(Np) viewing possibilities

[Raphael Saltwood]

Sometimes your recs land way outside my sweet spot - I think the aspects that draw you to Pynchon are different than mine: I’m hooked on the funny bits & the wordplay more than the in-the-know geopolitical eg - but this one sounds good.

While on the subject -
Recently I’ve enjoyed “Detroiters” (maybe because I’m from thereabouts)(but also it’s very silly, occasionally hilarious, and often quite vulgar)

  *    Guardian likes it too
  *   https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/26/detroiters-deserves-to-be-your-new-sitcom-obsession

 Agatha Raisin, & Shakespeare & Hathaway (cozy mysteries in beautiful settings & fun to watch)
City Homicide was great; East West 101 a newer Australian cop show; Endeavour quite a nice prequel to Morse; and somebody loaded all 7 seasons of the 90s “Mad About You” on Prime recently. (Season 8 from 2019 wasn’t half bad either.)

Loch Ness was good, imho.

The Sniffer - Ukrainian crimefighter with subtitles - beautiful-sounding Russian dialogue with lots of palatalization - and yes, he solves crimes with his extraordinary sense of smell.
 Too silly? The vaporous apparitions that evanesce at crime scenes for him are fun, and his straight-man cop buddy’s somehow perfect...(so’s his chief)

If you get CBS - Bob Loves Abishola, Scorpion, Superior Donuts...NCIS (love Abby and the banter)...but they took down her (Pauley Perrette’s) one season sitcom “Broke” although YouTube has her documentary on Mark Lane for free:

https://youtu.be/9FEFGsh2QK0

He was pretty cool!

But I’m mostly a lightweight. Wilds sounds good though. Cheers!

(PS Doc Martin, Hamish Macbeth-same writer as Doc Martin, Spaced, Black Books, Upstart Crow)



David Morris wrote:


You’ve heard this scenario before:  A passenger jet crashes in the Pacific,
and survivors wash up onto the shore of a tropical mountainous island.
This ragtag group of survivors proceed on all fronts, hoping to extend
their survival.  No one comes to their rescue.  Will they make it!!?

Then we learn that this whole island is wired and that this plane crash was
NOT an accident.  It was an intentional event to start a “controlled”
experiment in social engineering theory.  A scientific approach to world
domination.

Years ago the mega cult hit TV series “Lost” featured endless meta
mindfucks on the above scenario.  Prime’s “The Wilds” new series is a
meta-feminism twist, with a villainess of Ayn Rand’s World Domination
 aspirations.   It’s aimed at teen girls, but it can withstand other
audiences.  I liked it.

David Morris





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