April 2020
Before I started watching Ozark, I didn’t know what it was about. I still don’t know.
The best part of Netflix’s Virgin River is the TV movies on Tim Matheson’s IMDB.
The Real Housewives of New York City is all crescendo and no build.
My son B chose a 90s Spiderman animated TV series over Frozen on Disney + so we can skip the DNA test.
Deciding what to watch first of the abundance of TV you have access to is a skillset not that dissimilar to playing the stock market.
Was Ozark an Arrested Development rewrite that got out of hand?
There is no international crisis that 90 Day Fiance won’t exploit for the sake of good television.
So, was the twist of Star Trek: Picard that Seven of Nine is actually Buzz Lightyear?
Inside No. 9 is proof of what is possible when you do genre fiction by the numbers.
The Good Fight is ashamed of its roots in network television and make artistic blunders because of it.
Was Ozark the product of playing Breaking Bad backwards?
The line separating corporate commercials from PSAs has evaporated in recent months.
Last month I made an offhand remark about Armando Iannucci’s television being “accidentally prophetic.” Since then, the BBC has used scenes from The Thick of It to advocate for coronavirus lockdown and Bill Withers is no longer “with us.”
In 2016, I read an interview with Michael Sheen where he announced he was quitting acting to become an anti-fascist activist. The last I heard he was impersonating Chris Tarrant in a British TV docudrama about the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Scandal. It’s been quite the four years for liberals.
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is everything I love about British TV and everything I love about Britain.
I’ve taken to watching Netflix series in instalments which span the last five minutes of an episode and everything but the last five minutes of the following one.
Was Ozark pitched as Northern Exposure if Fleischmann was in the Cartel?
When you see all of CBS’s shows together in one place on All Access, they look like parodies of network shows. And not very imaginative ones.
Thank you, Joel McHale, for not pretending that this public access Hollywood Squares aesthetic is normal for television.
Can’t we just let Andy Cohen spend time with his child and show Rockford Files re-runs until this all blows over?
Take a break from cat videos on the internet and watch Red Dwarf: The Promised Land on Dailymotion.
Outlander chose to experiment stylistically at the worst possible moment and diminished its own power.
TV networks are lining up to make quarantine versions of shows that won’t ever count in the long run.
Maybe Ozark is a Curb Your Enthusiasm story outline that never saw the light of day?
We’re all acting as if our haircuts aren’t going to look like Joe Exotic’s when we come out of quarantine.
ABC Mouse TV is the mad cow disease of early learning websites.
“Dinotrux? What happened to Ambient Mode?” Actual dialogue from my home.
I appreciate all the sidewalk chalk illustrations but it doesn’t make me feel like we’re living in The Walking Dead any less.
Whomever in The Good Fight’s Writer’s Room is pushing science-fiction storylines need to stop.
The Esurance “That’s not how any of this works” woman just turned up in Ozark.
A Fear The Walking Dead DP compared images from the Columbus Stay-At-Home Order protests to zombie horror. Isn’t this about the time they started nuking cities on the show?
Breaking News: The Rolling Stones retire from touring after learning they can perform from their homes and not be the same room as each other.
At Home editions of ongoing TV shows are a useful reminder of how much content is actually being offered. Currently only Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is passing muster.
No f—s or butts on Disney +
I always thought I could play Young Sipowicz in an NYPD Blue prequel. I’ve just learnt that there is only a ten-year gap between my age and Dennis Franz’s when the show premiered. Fox, the ball is in your court.
I never understood the animosity towards Breaking Bad’s Skyler White but whatever the shortcomings of her characterization, Better Call Saul’s Kim Wexler has absolved the original’s sins.
The drawings in each of the quadrants of the circle logo that change with every episode of Ozark remind me of educational children’s television.
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