Let's Talk TV

[Mad Cook]

I'm currently hooked on "Grimm" I know it's hokum but I can't wait for the next episode.

The hero manages to show the same facial expression when he's arrested the villain and saved an innocent as when his girlfriend is killed and comes back to life as a Hexenbiest (don't ask!!!)

Somehow, American rubbish TV is SO much better than British rubbish TV

 

[CharlieD]

Just watched an episode of Blue Bloods where husband kills his wife, a mercy killing, she has pancreatic cancer. If you ask me, after I watched my father suffer for 6 month, the guy is a hero.

 

[Just Cooking]

I just received an email from Netflix about this new show and added it to "my list"..


Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.


Sorry... I took out the link as it went to MY account, even when I copied it in private window..

Look it up...




I have no idea if its going to be good, but I'm going to find out..



Ross

 

[Caslon]

That one Discovery show, "Forged in Fire" has content that not many have in common.
Making killing swords and knives.

They run 10 shows of it in a row. Alright already.

 

[Just Cooking]

I just received an email from Netflix about this new show and added it to "my list"..


Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.


Sorry... I took out the link as it went to MY account, even when I copied it in private window..

Look it up...




I have no idea if its going to be good, but I'm going to find out..



Ross

Watched the 1st episode, Fat, last night.. Really enjoyable..
Ross

 

[buckytom]

The second season of Norsemen is out on Netflix!

So far it's not as good as the first, but not bad.

I still love hearing all of the Scandinavian names, and especially the accents. It reminds me of my relatives and of my childhood, and the way the adults in the Danish Club in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn talked and joked around.

 

[Kayelle]

Watched the 1st episode, Fat, last night.. Really enjoyable..
Ross

I agree Ross! Here's a series all D.C. members will eat up!
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/salt-fat-acid-heat-netflix-series

 

[GotGarlic]

I agree Ross! Here's a series all D.C. members will eat up!
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/salt-fat-acid-heat-netflix-series

Another good one for foodies - which is more personal, like the way she describes her show - is "Ugly Delicious" with Momofuku Chef David Chang. It's lots of fun to watch; one episode is about his family's Thanksgiving meal. Fair warning: he and his friends drop the occasional F bomb, but it's not excessive.

https://www.eater.com/2018/2/23/17043556/ugly-delicious-season-1-netflix-guide

 

[Just Cooking]

Another good one for foodies - which is more personal, like the way she describes her show - is "Ugly Delicious" with Momofuku Chef David Chang. It's lots of fun to watch; one episode is about his family's Thanksgiving meal. Fair warning: he and his friends drop the occasional F bomb, but it's not excessive.

https://www.eater.com/2018/2/23/17043556/ugly-delicious-season-1-netflix-guide

This is another I will check out, GG.. Thank you..




Yes Kayelle.. The presentation is, to me, pretty wonderful..


Ross

 

[rodentraiser]

I was delighted to find No Offence came back for a third season and it's just as sassy as the first two seasons were. I think next week is the last episode, so now two of my favorite shows (Better Call Saul just ended) will be gone for a while.

Meantime I'm trying to watch Live PD which just started its third season and I'm tentatively watching Manifest, although to me that's starting to turn out to be a Greatest American Hero from an Airplane type of show.

But I did buy a subscription to FEI TV and am watching all the show jumping events on their website and really enjoying those. The only thing I don't like about those is if I want to watch them live, I have to get up at 5am sometimes. Ah, well, that's the way it goes sometimes.

I would really like to see Superstore come back for a new season.

 

[Just Cooking]

Another good one for foodies - which is more personal, like the way she describes her show - is "Ugly Delicious" with Momofuku Chef David Chang. It's lots of fun to watch; one episode is about his family's Thanksgiving meal. Fair warning: he and his friends drop the occasional F bomb, but it's not excessive.

https://www.eater.com/2018/2/23/17043556/ugly-delicious-season-1-netflix-guide

I just watched episode 2, "Tacos"


Watching this episode increased my fascination with the wide diversity of tacos and the people who make them..


Despite David Chang's propensity to use the F word, I came away with a complete new appreciation of the evolution of a simple food and the people who put it together.. There are also some lessons to be learned about what happens to some of those who strive to better themselves by coming to America..



I believe that anyone who likes tacos should watch this episode..


Ross

 

[CharlieD]

I started watching manifest. I like that SiFi spin on the show. will see how long i will less.

 

[Kayelle]

I started watching manifest. I like that SiFi spin on the show. will see how long i will less.

I'm quickly loosing interest in Manifest for the same reason you like it Charlie. I don't like the female star much either. Something about her just annoys me for some reason.

 

[Cheryl J]

I'm quickly loosing interest in Manifest for the same reason you like it Charlie. I don't like the female star much either. Something about her just annoys me for some reason.

