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seadoug said:
We just started Halston on Netflix. It is about the rise and fall of the designer. Ewan McGregor is the spitting image of Halston and the actress that plays Liza Minelli is great. Ryan Murphy had a hand in it, so expect it to be campy and salacious. The 60's and 70's settings and outfits are nostalgic.

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BTW, we just finished this and it had some pretty raunchy scenes so for anyone who is offended by this please do not watch. Hey, it was the 70's, Studio 54, indiscriminate sex and drugs!

We were much more interested in his rise and fall, how he sold his name to the parent company of JC Penny and his tragic demise.
 

seadoug said:
BTW, we just finished this and it had some pretty raunchy scenes so for anyone who is offended by this please do not watch. Hey, it was the 70's, Studio 54, indiscriminate sex and drugs!

We were much more interested in his rise and fall, how he sold his name to the parent company of JC Penny and his tragic demise.
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I enjoyed Halston. I always enjoy anything about fashion. Have you seen McQueen? I thought it was so very good!
 
Watched 'Taboo' on Prime, dark, gory, weird. With Tom Hardy, & Jonathan Pryce English actors - great acting by both. 8 episodes, 1 season. Finished watching 'Band of Brothers' for the 33rd time. Like that series very much. Don't know if I'll ever get bored with it.
 
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I'm finishing up the last episodes of Timeless, another Si Fi series that was axed by a network a bit too early. It lasted almost two full years, but I still thirst for another year. It follows a group of time travelers that go back in time trying to fix things, but more often, trying to prevent a nefarious group from fixing things to create their version of an ultimate society. Each episode goes back to historic events to stop the bad guys. Now the premise is not new, but some of the episodes are very creatively new, with scripts that have been crafted by some very thoughtful writing.

Imagine traveling back to Chicago Fair of the early 1900s, to head off the bad guys, and the heroes happen to bump into Harry Houdini when he was still an unknown, and then utilizing his skills to save the world from disaster. He's still just a nobody with nothing else to do at the moment, so he plays along, half the time not even knowing how he's affecting the future. It's ridiculous, but creatively written so that it actually makes sense.

Yeah I could go for another year of this stuff.
 
Still didn't finish Season 3 of White Lotus. Think I have two episodes to go. Too antsy and nervous to watch TV this past week. Probably would have done me good if I had, but couldn't sit still long enough.
 
I'm giving up on Star Trek: Discovery. I've hung in there to S3E5, but it is just so bad, boring and badly written. I'll listen to the novels, which are almost certainly better written.

I'm thinking of checking out seasons one and two of White Lotus as there's been some positive talk about it here.

EDITED to add: I don't seem to have access to White Lotus. Rats. --- I'll find something on my Netflix watch list.
 
Medusa said:
I'm giving up on Star Trek: Discovery. I've hung in there to S3E5, but it is just so bad, boring and badly written.
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Star Trek, as ground breaking and exciting as it was, had a good run, which eventually ran it's course. It still has a devoted following of Trekies, and the early series is still worth a watch, as are one or two of the sequels . The full length movie, The Voyage Home, is still one of my favorites, and I think I'll watch it tonight now that I'm thinking about it.
 
Speaking as a Trekkie, ;) I will say that I enjoyed, Star Trek: Picard (mostly in Season Three) and both seasons of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which is very much a call back to The Original Series', adventure-of-the-week format. Strange New Worlds is coming out with a third season and I will definitely catch that.

But Discovery is awful. It just is. Bad writing and some consistently bad (in the form of overacting) acting. I was trying to finish it because I want to be aware of what's going on in the Star Trek Universe. But I will have to catch it up in episode synopses and when listening to the novels, which I'm sure are better written.

Have you seen the newer movies, which started the Kelvin Timeline?

I am missing the Next Generation movies and want to catch up on those.

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After raving about the Timeless series, I have to admit the season finale was a disappointment. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood. I don't know. It was supposed to tie up loose ends, and it did that, but not in a very interesting way. It's almost like they hired low budget writers, who didn't understand the point of the series. I remember watching the first time, and not caring about the ending, but I had forgotten that reaction.
 
I finally got back to watching Criminal Minds Evolution on Paramount+. But I'm starting from the latest season this time, because the promos looked interesting. I'm also watching Hey Beautiful, on Hulu about a romance scam in which the perp got almost $500,000 out of one woman, thousands out of another, but only one thousand out of the one who was least attractive. I wondered if her dowdy appearance had something to do with the difference in amounts. Two of the women were married (the 500K and 1K), no less!
 
I found 'Arrested Development' to be hilarious. Especially the first 3 seasons. Its directed and narrated by Ron Howard and features Jason Bateman, Henry Winkler, Jeffrey Tambor, Liza Minnelli, Carl Weathers, Alia Shawkat among a bunch of others.

It's the Emmy-winning story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. Michael Bluth finds himself forced to stay in Orange County and run the family real estate business after his father, George Bluth Sr., is sent to prison for committing white-collar crime. He tries to juggle the wants and needs of his spoiled and eccentric family while being a good role model for his teenage son, George Michael.

It's one of the few comedy shows that I actually laughed out loud at.
 
MoBeans said:
I found 'Arrested Development' to be hilarious. Especially the first 3 seasons. Its directed and narrated by Ron Howard and features Jason Bateman, Henry Winkler, Jeffrey Tambor, Liza Minnelli, Carl Weathers, Alia Shawkat among a bunch of others.

It's the Emmy-winning story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. Michael Bluth finds himself forced to stay in Orange County and run the family real estate business after his father, George Bluth Sr., is sent to prison for committing white-collar crime. He tries to juggle the wants and needs of his spoiled and eccentric family while being a good role model for his teenage son, George Michael.

It's one of the few comedy shows that I actually laughed out loud at.
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I watched a few seasons of that; now I can't remember why I stopped. Sometimes I just get tired of shows.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I finally got back to watching Criminal Minds Evolution on Paramount+. But I'm starting from the latest season this time, because the promos looked interesting. I'm also watching Hey Beautiful, on Hulu about a romance scam in which the perp got almost $500,000 out of one woman, thousands out of another, but only one thousand out of the one who was least attractive. I wondered if her dowdy appearance had something to do with the difference in amounts. Two of the women were married (the 500K and 1K), no less!
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Daughter and i binged watched all of Criminal Minds/Evolution that are up between last week and this on her days off. We loved the original series, but with other things we watch together and her work schedule kept putting it off.
This is one of a couple of crime shows where she and i see the main team as a kind of family.
 

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