What are you watching?
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The Automat. A documentary about the
HartHorn and Hardart restaurants. I never ate at one, but still found the history to be fascinating. If you're from NY or Philly and ever went to an automat you might enjoy it! Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Elliot Gould, Colin Powell, and RBG are among the interviewees.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Automat
I watched it on TCM, but I think it's available on Max.
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Ha! I used "automats" many times in Japan but did not realize that it's called "automats" in English.
As for "what are you watching," these days mostly YouTube, stuff produced in mainland China. Some of the animation series are really, really good. But I also watch live action "vertical screen" series that's really, really bad -- "vertical screen" because they were made for consumption on smartphones in portrait orientation, "series" because they were originally made available in tiny episodes (a few minute per episode; take hundred or hundreds of episodes to finish one story arc), and "really, really bad" (as in bad script, bad acting, bad direction, low production quality, etc.) -- but just like junk food, you know it's bad yet you still consume a lot of it anyway.
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I’m watching YouTube vids almost exclusively. Cooking, gardening, history, furniture restoration, Antiques Roadshow, RVs, Cleveland, construction, etc. I’ve subscribed to about 40 channels now and there are new vids every day.
Sharon likes a lot of the made for streaming movies and series but I find most of them unwatchable.
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The Bear season 3. Such an amazing series!
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Dark Winds. I'm not watching it, but noticed that it's getting rave reviews and wanted to pass it along. It's a crime thriller.
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PBS documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright.
https://video.wttw.com/show/frank-lloyd-wright-man-who-built-america/
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The new seasons of both Slow Horses and Only Murders in the Building. We are also watching The Orville, but it’s only okay.
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Shogun? Getting right on that are you?
I like Loudermilk. It is hilarious at times.
Bob likes Hope Street, which is a soap opera set in a small coastal town in the UK disguised as a cop show. It is entertaining.
Troppo is good. I thought Bob did not grisly things until we started it.
We watch TV from 7 to 9 most nights and usually agree on what to watch. Football has a priority (won't write that it trumps anything) -
@wtg said in What are you watching?:
The Automat. A documentary about the Hart and Hardart restaurants. I never ate at one, but still found the history to be fascinating. If you're from NY or Philly and ever went to an Automat you might enjoy it! Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Elliot Gould, Colin Powell, and RBG are among the interviewees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Automat
I watched it on TCM, but I think it's available on Max.
It was Horn and Hardart. I went there in NYC with my grandmother as a kid. Did they change the name of it for the show? Will check it out. Usually went there after the show at Radio City Music Hall. This was my grandmother's idea of a perfect NYC grandchild outing. My grandfather's was taking the subway from Queens to Coney Island, riding the carousel, getting cotton candy, then walking to his reclusive sister's place with a quart of milk and a loaf of white bread to check on her.
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I'm up to season 4 of "Better Call Saul". It just keeps getting better. Initially I thought it was stupid and passed it over a few years ago. Then something made me check it out again. The depth and complexity of the characters has me hooked.
We also have been watching "Bad Monkey" which is pretty hilarious. I think it's on AppleTV.
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There's a WTTW (Chicago's PBS station) series called Chicago Stories. Even if you're not from the area, some of the episodes might be of interest to you.
https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago-stories
And if you feel like seeing some sights but aren't able to travel, there's a new Geoffrey Baer program, The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago 2.
https://interactive.wttw.com/most-beautiful-places-in-chicago/watch
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@dolmansaxlil said in What are you watching?:
The new seasons of both Slow Horses and Only Murders in the Building. We are also watching The Orville, but it’s only okay.
I think The Orville is pretty brilliant. It's a tough task to take such an iconic genre and make it both funny and compelling. Kudos to Seth McFarlane.
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