I heard one the other day (donāt remember the channel, that, before I got it muted, heard āsu casaā (Spanish for āyour houseā, in case thereās a single person not knowing that). But everything else was in English. Not sure if I mis-heard, but not way to check. Just weird.
And I donāt think any Korean language for me; surprising since there is a huge Korean population just a couple of towns over.
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Plenty of ads are so bad I wish they were in a language I didnāt understand. They wouldnāt grate so much.
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I gotta admit, though, I rather like the new State Farm commercials with Bateman.
But I canāt recall the last time I said I actually liked a commercial.
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We got a new one last Superb Owl, if memory serves. I only ever watched for the commercials, which I now find online instead.
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I agree! Itās why I connect to a VPN to download podcast episodes. Commercials are much more tolerable when I donāt understand them.
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Hey, anyone recall intern Dr. John Carter on ER. played by Noah Wiley?
Heās grown up now, playing attending Dr. Michael āRobbyā Robinavitch in a Pittsburgh hospital ER in Max series The Pitt. Heās also one of the many producers/writers.
Unlike many streaming series of 5 or 6 episodes, there were 14! I admit to watching them all over a 4 day period (had the flu-the mere sight of books made me nauseous).
WSJ had a positive critique on the series Friday. Though sometimes their taste and ours donāt match, this time I just put my hands in front of my face during the āvery realisticā blood and gore.
Hint::In case the young are watching, thereās an extended birthing scenario that shows it all, including the momās pubic hair. They might never again ask where baby brother came from. In the first episode, a grisly scene in which a burnt/broken leg is set and causes a new intern to hit the floor in a faint. I thought I might, too. but survived to watch the next episode!!
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I watched all of the episodes of that Chicago ER years ago, and I am not about to watch a reprise, but do enjoy.
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Since my husband is a firm fan of Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet, plus Ice Road Truckers and Lobstermen, all set in icy, below zero conditions, I found Point Protection, Alaska, produced by National Geographic.
Never thought Iād enjoy it, mostly due to my well-known aversion to staying anywhere below a 4-star hotel and certainly not in a drafty tent or unheated coal barge. My husbandās upbringing, as I mentioned on another thread, was a 20th-century combination of Daniel Boone/Davy Crockett w/ a dash of Pro-Bass Shops VIP weekends thrown in.
He could easily been a subsistence pioneer being an excellent shot and a more-than fair fisherman/crabber/shrimper.(Except he has all his teeth and looks about 2 decades younger than the folks on the screen, even those who are numerically younger). Keeps saying that Timbi Porter must really love her man to put up w/ the hardships she enduresā¦
I riposte that he surely knew better than to ask me to traipse off to the Yukon after he knew me for 3 days, much less the 3 months before he proposed. PLUS NO BOOKSTORES!!! Though I suppose AMAZON might deliver via sea-plane, once weekly, if the weather isnāt threatening.
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LOVED IT
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Not exactly what Iām watching, but figured this is the best place to put this.
I had signed up for Peacock last year on a special deal to watch the Olympics. Now that the deal was running out, I could let it renew for $79.99/year, or cancel.
But as soon as I said āCancelā, I got an offer for another year at $19.99. Since that will cover the winter Olympics, went for it.
So if you are up for renewal, Cancel first to see if you get the special offer!
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Applies to every subscription ever. That, and only subscribe during Black Friday sales.
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Very few have I ever paid for. Got Apple+ for free on a Black Friday, but they wouldnāt let me do it again the next year (no biggie; nowhere near as much of interest there as they seem to think there is). And I got no counter-offer on Acornās when my special Black Friday deal ran out there; no idea yet if Iāll be able to get it again.
Truthfully, thereās so much stuff to watch for free that I have little interest in paying (I can deal with a few commercials; gotta have time to get a drink anyway). The only reason that we pay for Peacock is the Olympics; if this deal didnāt overlap the Winter Games, I probably would have let it pass.
Although Iāll admit Iām tempted to get back on NetFlix for a short time to watch the travel docs by Miriam Margolyes.
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FlixVision + RealDebrid 
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Been watching Pokerface on Peacock. Actually making a point to watch on Thursdays when the new episode becomes available.
Comcast is giving its cable subscribers free Peacock
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Just finished Ted Lasso with the Mrs. Mobland is/was good so far.
Looking forward to the next season of Foundation. Andor S2 is up next.
Doing our best to dodge all the shows forcing āThe messageā - Critical Drinker, down our throat. As the father of two boys, it is harder and harder to find a show that does not automatically make them the villain from implied misogyny, racism, bigotry, classism, agism, one form of privilege or another.
Strongly recommend all people out there to take a weekend day and watch Adolescence. It is a life changing show. If you are not affected by watching it from its moral implications you should be moved by its āone takeā cinematic experience. I highly highly highly recommend for all parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, and teens.
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Since weāve watched nearly all the mysteries on Britbox and Acorn, we were looking for something different that we could binge watch over the Memorial Day weekend(husband has already seen all Military movies produced between 1939-1965, particularly those starring John Wayne, Clark Gable, Lee Marvin or Charles Bronson at least 100 times). .
Found it w/ The Resident, a medica/hospital series, a la Greyās Anatomy. Never heard of it but donāt watch Fox TV.
Male lead, Matt Czuchry. 3rd year resident Internist, was the father of Roryās baby on The Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Female Lead, Emily Van Camp(Everwood) is a Nurse Practitioner plus Manish Dayal first year intern or resident, never made entirely clear, graduated Harvard medical school,which all the docs seem to hold against him..
All extremely ā ā ā ā lookinā, which as an old person I now find soothing-middle aged, it would have irritated me as unrealistic(nobody that smart can be that great-looking,). Another great looking woman is Shaunette RenĆ©e Wilson, tall, black w/ no bed-side manner- and the best robotic surgeon at the hospital! Supposedly from Nigeria but actually from Guyana but nobody in the U.S., 80% of graduating seniors canāt draw a map of their own state, knows the difference, right?
This series is extremely critical of the American Health system,and two or three of the bad-guys are either inept. money obsessed surgeons or hospital administrators! Makes one never wish to cross the front lobby of a hospitalā¦ and I may be forced to do so, this summer!
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I would recommend marathoning The Twilight zone and or Black Mirror. The last season episode one is about subscriptions, and is spot on with common subscription BS in life. If anything like that is your gig.
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Shout out to one of the most relevant movies of the last 40 years. I would say even more so in modern times. Still a good watch from 1993
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With all due respect where its due:
"ā¦
I
Am not
A Vigilante.
Iām just trying to get home for my little girlās birthday, and if
Everybody will stay out of my way, then
Nobodyāll get hurt.
ā¦"
Douglas has voiced some pretty-memorable lines, on the silver screen and smaller, over his long silver-spooned career, but that one remains among my personal faves.
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Technically, it was never determined who caused her āIām Pregnantā announcement. It could have been the boyfriend everyone forgot about, her random hookup, or Logan. Rooting for Logan.
Matt Czuchry is the reason I starting watching The Resident, and The Good Wife and whatever he works on next, LOL.
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