Archive for the 'Television' Category


The Bear-Season 2

This is American television at its best.  Watching reminded me of “thirtysomething,” a show made by people who were not pandering, who did their best to reflect real life, who respected the audience, whose main goal was to get it right. American TV is produced, bright. But too often there are compromises. Big stars who […]

Tour de France: Unchained

Netflix trailer: https://tinyurl.com/24ch5693 This is INSANE! You may not care about bicycle racing, but you’ll be riveted by this series. Netflix has established a formula. It started with “Drive to Survive,” its series on Formula 1. The first season the big kahunas don’t want to participate, so you get the viewpoint from the underdogs, who […]

Chris Licht/CNN

Hubris. The reason Zaslav changed the name to Max from HBO Max is because he wants all the credit if it succeeds, and if it doesn’t…he’s been paid more than $247 million since 2018: https://tinyurl.com/mr399yh3 Quick, name the previous head of Discovery, never mind the top exec at a movie studio. You can’t. They’re not […]

Dreamer

Apple VisionPro ad: https://tinyurl.com/2a2wsxxr _____________ Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/42638p7s YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/mrsbadd9 “I said dreamer, you’re nothing but a dreamer Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!” Well, yes. With the Apple VisionPro. If you watched today’s presentation you weren’t quite sure whether it was one giant step for mankind or a Saturday Night […]