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I watch too much tv.
Just finished From and Chapelwaite. Enjoyed both of them but they are right up my alley.

Started the Knick this am and I like it so far but it’s a little slow.

And I really love Resident Alien. Right blend of feel good, humor, weird for me.
 
HandsonFire said:
I watch too much tv.
Just finished From and Chapelwaite. Enjoyed both of them but they are right up my alley.

Started the Knick this am and I like it so far but it’s a little slow.

And I really love Resident Alien. Right blend of feel good, humor, weird for me.
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I enjoy Resident Alien as well. I am a few weeks behind though. I do feel like the pacing is crazy fast at times and even though they're all connected, sometimes it feels like there are too many storylines going on at once
 
Ramrouser said:
It can survive without government subsidies.
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True, but is "survival" all we are looking for in a national educational resource? You, and others, like PBS for the quality of programming it provides. Reduced money yields less of a quality product and also less product in general. So PBS becomes more withered and possibly dies eventually. I don't have kids, but nearly every parent that I know uses PBS as an educational tool for their children, especially in the younger ages. And as adults, like you, appreciate the educational programming directed towards you. Sorry, but why hobble and weaken something that you both enjoy and learn from?

Oh yeah, I know. To own the libs. Shoot your own foot to make sure others hurt too.
 
The quality shows on PBS will live on since they have an audience. (I’ll continue to donate). I hope NPR dies on the vine as it now exists solely for liberal, white cat ladies.
 
A robust PNS/NPR funding discussion would be timely and interesting, but how about taking that political discourse to another thread and letting this one be about apolitical discussions about streaming shows?

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In any event, I was dropping by to admit that my husband and I are in full sci-fi streaming mode, alternating between episodes of the previous season (S2) of Foundation and the previous season (S2) of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Each show has season three available and we watched the ST:SNW season 2 finale and season 3 premiere last night.

Foundation is a far more serious and plot-dense story for sure. The FX are gorgeous and there are some really interesting storylines and some more annoying ones. My husband says they have kept to the key concepts of the Foundation books but changed the characters and some key details quite a lot, mostly for the better. The story about Empire (three clone emperors who rule in a tandem and can be replaced as needed by a waiting clone) and their robot advisor has been really interesting.

ST:SNW is episodic and wildly varies in tone in an fun and maybe too experimental way for its own sake, veering in the last four episodes of last season from a cross-over with a cartoon, a MASH type flashback to a brutal Klingon war about how to deal with PTSD and a war criminal who becomes your ally after the war, a full on musical and then a finale alien enemy invasion (that remakes the Gorn from a famous episode of the original show into bizarre lizard monsters that unabashedly owe a lot to the Xenomorphs and some plot details of Alien & Aliens).

Neither show seems likely to have a lot of cross-over appeal if you are not a sci-fi fan, though.
 
NPR has only itself to blame for its 99.9% Leftist staff and content. Not so long ago it was decent (my wife used to listen to it in the car so I was a captive audience) with car shows, etc. Recently, it devolved with not a hint of self awareness. FAFO.
 
Ramrouser said:
NPR has only itself to blame for its 99.9% Leftist staff and content. Not so long ago it was decent (my wife used to listen to it in the car so I was a captive audience) with car shows, etc. Recently, it devolved with not a hint of self awareness. FAFO.
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You still listen a lot just the same do you?
 
CNN’s documentary about Live AID has been very interesting through the first two episodes, IMO.

I was at the inaugural NC School of Science and math summer camp (Summer Ventures) that summer (4-6 weeks (can’t 100% recall now but thought it was 6, but was a teen then and memories fade) at UNC Charlotte — had an absolute blast), but they didn’t allow us any TV, so we didn’t get to see Live AID live, which remains a serious bummer. IIRC, it was also announced that President Reagan had colon cancer, I think it was, which we only saw in a newspaper headline. We asked a professor about it and he was astonished we didn’t know (apparently it had been all to wall news at that point).

Anyway, maybe I am enjoying this show because I missed the whole thing then. But the Geldof interviews are great.
 
duluoz said:
Rewatching The Bear season 3 so I can finally watch season 4.

I’m liking season 3 more the second time around, but it’s certainly the least good of the first 3 seasons. Overall the show is highest quality TV… but I don’t see how we needed an entire 40 minute episode on Nat’s pregnancy and breakthrough with mom.

I’ve been optimistically hoping season 3 has been sacrificed in service of setting up season 4… but that episode really tried my patience both times I’ve watched it.
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Recently finished The Bear season 4. The only other show I can think of that has had me reeling and hinging on every word and facial expression in the same way is The Sopranos.

It’s not perfect, but it’s highest quality storytelling, and probably lands at #2 all-time for me now. Like most of my favorite works (shows, movies, books, music, etc.), it’s as exhausting as it is exhilarating.
 
Ramrouser said:
NPR has only itself to blame for its 99.9% Leftist staff and content. Not so long ago it was decent (my wife used to listen to it in the car so I was a captive audience) with car shows, etc. Recently, it devolved with not a hint of self awareness. FAFO.
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By actual real world definitions I would venture to bet that there is not a single "Leftist" working at NPR.
 
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