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Taking a break from The Originals to watch The Baker and the Beauty.
 
WTF. I was watching Ozark on Netflix through Verizon and it got interrupted by a test of the emergency broadcast system.

No, screw you. That nonsense is not supposed to be on Netflix!
 
Started watching Doom Patrol. A totally wacky, alternative superhero show like Amazon's The Boys, maybe even more out there. Like the characters so far so will keep on it.
 
Been watching The Order over on Netflix. Finished season 1 over the weekend. Netflix dropped season 2 on Thursday, so I dove into that last night. Magic, werewolves and the like. Didn't think I'd like it at first but it grew on me. Cast is pretty good.
 
I've watched the first two episodes of Agents of SHIELD Season 5 on Netflix (I dropped the show when it became about the Nazi matrix, although I watched the last episode of Season 4 when it aired because I loved the Ghost Rider half of the season). Its certainly...something. I already know the main plot is going to be rendered pointless at the end when they fix everything, and the new characters kind of suck, but it is a big step up from making Coulson & crew into Nazi's in the matrix, at least.
 
Last night, I watched a *brilliant* one-man show on PBS' Great Performances-- Taylor Holland's performance as the late Gov. Ann Richards, in "Ann."

I just LOVED Ann Richards. She was a force of nature--probably the best human being to sit in the Texas Governor's chair, possibility the funniest, and definitely the toughest.
 
I finished Blue Bloods, season 10 yesterday, so I finally started Discovery, season 1. Fingers crossed!
 
Well, been making my way through Narcos over on Netflix. I'm really enjoying this show. I cannot believe I passed on this when it was first run. The acting is very good with a compelling story. I remember some of the key plot points from the news in my younger days.. Recommended (for adults).
 
I just watched Brother Bear. It was...ok. It never really annoyed me, and the animation was pretty good, so I guess I'd call it an inoffensive movie. The Phil Collins music really sucked though, I liked his Tarzan score well enough but he did not work well with this material. Brother bear is not as good as the movie right before it (Treasure Planet, which was not amazing but it was pretty solid) but it is a hell of a lot better then the next two Disney animated films (Chicken Little and Home on the Range). I wouldn't really recommend Brother Bear because its just kind of bland, but if you like Disney movies you won't have a bad time, you probably just won't remember much after you watch it.
 
  • 1970s comedy-game shows and their 2020 remakes (not sure which era got away with more, maybe the 1970s due to stronger overall censorship rules and overuse of "tinkle" words aside they did have to be a bit more clever in order to make anything even remotely broadcast-acceptable and I believe that's where the real fun is. Suggestive and double entendre are generally more fun but sometimes the straightforward question can work (especially if the answers are clean. For the most part. The balance is a needle in a haystack - hard to find but much easier to stitch a decent yarn with once found.))
I've generally enjoyed the new version of Match Game hosted by Alec Baldwin, but there's three areas where I kind of find it lacking:
  1. Because it's weekly rather than daily and the celeb panel is usually totally different every week, you don't have that consistency of banter that you had in the '70s Match Game with Gene Rayburn, Richard Dawson, Brett Somers, and Charles Nelson Reilly.
  2. Baldwin is kind of smarmy in a way that Rayburn wasn't.
  3. Even though the panelists feel free to use words like "pussy" and "dick" and drop occasional F-bombs (all of which get bleeped/blurred before broadcast), the '70s version seemed dirtier because they couldn't say those things, they had to dance around them. But for people today to dance around those words would seem sort of twee, so I don't know that there's anything you can do about that.
That said, I've seen some clips of various times they tried to revive the show between its demise in the mid-'80s and the current 2016 version, and this is the only one that really comes close to capturing the fun and magic of the original.
 
The weirdest thing. I finally got around to watching Amadeus after my brother got it as a gift for me a couple years ago.

I was just watching it and suddenly 2/3 of the way through it just stops. 103 minute mark. If you go into scene selection it stops there too.

It’s almost like the disc was originally a two disc set and he bought it used from someone who only included disc one.

Is Amadeus on any streaming services?
 
The weirdest thing. I finally got around to watching Amadeus after my brother got it as a gift for me a couple years ago.

I was just watching it and suddenly 2/3 of the way through it just stops. 103 minute mark. If you go into scene selection it stops there too.

It’s almost like the disc was originally a two disc set and he bought it used from someone who only included disc one.

Is Amadeus on any streaming services?
That definitely sucks. It sounds like your brother might have found a copy of the Director's Cut, which runs around three hours and is split across two DVDs (with some special features on the second disc).

Unfortunately it doesn't look like anyone has it available to stream for free, though you can rent it for $3.99 from the usual sources (Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube, VUDU).
 
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