Speak Up Saturday

[feurioo]

Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

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[jo]

Started watching the final season of Outlander (Starz), first ep dropped on Friday. Apparently they've filmed three different endings, so even the cast isn't entirely sure how it will end. At least, that's what they're all saying in interviews.

Also started season 3 of The Night Agent (Netflix), but have only watched the first 4 eps.

The third season of Law and Order Toronto: Criminal Intent started, so fun to have that back.

Checked out a new US network series with ties to the FBI series -- this one's called CIA. Still undecided. Stars the dude who played Lucifer in Lucifer and I find him annoying, so...

I watched the Prime documentary Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, which covers Paul's post-Beatles career, but only up until 1980, and the murder of John Lennon. Not sure why it ends there -- McCartney has lots of career after that. Maybe because John's death put an end to the hope/speculation that the Beatles might reunite, even if only for a one-off charity gig? The Beatles (and John) certainly loom large over everything Paul set out to do, anyway.

Otherwise it was weekly stuff (Allegiance, Curse of Oak Island, FBI, Will Trent, Starfleet Academy, The Pitt) and sports (curling, baseball, tennis).

Quite a few potentially interesting series coming up/or have started: DTF St Louis has gotten good reviews. There's also the 3rd series of The Capture. The Rooster looks like it might be fun. I'm also going to check out Scarpetta starring Nicole Kidman and based on the book series by Patricia Cornwell. I've read some of the Scarpetta novels, but certainly not all of them and it was ages ago.

[yourlibrarian]

I tucked CIA into my watchlist out of curiosity, so I'll be interested to see what people think of it.

Maybe they'll do a Pt 2 re: McCartney? For me it would be more interesting to know about the post-John years because he had less of a musical impact in that period. Would want to know how he dealt with that when, on the one hand he had been so musically famous that pretty much anything he did would sell, to where he was more legend than present artist.

I notice this trend is common in musical bios. Of course in some cases they end with the artist's death. But for Elton John, for example, I would really have liked to know more about his post-80s life.

I've never read Cornwell but am also interested in seeing what might come of that series. Seems a strange casting choice though -- how old is Scarpetta supposed to be?