Better Call Saul The last several episodes have been as good as the best Breaking Bad episodes. The episode with Mike and Jimmy out in the dessert was the best episode of the show yet. Finally got to see Mike use his sniper skills on the cartel guys.
Finished Tiger Kings. It did get better but I wouldn't consider it to be one of the all time great shows. I stalled on Better Call Saul a few years back. Season 1 was super boring IMO. A show about Saul's family drama was a let down after Breaking Bad.
You could probably just pick up with the current season and go from there, maybe read a synopsis wiki thing online if you are confused about anything. I think a lot of people lost interest with the family drama stuff with Jimmy’s brother, but the show is past that stuff now and is primarily a Breaking Bad prequel/sequel at this point. The current season is basically what people wanted out of the show all along, but they instead got a lot of boring filler.
I've watched Saul through Season 4, which is all Netflix has at the moment. I've enjoyed the show for the most part.
Tiger King is akin to Hoarders, or any of the many addiction shows. It’s more cringing at an episode of Intervention than basking in the glow of M.A.S.H. or Cheers. It’s pure people watching train wreck trash that somehow hit when everyone was stuck at home watching tv. Although I’d wager it still would’ve hit without the lockdown. Netflix does an entertaining docuseries... How to Fix a Drug Scandal Also on Netflix, and much classier than Tiger King. It is focused on some shady drug testing chemists and had major real life implications for many. It made me angrier than Tiger King due to the BS nature of the war on drugs. Personally, I subscribe to the idea that raising tigers like cattle would solve the poaching issue straightaway. Why buy poached wild tiger ingredients or rugs when it’s just a part of the supply chain? Farm-to-table Chinese medicines would be a legal and cheap It reminds me of marijuana legalization. Besides taxes, when was the last time my drug money got funneled into cartels or terrorist orgs? The restrictions on endangered species seem as counter productive as a lot of the drug restrictions. Legal weed and tiger skin rugs! I’ll vote for that platform. Do it for polar bears too, I want a polar bear rug real bad but they are so expensive. Farming polar bears would solve that’s.
Better Call Saul is its own thing. It's mostly a slow paced but very well acted character study. I like it but a lot of people find it boring. I think a lot of people went into it expecting a BB prequel/sequel, and that's there too and it's become the focus of the show this season, but it has a lot of other stuff going on that people could take or leave.
The Last Dance. I hated Jordan and the Bulls like most people hated Brady and the Patriots. But he is the greatest. So far it’s a nice trip down memory lane.
Too Hot to Handle on Netflix One of the dumbest and trashiest reality shows I've seen. I guess that means it's a success for Netflix.
I mean why make a show at all? How can you top the true life train wreck with a fictional one? TheTiger King vs The Sharknado is the only thing that makes sense.
Altered Carbon I feel like Netflix blew their whole budget on special effects. The acting and dialogue are terrible. Especially the Mexican chick who plays the detective. She barely speaks English and stumbles through all of her lines and is just there to look hot. The main guy looks bored out of his mind and just mumbles all of his lines. I had to turn on the subtitles to understand either one of them. There’s an elaborate sci-fi setup for what turns out to be a network TV style buddy cop murder mystery detective show. Except it’s set in a world where murder hardly matters because people can just load their consciousness into new bodies. The backstory doesn’t even make any sense in a lot of ways. Wouldn’t a guy who wakes up 250 years in the future be shocked by all of the changes? Why would a rebel super soldier make a good detective? Why even make this a boring by the numbers detective show when the galactic rebellion stuff 250 years before from the flashbacks seems so much more interesting? There’s a lot of nudity, but a lot of it is bad nudity. Like a dick shot of an ugly middle aged man kind of nudity. Really bad. I checked out after a few episodes.
I watched some of the first season of Altered Carbon but didn't finish it yet. It looks good in Dolby Vision but the story and acting haven't been great. I thought the Lost in Space reboot, although quite imperfect and much lighter in tone and a bit corny at times as expected of something more family friendly, made better use of a big sci-fi budget. It was also interesting to see Molly Parker in a role in which she doesn't thrive on causing torment and misery (previously saw her in Goliath and House of Cards) and Parker Posey as a villain.
Mythic Quest on Apple TV This was produced by a lot of the same people as It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Which is surprising because it’s kinda bad. It has too many annoying characters and most of the jokes don’t land. It has one decent episode, but it’s a side story with different actors and characters. I feel like that one episode is what the whole show should have been.
How to Fix a Drug Scandal (Netflix) I finished watching the Netflix documentary miniseries How to Fix a Drug Scandal. I was at a relative's house on another account and had a hell of a time finding this browsing through crime and documentary headings and had to look up the name of the series on my account via my phone and search the title manually, so I'm assuming it's not the most heavily promoted series that you could easily miss. It is about a huge forensic laboratory worker scandal that demonstrates just how easily massive corruption can slip under the radar regarding work we always tend to assume is done with impeccable accuracy and proper methodology. This assumption led to catastrophic consequences for tends of thousands of people and cost several million dollars. It was also sickening to see the unbelievably light sentences for the culprits and almost zero consequence for the administrative conspirators too powerful for the law to touch other than mild embarrassment of being exposed assuming they have any conscience at all and are capable of feeling a sense of shame, which I doubt.
Upload on Amazon It's a pretty good mix of sci-fi, comedy, and romance. I had low expectations but it's actually a pretty good show.