It’s been a month, but I have found the Hollywood Reporter piece entitled “Brutally Honest Emmy Ballot: "Detested" 'Sharp Objects,' 'Pose' Is "Pretentious," "Too Much Trump" on 'SNL'” to be something that has stuck in my head.
I did not watch Pose. I find Ryan [Murphy’s] stuff to be the same over and over again — pretentious — and it held no appeal to me; I’d rather watch RuPaul, to be honest, than have Ryan lecture me about drag.
I haven’t heard a single thing about Pose since the night of the awards. To me it seems like Modern Family: I don’t watch it, I don’t know anyone who watches it, and I don’t know anyone who knows anyone who watches it.
… Ozark jumped the shark in season two. … Better Call Saul is great and Jonathan Banks is the best actor on TV — I don’t understand how he hasn’t won yet. I have voted for Game of Thrones in the past, but it went the bro-iest it’s ever been — it was frat-boy central — and even though I didn’t mind the ending that everybody else did, I do think they lost their way when they didn’t have a book. I loved Bodyguard — [Richard] Madden was amazing and I binged it in a weekend. Succession is brilliant, and its second season, so far, is even better than its first — but the truth is, its brilliance is mostly in the writing. Killing Eve is the best drama on television
Agree on Ozark.
Mostly agree on Jonathan Banks, although we’ve yet to binge the last season.
Agree on Game of Thrones, although heck, George R.R. Martin lost his way with a book. I watched the whole thing twice, and it’s merely very good, and deeply overrated.
I am seeing bits of Succession while getting ready for bed. Very intrigued.
I can’t wait to watch either of Waller-Bridge’s shows. And I loved Sandra Oh since … wait for it … Arliss.
I was hugely disappointed by Russian Doll — it’s Groundhog Day, but without a point. Schitt’s Creek is lovely, but I don’t know how it got nominated. I’m happy to see a network show, with The Good Place, but it’s not of the caliber of network shows of yesteryear — you can’t put that in the same universe as Cheers. I didn’t love this season of Maisel, although I could watch Tony Shalhoub read the phone book. Veep is great, but I’m not voting for it again — there should be a mercy rule where you can’t win something more than three or four times. So it came down to Fleabag and Barry. You cannot imagine how much I’d love to vote for Phoebe, but she’s up against Barry, which is the best show on TV.
Natasha Leone is always a disappoint for me; which is weird because I do think she has some sort of charisma that appeals to me. And then it doesn’t work.
Groundhog Day had a point? I’ve tried harder with that movie than any other … I think you’re all nuts.
I like The Good Place. I would not go out of my way to watch it though.
Totally agree on Tony Shaloub.
I have not watched much of Veep. But I love the idea of a mercy rule.
We have not done Barry yet. Honestly, I’m tired of mobster stuff. I’ve experimented with watching little bits of Lilyhammer again, and I just can’t commit to for a second go round.
Escape at Dannemora was good — I loved the directing more than the writing, and I wasn’t crazy about the casting, apart from Patricia Arquette. …Chernobyl is the best thing that’s been on TV in the last 10 years.
I did not have a lot of interest in Escape from Dannemora; it’s such a f***ed up story. But I have heard good things about it.
Chernobyl. No. It was good. Leave it at that.
… Documentary Now has had better seasons. I liked Who Is America?, and I love Drunk History, but both are sort of one-joke. This season of Saturday Night Live was very hit and miss — they did way too much Trump, and, like a lot of people, I’m feeling Trump fatigue.
Couldn’t agree more on these.
… Last year I voted for Oliver, and I was going to vote for him again — but I thought about it, and Colbert has to do it five nights a week! He’s funny, smart and, when he needs to be, poignant. He can sing. He speaks truth to power … There’s really nothing he can’t do. For me, since Carson, he’s the best.
I am not a late night talk show person, although like most Americans I’ve watched quite a bit over the years. And yeah … Colbert is special.
This may be the only time I can ever put this in writing, but I miss Craig Ferguson like you would not believe. I hope, somehow, that show becomes available through streaming.