Today's premieres and other notes (Friday, May 1)

[Robin Miller]

Streaming:


All Day and a Night (movie) (3:01 am, Netflix)

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the
circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
A powerful, unflinching drama from Black Panther co-writer Joe Robert
Cole, starring Ashton Sanders (Moonlight), Jeffrey Wright (Westworld),
Isaiah John (Snowfall) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Watchmen).

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/all-day-and-a-night [score 58]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3993886/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Day_and_a_Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC9Kk8Np9-Y

https://www.netflix.com/title/80226923



Almost Happy [Casi Feliz] [new; complete season 1] (3:01
am, Netflix)

Sebastián is a radio show host of modest fame, trying to find a way in
the world as he deals with his ex-wife (whom he still loves) and two
kids. Argentinian series.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12146940/

https://www.republicworld.com/entertainment-news/web-series/what-time-does-almost-happy-season-1-release-on-netflix.html

https://www.netflix.com/title/80225954



Get In (movie) (3:01 am, Netflix)

When he returns from vacation and finds his home occupied by squatters,
a family man is caught in a conflict that escalates to terrifying
heights. French film.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81158163



The Half of It (movie) (3:01 am, Netflix)

Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock
Paul, who needs help winning over a popular girl. But their new and
unlikely friendship gets complicated when Ellie discovers she has
feelings for the same girl. From Writer/Director Alice Wu.

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-half-of-it [score 75]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Half_of_It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-yhF7IScUE

https://www.netflix.com/title/81005150



Hollywood [new; complete season 1] (3:01 am, Netflix)

Ryan Murphy's second Netflix series to air (following The Politician)
but the first ordered by the streaming service after signing Murphy to a
long-term deal, Hollywood is a seven-episode limited series set in
late-1940s Hollywood, where various filmmakers attempt to strike it big
in a movie industry that is biased against certain genders, races, and
sexualities. Darren Criss, David Corenswet, Jeremy Pope, Patti LuPone,
Dylan McDermott, Holland Taylor, and Maude Apatow star. They'll play a
mix of fictional and real-life figures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3EASLgzOcM

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/hollywood/season-1 [score 54]

https://www.netflix.com/title/81088617



Into the Night [new; complete season 1] (3:01 am, Netflix)

When the sun inexplicably starts killing everything and everyone in its
path, a few ‘lucky’ passengers and crew of an overnight flight out of
Brussels try to survive as they fly west - into the night. Belgian series.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10919486/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Night_(TV_series)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGosoC7q_po

https://www.netflix.com/title/81008221



Medici (complete final season 3) (3:01 am, Netflix)

Medici: The Magnificent shows the power of art and beauty as driving
forces behind Medici rule. The series shows the journey of a man who
falls many times before he can find himself again. Italian series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9WIReSXpks

https://www.netflix.com/title/80152118



Mrs. Serial Killer (movie) (3:01 am, Netflix)

When her husband is framed and jailed for serial murders, his wife
decides to perform a murder exactly similar to the serial killer in
order to prove that her husband is innocent. Indian film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Serial_Killer

https://www.netflix.com/title/81076113



Reckoning [new; complete season 1] (3:01 am, Netflix)

The series explores the darkest corners of the male psyche through the
eyes of two fathers, one of whom is a serial killer. Australian series.

https://meaww.com/reckoning-season-1-release-date-plot-cast-netflix-crime-drama-all-you-need-to-know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reckoning_(TV_series)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8690440/

https://www.netflix.com/title/81277909



Upload [new; complete season 1] (3:01 am, Amazon Prime
Video)

The latest comedy from Greg Daniels (The Office, King of the Hill,
People of Earth) is a satire set in a near future in which people
nearing death can have their minds "uploaded" into a virtual afterlife
of their choosing. Robbie Amell and Andy Allo star. Daniels wrote and
directed the pilot and serves and showrunner for the 10-episode series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZfZj2bn_xg

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/upload/season-1 [score 71]



Prop Culture [new; complete season 1] (3:01 am, Disney+)

Film historian and prop collector Dan Lanigan reunites iconic Disney
movie props with the filmmakers, actors, and crew who created and used
them in some of Disney's most beloved films. Throughout this journey,
Dan will recover lost artifacts, visit private collections, and help
restore pieces from the Walt Disney Archives to their original glory.
Among the films featured this season are Pirates of the Caribbean: The
Curse of the Black Pearl, Mary Poppins, The Muppet Movie, Tron and Who
Framed Roger Rabbit?



Trying [new; complete season 1] (3:01 am, Apple TV+)

Rafe Spall, Esther Smith, and Imelda Staunton star in this BBC-produced
(but Apple-exclusive) British comedy series about a couple that wants to
have a baby but cannot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGA_6WTD3vM

https://tv.apple.com/show/umc.cmc.6muy4la7lj1omu5nci4bt2m66



Ema (movie) (MUBI)

A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their
household falls apart. Pablo Larraín's latest drama, which has been
floating around the festival circuit since last fall but has been unable
to open in theaters as planned, streams today only for free to the
general public on MUBI. In some countries, the film will then be added
to MUBI's catalog (for its subscribers only) tomorrow, but in the United
States and some other regions, distributor Music Box is still hoping for
a theatrical release at some point this year.

