TV Viewings of Late
I find myself less and less enamored with TV these days. There are a few standouts that I watch, but I have found myself drawn more and more to cable, Netflix, and Amazon Prime for nightly entertainment.
This past week, I was scrolling through the channels and came across WKRP, which plays a lot of 70's and 80's TV. It was a fun episode of "The Bionic Woman." I have the whole series on DVD, so I've been watching various episodes this week, enjoying the recall of vague childhood memories when they were first run. Some I honestly am not sure I ever watched, or was I too young to recall them when they were on before.
My DVD collection has had some recent additions of "RuPaul's Drag Race" Seasons 4 and 5. I play the episodes when I work out at home. I'm almost through Season 4 and I'd forgotten how really despicable Phi Phi O'Hara was to the other queens. On the current season (10), RuPaul asked contestant Asia O'Hara about her drag family and she mentioned several queens. According to Wikipedia, Phi Phi is Asia's drag daughter, but she didn't mention her on the show. Now, to me, that seems like shade. Maybe her past performances on the Race didn't sit well with her drag family.
Anyway, I'm watching "The Terror" on AMC right now, about two British ships trying to sail over the Arctic Circle to find a way to the Pacific, only to get stuck in the ice while a creature hunts them. It's very British, with mostly British actors, so I'm really digging the slow burn with spikes of horror and drama.
This past week, I was scrolling through the channels and came across WKRP, which plays a lot of 70's and 80's TV. It was a fun episode of "The Bionic Woman." I have the whole series on DVD, so I've been watching various episodes this week, enjoying the recall of vague childhood memories when they were first run. Some I honestly am not sure I ever watched, or was I too young to recall them when they were on before.
My DVD collection has had some recent additions of "RuPaul's Drag Race" Seasons 4 and 5. I play the episodes when I work out at home. I'm almost through Season 4 and I'd forgotten how really despicable Phi Phi O'Hara was to the other queens. On the current season (10), RuPaul asked contestant Asia O'Hara about her drag family and she mentioned several queens. According to Wikipedia, Phi Phi is Asia's drag daughter, but she didn't mention her on the show. Now, to me, that seems like shade. Maybe her past performances on the Race didn't sit well with her drag family.
Anyway, I'm watching "The Terror" on AMC right now, about two British ships trying to sail over the Arctic Circle to find a way to the Pacific, only to get stuck in the ice while a creature hunts them. It's very British, with mostly British actors, so I'm really digging the slow burn with spikes of horror and drama.