Joined: 11 Apr 2013 Gender: Male Posts: 2,489 Location: My House, US
24 Feb 2025, 10:15 am
My Perfect Stranger streamed on KOCOWA+ Episodes 4 through 10, out of 16. I'm watching a few episodes every day.
The news reporter guy has failed stopping the first two killings. Did I mention he is trying to caught a serial killer from the past, so he uses time machine to go from the present (2023?) back to 1987. A young woman is accidently pulled back as well. It is not a coincidence. Back in the present day, her mother had just been killed by the same killer! There are multiple suspects, and the writers do a good job leading the news reporter guy, and us, down the wrong seemingly perfectly reasonable path. ( I suspect that is a sentence nightmare.)
Finished watching the 16 episode series involving time travel, a serial killer responsible for deaths in the past (1987), and the present (2021 and 2022). Yoon Hae-jun is the news journalist who is killed in 2022. Baek Yoon-young is the editor at a publishing company. It is her mother that is killed in 2021.
There was several of suspects, good suspects, but because not everything is what it seems, they are slowly ruled out until episode 15. There was nice twist. All the loose ends were wrapped up, like how did Hae-jun get a time machine car in 2021? (No, it is not a DeLorean.) What happened to the timeline that changed, because of Hae-jun and Yoon-young.. It was a nice ending that leaves with a "what happens next" when the two main characters decide to go back again, and do things perfect. I assume this means save the people that were killed in 1987. After all, they know who did it, and they know how to prove it.
Joined: 11 Apr 2013 Gender: Male Posts: 2,489 Location: My House, US
28 Feb 2025, 6:39 pm
Six Feet Under
Finished the series
This is a good show, but I honestly was so happy when I watched the last episode. There was a lot of family bickering and self inflicted misery throughout the show. I'm not saying families don't bicker, but it can be exhausting. That's life.
I appreciated how it ends. Just as each show started with the death of someone, the show ends revealing how each of the main characters meets their end, complete with a fade to white, displaying the years of their birth and death. I thought it was a nice touch.
Joined: 12 Apr 2010 Gender: Male Posts: 49,127 Location: Spokane area, Washington state.
04 Mar 2025, 1:20 am
Under The Banner Of Heaven.
A devout Utah Mormon police detective has his faith shaken when he is confronted with Mormon fundamentalists/right wing extremists who draw their inspiration to spill blood - even of children - from their religion's roots. First rate crime drama.
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Joined: 12 Apr 2010 Gender: Male Posts: 49,127 Location: Spokane area, Washington state.
05 Mar 2025, 2:53 am
Daredevil Born Again.
After the murder of his best friend and partner in their law firm, Foggy Nelson, Matt Murdock decides to put the superhero role behind him and focus on helping people as a lawyer. But when events are set into motion when his arch nemesis, Wilson Fisk, AKA Kingpin, reinvents himself and is elected Mayor of New York, Murdock finds himself reconsidering that choice. So far very good show.
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Joined: 1 Jun 2014 Gender: Male Posts: 87,965 Location: United Kingdom
06 Mar 2025, 11:10 am
Rooms (1977)
A daytime TV soap from Thames Television. I had the vaguest of vague recollections of seeing some of these episodes first time round, but for decades could find no mention of the show, even on the internet, and began to wonder whether it had ever existed. Now all of a sudden it seems that 115 of the 116 episodes from 1974-77 are available on YouTube. Yippee.
She is deaf with a hearing dog, like a seeing eye dog, but trained to assist the deaf. She joins the F.B.I. where she finds supporters, and at least one non supporter. His grievance is personal. She proves herself very useful, but she tends to rush in, placing herself in danger. She has her dog Levi, but she does not carry a gun.
I've watch three episodes so far. It is what is referred to as Family Programming, meaning it does not emphasized gore, sex, swearing. Instead it is wholesome, and mildly religious. It originally created by PAX, which later became ION Tv. The main character, Sue Thomas, is played by Deanne Bray, who is completely deaf in one hear, and wears a earing aide in the other. I told a couple ex-coworkers, who I frequently message what I'm watching (be thankful you are not them), that it reminded me of a wholesome teen book. I am not going to pretend that the current government does not make me nervous. I make a point of watching complete statements by government officials, because I don't like seeing clips out of context. No more about that. This is a show that offers a nice safe environment.
Episode 1 and 2 (there are four episodes total, but Britbox only has two episodes)
Douglas, while a little, or a lo drunk at a wedding, makes a joke. Someone Tweets, that is was sexist. The problem is, he does not remember the joke.
Douglas is played by Hugh Bonneville. It took me a bit to remember where I'd seen him before. My brain retrieved To The Manor Born, but I knew that wasn't it. It's Downton Abby, of course.
Karen Gillan plays Madeline, his co-presenter, and he best friend.
Douglas's wife, Sheila, is played by Alex Kingston. She is convinced Madeline is playing him, and is extremely jealous of his friendship with her. Everyone thinks they have something going on because as co-presenters, they have a definite chemistry. Ben Miles plays his boss, Toby. I've seen Ben in a few things, but I remember him from Couples.
There is a certain humor in all of this as everyone is frantic and nervously trying to figure out what to do. Douglas is just trying to hang in there. This is all before anything actually happens. Episode 2 ends with a shock, and I want to know what happens in episodes 3 and 4.