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/ema [score 73]




Broadcast and cable:


Charmed (season 2 finale; renewed for season 3) (8 pm, CW)



Blue Bloods (season 10 finale) (10 pm, CBS)



Betty [new] (11 pm, HBO)

Based on Crystal Moselle's critically acclaimed feature "Skate Kitchen,"
HBO's new six-episode half-hour series BETTY stars Dede Lovelace,
Moonbear, Nina Moran, Ajani Russell, and Rachelle Vinberg, who all
starred in the original film. BETTY follows a diverse group of young
women navigating their lives through the predominantly male-oriented
world of skateboarding, set against the backdrop of New York City.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mif1RfqyUPw

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/betty/season-1 [score 76]





Tomorrow's advance notes:


Republic of Doyle [new to US?] (9 am, Ovation)

Six seasons totaling 77 episodes aired in Canada on CBC from 2010 to
2014. Ovation is running three episodes each Saturday morning at 9, 10
and 11 am (and today only, apparently, a fourth episode at noon).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Doyle



Deadly Mile High Club (movie) (8 pm, Lifetime Channel)

A deranged female flight instructor obsesses over her handsome student,
using her piloting skills to destroy the people in his life and seduce
him into loving her. Allison McAtee, Marc Herrmann, and Anna Marie
Dobbins star. (2020)

https://www.ibtimes.com/lifetimes-deadly-mile-high-club-movie-premiere-cast-plot-trailer-2968751

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bjjyQfnULk

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12014538/

https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/deadly-mile-high-club



Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards 2020: Celebrate Together (special)
(8-9 pm, Nickelodeon)



--Robin

[Ian J. Ball]

On 2020-05-01 20:56:52 +0000, Robin Miller said:

> Broadcast and cable:
>
>
> Charmed (season 2 finale; renewed for season 3) (8 pm, CW)

Boooooo!!!

As of now, I think I'll have enough stuff like this recorded to get me
through next week.

*The week after that*, though, is gonna be really *ugly*. :( (And the
week after that, I should have enough free time again that I can get
back to streaming shows, etc...)


> Tomorrow's advance notes:

>
>
> Deadly Mile High Club (movie) (8 pm, Lifetime Channel)
>
> A deranged female flight instructor obsesses over her handsome student,
> using her piloting skills to destroy the people in his life and seduce
> him into loving her. Allison McAtee, Marc Herrmann, and Anna Marie
> Dobbins star. (2020)
>

> --Robin

I don't love this, but I'll watch it. :|


--
"Who would ever do this to him!?" - HottCiara on DOOL (04-27-2020), asking
who would stab Victor Kirakis... How about ANYONE WHO'S EVER MET HIM??!!

[anim8rfsk]

Fri, 01 May 2020 13:56:52 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

> Tomorrow's advance notes:
>
> Republic of Doyle [new to US?] (9 am, Ovation)

LOL, say what now?

> Six seasons totaling 77 episodes aired in Canada on CBC from 2010 to
> 2014. Ovation is running three episodes each Saturday morning at 9, 10
> and 11 am (and today only, apparently, a fourth episode at noon).
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Doyle

Okay, this is a fun, wacky show, like Due South with the sillies. Your mom
could definitely watch it. They hooked me most of a decade ago by doing a
crossover with Murdoch Mysteries; IIRC in MM we meet Doyle's ancestor, and in
RoD we meet Murdoch's descendant (which he better get working on).

> Deadly Mile High Club (movie) (8 pm, Lifetime Channel)
>
> A deranged female flight instructor obsesses over her handsome student,
> using her piloting skills to destroy the people in his life and seduce
> him into loving her. Allison McAtee, Marc Herrmann, and Anna Marie
> Dobbins star. (2020)
>
> https://www.ibtimes.com/lifetimes-deadly-mile-high-club-movie-premiere-cast-pl
> ot-trailer-2968751
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bjjyQfnULk
>
> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12014538/
>
> https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/deadly-mile-high-club
>
> Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards 2020: Celebrate Together (special)
> (8-9 pm, Nickelodeon)

Thanks
> --Robin

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[Robin Miller]

anim8rfsk wrote:
> Fri, 01 May 2020 13:56:52 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> Tomorrow's advance notes:
>>
>> Republic of Doyle [new to US?] (9 am, Ovation)
>
> LOL, say what now?
>
>> Six seasons totaling 77 episodes aired in Canada on CBC from 2010 to
>> 2014. Ovation is running three episodes each Saturday morning at 9, 10
>> and 11 am (and today only, apparently, a fourth episode at noon).
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Doyle
>
> Okay, this is a fun, wacky show, like Due South with the sillies. Your mom
> could definitely watch it. They hooked me most of a decade ago by doing a
> crossover with Murdoch Mysteries; IIRC in MM we meet Doyle's ancestor, and in
> RoD we meet Murdoch's descendant (which he better get working on).
>

Unfortunately, I think we tried it (on your recommendation perhaps), and
I thought it was fun, but Mom thought it was too silly. Monk may be the
only comedic drama I've been able to get her to watch.

But thanks.

--Robin

[anim8rfsk]

Fri, 01 May 2020 15:16:18 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>

Ah, k.

What about Psych?

[Robin Miller]

That was the one USA show that I wasn't really interested in.

Now that we have Acorn TV, we should have a large supply of the "PBS
Masterpiece" kind of show that show likes.

Since there's so little on TV for me, I am starting to get to some
Netflix shows I've wanted to watch. Currently watching "El Barco," a
Spanish show about a boat full of people who are out on the ocean when
an accident with a particle accelerator destroys most of the earth's
land mass. It's pretty good.

