What's on TV These Days?

[Ben Framed]

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[Michael Bush]

>it will be leaving Netflix in a few days.  How was the new one?

You can watch it today.  The new one was fine.  Good actors, good acting, same story.  But the old one was good actors, good acting and the same story.

I also watched Run Silent Run Deep (Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Don Rickles).

[Kathyp]

everyone except for me was so mad about the ending that I doubt that suggestion would go over well.

Little OT, but I have a book of original children's stories. I was reading The Little Match Girl to my then 5 year old granddaughter, forgetting how it ended. Fortunately she she'd fallen asleep before we got to the end. 

[The15thMember]

You can watch it today.  The new one was fine.  Good actors, good acting, same story.  But the old one was good actors, good acting and the same story.

One can watch it today, but I can't.    I've got a matinee hockey game this afternoon, and then setup for New Year's Eve tonight.  My sisters and I always make beds on the floor and sleep out in the living room.  We started a new tradition a couple years ago of watching a musical on New Year's Eve, so The Sound of Music the plan for tonight.  At midnight we will of course tune into New Year's Rockin' Eve for the ball drop.     

Little OT, but I have a book of original children's stories. I was reading The Little Match Girl to my then 5 year old granddaughter, forgetting how it ended. Fortunately she she'd fallen asleep before we got to the end. 

We had a animated movie version of that when I was little, some direct-to-video VHS from a small studio, and they changed the ending, so I was like in my teens before I knew what really happened at the end of the original story. 

[Terri Yaki]

I don't understand the infatuation with The Rifleman, I watch an episode or two and thought it was cheesy.

[animal]

all of those programs/movies are cheesy

cheesy is great for kids on their own. Other stuff is still good to watch with kids if you are with them.
I remember liking the cheesy stuff .. like Rifleman, Daniel Boone, Lone Ranger and even stuff like Leave it to Beaver
My daughters watched "Watership Down", "Animal Farm" and other classics by the time they were 4 or 5 (had also had the books read to them).
And the "original" fairy tales with death, cannibalism, and other nasties intact. You just have to explain the meanings and reassure them. They also had newer stuff like "Rainbow Fish" with an added conversation to point out the fallacies in the stories. Kids can handle much more than people think with proper guidance (and why improper guidance by woke teachers is so insidious).

[The15thMember]

Kids can handle much more than people think with proper guidance (and why improper guidance by woke teachers is so insidious).

I couldn't agree more with this.  I can't believe how far children's programming has fallen even since I was a kid. 

I don't understand the infatuation with The Rifleman, I watch an episode or two and thought it was cheesy.

I remember liking the cheesy stuff .. like Rifleman, Daniel Boone, Lone Ranger and even stuff like Leave it to Beaver

Rifleman is exactly one cut above the rest in that list, exclusively for the reason that Mark and Lucas are really good characters.  The other characters and the stories in Rifleman are often weak.  I always feel like the show really needed an hour to be very good, and unfortunately it never got it.  It's also important to remember that Rifleman was the first show on TV to show a single father raising a child on his own, so that is really the draw of the show.   

My sister and I like watching cowboy shows for fun, but I'm fully willing to admit that the overwhelming majority of them (Tombstone Territories, Bonanza, Mask of Zorro, etc.) are tacky and shallow.  But they are still wholesome and fun to make fun of.  Then there are shows like Rifleman, which are entertaining, and shows that are genuinely really good, like Rawhide, which we watch all the way through, and don't just toss on TV while we're hanging out.  And then there's Gunsmoke, which literally is the single best TV show ever produced, and nothing you can say could convince me otherwise.      

[Terri Yaki]

Having a little trouble finding new stuff to watch, we got Paramount+ now and have been watching the Taylor Sheridan shows. 1923 only has one season out as of now but we watched that and now we're watching 1883. The Rifleman has nothing on them.

[buzzbee]

I'm watching those series too.
I am watching Landman on Paramount+ too.

