What are you watching now?

[Gefn]

One of my favorite series to watch comes on NBC (new episodes) and local channel 49 for re-runs I have never seen.

It is Law and Order,SVU. The SVU stands for Special Victims Unit,which translates into rape,child abuse,etc,etc,etc,

First class acting by all involved except for the rap retard,who has all the emotional range of someone that has been dead for several years. He was obviously added to the cast to pull in black viewers. I think he does the best he can do,but that ain't saying much.

It is a gift from heaven for the guest starts that play the victims and the witnesses,because it gives them a chance to strut their stuff on prime time,and maybe help their careers,and there is some seriously good acting going on. There is even the occasional guest star who will surprise you to see them take minor roles.

Good stuff,each drama ends in 1 hour,and it's free. That's a hard trio to beat.

@sneakypete

Give me the original with Lenny Briscoe. I was also a fan of Criminal Intent, I own the later series in its entirety on DVD.

There’s a new Law and Order premiering next month. Stars Christopher Meloni.



Law and Order: Organized Crime’ to Debut With ‘Law and Order: SVU’ Crossover, Reuniting Benson and Stabler

Benson and Stabler are reuniting! NBC has announced that “Law and Order: Organized Crime” starring Christopher Meloni will debut with a “Law and Order: SVU” crossover on April 1.

The two-hour event will begin with a new episode of “SVU” at 9 p.m. ET, followed by the debut of “Organized Crime” at 10. The crossover will reunite Meloni and “SVU” star Mariska Hargitay onscreen for the first time since Meloni departed “SVU” after the show’s 12th season in 2011.

The new series sees Stabler return to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss. Stabler will aim to rebuild his life as part of a new elite task force that is taking apart the city’s most powerful criminal syndicates one by one.

Benson and Stabler are reuniting! NBC has announced that “Law and Order: Organized Crime” starring Christopher Meloni will debut with a “Law and Order: SVU” crossover on April 1.

The two-hour event will begin with a new episode of “SVU” at 9 p.m. ET, followed by the debut of “Organized Crime” at 10. The crossover will reunite Meloni and “SVU” star Mariska Hargitay onscreen for the first time since Meloni departed “SVU” after the show’s 12th season in 2011.

The new series sees Stabler return to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss. Stabler will aim to rebuild his life as part of a new elite task force that is taking apart the city’s most powerful criminal syndicates one by one.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/law-order-svu-organized-crime-crossover-1234900786/

[Gefn]

Btw the new Law and Order isn’t an April Fools Joke

[sneakypete]

Btw the new Law and Order isn’t an April Fools Joke

@Gefn

The good news is that it doesn't matter if you miss it or not because reruns will be available forever.

[Gefn]

@Gefn

The good news is that it doesn't matter if you miss it or not because reruns will be available forever.

@sneakypete that is why I’m happy I’ll see Lenny Briscoe 9 out of 10 times when I catch it on TV.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete that is why I’m happy I’ll see Lenny Briscoe 9 out of 10 times when I catch it on TV.

@Gefn

I suspect all the cast members as well well as the crew members are happy abou8t it. A steady job is one of the rarest things to be found in show biz.

[jmyrlefuller]

Yan Can Cook. Do not ask me why. But it's on YouTube.

[Victoria33]

One of my favorite series to watch comes on NBC (new episodes) and local channel 49 for re-runs I have never seen.
It is Law and Order,SVU. The SVU stands for Special Victims Unit,which translates into rape,child abuse,etc,etc,etc,
Good stuff,each drama ends in 1 hour,and it's free. That's a hard trio to beat.

@sneakypete

I watch the episodes every day when I want to stop working on whatever I am doing, have a Diet Coke/cigarette and watch it.  Whoever wrote the episodes in terms of the crime committed is excellent.  I am a crime show watcher; I learn something when I watch them.

In my private practice, a state agency sent me men just out of prison to psychologically test and counsel them.  Due to listening to these ex-prison inmates, I learned how to get rid of a body so no one can find it.  I learned how to discipline your prostitutes so they will do what you say.  Had one who buried a body in his backyard. I kept a weapon in the bottom drawer of my desk and the drawer opened silently, no sound.  One time I opened the drawer and if he had crossed my desk to get to me, I would have shot him.  I carried that weapon when I left my office every day to go to my car. 