--Robin

[anim8rfsk]

Fri, 01 May 2020 17:06:13 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>

Sounds like Snowpiercer afloat. Glad you're liking it. :)

[Robin Miller]

Yes, and now there's this one from yesterday that I've added to my list:


Into the Night

When the sun inexplicably starts killing everything and everyone in its
path, a few ‘lucky’ passengers and crew of an overnight flight out of
Brussels try to survive as they fly west - into the night. Belgian series.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10919486/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Night_(TV_series)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGosoC7q_po

https://www.netflix.com/title/81008221

--Robin

[anim8rfsk]

Fri, 01 May 2020 19:21:17 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

> Yes, and now there's this one from yesterday that I've added to my list:
>
> Into the Night
>
> When the sun inexplicably starts killing everything and everyone in its
> path, a few ‘lucky’ passengers and crew of an overnight flight out of
> Brussels try to survive as they fly west - into the night. Belgian series.
>
> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10919486/
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Night_(TV_series)
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGosoC7q_po
>
> https://www.netflix.com/title/81008221
>
> --Robin

Hmm. Sounds like a rip off of Niven's INCONSTANT MOON (done before as an
Outer Limits episode and recently announced to be remade) with his ROTATING
CYLINDERS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF GLOBAL CAUSALITY VIOLATION thrown in for
good measure ...

[Jim G.]

Robin Miller sent the following on 5/1/20 at 7:06 PM:

> Currently watching "El Barco," a
> Spanish show about a boat full of people who are out on the ocean when
> an accident with a particle accelerator destroys most of the earth's
> land mass. It's pretty good.

Are you appreciating the gravity of the situation?

--
Jim G. | A fan of the good and the bad, but not the mediocre
"I'm really glad we're at this place in our relationship where we can
dig up graves together without having to talk." -- Major Lillywhite, iZOMBIE

[Robin Miller]

Jim G. wrote:
> Robin Miller sent the following on 5/1/20 at 7:06 PM:
>> Currently watching "El Barco," a
>> Spanish show about a boat full of people who are out on the ocean when
>> an accident with a particle accelerator destroys most of the earth's
>> land mass. It's pretty good.
>
> Are you appreciating the gravity of the situation?
>

Ha. So you're saying people should be floating a little bit?

--Robin

[suzeeq]

Does it have subtitles or is it dubbed? And where are you watching it?

[anim8rfsk]

I found it on the gray. There are three seasons of it, from about 2011 to
2014. Something like 42 eps.

[suzeeq]

On 5/2/2020 10:34 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Sat, 02 May 2020 22:17:19 -0700 suzeeq<suz...@imbris.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5/2/2020 08:24 PM, Robin Miller wrote:
>>> Jim G. wrote:
>>>> Robin Miller sent the following on 5/1/20 at 7:06 PM:
>>>>> Currently watching "El Barco," a
>>>>> Spanish show about a boat full of people who are out on the ocean when
>>>>> an accident with a particle accelerator destroys most of the earth's
>>>>> land mass. It's pretty good.
>>>>
>>>> Are you appreciating the gravity of the situation?
>>>
>>>
>>> Ha. So you're saying people should be floating a little bit?
>>>
>>> --Robin
>> Does it have subtitles or is it dubbed? And where are you watching it?
>
> I found it on the gray. There are three seasons of it, from about 2011 to
> 2014. Something like 42 eps.
>

Thanks, I looked for it but haven't been able to find it yet.

[Robin Miller]

I'm watching on Netflix.



El Barco [The boat]

A global cataclysm, caused by a fatal accident in Geneva, Switzerland,
during the implementation of a particle accelerator, leaves the crew and
students of the barque school-ship Estrella Polar (Polar Star) isolated
in a post-apocalyptic world where most of the world's land mass is now
under water. The ship becomes their home in this isolated world.
However, apart from the isolation, they also discover they are not
alone, and must face "the others". Three seasons totaling 43 episodes,
75 minutes long.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1788634/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_barco_(TV_series)

https://www.netflix.com/title/80021966


--Robin

[suzeeq]

Thanks. This summer I may have to get a trial for netflix. Too many
foreign shows I find and start on the gray web become harder to find
with subtitles or dubbing after the first couple episodes.

I did begin Hollywood on Friday night. It's been pretty good so far.

[Robin Miller]

I forgot to say that it has subtitles. I'm fine with them and don't like
dubbing so I didn't check to see if a dubbed version is available. But
this is an older series (2011-2013, I think), so I doubt it.

--Robin

[anim8rfsk]

Sun, 03 May 2020 11:16:12 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

The versions I've found only have Spanish audio, but have Spanish, English,
and Commie subtitles.

[Adam H. Kerman]

Robin Miller <robin....@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>I forgot to say that it has subtitles. I'm fine with them and don't like
>dubbing so I didn't check to see if a dubbed version is available. But
>this is an older series (2011-2013, I think), so I doubt it.

I'll AOL that. I'd rather hear the actor's speaking voice, so I'm good
with subtitles versus dubbing.

[anim8rfsk]

Not when there's hundreds of hours ahead of you. It's why I gave up the The
Ministerio del Tiempo. :(

[Jim G.]

Robin Miller sent the following on 5/2/20 at 10:24 PM:

As if a great weight has been lifted from their shoulders.

[anim8rfsk]

Mon, 04 May 2020 13:30:36 -0700 Jim G.<jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:

> Robin Miller sent the following on 5/2/20 at 10:24 PM:
> > Jim G. wrote:
> > > Robin Miller sent the following on 5/1/20 at 7:06 PM:
> > > > Currently watching "El Barco," a
> > > > Spanish show about a boat full of people who are out on the ocean when
> > > > an accident with a particle accelerator destroys most of the earth's
> > > > land mass. It's pretty good.
> > >
> > > Are you appreciating the gravity of the situation?
> > Ha. So you're saying people should be floating a little bit?
>
> As if a great weight has been lifted from their shoulders.

