Brits

My fella and I are watching a British show called, The Great Pottery Throw Down. It's a reality show about, hahahaha, pottery. At first, we chose to watch it because we don't know anything about pottery. Now we do! It's all very complicated. There are contestants who are mostly home 'potters.' Every week they are challenged to create something different. Did you know there were so many different kinds of clay? And glazes? It's really interesting. There's a host(ess) and 2 judges. One of the judges is chap named Keith Brymer Jones. I love him. He's SO emotional - it's delightful. Whenever one of the potters makes something beautiful or different, he get's all teary! It's fantastic, his passion.

Anyway, it's the first British show I've actually watched and I just want to say, Brits are very quirky and easy. Brits seem to be so much more light hearted than we are. They aren't nearly as hung up on sex or cussing or fashion as we are. It's really nice! Oh sure, I know it's just tv and they're probably all on their best behavior, but still. We're on season 3 and every group so far has been charming. I'm going to look for some more British shows and check it out 😊

What are you watching?

Over the holidays, we caught up on a lot of the newer movies. 

Top Gun; Maverick. It was good action movie. If you liked the 1st one, you'll like this one too.

The newest Elvis movie was a lot better than I was expecting. It was actually more about him than his tabloid life. Also, Tom Hanks was pretty good as Colonel Parker.

The new rom-com, Ticket To Paradise, with Julie Roberts and George Clooney was just that, a rom-com. so typical and a little dumb. But, it was light and breezy and that's nice sometimes. Samaritan with Sylvester Stallone was a pretty typical guy revenge movie-meh. 

The Glass Onion  was fun. I liked it better than Knives Out. Maybe I felt like I had to pay too close attention in Knives Out? Honk For Jesus was interesting. It's about a black couple that run a Baptist church. Quirky. Proof again that religion is a show. Moonfall - meh. We watched the whole thing but mostly because it didn't suck and I didn't feel like looking for something else. Bullet Train, with Brad Pitt was fun in a campy kind of way-lots of over the top fights and shoot em ups though. Marry Me with Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson was another cute rom-com.

These aren't new and they're both with George Clooney and we liked both of them; Money Monster and Up In the Air. Both of them, good dramas. Also, an older movie, (2014) called The Hundred Foot Journey, was delightful.

We're watching Bosch on Amazon Prime. I like this one. I like all the characters. It's kind of intense though so whenever we watch an episode, I need something happy...so we watch an episode of Modern Family. We didn't watch it when it was on originally. Sometimes it's just dumb funny but there are enough clever funny moments that I keep watching 😀. Last week we started watching Person of Interest. We've only watch 4 episodes and I like it but I can see how it might become kind of repetitive. I'll keep going for awhile though.

And on Netflix, if you're looking for good stand up, Tom Papa and Jim Gaffigan are the best! We've laughed and laughed and laughed!

What are you watching...(part 3)

We watch a lot of stuff we just bail out on. Sometimes we hang in there till the end and then wonder, why did we do that?

Other than vacation, we spend a lot of time at home. Sometimes I'm quilling or doodling or coloring. And now that Spring/Summer is here, we're doing more outside of the house. But during the long Winter/Spring, yucky weather days...

We just starting watching the new season of Alone, on the History channel. And we're watching Master Chef - adult and kid versions. We're on our 3rd season of Warehouse 13, a fun sci-fi series and started watching a series called Unforgettable. It's about a female cop who remembers everything she sees. It's pretty good for a cop show. My fella just finished watching the whole series, Monk. He loves Monk. :-)

On Netflix;

* a series called The Lincoln Lawyer. I really like it. It's interesting to see/hear about all the little tricks lawyers use to win their cases. 

* Night Sky. the new sci-fi series with Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons. I loved their characters. I needed a little more from the story though. It just didn't tell me enough, soon enough. I enjoyed it though. 

* Then there was the new series with Josh Brolin, Outer Range. I just don't know how I feel about this series! It definitely sucked me in but I spent the whole time saying - out loud to the tv- but what's the deal with the hole?! Ugh. It was so frustrating because I couldn't figure it out. Then, when you get the big reveal at the end, I was left slack jawed, pissed off and torn between being confused or satisfied! Holy hell!! What kind of story is that?! Honestly though, if they do a 2nd season, I'm definitely going to watch.

