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Yeah. Ep 1 is a little uneven but I find the season evens out over the next three and I've been loving Peacemaker and Econamos' characters.

Suppose we'll see by the end if we're just reading into stuff or if we get a gold star for noticing the subtle hint XD

House of Fools

Vic & Bob sitcom from mid 2010’s.

Plenty of their nonsense, but not quite as good, or bonkers, as Catterick. Main thing is that it’s still good fun.

Tried to watch Peacemaker season 2. It’s only available on NowTV. The single most obnoxious streaming platform.

Not only is it a paid subscription? But here’s a lot of adverts too. Which you can’t skip or fast forward.

Guess I’m waiting for it to come to Prime.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Tried to watch Peacemaker season 2. It’s only available on NowTV. The single most obnoxious streaming platform.

Not only is it a paid subscription? But here’s a lot of adverts too. Which you can’t skip or fast forward.

Guess I’m waiting for it to come to Prime.

You don't have HBO in the old country?

Nope.

Finished The Paper season 1 (10 episodes)

So by the end of the season full on Flanderization of the cast is underway. Noble Ned is now a neurotic goofball, Evil Esmeralda is a superstitious gullible fool. Still a fun show but already getting goofy.

I'll be back for Season 2, if/when it comes out.


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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Tried to watch Peacemaker season 2. It’s only available on NowTV. The single most obnoxious streaming platform.

Not only is it a paid subscription? But here’s a lot of adverts too. Which you can’t skip or fast forward.

Guess I’m waiting for it to come to Prime.

V... P... N...

Can’t. Work from home. Don’t understand VPN stuff well enough to be comfortable I’m not skating round a data breach.

Which in my case can be spectacularly bad for one’s career. And civil liberties.


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Spinning off from the Battleship discussion in the Movie thread, and how much I enjoyed seeing the Navy Vets clearly having a blast.

It planted a seed in my head. Imagine a Band of Brothers type show, high budget, high realism, but based off not official narrative stuff, but personal recollections from those that were there.

Maybe a twin show thing. One portraying the battle or engagement. The other the veteran(s) telling their story to us, documentary style. Just keep it accurate.

Gen-V is back!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Gen-V is back!

I'm too tired and too much pain to look it up...

Spin-off and tie-in to The Boys.

It’s silly, but good fun.

Murder, She Wrote

Classic Teatime Crime Whodunnit, in which J.B Fletcher, author and psychopath goes on repeated murder sprees then uses her detective skills to pin it all on someone else unmask the killer.

A show I greatly enjoyed, and have specifically fond memories of watching with my paternal Granny.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Murder, She Wrote

Classic Teatime Crime Whodunnit, in which J.B Fletcher, author and psychopath goes on repeated murder sprees then uses her detective skills to pin it all on someone else unmask the killer.

A show I greatly enjoyed, and have specifically fond memories of watching with my paternal Granny.

I think that pretty much everyone's feelings towards Murder, She Wrote are linked to afternoons at grandparents. It's just one of those universal laws.

Plus Angela Lansbury is just a great human being.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Murder, She Wrote

Classic Teatime Crime Whodunnit, in which J.B Fletcher, author and psychopath goes on repeated murder sprees then uses her detective skills to pin it all on someone else unmask the killer.

A show I greatly enjoyed, and have specifically fond memories of watching with my paternal Granny.

It's strange that Cabot Cove was such a dangerous place (all stemming from Rachel, the accused witch)...

In 264 episodes of Murder, She Wrote, there were 274 murders in Cabot Cove, despite having a population of only 3500 people.

So if you were a stranger visiting Cabot Cove, the chances were pretty high that you would be murdered.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Murder, She Wrote

Classic Teatime Crime Whodunnit, in which J.B Fletcher, author and psychopath goes on repeated murder sprees then uses her detective skills to pin it all on someone else unmask the killer.

A show I greatly enjoyed, and have specifically fond memories of watching with my paternal Granny.

It's strange that Cabot Cove was such a dangerous place (all stemming from Rachel, the accused witch)...

In 264 episodes of Murder, She Wrote, there were 274 murders in Cabot Cove, despite having a population of only 3500 people.

So if you were a stranger visiting Cabot Cove, the chances were pretty high that you would be murdered.

Or you were a murderer by day 2.

Silliness aside? This is a truly terrific TV show.

Granted given the Grandparent Associated level of comfort viewing it’s hard for me to be objective?

It’s all just…..nice. Nice acting, nice cast, nice direction, nice framing, nice plotting, nice lighting. It’s even Nicely Melodramatic.

Every episode is akin to a superior Hallmark Movie.

If comfort TV had comfort TV of its own? I’m sure Murder, She Wrote would be one such show.

