Icon For momentary distractions from US hell - TV SHOW RECOMMENDATIONS!!
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Ok...here are some TV show recommendations:

For streamers, I have fallen in love with the Tubi channel. It has a huge selection of movies (a great Foreign language section and Indie section) and for being "free" has a very limited injection of commercials.  Some movies don't have any at all.

Now, the savvy viewer will put movies in his or her queue and then check to see if they are being played on any other commercial-free streaming channel. 

Now for the shows:

Sweet Evil - (French flick - I have found the French do some really wicked shit).  It's about a homeless young woman that squats in the garage of a husband/wife and when discovered, is able to interject herself into their lives.  Great ending.

Dogs of Berlin (Netflix) - A damn good gritty cop show; a mix of HBO's The Wire and FX's The Shield. At the start, it's a bit convoluted, but once the particulars are known, it takes off. 

Babylon Berlin (Netflix) - A period piece about Berlin in the late 1920s.  Another police procedural mixed with foreign intrigue, politics, murder and a lot more.  It is really, really good. 

And for a good old fashioned TV shows, Amazon Prime has all six seasons of The Rockford Files.  I'm just about done with Season 5.  So far, Season 3 has been the best.  James Garner is such a wonderful actor in this role.  And here is a tidbit I don't think many have caught on to - I think Matthew McConaughey liberated his "alright, alright, alright" from James Garner.  In the 21st episode of the fifth season (I believe it was) Rockford says, "alright, alright, alright" and it is enunciated the same way as McConaughey in Dazed and Confused.  On top of that, in a previous episode in an earlier season, the Rockford character says it twice. 

So someone needs to find out if McConaughey ever watched The Rockford Files.......

 

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