I also binge-watched Reacher. Its ok. I didn’t get sucked in like Seal Team. Do you recommend I watch both Tom 5-foot-four Cruise’s Reacher films?
I actually got Ms BA to watch along and we finished season 1 last night. She normally hates the chop-socky or high-action hi-tech shows, of which there are so many now. Probably just likes the hunky actor, I didn’t ask.
One of the hardest things to buy is that a guy is going to walk down the highway in Georgia heat in his boots, t-shirt, no hat. At least Bronson had the Hardly. And really, it’s kinda like the first Rambo: troubled vet who wanders around and falls into action-adventure-temporary love. Pretty formulaic in this sense.
We have been watching Totems but don’t love it so much that I don’t search for other things. I tried Mr. Kim’s Convenience Store and it’s funny but kind of stuck in enough stereotyping that it gets kinda smothering, almost like a 70s era sitcom. Tried another one about a Taco Shop in So-Cal whose name escapes me at the moment. Kinda okay. I do like the actors in it. Re Mr. Kim’s, As a Pacific Rim homie, I do enjoy seeing Asian and Asian-American actors get their due and opportunities, just like with Beef.
True Detective is really humming along. It really is a superior product to most of these other shows. Really creepy this year. I wouldn’t blame people for waiting to binge whatever but we sure look forward to it each week. Even tho’ I am incapable of actually being one, I am kinda turning into a super-fan of Jodie Foster. She is killin’ it in this and has the breadth and confidence to just hang it all out there. I admire her.
Another thing about this season is Alaskan native aspect. If you think about it there is a kind of two or three-stage experience of seeing native Americans in shows. First stage is any role at all, positive or negative. Second stage is seeing roles where their social plights and challenges are depicted like reservation life, including showing dysfunctional behavior; revealing their psychological, emotional and social narratives and behaviors. Third stage will be when most people just seem them as characters and not stuck in ethnic boxes. I feel we are there with black actors, but not yet with native people. I am a big fan of Zahn McLarnon (West World, Longmire and that new show Dark Winds). He is just so dang Indian looking that I think it;s hard for him to get just any male part; but that’s on the studios and audiences to evolve and accept. I really enjoy his acting and we got to meet him in Wyoming at Longmire Days.
