Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-26 (Wednesday) & 2025-03-27 (Thursday)

On 2025-03-28 8:46 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Sorry - yesterday was my "work-from-home" day, and I didn't feel like posting one of these yesterday morning... So this will be a two-day catch-up.
 What did you watch?
 

My usual shows, Good Cop/Bad Cop and Berlin ER, plus the first two episodes of the new series The Studio.
Good Cop/Bad Cop S1E06 - a young woman blows up an electrical substation and a cell tower in Eden Vale, then launches a bizarre crime spree across town with her fiancee. The police work to solve the crimes but are distracted: the Chief had a serious fight with his girlfriend and Lou is seriously upset that both her brother and her father knew that her mother was having an affair *before* her parents were divorced.
Berlin ER S1E06 - Dr. Weber has resolved to kick his drug habit and begins the shift looking and acting far more positive that his colleagues expected but goes the other way when his withdrawal symptoms begin. Dr. Ertan, whose younger brother was beaten into a coma by the police while caught up in a demonstration discovers which cop did the deed and confronts him. Dr. Parker, whose bad advice cost a patient part of his leg, apologizes to the patient and assures him that she will not oppose the lawsuit that he has filed against her. Dr. Kohn finds himself treating his fiancees father, makes a grievous error that costs him his life, and then covers it up.
The Studio S01E01 and S01E02 - Seth Rogan stars as studio executive Matt Remick, who finds himself promoted to the head of the studio. Remick fancies himself a creative with a deep and abiding love of high quality films but immediately finds himself having to deal with crass commercial considerations and the vanity of his fellow executives, directors, and actors as each schemes to get what THEY want, with the quality of the final product a negligible consideration and costs even less so. Remick himself seems to genuinely care about films but finds himself unable to resist all the tensions that pull him away from the right path. He's also a screwup of monumental proportions, as becomes particularly obvious in the second episode. The chaos that occurs in this episode is reminiscent of a Chaplin silent film.
If you like celebrities, you'll find this show sprinkled with familiar faces, playing some version of themselves, including Martin Scorcese, Sara Polley, and Greta Lee. The rest of the cast is a mix of new and familiar with the latter consisting of Seth Rogan, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O'Hara, and others.
I've already developed a bit of a like/hate relationship with the show. I *hate* the way everyone manipulates Remick (and pretty much anyone else that might help them get ahead), particularly the ass-kissing. But I can see that Rogan's character has his heart in the right place, even if he is far too weak to express it. I'm going to give this a bit more time to see if Remick can get his act together.
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Rhino