It’s rare breed for family friendly tv show. At once utterly inoffensive in any possible way, but also deeply compelling.

It did suffer from from the same celebrity guest star issue that would plague so many shows (except for Columbo -which is still unique* for detective shows) where the guest star was always the killer.


*Columbo always started with the crime and the viewers knew who the criminal was, and you watched Lt. Frank Columbo try to piece it together.

To be fair in Columbo you don't actually have all that many actors around. When you step back almost all interactions are the two - Columbo and the Criminal - everyone else is a side character at best.

Murder She Wrote could be a little more deep in that sometimes you had a few potentials.

 Overread wrote:
To be fair in Columbo you don't actually have all that many actors around. When you step back almost all interactions are the two - Columbo and the Criminal - everyone else is a side character at best.

Murder She Wrote could be a little more deep in that sometimes you had a few potentials.

Every episode Jessica killed someone and you had to figure out how she was going to shift the blame.

It also sometimes goes silly. Witches and Vampires and that. And I’m here for all that goofiness as you might expect.

To be fair even the more semi-serious crime dramas of that era had ghosts/witches/angels and other stuff thrown in. It was also the height of things like subliminal messaging and psyops being real things too.

Random Murder, She Wrote fact?

Actress Madlyn Rhue was helped by Angela Lansbury with a recurring role as Jean the librarian on Murder, She Wrote. Lansbury created the part specifically for Rhue, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, to help her meet the earnings requirement to maintain her Screen Actors Guild health insurance benefits.

What a lovely, and incredibly clever, thing to do.

Of course, the episode that sticks in my mind is ‘Magnum on Ice’, the Magnum P.I. crossover. More than a cameo they played it sometimes as a [Murder, She Wrote[/i] and sometimes as a Magnum P.I. (with Tom Selleck voiceovers an’ all).

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Random Murder, She Wrote fact?

Actress Madlyn Rhue was helped by Angela Lansbury with a recurring role as Jean the librarian on Murder, She Wrote. Lansbury created the part specifically for Rhue, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, to help her meet the earnings requirement to maintain her Screen Actors Guild health insurance benefits.

What a lovely, and incredibly clever, thing to do.

This actually happens way more than you'd think. The SAG legitimately takes care of its people and its mostly the ones whose names you've never heard of.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Random Murder, She Wrote fact?

Actress Madlyn Rhue was helped by Angela Lansbury with a recurring role as Jean the librarian on Murder, She Wrote. Lansbury created the part specifically for Rhue, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, to help her meet the earnings requirement to maintain her Screen Actors Guild health insurance benefits.

What a lovely, and incredibly clever, thing to do.

Yep, Lansbury was just a good 'un.

Just kind of going through the motions with Peacemaker season 2. There are some fun parts, but it just feels… off. Maybe because in the first season so much of it was an unkown quantity, and you never knew what to expect. I think the magic is wearing off. For me at least.

Vigilante being essentially the same person despite being in a “Nazis won WW2 dimension” was hilarious.
Economos should get his own spin-off where he has to deal with all of the DC heroes and their bs. Judomaster is pretty funny too. I’d like more from those three.

All else kind of sucks, tbh. I want to like it more, as Jon Cena seems to be giving it his all, but it does nothing for me most of the time.

My hope is that the season ends with Peacemaker and Harcourt riding off into the sunset, retiring from the superhero game. But her being James Gunn’s wife means he’s probably going to keep her employed as long as he’s got the keys to the kingdom. I don’t rate her acting very highly.

The best actor is Eagly.... and the most likable.

If anyone is deserving of a spin-off, it's the cgi eagle.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
The best actor is Eagly.... and the most likable.

If anyone is deserving of a spin-off, it's the cgi eagle.

Even Eagly has been played out in my book, as he’s effectively Baby Groot with wings, or avian Krypto. Loveable little sidekick creature who’s always causing mischief, selectively understands what he needs to do and saves the day when its required.

It's definitely struggling. The first one had such a focused plot, and everyone had a very clear reason for being where they were and doing what they needed to do. With this one, its all about Peacemaker being lost and adrift, which would have been fine, but everyone seems to be lost and adrift together, and that's the overwhelmingly important part. That they all stick together... but there really isn't any compelling reason for them to do so.

That being said, the comedy aspect of the show is incredible, much better than season one.

I just like the gag that;

American Horror Story; Hotel

Probably the best this show has ever been, and it’s usually pretty good.

It leans more into outright horror, with vampires, ghouls, ghosts and all sorts of nasty murders and tortures.

Notable for starring Lady Gaga as the Countess, vampiric owner and mistress of the Hotel Cortez. And she’s magnificent in the role. Especially when she “creates” Liz Taylor. That just a phenomenal episode.