Archive for the 'Television' Category


Hacks-Season 2

It’s got a tone problem. As in whipsawing from believable to farce so two-dimensional you want to shut the damn program down. But Jean Smart is so GOOD! How did we get here? Replicating the old TV model with the new? In case you’ve been under a rock, it appears that all streaming video outlets […]

Today’s TV Recommendation

“Feel Good”: https://bit.ly/3kNVOTO My friend John started testifying about “Slow Horses.” He was a fan of Mick Herron’s books. He testified about the Mick Jagger theme song. But I had no frame of reference, knew nothing of what he was talking about. But John kept mentioning it. And scrolling through Apple TV+ I saw it. […]

Netflix

Netflix isn’t in trouble, Wall Street is. Now let me get this straight, you’ve got “professional” investors and analysts, focusing on money, not art, not the service Netflix provides, who consistently get it wrong in their own field telling us what is going to happen in another field? Hogwash. They’re barely worth listening to. They […]

The Grammy Ratings

Were terrible. “Grammys Viewership Edges Out Last Year’s Record Low With Minor Gain”: https://bit.ly/3r3zw3V And that’s putting a positive spin on it. The story of the last two plus decades in the record business has been disruption. But the Grammy organization keeps on doing the same damn thing and expecting different results. A woman was […]