TV: what have you been watching?

Zahn McClarnon is awesome in Dark Winds. Glad he had a chance to show how talented he is after he was in Fargo.

I highly recommend it. I enjoyed getting a glimpse of Navajo culture blended with a police procedural. Dark and gritty (not overboard though) and a well written show.

He played a cop in Reservation Dogs too, which was a great show.

never heard of Dark winds, just looked it up. Well that looks right up my alley.

It’s also 6 episodes per season (2 seasons right now with a 3rd on the way) so there is not a lot of wasted filler side stories like some 10 episode series have.

Again I highly recommend.

I have always been a fan of HBO's Hard Knocks. I was very excited since my very own Chicago Bears would be the Hard Knocks team this year. But... but it suddenly sucks? Not sure if being a fan skews my perspective but this seems to be the shittyest Hard Knocks season ever? Just seems bad and weak to me compared to previous seasons. Too Caleb centric although last season was too Rodgers centric but still seemed better than this year.

Mr BB,
Teams have learned to protect themselves. Still haven't finished this weeks episode.
NYG Summer series was the exception and breath of fresh air.

Chick-Fil-A streaming service... this makes perfect sense.

no gay characters on that service

To not be hypocrites they probably shouldn't stream on Sunday.

Binge watching The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

Any time you an start a TV show by driving a steam locomotive into a giant painted rock like wile E. coyote in a road runner cartoon and have a 13 member gang kill R Lee Ermey on that same train... you're in for a ride.

Currently watching Totally Completely Fine - Dark Aussie comedy about a woman trying to prevent suicides after she inherits a house at a jumping hotspot.

I've really got a thing for Australian comedy. All highly recommended:

Summer Heights High
Please Like Me
Rosehaven
Utopia
Wilfred
Frayed
Jonah from Tonga
Fisk
Upright
Colin from Accounts (S2 just come out, so will watch next)

if you haven't seen mr inbetween def check it out.
not quite a comedy but def has comedic elements. it's Australian and it's fantastic.

was on FX and was based on a movie the main character wrote and starred in.

really great.

Mr. Inbetween definitely has some funny moments but it's really a disturbing tragedy of a man who cannot help but be violent. Great show.

Wise Guy is a pretty great doco for any Sopranos fan out there. I was a bit skeptical after the first 10 minutes or so, but it gets a lot better from there.

I was wondering about that, good to hear. I'm in.

Going to start it tonight. Does it include the cast get together they did at the premier?

There are interviews with some of the cast members, but there is no get together that I can recall. If there was, it would've only been a clip here and there.

I almost never say this about docs, but my biggest complaint was that it wasn't longer. I felt like there was still quite a bit left that didn't get covered/go deep enough.

Just finished Kevin can F*** Himself on Netflix. I guess it originally aired on AMC. It's only 2 seasons (16 episodes) and it is very different and unique. Quite the experiment in a typical one hour (45 minute) drama/comedy series.

It is part laugh track comedy about an over the top loudmouth buffoon (Kevin) and his buddies and part very dark drama about the way he effects those around him. It took a couple of episodes to get a real feel for it. It centers around his wife (the girl who played the spoiled daughter in Schitt's Creek) and she is very good. She has been screwed over by Kevin and wants out of the marriage but she is no saint either.

I enjoyed it more as it went on and as I got used to the format which is different from anything else I have ever seen. At first I hated the laugh track part but enjoyed that aspect more as I got into it and the dark drama part got darker and darker.

I am sure some people will absolutely hate this but I liked quirkyness of the unique format once I got into it. And the ending is something that is gonna stick with me for a while.

I watched the first episode of Kevin, but I'm not sure if I can continue. I did like the back and forth between sitcom and reality, if that is reality.

I think they are both "reality" in different forms and as the story gets darker so do both formats. And I fully understand not continuing. I almost quit a couple times until I got a feel for it.

Disclaimer on Apple TV stars Cate Blanchett, Sascha Barron Cohen, and Kevin Kline, directed by Alfonso Cuaron and photography by Emanuel Lubezki, seems like it will be really good. The first two episodes give clues about what may happen, but I suspect plot twists are coming.

Also watching Season Two of Shrinking, also on Apple. It's about a therapy practice run by Harrison Ford. It's both funny and kinda sad at times. Favorite line: "I can hear your vagina humming."
Jason Segal also stars as one of the therapists whose wife was killed in a car accident, raising a teenage daughter. Or maybe she's raising him. I didn't much care for Segal, but he's excellent in this.

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Shrinking is great. We just watched the first episode of season 2 as well. Didn't miss a beat.

Started The Penguin, really good 2 eps in.

Not a comic book guy, either.

Still re-reading Ian Toll's outstanding triolgy on the War in the Pacific. This week I just got through Guadalcanal so I think I am gonna fire up a rewatch of HBO's The Pacific. I know I am in the minority but I prefer The Pacific to Band of Brothers although both are about the best thing ever produced for television.