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Category: Television
#CouchWorthy: James vs His Future Self
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Wonder Years narrator Daniel Stern who stars in James vs His Future Self.
Picard’s First Tea
Ok. Are we gonna discuss last night’s Picard debut??! Barely 3 minutes into the first episode Jean-Luc Picard says in that forceful Patrick Stewart way: “Let’s behave like civilized men.” And then pours a cup of tea before he gets a response. Tea out the gate. Fresh! I have other feelings but man to see…
Quality Time is TV’s Love Language
Star Trek: Picard is a love letter to the back in the day 22…24…even 26 episodes per television season. Appointment TV.
#CouchWorthy: Brené Brown: The Call to Courage
Feelings.
Netflix Is 45 Not
How much credit should we give Netflix or rather their machine learning algorithm? The widely anticipated Stranger Things 3 trailer dropped on March 20 which instantly opens with Mötley Crüe’s Home Sweet Home. And then their Crüe biopic The Dirt followed on March 22. Boom! A meta commercial within a trailer or just a coincidence? The…
Getting Dirty With The Dirt
The Dirt a Mötley Crüe biopic now streaming on Netflix is Straight Outta Compton for White People. Put your metal up!
The Horror of Consumption: I Miss Blacula
Seeing the schlocky horror movies from the 50, 60s, and 70s made me mourn what we’ve lost. I “discovered” movies like Blacula on late night cable.
Admirations of Administrations
Give credit to the discredited.
#CouchWorthy: ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
Back in October Netflix quietly released ReMastered a music documentary series focusing on seminal musical moments: basically it was their 30 for 30 but instead of sports it was music. You may have seen Who Killed Jam Master Jay? or Tricky Dick and the Man in Black the Johnny Cash doc floating around. Those are all…
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