With a lot of shows wrapping up soon for the season, I’m looking forward to having a mildly lighter TV schedule. The flip side is that the summer season has a few ongoings that I’m excited for and a lot of binge shows on the way so there’ll still be plenty to talk about.
I started Fosse/Verdon late as I wanted to have a couple of episodes in the recorder first so that I could watch more at once if I wanted to do. And boy did I. I never knew much about either of them and the film projects they were involved in where musicals that I hadn’t explored, but I like character studies like this. What drew me to this one in particular was that it’s a miniseries and that it has such a great cast to it. I don’t think we’ve had this much Michelle Williams TV material since her Dawson’s Creek days so I definitely enjoy watching her run the emotional gamut here and playing against Sam Rockwell as their relationship is just a big mess from start to finish. It’s a great period piece with a fantastic cast – including Aya Cash and Margaret Qualley – with wonderful dance scenes and looks at how various musicals and films were put together.
After initially watching part of the three-part reworking of the film, I started digging more into the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series. I still find a lot of a narrative mess and very much a ’70s SF show, but there are parts of it that were excised for the reboot that I wish could be incorporated into another reboot since there are other races and species out there. The “science” of it all is just hilariously wonky but there’s just an anything-goes kind of charm to it as they rework as many western TV sets as possible into various outpost worlds that they visit. Having not seen this since its original broadcast run, there’s an element of nostalgia in there to be sure and I was surprised by how much I remembered overall. And that I started finding some real appeal in the hairstyles and clothing of the time as I generally dislike a whole lot of ’70s era SF work because of these things. But Maren Jensen, Jane Seymour, and Anne Lockhart all “make it work” for me.
Netflix finally added some new New Girl to its streaming with season six! I’m still a sucker for this show and I liked this season with it being about the home repairs for Schmidt and Cece and to see more Winston and Cece messarounds as those were always awesome. And more time with some Pepperwood Chronicles? Hells yes please.
With a lot of my shows wrapping up in the next two weeks with the CW series such as Flash and Arrow and so forth along with a lot of regular sitcoms and the like, binge season is coming. And the summer season. On the binge side, this Wednesday has Lucifer making its fourth season Netflix premiere and I wants it badly. BADLY. Friday also sees the debut of the sixth season of Agents of SHIELD and I wish that was a show I could binge the hell out of too instead of waiting on it weekly like someone from the 20th century.
