But Call Me Betsy

Since Dan watched the entire 55 or whatever episodes of Breaking Bad , he's never been able to find another show that interests him wit the same intensity. I'm fine with Poldark (he calls it Dark Pole ) or Downton Abbey or any PBS mystery show (though not a total fan of Miss Fischer's Murder Mysteries because I can't get a bead on when it was actually made or how old she's supposed to be and I just really can't believe that many murders would happen around the same person). We tried two and a half seasons of the Wire, and he found it to be dated and not very compelling. We've tried episodes of Broadchurch , Marcella , The River , and other British mystery procedurals, but he's not into those. We liked Stranger Things, largely because of the nostalgia for the 80s. The closest he's come to finding a show he couldn't wait to watch again is The Night Of on HBO, that crime drama with Jon Turturro, and he and Luke also like The Walking Dead (can...

You know that guy who was in the British version of The Office and also in the newer Sherlock series? He's a Casper Milquetoast kind of guy--nondescript but attractive in this bland way. He's in a new show that I read about in US Weekly this weekend. If you ever have to choose between getting your viewing or book recommendations from say, The New Yorker or The New York Times and a weekly pop culture mag, I say, go with the cheap mag. They gave a thumbs up to his new show, Fargo , a series based on the Coen Brothers films, which happens to be one of my favorite movies, in large part because the main character is a pregnant cop, and the pregnancy part of the story has little or nothing to do with the plot. We watched the season premiere the other night and it was engaging, to a point, but also kind of boring.  Billy Bob Thorton is the bad guy, and Dan's stance is that he's holding it all together. My only concern is that they've created this really sad sack of ...