1826

Working my way through the second episode of Young Wallander. Putting aside questions about why it’s English-language, set in contemporary Sweden, and why it needed to be made in the first place, etc., so far I think it’s pretty good. We’ll see if it does the character and stories any justice.

1827

There was an English version of regular old Wallender

1828

Pretty much exactly the same questions, and same response. As a detective show, it is fairly well done, if a bit sappy. But there is zero reason to tie it to the older Wallender other than to try to drive viewing. His father is mentioned twice in the entire series, and it bears no relationship. Plus, it is clearly set in contemporary Malmo, which makes no sense.

But if you just ignore the name Wallender and take it as a Danish detective show, it is worth watching.

1829

I haven’t seen this, but I’m reminded of the Masterpiece PBS series Endeavour, which is supposed to be about young Inspector Morse. It’s a decent show, particularly for its portrayal of policing in Oxford in the late sixties and seventies, but it really has no connection to the old Inspector Morse show at all, except the name of the character.

1830

That reminds me of the Perry Mason series that aired recently. If you ignored the character names and watched it as noir, it was a good series. But it wasn’t your grand dad’s Perry Mason, not by a long shot.

1831

Also Mrs. Columbo. Never saw it, but it sounded so stupid I avoided it.

1832

I see what you did there.

1833

Whoa, Kate Mulgrew sighting.

1834

Haha I actually (don’t judge) watch Remo Williams, a couple of weeks ago. Kate Mulgrew is in that in what has to be the most awful role of her career.

1835

Poor Remo, his adventure was over before it even began.

Fred Ward did not have great luck in the early 80’s starring in two movies that featured the hero’s name in the title and hoped to become franchises, both of which flopped. Timerider : The Adventures of Lyle Swann was the other one. A motocross racer accidentally rides through a military time travel experiment and gets sent back to the 1800’s where he fights Old West outlaws. Damn I miss the eighties!

1836

I liked Remo Williams when I saw it back when I was a teen. Only relatively recently became aware it’s one of those instances of yellowface after not having thought about it in years, Joel Grey even got a Golden Globe nom for doing it

1837

Yeah, Joel Grey is cringe-worthy to watch in that now.

1838

Watching the documentary The Social Dilemma, on why social media (esp. Facebook) suck.

Will report back tomorrow

1839

Watched that the other night.

Through the whole thing, I found myself thinking “yeah, and…?”

1840

Pretty much my reaction

1841

So to clarify, with a million things in my Netflix backlog, I can safely remove The Social Dilemma?

1842

It’s slickly made, but there’s nothing in there you don’t already know

1843

Not just things you already knew, but things you probably don’t really care about unless you’re a Privacy zealot.

1844

I disagree with the others, I literally just finished watching it and it left an impression. It puts into perspective just how fucked up these “you are the product” services really are. Everyone should watch it.

1845

Ratched.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the Nurse Ratched we know and love. It’s related in name only. If anything this is a watery watered down take on Hannibal Lecter as a manipulative nurse.