A Funereal Ambush for ‘Reacher,’ Awkward Homecoming in ‘Mankind,’ ‘Craft in America,’
Reacher and his team are ambushed while paying their respects to a fallen comrade in an exciting episode of Prime Video’s hit Reacher. A defector makes an awkward return to NASA while a devious plot unfolds on Mars in For All Mankind. The Peabody-winning Craft in America shines a light on miniature crafts.
Reacher
Even a funeral isn’t safe for Reacher (Alan Ritchson) and his former Army buddies in another exciting episode of the hit series based on Lee Child’s books. The hulking hero gains new respect for the NYPD’s Det. Guy Russo (the hugely entertaining Domenick Lombardozzi) when Reacher sees how good he is with the son of their fallen comrade, but after they’re ambushed at graveside, Reacher is far less impressed by the officer’s driving skills. “I thought this was supposed to be a high-speed pursuit,” he grumbles as Russo tries to keep up with a fleeing shooter. Elsewhere, Neagley (Maria Sten) and Dixon (Serinda Swan) head to Denver to get intel on New Age Technologies, only to run across a violent hijacking of some very dangerous hardware.
For All Mankind
Having defected to Russia for very complicated reasons, former NASA director Margo Madison (Wrenn Schmidt) isn’t surprised to get the cold shoulder from her former colleagues when she reluctantly returns to Houston to assist in the plans to retrieve a valuable asteroid. But she’s in for a real shock when an important figure from her past tracks her down. Up on Mars, disgruntled Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinneman) schemes with Helios founder Dev Ayesa (Edi Gathegi) to subvert the asteroid capture for their own benefit, risking anything and anyone to get what they want. With only two more episodes of the excellent Season 4 remaining, we can’t help but watch this subplot unfold with dread.
Craft in America
Season Premiere
The Peabody Award-winning series devoted to the cultural significance of handmade objects and their creators returns with two episodes, including a close look at painstakingly detailed miniature crafts, featuring artists from Cuba and Mexico to Uzbekistan and the U.S. The hour includes a visit to Santa Fe’s International Folk Art Market and the New Mexico Museum of Art, where the late Gustave Baumann’s century-old marionettes are on display. An accompanying episode about the intersection of “Play” and art includes segments on distinctive piñatas, handmade puppets and cleverly repurposed items like a unicorn fashioned from Mardi Gras beads. It’s OK to try this at home.
The World According to Football
The docuseries about soccer’s potential to effect social change ends in Qatar. Narrator Trevor Noah covers how the world’s focus on the 2022 FIFA World Cup’s host country exposed the way it dropped the ball on human rights.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
The painfully slow build of this fantasy thriller can be frustrating, but with signs pointing to another Godzilla-size catastrophe looming, Monarch sends the young heroes to Kazakhstan, site of the 1959 tragedy, where Shaw (Kurt Russell) plans to seal the portal to the underground where monsters dwell. “There’s a world down there,” he tells Cate (Anna Sawai), “and it’s not ours.” But somehow, these worlds always have a way of colliding.
BOWL MANIA:
- Heading into the New Year’s weekend, where playoff games at the Rose and Sugar Bowls will decide who’ll play in the National Championship Game in January, regional bowl games proliferate. The lineup includes the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl (noon ET, ESPN) in Jacksonville, with No. 22 Clemson vs. Kentucky; the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl (2 pm/ET, CBS) in El Paso, with No. 16 Notre Dame vs. No. 19 Oregon State; the AutoZone Liberty Bowl (3:30 pm/ET, ESPN) in Memphis, with Memphis vs. Iowa State; and the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (8 pm/ET, ESPN) in Dallas, with No. 9 Missouri vs. No. 7 Ohio State.
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After last night's silliness, tonight TCM is back to form... with another (better) kind of silliness. Tonight Cary Grant goes international with his women: first Italian, with Sophia Loren in Houseboat, and then French, with Leslie Caron in Father Goose.
On the downside (for me, at least) my local PBS channel isn't airing Agatha Christie's Poirot tonight. Some weeks they do, some they don't. I hoped that now that the holiday is over, they'd go back to it, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
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I think I've mentioned here before that our cable package maddeningly only has TCM on at a lower channel number, with no HD version at a higher channel number like most, and its default view stretches it awkwardly to fullscreen in a way that makes it tough to even kind-of fix using television settings.
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Ugh, that IS maddening. 😠
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After trying it out for a month, I’m about to switch to YouTubeTV, their cable alternative. It offers HD versions of everything and has all the channels I currently get on my Spectrum cable package, which is more expensive. I think there are 200+ channels and included are PBS, TCM and all my local network channels.
One feature I really like is unlimited DVR storage. Also not paying for cable hardware and fees every month because it comes in via internet and the DVR is in the cloud. I have Every Hallmark Christmas movie aired during the last month saved lol. The only thing I’m not crazy about is the channel guide but I’ve gotten used to it, and it’s not as essential (for me) with unlimited DVR. Pick a program to record and YouTube figures the rest out.
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I do appreciate the recommendation but we're not quite ready to cut the cord yet. (My attempt at a brief explanation as to why ended up more detailed than I thought wise...) However, I might give it a try over the next couple of weeks as TCM has a documentary series called The Power of Film coming up that looks interesting and might not end up streaming on Max right away.
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Houseboat and Father Goose are legitimate classic comedies.
Most of the Cary Grant comedies are superior to me. In addition to those two, I especially enjoyed, Topper (and sequels ) The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, My Favorite Wife, Arsenic and Old Lace, Operation Petticoat, That Touch of Mink, I Was a Mailorder Bride, Indiscreet, Mr Blandlings Builds His Dream House and perhaps my ultimate favorite , Bishops Wife!
His classic dramas were awesome as well but that’s another post!
Happy New Year!
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And then there's The Philadelphia Story, of course, and even The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.
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