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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[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.