The TV thread

Finished Narcos Season 3.
I liked it. Not as good as the first 2 seasons, but good enough.
I have to research how much of season 3 is true (character-wise).
The US involvement in these Narco-Democracies is stunning. Stupidly, hypocritically stunning. And it hasn't changed in 100 years.

 

Checked out the first episode of The Orville - definitely better than I thought it would be, even with the wood joke at the end.

 

The thing that is missing in Narcos s3 obviously is Pablo Escobar - he was a compelling character, a schlubby soccer dad is the no. 1 narco terrorist?

 

I caught it last night; I enjoyed it, will keep up with it for at least a while. BTW, I thought "Happy Arbor Day" was a good line.

 

I think the entire episode was built around "Happy Arbor Day" ... just so they could reference the holiday.

 

Just saw the pilot episode of "Bewitched," which I'd never seen before, on Antenna TV.

A few notes:

-- They really had to do a lot of exposition in the script: Samantha kept explaining she wasn't going to do this or that because she promised Darrin she wouldn't use witchcraft. Today, 55 years later, after "Bewitched" and "Jeannie," the audience knows all about the "normal schlub with the magical babe wife" storyline so you don't have to explain the whole thing over and over.

-- They originally wanted to make Endora a much much bigger part of the show. Half the episode revolved around her attitude and reactions toward Darrin. (I think Agnes Moorhead was actually the biggest name in the cast originally).

-- Dick York had some good comic moments. By far he was the better Darrin.

-- Elizabeth Montgomery was a blazing hot smoke show, but the late-fifties outfits they had her in in the early seasons were too dumpy and frumpy to really, uhh, show her off. She actually looked a lot sexier in the groovy hip swinging Sixties outfits she wore in the later seasons.

-- The Mrs Kravitz character was kinda funny in her first appearance. Not so
much in the next 7,384.

 

I think T.J. Miller is fantastic in Silicon Valley.

 

Was. He's off the show now.

 

Didn't know that. That sucks.

 

T.J. Miller's about as lively a personality as there is right now. He's got that It.

 

Reading various interviews, it seemed like he and Thomas Middleditch had a falling out. Which is sad because they were friends for years and before either one was famous. The producers also seemed to be firmly on Team Middleditch.

 

Well, I mean, Middleditch is the show, so I can see it. But losing Miller hurts.