Watching The Lost Symbol … I’m about 4-5 episodes in a think. I like it so far. I’d say it’s done almost as good as some of the later movies (not as good as the DaVanci Code) however that may just be because after the first “new” movie/show like this, another one isn’t as exciting…IMO.
I don’t know how I didn’t know about this series. I just happened upon it because I decided to check Eddie Izzards site to see if he had any new Standup out, (he did not) and this showed up.
I watched House when it was on and loved it very much. Highly recommend. At the time I had no idea he was actually British. About the time the show was ending (I think), he appeared on SNL in a hilarious spoof of Most Haunted (I think I may have posted this before, if so, apologies)
While doing infusions a month or so ago, I came across an old cowboy series mini marathon. Showed all the old cowboy soaps.
Baby Clint.
Sure did love them when I was a kid.
Oh man, some of them were truly corny.
Always liked Have Gun Will Travel. Got to see the first episode where he becomes the man in black.
Way better than trying to find anything to watch on daytime TV. Usually I just hide myself in my kindle.
All the Best,
Jeff
Trying to get into “Succession…” but man, it’s REALLY tough. I dislike nearly every character on that show. The bickering. The denigrating. It’s like… I get enough of that in politics. Do I want to treat that as entertainment?
Is there some “pivot point” in the series where it gets good? So far… it’s not boding well for me, just starting Season 2.
A Few HBO documentaries that are interesting and very well done:
The Forever Prisoner: the story of Abu Zubaydah, who was the first prisoner of the US subjected to “enhanced interrogation.” This is an in-depth documentary look at the facts highlighted in my friend Scott’s earlier movie account of the same story in “The Torture Report” (2019). All the principals involved, except Zubaydah, are interviewed on screen, although Zubaydah’s graphic depictions of the so-called “enhanced interrogation” are included, as well as comments from his military and civilian attorneys, one of which I knew in law school. The most shocking thing about this documentary is not so much the methods used against prisoners, the details of which we have known for long enough that the shock value has somewhat diminished. The most shocking aspect about this scheme that is highlighted by this documentary is instead the bizarrely un-substantiated belief on the part of those involved that this process would produce useful information and would not backfire on the government and the US armed forces in the field.
The Murders at Starved Rock: a documentary in the tradition of “The Thin Blue Line,” in which the facts leading to the arrest and conviction of a man for murdering three women in 1961 are examined in enough detail to make it very clear that the confession, the trial, and the subsequent 59-year imprisonment of the man arrested were obviously the result of a thoroughly corrupt and unconstitutional process.