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[Dr. Medulla]

Boy, MASH really fell off a cliff in season 5. Frank is a buffoon. I can see why Larry Linville wanted to leave. The first three seasons are the best, but I think I've had enough. Once Trapper and Henry left, the tone shifted so drastically. Like everyone else did, I'll blame Alan Alda.

It was after season 3 that it became Alan Alda's baby as Larry Gelbart (sp?) left. As one person observed towards the end, Alda no longer wanted an Emmy, he wanted a Nobel Peace Prize.

That said, about five years ago or so, I watched the run on one of the channels airing episodes each day. I actually came to appreciate the "unfunny" years more. Yes, it could be (well, usually was) heavy-handed, but I appreciated the sincerity of its humanist vision, and I really like the episodes where Winchester understood compassion and vulnerability and need. Part of it was David Ogden Stiers pulled it off so well, conveying both aristocratic boob and the more fragile person beneath. There's one that I especially liked, where Winchester barely survives being killed by a sniper and becomes obsessed with his mortality, driving to the front to work on soldiers and begging one who was dying to explain what he was feeling. There's a desperation there to understand what life is about by understanding death. I think if you pretend the first three hilarious seasons don't exist, the virtues of the unfunny years are better detected.

edit: The episode I mention can be streamed here.

[Mimi]

Boy, MASH really fell off a cliff in season 5. Frank is a buffoon. I can see why Larry Linville wanted to leave. The first three seasons are the best, but I think I've had enough. Once Trapper and Henry left, the tone shifted so drastically. Like everyone else did, I'll blame Alan Alda.

It was after season 3 that it became Alan Alda's baby as Larry Gelbart (sp?) left. As one person observed towards the end, Alda no longer wanted an Emmy, he wanted a Nobel Peace Prize.

That said, about five years ago or so, I watched the run on one of the channels airing episodes each day. I actually came to appreciate the "unfunny" years more. Yes, it could be (well, usually was) heavy-handed, but I appreciated the sincerity of its humanist vision, and I really like the episodes where Winchester understood compassion and vulnerability and need. Part of it was David Ogden Stiers pulled it off so well, conveying both aristocratic boob and the more fragile person beneath. There's one that I especially liked, where Winchester barely survives being killed by a sniper and becomes obsessed with his mortality, driving to the front to work on soldiers and begging one who was dying to explain what he was feeling. There's a desperation there to understand what life is about by understanding death. I think if you pretend the first three hilarious seasons don't exist, the virtues of the unfunny years are better detected.

I noticed Gelbart's name missing in the credits. That would explain the changes in some of the characters.

I liked the later seasons when I was younger, but my mood has really shifted, probably because of 2016-2021, but I really only want to watch lighthearted, wholesome stuff nowadays. It's not age. I'm just really sad about the way things are going.

[Dr. Medulla]

Boy, MASH really fell off a cliff in season 5. Frank is a buffoon. I can see why Larry Linville wanted to leave. The first three seasons are the best, but I think I've had enough. Once Trapper and Henry left, the tone shifted so drastically. Like everyone else did, I'll blame Alan Alda.

It was after season 3 that it became Alan Alda's baby as Larry Gelbart (sp?) left. As one person observed towards the end, Alda no longer wanted an Emmy, he wanted a Nobel Peace Prize.

That said, about five years ago or so, I watched the run on one of the channels airing episodes each day. I actually came to appreciate the "unfunny" years more. Yes, it could be (well, usually was) heavy-handed, but I appreciated the sincerity of its humanist vision, and I really like the episodes where Winchester understood compassion and vulnerability and need. Part of it was David Ogden Stiers pulled it off so well, conveying both aristocratic boob and the more fragile person beneath. There's one that I especially liked, where Winchester barely survives being killed by a sniper and becomes obsessed with his mortality, driving to the front to work on soldiers and begging one who was dying to explain what he was feeling. There's a desperation there to understand what life is about by understanding death. I think if you pretend the first three hilarious seasons don't exist, the virtues of the unfunny years are better detected.

I noticed Gelbart's name missing in the credits. That would explain the changes in some of the characters.

I liked the later seasons when I was younger, but my mood has really shifted, probably because of 2016-2021, but I really only want to watch lighthearted, wholesome stuff nowadays. It's not age. I'm just really sad about the way things are going.

I understand—comfort food, in a way. Some absolute classic episodes in those first three seasons. McLean Stevenson was especially superb.

[revbob]

Boy, MASH really fell off a cliff in season 5. Frank is a buffoon. I can see why Larry Linville wanted to leave. The first three seasons are the best, but I think I've had enough. Once Trapper and Henry left, the tone shifted so drastically. Like everyone else did, I'll blame Alan Alda.

It was after season 3 that it became Alan Alda's baby as Larry Gelbart (sp?) left. As one person observed towards the end, Alda no longer wanted an Emmy, he wanted a Nobel Peace Prize.

That said, about five years ago or so, I watched the run on one of the channels airing episodes each day. I actually came to appreciate the "unfunny" years more. Yes, it could be (well, usually was) heavy-handed, but I appreciated the sincerity of its humanist vision, and I really like the episodes where Winchester understood compassion and vulnerability and need. Part of it was David Ogden Stiers pulled it off so well, conveying both aristocratic boob and the more fragile person beneath. There's one that I especially liked, where Winchester barely survives being killed by a sniper and becomes obsessed with his mortality, driving to the front to work on soldiers and begging one who was dying to explain what he was feeling. There's a desperation there to understand what life is about by understanding death. I think if you pretend the first three hilarious seasons don't exist, the virtues of the unfunny years are better detected.

edit: The episode I mention can be streamed here.

