What I'm watching

The Goldbergs is hands down my favorite new comedy of this current season.  It's a warm hearted but still very funny look at a family in Philadelphia in the early to mid 1980's.  The whole cast is a winner but standouts are Wendi Mclendon-Covey as the mother who loves her kids a little too much and the high strung middle son, Troy Gentile.  I love this show.

I just started watching thi s show my the PBS Roku channel and I love it all ready.  It's a British show about a young country gal who goes to work in a department store and all sorts of interpersonal dramas develop.  We're treated to all the usual British class struggles, male/female struggles, and business antics.  I'm looking forward to seeing how it all plays out.

The first two episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. kicked ass.  I hope the rest of them live up to the promise of the first two.  And Ming Na-Wen, hubba hubba to infinity and beyond.

 Sleepy Hollow is bat shit crazy, in a good way.  It's campy, over the top, and full of good old fashion gonzo storytelling.  And it's got Nicole Beharie, what more could you want?

 I really loved the second series of the British import The Syndicate.   I enjoyed the first series too but it was a bit melancholy, this series has it's dramatic moments, lots of them in fact, but it ends on a happy positive note.  It's on HuluPLUS.

We're finally getting around to watching Treme.  We've blown through the first season and are into the second and we're liking it very much.  It's what we've come to expect from HBO, it's compelling interesting well done drama.  I love the locations and the music.  And Kim Dickens and Lucia Micarelli, double hubba hubba.

You know what's really good?

This show: I did not see it when it first came out and I resisted renting it at Blockbuster but I had heard people, most notably my friend Todd, rave about it but I refused to believe the hype.

But they started running it again on HBO Zone and I am floored by how good it is. The writing, the acting, the direction, the sets, the costumes, everything is incredible. I'm not a huge western fan, I despise most of John Wayne's western movies, but I love love love this series. Of course it doesn't hurt that is has Molly Parker in it either.And boy howdy, Brad Dourif, Paula Malcomson, Ian McShane, Robin Weigert, William Sanderson, Kim Dickens, and John Hawkes are really really good in this too. They're not Molly Parker, but they're damn good.