What are you watching?

[keith]

*I'm sure you all know, better than me, that our murder sentences are draconian compared to much of the western world. I'm anti-death penalty and also think our sentences are way way way to harsh.

Off Topic

The interesting thing about our prison industrial system is it proves we have the treasury available to offer all the prisoners a $20k-$35k for 10-20-50 years of their life. That means we also had that money available when they were children. Maybe many of them could have been directed away from crime.

That money is the interest on their Trust Account. There isn't enough in the Trust Account when they are children.

[bill_g]

That money is the interest on their Trust Account. There isn't enough in the Trust Account when they are children.

Wouldn't that be nice.

[Dr. Ken]

Just blew through Kaos on Netflix. It was excellent. It stars jeff goldblum as zeus in modern times. Lots of Greek mythology. The gods are portrayed as cruel bastards.

[neonzx]

Just blew through Kaos on Netflix. It was excellent. It stars jeff goldblum as zeus in modern times. Lots of Greek mythology. The gods are portrayed as cruel bastards.

https://youtu.be/-max0wOTcuI?si=TDkicu35x6AkEeJp

I am giving it a try. But each scene Jeff is in I feel like its an Apartments dot com commercial.

[p0rtia]

Luke-

I have seen the “Cinderella” Cinescope and the TV version with Lesley Ann Warren many times. Both Julie and Lesley do superb work. I had a major crush on Prince Charming Stuart Damon! He had a regular TV starring role in Europe somewhere when he was offered this role. His agent paid for his flight to New York and the rest was history.

Ah, Stuart Damon. Loved him since The Champions (I lean to the sci-fi side of the street), which I rewatched a couple of years ago. Not the greatest plotting, but I found the characters compelling. And who doesn't love a lost civilization of super-powered mystics in the Himalayas?

[Frater I*I]

Luke-

I have seen the “Cinderella” Cinescope and the TV version with Lesley Ann Warren many times.

Dear Cthulhu, I had such a crush on Ms. Scarlet in my youth...

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Luke-

I have seen the “Cinderella” Cinescope and the TV version with Lesley Ann Warren many times.

Dear Cthulhu, I had such a crush on Ms. Scarlet in my youth...

Quite understandable!

[p0rtia]

Criminal psychologist Dr. John Matthias of Hidden True Crime gives his thoughts about Telles’s possible psychological problems. It’s a deep dive with quotes from professional psychology articles and books, but well worth it.

Thanks for that. I've been watching it over the past week (it's looong and sloooow) and just finished up this morning.

Matthias posits the psychological structure behind Telles's decision to commit a murder. He makes a good case (with references) that Telles has narcissistic personality disorder combined with OCD-like features that combined to turn his rage and resentment into violence. He also notes his inflated sense of self-importance.The nice part (for me) is that he doesn't try to psychoanalyze the guy (meaning he doesn't do the "how did he feel about your mother" shit).

He ends up with an interesting discussion of how violence/destructive behavior can result when a person believes they are making moral choices; choices that are violent but justifiable because they are in the right and are being unjustly persecuted. Y'all probably know all this, but it was new to me.

He quotes from a book called Virtuous Violence, which presents a theory that violence is sometimes (often) morally motivated, and that those who commit violence are compelled to do so because they think the violence is necessary and right. They view this type of violence in terms of relationship. Violence as the exercise of moral rights and obligations to create, redress, conduct, protect, mourn, or terminate social relations with others. Telles, he posits, felt morally superior and morally justified because German injured him, so Telles had the right to redress that wrong. IOW, he is in the right and German was in the wrong. Telles is the victim. He closes by pointing out that the defense case was largely in line with that approach, reflecting Telles's determination to go with the "I've been framed" defense. Telles was the hero because he exposed corporate corruption. Now he's the victim of first a hit piece and now a frame up.

So now I feel better. LOL He is so obviously, as anyone can see from his mannerism, a whack job. (!) Not to resort to the pop-psych I eschewed above, I think he carried around a lot of anger and resentment (about being unappreciated) from his tough childhood, and when his sense of himself was attacked, he blew up. Inside.

[bill_g]

PS: I'm on S2 of Preacher. I like being able to see the episodes back to back. It adds continuity. I recall always being confused when it was on air.

I finished Preacher this week. What a hoot. At least once an episode I spit WTF!! out as they did something outrageous.

► Show Spoiler

For example when they replaced a man's penis with a standard brass garden hose bib (spigot) after a wild dingo bit his genitalia off.

Definitely not a show for everyone.

[Rolodex]

Just started Slow Horses (Apple+). Gary Oldman is terrific. Based on a novel of the same name, the "slow horses" are kind of the scrub branch of MI5; so, spy stuff. So far, S2 is hearkening back to cold war days, which is my jam, spy-novel-wise. 3 total seasons, with the 4th just starting (dropping 1 episode/week, so I'll wait till they're all out before starting that season).

