I’ve been watching tv y’all. I imagine we all did. Especially during lockdown. But something that happened around that time, I really started watching the series’. The advent of the multi episode epic with multiple episodes. I just hadn’t really thought about how much I was enjoying them. I guess the first one I really watched was Rome.
In San Antonio, I got used to watching shows in my garage while smoking cigars with my buddy Doug. That’s over. I live in N Texas now. But we saw a lot of good shows and had some good times.
Most recently I just finished season 5 of Fargo. Mr Munch is a great character.
Just for fun, and to keep this from becoming nothing but a serious political rag, I figured I could give you a quick and dirty of some of my favorite shows with a quick “why”.
Shows.
Scyfy:
Battlestar Galactica: I loved the original as a kid. Loved the reimagining. It’s a little heavy on God. Makes some younger atheist types not like it. Some good realism in space battles
The Expanse: Good special effects. Good original idea. Lots of good characters.
The Mandalorian: I liked all of the Disney Star Wars shows.
The Book of Boba Fett.: They killed Jennifer Beals way too early
Andor. Animal Kingdom in Space
Strange New Worlds: Watch this one if you are a trekkie.
Picard: Not really that good
The Colony: Post Alien Invasion
Lost in Space:. Good show. Kid friendly
Caprica.: Pre Battlestar. 1 season.
The Peripheral: Great show. 1 season. Writer’s strike killed it.
Crime/Cops:
Bosch: Good books. Good detective figure it out puzzles.
Animal Kingdom: Don’t let the title fool you. Good show. One of my favorites. This is often described online as the SoCal Sopranos. Its a Point Break type show.
Peaky Blinders: Also one of my favorites. Probably my most favorite. Gypsy family criminals/gang in Manchester between WW 1 and 2. Movie coming. This’ll take 4-5 episodes to really get going.
Homeland: Terror.
Ozark. Ruth Langmore! Enough said.
Tulsa King: Stallone in Tulsa, Unrealistic
Justified: Season 5 is about the best season of tv ever, in my opinion.
Narcos: Pablo Escobar
Narcos Mexico. I love the way the kept the same actors across both series.
Jack Ryan: Ryan is a dick.
The Recruit:
The Night Agent: Night watchman at the FBI gets a call
The Diplomat: Ambassador girls are the smartest in the world
Reacher: Reacher always wins!
Breaking Bad. Anti hero. Filmed in NM.
Banshee. Fighting and boobs
Magic City: Havana. Before Castro
Goliath: Lawyer takes on big cases. Billy Bob Thornton
Dark Winds: Joe Leaphorn. I read the books when I lived in the area. NW NM.
Snowfall: Great show. Rest in Power Jerome.
The Old Man.: Old spy has to come back into action.
HBO:
Game of Thrones: Dragons and boobs
Entourage: Famous people. Guy humor
Rome: Ancient Sopranos
True Blood. Vampires and …. more
Spartacus. I know. not HBO. Fucking and fighting.
Big Little Lies.: Chick drama. I watched it cause it’s filmed in Monterey
Misc:
Billions. Ri9ch dudes fucking with each other
The Boys: Super Heroes and the regular guys who want to kill them.
Stranger Things: 80s D&D nostalgia
Cobra Kai: Karate kid carries on. Low budget. Funny as hell
Taboo: Tom Hardy. Voodoo. 1 season. Surprisingly good
Vikings: Somewhat historically accurate. Ok
Carnival Row:. Steam Punk. Orlando Bloom and Cara de laVigne
Reservation Dogs: Indians on the Res in Oklahoma. William Knife Man steals the show
Station 11.: Post apocalypse. Comic book is central. Slow. I enjoyed it.
Misc:
Billions. Ri9ch dudes fucking with each other
The Boys: Super Heroes and the regular guys who want to kill them.
Stranger Things: 80s D&D nostalgia
Cobra Kai: Karate kid carries on. Low budget. Funny as hell
Taboo: Tom Hardy. Voodoo. 1 season. Surprisingly good
Vikings: Somewhat historically accurate. Ok
Carnival Row:. Steam Punk. Orlando Bloom and Cara de laVigne
Reservation Dogs: Indians on the Res in Oklahoma. William Knife Man steals the show
Westerns:
Longmire: The best of them. Wyoming Sheriff.
Yellowstone: Kevin Costner
1883: Wagon Train fromFt Worth to Oregon. From a woman’s point of view
1923: I’m still waiting for resolution
Bass Reeves: The actual Lone Ranger.
Foreign:
Babylon Berlin: German cop show pre Hitler
Casa de Papel: Spanish thieves rob a mint
BeForeigners: Norwegian tim e traveling vikings. Sort of.
No Man’s Land: Kurdish chick snipers in Northern Iraq fight Isis.
Tehran: Israeli. Edge of your seat. Great watch.
White Lines: Brits in Ibiza.
Suburra: Italian poor try and make it.
Ghosts of Beirut: Bomber comes of age.
Baghdad Central: Baghdad city cop tries to survive and be a cop in the occupation chaos