What are you watching & why? (splain)

Started watching The Last Frontier on Apple TV+ last night. I happen to like Jason Clarke who plays in the lead role. The storyline is interesting but lotsa stolen ideas from Silence of the Lambs, plus a few other movies, for instance, Con Air. Two episodes intro as of October 10 of which I have only watched the pilot but I think that I should enjoy the cat-and-mouse game between the protagonist and the antagonist.

Hmm, what else? At the expense of sounding like a dirty ol' man, I must fess up that I only watch Invasion because of Shioli Katsuna! In fact, I have gotten bored with the plot line at times and have fast forwarded episodes till Ms. Katsuna appears again with ample camera time. IMHO, a series with both Shioli Katsuna and Ana Sawai would be a fantastic idea and the plot line can be anything or nothing, I don't think that I'd care!
 
We watched "Smoke" on Apple+ TV while waiting for the next episode of "Slow Horses" to drop on Wednesday.

Could have been quite good, but the writers went off the rails and wrapped it up with a very unsatisfying (and strange) conclusion to the 9 episode series.

So, you've been warned if you decide to invest in the show.
 
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Season 3 of "Billy The Kid" with Tom Blyth and Daniel Webber on MGM. Great mini series on the outlaws life. Great to see period correct firearms
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Does it seem like its fairly faithful to history? I recently read Robert Utley's "High Noon in Lincoln" about the Lincoln County War, and am pretty interested in that period of southwestern history.
 
One thing I don't get in the show (which is not the case in real life) is that when Gein's mother dies, she's buried in the cemetery and has a headstone, so it's not like it's a secret, yet people (cops, Adeline) seem to think she's still alive up in her room.
 
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There are certainly inconsistencies but since I had never heard about this guy before (none native here) it was really cool to find out that he was the inspirational "Godfather" to many other notorious serial killers who came afterwards. Additionally it was cool to find out that movies such as Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silence of the Lambs were all inspired by Ed Gein's ghoulish legacy. While the series is heavily dramatized for viewing "pleasure" I don't think that I would have enjoyed a rehashed plain-jane documentary as much.
 
I get that there's going to be differences compared to the real story to make it "better" for TV, but they should at least make sense (like how they handled Henry). They could have had the mother die in the house so no one knew but Ed...then the rest would make sense.
 
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