Racism, specifically against Romani and Middle Easterners, has been prevalent for a long time in Europe. I lived abroad a few decades ago, and my landlady was a sweet old grandmotherly type. She sat me down for tea every time I paid my rent, which was in person at her request. Get her started on Gitanos (“gypsies”)…

I’m 2 miles from UC Irvine, I volunteer as tribute for testing purposes.

Indeed, though I guess it is slightly comforting to know that Italian governments have a life expectancy of ~1 year before succumbing to infighting, power struggles, and other ridiculousness.

The rise of the Far Right around the globe is terrifying to me.

if you have progressive politics, imo The Good Fight was the only show that captured the slow, gnawing insanity of how it felt to live in Trump’s America. legal procedural trappings got it greenlit so it could reveal itself as a wonderful exercise in experimental prestige television absurdism, particularly season 3.

The…

Welp, that was unnecessary.

And you hit the nail on the head on how 1999 those in charge of the CW are. I don’t see it going well at all.

I did not realize there were still people who watched TV “live”, unless it’s sporting events I suppose. Even my 80-year-old mother does not consume episodic TV that way.

I like Paramount +. They have all of Star Trek, and a ton of funny stuff from Comedy Central. 

I literally turned 58 in July, and yes. 

Beat me to it. 

If the average age of current viewers is really 58, doesn’t that mean that the 58 years olds watching the CW right now like the programs that are currently being produced by CW? If they wanted to watch CSI or some shit they could be doing that on another network. I think your best bet is to continue to cater to the…

“catering to the older audience”

Why bother giving these creeps marketing and a SEO boost? Cover more indie productions from people who aren’t fucking scumbags that might goose the clicks.

But he has a daughter now, so he’s all better.

I dont know, I watch the first season and thought it was pretty good. Then the second season and thought it was ok but getting kind of cheesey. I’ve watched, I think, three episodes of the third season and stopped because it was cheesey. The love triangle with the kid and the wife, just lazy writing. The private space…

I agree that this show felt it’s strongest in Season 1 and, kinda like See, it’s been a case of diminishing returns as it gets bogged down in it’s own bullshit messy narratives and losing track of the stuff that actually worked.

Don’t forget the big one that a lot of Yanks can’t accept (or don’t know about) - the USSR was the first to successfully land on Venus. The Venera 7 probe was the first landing on Venus in 1970. A year later and the next big “oh fuck they’ve done it again” moment was Salyut 1 - the world’s first space station - in…

I like it a lot, but every season has had the same pattern of great, space-focused premier that gradually stalls into weird soap opera subplots with no payoff, followed by a rushed climax. It’s hardly the only prestige tv drama to fall into that trap, but each season has doubled down on those weaknesses. I really hope…

I loved season one, but 3 was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen. It lurched from one absurd, contrived plot twist to another. Genuinely couldn’t believe what I was watching.