TV: what have you been watching?
I think The Walking Dead may be the best drama thats currently airing/in production.
There, I said it.
Oh sorry, there's two shows called The Borgias... the one I meant was from 1981, same era as I Claudius and The Cleopatras. In fact it was made between I Claudius and The Cleopatras.
The director described it like this:
"The Borgias is like a western. Plenty of action. There's incest and nudity. There's beheading and garroting. There's blood. We've had to be harsh. It was a harsh time."
sounds like a good time to me! I haven't seen it since it first aired, so can't remember much, other than it was pretty saucy.
you'll also like cleopatras - all couples are incestrous in the show and they regularly use contemporary fashion choices of leaving 1 or both tits exposed
Just blew through season 2 of Nobody Wants This on Netflix. Reasonably watchable and entertaining dramedy/comedy/sitcom. All the actors are good. Justine Lupe is gorgeous while Kristen Bell looks like the victim of bad botox or plastic surgury? I asked AI if she had work done and they said no so I guess she is just aging badly. I always thought whe had a weird look anyway? The tall goofy guy from VEEP is in this and is always extremely entertaining. Quick, easy, entertaining watch.
Slow Horses finished last night, so you can binge it now.
And another season coming.
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To cause some confusion,
is also good, and came out at the exact same time.
Hard to top Jeremy Irons tearing it up every scene in The Borgias though.
I much prefer Borgia over The Borgias, by a wide margin.
Tried I Love LA last night on HBO. This is their hot new show? It's wretched.
Spoiler
both the show and the city
well I'm a mess after watching this....if Kimmel cries, I cry. I don't know why lol. I don't even watch his show or knew who Cleto was.
When my mom was in her 80s, we watched Desiging Women together. When that went off the air we switched to watching the Spurs games. Although I had come to enjoy Designing Women, I preferred watching the Spurs -- even if it meant watching alongside their most rabidly partisan fan.
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If you ever run into Tim Duncan in an airport, please buy him a beer for my mom.
Just revisited Spartacus which is loaded with sex and ultra violence. Awesome show.
She still has it in Spartacus even though being in her 40s at the time and she isn't shy about getting 'em out either. 😃
When my mom was in her 80s, we watched Desiging Women together. When that went off the air we switched to watching the Spurs games. Although I had come to enjoy Designing Women, I preferred watching the Spurs -- even if it meant watching alongside their most rabidly partisan fan.
Spoiler
If you ever run into Tim Duncan in an airport, please buy him a beer for my mom.
the big fundamental thing to bank on from this post without robbing some establishment is it paints your mom in the lane of a pretty amazing person to produce for us such a spurious poster with nack for timely dunking on himself
I've been rewatching old Survivor seasons. On season 1, Rudy thinks everyone is gay and there are so many weird homophobic remarks from most of the cast. Also weird microaggression when they learn that Gervase has children out of wedlock, but they didn't cast judgement against Jenna who was a single mom. Not that it's warranted, but if you're going to be weird, keep it consistent!
It's kinda insane.
Great Aimee Mann cover of "Rainy Days and Mondays."
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The Monster of Florence (2025)
The Monster of Florence case is one of the most bizarre, complex, convoluted and fascinating cases in the history of serial murder. Spanning at least 11 and possibly 17 years, it led to at least 14 and possibly 16 murders, four trials, one trial conviction, two definitive convictions and the trial convicted defendant, Pietro Pacciani, dying in mysterious circumstances before his due process could be completed. It also involved two targeted burglaries of the police evidence room, where several items of evidence were stolen and a string of collateral mysterious deaths and murders of several people involved in the case, as well as strange money transfers and threatening phone calls to various witnesses.
The official position of the Italian police is that an occult group of wealthy Italians commissioned the murders, hiring various low lives over the years to do the actual killings, in order to retrieve body parts, that would then be used in weird black magic rituals.
The problem with the Netflix Monster of Florence series is that it covers none of this at all. Instead it focuses on a clan of Sardinians who were initially suspected in being involved in the murders, but were later discounted as new developments arose.
It also consists of repetitive and rather pointless flashbacks and has a strange fixation with a 1968 double murder, which may not have even been perpetrated by the Monster of Florence.
For a series covering an absolutely fascinating and possibly unique serial murder case, it's surprisingly dull and kinda boring and focuses more on melodrama between the Sardinians, instead of the nuances and developments of the case.
The trial convicted defendant Pietro Paccianin is only barely mentioned at the end of the series.
Unless there's a planned second season which will cover the complete story, (and there hopefully will be, considering Pacciani's mention at the end), I'd say to anyone interested in the case to not bother with this one. Watch the feature length 2020 documentary, "The Monsters of Florence" by journalist Andrea Vogt instead. It's far more detailed and available on Netflix UK or Tubi for American viewers.
But as someone familiar with the Monster of Florence case and who has been fascinated by it for years, I found this series extremely disappointing to say the least.
Am almost done the first season of Kingdom, the 2014 one portraying MMA fighters from LA (not the Korean one). It turned out to be quite an amazing show 
What started out as a bit too much cliche a la sex, drugs and MMA, really dipped profoundly into a great character study!!! I certainly recommend for all fans, not just the MMA ones, as while the show does portray adequately the harsh realities of weight cutting and sleazy promoters and the inner rage of certain fighters, it even more so follows the tribulations of a complicated and interesting family 
I guess it reminds in certain ways (but more in it's overall quality and complex characters) to the also criminally underrated MMA movie Warrior :
