Yellowstone Season 2. Recommended. Not easy to find in the UK.
We are also trying to watch Sucession. I have no idea how this won 9 Emmy awards. Best described by a line in the script - "A s***t show at the f***k factory"
Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen a few episodes of the HBO documentary “The Vow,” which is about the ponzy scheme/cult NXIVM, developed around Keith Raniere a few years ago. The episodes can seem a bit stretched out and repetitive, but I think the creators were trying to have the first episodes show us why the group, and its many sub-groups claiming to be for various kinds of self-improvement and community action, were appealing to so many intelligent, conscientious people.
The middle episodes appear to be methodically showing how difficult it was for various members to break from the group and take the risk of publicly speaking out against the bad behavior and crimes they gradually realized were going on and directed by the leader, Mr. Raniere. That partially works, because, among other things, the members were required to give “collateral” in the form of embarrassing statements and background information about themselves to the leaders in order to join various sub-groups.
However, some viewers are apparently finding the facts presented in the series of episodes to be too repetitive to retain their interest. Other viewers are critical of the people who joined and later decided to break with the organization and publicly denounce it - these viewers believe the gullibility of these witnesses, and their participation at least to some extent in carrying out the goals of the organization and Mr. Raniere, leave them culpable of the harm done, and make it difficult to sympathize with their own suffering due to their membership in the organization and their varying degrees of friendship with Mr. Raniere.
In any event, the series is an interesting look at mind control and the way very intelligent people with self-esteem issues can be as susceptible to deception as others, and just as capable of joining others in acting badly, while believing they are working to achieve idealistic goals and self-improvement.
there were two ~100 year old houses in San Francisco
listed for ~$2.5 MILLION each and the two brothers
were spending $1 MILLION to renovate both houses
in a competition to see which would appraise higher.
i may not have exact information since it was hard
to hear over the machines at PT, regardless, i am
so glad i do not pay for this type of TV at home.
also, i am glad we do not live anywhere near SF.
we have visited several times, and it is nice, but
not THAT nice.
Alaska Off-Road Warriors on the History (?) Channel.
changed up my Physical Therapy routine and times.
coming along great, and the machines face the wall monitor.
essentially, it looked like a car race without roads.
back when we had cable, it seemed that THC
had much more history in their show selections.
my opinion: this show should be “history”.
+1 recommend the Newsroom. I kept skipping it when it actually aired thinking it was some regular news program until I actually caught an episode in season 3 or something (which was the last season), so I had to backtrack.
I tell all my friends about it, they always say “hmm I dunno I hate news…”, then watch 1 or two episodes and get hooked…