TV and Film

Tough to be a comedian these days. Governor Cuomo resigns and the late night comics poke fun.

The best line I heard was from Colbert, something like..."Cuomo steps down and fourteen women take two steps away".

Uh, that's the best his raft of writers could come up with???



You know what would be funnier? Just re-air the acclaim Governor Cuomo got from these same comics. Fallon might be best with his; "Governor where are you, where do you rate on the singles dating scale?"

Now that's funny.

We're still watching Blacklist

I am watching Northwoods Law. It is a reality show about the game wardens in my old home state of New hampshire. It's amazing how many places i recognize while watching.

Some of my Netflix suggestions are still good... some are really random, and I really don't see the connection to some of the things I have watched. I think they do a poor job advertising some of their shows and movies sometimes because there are a lot of instances where by the time I hear about it, and it will sound like something I'd be interested in, the show is already canceled after one season! lol

Sound on TV shows is driving me mad.. I know sound will vary depending on the show and the type of show but...Im watching Baptiste on BBC, normally my tv sound is 8 if Im alone 10 if OH is watching with me (hes noisy and deaf) but with this show Im having to put the sound up to 17 or 20..Its mumbled and muted as if Im hearing it through a solid glass wall or underwater.

Then I have to be careful when I turn back to normal TV or I blow my ears off..

Anyone else noticed this?

I know that my hearing is tip top so it's not that it really is volume in different programs
I always understood the reason why adverts were of a higher volume was to grab your attention or wake you up from the nap you were having while watching whatever program it was.
There have been several programs recently, one was period drama where the background music was so intrusive that it drown out the voices and I know I wasn't the only one to complain because it became a subject on points of view.

I must admit there have been several programs where the background music or the mumbled voices have actually put me off watching the series and I simply deleted it.

No elements are new so far, but this kind of survival game story never gets old. Can't wait for the premier.

Watched Rurouni Kenshin: The Final yesterday. Is anyone following the series?

Maybe it's more commonly known as Samurai X (at least that's how I knew it). It's a series of film adaptations of comic books with the same name. Been ongoing since years ago, there's a total of 5 films and it's completed. Not sure how faithful it is to the original story, but since I'm too lazy to check, I'll just take the movies at face value lol. Loving the choreography of the fight, it's not easy to make it look real.

Am I the only person engrossed in Line of Duty?

I am watching " The Loudest Voice" about Roger Ailes, the guy who ran Fox News. The guy was a moron but he was shrewd businessman, when he was trying to convince Murdoch to bring him in, he said something that I think so true: "We don't inform people, we make people FEEL informed". So there you go, the kind of audience Fox targets are those who are lazy to think, those who want other people to think for themselves and those who are not capable to think for themselves.