean "dystopian survival thriller" series, Squid Game. I thought it silly at first but now I'm hooked. Recommended.

 

[Shadowy Man]

I’m usually not a Seth Rogen fan but I am really enjoying The Studio on Apple TV. It is very funny with some Curb Your Enthusiasm sensibilities.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

Watched the last episode of The Handmaid's Tale the other night. I somehow missed 3 series.

I can only assume it was intended as a vehicle for the things you'd like to say to the population in a world where Trump can be elected President of the U.S. Also a wrap-up.

I would be very surprised if Margaret Atwood had anything to do with it.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Finished Lower Decks. That show was so very well balanced. Incredible stuff really. Meaningful, but not too meaningful. References galore, without it being too obvious. Silly and some times over the top, but not too much. Just a perfect balance.