Favorite TV shows, series, or programs? Or, TV you've hated:

[HONDO74]

Personally, I'd rather burn down Rupert Murdoch's place. We could sing Gimme Shelter, and watch Citizen Kane afterwards.

Why would you want to burn anyone's place down

[Roy]

Personally, I'd rather burn down Rupert Murdoch's place. We could sing Gimme Shelter, and watch Citizen Kane afterwards.

Why would you want to burn anyone's place down

OK, you can throw the Molotov cocktails.

[Roy]

On tonight's news, caregiver exploitation:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-some-residential-caregivers-call-their-jobs-indentured-servitude

It's about ten minutes.

[HONDO74]

Personally, I'd rather burn down Rupert Murdoch's place. We could sing Gimme Shelter, and watch Citizen Kane afterwards.

Why would you want to burn anyone's place down

OK,I can throw the Molotov cocktails.

Ok, you do that Roy. You fit right in with Antifa.

[Roy]

Regarding last night's 60 Minutes, who sends a B-1 bomber, for close support? Isn't that like sending a B-17 or B-29 for a similar purpose, during WWII?

[Roy]

From Amanpour & Co., ex-Aetna CEO on U.S. health care: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/mark-bertolini-on-the-state-of-healthcare-in-america/

About 18 minutes.

[Roy]

Tonight's episode of Impossible Engineering: Extreme Railroads was about urban railroad engineering. I highly recommend it: https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/impossible-engineering/full-episodes/nyc-monster-train

It's about 42 minutes. You need to have basic cable, and sign in, to watch online. Otherwise, the series is on The Science Channel Wednesday nights at 9:00 p.m.

[Roy]

From tonight's news, more cathedral stuff:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-painstaking-process-of-repairing-a-damaged-cathedral

About eight minutes.

[Roy]

I enjoyed this article about post-production on The Orville:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/post-production-on-the-orville-communication-kombucha-1835874211

[John Webster]

The PBS series American Experience is going to be showing their segment on the 1920 Wall Street Bombing. Worth watching if you have an interest in history.

[Roy]

There was a recent PBS show about the Chinese Exclusion Act, which I missed. I'm sorry I did. For sixty years, between the 1880s and 1940s, it was against federal law for Chinese to come here, and also for them to gain citizenship.

[Roy]

The Orville moves from Fox to Hulu, for season three:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/seth-macfarlanes-orville-moving-hulu-season-3-1225865

[MurphOnMillerAve]

For the first time ever, tonight I am forcing myself to watch a new-to-me (on since 2016) show on TV: The Detour. (TBS network.) This particular episode, The Game Show, is really awful.

The Japanese characters are, I suppose , caricatures of themselves, and are totally insulting to themselves and the viewer, in their stupidity.

At one point, in the background of a stunt in the contest, they had the early-adolescent son, played by Liam Carroll, with his hand jerking continually upward and downward between the spread legs of a Japanese man wearing a cow costume and appearing to fill a bucket with what pretends to be milk but suggests other possibilities . The boy keeps working on the "milking" activity and then offers the bucketful of white stuff to his dad for drinking, which he does .

I'm going to try to stick it out to the end
But am not sure why.

The whole shebang is, somehow, remarkably bad-taste lunacy . But please, if you disagree with me, please do!

[HONDO74]

For the first time ever, tonight I am forcing myself to watch a new-to-me (on since 2016) show on TV: The Detour. (TBS network.) This particular episode, The Game Show, is really awful.

The Japanese characters are, I suppose , caricatures of themselves, and are totally insulting to themselves and the viewer, in their stupidity.

At one point, in the background of a stunt in the contest, they had the early-adolescent son, played by Liam Carroll, with his hand jerking continually upward and downward between the spread legs of a Japanese man wearing a cow costume and appearing to fill a bucket with what pretends to be milk but suggests other possibilities . The boy keeps working on the "milking" activity and then offers the bucketful of white stuff to his dad for drinking, which he does .

I'm going to try to stick it out to the end
But am not sure why.

The whole shebang is, somehow, remarkably bad-taste lunacy . But please, if you disagree with me, please do!

If you are going to watch this you might as well watch reruns of "jacka$$" or the movies they do the same obnoxious crap.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I gave-up just after that contest where and when they hit the father in the head with a microwave oven, deposited there by his wife.

Oh, and I had already gotten all that I needed to learn about her, when, in the commercials for the show, they have the father sliding down a snowy hillside after falling in front of a monk on a hillside, and finally falling off a snow-cliff, right onto their encampment, next to/upon their tent, where the wife is taking "selfies." When he hits the ground, does she run over to see if he is injured, broke his neck, or dead? Nope. In true self-absorbed fashion, she contemplates her selfie, expressing satisfaction with herself. I am not entertained nor amused by seeing women who are vapid and vain ( at least we were spared her twirling the ends of her hair as she contemplated her self-image.) I see enough of that in the News.

I'll never watch that pile again.