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Remix, TV and Podcasts
Jul. 31st, 2017 11:18 amAfter dithering about it for weeks I actually did sign up for http://remixrevival.dreamwidth.org/. In all likelihood I won't get assigned someone who only writes pwps or complete AUs, right?
This past Monday I watched Midnight, Texas, a tv show with a supernatural bend that's apparently based on some books. Not entire sure they have figured out their worldbuilding, but it's about a guy who talks to ghosts who meets various other supernatural-inclined types in a small town where bad stuff seems to be looming on the horizon. I'm interested enough to tune in tonight, at least.
It is on at the same time as Preacher, so I'm using it as an excuse to drop that. I like a lot of aspects of the show and Dominic Cooper and Ruth Negga are ridiculously gorgeous and great actors, but the gratuitous amounts of death and destruction that follows the main trio was really wearing on me.
Killjoys added canon f/f to go with its m/m this week, kudos to them for that. I'm not overly thrilled with how complex their season is looking to be, but I did expect it as its fairly typical come S3 to start really layering in details and plot points like this.
I think I'm going to stop watching The Night Shift. I am willing to put up with a lot for Eoin Macken and Brendan Fehr (and guy who plays Brendan Fehr's husband who is also D'avin on Killjoys who I can't remember the name of) but wow, the plots and execution of said plots are bad. Really bad. And trite and telegraphed. It would have fit in perfectly with ER and that spate of hospital/doctor shows, but not really anymore. It is about vets/currently serving soldiers and apparently has gotten a lot of input and hired actual vets etc so kudos to it, but.... *sigh*
I'm not listening to as many podcasts now that daughter is home and walking the dog, but I do recommend 'Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air', like 'The Nightly Show' (which I dearly miss) it does have a political bend, but only slight and each episode he interviews someone and they range from Neil deGrasse Tyson to Norman Lear as well as political people (Sen. Franken for example) and a woman who is a famous Baseball reporter and even when I don't know much about the person or subject (like the baseball ep) it's still very interesting.
I also really like "Pessimists Archive Podcast' which has the theme of 'how X new fangled thing is going to ruin society as we know it!' but from a historical perspective so X is the umbrella or recorded music or the car or the walkman. I find it really well researched and really interesting. (A continual theme it brings up, that I also see today, is that it tends to be those who are most benefited by the status quo who are against the new thing aka those written by baby boomers 'Gen X(or Y)/Millennials are ruining {fill in the blank}' article that seem to be published on a nearly monthly basis.)
This past Monday I watched Midnight, Texas, a tv show with a supernatural bend that's apparently based on some books. Not entire sure they have figured out their worldbuilding, but it's about a guy who talks to ghosts who meets various other supernatural-inclined types in a small town where bad stuff seems to be looming on the horizon. I'm interested enough to tune in tonight, at least.
It is on at the same time as Preacher, so I'm using it as an excuse to drop that. I like a lot of aspects of the show and Dominic Cooper and Ruth Negga are ridiculously gorgeous and great actors, but the gratuitous amounts of death and destruction that follows the main trio was really wearing on me.
Killjoys added canon f/f to go with its m/m this week, kudos to them for that. I'm not overly thrilled with how complex their season is looking to be, but I did expect it as its fairly typical come S3 to start really layering in details and plot points like this.
I think I'm going to stop watching The Night Shift. I am willing to put up with a lot for Eoin Macken and Brendan Fehr (and guy who plays Brendan Fehr's husband who is also D'avin on Killjoys who I can't remember the name of) but wow, the plots and execution of said plots are bad. Really bad. And trite and telegraphed. It would have fit in perfectly with ER and that spate of hospital/doctor shows, but not really anymore. It is about vets/currently serving soldiers and apparently has gotten a lot of input and hired actual vets etc so kudos to it, but.... *sigh*
I'm not listening to as many podcasts now that daughter is home and walking the dog, but I do recommend 'Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air', like 'The Nightly Show' (which I dearly miss) it does have a political bend, but only slight and each episode he interviews someone and they range from Neil deGrasse Tyson to Norman Lear as well as political people (Sen. Franken for example) and a woman who is a famous Baseball reporter and even when I don't know much about the person or subject (like the baseball ep) it's still very interesting.
I also really like "Pessimists Archive Podcast' which has the theme of 'how X new fangled thing is going to ruin society as we know it!' but from a historical perspective so X is the umbrella or recorded music or the car or the walkman. I find it really well researched and really interesting. (A continual theme it brings up, that I also see today, is that it tends to be those who are most benefited by the status quo who are against the new thing aka those written by baby boomers 'Gen X(or Y)/Millennials are ruining {fill in the blank}' article that seem to be published on a nearly monthly basis.)
