status update!!!

succession ended last night and like many i am sad to see it go. satisfying yet unsatisfying conclusion. i had one quibble with a characters motivation but not having lived in their fictive shoes i cant deny them their truth. any show that has a character broken staring out into the abyss from a bench in battery park contemplating their failures gets me. id like to think being a billionaire would soften the blow but im sure id find a way to despair as well.

watched a handful of the poker face eps now. well constructed but kind of disappointing. rian johnson who has made the two knives out movies is deep into his mysteries bag. this as everyone suggested has an air of columbo mixed in with the drifter trope moving town to town or ep to ep on the run from her past. but at its heart is a week to week procedural which rises and falls on the case but really is more of a showcase for the actors he is able to assemble along with his current muse, natasha lyonne. biggest problem for me is the built in conceit that lyonnes character can without fail read whether a person is lying which tips the scales for every episode as the only thing left to solve in this light hearted murder of the week is why are they lying, as the key to unraveling the case. so its feeling kind of trite 5 eps in.

think thats about it. plan on but still havent finished mrs davis. silo is almost intriguing. citadel, less so though amazon has big plans for it so its not going anywhere. 

ted lasso has its series finally remaining this week. 

still in last season with barry. 

watched 10 seconds of the diplomat and turned it off.

havent returned to beef nor looked at dead ringers, or white house plumbers or class of 09. 

white lotus still on mid season hiatus

cant think of anything thats jumped the queue. 

oh, yellowjackets ended. im still in on that. i think it was a generally well regarded second season though im more intrigued by its timeline in the past then i am where its headed in the future.