TV Tuesdays Free Talk

I'm not a big tv person but i started watching Romulus (2020) from Italy. Its the second big Italian TV show i have watched (after Gomorrah) and i must say, its pretty good. I am 5-ish episodes in and it took a while because i dont usually like the semi-horror stuff (i only watched one episode but it is a bit Dark-y) but this is enjoyable. I found it frustrating at first because it isnt the Romulus and Remus story i know (brothers suckled on a she-wolf, found the city, fratricide, rape of the sabines etc.) this is weirdly historical, plus it is in Latin. It took a while to even find the "real" tribes and stuff from the series but once i did i managed to place everything and found it much easier to watch.

Pet peeve but they acted weirdly stone age-y for what is a bronze age tribe and they are weirdly inconsistent with what "era" they are in. Half the time it feels like stone age (literal grunting, "monkey" body language, stone tools) other times it feels bronze age, and occasionally there is iron.

A while ago someone suggested me to watch the 2006 TV show Psychic Psych, but I answered I was unwilling to download it since it wasn’t on any of my stream services.

It recently entered Amazon Prime. It’s the perfect show to watch in breaks during the day – light yet engaging, and more amusing than laugh out loud funny. It’s good to watch a comedy being openly thoughtless and irresponsible, something that is not so easy to do in our era of problematization.

It’s crazy how 2006 looks dated. Not just the sparse presence of digital technology – Psychic Psych was clearly shot on highly sensible film, which gives the image a lot of grain on external scenes during the day. That’s something 2006 television sets would hide, but becomes very apparent in my 4K display. It’s an obvious defect, but film grain is so naturally pleasant that it’s also kind of charming.