What are you watching & why? (splain)

Just watched the 1st episode of Showtime's "George & Tammy."

I'm not a Showtime subscriber. So, I'm not sure how I was able to see it on Prime/Fire TV but they allowed me to do so and I liked it. Frankly, I like anything with Jessica Chastain in it, who I consider one of the best among the currently youngest generation of movie TV actors.

There's a "Star is Born" vibe to the story line but it is still diferent enough not to be redundant.

Watching the 2nd epsiode (but not on Prime/Fire TV) now too. Check it out if you can.

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Also just watched -- actually skipped thru -- Guillermo del Toro's "Pinocchio."

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I know a lot of time/effort went into making it but I didn't like it that much. Just skipped around to see bits/pieces of it and to see how it ended.

I still like Disney's 1940 version of Pinocchio the best.
 
I watched Conan the Barbarian (1982) a few nights ago. Was a childhood favorite. Super fun film. Attempted to watch the 1984 sequel next and just couldn’t do it. Ended up quitting about halfway through.

Started watching the 2011 Conan film. It’s a slow slog. I’ll finish it, just not excited about it.

I grew up with a lot of old science-fiction and fantasy paperbacks that used to belong to my uncles in the ‘70’s. There was a whole set of Conan by Robert E. Howard and Sprague DeCamp. Conan, Tom Swift, and Doc Savage were all pretty fun. Robert Heinlein and C. J. Cherryh have become favorites in more recent years and I really wish a good studio would adapt some of their stories rather than endlessly remaking things.
 
Wife is watching the new Sabrina series on Netflix. It is the worst-written show I have ever seen (and I watch schlock like Space Truckers for fun). There’s so much wrong with it that she’s started acting like me and making mst3k-style comments.

I hate to admit it but the style of its awfulness is genuinely compelling. It’s like if you dreamed up the worst sins of the post-Trump creative 20-something mind and made them real. The “how” of its suckiness is fascinating. You couldn’t ask for a better example of the 2016-2020 era. Every possible idiotic step is taking with absolute, resonating seriousness. Fun does not exist. Joy does not exist. Every shot tries to be BEAUTIFUL. All is serious and judgment is given without a shred of self-reflection. It’s really as if the show has been programmed by an algorithm yet, somehow, actual humans wrote this and are proud of their accomplishment. It’s just insane. I mean, don’t watch it—it’s terrible—but wow!
 
If you have BritBox and want to watch a dark, intense cop series starring, (of all people), Martin Freeman...you should check out "The Responder".

He is a brilliant actor. I knew he was good, but he really showed me something in this series. He's a chameleon.
 
Last night, watched an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about Jeanette Lee aka "The Black Widow," a Korean American woman born in Brooklyn who dominated the WPBA -- Women's Professional Billiards Association -- for about 10 years between 1996-2006.

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Jeanette was the epitome of the "hot" Asian female stereotype -- dressed in an all black (often low cut) outfit with black stilletos and long black hair -- when she played pool -- mostly competition 9-ball -- but she wasn't just a pretty face.

As she says in the documentary, "Pretty doesn't make the balls go in the holes." LOL! ;)

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Unfortunately, she had to cut her pool career short due to a chronic pain associated w/scoliosis and other orthopedic problems and she was more recently diagnosed w/Stage 4 ovarian cancer which she has survived but still lives with today at age 52.

If you never heard of or and want to learn more about her, you there are a lot of articles available about her on the Net and, if you haven't seen it yet, you can watch the documentary -- 'Jeanette Lee vs" -- on ESPN+ (if you have access to it) or on ESPN whenever they re-run it.
 
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Three seasons of "Future Man" on Hulu

Pretty dumb and incredibly vulgar, Jo hates it. But I can't remember laughing harder at anything on TV. It is well rated on rotten tomatoes so apparently I'm not the only one in tune with its vibe.
 
sgt1372 said:
Last night, watched an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about Jeanette Lee aka "The Black Widow," a Korean American woman born in Brooklyn who dominated the WPBA -- Women's Professional Billiards Association -- for about 10 years between 1996-2006.

