What We Do in the Shadows: The TV Series

What We Do in the Shadows Season 2 has begun on Hulu/FX and so far it is just as great as season 1.  If you aren't familiar with this show it is based on the film by the same name from 2014.   

 ( Note to self I need to watch this film as quickly as possible) 

The series was created by Jermaine Clement (of Flight of the Conchords fame) and Taika Waititti  (Thor Ragnarok and The Mandalorian).  The series features a documentary crew that follows around a household of out of touch vampires.   The show is brilliantly written.  One of my favorite characters is an energy vampire that basically sucks the energy out of people by boring them to death.   A highlight in season 2 so far is episode 3 when they get invited to their neighbors Super Bowl party and mistake it for a Superb Owl Party.

I'm absolutely in love with the humor in the show.  If you like Flight of the Conchords style humor this show will be right up your alley.   

Here is a trailer for the show.

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Angie Tribecca Season 1 on Hulu (Good Lockdown Binge Watch)

I was looking for an easy binge-watch on Hulu and stumbled across Angie Tribecca.   Created by Steve Carell and his wife Nancy of The Office fame,  Angie Tribecca stars Rashida Jones also of The Office and Parks and Recreation fame.

Everything in the world is so serious and scary right now as we shelter at home to deal with this virus situation.   So Angie Tribecca was a perfect little diversion.  If you need something silly and stupid to make you laugh this is a great easy binge-watch.  4 seasons of 10 half-hour episodes Angie Tribecca is a TV show that is a throwback to the once popular genre of Airplane style spoofs.  

To be completely honest it is basically a reboot of the short-lived Police Squad tv show that spawned the Naked Gun movies and a bunch of Airplane style films.   The best films in this genre were Airplane and Naked Gun,  many lesser rip-offs pretty much killed the genre off as a viable film genre.   The spirit of that original Police Squad show is alive and well in this Police spoof.   Season 1 was a fun quick watch that may serve as a good diversion from what is happening right now in the real world.   If you like this show --search out the original Police Squad as well.

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For the Love of Scooby Doo: (Part 8) ScoobyNatural 2018

One of the reasons I decided to dive down the rabbit hole for the series Supernatural is because I heard they did a cross-over episode with Scooby-Doo.    Diving into a show that is filming it's 15th and final season is quite an undertaking and after watching season 1.   I put off continuing it before my wife got hooked so we could watch Veronica Mars another crime-solving mystery show.  Apparently, a good decision as we were able to binge Veronic Mars before my wife got hopelessly hooked on Supernatural.  Now we are in for the long haul.

Well currently we are about 2 episodes away from the end of Season 5 of Supernatural and I decided I couldn't wait until we naturally got to season 13 to treat myself with the reason the show originally came to my attention.  I really enjoy Supernatural, but have some criticisms of the show after 5 seasons.   What I love about the show the most are the episodes where they get a little funny, weird and silly.   Now 5 seasons into the show and the characters it was a perfect time to watch the Winchester brothers get magically zapped into the middle of a Scooby-Doo episode from season 13.

It was a perfect cross-over episode.  The Winchester brothers that hunt real ghosts, monsters, and demons thrust into an episode of Scooby-Doo.  The integration of the two shows worked wonderfully.  Dean, of course, tries to hit on Daphne with no success and Velma falls for Sam.   The scene where Dean --who is always eating burgers gets a chance to eat one of the oversized sandwiches in the cartoon was classic.   The episode had everything you want in a classic Scooby-Doo episode and seamlessly weaved the Supernatural characters into the story.  The mystery takes a tangent from how Dean remembered the cartoon as other characters actually start to die and there becomes an urgency to protect the Scooby gang and keep them safe.   

Being a fan of both Supernatural and an Ultra fan of Scooby-Doo makes this one of my favorite episodes on Supernatural so far.

SUPER FANTASTIC TERRIFIC SHOW #42 – WHAT TO WATCH IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

In our latest podcast, we give some suggestions on what to watch right now since everyone is stuck at home.  The coronavirus is running rampant across the world. Everybody is home. Streaming entertainment is at an all-time high.  So what are we watching during this global pandemic?

