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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
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Watson's finale was not what I expected. I am intrigued though and looking forward to S2? I don't think the show got better, but at one point I was definitely invested.
Grosse Pointe Garden Society had the exact kind of non-ending I expected from the show. I watched the last two episodes which didn't really add much apart from creating more open ends -.-
The reveal of who the body was is the only thing that was really solved (which happened a couple of episodes ago) which is frustrating because I doubt the show will get a second season. At the very end they added a completely new mystery...
I also watched the last two episodes of The Studio. I mentioned it before, I really like this show and I'm glad it's been renewed.
The finale or rather the penultimate episode set up a bit of a potential story line for S2, but it's just not the kind of show that has a huge cliffhanger. If this was one and done, it wouldn't be a problem.
I kept wondering how they would top the high profile guest stars from S1 when I realized that some of those same stars could just return. You know, actors appear in multiple shows and movies *facepalm*
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1. The Game (mini series): this was a 4-part series about Detective Huw Miller, who is haunted by one case he failed to solve. As he settles into retirement, he suddenly thinks he has found the elusive killer in the shape of his new neighbour Patrick. While I quite enjoyed it, I will admit that I had a bit of difficulty with the Det. Miller character because he is played by Jason Watkins, who also portrays Dodds in the more comedic series McDonald and Dodds.
2. The Grand Seduction (2013 film): this is the English Canadian adaptation of the French Canadian film, La grande seduction, about a dying fishing outport community in Newfoundland that has a chance at revival if they can get a company to set up a new industry. The catch is, they need to have a full-time doctor in the community, which they don't have, so they set out a plan to seduce a Montreal-based plastic surgeon into becoming their doc. I watched this mostly because it has since been adapted for the stage as a musical, starring Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea fame (and he also did the music), and it's going to be playing in Toronto this fall. I am debating getting tickets, and while I knew the basic plot of the film, I still wanted to actually see it. It's probably not as good as the Québécois original (which by some accounts is one of the best films ever), but still entertaining. I think it's on Neflix.
3. The Trial: I don't know if this even counts as a miniseries -- it consists of a single episode! And the episode is only 44 minutes long, so you can't really call it a film either? Anyway, it's set about 10 years in the future, in the UK, which has passed a law by which parents are held legally responsible for the crimes committed by their children. The drama shows teenager Teah on trial for a serious crime, putting her parents Dione and David Sinclair in the centre of a distressing legal battle against the Office of Judicial Inquisition, a powerful new division of the Ministry of Justice.
Started watching:
Code of Silence: another British mini series (I think -- can't see that there would be other seasons) about a deaf woman who works for the police, but in the canteen, not as a police officer, who is called upon to assist in an investigation by lip reading from surveillance tapes (because all their regular lip readers are unavailable). She is told to not google anything about the case, which she does of course, and we know no good can come from that because it's one of those shows that sort of starts with the end -- our plucky heroine covered in blood sitting in the back of a cop car -- and then does one of those "several days earlier" things and jumps to the beginning to reveal how we get to that point. Only one ep watched, but it looks pretty good.
Criminal Minds Evolution (season 3) - which sort of continues from the previous season.
Continued watching:
Murderbot!
Leverage Redemption
Landscape Artist of the Year (season finale)
FBI (season finale)
Curse of Oak Island (season finale)
And baseball and tennis (Hamburg Open)
As for what I am looking forward to, well, the French Open starts this week (tomorrow in fact), so am looking forward to -- can't say watching as I will be at work and not able to see most of the matches -- but at least following the results and watching when I can. In terms of non-sports, the new adaptation of the Jussi Adler Olsen Department Q novels, Dept Q, starts on Netflix this week.
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Bocchi the Rock! S01E01-04 - A really well done anime about a girl with paralyzing social anxiety joining a band to make friends, only to underestimate how much social interaction is required in a band.
I kind of want to go see the new Mission: Impossible movie. I remember watching the first one as a kid and thinking it was the coolest thing ever, but I have no clue what the overarching plot is other than Tom Cruise is a spy doing stunts, haha.
