Vision Pro Television
A simulacrum within a simulacrum.
A kidhood mondegreen
“Keep your eyes to look out, keep your ears to hear.”
Weather drama
“... 36° under the cover of darkness tonight ...”
Joyce Randolph (1924–2024)
The last Honeymooner.
Bravery!
O drama!
The Times investigates Hallmark and Lifetime movies
Stuff like this makes me want to just ditch my subscription and read for free.
Mystery actor
Another one.
In Fraiserland
“The more I confessed to friends/strangers I cornered at the park that I craved the Cranes to fall asleep, the more I discovered that other millennial moms had the same postpartum addiction to Frasierland.”
Mystery actor
It’s night, it’s really that dark, and her face fills the screen, just like so. I recognized her, but I knew she was in the movie.
Sammy Davis Jr. sings the theme from Maude
You’re welcome.
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An obscure film noir and the opening credits for Mad Men.
Frasier again
Paramount+ has made a series that might appeal to fans of Cheers. I’m not sure how it’s supposed to appeal to fans of Frasier.
Hallmark censors Frasier
As our household makes its way through Frasier, we listen closely for the missing words.
Eleven movies, one mini-series
Telemarketers and others.
Phil’s Stationery
I was surprised and delighted to see Phil’s Stationery make a brief appearance in “How to Track Your Package,” the final episode of How To with John Wilson.
Goodbye, (dumb) TV
Thank you for your service. Stay away from landfills.
An EXchange name sighting
From The Man in the Net.
TV in the classroom
“You know how in The Wire, Walter White shaves his head and wears a black hat and calls himself Heisenberg? Wait — was that The Wire, or Breaking Bad ?”
Twelve movies
She Said and others.
Eleven movies, one series
It Always Rains on Sunday and others.
Mystery actor
If you’ve spent sufficient time in front of screens large and small, his face will likely be recognizable, even with the sunglasses, and even if you have to look up his name.
Better living through TV
“How’d we ever get along without television?”
Ten movies, two seasons
L’Innocent and others.
Top of the muffin
An unexpected pleasant moment in the day.
Somebody Somewhere renewed
I’m happy to see that Somebody Somewhere has been renewed for a third season. It’s a show that deserves a much larger audience.
A minority report on Succession
Bill Wyman: “Succession was very much like what you would get if the Roy children themselves tried to do a grown-up HBO series.”
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A thought about the John Berryman lines in Succession.
Succession and poetry
Frank O’Hara and John Berryman.
George Maharis (1928–2023)
After watching all of Route 66 in 2013, Elaine and I wrote fan letters to George Maharis and Martin Milner. Maharis wrote back.
Mystery actor
Who?