What TV SHOWS are you watching?

Black Sails is great. I like Rhys Darby quite a bit (he will always be Murray to me), but just have no desire to watch Our Flag Means Death.

ChristopherMD wrote: Might rewatch Black Sails to get the taste out of my eyeballs.

One of my fondest hopes is that the Black Sails crew gets back together in another 5 years or so to do Treasure Island proper.

I wanted one when it first ended. Now I think the show had such a great ending that I'd be worried they'd ruin it.

ChristopherMD wrote: I wanted one when it first ended. Now I think the show had such a great ending that I'd be worried they'd ruin it.

True enough. Given that TI is fundamentally a kid focused book I'm not sure the Black Sails treatment would be appropriate, though the more salacious elements dropped out a lot by the end.

Still, PIRATES!!

jason10mm wrote:

ChristopherMD wrote: Might rewatch Black Sails to get the taste out of my eyeballs.

One of my fondest hopes is that the Black Sails crew gets back together in another 5 years or so to do Treasure Island proper.

A few years ago, I saw a pretty decent version of Treasure Island that featured Eddie Izzard as Long John Silver.

Shellhead wrote:

jason10mm wrote:

ChristopherMD wrote: Might rewatch Black Sails to get the taste out of my eyeballs.

One of my fondest hopes is that the Black Sails crew gets back together in another 5 years or so to do Treasure Island proper.

A few years ago, I saw a pretty decent version of Treasure Island that featured Eddie Izzard as Long John Silver.

Damn, I feel like I've seen that but 2012 simultaneously feels like too recent yet too long ago...the past few years have really screwed up my perception of time.

Anyway, I usually fall back on the Muppets for TI, as well as A Christmas Carol.

Now that I think about it, I want a Muppet version of lots of stuffy classics, like 20K Leagues, Dracula, Oliver Twist, Moby Dick, Swiss Family Robinson, Once and Future King, and Dune.

We seem to have hit a weird stretch of Gargoyles that has nothing to do with actual gargoyles at all. Rather, every episode is dedicated to some random myth, like the Loch Ness Monster, the Golem of Prague or Anansi. It's baffling because we are talking about a dozen episodes, as much as the entire first season. They are not terrible, just have little of what makes the series interesting in the first place.

Fleabag is fun so far. It's a comedy about a lying, cheating, thieving, sex-obsessed woman trying to live a normal life in London and, so far, it has been very funny. It's unusual in that the main character breaks the fourth wall to make comments to the audience, like in a book, and she's very sarcastic and not very much of a good person. The writing is good, the protagonist is likeable (in a douchy way), the actions relatable and the sexual content is pretty honest. Like my girlfriend says, I appreciate an adult-oriented show after watching so much stuff that is either for kids (Gargoyles), for "broad audiences" (Say, Marvel) or heavily censored (The Big Sleep). Some jokes did not land, but I'm liking it.

I suspect the series may end in a dark place, though. The protagonist looks like she will ruin her life and that of everyone surrounding her. But it's funny to watch the process.

The problem I had with Fleabag is that she is a TERRIBLE person who gets to write her own story. It's very nihilistic. Even if it's a story that could happen, I got very little reward from watching it other than a few chuckles.

If you're committing to Fleabag, I'd definitely watch through the second season. It becomes a slightly different show with a little more introspection.

I'd agree she's a terrible person, but I don't think she's even the worst person on that show. The stepmother is a real piece of work.

Heh heh, regarding Fleabag s2, one day Hollywood will discover that there are entire religions with priests that not only DON'T have a vow of celebacy but can, in fact, get married and have kids. The weird movie world where every priest is catholic* has always confused me.

* or some sort of deep south Baptist revivalist preacher type, complete with tent, gospel choir, and shifty assistant.

A long way back, before the internet, one of my coworkers blew my mind when he told me that the Greek Orthodox Church has two flavors of priests - one celibate, one not. His take was, "How is a priest who's not married going to be able to give you marital advice?" Made sense to me.

Watching Minx on HBOMax. It centers around the startup of a fictional first feminist leaning erotic mag for women. smartly written, great cast, the 70s setting really pops. Worth a watch.

the_jake_1973 wrote: Watching Minx on HBOMax. It centers around the startup of a fictional first feminist leaning erotic mag for women. smartly written, great cast, the 70s setting really pops. Worth a watch.

I just finished catching up with the latest episodes yesterday. I really like the Minx. It isn't generally laugh-out loud comedy, but definitely worth some smiles. I agree that the cast and the writing is great. The last couple of episodes had endings that surprised me.

jason10mm wrote: The weird movie world where every priest is catholic* has always confused me.

The weirdest thing about it is that it's prominent in countries where most priests aren't even catholic!!

Erik Twice wrote:

jason10mm wrote: The weird movie world where every priest is catholic* has always confused me.

The weirdest thing about it is that it's prominent in countries where most priests aren't even catholic!!

Hypothesis: Hollywood is full of lapsed Catholic screenwriters, but lapsed fundamentalists, evangelicals, and mainline Protestants go into other fields.