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All I can hear in that is a Scottish person saying murder. A la https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dynAAX0hYQo
I donât know if Rings of Power is going to need its own thread at some point. Weâll see.
I just watched episode 3. I had always assumed this TV show would end with Barad-dûr. Yet, I was very surprised to see
spoiler
my boy Isildur show up in episode 3
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Update on the DHMIS TV series:
It was supposed to premiere today, but due to the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth, it has been delayed to later this month. A new premiere date should be announced soon.
EDIT: September 23
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The Michael Jordan documentary series âThe Last Danceâ is very good and as a teenager in the 90âs it was the biggest nostalgia trip. Loved it!
Juliane thought Jordan quitting basketball and taking up baseball was just a dumb joke plot point in Space Jam, and is now astounded that he actually did it.
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Got around to watching âFor all mankindâ wow. This show hits me in the gut over and over. Might be the best Alt-History show Iâve ever watched.
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Finished the third and current season of For all mankind. Continues to somehow balance Human drama/politics and nearly crazy space BS in some perfect mix. So hooked. Canât wait till season 4.
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Perhaps my favorite and most watched TV show of all time is back on the air as of right now!
NY Rangers Gamenight on MSG 
See (on Apple TV) isnât as terrible as all the reviews say it is, but itâs not really that good either. The cast is fine and the production values are good, but the writing is terrible, the characters are all stupid and mostly unlikeable, and the show seems to have no idea what itâs overall plot is.
For All Mankind, Severance, and Ted Lasso are infinitely superior shows. Even Foundation is better than See, mostly because of Lee Pace.
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Loved the new DHMIS. That ending was poignant!
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i usually re-watch shows with people whoâve never seen them before, but the show has to pass a certain threshold to earn that: person of interest, sense8, magicians, expanse, bsg, utopia. those shows generally have a nostalgia factor or a easily missed level of detail that rewards that extra attention.
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Oni: Thunder Godâs Tale on Netflix was excellent! Itâs a short mini-series, only 4 episodes, but definitely worth watching!
Also, the Slate âWorkingâ podcast had an interview with the creators which I really enjoyed, and which is where I found out about the show. Worth a listen if youâre interested:
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The Bear is a very good tv drama about a chef taking over a sandwich shop in Chicago with a toxic work culture.
I would highly recommend it to people who think they would enjoy a tv drama about a chef taking over a sandwich shop in Chicago with a toxic work culture.
Personally I didnât make it past the fourth episode, mostly because I found it unbearably stressful. Not bad quality TV, and not my lack of interest in the story or characters, just that Iâm not into so much drama.
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Is the chef who takes over also toxic, or are they there to clean it up? If they are there to clean it up, why not just fire everyone, hire decent people, and start fresh?
Because humans have emotions and emotions are real.
The chef is not toxic and is trying to clean up the restaurant.
He doesnât fire everyone because itâs a family-owned business and the employees are either his relatives or people heâs known his entire life and he doesnât want to fire them because even if they are toxic, he still cares about them and doesnât want them to be unemployed.
Thatâs a shame. We need more stories of people handling toxic relationships realistically and appropriately. Maybe then more people IRL would learn to do the same and avoid abuse and suffering.
Typically, a toxic work environment is the result of poor management, not poor employees. I mean yeah there are times when individuals are the problem, but more often than not itâs rooted in attitudes enshrined by management, and competent managers can turn a workplace around by treating the employees like humans instead of disposable units of labor.
I havenât seen the show so I donât know if itâs really that the people are shitty, or if the people are acting shitty because of poor workplace practices. The former isnât really fixable, but the latter is.
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Itâs certainly possible that it was just leadership that was the problem, but that would make for a pretty short show if the entire premise is that it starts with a quality leadership change.