So far all they've said is "everyone on land is dead" and that was only in
the previews after ep 1.

[anim8rfsk]

Mon, 04 May 2020 16:38:35 -0700 anim8rfsk<anim...@cox.net> wrote:

> Mon, 04 May 2020 13:30:36 -0700 Jim G.<jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Robin Miller sent the following on 5/2/20 at 10:24 PM:
> > > Jim G. wrote:
> > > > Robin Miller sent the following on 5/1/20 at 7:06 PM:
> > > > > Currently watching "El Barco," a
> > > > > Spanish show about a boat full of people who are out on the ocean when
> > > > > an accident with a particle accelerator destroys most of the earth's
> > > > > land mass. It's pretty good.
> > > >
> > > > Are you appreciating the gravity of the situation?
> > > Ha. So you're saying people should be floating a little bit?
> >
> > As if a great weight has been lifted from their shoulders.
>
> So far all they've said is "everyone on land is dead" and that was only in
> the previews after ep 1.

Oooookay

So in ep 2, the scientists at CERN who fired up the world killing particle
accelerator, who all sit at their computer consoles in lab coats, including
the pretty female scientist who spill a grande drink on her panel OH NO IT'S
PEPSI SYNDROME explain that if anything goes wrong, it will create a black
hole that will swallow all land. The other pretty female scientist who is a
co-conspirator and aboard El Barco interprets this to mean the oceans rose or
maybe the land sank and the land is there somewhere but just not poking up
much. Which doesn't explain why all the other boats sank (don't they float?)
or people in cars vanished in a bright flash of light. Meanwhile the polarity
of the neutron flow has reversed, causing all the silverware on the boat to
stick to the ceiling, and the ocean is 6° warmer causing fish that live
miles deep to boil when they come to the surface.
There's a nitrogen narcosis brain damaged guy who knows what's happening
who's straight out of a Stephen King novel.

The rest of the writing wasn't as good as that.

Now, I must admit that the subtitles clearly weren't done by someone who
spoke English as a first (or second or third) language, so we may be
literally losing something in the translation.

But the science in this is dumber than in INTO THE NIGHT.

[Robin Miller]

Yeah, you gotta go with "something bad happened."

But only certain coordinates were going to be safe, and the woman
doctor/scientist on the ship made sure they were there. So I think most
of the other boats got swallowed up (or whatever).

--Robin

[RichA]

I wish CERN had done that because besides sort of proving the Higgs exists, it's done little else.

[RichA]

This sounds like the "3 hour tour" of Gillgan's Island where everyone had full sets of clothes, and the Howell's had a suitcase of money.

Pathetic
Mikunitk7 March 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Pathetic show in every sense, they attempt to rip off other shows with a mix of Lost and Stargate-Universe themes and fail miserably.

What should be a struggle for survival feels more like a walk in the park. 40 people stuck on a ship in the sea, with apparently unlimited food, fresh brand drinks like Coke, sweets and cookies, medical supplies comparable to a full fledged hospital, carpentry and electronic tools and supplies, make up, dresses for weddings and carnival, unlimited power, with everyone looking fresh and happy as if they are on a holidays cruise rather than a post-apocalyptic world where most of the population and land/cities are gone; you see their breakfast tables everyday with stuff you would find on a 5-star hotel dining hall, with all sort of brand foods which the actors even mention fondly as is typical with Spanish series.

[anim8rfsk]

Mon, 04 May 2020 23:02:38 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

> anim8rfsk wrote:
> > Mon, 04 May 2020 16:38:35 -0700 anim8rfsk<anim...@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Mon, 04 May 2020 13:30:36 -0700 Jim G.<jimg...@geemail.com.invalid>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Robin Miller sent the following on 5/2/20 at 10:24 PM:
> > > > > Jim G. wrote:
> > > > > > Robin Miller sent the following on 5/1/20 at 7:06 PM:
> > > > > > > Currently watching "El Barco," a
> > > > > > > Spanish show about a boat full of people who are out on the ocean when
> > > > > > > an accident with a particle accelerator destroys most of the earth's
> > > > > > > land mass. It's pretty good.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Are you appreciating the gravity of the situation?
> > > > > Ha. So you're saying people should be floating a little bit?
> > > >
> > > > As if a great weight has been lifted from their shoulders.

I wish I could address that now, but I can't even fanwank how a black hole
goes off and floods the world without changing much except silverware now
falls up.

They were supposedly safe because they were right over some really deep spot,
which I tend to doubt exists a few hours sailing west of Spain.

Honestly, I don't understand any of the set up. She didn't think this was
going to go south, but she went to the only safe place, even though she
didn't know what was going to happen. Meanwhile, the people at CERN, who
apparently were pretty sure there was a good chance this would happen, just,
what, threw the switch anyway?

Meanwhile they're in 90 meters of water now, being attacked by fish from 5
miles down?

They have the equipment and knowledge to do a deep dive and salvage the black
box from a 747? On a sailboat!? Much less a way to retrieve and analyze the
data? And what's she hoping to learn anyway? She already knows "a black hole
went off and ate all the land" - what more can she possibly find out that's
not a "game over, man"?

I was really hoping survival teacher would go through with drowning chewing
gum head. I wouldn't mind them tossing the stowaway overboard either but at
least he may have some valuable skills.

Hey, there's a pig! What the Hell!?

At least the girls continue to be pretty.

