Keep watching. They don’t fall into the “same show different episode” too much - definite character arcs for most of the cast.
The ending. Endings are hard. They used theirs to make a point.
I really liked Seal Team.
Bonus: if you watched The Unit and Ultimate Force there are really good performances by actors from those series.
My taste in military TV series runs more towards Blackadder Goes Fourth, and there was a Brit show about bomb disposal squaddies in Afghanistan from a while ago that made me LOL… They totally nailed the barracks room humour. Can’t remember the name but it had Neville Longbottom from Harry Potter in it.
That said. I am all for a decent action show, I just looked to see where it is streaming here and I have a Paramount + subscription. Will check it out.
I guess that’s the curse of knowledge…
Like me watching a movie with airplanes 
Although, who doesn’t love Blackadder? 
It isn’t that as such. Even if the audible eye rolling really pisses the wife off if we are watching a ‘serious’ war movie.
I try to tell people that if you want to watch a movie that shows and truly captures the absurdity of boots on the ground combat then you need to be watching Jarhead and Three Kings. The Odd Angry Shot for the Aussie version.
Seal Team is very gung ho … though it does try to explore (probably only to a very surface level) how those expectations affect the soldiers themselves.
It’s not a comedy at all. It’s a gritty drama, or at least tries to be.
So we just watched Section 31 - I didn’t hate it, but it’s definitely a Marvel fan’s take on a Star Trek movie. More like a double length series opener than a movie, in hindsight… but it was mindless fun.
That’s what I’ve heard. Despite the title it is not a Trek movie.
A shame. I have been waiting for a Section 31 focused movie/series ever since they showed us the darker side of the Federation in DS9.
It was a good idea in concept, it was just flawed in the execution.
The biggest was probably, besides the total lack of any familiar characters but one, that Section 31 always seemed to be about individuals. They never worked as a team, it was always super covert implants in various organizations. Maybe this one would contact that one with information and/or direction, but not one big ship with a 31 crew!
To suddenly have half a dozen working together, and on top of that to have a Starfleet observer? Uh, how can everyone in the TNG/DS9 era be unaware they even exist if they’re going to do combined ops in the gap between TOS and TNG?
Now I grant it’s not classic “Star Trek,” but it’s a new idea in the ST universe and I think it was a risk worth taking. It just shouldn’t have been Section 31 because it goes against what we were already shown of it. Too much retcon.
Started watching “Better call Saul” while pixelarting away at night.
It’s … wow. First 4 episodes are impossibly good.
Fun, witty, hard hitting at times… to see Jonathan Banks cry is definitely something.
I honestly hated him in Beverly Hills cop (1984) but holy heck he is a good actor!
His performance as an ATC in Airplane! was Oscar-worthy, too!
Nice Indiana Jones jacket he’s wearing.
Just a generic bomber jacket. I had one just like that for over 20 years, recently dumped it as the liner was all torn up.
Classic A-2. My dad gave me his from when he was in the Navy. Found my great uncle’s WW2-era jacket (B-17 pilot) on some auction site somewhere that sold for a lot of money and wondered how the hell that thing ended up on a random auction site at all.
Anyway, started season two of SAS: Rogue Heroes. I really dislike how they portray Paddy. He’s gotten more arrogant in the second season. First season it was bearable as the conflict-producing plot device but now it just feels overdone. That and the constant muscle-washing of history that the entertainment industry does these days. The average soldier of the day was like 65kg of functional muscle, not 80kg of body-building steroid-fueled all-show-no-go mass we keep getting bombarded with.
Still an enjoyable watch, though.
Hitting the gym and ‘bulking up’ was already a thing at Swanbourne during my time, but most of the guys just looked like an ‘average’ soldier. Pretty much still the same these days, you wouldn’t look twice at them if you passed them in the street.
I took part in a CT exercise with them once, long story - it was to do with some of the specialist surveillance equipment we used. Anyway, I was fit but at 185cm (6ft) and 75kg (165lb) I was hardly the current stereotype SF trooper.
It wasn’t until the end of the Ex that they realised I wasn’t ‘one of them’. They thought that I must have been fresh off the latest selection course and that was why they didn’t recognise me.
It has to have been at least 20 years since I last viewed it. Still a pretty good watch.
Wheels
Great movie. I’m pretty sure that I watched it yesterday 
Groundhog Day runs on Austrian linear TV every year in December. Exactly my kind of humour.
I absolutely adore it.
And below the comedy layer there’s honestly a lot of depth.
One of my overall favorite.
So I’m a little late to the party, but I watched, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” for the first time last night. I’m a massive, massive Mr. Rogers fan, but as much as I love Tom Hanks, I was admittedly nervous about his portrayal of one of my personal heroes.
Welp, I needn’t have worried. Not only was Hanks ABSOLUTELY AMAZING as Fred Rogers, but they did a great job adapting the main thrusts of the article, and the story behind the article, upon which the movie is based. My wife also loved it.
We decided that, once we’re done with our Bluey watch, we’ll probably start watching some Mr. Rogers Neighborhood (I have most, if not all of the DVDs released so far) to keep that positive energy going.
If you’ve not seen the movie, do so, it’s just such a balm.
@MiG21bisFishbedL so, finished the first season of Twisted Metal and it was surprisingly delicious.
Some effects are almost poorly done, some acting is almost bad, and some of the plot almost pointless.
And yet.
It’s just… fun!
I watched some long play of the Playstation games and the references they added in the show are so cute.
Glad I watched it!
Waiting for season 2 now.