Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-30 (Thursday)

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:46:50 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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On 1/31/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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Another day where going into work for a little bit turned into going to
work for half a day. So, yesterday I only got through soaps, and then
decided to close out the day as "mildly" as I could by watching
"Shifting Gears":
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Then, because today is the first full "teaching day" of the semester, I
needed to watch something "mild" before bed, so I watched "Shifting Gears":
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Shifting Gears (Hulu) - Episodes #2-4.
   The networks (this one is ABC) are up to their old tricks again, as
episodes #2 and #3 were clearly shown out of order (IOW, flipped order).
I thought ep. #4 might have also been shown out of order, but Wiki seems
to confirm that it was supposed to be ep. #4 (even if it felt like ep.
#2 in the order!).
   I thought all of these were better than the pilot - ep's #2 & #3
actually managed to do a better job of working in Seann William Scott
and Daryl 'Chill' Mitchell into the action - though ep. #4 was the
weakest of these and wasn't much better than the pilot (if at all!).
   The best of these was ep. #2, which apparently had Brenda Song as a
guest star (she looks so different that I didn't even recognize her!),
which probably explains why ABC showed this episode second, even though
it should have gone third.
   The show is mostly following a pretty familiar formula where Allen
"crotchety old guys" some conservative viewpoint or old guy behavior,
which Kat Dennings needles him for, though she usually also gets hers by
the end.
   This is breaking no new ground, but it's like a pair of comfy old
socks, which makes it perfect for "mild" TV viewing when you don't want
to be challenged by your TV show.
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What did you watch?

I spent a few hours watching the first few episodes of KAOS. This is a
show set in modern day Crete in a world where the Greek gods are real
and constantly interfere in human lives in good and bad ways.  The
show revolves around Zeus (played by Jeff Goldblum) who leads a fairly
selfish life but concerned about a rumor that he's known for thousands
of years that he would die and the gods would fall. There are
apparently three humans that will end up causing the fall of the gods
and the reign of Kaos that will follow.

I'm enjoying it so far after the first three episodes.

What did you watch?