What are you watching & why? (splain)

Rant:

I'm loving (not!) that some of the streaming channels have gone back to showing one episode per week of a series which may have 10 or so episodes in a season.

To make things worse, virtually nothing happens from week to week so that they can stretch out the lame story line until the final episode and the big disappointing reveal which makes you wonder why you bothered in the first place.

Seriously, if you want people to watch a ten episode season...make it worth the investment of time...or stick the project where the sun don't shine.

End of rant.
 
Was at a party last weekend and people were raving about Ted Lasso. I haven't watched it, but after some of the reviews here, I have a feeling that I would be underwhelmed.

Also a reminder that Warrior is coming back soon for season 3. If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it!
 
tokerblue said:
Was at a party last weekend and people were raving about Ted Lasso. I haven't watched it, but after some of the reviews here, I have a feeling that I would be underwhelmed.

Also a reminder that Warrior is coming back soon for season 3. If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it!
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The first season was funny for a good portion of it. Then it started a bit down hill, and the second season was not nearly as good, imho.

The third season went into full preachy / woke mode, completely unnecessarily to the story line, I might add...picked up a bit toward the end, and ended, imho, with a whimper instead of a bang.


(Please don't take my issue with the preachiness and wokitude as my being against anyone having the right to live as they wish as long as it doesn't interfere with the rights of others to do the same. I just don't like being lectured...especially in not so subtle fashion.)
 
Nakago1 said:
I'm watching all the podcasts that Ed Calderon has done in the last year or so. Besides that guy being Batman IRL, he provides a lot of insight about the Mexican Cartels that's hard to get from other places, imo.
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Ed Calderon was interviewed by Sean Ryan, if you haven't listened to it. Sean Ryan's podcast is one of the best out there. He is getting better as an interviewer as time goes on. I can recommend.
 
benchrest308 said:
Ed Calderon was interviewed by Sean Ryan, if you haven't listened to it. Sean Ryan's podcast is one of the best out there. He is getting better as an interviewer as time goes on. I can recommend.
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Ed has some very valuable perspectives, esp. of what the illegal immigration trade looks like from the other side of the border, and the terrible things it perpetuates, which I think a lot of Americans are totally unaware of (or willfully ignorant). A very thought-provoking counter-narrative to the bleeding heart, "we should just let them all in" perspective, from someone who's actually been in the trenches.
 
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Smithhammer said:
Ed has some very valuable perspectives, esp. of what the illegal immigration trade looks like from the other side of the border, and the terrible things is perpetuates, which I think a lot of Americans are totally unaware of (or willfully ignorant). A very thought-provoking counter-narrative to the bleeding heart, "we should just let them all in" perspective, from someone who's actually been in the trenches.
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Don't get me started...
 
Just finished watching Adam Curtis' It's a Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom.

Mandatory viewing and not at all what you would imagine from the title.
 
Nakago1 said:
Another case of "there is no bumper sticker solution. Ed's take is useful. I've certainly learned a lot.
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Wait..."Think globally...Act locally" isn't going to cut it?

Sigh. Just when I was going to turn my life around.

(30 years ago I smuggled a Cuban gov't official into the U.S. who gave us information about how the Castro regime was intimately involved in the narco-trafficking trade...with specifics. He wasn't doing it out of the goodness of his heart. I'd arrested his son for major loads he was orchestrating. What did the heads of the U.S. Attorney's Office, my agency and another sister agency do with this information? They shut down my planned operation. At least I got a few tons of dope, several bodies, a corrupt police officer, outed the CIA's involvement, and got foreign gov't officials indicted. And became a pariah with the administration for pushing too hard.)

The more it changes, the more it stays the same.


(Sorry, I still get angry about it all these years later. That's on me.)
 
Blues said:
Wait..."Think globally...Act locally" isn't going to cut it?

Sigh. Just when I was going to turn my life around.

(30 years ago I smuggled a Cuban gov't official into the U.S. who gave us information about how the Castro regime was intimately involved in the narco-trafficking trade...with specifics. He wasn't doing it out of the goodness of his heart. I'd arrested his son for major loads he was orchestrating. What did the heads of the U.S. Attorney's Office, my agency and another sister agency do with this information? They shut down my planned operation. At least I got a few tons of dope, several bodies, a corrupt police officer, outed the CIA's involvement, and got foreign gov't officials indicted. And became a pariah with the administration for pushing too hard.)

The more it changes, the more it stays the same.


(Sorry, I still get angry about it all these years later. That's on me.)
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You and I, sir, need to have a (few) drink(s). I'd LOVE to hear this story.
 
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