[anim8rfsk]

That's *so* easy to wank. All you have to do is say that the Minnow was a
water taxi. Hawai'i has those, they take tourists from island to island, with
all their baggage.
I have no idea why a 'three hour tour' would head straight for Australia.
What is there to see?

> Pathetic
> Mikunitk7 March 2014
> Warning: Spoilers
> Pathetic show in every sense, they attempt to rip off other shows with a mix
> of Lost and Stargate-Universe themes and fail miserably.

Crap. I'd noted the LOST stuff, but whoever wrote that is right, it *is* like
Stargate Universe SGU (the 'U' stands for: UNIVERSE!) with THREE Dr. Smiths.

> What should be a struggle for survival feels more like a walk in the park. 40
> people stuck on a ship in the sea, with apparently unlimited food, fresh
> brand drinks like Coke, sweets and cookies, medical supplies comparable to a
> full fledged hospital, carpentry and electronic tools and supplies, make up,
> dresses for weddings and carnival, unlimited power, with everyone looking
> fresh and happy as if they are on a holidays cruise rather than a
> post-apocalyptic world where most of the population and land/cities are gone;
> you see their breakfast tables everyday with stuff you would find on a 5-star
> hotel dining hall, with all sort of brand foods which the actors even mention
> fondly as is typical with Spanish series.

Hee hee

Well, lady scientist has dozens of secret crates in the hold. I suppose she
can always resort to those for the coconut bra du jour.

The med bay ... yeah, it's ridiculously over-equipped, but I'm not sure if it
came that way, or if lady scientist brought her own stuff, since she's become
their defacto doctor. And it's only big enough for one patient at a time.

[anim8rfsk]

Okay, in episode 3, pretty lady scientist tells the kids* what happened, and
her story is ... somewhat different:

Word for word from the English subtitles:

PLS: The ignition of the particle accelerator had a margin of error of 1/10
trillion.
There was a slim chance of the accelerator generating a mass of antimatter.
This is what we commonly know as a black hole.
Captain: Everything seems to point to the worst possible scenario. Is that
right, Doctor?
PLS: We think the accident created a black hole that bolted down landmass.
This caused the plates to slide.
We guess the continents fell one by one, like dominoes.
The oceans ended up covering them.
Captain: Let's see. It may sound incredible, but everything suggests it's
true.
For a few seconds, we were able to contact Hispasat.
We got a picture of half the world globe.
Europe and Africa ... aren't there anymore.

Then it abruptly got stupid.

I swear to God, this is ClodReamer defending Revolution, all over again.

[Robin Miller]

Like I said, you have to just go with it. Especially when they show the
accident in Geneva and everything is sparking and overloading and all
the scientists just sit there until there's one second left, at which
point they try to react but of course it's too late.

I believe the project placed their people (in this case the doctor) on
at least a couple of ships so that they'd survive in case this happened.
But who knows what a few isolated people could do if the rest of the
world, or most of it, is gone.

Later on the doctor finds a map with several vertical lines through the
oceans, and these are apparently places that would be safe for a ship to
be in case of an accident.

I am, however, absolutely mesmerized by the two female leads, so I'm
good. :-)

--Robin

[anim8rfsk]

Tue, 05 May 2020 08:28:38 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

Find an island with Dichen Lachman on?

> Later on the doctor finds a map with several vertical lines through the
> oceans, and these are apparently places that would be safe for a ship to
> be in case of an accident.

You'd think submarines would be okay.

I'm still not sure what the mechanism is that sank all the other boats
simultaneously, but you'd think big honking ships like the Nimitz and the
Poseidon might still be out there.

> I am, however, absolutely mesmerized by the two female leads, so I'm
> good. :-)
>
> --Robin

Who do you consider the two female leads? I like the Captain's daughter and
Estela who went with the gimp on the raft. I confess to not being able to
tell any of them apart when they're in the shower. And come to think of it,
if everybody has to shower together, when do the adults shower?

Something I'm confused about ... are there crew besides the indentured
students? You'd think there'd be a LOT of them, but where were they during
the mutiny?

BTW, no matter what they say, Captains don't get to marry passengers (to each
other) unless they happen to be clergy or something on the side.

Do you get the feeling these students are supposed to be about 10 years
younger than the actors that are playing them are?

[BTR1701]

In article <0001HW.246114B105...@NEWS.EASYNEWS.COM>,

anim8rfsk <anim...@cox.net> wrote:

> Mon, 04 May 2020 16:38:35 -0700 anim8rfsk<anim...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > Mon, 04 May 2020 13:30:36 -0700 Jim G.<jimg...@geemail.com.invalid>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Robin Miller sent the following on 5/2/20 at 10:24 PM:
> > > > Jim G. wrote:
> > > > > Robin Miller sent the following on 5/1/20 at 7:06 PM:
> > > > > > Currently watching "El Barco," a
> > > > > > Spanish show about a boat full of people who are out on the ocean
> > > > > > when
> > > > > > an accident with a particle accelerator destroys most of the
> > > > > > earth's
> > > > > > land mass. It's pretty good.
> > > > >
> > > > > Are you appreciating the gravity of the situation?
> > > > Ha. So you're saying people should be floating a little bit?
> > >
> > > As if a great weight has been lifted from their shoulders.
> >
> > So far all they've said is "everyone on land is dead" and that was only in
> > the previews after ep 1.
>
> Oooookay
>
> So in ep 2, the scientists at CERN who fired up the world killing particle
> accelerator, who all sit at their computer consoles in lab coats, including
> the pretty female scientist who spill a grande drink on her panel OH NO IT'S
> PEPSI SYNDROME explain that if anything goes wrong, it will create a black
> hole that will swallow all land.

