tv chatter

Apparently when I wasn't looking, Netflix decided to try and justify their newest price jump (ugh!) by dropping new seasons of things I did want to watch. Mums and I started S2 of The Night Agent, but either I'd stayed up too long on Sunday (possible), it's off to a really slow start (likely), or something because we only watched two episodes so far. Kinda a bummer since we burned through S1 and I liked it enough to go from listening while at the computer to turning around and watching to sitting on the couch and definitely watching. But that's not what we're here to discuss today.

Nope, they also dropped S4 of Sweet Magnolias, which is a show that walks the line of being absolute cheese and genuinely enjoyable for me, but I also enjoy cheese so... Basically, I mostly like the show, but it always leaves me wanting more in some way. Mostly, it leaves me wanting it to trust the audience more, I think. I have issues with it, but it has moments I love so I stick with it. It is also infinitely better than the book series it's based on, at least when compared to the three or four books I read from the series. Holy Jesus fuck, reading spoilers for what happens in later books is just the hardest of no's from me, and I truly hope the show decides to also say no.

Anywho, due to the various strikes, it's been awhile since I watched S3, and I don't really remember a ton about it beyond pretty much hating them keeping our main trio apart for far too long. Luckily, there's a recap at the start of the season, and that did get me mostly up to speed.

So why in the hell did we spend the entirety of episode 1 playing the "hit the audience over the head with it's been a year!" and info dumping about the magical things that changed in that year? There are subtle ways to do this. There's also just plain putting "One Year Later" on the screen.
( This show wouldn't know subtle if... )

Gonna watch more later, so we'll see what happens.