I’ve enjoyed those, too. I’m finishing up “Break Point” now. It really makes me appreciate how hard these young people work! It’s a tough life.
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Don’t skip the Netflix sports documentary that spawned them all, Drive to Survive. Season 6 drops late next month.
Check out this qualifying lap on the streets of Monaco.
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Season 4 of True Detective started last night - Night Country with Jodie Foster. Creepy, eerie and dark, but intriguing. I’d watch Jodie Foster in anything, but she’s really great in this.
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We started watching Fool Me Once on Netflix. The series is based on a book by Harlan Coben. There are several other Netflix series based on his books—this is the most recent. Having read all of his books, I have been disappointed in the Netflix versions.That being said, I liked Fool Me Once better than the others. It looks like Coben’s daughter was involved in the production.
I have only seen Quarterback but I really liked it. I ended up liking two of the quarterbacks that previously I really didn’t care for. As for Mariota, I have always liked him as I am a Duck fan.
I’ve read all of his books, but have been disappointed in the shows. Maybe we will give this one a try.
Oh, good, DH will be happy. He got into the series so much that he went to a F1 race qualifying day in Austin when we were down there. Race day was way too expensive. He had a great time.
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These shows really are a really great marketing tool! I knew nothing about the Tour de France and the next time the tour happened I said to my DC (who watched it with me), so-and-so is in the lead - like he was my best bud 
. And I am must more likely to watch a golf tournament because Scottie Scheffler and I arelikethis now.
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Finished all of Loudermilk. Really hope they decided to do a fourth season.
If you like K-Dramas also just finished Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha. I thought it was pretty cute. It reminded me a little bit of a Gilmore Girls type of town but in Korea.
Last night I finished binging that crazy rom-com Beef on Netflix 
. I hadn’t watched it earlier because it did not sound like my kind of show. Then it won all those Emmys and I thought, fine, if it’s that good…
I wasn’t sure after the first episode but kept going. Then I enjoyed it, then I was disconcerted, then I was upset, and in the end I was unsure. I appreciated the excellent acting and writing, and understood the concept that it was developing throughout. But after the finale I sat for several minutes trying to decide if it was a mistake to have watched. Still can’t decide the next day, but I suppose that’s a good thing?
OTOH, I have also been streaming Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney+. That one, I have been loving. I’m a fan of Greek mythology to start, and the casting and special effects have been great. Some fun cameos! I never read the books or saw the earlier iffy reviewed movie, so this has been fun.
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Ha, I felt exactly the same about Beef!
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We usually give a series more than one episode before moving on, but we ditched Beef right away.
I just found this review about Beef and I understand all the complexities and how beautifully they were expressed. And I appreciated it. But did I enjoy it? Not so much. I feel the same way about movies and books - I want to feel good, or at least entertained.
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There are many things that I do appreciate and can laud as being well done, and know that I can’t watch them because I’ll find it too upsetting or unsettling.
I think Beef is probably one of those things that’s just not for me.
Now in some contexts, being upset or unsettled isn’t something to be avoided (e.g. staying current on the world, or understanding history), but when it comes to my free time and wanting to just watch an enjoyable bit of media, then I feel fine not wanting to engage with movies and shows that I find upsetting (e.g. I avoided Game of Thrones, not for me!).
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100% agree - don’t want to be depressed or upset by watching TV. It’s too much!
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I, also, recently binged Beef, for same reason you did, the awards.
The last scene, I said WTHeck, 
, quite perturbed.
Googled the ending, and was it designed to have another season?
There is something I’m truly bothered by that show, and it’s in the “don’t like” category for me right now. just too odd and disjointed,
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Dark “Comedy” ……mmmmm comedy ?
From article this helps me put closure on that experience ….
“ Both Danny and Amy are primarily angry about their own disappointments and accumulated humiliations of daily living, not about harm intentionally inflicted by the wickedness of others. They are stuck in the existential anger of finding the world to be full of pain, as opposed to the anger of a specific, acute injury. But the ease with which they both transfer that anger from anger at life to anger at another is frightening, because it feels honest. *That may be Beef 's most timely, most necessary subject of examination: how feelings of powerlessness and the sense that one is spiritually adrift can so easily be shaped into a weapon in search of a target.
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I am going to add Finding Your Roots to my binge list. I plan on watching episodes periodically as opposed to a true binge, where you watch episodes in rapid succession.
This is the episode I just watched.
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Just finished The Inside man on Netflix. Different. Interesting. Held my attention. The actors were good (Stanley Tucci, David Tennant, Janice Fife, and I loved the character Dillon played by Atkins Estimond) so you can kinda get past the “really??” situations).
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H and I started watching How to Get Away with Murder. We started it mostly because we’re fans of Viola Davis. She plays a law professor/practicing lawyer who teaches a course called “How to Get Away with Murder” and has her best first year students working in her firm. Even as a law school dropout, I knew this was not realistic. That being said, Davis is an excellent actress, but the pilot (long) and the first two episodes were full of plot holes and often confusing since the show moves from past to present numerous times. We’ll probably finish the first season, but not sure if we’ll continue. It looks like the series aired for six seasons.