TV Shows In An Emergency

 

One thing I have been thankful for during our recent unpleasantness is television, believe it or not.

If you are anything like me and my wife, you've been watching a lot of TV, especially Netflix and Amazon Prime.

Amazon Prime has a lot of older shows that we were able to catch up on.  Like Larry David's  Curb Your Enthusiasm or as I like to call it, Seinfeld With Cuss Words. It is a very funny show, particularly the season in which Larry is in the Broadway play "The Producers" and the season he does a Seinfeld reunion show just to win back Cheryl.

 

We also watched every episode of "30 Rock".  Everybody in the show was drop dead funny, including Alec Baldwin. My favorite character is Kenneth Parcell who once said, "I don't choose Democrat or Republican because choosing is a sin so I just write in the Lord's name."

 

However, we have spent a lot of time over at Netflix and watched their shows.  If you are running out of shows to watch, here are some.

 

Broadchurch:  This is a show about a British beach town, sort of like a Panama City Beach where people eat fish and chips for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  A boy is found dead on the beach and the town's police detective played by Olivia Colman springs into action with her Scottish boss.  I recommend watching this show with the subtitles on because it is really British if know what I mean.

 

The Crown:     The life of Queen Elizabeth. Her father, King Lane Pryce, dies suddenly and she becomes Queen.  It is actually a well done show with Olivia Colman as the Queen. It presents Prince Phillip as kind of a jerk. Prince Charles is prissy.  Prince Andrew shows up with his friend "Epstein".

Dark:  This is a comedy filled with the humor Germans are known for.   Just kidding. It is a show about time travel, 33 years both ways. I think. I'm not sure what this show is about. An apocalypse happens and then it doesn't. People are killed and then they reappear.  It is just a mess. It is the type of show that would make David Lynch say, "That's weird".  Stars Maja Schone, Jordis Triebel, and Olivia Coman.

 

 

Outer Banks:  I bet you didn't know that the Outer Banks region of North Carolina was so exciting. This is a story about high school students who look 30 years old and they are looking for gold. It is the typical rich snobs versus poor but good looking troubled youth story except this time, one of the snobs falls in love with a poor good looking kid and together they survive a hurricane. The power of awesome looks is no match for mother nature.  Also, all of the adults are either corrupt or stupid. Sometimes, they are both, including the character Olivia Colman plays.

 

 

Unsolved Mysteries:  I had forgotten how much I loved this show. Netflix brought it back with 6 shows, 5 of which are great.  There's one about UFOs  you can skip because everybody looks like they are in on a bit to get on TV.  One of the episodes was about a local Georgia hair stylist who just vanished one day.  Unfortunately her remains were found a year after her disappearance by Georgian who gives the most Georgian explanation of how he found the poor soul.

"Well, me and my buddy were going to work on The Fellowship Hall of the church. I got there before he did and he called me wanting to know if I wanted a biscuit from that place down the road and I said yes because they make good biscuits so he got about four biscuits and brought it to me and we ate one of the biscuits before we started to work on The Fellowship Hall of the church.[Two hours later]  Then we decided to take a break from working on The Fellowship Hall of the church and we went outside to eat the other biscuits when we saw the vultures or something flying down in the woods a ways. We took our biscuits and went into the woods. There we found the remains. We called the police and finished our biscuits before they got here."

Unlike most reboots, this show is better than the original except it is missing Robert Stack. Current host Olivia Colman just doesn't work.

 

 

Peaky Blinders:  This is a sort of like The Sopranos except it takes place in England after World War I and you can't understand what anybody says so you definitely have make sure you have the subtitles on. This series is very violent. Stabbings, shootings. beatings, and bombs exploding happen every fifteen minutes. There's a lot of cussing because after World War I, people said a bad word, a lot. Everybody was cursing, including Olivia Colman. They have a modern English rock soundtrack that for some reason fits. They have a real cool theme song called "Red Right Hand".  All of the thugs have bad haircuts, including one guy whose job it is to announce "We're the Peaky (bad word) Blinders".  That doesn't sound too scary to me. It's like saying "We're the (bad word) Teletubbies".

 

 Finally, here's the one we've watched on our new streaming service, Disney Plus.

The Mandalorian:  If you haven't seen this, you must. It is not only the best web series, it is the best Star Wars anything since, well, since the original Star Wars. The Mandalorian is basically a work show. A guy going from job to job with a baby that's fifty years old.  In case you didn't know, the baby looks like Yoda, so some people (like me) have been calling him "Baby Yoda", but that is wrong.  He is referred to as "The Child".  Anyway, "The Child" confirms that Yoda did get busy, if you know what I mean. Let's just say the force was with him, yeah come on.  Who is the  mother?  Olivia Colman.