Hidden Feathers of Peacock TV

PaladinTom wrote:

Don’t sleep on Resident Alien. It’s brilliant. Two seasons are available.

1.5 seasons. The 8 episodes that have aired of Season 2 are just the first half, the remaining 8 episodes are coming later this summer after a mid-season break.

I get a little annoyed sometimes with how inconsistent the rules are about Harry the Alien’s abilities and physiology, but it’s still a great show. It probably has some of the best indigenous representation of any mainstream american tv show as well.

Jurassic World Dominion: Extended Cut

Made it halfway through before I had to call it quits for the night. This feels like it's trying to be multiple movies and genres all at once. Also, when did Dr. Wu end up working for Evil Tim Cook when in the last couple of movies he was making dinosaurs, but Predator?

Quantum Leap: Season 6 (?), Episode 1

A continuation of the original show that captures its spirit, blending new elements, and making direct links to the past (and in one case a somber callback). Can't wait for more.

I hope it's good. Hesitant to get into it unless I hear more good

Wait, it's a direct continuation?

beanman101283 wrote:

Wait, it's a direct continuation?

Yes. The opening narration refers to Sam Beckett's attempt to travel through time in 1995 and the Project Quantum Leap in 2022 is a follow-up. Plus (don't look if you're dead-set against spoilers)...

Spoiler:

It's revealed at the end of the episode that the person who helped Ben use the Quantum Leap accelerator prematurely is Al's daughter, Janice, who is one of Al and Beth Calavicci's daughters after Sam convinced Beth to wait for him to come back from being held captive in North Vietnam. Al himself having passed away in 2021, the same year as Dean Stockwell. The first episode is dedicated in his memory.

I thought the first episode of the New Quantum Leap was fine but what made the original was the chemistry between Al and Sam and there just wasn’t anything like that in this episode. Hopefully it will get better as the season continues and the actors settle into the characters.

I re-watched the first episode of the first season of QL and... it's definitely not what I was expecting.

Original had a rough first season but really got going later.

I've seen some episodes 10 or 15 times at this point due to syndication. But haven't done a complete series rewatch ever.

I loved the original, but it was very much "of its time", with a constant apple-pie focus on Christian values and The American Way triumphing over all.

Wasn't going to bother with the reboot, but if people here say it's promising, I'll try to dip in at some point.

Bakula tweets he was offered a role in the pilot but turned it down.

Despite that, the new show's leaning heavily into the original show in terms of the ongoing arc.

Quantum Leap's still doing that, in regards to this episode summarizing Magic's connection to the earlier show.

The Halloween episode of Quantum Leap that I watched tonight was far more entertaining than Halloween Ends that I watched last night. Also, I regret my October horror movie watching month culminated with that.

This week's episode of Quantum Leap about 16 year olds in the year I was 16 finally made me wonder if this was what it was like for my parents' generation watching the first series of Quantum Leap.

New Quantum Leap with Robert Picardo as... a doctor named Woolsey?

Woolsey was his character in Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis. Though that was a character was a lawyer, not a doctor, so I'm guessing the Doctor part is borrowed from Voyager.

I'm only two eps in, but so far Poker Face is pretty great - new show from Rian Johnson, a darkly funny crime-of-the-week show with many affectionate nods to Columbo. Great cast, great writing, terrific score from Nathan Johnson.

Podunk wrote:

I'm only two eps in, but so far Poker Face is pretty great - new show from Rian Johnson, a darkly funny crime-of-the-week show with many affectionate nods to Columbo. Great cast, great writing, terrific score from Nathan Johnson.

Yeah he was on Seth Meyers last night and it sounded fun. A different angle than Knives Out for sure

Powerful episode of Quantum Leap this week. Right up there with last week's The Last of Us in terms of representation in sci-fi.

Edit: It was heartening to see Trans Life Line get a call out in the final title card given that a.) many of us here donated to that organization before it got this level of attention and b.) given the last time this show had a final card, it's good to see that it was for something good for a change.

Last week's newest ep. of Poker Face (Ep. 6, "Exit Stage Death") was maybe my favorite episode of the bunch thus far! Ever since Andor wrapped up around Thanksgiving, I'd been aching for a new weekly watch, and for the next month that we've got it, I'm gonna enjoy Charlie Cale's sleuthing~

Quantum Leap

Anyone else want Indian food after the most recent episode?

I return once more to inform y'all that Poker Face continues to slap. Latest episode had A+ guest stars between Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Stephanie Hsu, plus some excellent intrigue that keeps me coming back. Next week is gonna be the season finale, so color me excited.

I'm also loving Poker Face, which surprises me because I don't care for the Knives Out movies at all, so when I heard it was a Rian Johnson creation, I went in with low expectations.

I really like the less-obvious aspects of the formula, like how she sucks at every part-time job she picks up on the road, how the storylines from other episodes are carried on instead of typical formula shows where they are all standalone (i.e. She learns the "glue trick" in one episode, and then uses it on someone else in another) and how she is actually the catalyst that leads to the murder she ends up investigating.

Mrs. Davis. I don't want to spoil anything, but it's pretty wild.

kuddles wrote:

how she is actually the catalyst that leads to the murder she ends up investigating.

I actually initially thought this would be the plot of every episode. But it turns out that people can get killed and it's not indirectly or directly her fault sometimes.

Subway: Eat fresh... or die!

Kurrelgyre wrote:

Mrs. Davis. I don't want to spoil anything, but it's pretty wild.

I watched the current 5 episodes this week. Pretty wild only describes the first episode. They take it to 11 in episode 2, 12 in episode 4, etc...

I didn't catch it in theaters when I was openly musing on seeing it, but I finally sat down to watch Cocaine Bear on Peacock the other night.

For the price of my $5/month, it was an alright watch. Tight 90, plenty of solid goofery, the child actors surprised me with how much I enjoyed their performances (very well done & incredibly charming, especially the young lad who played Henry), and, evidently continuing a trend for me this week, Alden Ehrenreich, who I find delightful in most everything I see him in, including this.

I wouldn't say Cocaine Bear is moving Peacock subscriptions, but if you've already got it, there are worse things to watch.

The Traitors was amazing. It's basically The Mole except you get to know who the mole is the whole time so you just get to watch emotionally fragile people turn on each other based on zero evidence and can laugh at them being completely wrong on their assumptions. Alan Cumming hamming it up is the icing on the cake.