Kayelle, if you're talking about Michaela, the blonde cop, I feel the same way about her. She's not portrayed to be a villain-ess, but she sure isn't a very likeable character.

I'll give the show another chance or two, but I think I'm leaning towards dropping it from my DVR schedule. I'd be surprised if this new series lasts more than one season anyway. (although, I'm often surprised at the ones that get dropped and the ones that stay. )

 

[Kayelle]

Kayelle, if you're talking about Michaela, the blonde cop, I feel the same way about her. She's not portrayed to be a villain-ess, but she sure isn't a very likeable character.

I'll give the show another chance or two, but I think I'm leaning towards dropping it from my DVR schedule. I'd be surprised if this new series lasts more than one season anyway. (although, I'm often surprised at the ones that get dropped and the ones that stay. )

Yep, that's her Cheryl. I'm wondering if she is just a bad actress and not grasping the intended portrayal of the character. Something is just "off" with her at this point.

 

[CharlieD]

I'm quickly loosing interest in Manifest for the same reason you like it Charlie. I don't like the female star much either. Something about her just annoys me for some reason.

You know, she reminds of somebody and in my memory I did not like that "somebody" so I do not like her. Even though I do not really remember who that "somebody" was.

But it is the daughter character that i really do not like. I guess as a father I would hope that my daughter would be on my side and not the side of my wife lover.

 

[Mad Cook]

British TV has a programme called "Saturday Kitchen Live" (It wouldn't be much point in it being "Saturday Kitchen Dead") which I rarely watch but last Saturday I turned on the television early to watch something else and caught th last part of it.

The programme has "celebrities" who are nothing to do with cookery but come on the programme to witter about their latest TV appearance.

Last Saturday there was a comedian (name unknown to me) who was taking about a new show he would be presenting.

It involved gathering a group of male and female students and making fools of them.

The students were given money and instructions to go out at night and get as drunk as they possibly could (I am NOT joking here) in order hat the following day they couldn't remember what they'd done the previous night and could be persuaded they'd done all sorts of things whether they had or not.

The next day involved persuading them that they had done all sorts of weird, stupid, illegal ( you name it...) things while under the influence,

This was all supposed to be hysterically funny.

Of course the students volunteered to take part - they were given a huge amount of money and students are always short of cash.

The group of chefs and "celebrities" on screen (mostly old enough to know better) all laughed like drains at the account of the wretched thing

There is some terrible rubbish on TV but this has to take the cake.

 

[Mad Cook]

I was delighted to find No Offence came back for a third season and it's just as sassy as the first two seasons were. I think next week is the last episode, so now two of my favorite shows (Better Call Saul just ended) will be gone for a while.

Meantime I'm trying to watch Live PD which just started its third season and I'm tentatively watching Manifest, although to me that's starting to turn out to be a Greatest American Hero from an Airplane type of show.

But I did buy a subscription to FEI TV and am watching all the show jumping events on their website and really enjoying those. The only thing I don't like about those is if I want to watch them live, I have to get up at 5am sometimes. Ah, well, that's the way it goes sometimes.

I would really like to see Superstore come back for a new season.

I was totally obsessed with show-jumping on TV when I was a little girl ad my Dad used to let me stay up to watch it on TV.

Now I'm older I find I can't watch it. I'm not worried about the riders coming off but the thought of the horses being injured is what does it. Silly really because horses aren't often injured in show jumping.

One of my favourites when I was a girl was Vibart ridden by Andrew Field. IIRC Vibart had been a farm horse before his skill as a show jumper was discovered. He had a unique action - kicking out his hind hooves when clearing a fence. Andrew and Vibart won the leading show jumper of the year when Andrew was only sixteen. As far as I know that record still stands today.

And then there was Stroller, only 14.1 hands so really a pony. In 1967 at Antwerp he cleared the wall at 6ft 8in, and only put a brick out at 6ft 10in, to win jointly with Alwin Schockemöhle on Athlet, a great puissance specialist.

 

[JustJoel]

The only tv I have right now is Hulu. It kinda sucks when it comes to movies, but it’s got lots of tv shows, from past and present. I’ve recently been enjoying New Amsterdam and The Resident. That’s a bit odd, as I usually avoid medical dramas. I’m particularly enjoying the performance of Shaunette Renée Wilson, a relative newcomer, on The Resident. I hope to see more of her! Wait, that didn’t sound right! You know what I mean!

 

[Addie]

For two days now I have been watching a marathon of Highway Through Hell. It is out of Canada and filmed in the Canadian Cascade Mountains. It is about a towing company pulling huge wrecks off the highways.

So far only one fatality. And that was a driver of a big rig. Then there is the stepson of the towing company's owner. He appears to be allergic to working for a living. Learning his lessons the hard way. Want those fancy clothes? Money for the gym? And any other goodies in mind? Stepdad is not stepping up unless you get your backside out there with the rest of the crew and work for a paycheck. Stepdad doesn't even raise his voice.