Absolutely - really enjoyed All-American not even clear why. ha. Maybe because even if a bit cheesy, know there are a lot of young kids watching and there are some great messages in the show. Also really like the leads in it - Spencer James and Coach Baker! Cheers -

A really good show from the past that I'd recommend binging is this show called Baywatch.

It's a complex crime drama about lifeguards in Southern California.

The episodes are remastered in HD on Amazon Prime.

I haven't seen it mentioned yet so I will throw out

MR ROBOT (4 seasons total, S1-S3 available on prime, S4 hasn't dropped yet)

If you liked Westworld or The Leftovers - you probably will like MR. Even if you don't like those things there are tons of references to the 80s, Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarrantino and other high quality cinema, art and writing, & hacking, plus so much more. Both the cinematography & sound (both original and chosen) are excellent. [one of the minor recurring parts is also played by a Cal alum]

The HBO Watchmen series is awesome, but you will have a far better time watching it if you read the original graphic novel first.

I could never get into Lost either, I may give it another shot given how much of Lindeloff's other stuff I strongly like.

I think BCS watchers have a lot of patience because most of us probably watched BB. I actually really enjoy the slow burn of BCS. I can't wait to see what unfolds in S4 now that the whole thing has dropped.

I always temper my enthusiasm, similar to Cal sports, since I find that satisfying endings are extremely hard to achieve in these highly detailed and compelling stories.

Also - if you never watched TWIN PEAKS or haven't seen S3 - highly recommended.

It's based on a true story. Spencer(also main characters' a name) Paysinger player at BHHS and was later an Oregon Duck/NFL player(Super bowl w Falcons).

bearister said:

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3 solid British police shows:








....and to cleanse the palate of violence:

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Line of duty is excellent.

AMC Network bought Line of Duty recently.

rkt88edmo said:

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I haven't seen it mentioned yet so I will throw out

MR ROBOT (4 seasons total, S1-S3 available on prime, S4 hasn't dropped yet)

If you liked Westworld or The Leftovers - you probably will like MR. Even if you don't like those things there are tons of references to the 80s, Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarrantino and other high quality cinema, art and writing, & hacking, plus so much more.

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During the big "reveal" in mr robot, the show famously used maxence cyrin's piano version of the pixies "where is my mind" which was an obvious tribute to fight club.

Just a little later that same year, the leftovers used both the piano version and the pixies version in several episodes, also as a nod to fight club. (Leftovers didn't know mr robot was going to use that song until they had already filmed and locked in the music for their episodes).

It's amazing that such a small indie film that made 37m in its initial theatrical run has become so influential to so many other filmmakers/producers.

As a side note (and this is just my opinion of course) when using music in shows, I think there's a very fine line between being beautiful art and veering into being pretentious. I think mr robot and the leftovers straddled that line beautifully. Westworld....not so much.

I thought Russian Doll's soundtrack was great

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As a side note (and this is just my opinion of course) when using music in shows, I think there's a very fine line between being beautiful art and veering into being pretentious. I think mr robot and the leftovers straddled that line beautifully. Westworld....not so much.

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honestly, I'm sorta allergic when I here Where is my mind in other media...I'm just like - don't, unless it is more of a subtle background allusion.

I thought the use of different tunes on the player piano in westworld was fun, sorta name that tune esque.

I find myself grimacing at a lot of 'outsider' music that I grew up liking being used in pop culture now GET OFF MY LAWN...like hearing the RAPTURE RIDERS - Blondie vs The Doors mashup at target

STAHP

Anyways - all I know is I can't predict box offices. I knew Pulp Fiction was amazing when i first saw it opening weekend, having been a RD fan in high school, but didn't expect it to find mass success. When i saw Fight Club I thought, surely this is the next Pulp Fiction, but crickets $wise.

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ducky23 said:

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As a side note (and this is just my opinion of course) when using music in shows, I think there's a very fine line between being beautiful art and veering into being pretentious. I think mr robot and the leftovers straddled that line beautifully. Westworld....not so much.

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honestly, I'm sorta allergic when I here Where is my mind in other media...I'm just like - don't, unless it is more of a subtle background allusion.

I thought the use of different tunes on the player piano in westworld was fun, sorta name that tune esque.

I find myself grimacing at a lot of 'outsider' music that I grew up liking being used in pop culture now GET OFF MY LAWN...like hearing the RAPTURE RIDERS - Blondie vs The Doors mashup at target

STAHP

Anyways - all I know is I can't predict box offices. I knew Pulp Fiction was amazing when i first saw it opening weekend, having been a RD fan in high school, but didn't expect it to find mass success. When i saw Fight Club I thought, surely this is the next Pulp Fiction, but crickets $wise.