How does the black hole know to stop swallowing when it reaches the
waterline? I mean, water is matter, too. Black holes tend to eat up
everything. They don't just eat dirt, but spit out water like it's Taco
Bell cilantro.

[anim8rfsk]

Her different explanation in the next episode makes it clear the writers buy
the old 'California will sink into the ocean' bit that requires you to
believe the land masses are floating somehow like the north pole icecap and
can go under. Like Atlantis.

[Jim G.]

anim8rfsk sent the following on 5/4/20 at 10:27 PM:

> Mon, 04 May 2020 16:38:35 -0700 anim8rfsk<anim...@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Mon, 04 May 2020 13:30:36 -0700 Jim G.<jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Robin Miller sent the following on 5/2/20 at 10:24 PM:
>>>> Jim G. wrote:
>>>>> Robin Miller sent the following on 5/1/20 at 7:06 PM:
>>>>>> Currently watching "El Barco," a
>>>>>> Spanish show about a boat full of people who are out on the ocean when
>>>>>> an accident with a particle accelerator destroys most of the earth's
>>>>>> land mass. It's pretty good.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you appreciating the gravity of the situation?
>>>> Ha. So you're saying people should be floating a little bit?
>>>
>>> As if a great weight has been lifted from their shoulders.
>>
>> So far all they've said is "everyone on land is dead" and that was only in
>> the previews after ep 1.
>
> Oooookay
>
> So in ep 2, the scientists at CERN who fired up the world killing particle
> accelerator, who all sit at their computer consoles in lab coats, including
> the pretty female scientist who spill a grande drink on her panel OH NO IT'S
> PEPSI SYNDROME explain that if anything goes wrong, it will create a black
> hole that will swallow all land. The other pretty female scientist who is a
> co-conspirator and aboard El Barco interprets this to mean the oceans rose or
> maybe the land sank and the land is there somewhere but just not poking up
> much.

The giant turtles holding up the continents must have died.

> Which doesn't explain why all the other boats sank (don't they float?)
> or people in cars vanished in a bright flash of light. Meanwhile the polarity
> of the neutron flow has reversed,

I hate when that happens.

> causing all the silverware on the boat to
> stick to the ceiling, and the ocean is 6° warmer causing fish that live
> miles deep to boil when they come to the surface.

JUST the fish? Because I'm always up for a nice shrimp boil. Oh, and
fish that routinely live miles deep are gonna have bigger problems than
water temperature when they surface. Or is water pressure also no longer
a thing because reasons?

> There's a nitrogen narcosis brain damaged guy

I hate it when the writers write themselves into the story like that.

[Jim G.]

anim8rfsk sent the following on 5/5/20 at 8:57 AM:

> Word for word from the English subtitles:
>
> PLS: The ignition of the particle accelerator had a margin of error of 1/10
> trillion.
> There was a slim chance of the accelerator generating a mass of antimatter.
> This is what we commonly know as a black hole.

Except for the fact that it's not. Well, okay, maybe it is for the
commonly stupid and ignorant, but...

> Captain: Everything seems to point to the worst possible scenario. Is that
> right, Doctor?
> PLS: We think the accident created a black hole that bolted down landmass.
> This caused the plates to slide.

...and caused the giant turtles to lose their balance...

> We guess the continents fell one by one, like dominoes.
> The oceans ended up covering them.

Well, that's unfortunate. They were much more useful when they were
bobbing around in the water for all these years.

> Captain: Let's see. It may sound incredible, but everything suggests it's
> true.
> For a few seconds, we were able to contact Hispasat.
> We got a picture of half the world globe.
> Europe and Africa ... aren't there anymore.
>
> Then it abruptly got stupid.
>
> I swear to God, this is ClodReamer defending Revolution, all over again.

I'm sure that at least few planes went into flat spins that sent them
into the water, shorting out their artificial electricity systems.

[Jim G.]

Robin Miller sent the following on 5/5/20 at 10:28 AM:

> I am, however, absolutely mesmerized by the two female leads, so I'm
> good.:-)

And just like that, it all starts to make sense. :)

[shawn]

On Tue, 05 May 2020 10:23:51 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim...@cox.net>
wrote:

Actually, there's been some speculation by geologists that there is a
huge quantities of water deep under the surface of the water (far
beyond what we've managed to reach.) Not that the land is floating on
the water but if could somehow manage to remove all that water from
beneath the surface then um.. maybe it would be enough to cover the
land.

Not that it sounds like this show cares to even try for something that
follows science in any real fashion, much like REVOLUTION. They just
went with some implausible idea as a basis for their story and ran
with it.

[anim8rfsk]

Well, Hell, an antimatter black hole could do that easily enough.

> Not that it sounds like this show cares to even try for something that
> follows science in any real fashion, much like REVOLUTION. They just
> went with some implausible idea as a basis for their story and ran
> with it.

Yeah, this was made by and for people who thought firing up the Hadron
Collider would destroy the universe.

[Dimensional Traveler]

IIRC there is more water in the mantle than on the surface. Problem is
it is locked up inside the rock at the molecular level.


--
<to be filled in at a later date>

[Robin Miller]

I meant the captain's daughter and the doctor.

There are about two dozen students, but only three boys and three girls
have speaking parts.

> Something I'm confused about ... are there crew besides the indentured
> students? You'd think there'd be a LOT of them, but where were they during
> the mutiny?

I wondered about that also. They're only seen occasionally, usually
climbing the masts to adjust the sails. They rarely speak.

