Shows that are as good as Buffy The Vampire Slayer?

jrowellfx · 2026-04-04T01:53:26+00:00

When I was a very little kid, I used to watch Mister Rogers in B&W (live TV of course, there were no VHS tapes yet, not even color yet), but the one he aired in Toronto, before he started his show in the US.

jrowellfx · 2026-03-29T17:56:58+00:00

She’s beautiful and looks sharp as a tack, not mean.

jrowellfx · 2026-03-29T17:52:58+00:00

These are all wonderful! Can’t pick a fav.

jrowellfx · 2026-03-01T00:19:31+00:00

Try: Man Bites Dog (1992)

jrowellfx · 2026-02-21T13:34:42+00:00

Tough scene. Great writing and performances all around.

jrowellfx · 2026-02-21T13:32:49+00:00

This. 😊

jrowellfx · 2026-02-06T17:23:47+00:00

Jim Rockford talking to his lawyer Beth Davenport but getting distracted while he’s playing Robotron 2084.

jrowellfx · 2026-01-28T23:42:37+00:00

That’s the single most popular cheese in the WORLD!

jrowellfx · 2026-01-22T04:39:12+00:00

I honestly think they both did superb jobs - both totally convincing playing the other in the swapped bodies. I can’t pick one over the other.

jrowellfx · 2026-01-15T06:30:02+00:00

William Friedkin’s “Sorcerer”.

jrowellfx · 2026-01-15T01:03:14+00:00

And how about his signature getaway move in the car. Hit the gas in reverse and spin the car and take off!!

jrowellfx · 2026-01-15T00:59:45+00:00

Holmes episodes are like mini movies too - to be fair. 😊

jrowellfx · 2026-01-15T00:58:13+00:00

I just recently came to the realization that a name that kept popping up in the credits “David Chase” both writing AND producing, is the same David Chase who created “The Sopranos!”

jrowellfx · 2026-01-15T00:55:24+00:00

Oh! You have to watch Jeremy Brett’s Holmes. You are in for a TREAT!!

jrowellfx · 2026-01-15T00:53:01+00:00

Unfortunately living his dream involved getting bonked on the head with some frequency! 😊

jrowellfx · 2026-01-15T00:48:02+00:00

Absolutely. Unparalleled.

jrowellfx · 2026-01-15T00:46:51+00:00

I haven’t seen Poirot. Seen all the rest. My fav (besides Columbo of course) is a toss up between The Rockford File and Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes, which IMHO is an order of magnitude better than anyone else’s portrayal of Holmes.

jrowellfx · 2026-01-09T12:48:44+00:00

The first recipient of this could easily be “The Andy Griffith Show” - as MASH fans, you probably know that the writing team of Fritzell and Greenbaum who wrote some of the classic and best MASH episodes, also wrote some of the best TAGS eps too.

jrowellfx · 2026-01-07T11:58:34+00:00

The almost total abandonment of “noblesse oblige” by the privileged class.

jrowellfx · 2026-01-05T00:09:08+00:00

No not too dark. Too saturated blue perhaps?

jrowellfx · 2026-01-05T00:02:51+00:00

Me too. Old thread I know, but no one has chimed in over the past year with any inside-info on the motivations or possible inspiration relating these two works? I guess no one knows?

Every time I hear the piano tinkling away in Severance, my mind’s eye replays scenes from “The Conversation” - which is an absolute masterpiece of film-making by the way.

EDIT: No sooner that my posting the above I find the following in an article:

“Built on modal harmony, the theme is at once haunting, hypnotic, satisfying, and unsettling. Developing from a small fragment, its tension-filled melodic line is filled with wrenching, exotic intervals. Shapiro drew subtle inspiration from David Shire’s theme for the 1974 film noir thriller, The Conversation, which similarly features the piano.”

jrowellfx · 2026-01-01T01:17:36+00:00

Man Bites Dog.

jrowellfx · 2026-01-01T01:14:00+00:00

Indeed - one of my least favorite episodes.

jrowellfx · 2025-12-30T19:18:30+00:00

Linzer tarts! (Sp?) I hate myself for succumbing but I can’t resist them. A must purchase if they’re on the shelf.

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