Ah, cool!
We are just looking for something new to watch after Big Bang Theory. I was thinking “Spin City”, but I hate to watch anything with Heidi Klum!
We always watch something “big” and something “small”, like House of Cards (= big) and Big Bang Theory (=small).
Just finished House of Cards by the way, and haven’t found something big to watch
In hotels , I only watch documentaries. Everything about history (especially Egypt culture, but also Maya etc.) and astronomy/physics.
It relaxes me…
How about The Office? The American version. I like both, but imo the U.S. version is superior. I’ve watched it back to back at least 4 times. It’s definitely my go to series, if I don’t know what to watch. Like LOTR is my go to movies.
The US version is better than something with Rick Gervais, Martin Freeman and especially Mackenzie Crook (who I absolutely adore since watching “Detectorists”!)
I love Ricky as platonically as the next man, and he’s also heavily involved with the us version (even a brief cameo) but the cast in the American office is just superb. Steve Carrel is doing such an amazing job that my toes never fully uncurled after watching him in that.
The first couple of episodes of season one are not the best as they tried to pretty much translate British humor into American humor which is not working as intended.
But the rest is just fantastically written comedy. And you can just tell that the cast had such a good time while doing this and it really shines through in their performances.
And while Gareth is a nut job he has nothing on his American counterpart.
Bosch is excellent. I read all the Harry Bosch novels years ago, and the series is unsurprisingly faithful to them, since the author, Michael Connolly, is the executive producer.
Titus came to my restaurant once, this was right after the Season 1 on Amazon. They are probably filming the season 2. For a tough character he’s very nice guy.
Yeah Bosch is great. I was watching first season of X-Files yesterday and guy on screen caught my eye as there was something familiar about him but couldn’t put a name to the face, lo and behold, a 30ish something Titus Welliver.
If us bottom dwellers need a reminder of the correct role for bass players… regardless of style of music or number of musicians in the band… watch the documentary “The Only Girl In the Orchestra”. She’s a bass player… one of those really big types… but her description near the end of the doc explaining the role of a bass player in any band is spot on.
Watched two seasons of Bosch now. I like the actor (I remember him from Lost, though he did not have many scenes there). - but it’s quite conventional otherwise. Good to see 7 of 9 (Jeri Ryan) in another role…
What I don’t like is, that it’s typical “american”, in the sense of: he is quick to shoot first and ask later. His bodycount is quite high and his personality is built on personal revenge mostly - which I find not very professional for a police officer.
But that’s a thoroughly European perspective, I know. I just looked at the statistics USA vs Germany, and it’s telling:
Sure, he is “American” and it’s a modern crime show with lots of action and violence. But, there is also a lot of space for character development.
There is a longer arc, IRC, that focuses on Bosch’s inner urge to help those types of victims that have no voice and nobody to fight for them. He has this urge to “make things right” and I like that about him. Whether his definition of “right” is aligned with your definition of “right” or whether his choice of methods is what you and I would do is another discussion.
So, yes, perhaps an element of “personal revenge”, but that is often a very strong plot-driving device and generally a strong force in humans.
EDIT: and, hey, he likes dogs and jazz… and what a cool place he lives in to listen to those old jazz masters and look over the sea of lights that is LA
