Archive for the 'Television' Category


Families Like Ours

Netflix trailer: https://rb.gy/4kocqr I wanted “Families Like Ours” to be good, but I wasn’t expecting it to be one of the best series I’ve seen this year. I’ve been kind of on a losing streak. I want my series to be as good as a movie. Then again, how many mediocre movies did I go […]

Stick

Apple TV+ trailer: https://shorturl.at/dxkKf I’ll watch Owen Wilson in anything. He’s kind of like Howard Stern, self-deprecating, but even more lovable. And he’s got that smile/wink of the eye. Unfortunately he’s better than this predictable show, but that does not mean I didn’t enjoy it. I broke my cardinal rule of not watching anything week […]

Dept. Q

Netflix trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hK6FUmm8o How does everybody know? My e-mail has been blowing up about this show starting on Thursday, the day it went live. And I did see reviews in some papers, but to think the success of this show is based on the usual hype is to believe the mainstream media is still in […]

Swift?

From: Gerard Kinzelmann Subject: Taylor and Rolling Stone article WTF not a puff piece but a hurricane. I laughed out  loud at some sentences. Tayor’s publicists probably wrote this. How far RS https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-taylor-swift-won-commentary-1235351833/ _________________________________ That article is behind a paywall. Not that the news that Taylor Swift has reacquired her catalog of recordings is hidden, I saw […]