[BassWrangler]

Based on the recommendations here, I've started watching "Bosch". Really enjoying it.

[sneakypete]

Anybody else watching the Sci-Fi series "His Dark Materials" on HBO?

Maybe THE worse title ever given to a series,but damned if it isn't really good,and this is coming infrom a guy that normally hates the fantasy side of sci-fI.

First class writing,acting,and scenery,and even some 1st class actors/actresses like Ruth Wilson. Frankly,I was surprised to see her in Sci-Fi,but it proves that somebody is willing to spend the bucks to get quality.

Still,whoever came up with that title needs to be taken outside and severely beaten. I have had this show on my watch list since Season 1 came out,and am just now starting to watch it because everytime I would start to watch it,I'd look at the title and tell myself,"Nah,there has to be something on better than that!

Watched the first 3 episodes of Season 1 tonight,and am hooked.

[massadvj]

Peaky Blinders.  I can't believe they did six seasons and I never heard of it.  This is the best series I have seen since the Sopranos.  It is a British series that follows an Irish mafia clan from the early 20th century.  Riveting.

[BassWrangler]

Anybody else watching the Sci-Fi series "His Dark Materials" on HBO?

Maybe THE worse title ever given to a series,but damned if it isn't really good,and this is coming infrom a guy that normally hates the fantasy side of sci-fI.

First class writing,acting,and scenery,and even some 1st class actors/actresses like Ruth Wilson. Frankly,I was surprised to see her in Sci-Fi,but it proves that somebody is willing to spend the bucks to get quality.

Still,whoever came up with that title needs to be taken outside and severely beaten. I have had this show on my watch list since Season 1 came out,and am just now starting to watch it because everytime I would start to watch it,I'd look at the title and tell myself,"Nah,there has to be something on better than that!

Watched the first 3 episodes of Season 1 tonight,and am hooked.

@sneakypete
The title makes more sense when you get farther into the series.

[BassWrangler]

Peaky Blinders.  I can't believe they did six seasons and I never heard of it.  This is the best series I have seen since the Sopranos.  It is a British series that follows an Irish mafia clan from the early 20th century.  Riveting.

Oh, that does sound good. I have added it to my Watchlist. Thanks for the recommendation!

[sneakypete]

Peaky Blinders.  I can't believe they did six seasons and I never heard of it.  This is the best series I have seen since the Sopranos.  It is a British series that follows an Irish mafia clan from the early 20th century.  Riveting.

@massadvj

Well,actually,they are Gypsies that happen to have been born in Ireland.

[sneakypete]

Oh, that does sound good. I have added it to my Watchlist. Thanks for the recommendation!

@BassWrangler

You won't be sorry. I have been watching it since if first aired,and then anxiously waiting for the next season to start.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete
The title makes more sense when you get farther into the series.

@BassWrangler

I have already figured it out,but that still doesn't excuse that title.

[verga]

Anybody else watching the Sci-Fi series "His Dark Materials" on HBO?

Maybe THE worse title ever given to a series,but damned if it isn't really good,and this is coming infrom a guy that normally hates the fantasy side of sci-fI.

First class writing,acting,and scenery,and even some 1st class actors/actresses like Ruth Wilson. Frankly,I was surprised to see her in Sci-Fi,but it proves that somebody is willing to spend the bucks to get quality.

Still,whoever came up with that title needs to be taken outside and severely beaten. I have had this show on my watch list since Season 1 came out,and am just now starting to watch it because everytime I would start to watch it,I'd look at the title and tell myself,"Nah,there has to be something on better than that!

Watched the first 3 episodes of Season 1 tonight,and am hooked.

Watched first episode of "Debris" looks good.

[BassWrangler]

@BassWrangler

I have already figured it out,but that still doesn't excuse that title.

Yeah, probably some marketing / PR puke came up with that.

[sneakypete]

Yeah, probably some marketing / PR puke came up with that.

@BassWrangler

I hope he was fired.

[massadvj]

@massadvj

Well,actually,they are Gypsies that happen to have been born in Ireland.