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I totally hear ya. I guess for me, its not so much what song they use but how they use it.

for instance, i was recently encouraged by a friend to watch bumblebee cause he knows I love john hughes. and i was like 'oh great, a transformer movie about to ruin my childhood by playing a bunch of cliche 80's songs.'

but even though we've all heard everybody wants to rule the world a million times, their take on it was fairly fresh (or maybe i was just pleasantly surprised cause of my extremely low expectations).

as for westworld, i agree that the 'name that somewhat obscure The Cure song' is kinda fun, i never felt it did anything to further or enhance the story, whereas the music in the leftovers basically carries the story.

Binge watch pawlawski's videos and learn something about the game. Really good stuff here.

Starting this one tonight:





Warrior' Review: A Bruce Lee Vision Brought to Vivid Life Rolling Stone


https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-reviews/warrior-cinemax-review-815723/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-reviews/warrior-cinemax-review-815723/amp/

I can't remember if it was mentioned, but also Amazon's The Boys.

It was a lot of fun to watch. Plays around with a lot of stereotypes and super hero tropes.

I have binge watched Tigard King (not worth the time) and Ozark (very good)

When Bruce Lee pitched the concept for this show (Warrior) to Warner Bros in the late 1960's it rejected him, stole the idea and cast David Caradine in Kung Fu. Bruce Lee's daughter, Shannon is an executive producer.

The Last Dance ...awesome series
Fauda
Mindhunter
Better Call Saul
Chernobyl
The Crown (surprised even myself)
The Outsider
Waco
Ozark
Criminal
Handmaids Tale
The Affair (lots of sex)
Broadchurch
Wallander
DCI Banks

BTW was at oyster bar in Portland ME with Bosch
last year. Was star struck but tried not to stare. I think he lives in MA. Love that show and Connolly has an ok. Podcast too

Love all the suggestions, I loved the Wire. Thanks!

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^^^ top-shelf, even if BC started a bit slow, it finished hard. also features several DrWho cast imports.

BC also has a taste of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, as an evil legal aid, waay before sensational involvement in Fleabag, 6eps Crashing (filthy-fun), writing Killing Eve, lead in Man Up, and ghosting Solo - Star Wars Story.

no kids hang here, right?? ohkay, sketchy catching up with Ms WB's latest home addition:
https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/phoebe-waller-bridge-quarantines-with-fleabag-*****-prop.html

try try again (spoiler-ish for fleabag's last episode)..
https://bit.ly/3cKIzNG

What is your favorite show starring this Trojan?

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Almost through the first season of Bosch. Pretty good. The Miramonte/Cal football player/actor who plays the detective on the show responded to a post I made on a Miramonte facebook board the other day on a photo I posted from the hills of the football and baseball fields and I told him I just watched the episode when he got shot and that it must've hurt. He enjoyed the crack.

I've also watched every Seinfeld episode at least 5 times and every Cheers along with Alias, Survivor, 24, BB and BCS, Sopranos, The Wire, All-American, Deadwood, GOT, Mad Men and going WAY back, every I Love Lucy episode 3 or 4 times.

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LOL re Survivor: Watched the finale to Season 1 on my honeymoon in Anchorage. I swore to my bride if that ***** ******* Richard Hatch won I would never watch another episode. Sigh, we still haven't missed an episode.

MoragaBear said:

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Almost through the first season of Bosch. Pretty good. The Miramonte/Cal football player/actor who plays the detective on the show responded to a post I made on a Miramonte facebook board the other day on a photo I posted from the hills of the football and baseball fields and I told him I just watched the episode when he got shot and that it must've hurt. He enjoyed the crack.

I've also watched every Seinfeld episode at least 5 times and every Cheers along with Alias, Survivor, 24, BB and BCS, Sopranos, The Wire, All-American, Deadwood, GOT, Mad Men and going WAY back, every I Love Lucy episode 3 or 4 times.

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You've been to Paramount Studios for Pac-12 Media Day, right?

I'll give a brief history tying in 3 of the above shows.

Here's a map of Paramount Studios.



Left of the red line was RKO Studios.

This is what the SW corner of that map looked like in 1936.



And in 2009:




In the mid-1920s John F. Kennedy's dad, Joseph P. Kennedy, moved to Hollywood while leaving his family behind. Kennedy took advantage of being perceived as "more American" than the immigrant moguls who ruled Hollywood.