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The Private Eyes 1980 7+ out of 10 (Murder Mystery)

The Private Eyes 1980   7+ out of 10

I recently revisited The Apple Dumpling Gang and The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again on Disney+ and reviewed them over on my Disney blog  The Mouse Minute.  This venture sent me down a Don Knotts / Tim Conway rabbit hole that lead me to this film which for some reason I had overlooked all these years. 

The Private Eyes is a murder mystery detective spoof starring Don Knotts and Tim Conway as rather bad detectives.   Basically, think of the classic A Shot in the Dark, but instead of Peter Sellers you get the comedy duo of Tim Conway and Don Knotts trying to solve a murder mystery in a mansion that includes hidden passages and possibly a ghost.  All of the employees in the mansion are possible suspects of course including the hunchback.

This was a fun murder mystery comedy.  Tim Conway and Don Knotts work so well together as bumbling incompetent detectives.  The movie has the feel of The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (a Don Knotts Haunted house movie)  meets Abbott and Costello.  The film has some really good physical comedy and thrives on the chemistry these two actors have together.  If you are a fan of films like the Pink Panther series and the movie Clue you will definitely enjoy this murder mystery spoof as well.  Check out the trailer for the film below.

For my thoughts on the Apple Dumpling Gang films go here

https://themouseminute.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/the-apple-dumpling-gang-1975-6-out-of-10-disney-family-film-34/ 

https://themouseminute.wordpress.com/2020/04/05/the-apple-dumpling-gang-rides-again-1979-7-out-of-10-disney-family-film-35/

Nightflyers 2018 vs Another Life 2019

The two sci-fi TV Series share a surprising number of elements. Nightflyers aired on Syfy channel in 2018 and Another Life on Netflix in 2019.  Both shows have these things in common.

1. A mission to meet an alien race that is baffling scientists

2. A holographic character played by a black actor.  (That is a strange coincidence)

3. A computer intelligence that may be causing issues with the mission

4.  A character that has to face dangerous radiation to complete a task.   

Not knowing the back story of the series productions -- I would guess that Another Life is the one ripping off Nightflyers, since it pretty much ripped off every sci-fi story I've ever seen in its first season.  Below are some brief thoughts about both series.

Nightflyers 2018

Nightflyers originally aired on the Syfy Channel.  It was based on a George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones) novella.   Unfortunately, it was canceled after a short 10 episode run.   It was basically a sci-fi horror series.   It felt at times like American Horror Story in space.

The spacecraft the Nightflyer is on a mission to track down a mysterious alien craft.  The 10 episode run features a mysterious presence on the ship that is sabotaging the mission.  A person with super psychic powers and the mystery of the alien craft itself.  It explores some interesting horror in space tropes --but in some interesting ways that keep it fresh enough to be interesting. 

The only problem with the show for me is that the premature ending since it didn't get a second season leaves too many interesting questions unanswered. The ending feels abrupt as a result.   Also, there was a weird storyline where one of the main characters basically goes insane and because they need him for something in the next episode it is almost treated as if he didn't do those things (which wasn't believable). 

Trailer

Another Life 2019

Here are the comments about this series that I posted on Facebook while watching it.  If it wasn't binge-able I wouldn't have finished the season.

Another Life 2019. A rip off of every sci-fi movie ever —- just less interesting. This show would have been canceled so quickly on network tv Warning SPOILERS in the comment section.       4 Episodes in. If this show was longer than 10 episodes and available to binge I would probably stop watching. I’ll give it about 2 more episodes.
6 episodes in this show officially sucks. It seems like the story on Earth which is a rip off of Arrival has been all but forgotten. The ship bound story has absolutely nothing new to offer and we are supposed to believe that one of the main crew was actually a kidnapper at one point that had kidnapped Starbuck’s character. Give me a break. This show has zero credibility with this random sidetrack storyline.     It doesn’t get any better. In fact, it only gets worse. What a pointless pile of crap.  I just saw that this crap show was renewed for a second season. No thanks

SUPER FANTASTIC TERRIFIC SHOW #41 – IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME

This time on the pod, we talk about A Christmas Story and it’s follow up Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss as well as Christmas Vacation and the controversial Christmas movie, Die Hard.    Things take an unexpected dark turn while discussing A Christmas Story that you will have to listen to in order to find out.

http://www.superfantasticterrific.com/super-fantastic-terrific-show-41-its-christmas-time/