[Ben Framed]

Each to his own and I enjoy some of those too; But If you want to view good westerns, the old black and white (early John Wayne Movies) are hard to beat. >Blue Steel< is one that comes to mind.  >Randy Rides Alone< is another as well as
>The Lucky Texan< with Gabby Hays the perfect sidekick; (and sometimes known to do a pretty good job as a villain) 😮

There are others fully, equally interesting. Those movies were filmed in settings which were authentic to the era, life in the early West. The old barns, the structures of wood buildings, a peep hole in the floor of an old hotel for security as cameras systems did not exist and electricity was a rairty. . A bridge being washed out, even down to the crowing of a rooster and cattle of that day. And the gear used, such as wagons, including saddles and spurs of that time, all authentic!

But just as importantly to the strength of the movie, was the struggle of good vs evil.  Where the wolf in sheeps clothing is exposed and usually exterminated in a realistic way, without the added (politically correct (emphasis) that is packed into some of the above mentioned. 

Along with Gabby Hays, Yakima Canutt was usually in those films as well. He played the perfect bad guys strong arm man. Sometimes he stared as the head bad guy.

>Enos Edward "Yakima" Canutt (November 29, 1895 ? May 24, 1986) was an American champion rodeo rider, actor, stuntman, and action director. He developed many stunts for films and the techniques and technology to protect stuntmen in performing them.<

[Terri Yaki]

I wonder how accurate 1883 is. They are on one tough road to Oregon.

[Ben Framed]

I viewed about 5 minutes of one of those which featured a (politically correct) court scene. Men were men back then and the problem villain  (in reality) would have been eliminated might quickly. For modern folks I suppose it's entertaining,  but for the era, in my opinion (from what I seen), is bunkum. Try lonesome dove one if you want a more realistic atmosphere in a western movie.

[Terri Yaki]

I tried Lonesome Dove once for some reason, it didn't suck me in. The Taylor Sheridan shows, OTOH, make me want more. Yellowstone, 1883, and 1923. And there are major stars in the lineup.

[Ben Framed]

I wasn?t much for Lonesome Dove 2

[Ben Framed]

I tried Lonesome Dove once for some reason, it didn't suck me in. The Taylor Sheridan shows, OTOH, make me want more. Yellowstone, 1883, and 1923. And there are major stars in the lineup.

Speaking of Lonesome Dove One in comparison to those two, they are not the same for sure. Im of the opinion that the yellowstones use a previous era setting to fulfill a modern day mindset aimed at the politically oppressed, releasing a bit of frustration for the latter.  Which would make them extremely popular in todays society.

[The15thMember]

1883?  Barf.  That show is a DUMPSTER FIRE!  That show portrays a version of the west invented by modern suburban and urban yuppies who can't possibly envision the world of the 1800s, so they assume that it must have been unsurvivable.  It's ridiculous, inaccurate, and full of woke undertones that made my sister and I angry and offended.  We watched the first episode and were so irate we couldn't go to sleep.  I posted about it on this thread, because the show is a prequel to Yellowstone and it made me wonder if Yellowstone was crap too.
https://beemaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=55953.0 

[Ben Framed]

Thank you Reagan for clearly articulating your view, as your opinion is in sync with mine and is what I was attempting to communicate . 

[The15thMember]

  No problem.  My sister and I are planning on reading Lonesome Dove.  We've heard that it's really good.

[Terri Yaki]

Party poopers!      Dramatized or not, we find it entertaining and somehow, I've missed the woke undertones, with one exception.

Thank you Reagan for clearly articulating your view, as your opinion is in sync with mine and is what I was attempting to communicate . 

Uh huh, go ahead and gang up on me, I can handle it.

If I want reality, I'll locate my old Howard Stern WWOR show tapes. 

[Ben Framed]

lol Enjoy your show Terri, as they say variety is the spice of life!  I?m sure there are plenty of others here that enjoy both of those programs you mentioned.

Back in the eighties I enjoyed the original Magnum PI. Did you watch that one?