Television

[Dennis D]

The jazz content is nice, but Matt just isn't sociopathic enough for Tom. Too cloying in his sucking up and just not dangerous enough. Jude is way too pretty for Dickie. In fact, the whole cast is way too pretty :-)

Except for Phillip Seymour of course, who nails his part perfectly. As usual.

The original - -

Purple Noon (1960) : Rene Clement : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive..........

!!

[Dennis D]

The jazz content is nice, but Matt just isn't sociopathic enough for Tom. Too cloying in his sucking up and just not dangerous enough. Jude is way too pretty for Dickie. In fact, the whole cast is way too pretty :-)

Except for Phillip Seymour of course, who nails his part perfectly. As usual.

Way too bad about PSH......

Sure miss him !

[CliffR]

I'm re-watching the 2000's reboot of BattleStar Galactica at the moment. The characters, the relationships, the metaphysical elements, the tension - they all amount to what may be the most compelling SF show of all time in my opinion. And Gaius Baltar. who looks surprisingly like my project manager, is surely one of the greatest comic creations of all time.

[Christian Miller]

I'm re-watching the 2000's reboot of BattleStar Galactica at the moment. The characters, the relationships, the metaphysical elements, the tension - they all amount to what may be the most compelling SF show of all time in my opinion. And Gaius Baltar. who looks surprisingly like my project manager, is surely one of the greatest comic creations of all time.

Dean Stockwell and the mighty Lawless also have their comic (and sinister) moments.

I think it’s the level of the performances and character writing which elevates that show, many great actors who are sadly no longer with us. (Richard Hatch is great in it, clearly having an amazing time playing against type. Who knew?)

The Expanse for example is really good but doesn’t match the level of the ensemble cast which is up there with any show I can think of. Firefly gets close out of the SF shows, but didn’t get a chance (I’m still upset lol.)


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[Christian Miller]

We’re rewatching Community… Great show.


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[Christian Miller]

I had seen the movie version, "The Talented Mr. Ripley", and I was expecting something completely different In the movie, they had Jude Law playing the Dickie character as a wanna be jazz sax player, and jazz is all over the place in the film. There's a scene where Matt Damon as Ripley learns Chet Baker's version of "My Funny Valentine", and actually sings it in an Italian jazz club. There's also a scene at an Italian Jazz Festival in Umbria.

Apparently, none of this was in Highsmith's book (which I didn't read), or Ripley. It was still a good adaptation, but no jazz.

Isn’t John Martyn in it briefly?


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[A. Kingstone]

Luther - British sickos are the worst.

Great series.

[sgcim]

Luther - British sickos are the worst.

Great series.

Loved Ruth Wilson in that!
Just finished "Killing Eve"on Netflix. It was definitely worth the wait. Jodie Comer was a psychopath to end all psychopaths, but Fiona Shaw was even worse! Just stay away from British women altogether; like Villanelle, just say something they don't like, and you're a dead man!
They speak every language known to man, can imitate US accents, so they're even taking roles away from our poor US actors and actresses left and right!
We should build a wall somewhere in the Atlantic so they can't swim over here anymore. I don't know what to do about planes, though...

[sgcim]

Isn’t John Martyn in it briefly?


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I don't know, I'll have to look it up.
He was on the soundtrack singing and/ or playing "You Don't Know What Love Is"

[Christian Miller]

Loved Ruth Wilson in that!
Just finished "Killing Eve"on Netflix. It was definitely worth the wait. Jodie Comer was a psychopath to end all psychopaths, but Fiona Shaw was even worse! Just stay away from British women altogether; like Villanelle, just say something they don't like, and you're a dead man!
They speak every language known to man, can imitate US accents, so they're even taking roles away from our poor US actors and actresses left and right!
We should build a wall somewhere in the Atlantic so they can't swim over here anymore. I don't know what to do about planes, though...

Ruth flipping Wilson

That is all


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[Dennis D]

" And what / how we watch tv content on them " ( ? ) ..

Sorry if this is ot, and hope it becomes another topic, more clearly introduced by someone more knowledgeable than myself..: ) .....
But lately I've been looking for a replacement for my 12+ year old plasma, and it's been an eye opener.
In the last month, I learned that WalMart has purchased Vizio corp. for around $ 2 BB, and the word is that if you thought you saw too many ads before, just buy any new ' smart tv ' tv now and try to disable the Google os and the ads with it......

I may just hang on to this plasma.......

[CliffR]

I think it’s the level of the performances and character writing which elevates that show, many great actors who are sadly no longer with us. (Richard Hatch is great in it, clearly having an amazing time playing against type. Who knew?)

Yes! Not a coincidence that Moore's latest - For All Mankind - is also very strong on character.

A couple of fun related videos.

[Christian Miller]

Yes! Not a coincidence that Moore's latest - For All Mankind - is also very strong on character.

A couple of fun related videos.

It’s his main thing. I kind of feel all the nerds who moaned about the lack of ‘logic’ about the ending missed the point of Moores writing altogether. Anyway haven’t got round to FAM yet.


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[CliffR]

It's well worth watching, although very different. A much slower pace, for one thing.

[A. Kingstone]

The Fall

I amend my statement to United Kingdom sickos are the worst.

[Stevebol]

I'm watching Animal Kingdom on Amazon Prime.

[jameslovestal]

Ciao House on the Food Network. The current series is all being filmed in Puglia, Italy. This is where my wife grew up and where I just came back from. Puglia is really getting a lot of attention these days. E.g. The G7 will be hosting their event there in June. I believe this will be the biggest event ever held in that area.

