The Channel 7 app has the first season of The Loveboat available to stream. Loveboat is perfect comfort viewing. Three problems, heartwarmingly resolved in 47/8 minutes. Except for Julie’s romances: if they live they’re louses – if they’re the real deal there’s generally some form of fatality just around the corner. (Edit. Or they’re a …
This teaser trailer for the upcoming Prime Video series Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power does not give anything new away (except for the series title). But it still promises an awful lot. I’m leaning toward it being good. They know how much they have to live up to.
When I watched Schmigadoon on Apple+, the standout for me was Kristin Chenoweth’s Tribulation. Because I’m a Music Man tragic. Because it’s all done in one shot. Because the vocal delivery and all the choreography all had to be staged and delivered in sync with a steady-cam. Because Kristin Chenoweth, which is reason enough. Sorry …
Schmigadoon is a series in which two contemporary characters find themselves in a town that appears to be a movie musical. It’s amusing. It’s clear that the creators and performers love the form; their understanding of the culture that gave rise to the form is more clouded. Which makes it less than an homage, not …
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