> BTW, no matter what they say, Captains don't get to marry passengers (to each
> other) unless they happen to be clergy or something on the side.

Really? I've seen that so often I assumed it was true.

> Do you get the feeling these students are supposed to be about 10 years
> younger than the actors that are playing them are?
>

It's not clear to me how old the students are supposed to be. I assumed
college age, not high school, which would be consistent with the actor's
ages:

Blanca Suárez (the captain's daughter Ainhoa) was born in 1988 and so
was 23 when the series started in 2011. Marina Salas (Vilma) was also
born in 1988. Giselle Calderón (Estella) was born in 1987. Those are the
three girl students with speaking parts.

Irene Montalà (the doctor) was born in 1976 and is older, but only 35
when the series started.

Looks like the actors playing the boys are a lot older. Bernabé
Fernandez (Palomares) was born in 1981, so he was 30. Javier Hernández
Rodríguez (Piti) was born in 1984. David Seijo (Ramiro) was born in
1983. Those are the three boy students with speaking parts.

--Robin

[BTR1701]

I'm pretty sure the fact that there's water under the surface of the water
is a virtual certainty.

[anim8rfsk]

Tue, 05 May 2020 13:03:55 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>

I guessed. :)

> There are about two dozen students, but only three boys and three girls
> have speaking parts.

There seems to be a fourth girl who I can't tell apart from Ainhoa and
Giselle but I haven't been able to isolate her yet.

> > Something I'm confused about ... are there crew besides the indentured
> > students? You'd think there'd be a LOT of them, but where were they during
> > the mutiny?
>
> I wondered about that also. They're only seen occasionally, usually
> climbing the masts to adjust the sails. They rarely speak.

Very much like the crew of The Nautilus.

> > BTW, no matter what they say, Captains don't get to marry passengers (to
> > each
> > other) unless they happen to be clergy or something on the side.
>
> Really? I've seen that so often I assumed it was true.

A Straight Dope classic from 1987:
https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/546/are-ships-captains-allowed-to-
marry-people-at-sea/

"So far as I can tell, sea captains in the United States cannot now and have
not ever been able to perform marriages at sea or anywhere else, unless they
also happen to be recognized ministers or JPs or something. The same goes for
sea captains in Britain and the Soviet Union.

However — and this is the interesting part — this myth is so widely
believed, not only among the general public but among sailors, that both the
United States Navy and the British Mercantile Marine Office have taken the
extraordinary step of explicitly forbidding captains to do free-lance
weddings."

> > Do you get the feeling these students are supposed to be about 10 years
> > younger than the actors that are playing them are?
>
> It's not clear to me how old the students are supposed to be. I assumed
> college age, not high school, which would be consistent with the actor's
> ages:
>
> Blanca Suárez (the captain's daughter Ainhoa) was born in 1988 and so
> was 23 when the series started in 2011. Marina Salas (Vilma) was also
> born in 1988. Giselle Calderón (Estella) was born in 1987. Those are the
> three girl students with speaking parts.

Giselle's the only one I looked up. :D
The whole bit with the Morse code and 'he likes me! he likes me!!' seemed
like a Nancy Drew segment. The Nancy Drew that's barely driving age, not the
CW sleezebag.

> Irene Montalà (the doctor) was born in 1976 and is older, but only 35
> when the series started.

That's surprising. I'd have put her on the high side of 40.

> Looks like the actors playing the boys are a lot older. Bernabé
> Fernandez (Palomares) was born in 1981, so he was 30. Javier Hernández
> Rodríguez (Piti) was born in 1984. David Seijo (Ramiro) was born in
> 1983. Those are the three boy students with speaking parts.

Yeah, but especially Piti is acting like he's barely in high school. Coating
a wetsuit with glue should have gotten him deep sixed, if for no other reason
than the waste of resources!

Ulises actor was born in 1986, and I think he's playing 20.

> --Robin

[Robin Miller]

My world is shattered.

:-)

--Robin

[anim8rfsk]

Tue, 05 May 2020 15:55:45 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>

Are your continents sunken?

[suzeeq]

My exhusband was a sea captain in the merchant marines. Acquaintances of
his asked him to marry them on a boat in the lake and he did. They were
already common law married anyway so I don't know if there was a
question of legality. Or he might have got a minister's license from the
Universal Life church that a lot of guys used seeking a deferment during
Vietnam.

[Robin Miller]

A multi-purpose license!

:-)

--Robin

[anim8rfsk]

Okay, in ep 4, they sure are.

The explanation has morphed again. Now the black hole appeared, and it's
gravity was so strong it sucked the continents under water, submerging them.

Wow.

This is suddenly feeling like a HOMELAND show that changed show runners after
the first couple eps. For instance, the pregnant girl, who the doctor ordered
to lay in the bed in the infirmary and not move AT ALL FOR ANY REASON is now
just running around the boat and doing sit-ups and such. Like the next day.
And the whole show is swinging towards romantic comedy, as the students go
from 'we don't believe the world is gone and we have no supplies and will all
die soon' to 'we better knock up all these girls fast!' again overnight. The
*last* thing they need is a boat full of pregnant women! At least keep it in
your pants until you find land. Oh, yeah, somehow lady scientist knows
there's one percent of the land that's still above the surface (I have no
idea how she knows this) and all they have to do is find it. I suppose I'd
head for the Himalayas, except according to her the 'west side' of the
planet, which includes Europe and Africa, is gone, but America might still be
there. I'm not quite sure what coordinate system she's using that makes
Europe and Africa West and the Americas East ...

