Recommendations on what to watch

Crap. Yes. The first time was autocorrect. But I didn't even notice it in the reply. Getting old.

Shabby lol

My daughter started binging Squid Game. I watched the first episode and maybe they should have called it the Squib Game (lots of people getting shot). It's like Hunger Games but with the kill count turned up to 11. Not my cup of tea but if you're into that kind of things it's done very well.

Yeah, I've watched 3 or 4 episodes of Squid Game so far. Pretty fun.

By the way, Goliath S4 (final season) is out on Prime. S1 was great, S2/3 not so much, but I heard S4 pretty good.

My second-oldest wanted to re-watch Lost and my oldest was back from the UK for a couple of weeks and was also keen, so I decided to get Disney for a month (also because Get Back was coming out soon).  Ended up watching a few shows and, have to admit, I really enjoyed Only Murders in the Building.  Then I binged through Eli Stone and relived some of my highschool days watching a few episodes of Hill Street Blues. Might keep it for a little longer.

wprager wrote:My second-oldest wanted to re-watch Lost and my oldest was back from the UK for a couple of weeks and was also keen, so I decided to get Disney for a month (also because Get Back was coming out soon).  Ended up watching a few shows and, have to admit, I really enjoyed Only Murders in the Building.  Then I binged through Eli Stone and relived some of my highschool days watching a few episodes of Hill Street Blues. Might keep it for a little longer.

Are there any new Star Wars shows out yet?

Flo The Action wrote:

wprager wrote:My second-oldest wanted to re-watch Lost and my oldest was back from the UK for a couple of weeks and was also keen, so I decided to get Disney for a month (also because Get Back was coming out soon).  Ended up watching a few shows and, have to admit, I really enjoyed Only Murders in the Building.  Then I binged through Eli Stone and relived some of my highschool days watching a few episodes of Hill Street Blues. Might keep it for a little longer.

Are there any new Star Wars shows out yet?

The Boba Fett show comes out around the end of this month I believe.

tim1_2 wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:

wprager wrote:My second-oldest wanted to re-watch Lost and my oldest was back from the UK for a couple of weeks and was also keen, so I decided to get Disney for a month (also because Get Back was coming out soon).  Ended up watching a few shows and, have to admit, I really enjoyed Only Murders in the Building.  Then I binged through Eli Stone and relived some of my highschool days watching a few episodes of Hill Street Blues. Might keep it for a little longer.

Are there any new Star Wars shows out yet?

The Boba Fett show comes out around the end of this month I believe.

Star Wars overload. I haven't even seen Episode IX and on top of that there's, what, 3 other movies (Rogue 1, Solo, Clone Wars), then The Mandalorian and now Boba Fett. I watched the first episode of The Mandalorian and was very unimpressed. Hype was strong, so I assume it picks up later, but I'm not sure. Episodes I, II and III really killed it for me, and VII and VIII, though better, didn't undo the damage. Hence I never even went to see IX.

Similar with the MCU. I really liked Iron Man and Winter Soldier, but the Avenger movies were loud and chaotic -- too many characters. I think I missed the last 2-3 entirely and have not watched the standalone ones, either. Watched most of Wada Vision and that didn't live up to the Hype (for me). And it's not like I'm watching Hill Street Blues and saying "that's how you make a TV show" -- it's aged, a lot! Still revolutionary for its time but a bit of a burden to watch now (except for seeing young actors before they broke out -- like David Caruso playing the leader of the Shamrocks). And there's always Veronica Hamel.

For Star Wars, Movies 1, 2, and 3 were awful, but everything else has been very good. Movie 8 wasn't the greatest either, but still very entertaining.

The Mandalorian was a FANTASTIC show. Incredibly well produced and entertaining. It has a nice tight focus around the one character as well.

I wouldn't say we've had Star Wars overload...certainly not compared to the MCU. The Star Wars stuff has all been nicely spaced out and the later stuff has also been universally good.

