The Television Streaming Thread: Now With Felonies

The funny thing is that the implied spinoff - of the show called “Bosch” about Bosch the detective - is a show about two detectives named Bosch! I wonder what the title will be.

But this is pretty appropriate is you actually read the books. There, Bosch is a Vietnam Vet and one of the more difficult parts of reading them over the 10-15 years is seeing the convoluted hoops Connelly has to go through to come up with some plausible way to keep him doing work well after he has presumably started getting Social Security.

Apparently the leading candidate for the title is Bosch PI but they haven’t made it official since it’s a spoiler for the current season. They’re already filming and seem to want it to air asap in order to maintain momentum while switching streaming platforms.

So the season finale of Top Chef was this week. I thought it was a fantastic season, all things considered since they filmed last October during the pandemic. I won’t spoil it in case some haven’t watched yet but it’s just recently come out that the winner was fired from their job in December last year. Nothing official but it seems to be many instances of sexual harassment and creating a general bad workplace environment.

Wtf reallly!

God it feels like every guy is a scumbag. I loved this season. Of course it has to be ruined. Ugh.

I’m not seeing anything about multiple instances. On the surface this seems like asshole boss and stupid workplace relationship more than sexual harassment.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/07/02/gabe-erales-top-chef-portland-winner-sexual-harassment-allegations-firing-comedor-austin/7839719002/

Oh, I may have misinterpreted the article. I just took “repeated violations” to mean multiple harassment instances.

Edit add: the article I linked says essentially the same as yours. Padma had a tweet about how they weren’t aware of any allegations and would be investigating. So I took it to be more serious than a employer disagreement.

Kind of a spoiler. If I had to bet money on which of the finalists was doing some sexual harassing, there is one overwhelming favorite.

I considered that but also thought that it’s been 3 days and I saw Padma say something about it so I figured it would be okay. Wasn’t my intention or thought process. Apologies.

I saw it, so I don’t care. But you might consider editing some spoiler tags into part of your earlier posts.

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No Sudden Move on HBO Max is pretty good, absolutely worth watching. 1950s crime drama directed by Steven Soderbergh with a many-star cast. How bad could that be?

Watched half of Bo Burnham’s special (had work to do, so stopped at intermission). It’s as great as everyone says. Holy shit.

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My favorite reality show ever, The Mole, just showed up on Netflix.

It’s only two seasons long but it’s hosted by a fairly unknown Anderson Cooper. It tasks a group of people through challenges while one of them is the mole whose goal is to sabotage the game as much as possible.

Each week they answer questions about who they think the mole is. The lowest score gets “executed”.

Going to rewatch it to see if my memories hold up. My recollection is that the ratings were modest (it was in that first wave of reality shows after survivor) and it ran into production conflicts with 9/11. There was a celebrity season with Amad Rashad as host (not sure if it is the S2 here having trouble remembering a regular S2)

But all the contestants are like almost thirty and up.

I do remember the first season pretty well and just rewatch the introduction I remember almost everyone. Check it out if you must.

#tinybubbles

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Shame on you.

There were TWO Celebrity Mole (With the second season having Denis Rodman,Corbin Bernsen, AND Stephen Baldwin)

Unfortunately Netflix has neither of the celebrity seasons, even though they are awesome.

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And, Im personally shocked to learn, there was a 5th season in 2007, 3 years after the second celebrity edition.

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I did see them all I just didn’t remember there being two. I know Kathy griffin was on one.

I vaguely remember that but I don’t think it was any good.

My favorite reality show was The Joe Schmo Show.

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Fuuuuuuuyyyaahhhhhhhh

The second season is TERRIBLE, but the first season is one of the best television seasons ever.

Btw there is a difference between reality show and competition reality show to me. You can have a favorite in each category

Did you watch season 3?