* and if you haven't watched The Queen's Gambit, you should. Who knew chess could be so exciting!

* Ricky Gervais new stand up act on Netflix was outrageously crude and funny at times. He's kind of like Don Rickles, on steroids. I don't always like his humor but I like him. Really, he loves his gal pal and his Instagram page is full of pictures of Pickles, his cat. How can you not like a man who only says nice things about his woman and loves animals?!

* Also, I really loved the series Locke and Key. It's a little horror/fantasy/adventure series about the Locke family and all the mysterious keys they've found and created over the centuries. Love this one more than Stranger Things! It's like a puzzle. There are 2 seasons with a 3rd and final season coming this fall.

* Red Notice stars Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds, is an action/comedy, very fun for a buddy movie. 

* St. Vincent with Bill Murray. Also predictable but I liked Bill Murray as the crusty old man.

* Self/less, with Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kinglsey. It was an exciting action (shoot 'em up) movie. 

* The Adam Project was another really fun action movie with Ryan Reynolds. Very predictable though.

* The Starling It didn't get very good reviews but I really liked this one. It was serious, funny, sad and honest. 

* 6 Underground It was another good "guy" movie. I watched some of it but it was a little too much for me. I like Ryan Reynolds though. 

* Enola Holmes super fun story telling about Sherlock's younger sister

* There's a Sandra Bullock movie called, The Unforgivable. It sounded good...it wasn't. And by the way, her new movie, Lost City, with Channing Tatum. P U! It was so predictable and dumb for a Romcom. I don't remember where watched it.

On Hulu;

* In the Heart Of the Sea is the story about the crew that inspired the book, Moby Dick. thumbs up for this one.

On Prime Video, 

* The Tomorrow Man with Chris Pratt was a pretty good sci-fi movie. The concept was a little hard to follow but once you got it, it was ok. 

* Since we watched the first one, and thought it was 'meh' we watched the 2nd The Quiet Place. You know, we were hoping the story would get better. It didn't. But we watched until the end, for something to do. 

* Bliss OMG! Don't bother! It was SO weird and hard to follow. yuck.

* The Protégé with Samuel L Jackson, Michael Keaton and Maggie Q. Another shoot 'em up/action/thriller but I watched most of this one and it was ok for what it was. 

* Love and Monsters was just a fun little apocalyptic movie about a young man who risks his life to meet the woman of his dreams. I was always rooting for him. 

* The Tender Bar  w/Ben Affleck was slow but it was a nice story. Even I get tired of all of the special effects movies, so a nice story really hits the spot every now and then. 

* Pain & Gain with Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg...It was so dumb, my fella couldn't watch the whole thing!

* Unhinged with Russell Crowe as the bad guy in this road rage gone bad story. Wow did I hate his character in this one!  

* Poms is about a group of older women at a seniors center. If you're just looking for a fluffy, feel good movie, (and you're old) check it out. It's predictable but fun to watch old ladies be sassy.

* Mr. Brooks starring Kevin Costner as a serial killer? Creepy!! It was just ok.

In other places I can't remember; 

* Ghostbusters III was ok. The girl version is still my favorite sequel though. Not because the cast was all female, but it was just funny as hell.

* The Road I thought the book was hard to get through! This movie is so dreary and depressing.

* Old This is the new M. Night Shyamalan movie. Weird and surprising. I loved it and I don't think all of his stuff is that great. This one's surprise ending really made me go, whhaaaat?!

* Bottle Shock Hmmm. This is about that famous blind taste test in France that the Napa Valley wine, won. It was kind of fun, especially if you like to root for the underdogs. The peripheral stories were dumb though. 

I wish they would/could change up the formula, when writing a script for a movie though. Sometimes I can call who the villain is, in the first 15/20 minutes! Sometimes you know right where that movie is going after 10 minutes. I miss the anticipation in a good story. I hope the 2nd half of the year brings some better finds :-)

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