I usually try the website when the app makes it hard to find things. Vudu can be a pain to navigate, too.
Impulse. If you enjoyed Orphan Black, this has a lot of ties to it. Itâs another Canadian sci-fi show, but also a high school teenager drama. It has Tatiana Maslanyâs brother in it, who is also in another Canadian show called Murdoch Mysteries. It took me a while to make the connection because instead of an early 30âs detective, heâs playing a 15 year old boy. Very convincingly. I wonât say anything about the show. Try it. Youâll like it.
Thanks for the reminder! I got sidetracked off Orphan Black somewhere around the season 2 end - start of 3. I need to finish watching it.
Mr. TM and I watched the first couple of episodes of OB but we just couldnât get into it.
Just started rewatching The Nanny on Amazon Prime. Itâs fun, light, and sometimes just what I need after a long day at work.
We are binging Arrested Development when Iâm home in the evenings. I know weâre massively late to the party, but $Wife never watched it, and I only watched a few episodes due to it being a show you donât want to miss episodes of due to tons of continuity and callbacks.
Well, OB is definitely not light watching. I have gone back a couple times and re-watched an episode, just to check if I missed something.
Arrested Development is an odd duck, a combination of fun & light and complicated continuity. I didnât watch it for a long time because the promos didnât do a very good job of making me have any desire whatsoever to see it. Someone who was visiting was flipping channels and put it on. It took about 10-15 minutes after an initial âWTF, this is completely stupidâ reaction before I started to appreciate the humor. After that, I gave it a shot and watched from the beginning, and really enjoyed it.
I binged seasons 1-3 of AD, then watched 4 at a more leisurely pace. Didnât enjoy S4 at all but muddled through it. I tried to pick up the re-cut version that was just released and had trouble getting into the first episode.
Not sure if Iâm going to attempt S5. I want to like AD, and enjoyed the first 3 seasons. S4 just fell flat for me, I think because of how it was produced.
I slogged through season 4, too. I read there were issues, like with network meddling, or writers or other behind the scenes folks. I donât remember if I saw S5, though. As I recall, it may not have been available with Amazon Prime at the time, so may be not.
AD Season 4 & 5 are Netflix-only.
The main issue w/ S4 production was that they couldnât get all the talent on set at the same time. So theyâd film a scene from one angle with a stand-in because Jessica Walter wasnât available that week by Jason Bateman was, then a month later film from the other angle with another stand-in because she was available but he wasnât. Or theyâd do a whole episode that was just focused on one characterâs events (or interpretation of events) because they were available for a few days.
Ahh, thanks. Just checked the episode descriptions on IMDB. Season 5 is the current one. I guess it was the end of season 3 that was the slog.
Norsemen, on Netflix. Pretty much a Vikings parody. Love me.some Vikings, but this is pretty funny.
Trying to get though or eliminate most of my watchlist⌠So I can watch GoT and not feel like thereâs so many other things I could be catching up on as well. Tonight I started and then eliminated at least half a dozen shows. The movies are an entirely different story. 
Home Improvement re-runs just kicked off on the oldies channel here.
Wife and I discovered it on a channel surf and almost went past⌠most of the reruns are good for a ho-hum âOh, yeah, that old thing?â but we were openly laughing at Tim Taylorâs silliness.
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Back in the 80s, I had a lot of comic books and amongst what I bought was âCloak & Daggerâ. Youâve got two teenagers that wind up with special powers and they learn to depend on each other. The boy has teleportation powers and something inside him that is very hungry, so it isnât good if he wraps his cloak around you. The girl can throw daggers of light and those can put a damper on Cloakâs hunger.
Marvelâs doing a TV series on these two over on Freeform (formerly ABC Family, formerly Fox Family Channel, formerly The Family Channel, formerly The CBN Family Channel, formerly CBN Cable Network, originally Christian Broadcasting Network). I donât remember if I caught the pilot, but I have seen episode 2 and 3. Itâs building steadily, where youâve got two kids who have had a rough life start having strange things happen to them and theyâre trying to figure it out.
As of last night, theyâre both having visions. She sees what happens when people keep going down their dark paths. He sees what could happen if they go down brighter paths. So so far, itâs interesting to see them begining to cope with it.
About the only drawback I see is that Freeform has chosen to show the same episode three times on the same night. Yesterday was episode 3, so from 8pm to 11pm, it was the same episode back to back to back. A better way of doing this is what other networks have done: do a repeat of last weekâs episode before showing the new episode, so people can catch up if they missed it. And then if they want to repeat the new episode on the same night, show it a couple hours later.
I loved Cloak and Dagger! I may have to check that out.
We watched the first few episodes of C&D last night and it was pretty darned good. A high school teen drama for sure, but not irritatingly so. We found it very enjoyable.
The New Adventures of Monkey.
Okay, weâre not so much watching it as getting high as kites (innarcoticated? I tried inebriated but thatâs just alcohol. I stake claim on the word innarcoticated) and putting it on for equal parts eyecandy and fremdschämenâŚ
Just finished Bates Motel. Starting Man in the High Castle. Only a couple seasons of that. Really should start GoT soon but I just have so many things on the list. Between Amazon and Netflix I feel like I could binge watch my list and still take over a month. And my best friend keeps adding things to her Plex and I havenât even started on those. Quite literally need to take a year sabbatical to catch up on all the stuff I want to watch⌠
We started watching a show called Take Two that is about a woman played by Rachel Bilson who played a cop on television and through a series of events ends up working with a detective agency. Itâs kind of fun, but it wonât last.
Then, I heard about a show that just started called Carter that is about a guy who played a cop on television and through a series of events ends up working with the local police in his hometown of Thunder Bay. With Jerry OâConnell. I like it. Itâs VERY Canadian, and the writing is tight. Jerry is starting to show his age, though. Still, heâs come a long way from My Secret Identity.
I binge-watched Carter a couple of weekends ago, and really enjoyed it. Supposedly theyâre going to be filing Season 2 in September.