Jeanette-Lee-Vs-Key-Art-780x470.jpg


Jeanette was the epitome of the "hot" Asian female stereotype -- dressed in an all black (often low cut) outfit with black stilletos and long black hair -- when she played pool -- mostly competition 9-ball -- but she wasn't just a pretty face.

As she says in the documentary, "Pretty doesn't make the balls go in the holes." LOL! ;)

53d58031915ee4ea0d22a021bb50c9ef.jpg


Unfortunately, she had to cut her pool career short due to a chronic pain associated w/scoliosis and other orthopedic problems and she was more recently diagnosed w/Stage 4 ovarian cancer which she has survived but still lives with today at age 52.

If never heard of or and want to learn more about her, you there are a lot of articles available about her on the Net and, if you haven't seen it yet, you can watch the documentary -- 'Jeanette Lee vs" -- on ESPN+ (if you have access to it) or on ESPN whenever they re-run it.
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Got that on the DVR. Wife and I met her in Vegas like 20 years ago. Was kind of funny...she was sitting on a bench outside one of the casinos waiting for her ride to pick her up.

Maybe 10-15 years ago the women's pro tour came to RI and we went...wife got an autographed pic from Allison Fisher. Came to realize that as good as they are, they're not quite as good as they seem on TV. The matches last longer than an hour, so for TV they only show the best games. The ones where they miss get cut.
 
sgt1372 said:
Last night, watched an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about Jeanette Lee aka "The Black Widow," a Korean American woman born in Brooklyn who dominated the WPBA -- Women's Professional Billiards Association -- for about 10 years between 1996-2006.

Jeanette-Lee-Vs-Key-Art-780x470.jpg


Jeanette was the epitome of the "hot" Asian female stereotype -- dressed in an all black (often low cut) outfit with black stilletos and long black hair -- when she played pool -- mostly competition 9-ball -- but she wasn't just a pretty face.

As she says in the documentary, "Pretty doesn't make the balls go in the holes." LOL! ;)

53d58031915ee4ea0d22a021bb50c9ef.jpg


Unfortunately, she had to cut her pool career short due to a chronic pain associated w/scoliosis and other orthopedic problems and she was more recently diagnosed w/Stage 4 ovarian cancer which she has survived but still lives with today at age 52.

If you never heard of or and want to learn more about her, you there are a lot of articles available about her on the Net and, if you haven't seen it yet, you can watch the documentary -- 'Jeanette Lee vs" -- on ESPN+ (if you have access to it) or on ESPN whenever they re-run it.
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Wow. Blast from the past. I remember watching her games on TV in the 90s.
 
sgt1372 said:
Last night, watched an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about Jeanette Lee aka "The Black Widow," a Korean American woman born in Brooklyn who dominated the WPBA -- Women's Professional Billiards Association -- for about 10 years between 1996-2006.

Jeanette-Lee-Vs-Key-Art-780x470.jpg


Jeanette was the epitome of the "hot" Asian female stereotype -- dressed in an all black (often low cut) outfit with black stilletos and long black hair -- when she played pool -- mostly competition 9-ball -- but she wasn't just a pretty face.

As she says in the documentary, "Pretty doesn't make the balls go in the holes." LOL! ;)

53d58031915ee4ea0d22a021bb50c9ef.jpg


Unfortunately, she had to cut her pool career short due to a chronic pain associated w/scoliosis and other orthopedic problems and she was more recently diagnosed w/Stage 4 ovarian cancer which she has survived but still lives with today at age 52.

If you never heard of or and want to learn more about her, you there are a lot of articles available about her on the Net and, if you haven't seen it yet, you can watch the documentary -- 'Jeanette Lee vs" -- on ESPN+ (if you have access to it) or on ESPN whenever they re-run it.
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I really enjoy 30 for 30 one of my favorites I believe is called "winning time" about Reggie Miller

(I've always been a basketball fan)

Def will check out the black widow
 
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