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:

wprager wrote:My second-oldest wanted to re-watch Lost and my oldest was back from the UK for a couple of weeks and was also keen, so I decided to get Disney for a month (also because Get Back was coming out soon).  Ended up watching a few shows and, have to admit, I really enjoyed Only Murders in the Building.  Then I binged through Eli Stone and relived some of my highschool days watching a few episodes of Hill Street Blues. Might keep it for a little longer.

Are there any new Star Wars shows out yet?

The Boba Fett show comes out around the end of this month I believe.

Star Wars overload.  I haven't even seen Episode IX and on top of that there's, what, 3 other movies (Rogue 1, Solo, Clone Wars), then The Mandalorian and now Boba Fett.  I watched the first episode of The Mandalorian and was very unimpressed.  Hype was strong, so I assume it picks up later, but I'm not sure.  Episodes I, II and III really killed it for me, and VII and VIII, though better, didn't undo the damage.  Hence I never even went to see IX.  

Similar with the MCU.  I really liked Iron Man and Winter Soldier, but the Avenger movies were loud and chaotic -- too many characters.  I think I missed the last 2-3 entirely and have not watched the standalone ones, either.  Watched most of Wada Vision and that didn't live up to the Hype (for me).  And it's not like I'm watching Hill Street Blues and saying "that's how you make a TV show" -- it's aged, a lot!  Still revolutionary for its time but a bit of a burden to watch now (except for seeing young actors before they broke out -- like David Caruso playing the leader of the Shamrocks).  And there's always Veronica Hamel.

Watch Rogue one.
After the original Star Wars, IMO, it’s the best thing they’ve done.
Classic Star Wars film.

tim1_2 wrote:For Star Wars, Movies 1, 2, and 3 were awful, but everything else has been very good.  Movie 8 wasn't the greatest either, but still very entertaining.

The Mandalorian was a FANTASTIC show.  Incredibly well produced and entertaining.  It has a nice tight focus around the one character as well.  

I wouldn't say we've had Star Wars overload...certainly not compared to the MCU.  The Star Wars stuff has all been nicely spaced out and the later stuff has also been universally good.

I could handle a new Star Wars movie a year and TV series also.
I guess they were disappointed with how Solo performed in the box office.
I thought it was ok but I think as a whole, the franchise is doing pretty good since Disney took it over. I hope they develop the movies they have in the pipeline. The obiwan could be really good since it’s Ewan McGregor later in life. It’s an area of the timeline that hasn’t been explored much.


As for marvel(and DC), I’m so sick of the superheroes movie. How many different Spider-Man and batman and superman has this been? I just can’t care. Just seems like a bad cash grab and without a real good story. Even the avengers series which had nice continuity didn’t do it for me.

I feel all these superhero movies come at the cost of actual good cinema products not being produced. There are tons of great novels out there that could be made into great movies.

I've got to admit, Spider Man: No Way Home trailers made me a little excited. I enjoy Cumberbatch in pretty much everything (even though Doctor Strange was iffy). My biggest beef was how they could make MJ *not* a readhead. And then I read that this was actually a completely different character (just named "MJ" as a nod to the original).

Got a FireStick 4k for Christmas. Fun toy, faster than my Roku stick. Now I can use a single remote (stick is plugged into wall instead of tv USB port so always on, can turn tv on/off with FireStick remote, also controls volume). Voice commands are great.

Only minor issue is the Silk browser won't play streams from sportsurge Fullscreen. I can have games on the big screen but not full

Also moved the Roku to the main tv and, again, can now use a single remote. Guess the USB port on that tv doesn't shut off since the Roku remains on.

The Roku is faster than the built in smart tv function and the remote is not line of sight, so much nicer than before.

By the way, if anyone needs the streaming site to get WJC games free, I can DM.

Ev, started watching that Mare of Easttown show. Good god it's depressing...but really good.