I would be interested in knowing if you feel the same way at the end of the series, @MADad.
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I just heard this today on a podcast!
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Watching Season 2 of Outer Banks. It is definitely very predictable, but it keeps our interest.
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Without being too spoilery, I remained ambivalent about him.
I wonāt argue with your assessment, but I found him to be redeeming in one way that made me want to root for him and to see whether his character could get it together beyond this season.
We just started season 6 of Line of Duty. I think season 5 is the best so far, but all have been quite good. There is a character/actor from season 1 that I was astonished to see pop up at the end of season 5. I do wonder what the ratio of bad cops to good cops is!
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Just watched The Chair in two nights. We both really liked it. Good script and acting.
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I really liked Unforgotten about solving long ago murders with bodies only recently found. Itās British. 4 seasons. A little slow at times, but good.
All you MASH fans if youāre ever in Calabasas, California head to Malibu Creek State Park. Thereās a hike you can take to the old MASH set. The sets are gone but you can see the hills from the opening sequence and the helicopter landing pad.
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Am bingeing The Expanse. Unlike most SciFi, the characters are quite good, and the science can be interesting. Averasaala started out amazingly, but they have her swearing too much, almost like they feel they have to because itās not cable. Still she is a bigger than life personality, with an incredible, deep voice, and a wardrobe that is stunning. Amos started out as just some muscly side character, and now is my favā¦ he somehow makes a psychopathic/sociopathic personality moving, and funny. Rummer is growing on me, as is Bobbi(a 6ā Maori actress). Cast is incredibly diverse.
Oh, and there is a thread on Redditt about āannoying Naomiā. 
Still look in on Letterkenny. Have to be in the mood. Irreverant, juvenile, thoughtful, profane, insightful, disgusting, violent, wise. Itās like nothing else Iāve ever seen. My parents were probably Degens from Upcountry, not 10 ply city types, so thereās that. Having Squirrelly Dan quote Professor Trish about āHomophobixā is not to be missed, as is the āchirpingā of the Newfie hockey players, and Wayneās epic fight scenes.
Still look in on old episodes of Silicon Valley with S2. Some types I can do without, but Russ Hanneman, Guilfoyle and Danesh have us howling.
Kaminsky Method isnāt the same without Alan Arkin.
Am waiting for another season of Russian Doll. Am curious to see what they have done with it.
Have lost hope that Sherlock Holmes will ever be back. Cumberbatch is brilliant, as is Mrs. Hudson, Mycroft, among others. Strangely, the villains are the ones who are least interesting.
Watched Big Timber on Netflix. Probably have more interest than most, because I lived on Vancouver Island for a while, knew a few loggers, and have done similar work in the past. Liked it.
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Itās really a master class in screen writing. Often, I feel as if there were two American episodes in one Line of Duty episode. No need to state or restate points, they trust the viewers (and probbaly know thereās a whole community of clue finders who will rewatch-- itās apparently the most rewatched tv show in the UK).
Lots of little details that were background make sense as you go - thereās no throw away action or line, it pops up. Seeing Steve and Kate become good at their jobs is also neat.
Season 6 deals with āgroomingā.
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I thought they did a pretty good job of finishing it off. Packed a lot into each episode. Michael Douglas was a busy guy.
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The actress who played Mrs. Hudson the landlady on Sherlock just recently passed away.
Oh, no! She was wonderful playing cameos on some show with Ricky Gervais, also. So natural.
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The show that has recently really fallen apart is āGrace and Frankieā. At first it was funny, but now it is tired and forced. And thereās an actress who plays one of the daughters that I just cannot stand. Not Brooklyn Decker, the other one.
June Diane Raphael
I actually really like the show, although I will grant you that Season 7 has not been my favorite. Although, to be fair, they have only released 4 episodes of the planned 16, since production was shut down due to COVID. Which considering that all 4 leads are over 80, was the right thing to do.
Iāll agree, I havenāt been as interested in G&F as I was in prior seasons.
I finished the new season of Virgin River and am perplexed. I liked it after the first season. The season, a bit less. The third- Blah. I hate when that happens.
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I am watching Cook of Castamar as well. I have lived in Spain several years and am watching in Spanish. Love the show; however, I canāt stand Ameliaās accent. I googled her and she says she was born in Madrid but she definitely doesnāt have a Madrid accent (more Southern Spain and I lived there as well). Her accent bothers me so much and she barely opens her mouth when she talks- drives me nuts. I guess I am not alone because when I googled her and read comments in her interviews- the majority think the same.
We started watching Nine Perfect Strangers last night on Hulu. So far Iām not very impressed with it after the first two episodes. I did like the book by Liane Moriarty.
Iām watching Cook of Castamar in Spanish also and couldnāt agree more. I put on the Spanish subtitles and usually donāt read them, but when she is speaking, I automatically look down at them. And her little laugh is so annoying - but then again that fits in with her character.
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I wondered if anyone had talked about Nine Perfect Strangers here. I was going to start it tonight. I thought it was at least a 4/5 book.
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