Yes.  Irish Gypsies in Birmingham, England I think.  Tommy Shelby is one of the greatest gangster characters I have seen.  I can't get enough.  I am just starting season 3.

[BassWrangler]

@BassWrangler

I hope he was fired.

@sneakypete

You know that's not how that works. Probably got a bonus and a promotion.

[sneakypete]

Yes.  Irish Gypsies in Birmingham, England I think.  Tommy Shelby is one of the greatest gangster characters I have seen. 

@massadvj

I agree,but he has to be careful or Molly will kick his ass.

[jafo2010]

I've been watching the USA go down the swirl faster than anything I dropped there!
 

[BassWrangler]

Watched first episode of "Debris" looks good.

Good heavens, no. I watched this first episode this morning. It shows all the signs of a class 4 stinker. Bad acting, directionless plot that they'll have trouble converging,etc.

[sneakypete]

Good heavens, no. I watched this first episode this morning. It shows all the signs of a class 4 stinker. Bad acting, directionless plot that they'll have trouble converging,etc.

@BassWrangler

I sorta agree,but it gets better.

[BassWrangler]

@BassWrangler

I sorta agree,but it gets better.

I'll see when another episode comes out, but given it's on NBC, I'm not hopeful.

[BassWrangler]

Just watched "The Last Blockbuster" and thoroughly enjoyed it. Up-beat movie that was well done. Makes me want to hop in the car and drive down to Bend just to visit the store.

[BassWrangler]

@sneakypete

Got another suggestion on HBOMAX: The Outsider.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

Got another suggestion on HBOMAX: The Outsider.

@BassWrangler

Ok,so tell us all about it.

[BassWrangler]

@BassWrangler

Ok,so tell us all about it.

@sneakypete

It's based on a Stephen King book. I don't like his politics, but he does write some entertaining books. It starts out like a murder mystery, but quickly takes a turn towards the supernatural.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

It's based on a Stephen King book. I don't like his politics, but he does write some entertaining books. It starts out like a murder mystery, but quickly takes a turn towards the supernatural.

@BassWrangler

Ok,thanks. This tells me that *I* don't want to read because I just can't get into the supernatural.

Other than politics that is,and I am just about burnt-out on that.

[BassWrangler]

@BassWrangler

Ok,thanks. This tells me that *I* don't want to read because I just can't get into the supernatural.

Other than politics that is,and I am just about burnt-out on that.

@sneakypete

It's supernatural not in the sense of ghosts or divine beings, but rather a monster that preys on humans.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

It's supernatural not in the sense of ghosts or divine beings, but rather a monster that preys on humans.

@BassWrangler

Ok,thanks! I am not sure I understand the difference,but I will give it a look.

[Fishrrman]

The only things I'll watch on tv are Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.
And with Alex Trebek gone, Jeopardy isn't the same.

I didn't watch the shows with Ken Jennings much, but I thought the fellow who was on last week (the executive producer of the show, is it Mike Richards?) was actually quite good.

This week it's Katie Couric, somehow I'm just not that interested.

When I have free time in the evenings, I'll watch old episodes of "Death Valley Days". I started with Season 1, episode 1 some time back, and have been watching them in order since.

Also have the original Star Trek series. Looks great on the remastered video, better than it ever looked on tv.

[BassWrangler]

The only things I'll watch on tv are Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.
And with Alex Trebek gone, Jeopardy isn't the same.

I didn't watch the shows with Ken Jennings much, but I thought the fellow who was on last week (the executive producer of the show, is it Mike Richards?) was actually quite good.

This week it's Katie Couric, somehow I'm just not that interested.

When I have free time in the evenings, I'll watch old episodes of "Death Valley Days". I started with Season 1, episode 1 some time back, and have been watching them in order since.

Also have the original Star Trek series. Looks great on the remastered video, better than it ever looked on tv.

I watched all the Star Treks when I still had Netflix. Still a great series, even by today's standards. Sure, the special effects weren't as good, but the show had a great cast, enjoyable plots, and wasn't stuff to the gills with woke virtue-signalling.

[Smokin Joe]

I watched all the Star Treks when I still had Netflix. Still a great series, even by today's standards. Sure, the special effects weren't as good, but the show had a great cast, enjoyable plots, and wasn't stuff to the gills with woke virtue-signalling.

