The TV and Streaming Thread: That's Entertainment!

[ShadySands]

Wife couldn't stand what they did with her favorite captain so we never finished the first season of Picard.

I think Prodigy was easily the best NuTrek and closest to old Trek in heart and feeling. 

[Amentep]

I still need to watch Prodigy.

I'm surprised I've liked LOWER DECKS as well as I have.

[Sarex]

Sandman. They took some liberties I don't think they should have, but overall a good series.

[LadyCrimson]

Was wondering if Sandman/2 was worth watching. I might try it soon.

Kdrama - Castaway Diva
---image and description made me think light silly rom-com. the first extra-long episode was a melodrama tearjerker re: the setting up the young teen (14-16?) past of two characters. The rest followed predictable melodrama+comedy but was overall decent for the kdrama genre, even with the typical last few episode fall off kdramas tend to have. But that first episode was a showcase for the two young actors playing the adults-as-children roles. Lee Re and especially Moon Woo-jin - gonna have to see where they are/what they're doing in 5+ years.

I've become slightly "annoyed" (since it further fractures access to k-content and I don't want to sub to disney+, heh) that Disney seems to be trying to attract kdrama audiences now (I guess the sub service started in S. Korea a few years ago?). A couple of their Disney+ exclusive series I might be interested in. Moon Woo-jin plays a villain in one of them (Unmasked, maybe he's in one episode, dunno) and I'm super curious to see if he does as well with another role - reviews indicate he does.  Plus it has a couple other main cast people that I like a lot. *grits teeth* Maybe I will finally do the sub for one month thing just to watch them.

[LadyCrimson]

First 5 episodes of Trigger (Netflix) are pretty decent. Not *great*, but decent. Action stuff is fun, plot is a little more interesting than I thought it would be - although some aspects fall a little flat imo. Kim Nam-gil is great as always and Kim Young-kwang's chr. is fun. guess I've been in the mood for kdrama again, recently, watching/catching up on a lot of them.  >.>

And a new Disney+ trailer for a KBS2 series.   Looks fantasy cheesy as heck, but that cast. It's the signs of Zodiac vs villain. Dangit, looks like I definitely will be giving disney a tiny bit of money for august/Sept to binge watch/check out a few things.

 

 

[Gfted1]

Happy Gilmore 2

I love the first film and was already mentally prepared to be disappointed, but consider me entertained-ish. I read somewhere that there was a major re-write with the unfortunate passing of Carl Weathers but it still managed to cobble together enough new story, laughs, cameos and callbacks to see it at least once. I like most Adam Sandler movies, but this isnt one of the classics.

[Sarex]

^I sat through it and that's more than I can say for Sandler's recent comedies.

Edited 9 hours ago by Sarex

[LadyCrimson]

Trigger - eh, another kdrama that falls off at the end. No great story conclusion/sense of satisfaction, just a lot of "what if/would you" ruminations with a small side of hope. Towards the end they were presenting both the anti-gun and sort of NRA-like stances via various methods - there were a few great quotes for both sides in there - along with some "humanity is not logical ...." type stuff. 

One of its problems was that (I think) it wants to have a heavy anti-gun message, but the format (action/crime thriller) and its showcasing of "people pushed to breaking points" so we can sympathize with a situation that could lead to violence, plus a kind of likable but almost comic-genre super-villain chr, almost glorified guns instead. So it doesn't work for me as some social message.  At the least, it's too perfunctory. Be a serious topical drama, or be a fun/exciting crime thriller, pick one and stick to it, that kind of thing. Acting and action good, first few episodes pretty good, show as a whole kinda "meh."

Oh and I probably should've mentioned that if anyone is very sensitive to the school violence/shooting issue, one of the side plots, the resolution episode is probably going to be heavily triggering.

On the more humorous side, there was one small scene late in the series between two gangsters and their protracted, eventually OTP pistol showdown that was utterly (intentionally) hilarious.

Edited 31 minutes ago by LadyCrimson