Funny, but when I was there back there in early May, none of the locals knew about the G7 (but they did know that Justin Timberlake got married there, and Madonna stays in the area often!). I asked them if they wondered why so many of their roads\highways were being repaired. They didn't know, so I had to tell them: Italian leaders in Rome didn't wish for world leaders to see some of the poor conditions that exist in Southern Italy. Note the same thing happened to San Francisco, CA\USA, the last place the G7 was held. I.e. the city leaders found a way to get the homeless and\or drug addicts off the street (well at least for a week).

[benhatchins]

I'm re-watching the 2000's reboot of BattleStar Galactica at the moment. The characters, the relationships, the metaphysical elements, the tension - they all amount to what may be the most compelling SF show of all time in my opinion. And Gaius Baltar. who looks surprisingly like my project manager, is surely one of the greatest comic creations of all time.

I'm definitely going to check that out as soon as I have a little more time. Right now, I'm just struggling to finish all the things I need to on time. Balancing my workload has been quite a challenge, and I've even found it necessary to use services like academized.com/term-paper-help to help manage my term papers and other assignments. Their assistance has been invaluable in making my schedule a bit more manageable.

[Woody Sound]

We have dinner and he mentions what he feels is the best T.V. show out there; Yellowstone. He starts to explain each of the main characters and they all sound very unlikeable. He even kind-of stops himself midway because even he realized, the way he was discussing the characters they didn't have any redeeming qualities. I didn't say much, but after words I asked my wife if she noticed that and she did.

For these type of soap opera type T.V. series, viewers have to have someone that can root for (i.e. care about). Hard to get behind a show where all one wants is to see each of the selfish a-holes get what is coming to them!

Sort of like Seinfeld. Back in the 80's I was working so much I had no idea what was on tv, because I didn't even own one. When I got married in '89, my wife said she had to have tv. So over the past 20-ish years now I've been seeing what I missed. Seinfeld is basically about four selfish, childish, neurotic, immature adult children who have no direction or meaningful romantic relationships. At least the point is to laugh at their foolishness.

[Woody Sound]

What drives me nuts is when we start to get into a show (my wife and I often really like the same things - NOT ALWAYS), they cancel it.

[A. Kingstone]

Sort of like Seinfeld. Back in the 80's I was working so much I had no idea what was on tv, because I didn't even own one. When I got married in '89, my wife said she had to have tv. So over the past 20-ish years now I've been seeing what I missed. Seinfeld is basically about four selfish, childish, neurotic, immature adult children who have no direction or meaningful romantic relationships. At least the point is to laugh at their foolishness...

In the 90's Seinfeld made me uncomfortable. I came to appreciate it 20 years later.

Check out Curb Your Enthusiasm. More neurosis and narcissism.

[murrayatuptown]

don't forget all the whining and shouting...

My father used to fall asleep in a chair watching Seinfeld. The TV commercials used to be louder than programming, but he'd sleep thru the commercials and the Seinfeld chaos level would wake him up. I learned to hate that show. I was a quick learner.

I can't blame Seinfeld (entirely), but I didn't have a TV for 14 years. Someone in college housing always had one. My father wouldn't buy a color TV, so I did not know The Wizard of Oz was the first Technicolor movie, beginning in the Oz part of the movie. I was mistakenly disgusted Ted Turner had ruined another classic b&w movie by colorizing it, giving people purple eyes & red hair. I stated my disappointment in a house in college and I was looked at like I was from another planet then asked if I had ever seen TWOO before. They enlightened me.

Then I worked for a newspaper for 4-1/2 years, and saw the front page news the night before, so I still didn't need a TV. One night I got invited to happy hour with some coworkers and discovered MTV (I wasn't missing much). I wanted to know why a guy was lip-synch singing while driving a car. "It's a music video!" I said I wanted to see the musicians, not that. Then Michael Jackson appeared, groping his crotch and I said 'Eeew, who's that?' 'That's Michael Jackson'. "What happened to the cute little kid?"

I stopped going to ChiCHi's Happy Hour & going to The Jazz Showcase in Chicago instead.

Got married, & yep, my wife had a TV & intended on keeping it.

[Woody Sound]

" And what / how we watch tv content on them " ( ? ) ..

Sorry if this is ot, and hope it becomes another topic, more clearly introduced by someone more knowledgeable than myself..: ) .....
But lately I've been looking for a replacement for my 12+ year old plasma, and it's been an eye opener.
In the last month, I learned that WalMart has purchased Vizio corp. for around $ 2 BB, and the word is that if you thought you saw too many ads before, just buy any new ' smart tv ' tv now and try to disable the Google os and the ads with it......

I may just hang on to this plasma.......

I can beat that. I'm still hanging on to our 57" Toshiba dumb tv with 5-cable component, no hdmi. We like the softer picture, almost like a movie theater screen. Kinda funny how I got it. Walked into the home theater store, just as the flat screens had taken over. At the time it was new tech, and they were pretty expensive. I kinda balked at the price, and the guy said he still had two older tvs in the back room I might be interested in. So he took us back there to show us two Toshibas, this 57" and one a little smaller. They practically gave it to us to take it away. Still going strong a few decades later.

[murrayatuptown]

Lovely smile, Ms. Dreyfuss

[AllanAllen]

Well, I like TV and movies, I always have. Even when I was in college.

Right now I’m watching The Boys. It pairs well with Last Week Tonight or The Daily Show. They’ve stopped satirizing superheroes and now it’s satirizing real life.