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What Was the Last Television Episode You Watched?

Jack Reacher (Season 1, Ep. 1) This looks to be a good series. I've never read the books mostly because they are more expensive than I am generally willing to pay for an ebook. Maybe if I like this series well enough that will change. And I've also never watched the movie(s?) but this was a great opening episode. Jack Reacher is just sort of a comic book hero. He's human enough, but immensely skilled and smart. He's played by Alan Ritchson who is 6ft. 2in of chiseled marble. You can just about hear the girls drooling.

On the negative side, this is going to be violent. But the fight scenes are done so well it actually looks like they were done for real, accept that even a 6-2 hunk with mad skills would have lost at least one of the two violent fight scenes in the show.
 
The last episode of Fringe, a series I'd never seen before it appeared on Pick (a terrestrial Sky channel) in the UK over the last few months (one episode per weekday, give or take the Christmas period).
 
Season 2 of "What We Do In The Shadows". A slow start, but was actually pretty good. I'll watch season 3 tomorrow.
 
The last thing I watched was "Jumper," the premiere of season 4 of NewsRadio - I've had seasons 1-3 on DVD for a long time and that part of the show makes it one of my all-time favorites but, if I recall correctly, s4 marked the downturn before it hit bottom in 5 and was cancelled. Still, I enjoyed the wackiness around guest star Jon Lovitz's threat to jump off a ledge outside Dave's office unless he gets to read a disgruntled letter on the air.

Before that was the last two episodes of season 1 of Star Trek. It has some problems but "Operation--Annihilate!" is kinda good, despite its title and flying plastic jellyfish, though it doesn't hold a candle to "The City on the Edge of Forever." That's no Cordwainer Bird episode - Harlan Ellison may have been a "litigious *******" but he nailed the script in this episode (allowing that a little of it is convenient, but much of it is earned), everyone in the regular cast does a great job, and it makes you wonder what Joan Collins' career could have been. The historical conflict, the psychological conflict, and the little love letter to SF and hope in its center all make it clearly the best of s1 (against some stiff competition) and, if memory serves, the best of TOS altogether.
 
Watching Mission Impossible.
The original series with Peter Graves, Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris and Peter Lupus. Knocks the films with Tom Cruise into a rubbish bin. There over 160 to watch as well. I also know that Leonard Nimoy makes several appearances as Paris. Even William Shatner makes an appearance. Can't beat the old ones.
 
Jack Reacher (Season 1, ep. 2) This is clearly going to be a superior series and I will continue to watch it. I love the characters and their interaction.

*But, I noticed that at the beginning of the episode it was given a 18 and up rating, which is higher than the previous episode, and I wondered about it. About 3/4's of the way through I found out why. There is scene which shows a full frontal view of a naked crucified man. I mean like, Wow!, did we really have to see that? Isn't imagination enough?
 
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Finished season 3 of What We Do In The Shadows. It actually turned into a really good series and it was a good end, I thought.

I also saw something called The Cleaner with Greg Davies. It was very good, quirky with some really good laugh out loud moments.

I saw something called Ladhood about a group of teenagers in Leeds. Funny in places, sad in others. As story of poor decisions and a few friends quite uniquely told.

I'm going to start the final season of The Expanse tonight.
 
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Watched a BBC Drama called In The Flesh. Essentially, there has been a Zombie outbreak in the UK, but there was a cure. In the Flesh tells the story of a young man who is "cured" and gone back home. The first series was 3 episodes and there is a second. It put a new spin on the Zombie Genre which i hadn't seen before.

I enjoyed it, but i'm not sure i want to go back for the second series.
 
Just finished Cowboy Bebop and am irate this is all we got, although also on a downer high as that was something.
 
Watched Episode #4 of Jack Reacher "In a Tree." This is a gritty, well acted, semi-realistic drama. To call this blood and guts is absolutely accurate. Killing is common and gruesome in this series. I'm embarrassed that I am liking this.

Finished Boba Fett series. It was only "OK." Not as good as The Mandalorian --- "This is the way." --- but I suspect Boba Fett will have a season 2.
 
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Just saw the final season of The Expanse, which I enjoyed very much Although they should’ve cut the bits about Laconia if the story finishesthere.
 
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Death in Paradise, s11, ep6. Lovely scenery, comfortable plots...
 
I did check out the digital Luke after someone said it was impressive. Ehh, well it does look like a great CGI portrait but I was not ever thinking it was really him standing there. The performance seemed too restrained in the face. And his voice was restricted too--as if he was very carefully lip-reading.

I watched Mission Impossible season 1 "The Trial." Really good episode.

McMillan & Wife season 1, episode 7 --- a good final act twist in the story. I didn't see it coming. The pregnancy is dropped in season 2--they just ignore it like it never happened. I find it weird to think supporting actor John Schuck would later play Herman Munster in a tv remake of the 60s Munsters. I remember the painful singing they did in the tv ads for it. And there have been so many other remakes of that show. Scary.
 
Mister Winner. A pretty funny BBC comedy that I’d not heard of before.
 
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