Since we were discussing Frasier earlier, Jose makes some awesome sitcom retrospectives with a leftist bent. Here is his Frasier video.
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That is a great video.
I fkin love Jose.
They recently did the narration for a live script reading of The Matrix!!! Their voice was PERFECT.
Got a link? I hadnt seen that on their channel
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Not sure if they posted it on their channel. It was part of a charity event in which one of the directors (I think it was Lana?) showed up to make a donation 
This is the video from Jessie Gender’s channel (she plays Cypher).
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Anybody else watching Down with Love? It makes me want to live in New Zealand
I watched with my 17-year-old son who has seen all of rebels and clone wars etc that I haven’t seen, I had no idea what was going on and he was loving it.
I was also like 3 martinis in.
But anyway, I’ll keep watching I guess.
S6 is bonkers
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If you don’t want to go back and watch Rebels, consider just the 45 minute finale (Season 4, Ep 15+16). You’ll get a lot of backstory without a bunch of new stuff.
One things that gets lost in the reduction of episodes from 22 down to 10 are these very character driven long storylines or even bottle episodes that are character inflected. Now the short seasons necessitate moving the plot along and even when they are more character focused you don’t get that long term relationship with the characters.
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Things I forgot existed #385
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As quick sitcom send-ups go, I’m always pretty happy with this one.
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They say practice makes perfect.
If that’s true, Graham Roland spent the last twenty years practicing for his newest show Dark Winds.
Set in 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley, Dark Winds follows Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon, The Son, Westworld, Fargo) of the Tribal Police as he is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past. He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon, The Red Road, Roswell, New Mexico). Chee, too, has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation. Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other and their own personal demons on the path to salvation.
If you’re curious about the quality of storytelling…
Executive produced by George RR Martin and Robert Redford.
Just watch this opening bank robbery scene (and then let the rest of the episode keep playing for free). HOLY shit this is some good TV.
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Looks very interesting. I just wish it wasn’t on AMC plus.
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THE SAME!!! But at least the first episode is free.
The show is based off a series of novels.
Robert Redford: “I read my first Tony Hillerman novel in 1986 while filming in New Mexico and was immediately hooked. Hillerman is a master storyteller, his writing is full of mystery and suspense, set amidst a background that blends traditional oral stories of Native American culture and landscape. I am happy to partner with George R.R. Martin and AMC on this project, and am especially grateful for the collaboration with President Nez and The Navajo Nation.”
George RR Martin: “Tony Hillerman was one of the greats, as every mystery reader knows. Down here in the Southwest, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are as iconic as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Philip Marlowe, and Travis McGee. When my friends Robert Redford and Chris Eyre asked me to help bring Leaphorn and Chee back to television, I could not agree fast enough. We have great source material in Tony’s novel Listening Woman , a great pilot script from Graham Roland, a great director in Chris… and what a pair of leads, with Zahn McClarnon as Leaphorn and Kiowa Gordon as Chee! Our plan is to shoot in New Mexico, in and around Santa Fe and on the Navajo reservation, and we are bringing in as many Navajo and other Native Americans as possible, as writers, directors, cast, and crew, to capture all the magic and mystery and wonder of the Land of Enchantment. Thanks to AMC for making it possible. Tony Hillerman wrote a lot of amazing books, and it is our dream to adapt as many of them as we can.”
The series creator has been adapting these books into movies for decades before AMC said hmm how about a TV show??
Tony Hillerman is a New Mexico legend. When we lived there, literally everyone had at least one of his books on their shelves. I need to find a way to watch this…
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