In 1926, he purchased the area left of the red line, known as FBO Studios. He worked there while having an affair with screen legend Gloria Swanson.

In 1928, Kennedy merged FBO Studios with RCA to form RKO Studios.

RKO was a massive success with King Kong, the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies, Citizen Kane, etc. One of the actresses signed to RKO in the 1930s was Lucille Ball. In 1940, she filmed a movie at RKO Studios about 4 college football players romancing a bunch of college girls called "Too Many Girls." She fell in love with one of the guys who played one of the college football players, Desi Arnaz.




In 1948, Howard Hughes became owner of RKO Studios as he tried to put his stamp on Hollywood. Instead, he ran RKO into the ground.

By 1955, RKO was so run down that it was purchased by a company called General Tire and Rubber.

In the meantime, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball became mega-rich with I Love Lucy. They purchased a studio 2 blocks west of RKO where they moved the latter seasons of I Love Lucy. (That studio, which still exists, became home to the first season of Seinfeld. Plus, The Andy Griffith Show and many others.)

In 1957, Ball and Arnaz bought RKO Studios from General Tire and Rubber for $6 million. (A tire company didn't know what to do with a Hollywood studio.) And besides, Lucy and Desi wanted to own the studio where they first met.

They renamed it Desilu Studios.




Ball and Arnaz divorced a few years later, and Ball ended up running Desilu, where she would greenlight such shows The Andy Griffith Show, Mission Impossible and Star Trek. (For those who don't know, Lucille Ball is responsible for there being Star Trek and Mission Impossible.)

In 1967, Ball agreed to sell Desilu to the company that owns Paramount Studios. Thus erasing the red line on the map and combing the 2 studios.

Left of the red line is where many CBS/Viacom shows have been filmed, including Cheers, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Dr. Phil, etc. Paramount Studios has also been home to Veep, Community and Barry.

Anyways, I always thought it was interesting that so many major figures from history are connected to that piece of land left of the red line.

This historical moment also took place left of the red line:

We stream a lot of British shows through Acorn Online, Britbox and PBS. Their detective dramas usually have far more involved plots and twists than American shows. Our favorite, "Inspector Morse", came out in the 90's, followed by its sequel, "Inspector Lewis." We also like "Foyle's War" and for something lighter, "New Tricks." "New Tricks" is a dramedy, a clever combination of drama and comedy. There's also the very long running "Midsomer Murders." You'll never look at those charming English villages the same way again.

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again with the funny stuff, thanks OK.

Little Timmy O, of course, best known to oldforts in DWood. Kids today could point instead at Once, plus some other stuff.
# typecast

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648249/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

MoragaBear said:

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Timothy Olyphant was great in Deadwood but terrible in the reunion movie

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welcome aboard, fellow oldfort ^^^

agree, reunion movie was a relative disappointment, script forced to cover too much ground
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4943998/trivia

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The town was filmed in Melody Ranch, in Calfornia's Santa Clarita Valley. Other Western productions were filmed here, including the series The Lone Ranger (1949), HBO's Deadwood (2004), and The Magnificent Seven (2016). The town building sets were destroyed by bushfires in November 2018.
[[ late add: many Westworld scenes were filmed on Melody Ranch a swell]]

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Bear8995 said:

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Justified. My favorite show ever. Really smart writing and incredible acting.

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Naw. Santa Clarita diet is better. Metro sexual cowboys is a combo of two things i am not in to.

Is that the late Phil Hartman's doppelganger?

MoragaBear said:

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I saw that movie. He did look like him.

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I looked up the actor. Richard Carlson. I'm friends with his son (an attorney). I told him 30 years ago that his dad looked like Phil Hartman.

Richard Carlson (actor) - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carlson_(actor)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carlson_(actor)

The most peculiar movie his dad was in was Valley of the Gwangi. It doesn't get any better than combining cowboys and dinosaurs.

I've been watching The Last Dance, too, and I can't believe a guy who was on a reality show I used to watch was a Hall of Fame-caliber player.

I texted Aaron Rodgers to see if he wanted to add anything to this thread.

His response:

okaydo said:

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I texted Aaron Rodgers to see if he wanted to add anything to this thread.

His response:

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what OK said, absolut, iff S2 is a'tall like the 1st. # Netflix

I asked Aaron if I could share his number with the board. He said sure. But only for #calfamily.

(414) 329-0909