Light the Night
I’ve watched one episode. Seems like maybe romance primarily targeting female audience.
Period piece is fun to see Taiwan in the 80s.
With English subtitles and it’s fun to listen to the Chinese because they talk slow, some everyday useful language, and lots of empty space.
Any spicy sex scenes?
I need something new to watch.
Now Chucky is over (fun show, worth checking out) all I have is Dexter.
I tried Wheel of Time but it was absolute garbage. It’s meant to have a high budget–god knows what they blew it on–the actors are awful, the cgi attrocious, the script horrendous, the sets cheap, the costums look like fancy dress costumes.
Two more days until The Expanse…
Illusionary, nothing real.
Um, you know how TV and film usually works, right?
OK, no.
No spicy seggs scenes. Only long dreamy kissing scenes with no hint of seggs. But hey it’s only episode 1
If there’s not even any tasteful soft porn, I’m not wasting my eyeballs…
Good TV now…
Wheel of Time
Dexter
Expanse
Masterchef
Masterchef Professionals
Saturday Night Live s47e08 with Billie Ellish really funny.
So I started watching this and it’s not bad. The acting is uneven, as it is with most Taiwanese productions, but they’ve done a great job recreating the 1980s Linsen N. Road scene with all the nightclubs catering to Japanese businessmen. Lots of loving attention to detail, from the clothes and hairstyles to the interior and exterior sets. I could swear I was back in a Linsen alley on a steamy night in 1987 leering at drugged out hostesses in high heels smelling of cigarettes and knock-off whiskey.
There’s also a murder mystery that kind of keeps the plot moving forward, not that it’s really necessary with so much heady atmosphere. Of course, someone who wasn’t around at the time may have a completely different experience.
Taiwanese TV shows still haven’t discovered the Korean secret sauce to international appeal. I think it’s their over reliance on Taoist tropes; I’m often seeing scenes of incense burning or characters coming back as ghosts when I glance at my wife’s soaps. Well that… and atrociously low production values. Half the time these shows look like they were filmed in someone’s backyard and I’ve seen better acting in High-school plays. Plus, the plots are always trite and predictable; oh this character is confronting this character for cheating… yawn.
They really need to innovate with their scripts, hire people from the theater scene that can actually act, and pump millions of dollars into their productions. This country has 25 million people. They can surely find people who can actually produce a show worth a damn. Is this show you guys are talking about the one? I don’t know… but once bitten, twice shy. I don’t want to waste time with something subpar when there’s so much great TV out there.
Sorry for the rant. I didn’t even intend it! 
Last night I watched the first two episodes of Hawkeye, on Disney+; I’m enjoying it so far. It’s splitting the difference between the only mildly interesting Jeremy-Renner-Hawkeye and the fantastic Matt-Fraction-Hawkeye comics run from eight or nine years ago - it’s not the same plot as those, but does take many of the same elements, like Pizza Dog and the tracksuit mafia. It’s the first of the current batch of Marvel TV shows I’ve watched.
This is a time-sensitive recommendation! It’s very much set in Christmas New York, so there’s a nice seasonality to watching it now. That’d be different at other times of the year.
I just got Disney Plus a couple days ago and I’m loving it so far. Needed this after how stale Netflix has been getting. The first Marvel series I’ll probably check out will be Wanda + Vision. I’ve just heard a lot of cool things about that series. Then maybe Loki after that.
Wandavision is special.
Yup, all of Loki and the beginning especially of Wandavision are the two I’ve heard better things about. But I started with Hawkeye because of a) Christmas, and b) deep affection for the Matt Fraction comic series. (One of the only Marvel runs I’ve ever read.) I gather there are bits of Black Widow that may help with understanding Hawkeye; oh well. I know enough about who Florence Pugh plays that I’m sure it won’t be too complicated.
I just got Disney+ a couple of days ago as well, despite having far too much to watch on Amazon Prime and Apple TV+, the latter of which I really mean to cancel after I finally watch those remaining two or three series …
Netflix may actually be the most “disposable” of them, but I share that subscription with my sister-in-law, so it’s quite cheap.
Hasn’t changed for 30 years. Yelling, crying, yelling, crying …
I just starting watching 'And Just Like that" …
It’s impossible to cultivate international appeal when the domestic market is small. Korea is much larger. No country with a small population has a successful entertainment industry.
Those are the only two I liked.
I haven’t tried Hawkeye yet, but the others weren’t so good IMO.
Emily in Paris
I’ve been told a few times, not by any men, that season 2 started a couple days ago.