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Since I've been catching up on odd tv lately, I watched Hooten and The Lady. A UK production for Sky originally, it's a genial romp that's firmly inspired by the old Alan Quartermain / Indiana Jones style pulp adventures. Has Ophelia Lovibond playing the descended-from-nobility Englishwoman who works for the British Museum finally getting to go out into the field. Once there she ends up in the Amazon jungle facing cannibals, murderous Frenchmen, hidden treasures, and runs into Hooten, a roguish American adventurer (played by Michael Landes). From the looks of it they've put some money into filming on locations in South Africa, Cambodia and various other places for it. The pilot episode seems to establish that they aren't worried about being substantial or serious about any of it, just simple pulp adventure fun in the modern day. I gather that each episode will focus on some different artefact and roam around the world.

I tried the new MacGyver. It's hm. I'm not getting the magic from it. I mean I know it might be fond nostalgia for childhood memories, but the original as cheesy as it could get had a sense of fun to it? While there are some amusing moments to the new one, I'm not sure it's actually getting that sense of fun as a whole. It might just be because they had to reshoot the pilot and it's still shaky ground. So I'll probably give it a few more episodes before I can make up my mind on it properly. It runs through a few standard clichés, the current trend to have the sexy female hacker, the obvious twists, and the setup for the potential mysterious big bad. They've kept Mac's commentary to the audience, and they've added in cgi text identifying components during the MacGyver jury-rig moments.

The first Watch Dogs was one that had great promise, and then went nowhere. So I'm firmly in the "eh, I'll wait and see, and maybe get it when its on steam sales 9 months down the line"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv3vMSEBF1A

Well, to be fair, I would like to see more about the Hotel and the characters that make it up. Maybe it was Ian McShane and Lance Reddick and various others in those supporting roles, but you just had that sense of there being stories behind everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRp1CK_X_Yw

The Good Place. Kristen Bell finds out she's dead and is introduced to "The Good Place" by the angelic architect played by Ted Danson. It's the perfect suburb/village of your dreams populated by 350 of the "good people" who are the most virtuous of the virtuous who all get their ideal homes and to meet their soul mate. The minor flaw being that apart from getting her name right, Bell's character has done none of the unselfish things that scored her high enough to earn the place in the Good place. In fact, she's a self-absorbed, highly amoral person and is trying to figure out what the hell is going on, aided by her supposed soul mate who was in life a professor of ethics and morality and is dealing with the fact he has to lie to protect her from being sent to "the bad place". The pilot episode was somewhat amusing, and I'm curious to see just where they do go with it.

This might amuse and interest a few folk.. Memory Hacker implants false memories in peoples minds

Glad it wasn't serious Hurl.