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Finished:
Etoile on Amazon, which was excellent. It's about the National Ballet of Paris and the NYC Ballet trading artists to stay afloat. Features professional performances, and shows the process of creating a ballet, as well as the day to day drama of keeping both operations a float. With quippy dialogue, also it's in French and English. With a great cast. First season aired. Second is filming and should be released sometime in 2026.
The Four Seasons - on Netflix. It's an adaptation of Alan Alda's 1981 film of the same name. Updated for the 21st century. About three couples who travel and vacation together during various seasons of the year. The couples are in their fifties. When one of the couple's gets divorced, it goes some upheaval. There are two episodes for each season. The adaptation was created and written by Tina Fey, the original was written and directed by Alan Alda. It stars, Fey, Steve Carroll, and Colman Dolmingo.
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Working on:
* The Residence - have two episodes left of Shondra Rhimes satirical comedy about a brilliant detective solving a murder in the White House. It's not really a political satire, and kind of swings away from current politics for the most part. The humor is subtle, and witty. It reminds me a lot of the Knives Out films. And I adore the detective.
* The Night Agent - started watching this while visiting my mother, about a week ago. It's not as good as S1, there's ahem, plot holes? And a lot of things don't quite jive in season 2. But still entertaining. I have about four episodes left, I think.
* Sullivan's Crossing - which I'm rapidly losing interest in, for various reasons - mainly because it's on the CW, my DVR isn't working well, it has commercials, and the story feels kind of like a Hallmark melodrama? Which is fine, but the drama is usually...tepid or off-screen.
Great Performances on PBS
* Next to Normal - a cult hit, and I'd seen the original version on Broadway. This is the West End Revival, and it's still excellent. It's a musical, swings heavily towards rock opera, about mental illness, and how this affects a family. It's also about grief and how mental illness and grief can interconnect. You might still be able to catch it on PBS at some point or on PBS Passport. Not sure if the BBC will air it or not. PBS is kind of the US equivalent of the BBC (except it is a non-profit funded by subscribers for the most part, it has had federal funding and grants, but not that much and even less now.)
* YellowFace (a play by David Henry Wang, which is somewhat autobiographical) - it's a satire about race and racial dynamics in the US. Stars Danial Dae Kim (LOST and Angel), Ryan Eggold (Blacklist and New Amsterdam). Quite good, and rather funny in places.
Looking forward to:
Andor (Disney +)
Murderbot Diaries (apple tv)
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I also watched Fear Street: Prom Queen. Terrible.
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Oh man, can I even remember what we've been watching.
My sister and I are watching our way through season 1 of Fringe. (I've seen the first few seasons before.) It's gross but overall good-humoured.
My partner and I and a friend are watching season 4 of The Expanse (also a rewatch for me), which is so good, especially in terms of storytelling and characters.
And my partner and I watched the first block of Andor season 2, some Poker Face, some Krapopolis, Murderbot, and... that might be all? All great viewing in their own ways.
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I have managed to rope two friends into HPI, and both are on their way through season one and love it so far. I'm currently despairing over the terrible quality of the season 2 engsubs. I want to make them better for my friends, but there is just no realistic way (because it would be extremely time-consuming). I settled for fixing the important parts of the most important ep, the season two finale.
Through the whole "where do I get HPI from" stress I had all month, I've found more French tv streaming sites and have managed to get my hands on both Engrenages and Tout Va Bien, but have only watched half an ep of each to check if they're okay. They are. They will nicely fill the time until the second half of HPI's season five airs in September. I hope.
Having been ill the last few days, I opted for watching some random Remington Steele episodes, and oh my it only holds up part of the time. It's quite funny in places, but a lot of the jokes are more misogynistic than they should be, considering the premise of the show, and Pierce Brosnan's acting is still cringe. (I love him anyway.)
I didn't watch anything else, but will definitely catch up with Murderbot this week (still reading the novellas).
p.s.: oh i forgot, I found Christian Ulmen's series Mann/Frau on youtube (also thanks to my French friend), and it's a lot of fun. Five-minute episodes (a lot of them) about a man and a woman in Hamburg. Fun and quirky. They're here: https://www.youtube.com/@pulsreportage/search?query=mann%2Ffrau (there's no playlist but they play more or less in order as suggested)
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If you’re a fan of Mad Men, Billions, The West Wing, Succession, or any similar show, I think you would enjoy Industry!