It sorta was, just not compared to today. The multi-ethnic crew was a big step for the day.

[BassWrangler]

It sorta was, just not compared to today. The multi-ethnic crew was a big step for the day.

I never had a problem with racial integration or treating people based on their character and abilities regardless of their skin color. "Woke" today means just the opposite.

[BassWrangler]

Ok, @sneakypete - got another potential show for you. I've only seen two episodes, so not quite ready to recommend it yet. But the premise is interesting.

The show is called Counterpart. The storyline is that during the cold war, some scientists did something that caused our universe to split into a parallel universe, and there is a tunnel that allows people to travel between the two. At the moment the new universe was created, the two were identical, but since then they have been diverging. So you may have a counterpart in the other universe - someone who shares the same past as you (from before the split) but whose life is different in small or large part since the split.

Here is the link on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B077MVJ553/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

[verga]

Ok, @sneakypete - got another potential show for you. I've only seen two episodes, so not quite ready to recommend it yet. But the premise is interesting.

The show is called Counterpart. The storyline is that during the cold war, some scientists did something that caused our universe to split into a parallel universe, and there is a tunnel that allows people to travel between the two. At the moment the new universe was created, the two were identical, but since then they have been diverging. So you may have a counterpart in the other universe - someone who shares the same past as you (from before the split) but whose life is different in small or large part since the split.

Here is the link on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B077MVJ553/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

Added to my Watchlist.

[sneakypete]

I never had a problem with racial integration or treating people based on their character and abilities regardless of their skin color. "Woke" today means just the opposite.

@BassWrangler

Truth to tell,I'm not so sure that was much of a revelation to most people,even back then. I was a very young teen when the first episodes were aired,and noticed they had Asian and Blacks on the Enterprise,but honestly can't remember thinking anything about it one way or the other.

Somehow or another,my mother even had a black woman friend that would come visit with us occasionally. I never thought anything about it,and if the neighbors did (we were living in a city then),none of them ever said anything about it to me,or treated us any different because of it.

Since it was this way for me,a nothing special kid living in a nothing special neighborhood in the south,I figured it was normal for everyone else,too.

Yeah,I was wrong about that for some people,but it was all I knew at the time.

[sneakypete]

Ok, @sneakypete - got another potential show for you. I've only seen two episodes, so not quite ready to recommend it yet. But the premise is interesting.

The show is called Counterpart. The storyline is that during the cold war, some scientists did something that caused our universe to split into a parallel universe, and there is a tunnel that allows people to travel between the two. At the moment the new universe was created, the two were identical, but since then they have been diverging. So you may have a counterpart in the other universe - someone who shares the same past as you (from before the split) but whose life is different in small or large part since the split.

@BassWrangler

Thanks,that sounds right up my alley!

Here is the link on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B077MVJ553/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

[BassWrangler]

@BassWrangler

Truth to tell,I'm not so sure that was much of a revelation to most people,even back then. I was a very young teen when the first episodes were aired,and noticed they had Asian and Blacks on the Enterprise,but honestly can't remember thinking anything about it one way or the other.

Somehow or another,my mother even had a black woman friend that would come visit with us occasionally. I never thought anything about it,and if the neighbors did (we were living in a city then),none of them ever said anything about it to me,or treated us any different because of it.

Since it was this way for me,a nothing special kid living in a nothing special neighborhood in the south,I figured it was normal for everyone else,too.

Yeah,I was wrong about that for some people,but it was all I knew at the time.

I had a similar experience, and I also grew up in the South (from about age 8 up). I have seen and even experienced myself some bigotry over the years, but I dismissed those people as dumbasses and moved on.

[sneakypete]

I had a similar experience, and I also grew up in the South (from about age 8 up). I have seen and even experienced myself some bigotry over the years, but I dismissed those people as dumbasses and moved on.

@BassWrangler

Yup,right on both counts.

[Smokin Joe]

I never had a problem with racial integration or treating people based on their character and abilities regardless of their skin color. "Woke" today means just the opposite.

