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I decided to give Weird Al Show a go. The first episode has some hilarious bits. One thing though is that it felt cut up for Freevee so I wonder if buying it on Prime would change that or if I'd have to buy the $85 DVD of 13 episodes to watch the show in full. Yes I realize I'm not the target audience. Well... not 100% anyway. I do enjoy Weird Al's music, even as an adult. I'll watch episode two later.

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I hate insomnia. Oh yeah. Last year I had four cases of it, and each time it lasted three months.

I really enjoyed this. Very sweet & poignant take on aging & loneliness. It has been advertised as a mystery, but it isn't.

I have to mention Stephanie Beatriz. I loved her in Brooklyn Nine Nine & Modern Family, & here she puts in another wonderful performance.

I'm getting a show I've never before seen in the mail tomorrow; Sealab 2021. Well... it should deliver tomorrow. The tracking shows it as having arrived at the post office about an hour ago, so tomorrow seems reasonable.

I thought I'd add that I watched the second episode of Weird Al Show the other day. It wasn't as good as the first episode. It was still fairly funny. The superhero was a bit lame. I might watch the third in the near future or will in the far future.

I've been watching Under the Bridge, a miniseries on Hulu. Inspired by true events, it's a murder mystery set in a place you would barely expect there to be gang activity: idyllic Vancouver Island. I was drawn to this because of Lily Gladstone, who plays the cop investigating the murder, and she is excellent. Don't expect anything you've never seen before - it's essentially True Detective Lite - but I'll just say that I'm two episodes in and compelled to make a chart of the suspects.

Highly recommend this Pittsburgh series. Fifteen episodes. Six have dropped & a new one airs on Thursday on Max/Prime. Never seen a medical show before & am really enjoying this one. Plays out in real time. One hour of the show is one hour of the viewer watching at home.

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I’m here only on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. That’s why I’m here now.

I started this tonight:

I watched the first three episodes of season 1 what arrived today. Holy crap it's hilarious. I got season 2 in January and decided I should start with season 1, which I waited to do. The wait was worth it. I hurt from laughing so hard. I'll watch more later.

After freeloading someone else's Hulu & Disney+ account I've been re-watching M*A*S*H episodes and six seasons in I'm ready to pack it in. I didn't remember Hawkeye being this obnoxious and tiresome a character. I think there are at least half a dozen points where this jumped the shark but Alan Alda's shtick is the main thread running throughout. The other's include giving Klinger's character more screentime and the loss of Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson and Larry Linville.

The weird part in all this is that I wanted to catch up on all the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes I've missed since giving up cable. But then come to find out they only carry Season 1 (which is before Danny Devito joined the show and therefore the worst season by far). But there's still plenty of shows I want to see. Shogun, Fargo, Bob's Burgers, Archer, The Shield, What We Do in the Shadows.

^ What We Do In The Shadows is a fantastic series.

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Just finished series 1 of Amandaland, a spin off of the comedy series Motherland.

One of my favorite shows is now on Tubi with more seasons than on Prime's Freevee; Car Crash TV. I'm going to dig into this. I didn't want to do it on the TV because I didn't have enough control. I'm a stickler for precision. The episode I was watching just ended so look into this new acquisition of knowledge I shall.

I've been watching other things than Sealab 2021. Maybe at a more reasonable hour today, being Wednesday and all, I can resume my watch of it with episode 5 and maybe 6. They're 12-minute episodes so I like to watch two at a time.

I watched a couple of episodes of Sealab 2021 tonight, which I am wont to do vis watch two at a time, and the second one the captain and kid pretending to be sick reenacted when Captain Willard finds Colonel Kurtz in Coppola's Apocalypse Now. At first it rang familiar, and it dawned on me what I was hearing, and I burst out laughing, and one of the characters commented, "Do you know what we're doing?" and their craft crashed. It was awesome. This show is hilarious. I'll watch more later.

I got caught up on the two and a half seasons of Bob's Burgers I had missed since giving up cable. I think it's still going strong even after 15 seasons. They have a good mix of outlandish episodes with the occasional wistful ones. There were a couple with Regular Sized Rudy that surprised me. Which proves that the writing is strong when even peripheral characters are given a chance to shine.

I'm now on to 30 Rock. It was a topical show so it does have some dated references but the gags fly so fast and furious that it doesn't end up mattering. Four seasons in and it's still as clever and entertaining as M*A*S*H ended up not being.

I got it mostly wrong. All 15 seasons of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are available on HULU and from the looks of it I've only missed season 15. Also, in my opinion, 30 Rock started showing it's age as early as season 3. Jane Krakowski's character of Jenna Maroney almost single-handedly torpedoes the proceedings anytime she's on camera. Which is distressingly often.

I'm catching up on seasons 3 and 4 of Documentary Now, which are freakin' hilarious. Highlights are "Soldier of Illusion," with Alexander Skarsgard as a Werner Herzog-like director in a parody of Burden of Dreams, and "When We Threw Rocks," a parody of When We Were Kings about a Welsh sport where the competitors throw rocks at each other. It's on Netflix in the U.S.

Right now I'm 15 minutes in watching Long Bright River. So far so good.

It's about Kensington, Philadelphia. Homeless, drug addicted area of US. It seems like it's going to be about missing person case.

What bugged me about this show which I didn’t watch was that it wasn’t filmed in Philly. Imagine The Sopranos if it was filmed anywhere but NYC & NJ. It would have been totally unbelievable.

Watched the first episode of The Residence. Bit disappointed as I was expecting a light hearted murder mystery.

I don't mind swearing in tv and films but the swearing in this just spoils it for me, first episode we have one character say **** about ten times in one scene...

Seven episodes left I think. Is it worth sitting through to see who is revealed as the killer?

Love watching Uzo Aduba as Cordelia Cupp though.

Don't know if it's me or the inevitable dip in quality when it comes to long running shows but most of the stuff I revisit just seems played out. The latest one is Archer. I tried watching the 14th and final season but it was plain to see that it had outlived it's glory days. So I just skipped to the series finale and even that was more of the same old, same old. Archer's a world class a$$hole, lather, rinse, repeat. Oh well. It had a few good-to-great seasons but in the end had overstayed it's welcome. I'm gonna try watching something I haven't already seen.

Anyone else watching The Pitt? It's amazing.