What are you watching?

[Big Frank]

If you like Hurt Locker then BBC on Brit Box is a show called Trigger Point.  Unban  bomb squad in London.  Evidentially they call them EXPO, Explosive Officers.

I may be able to watch that on Prime. If you see them running, try to keep up! That's actually the motto for military EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal).

I'm watching Fugget About It for free on Tubi. Rated 6.9/10 at IMDb. If you go to Tubi and search "fugg" it comes right up. Ex-New York mobster Jimmy Falcone joins the Witness Protection Program, which relocates him and his family to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. So far Jimmy has pronounced Regina correctly once, instead of calling it Vagina, Saskatchewan. He's not too bright, but Uncle Cheech is a complete moron. His pencil mustache reminds me of John Waters, but he's only gay by accident. Tubi's programming includes tens of thousands of movies and TV series for free, paid for by ads which seem very minimal compared to broadcast TV. They supposedly have the most on-demand video of anyone in the world. Sites like this are almost enough for me to give up cable.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1799834/

https://tubitv.com/

[Big Frank]

I'm watching RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop, a 2023 four part TV documentary series on Amazon Prime. The movie RoboCop came out July 17, 1987. In one scene filmed in 1986, Clarence Boddicker plays a DVD from Dick Jones for Bob Morton. But the DVD was first released ten years later, on November 1, 1996, in Japan. When you see it, there's no mistaking it for anything other than a DVD. It's a 5" silver color disk with a hole in the middle that starts playing video as soon as it's inserted into the DVD player, which didn't exist until 10 years later.   My mind is blown, because I didn't even realize that until just now. Science fiction became reality, and I don't think most people noticed.

P.S. They also had Steve Minh, a member of Boddicker's gang, doing a one-handed shotgun pump 4 years before Sarah Connor did it in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

[alfsauve]

The Residence, about life at the White House.  Again  Giancarlo Esposito.  It’s Clue meets Knives Out, meets Columba, meets Inspector Clouseau.  A little drawn out.  Gives a view that the WH staff works for the institution and they tolerate the temporary guests who live there.

Been out for a while and I’ve heard the first season was gritty and grim, so jump to season 2, but Black Mirror is modern version of Twilight Zone.  Stand alone stories in each episode.  No narrator.