[bill_g]

Why do streaming services think we would do anything but binge a show? One episode a week was the old TV model. Watching a whole season in a week is the new model.

[pipistrelle]

Why do streaming services think we would do anything but binge a show? One episode a week was the old TV model. Watching a whole season in a week is the new model.

I can't do it for many reasons. I can just do 25 minutes of Classic Doctor Who at a time.

Also: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9368441/

[Rolodex]

Why do streaming services think we would do anything but binge a show? One episode a week was the old TV model. Watching a whole season in a week is the new model.

IKR? I wait till they're all dropped...but sometimes I've forgotten about the show entirely and rediscover it a couple of years later. LOL

It was late-ish last night and I'd taken a pain pill for a toothache and let the netflix run after a movie. A show called Perfect Couple popped up. It was perfect for my hydrocodone brain; not all that good, easy to follow, sort of a Walmart version of White Lotus, with a gorgeous setting and terrible people.

[bill_g]

Why do streaming services think we would do anything but binge a show? One episode a week was the old TV model. Watching a whole season in a week is the new model.

I can't do it for many reasons. I can just do 25 minutes of Classic Doctor Who at a time.

Also: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9368441/

I don't binge in the common sense of endlessly advancing through a series either. I take smaller bites like you do. I couldn't handle a marathon of inactivity. I'd be asleep by the second or third episode. Unless I am absolutely captivated by the story, which is rare, I will pause for a break between the half hour to the hour time mark. If I'm pausing prior to the 20 min mark, it's my mental clue the show is not doing anything for me, and I should bounce out. That happens quite often.

[bill_g]

IKR? I wait till they're all dropped...but sometimes I've forgotten about the show entirely and rediscover it a couple of years later. LOL

It was late-ish last night and I'd taken a pain pill for a toothache and let the netflix run after a movie. A show called Perfect Couple popped up. It was perfect for my hydrocodone brain; not all that good, easy to follow, sort of a Walmart version of White Lotus, with a gorgeous setting and terrible people.

Yeah. I keep throw-away shows in my queue that are easy to digest, and not something I'll miss if I don't stay current. Shows like "How It's Made" and "Great Wrecker Rescues". Stuff like that. Put the brain in neutral, and coast. Pet the cat while falling asleep in the chair. Autoplay is turned off. So, it won't advance to the next show. I'll never miss out on the growing drahmah in the workshop as so-n-so does something something to who knows cuz the TV played every season over night, and I don't recall where I left off.

[Slim Cognito]

The new season of Only Murders in the Building is the best one yet. It's killing me having to wait a week for a new episode.

[AndyinPA]

The new season of Only Murders in the Building is the best one yet. It's killing me having to wait a week for a new episode.

[Rolodex]

The new season of Only Murders in the Building is the best one yet. It's killing me having to wait a week for a new episode.

I love that show! But I'm greedy and will wait till they're all dropped! I swear I've gotten where movies are too short at 2 hours bc I'm used to binging half a season in an evening. LOL I don't want to have to learn new characters every couple of hours!

[bill_g]

You can what I do - not watch any teevee until after 6pm, take a hit on the pipe, have a smoke with the neighbors, drink some wine, go get the mail down at the road, and then notice the sun is going down, and I haven't decided what to watch yet. So, I take another hit. Then I remember I forgot to take my 6 o'clock meds. There's a knock at the door, friend comes in, and we take another hit. Now it's 9. Okay - what will I watch before I go to bed?

Rinse, repeat tomorrow night, and you'll never have to worry about bingeing again.

[MN-Skeptic]

For me, I subscribe to a number of streaming services because I read here and elsewhere on the internet about all these great movies and TV shows. Each service allows you to make lists, so I have lists. Great lists. The best lists. But then I get notified that the new book I put on hold is now available to pick up at the library, but I have to - obviously - check out the previous one in the series to re-read it first so I’m up to speed on the continuing characters, and then I have to read the new book. And so another night goes by without watching any of the programs from the streaming services. But I do have lists. The best lists. Which keep growing. Sigh.

[bill_g]

[pipistrelle]

The list of movies everyone has seen that I haven't is in the hundreds. Maybe thousands.

[sugar magnolia]

The list of movies everyone has seen that I haven't is in the hundreds. Maybe thousands.

I'm pretty sure the last movie I watched was Schindler's List.

The tv around here pretty much runs ID Discovery or Oxygen in the background. The soothing sound of Peter Thomas and Forensic Files for sleeping because neither of us (my husband and I, not Mr. Thomas) can sleep in total silence.

[John Thomas8]

A very bizarre twist to the tale of Nikocado Avocado, turns out he's been playing 4D chess while the rest of us were being confused by the checkers:

[bill_g]

Never heard of him. Had to look him up.