I've been happy to see the return of Severance and White Lotus (I'm less crazy about the latter, but it's still compelling enough). Any shows back soon or recently you're wanting to see?
Oscar season was a bit delayed (twice) and is now set a couple weeks from now. Anything jump out at you this year? I think I've seen exactly one movie with any nominations this year (and just a supporting one at that), so I might not have much to add in that regard.
What's been on your screens, big or small?
Besides the two mentioned above, Yellowjackets has also started season 3. After a rocky second season, will be interesting where it goes. I’ll probably wait until after Severence is done to watch however.
Watched first four seasons of Slow Horses while doing the bike indoors. Now on to The Silo both on Apple TV+. Slow Horses was great, we’ll see how The Silo is so far it’s kept me watching and riding.
Saw The Substance. Wow, was that out there. The ending was insane. Anora was good and apparently a front runner for best picture. Nosferatu was really good if you’re into Dracula movies.
I really enjoyed Slow Horses and plowed right through it.
For the past few years my wife and I have managed to see every nominated movie (even the shorts!) before the Oscars. For reasons, that's not happening this year. I doubt we even make it for all the Best Picture nominees before the event, but we'll see.
Nominees I've seen so far:
- Anora: Intense in many ways. I really enjoyed this one. Of the few I've seen so far, it would be my pick for best picture.
- Conclave: A very well-made movie. Before watching it seemed like a movie where the topic wouldn't be of much interest to me, but I was invested the whole time.
- Dune 2; I'm only halfway through this one, but so far have been more into it than I was the first one.
- A Real Pain: My wife and I both really like this. The nominations for Kieran Culkin for acting and Jesse Eisenberg for writing were very well-deserved. Had a lot more depth to it that I expected from seeing trailers that just made it seem like an odd couple on a trip movie.
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: Exactly what you expect it to be.
Our most complete category is by far animated feature with 3 out of 5 (and Flow is now streaming on Max, so I expect we'll see that one soon, too). Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and Inside Out 2 were both very good, and could win in some years, but Wild Robot is really great, and I think far and away the winner. My kids liked also all three, but also agree Wild Robot is the best of the group. Highly recommended.
Yeah, A Real Pain is the one I was referring to (I didn't realize it was up for writing too). It's not the greatest movie ever, but it's still a little great.
Runner daughter and I have been enjoying the newest Severence episodes a lot. Meanwhile, I'm in the middle of the second season of Slow Horses.
I'm looking forward to seeing how well Mickey 17 follows the book ("Mickey 7") when it comes out in a couple weeks.
We finally got Apple TV+ to work through out TMobile phone plan (it was complementary, but the confirmation text kept going to the phone number for the plug in in the van which.... can't get texts) so we started watching Severance and I'm digging it already after the first three episodes. After that I'll probably watch For All Mankind at the suggestion of friends.
I really enjoyed For All Mankind. Season 2 is just plain rip-snortin' fun. There's a few subplots in each of the seasons that are annoying, especially in season 3, but overall quiet enjoyable. I think Season 5 is coming out this fall.
I didn’t know For All Mankind was coming back. Glad to hear it, I’ve really enjoyed that show.
Along with a fifth season of For All Mankind, a parallel series (supposedly titled Star City) is in development and will look at the same events from the Soviet perspective.
I feel pretty confident in thinking you will enjoy Slow Horses, but I’ll also suggest Hijack (renewed for a second season), Shrinking (possibly the best non-Slow Horses show on Apple TV+), and the limited series Disclaimer.
Dido on Shrinking. The old, a bunch of friends just hang out kind of show, but definitely a nice diversion.
sooo...Golden Girls?
With Harrison Ford?
green light it!!1!
I simply couldn't handle the blatant disregard for professional ethics. For me it turned the show from fun into anxiety-inducing.
I hear complaints like this (The Bear gets a bunch of “no way can a restaurant be run this way”) and while no one is obligated to watch or an enjoy a show, I take the attitude that it’s a drama/comedy not a documentary. The setting, situations, etc are to drive the narrative not to suggest a way to conduct yourself professionally. YMMV.
Oh, I certainly get that. It's very much a me thing. As a professional with ethical obligations I personally find this specific narrative too cringe. I've never seen The Bear, but probably wouldn't have a similar reaction since that's not my world in the same way.
its like being good at bowling and trying to watch bowling scenes in tv shows.
It's like being good at the plate and watching John Goodman play Babe Ruth
I have journalist friends who hate any TV show/movie with journalism complaining no way a reporter would act that way. My response is do you think Teachers, cops, doctors, lawyers, judges, etc., act the way portrayed on screen?
If you watch Shrinking with the mindset that it's about how people deal with trauma and the impact those trauma reactions have on families and friends and not a show about a therapist who uses unorthodox and unethical practices, you might actually enjoy the show. But then again, there's enough out there to keep us all entertained.
I enjoy Shrinking despite my field.
Though I got fuming angry yesterday watching The Pit. So many good, realistic doctor/patient interaction scenes and then we get a woman accusing her husband of sexually abusing their daughter and the chief of staff goes something like, "We can't notify anyone or talk to the patient about it without proof." And his statement is never corrected throughout the show. Simply dangerous misinformation to be spreading to an audience.
I'm always impressed when a show or movie gets the physics/astronomy/space travel things right. For All Mankind, for example, does pretty well there.
For others that get things wrong, as long as the movie doesn't depend on it being realistic, it doesn't bother me. Like the space travel in Star Wars doesn't physically make sense or work at all, but who cares, that's not the point.
But if they're trying to be realistic, or the whole point is to make things look right and they screw it up, I'm out. For example: I hated Gravity, and my wife (who is also an astronomer and whose mom was an astronaut) hated it much more than I did. We just couldn't get into it at all due to all the things they got very, very wrong.
Fun fact on Gravity, it was a very rare night out for Jane and I and we went to go see that. However, we had a large dinner beforehand and she had to run out about 20 minutes into it to throw up because of the camera work.
I totally lost it when an astronaut was allowed to tool around untethered (and venting exhaust) while Hubble is open to space.
Oh man, you guys are reminding me of all the high school physics level things that annoyed me.
I don't remember the details that well. I mostly just remember my wife going "oh, come on!" every 5 minutes.
I do remember we saw it at the drive-in, because that was the best way we could get out to see movies with a 2-year-old in tow.
Duly noted!