I grew up in the 50/60s south of the Mason Dixon Line in an area that was about half black. I never had any problems, either, because I knew good and bad people of all walks of life and colors, and often worked alongside and played with them as I had from my childhood. It wasn't until the agitators from DC came down and started friction that I even noticed much that the differences were there, as 'black and white' had just been descriptors like tall and short or thin and fat to us. That part of Martin Luther King's famous speech resonated with me, "judged on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin", yet now, the vary saint of the Civil Rights movement is forgotten in the inherent racism necessary to continue to blame people for culturally rooted problems exacerbated by poor policy, policy demanded by spokespersons for the movement.

[sneakypete]

I grew up in the 50/60s south of the Mason Dixon Line in an area that was about half black. I never had any problems, either, because I knew good and bad people of all walks of life and colors, and often worked alongside and played with them as I had from my childhood. It wasn't until the agitators from DC came down and started friction that I even noticed much that the differences were there, as 'black and white' had just been descriptors like tall and short or thin and fat to us. That part of Martin Luther King's famous speech resonated with me, "judged on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin", yet now, the vary saint of the Civil Rights movement is forgotten in the inherent racism necessary to continue to blame people for culturally rooted problems exacerbated by poor policy, policy demanded by spokespersons for the movement.

@Smokin Joe

Well said!

The sound you are hearing in the background is applause.

[Gefn]

It sorta was, just not compared to today. The multi-ethnic crew was a big step for the day.

And don’t forget William Shatner had the first interracial kiss ever shown on TV. Nichelle Nichols was also a trailblazer. Yes, some of the Star Trek captains kiss a few aliens, but we know they’re not real aliens.

[DCPatriot]

After reading a post about something called "Outsider", I went to "MY LIST" on my Netflix account and sure enough ...title was there.

It's about an American...a former Captain in the U.S. Army who found himself in a Japanese prison and instinctively saves a 'Yakuza'...a gang member who had been strung up in the shower stall.

He becomes a Yakuza himself.

Thought it was very good, but I'm afraid it may not be the "cup of tea" to some of the ladies on the forum.

Violence...gore...language and almost forgot....SMOKING!!!   LOL!

[bigheadfred]

And don’t forget William Shatner had the first interracial kiss ever shown on TV. Nichelle Nichols was also a trailblazer. Yes, some of the Star Trek captains kiss a few aliens, but we know they’re not real aliens.

Right. Real aliens don't have lips.

[sneakypete]

Right. Real aliens don't have lips.

@bigheadfred

That wouldn't keep the Dims from kissing their asses.

[Bigun]

I grew up in the 50/60s south of the Mason Dixon Line in an area that was about half black. I never had any problems, either, because I knew good and bad people of all walks of life and colors, and often worked alongside and played with them as I had from my childhood. It wasn't until the agitators from DC came down and started friction that I even noticed much that the differences were there, as 'black and white' had just been descriptors like tall and short or thin and fat to us. That part of Martin Luther King's famous speech resonated with me, "judged on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin", yet now, the vary saint of the Civil Rights movement is forgotten in the inherent racism necessary to continue to blame people for culturally rooted problems exacerbated by poor policy, policy demanded by spokespersons for the movement.

My friends and neighbors out here in the late 60's used to tell people that if they wanted to see all that White/Colored crap they needed to go to town because out here there had always been only one dipper in the water bucket at the end of the row.  And that was true.

[Fishrrman]

Joe wrote:
"I grew up in the 50/60s south of the Mason Dixon Line in an area that was about half black. I never had any problems, either, because I knew good and bad people of all walks of life and colors, and often worked alongside and played with them as I had from my childhood. It wasn't until the agitators from DC came down and started friction that I even noticed much that the differences were there, as 'black and white' had just been descriptors like tall and short or thin and fat to us."

I realize that neither you nor anyone else in the forum will agree with me, but the reason you were able to live that way -- in relatively close proximity to blacks yet still maintain "a peace" -- was because of that much-maligned policy called "Jim Crow".

It provided a "structure" by which the races could exist near each other without too much clashing or friction.

It was only once this system was forcibly dismantled by Northerners that racial friction began to increase.

Of course, I had no problems with J.C. when I lived down south (1960/61), but then again, I'm of Euro ancestry.

BTW, I also believe that the event which led to the destruction of South Africa was the dismemberment of Apartheid. They should have kept it, and told the rest of the world to mind its own business...