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Elsbeth: Pilot (2024)
She's the new Columbo!
My husband and I recently started rewatching Columbo. I knew I loved Elsbeth in "The Good Wife," but I didn't know why. Watching this first episode it dawned on it, that she's just like Columbo: people write her off as ridiculous, clumsy or stupid, but really she's very savvy and keeps asking questions until she has her answers! I'm waiting to hear her say, "Oh just one more thing."
Great writing, storyline and a wonderful job by Carrie Preston and friends! I think Peter Falk himself would applaud!
As for the idea she has ASD, I don't know where that came from. Did she state she was diagnosed on one of the other shows? I see where someone might think that, but I rather think her quirks are more an act to disarm her suspect.
Quantum Leap (2022)
Had to give it a second chance: Whoa!
My family and I had JUST finished the original Quantum leap. I of course loved it when it was first on so I loved bingeing it decades later as a prequel to the new QL. So off we went and yuck!
I think because the 2 shows are so different I allowed the differences to dampen the new QL. After 2 or 3 episodes we stopped watching.
Fast forward a few months and I was looking for something to have on in the background and found the new QL in my watch list. I pulled up an episode from the middle of the season and started watching. I thought that wasn't bad, let's watch the next episode, and the next...
We've almost finished the season and can't wait for season 2!
My only complaint about the show is some anachronisms. I won't go into specifics, but I just want them to make sure if the original says "this happens in this context" that the new QL says "the same thing happens in the same context." When it's impossible to reconcile the differences then just explain it, like how Ben's new code took off the safety features so he can travel way back to the 1800's, whereas the rule in the original was it had to be in his lifetime. When things don't jive, it distracts me from the show, and that's certainly no fun.
Keep up the great work everyone! People reading reviews to decide if you'll watch a show, give it a few episodes before you really make up your minds, you won't regret it!!
Outrageous Fortune (1987)
One of my all time favorites!
When I was growing up on my grandparents' farm we didn't have cable, just a few movies on VHS. I watched this movie so many times I nearly have it memorized. I use to pretend to be Lauren doing her ballet jump over this big mud puddle on the property!
When I was 11 or 12 i wanted to show this movie at my slumber party. My mom vetoed it, so we watch Big Business, but sitting at home on a sick day off work, what else would I watch? I love it!
The Year Earth Changed (2021)
Change is possible!
I can see why some reviews focus only on the negative impact humans have on the nonhuman world around us. I can see how people got that from this documentary, but I completely disagree with it.
I saw that all of the gloom and doom we constantly hear about, about how screwed Earth is, isn't yet etched in stone! One year of radical human behavior change, showed us that we CAN effect change! We might not see change that drastic, but our change can improve the world and the nonhumans we share it with. We just have to recognize that it's possible. Change is Possible and that is what this documentary showed me!
Chicago Med: Pain Is for the Living (2020)
Glad they brought up this rare treatment option
It's nice that the show is bringing up a subject like psychiatric treatment for minors. I've never treated kids in Illinois, so I don't know if the option these parents chose was really their only option, but I know that most people are not aware of the ability for parents to open a voluntary case with whatever the child protective program in their state is called. CPS, DCFS, etc., often have the ability to take legal custody of a child, without the parents "abandoning" them, and if keeping the child in the home, the parents don't even lose physical custody. The way Dr. Charles explained this sounded like manipulation, almost to the point of fraud, whereas opening a voluntary child protective services case, is a parents way of saying, "I love my child and I know I need help providing him with everything he needs." In this case, the assault of the younger child would have most agencies, eager to help. There are often resources held aside specifically for DHS child protective programs, and can provide what the parents can't.
So while this show often frustrates me with the psychiatric treatment shown, I applaud them for touching on this subject, because people watching, probably don't even know this sort of thing is an option!
The Good Doctor: Frontline, Part 1 (2020)
Very glad they addressed COVID!
I've read a lot of reviews complaining about it being about COVID. But here's the thing: we're living through a (hopefully) once in a lifetime experience. I've been working from home for the vast majority of the last 7 months. My children are doing school from home. We can't go to the salon, eat outside the house, travel over an hour away, or go to any stores other than the grocery store (military restrictions)! I watch TV not just as a distraction, but as a way to feel closer to my community, to other humans.
When I watch a new episode of TV right now, the first thing I think of is about COVID. Where are the masks? How are they able to stay safe to film this?
Someday we'll watch an episode from today and it would seem strange to not address it.
Santa Clarita Diet: So Then a Bat or A Monkey (2017)
Love it. Love ALL of it!
I love Drew Berrymore (Shelia Hammond), so I'll pretty much watch anything she's in, so I had no expectations. When I watched this episode I immediately loved it. I loved all the stars in it. I loved all the jokes, cause I'm cheesy like that, and I love the idea.
As a working mom there is always a LOT on your plate, but add in needing to find food in a very difficult way, is such a wonderful set up!
I also love the chemistry between Drew (Shelia) and Timothy (Joel)! Way to go, everyone!
Don't Go to Sleep (1982)
So terrifying that at 4 years old it has NEVER left me!
I remember watching this movie when it came on TV. It scared me so badly, I couldn't sleep. Of course, it was aided by my cousin taunting me that "Jennifer" was under my bed!
When I was 16 or 17 (ca.1995) my best friend and I both remembered how terrifying this movie was and had to seek out what it was called. Not having IMDB or any internet access, we spent hours hunting the name at a Hollywood video that had a book about all movies and we found it! Of course we couldn't watch it/find it, but at least we knew we weren't crazy and that this terrifying movie actually existed!
In my opinion it's a must watch!