I’m still pro-Matt Wagner even though he is also very cheesy
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WATCH IT IN MY ORDER
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I absolutely will!
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managed to record my favourite of the bingo ads
there’s also a quiz show called “the chase” where four contestants have to compete against a shadowy figure only referred to as “the chaser”
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the chaser in the middle, iirc, has also made appearances as a manager in some uk wrestling promotions
that Netflix Pop-Ponzi Scheme show was kinda interesting, since i didn’t know much or follow up on those Boybands, kinda wild to find out about what went on behind the scenes 
https://screenrant.com/southern-book-clubs-guide-true-blood-vampire-show-replacement/
NEW VAMPIRE SHOW ON HBO BY ALAN BALL 
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he also married his cousin
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I’m honestly just watching this for Bogosian but I can’t believe it keeps getting renewed
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I don’t know why the rip out there of the first season looks so bad but that’s exactly what movies look like at the theater here
Only 1 ep in, but i love Crooks (Netflix) so far. Just hope it can keep up the level of quality, and a lot more of the different slangs 
I’ve now watched about half of neo-Frasier, and man, this could’ve been a lot better. I think the biggest weakness is the supporting cast, particularly Freddy and David. It’s hard to tell, though, whether the problems with their performances is more down to bad performances or bad writing (though I suspect most contemporary actors just can’t do three-camera), because the writing is not nearly as sharp as it ought to be. Nicholas Lyndhurst as Frasier’s academic buddy could work better if he was given a more limited, Bulldog-like presence, but he ends up shouldering way too many scenes. Toks Olagundoye is pretty good as a Roz-like, but she also fits into the plotting a little awkwardly and her crush on Freddy feels forced at minimum and occasionally actually uncomfortable.
I guess, basically, Kelsey Grammer is genuinely very good At This. He really holds the show together even and keeps it watchable when it’s not really working, which is often.
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inexplicably watched some of the now delisted HBO Anna Kendrick vehicle Love Life which starts out in 2012 NYC (when I lived there) and it made me insanely nostalgic. I feel like a lot of millennials or at least millennials from my approximate microgeneration lately have been fixating on 2011-2012 or so as the time they’d most like to relive and I totally get the appeal. also, new york is and will always be the one place I vaguely wish I’d spent more of my life in; I took the opportunity to leave ASAP back in the day because it was also the one place I always felt I’d be at an irretrievable disadvantage as a consequence of having grown up so close by but with such an exceptionally bad support network, being a mediocrity on paper, and not being able to afford to fail… I could never get over the lousiness of my own narrative whenever I had to account for where I was from when I was there, and for better or worse I watched it chew up or deaden much more interesting and ambitious friends of mine so I have to conclude I was totally right not to stick it out. as recently as 2019 I’d been seriously seriously considering moving back and weirdly I think that was the one door that the pandemic slammed shut for me rather than inadvertently opening, that 7 year curiosity finally evaporated, whatever I felt I was missing suddenly seemed irrelevant.
anyway not necessarily a strong recommendation for Anna Kendrick’s Love Life, I’m surprised someone was even seeding this, just watch High Maintenance if you want a better and more authentic portrait
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Netflix, The Influencer:
Haven’t even finished the first episode, and already can recommend giving it a try:
77 asian/mostly korean “stars” vying for $$$ and bragging rights, and with… 17 years of exposure, there’s only one former actor I recognized/know, boomer that is me.
The Cringe Is Strong with this one, but if you keep watching, it doesn’t take long before they start ganging up and try to boot out famous streamers, hate on other content platforms and backstab people.
A fascinating look into the psyche of contemporary wanna-be stars and society in general, and how quickly it brings out the worst in us, and that’s just ¾ of EP1 in
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halt and catch fire is kinda fun? like if they added a new character to the jobs/woz dyad who is both confident and competent (and mackenzie davis) so you just haaaaaate jobs and woz and ask where’s poochie
idk if i’m up for c. 2014 amc pacing of that premise
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I really liked Halt and Catch Fire. Three seasons was just enough. And the progress through time quickly, which allows for interesting technological and character developments. Have wondered if I’d like it upon rewatch though.
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the pacing and production gets a lot less Like That by the end of the first season
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Season 2 is pretty exciting. It becomes like a Masters of Doom adaptation.
I found halt and catch fire incredibly obnoxious and the prestige tv pacing was a big part of it (also have no interest in yet another take on jobs/woz)
Too much aspirational fantasy, like a toothless version of mad men
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