TV Talk

Hello dear friends.  I hope you all enjoyed your weekend.  We had a great time with our #1 and Adorable Jonathon.  I've got lots of photos to share with you at a later date.

Here are some of the TV shows that are on my radar this month.  

Remember I told you how excited I was about this new show? Well, I watched the first 2 episodes and I thought they were confusing and slow as molasses.  But at least I had my boyfriend, Kyle Chandler to stare at.  But I didn't give up.  I plugged on and watched the third episode, and that's when it started to get good.  Really good.

I think what makes this show so captivating is its stellar casting.  The actors that play these roles are so darn good, you would swear they were playing themselves.  

The critics love Bloodline - they call it the next Sopranos. Netflix has renewed it for a second season and I don't know whether I can wait for season 2.

 

  I'm coming late to the party on Mr. Selfridge, but so glad I finally arrived.  It is in its third season, and I just began its first season on Amazon.  Jeremy Piven is positively brilliant in the title role.  If you enjoy Downton and miss it as much as me, Mr. Selfridge is the perfect replacement.

I have only been allowing myself to watch Mr. Selfridge on the treadmill.  I have made the tough decision to ONLY watch it there so that I will be much more apt to get on that wicked torture machine and lose some lbs.

Just like an ice cold Mint Julep on a hot day, Southern Charm will quench your thirst for beautiful, young, entitled, spoiled, Southerners.  I can't get enough of this show.  I told the Mister to ask his boss for a transfer to Charleston.  He answered with an eye roll. 

When I saw the ad for The Slap, it didn't really intrigue me.  I wondered how the writers could come up with eight or ten shows about a kid being slapped.  And then my buddy, Suzette from Texas wrote me a note and asked me if I had seen the show.  She said that it was quite good.  Suzette has great taste so I watched it On Demand.  She was right - it is compelling.  To me, it is an edgier Parenthood.  It examines the complexities of family ties, adultery, and a spoiled rotten child whose mother's head is in the clouds. 

If you love historical fiction like I love historical fiction, Wolf Hall is the show for us.  Throw in a little Anne Boleyn and a generous dose of King Henry VIII, and I'll make the popcorn and you bring the wine.

She's baaaaack!  Julia Louis Dreyfus as Senator Selina Meyer becomes President Meyer.  I can hardly wait to watch President Meyer and her team of whack-a-doodles at the helm of running our country.      

Don't tell Don Draper, but I have a confession to make.  I didn't watch the last season of Mad Men.  I don't really know why.  I probably had too much other stuff to watch.  I am planning on watching the new season, though, because it is the final season and I need to give Don a proper good bye.  

I am listening to this book on tape during my walk.  It is very entertaining and is chock full of funny stories about Amy's years with SNL.

I also realized something about myself.  I enjoy listening to autobiographies more than fiction.  It is an added bonus if it is read by the author.  I really liked Tina Fey's book as well as Mindy Kaling's.  Any suggestions for my next book on audible?

Enjoy your week!