SO.....

Some TV reviews. 

I tried, I really honestly tried.  I found Twin Peaks on Pluto and set down to watch it!  I remember LOVING the weird entertaining show when it first aired in 1991.  But I also remember losing interest during the second season and giving it up. 

So the first season (8 episodes) was just amazing!  Just as I remembered. Tons of possible murderers!  Tons of weird strange people.  Tons of intrigue and subplots.  And it was riveting!

When the second season started, I could tell a difference.  It was....weirder.  And weirder just for the sake of being weird.  Kinda like the writers thought "Let's see what we can get away with!".  Still the first 8 episodes were entertaining, not as entertaining or good as Season 1, but still watchable.  In episode 8, the murder of Laura Palmer was solved.  And after that...well things got so weird as to be unwatchable.  And indeed I did stop after about another 6 episodes, not watching the remaining 8 or so.  Just couldn't do it.  It's unfortunate, actually. 

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I found The Shining streaming too, and sat down to watch that.  I thought I had not seen it all the way through before, but as it went on, I realized I DID see it all the way through.  It is a good movie, but I don't think it's as great as a lot of people claim.  I'm still trying to find the 90's miniseries of The Shining, which is much closer to Stephen King's book, and one that I remember liking very much watching it as it aired.  But I don't think it's streaming anywhere now. 

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The Last Of Us.   LOVED the first season.  I'm about ready to give up on it now.  I have never much liked the Ellie character, and this season I like her even less, even, at time, hating her.  She's rude, obnoxious, arrogant, reckless, self centered and endangers her friends and of people in her community.  I can't think of a single redeeming value that she displays.  

Sadly, with Joel no longer a viable option, I assume she's going to be made the 'star' of the show.  Which is unfortunate.  I guess they'll try to portray her as dark 'anti-hero'.  Turn her into a tough dyke kind of character, who's always right...now matter how wrong her actions are.   

It's sickening and sad.

POLT