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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[china_shop]

Argh, I wrote tons here and lost it. :-( This is going to be the short version.

Episode 1 of The Madison, which is beautiful to look at, and we plan to watch more, but my partner suspects it will turn out to be quite conservative. We'll see. (CW: partner loss and grief.)

Started a rewatch of Paper Girls, about four young teen girls who get mixed up in a time war. Still so sad it got cancelled.

Finished Ponies, which was great, sometimes brutal, sometimes funny, and ended on a cliffhanger. Emilia Clarke is awesome!

The Naked Gun with Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson. Appropriately silly.

1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed -- a doco of interviews with mixed-race kids in the Bay Area.

The first few episodes of Rooster, which exceeded my expectations. Quirky and enjoyable.

More of The Pitt. (I found the latest episode so upsetting. It's so good.)

Some stand-up comedy: Marc Maron, Rose Matafeo, probably some others.

And in Kdramas, I'm still going with Undercover Miss Hong, One Spring Night, and Love Scout. :D

[shadowkat]

Madison has a good cast - but it is in the Yellowstone universe and ....from Taylor Sheridan. Also on Paramount (which I'm still boycotting because of Skydance media - who so far is just making the news conservative, nothing else - they've also bought HBO, which makes me worry about the Pitt. But again so far they are hands off fictional content.)

Agree on the Pitt.

Speaking of K dramas? Have you seen something called "Chasing Jade"? It's been rec'd at my workplace, and on social media by various urban fantasy writers.

[china_shop]

I don't know who Taylor Sheridan is, but yeah, all those Yellowstone universe shows seem pretty right-leaning. Idk. (Here it's on a local streaming service that includes a lot of HBO shows.)

But again so far they are hands off fictional content.

That's good to know, at least.

Speaking of K dramas? Have you seen something called "Chasing Jade"?

Ooh, no, I haven't. *pokes around the internet* Oh, it's actually a Chinese drama. Looks fun, but I mostly only watch Kdramas, in a vain attempt to keep the last remaining shreds of my Korean language learning alive. ;-)

[shadowkat]

Taylor Sheridan is the show-runner or the creator of the series "The Madison". He created Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingsbridge (I think that's what it is called), 1883, 1923, and now the Madison. He's not exactly right-wing, and neither was Yellowstone - I saw Yellowstone, so much as "libertarian" - which isn't quite the same thing? He's a horse rancher who is from Texas - and the Western US has a lot of folks who don't want Big Government, no regs, and to be left alone with their ranches.

I doubt he likes the current regime, but it's unclear. Yellowstone is kind of a dark anti-hero show, you're not really supposed to like the main characters in it.

[yourlibrarian]

Argh for the lost post!

Rooster sounded familiar and I realized it was because I'd heard Steve Carrell tell Colbert about it. Have jotted that down on my HBO list.