On top of being really ambiguously weird, the show also has one of the most unusual release schedules I've seen for streaming. It's an 8 episode show and they're releasing 2 episodes every Friday for a month.
I don't think I've seen anything quite like this, at least not in the last 30+ years. Hulu is releasing a miniseries called Candy next month (May 9) that will be 5 episodes long and will be releasing an episode each day through Friday May 13. It's based on an real event back in 1980 in Wylie, TX which is east of the DFW metroplex. Jessica Biel plays the lead role of Candy Montgomery, a woman who cheated on her husband and then killed the other man's wife by hitting her 41 times with an axe. The trailer dropped today and it looks quite interesting. With that said, that's not the part that I haven't seen before. What's bizarre in this situation, and I believe is a first time event during the streaming era, is the following tidbit. Just last week HBO Max wrapped filming on a show called Love and Death. That miniseries is going to be based on the real life story of Candy Montgomery, this time played by Elizabeth Olsen and is expected to release sometime in late 2022. Love and Death I'm looking forward to watching both just to see how differently they play out. The real story is that Candy Montgomery was found not guilty after using a self defense plea.
I am gonna have to finally check out Severance. TL is my fave but I have enjoyed quite a bit of Foundation and now I just discovered Pachinko. so good
I haven't even gotten to Foundation or Pachinko yet. Just started Slow Horses today and it's a great little British spy drama through 2 episodes.
I've been on an antenna for three years now, so I have some old TV shows to talk about. GTSSB (Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread) Laramie The Legend of Wyatt Earp The Rifleman Bat Masterson Tales Of Wells Fargo Chicago PD, as long as my church lady is there Adam-12 Mannix Cannon Have Gun, Will Travel Perry Mason Buncha other stuff I didn't see/didn't see much of as a kid NSGS (Not so great stuff) CSI Miami. I still watch, but I cringe, and I still wonder if David Caruso was told to act horribly, or if he did that on his own
I've got YouTube TV for sports access at the moment, but other than that I watch OTA as well and love the variety of channels that I can pick up. In Lubbock I've got something like 60 channels that come in via antenna and several that I like. Circle, Grit, Laff, Antenna TV, Rewind TV, theGrio, Cozi, get TV, ion, MeTV, H&I, Movies, Comet, Charge!, and This TV all get watched at times.
I'm going to stay up far too late tonight. I just started watching Julia on HBO Max, and it's delightful. Sarah Lancashire is amazing in the lead role, David Hyde Pierce is the ideal actor for Paul, Bebe Neuwirth shines as the best friend, and Franz Kranz is an excellent foil. I'm only two episodes in and it's one of the most charming things I've seen in years.
Well, not long after that Candy trailer and the reveal that it's going to be a "5 night event," Apple TV+ follows up with the same scheduling quirk for their new dinosaur "documentary event" called Prehistoric Planet, airing 5/23-5/27.
1. I rather enjoy Moon Knight. 2. I have now learned the impact of teaching celebrity's children. Better Call Saul has been ruined for me.
Moon Knight is really unique by Marvel standards. I didn't teach a celebrity's child, but I did teach a minor child celebrity after she got to college once, and she was one of the hardest working students in the class. I still think Lost sucked as a show, but the little girl that was in a few episodes grew up to be a responsible adult that was grateful for the experience.
Moon Knight works best in the moments that it leans into the weirdness. So I enjoyed episode four a lot. It's least interesting when it's made to be more of a conventional superhero show.
I'm now partway through Season 2. The same guy (Billy Burke) who played Miles Matheson in Revolution also played Gary Matheson in 24 Day 2. https://24.fandom.com/wiki/Skye_McCole_Bartusiak Also, the person who played Megan Matheson had some seizures before dying in 2014. FWIW, seizures were experienced by her character in 24.
We Own This City is okay. Jon Bernthal is terrific in it. For a cop/crime show taking place in Baltimore and by the same creative team that gave us The Wire, it actually is reminding me more - so far - of Shawn Ryan's The Shield.
That sounds interesting. It's not too bad of a miss when you end up more like The Shield, and at 6 episodes it shouldn't have much fluff.
So there is now a good in-story explanation for Oscar Isaac's somewhat wonky English accent. But now I'm having the opposite reaction. It's probably too "good" within the context of its reality?
Are we sure we can identify his reality yet? Yeah I suppose so, since there's only one more episode (is that right?) left. But who's to say that trauma induced paranoid schizophrenics with multiple personalities can't be good at doing accents? Anyway, it's currently the most fun per episode on current viewing list. I've been a big Oscar Isaac fan since his final scene in Ex Machina.
Slow Horses plays out like a book on screen, which is about as big of a compliment as I can give to an adaptation of a novel. It's 6 episodes of wonderfully curmudgeonly British spy shenanigans and the end of the episode confirms that season 2 will be Dead Lions, the second of the soon to be eight current (as of May 10) books in the Slough House series. Gary Oldman seems like he had the time of his life just being the most bitter old timer from MI-5 that he could possibly be. I have only watched a few shows (Ted Lasso, Severance, Ptolemy Gray, Slow Horses) and one movie (Finch) on Apple TV+, but the shows have all been excellent and the movie was good.
Fit the final 7 episodes of Ozark around my work schedule today. Wendy Byrd is one of the most fascinatingly frightening TV characters ever. The ending is something, that's for sure. I enjoyed it, but it's reminiscent of another series finale that folks got mad at.
Final episode of Moon Knight was meh. Overall I thought the series was a tiny bit of a letdown. Good performances by Hawke & Isaac especially. But not enough to save the show from the occasionally subpar writing. I did like May Calamawy as Layla.
Enjoyed the Moon Knight finale, though it was a bit rushed, and it's my second favorite Disney+ Marvel show. The season finale of Julia was just wonderful. What a show and what a cast that all delivered exceptional performances. Strange New Worlds had a debut that gives me hope that it's going to be the best Star Trek show in decades.