What are you watching & why? (splain)

I have to agree about Taylor Sheridan. The last season of Yellowstone was weak enough without him gratuitously inserting himself and especially casting Bella Hadid as his girlfriend. Why is he so obsessed with making horses slide their back legs like that. I get that it’s probably a skill but it’s a lot.
 
It is an equestrian event called reigning. In my opinion, the purpose of it being shown often was to hit home the amount of practice it takes to perfect the action.

The last season of Yellowstone sucked. I hate the flashback style of story telling.

Landman could cut 99% of the side stories. It would be so much better if it showed the industry side of oil and gas, rather than all of the other filler.

Lioness was brutal. More of the same.

I genuinely believe I could write better than Sheridan at this point. It's so poor. It seems most everything produced today is poor. I wish Tarantino would make a series. That would shake the industry up, I feel.
 
Yellowstone hasn't caught my interest. From the smatterings I've seen here and there, it feels like it's trying to be Sopranos in western form. May be an inaccurate assumption on my part but as someone who is very fond of westerns, it's not a show that interests me. I did watch 1883 and liked the first half of it well enough. The increased focus on the daughter and the modern dialogue that proliferates much of it started to grate on me though.

We started Landman the other night. I think we are three episodes in now. Billy Bob is awesome in it and though Ali Larter is still easy on the eyes, her character drives me nuts. It held more promise when I thought Michael Peña and Emilio Rivera were going to be mainstays. Oh well. The comments here don't give me much confidence that I'm going to enjoy it further.
 
Sadly, IMO Squid Game 2 is not as spectacular and interesting as the original season. It is still fun enough to watch as the protagonist is on a path to exact revenge on the evil oligarchy but since the originality factor has worn off, this S2 seems a bit more rushed (2-3 less episodes) and less entertaining and less thought provoking. YMMV.

ETA: When I wrote my initial impressions about S2 in the above paragraph yesterday, I had not watched the 7th and the last episode of the 2nd season. I was wondering why the 2nd season was even shorter than the original series and why they were rushing through the "games" because after all, in the original series, there were some interesting and elaborately schemed (to me) survival games. Without exposing those who have not watched yet to spoilers, it appears that this S2 is going to be like one of those splitty seasons like GOT had it's season 8, part 1 and part 2. I find this type of cliffhangers also very annoying!
 
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It was my buddy's birthday yesterday so he got to pick the films for our weekly movie night.

He picked - The Ladies Man and Strange Brew. I did laugh but I'm not proud of it. I'll have to recover some of those lost brain cells next week.
 
Started watching American Primeval on Netflix last night. Here are some thoughts 3 episodes into this 6 episodes mini series:

In a nutshell, I guess what Kevin Costner's Horizon an American Saga should have been! Basically with this kind of genre you have plenty of gore and violence, evil men and the doe eyed folks who tend to lose it all in those perilous journeys westward, including their lives. This particular story (all fictional and dramatized) happens in 1857 in the territories of UT so Brigham Young, the LDS and the Mormons are major players in the storyline. The Western buffs and students of history will be somewhat annoyed at the dialect (heck, I'm foreign born and even I recognized that the spoken words sounded more modern than the vernacular which I had expected of folks ~ 170 years ago 🤭).

In summary, quite enjoyable if let a few things slide! Doesn't have all the excesses and convoluted storyline which Costner had crammed into his Horizon although the players are essentially the same, i.e, pioneers, native tribes, small brigade of the U.S. Army at remote outposts and bad, bad marauding men.
 
Casinostocks said:
The Western buffs and students of history will be somewhat annoyed at the dialect (heck, I'm foreign born and even I recognized that the spoken words sounded more modern than the vernacular which I had expected of folks ~ 170 years ago 🤭).
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Deadwood did a great job with the language and explicit language while being modern enough for viewers.
 
toker said:
Deadwood did a great job with the language and explicit language while being modern enough for viewers.
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