[Robin Miller]

The relationship comings and goings (they fall in and out of love
quickly) becomes a major ongoing aspect of the show. It's half that and
half mystery stuff.

--Robin

[anim8rfsk]

Wed, 06 May 2020 08:44:22 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>

I'd say it's more 90/10 soap/mystery. :)

I just watched the season 1 finale (I skipped ahead) and I swear there was an
entire half hour of them snuggling watching It's A Wonderful Life.

There are TWO girls that I can't tell apart from the two lead girls I like,
and one of them spoke, and another played strip poker.

Where are you, so I make sure to be careful of spoilers?

[Robin Miller]

I think I just watched S2 Ep 11, so three more to go in S2. Then on to S3.

There's a lot of background in there about the relationships between the
doctor, Gamboa, Bubble and the cook that you might have missed.

--Robin

[anim8rfsk]

Wed, 06 May 2020 14:57:27 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>

Well, here's what I did. I watched S01E01, E02, E03, then E04 where
absolutely nothing but soap happened.
I went to Ian's Wiki and started skimming. I found out that nothing happened
for the rest of the season except the stupid adventures of the stupid little
daughter and the stupid brain damaged guy. So I skipped to to the season one
finale, where nothing happened except maybe some set up for season two.

Next up is S02E01. Unless something actually happens I intend to start
reading Ian's season 2 wiki and go to the season 2 finale, and repeat the
process with season 3.

If this is like LOST and they all died in the first ep, I'm gonna plotz.

[Robin Miller]

I've read that some people didn't like the ending, but I've tried to
keep myself unspoiled.

--Robin

[anim8rfsk]

Wed, 06 May 2020 18:23:16 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>

8O

[Dimensional Traveler]

On 5/6/2020 6:23 PM, Robin Miller wrote:
> anim8rfsk wrote:
>>

>> If this is like LOST and they all died in the first ep, I'm gonna plotz.
>
> I've read that some people didn't like the ending, but I've tried to
> keep myself unspoiled.
>

Spoiler: They literally pulled the plug and sank the Island.

[Jim G.]

anim8rfsk sent the following on 5/6/20 at 8:38 AM:

Baby steps. At least they're less wrong now on the black hole front than
they were a few episodes ago.

[anim8rfsk]

Wed, 06 May 2020 19:56:57 -0700 Jim G.<jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:

> anim8rfsk sent the following on 5/6/20 at 8:38 AM:
> > Tue, 05 May 2020 16:38:47 -0700 anim8rfsk<anim...@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Tue, 05 May 2020 15:55:45 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Are your continents sunken?
> >
> > Okay, in ep 4, they sure are.
> >
> > The explanation has morphed again. Now the black hole appeared, and it's
> > gravity was so strong it sucked the continents under water, submerging them.
> >
> > Wow.
>
> Baby steps. At least they're less wrong now on the black hole front than
> they were a few episodes ago.

Yeah, but the accompanying graphic showed that the black hole appeared in
Geneva, so why did all the continents move towards the center of the Earth?

[RichA]

Cilantro is the devil's vegetable.

[RichA]

Funny thing; even when a 267,000 pound aircraft with (in some parts 4mm) aluminum skin hits water, it tends to break up any most speeds...except for the one that landed on the Hudson.

[anim8rfsk]

In fairness to Taco Bell, they canned the idiot 'chef' who put cilantro in
everything, and now it's actually hard to find.

[Jim G.]

anim8rfsk sent the following on 5/6/20 at 10:26 PM:

> Wed, 06 May 2020 19:56:57 -0700 Jim G.<jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>> anim8rfsk sent the following on 5/6/20 at 8:38 AM:
>>> Tue, 05 May 2020 16:38:47 -0700 anim8rfsk<anim...@cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tue, 05 May 2020 15:55:45 -0700 Robin Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Are your continents sunken?
>>>
>>> Okay, in ep 4, they sure are.
>>>
>>> The explanation has morphed again. Now the black hole appeared, and it's
>>> gravity was so strong it sucked the continents under water, submerging them.
>>>
>>> Wow.
>>
>> Baby steps. At least they're less wrong now on the black hole front than
>> they were a few episodes ago.
>
> Yeah, but the accompanying graphic showed that the black hole appeared in
> Geneva,

Of course it did. Because the writers have a hard-on for the Hadron.

> so why did all the continents move towards the center of the Earth?

Science. Something science-y.

[anim8rfsk]

Thu, 07 May 2020 10:59:22 -0700 Jim G.<jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:

> anim8rfsk sent the following on 5/6/20 at 10:26 PM:
> > Wed, 06 May 2020 19:56:57 -0700 Jim G.<jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > > anim8rfsk sent the following on 5/6/20 at 8:38 AM:
> > > > Tue, 05 May 2020 16:38:47 -0700 anim8rfsk<anim...@cox.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Tue, 05 May 2020 15:55:45 -0700 Robin
> > > > > Miller<robin....@invalid.invalid>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Are your continents sunken?
> > > >
> > > > Okay, in ep 4, they sure are.
> > > >
> > > > The explanation has morphed again. Now the black hole appeared, and it's
> > > > gravity was so strong it sucked the continents under water, submerging
> > > > them.
> > > >
> > > > Wow.
> > >
> > > Baby steps. At least they're less wrong now on the black hole front than
> > > they were a few episodes ago.
> >
> > Yeah, but the accompanying graphic showed that the black hole appeared in
> > Geneva,
>
> Of course it did. Because the writers have a hard-on for the Hadron.
>
> > so why did all the continents move towards the center of the Earth?
>
> Science. Something science-y.

No. It may be many things, but it's nothing science-y ...