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Let’s talk some tv…

Well…sitting here with the Dr. Who marathon running in the background and that gave me an idea to talk about tv a little…have been watching some intriguing shows over the past few weeks and thought it would make a good topic…but first, I need to bitch a little about Dr. Who…after watching ones with the earlier Doctors…it just makes me dislike Peter Capaldi in the role even more than I did before…his Doctor is a lifeless caricature of the fun, funny, and nuanced performances turned in by the earlier actors and I think they need to find a reason to find a new Doctor. Just found a new show called the OA on my son’s server the other day and I’m not sure what to make of it yet…it something like stranger things in the way it tells the story but seems a little contrived at times…but, I am going to watch a couple more tonight to see if it improves over time. I have been watching Westworld, too, and I like the show enough to be down to the last two of the first season…which I may watch tonight…and then there is Good Behavior that is growing on me as I watch…good character development and writing and it has kept me interested in every episode so maybe that’s a good one, too….who knows? I do know that my tastes are not for everyone…but, good tv is good tv….

On a lighter note…

Well….after that last one, I think I need to do one of these where there is not such a tone of despair….I did get a couple of new shows downloaded to my son’s server….”The Man from Uncle” and “Get Smart” were quite popular when I was a kid in the 60′s but I am running the risk of ruining my memories of the shows of the era…like I told Tom the other day, I was a huge fan of of “The Equalizer” when it was on in the 80′s and I just started watching it again on one of the strange new channels on the dish…yow….what a lousy show….stilted acting, terrible writing, very cliched….so bad that I won’t watch any more of that one…and I hope that I won’t say the same of the rest of them….television was just a very different thing back then and I hope I don’t judge that time with the same eye that sees “Game of Thrones” every week….just some thoughts…