I liked it when he got hooked on speed.

[Dr. Medulla]

Boy, MASH really fell off a cliff in season 5. Frank is a buffoon. I can see why Larry Linville wanted to leave. The first three seasons are the best, but I think I've had enough. Once Trapper and Henry left, the tone shifted so drastically. Like everyone else did, I'll blame Alan Alda.

It was after season 3 that it became Alan Alda's baby as Larry Gelbart (sp?) left. As one person observed towards the end, Alda no longer wanted an Emmy, he wanted a Nobel Peace Prize.

That said, about five years ago or so, I watched the run on one of the channels airing episodes each day. I actually came to appreciate the "unfunny" years more. Yes, it could be (well, usually was) heavy-handed, but I appreciated the sincerity of its humanist vision, and I really like the episodes where Winchester understood compassion and vulnerability and need. Part of it was David Ogden Stiers pulled it off so well, conveying both aristocratic boob and the more fragile person beneath. There's one that I especially liked, where Winchester barely survives being killed by a sniper and becomes obsessed with his mortality, driving to the front to work on soldiers and begging one who was dying to explain what he was feeling. There's a desperation there to understand what life is about by understanding death. I think if you pretend the first three hilarious seasons don't exist, the virtues of the unfunny years are better detected.

edit: The episode I mention can be streamed here.

I liked it when he got hooked on speed.

And when he, Tootie, Natalie, and Blair got caught shoplifting.

[revbob]

Boy, MASH really fell off a cliff in season 5. Frank is a buffoon. I can see why Larry Linville wanted to leave. The first three seasons are the best, but I think I've had enough. Once Trapper and Henry left, the tone shifted so drastically. Like everyone else did, I'll blame Alan Alda.

It was after season 3 that it became Alan Alda's baby as Larry Gelbart (sp?) left. As one person observed towards the end, Alda no longer wanted an Emmy, he wanted a Nobel Peace Prize.

That said, about five years ago or so, I watched the run on one of the channels airing episodes each day. I actually came to appreciate the "unfunny" years more. Yes, it could be (well, usually was) heavy-handed, but I appreciated the sincerity of its humanist vision, and I really like the episodes where Winchester understood compassion and vulnerability and need. Part of it was David Ogden Stiers pulled it off so well, conveying both aristocratic boob and the more fragile person beneath. There's one that I especially liked, where Winchester barely survives being killed by a sniper and becomes obsessed with his mortality, driving to the front to work on soldiers and begging one who was dying to explain what he was feeling. There's a desperation there to understand what life is about by understanding death. I think if you pretend the first three hilarious seasons don't exist, the virtues of the unfunny years are better detected.

edit: The episode I mention can be streamed here.

I liked it when he got hooked on speed.

And when he, Tootie, Natalie, and Blair got caught shoplifting.

No it was a real episode.

https://www.mash4077tv.com/2015/11/epis ... d-mr-hyde/

[Dr. Medulla]

Boy, MASH really fell off a cliff in season 5. Frank is a buffoon. I can see why Larry Linville wanted to leave. The first three seasons are the best, but I think I've had enough. Once Trapper and Henry left, the tone shifted so drastically. Like everyone else did, I'll blame Alan Alda.

It was after season 3 that it became Alan Alda's baby as Larry Gelbart (sp?) left. As one person observed towards the end, Alda no longer wanted an Emmy, he wanted a Nobel Peace Prize.

That said, about five years ago or so, I watched the run on one of the channels airing episodes each day. I actually came to appreciate the "unfunny" years more. Yes, it could be (well, usually was) heavy-handed, but I appreciated the sincerity of its humanist vision, and I really like the episodes where Winchester understood compassion and vulnerability and need. Part of it was David Ogden Stiers pulled it off so well, conveying both aristocratic boob and the more fragile person beneath. There's one that I especially liked, where Winchester barely survives being killed by a sniper and becomes obsessed with his mortality, driving to the front to work on soldiers and begging one who was dying to explain what he was feeling. There's a desperation there to understand what life is about by understanding death. I think if you pretend the first three hilarious seasons don't exist, the virtues of the unfunny years are better detected.

edit: The episode I mention can be streamed here.

I liked it when he got hooked on speed.

And when he, Tootie, Natalie, and Blair got caught shoplifting.

No it was a real episode.

https://www.mash4077tv.com/2015/11/epis ... d-mr-hyde/

I know; I've seen every episode of MASH at least twice.

[revbob]

My wife is watching some kind of weird science fiction where there are actual POC in the royal family and they haven't been entirely shunned by the wider royals/aristocracy

[Dr. Medulla]

The Boss and I watched the first episode of White House Plumbers last night, a deliberately farcical interpretation of Nixon goons Hunt and Liddy. Because the source material is already laced with absurdity and incompetence, the leap to farce doesn't come off as forced. Last year's Gaslit already made Liddy out as comically insane—The Boss knows only the very rough basics of Watergate, so she was stunned and kept asking me if such and such was true; inevitably, I'd say, yeah, not a whole of exaggeration here—but this goes a step or two further.

Two episode in, this is very entertaining. There's a very Ianucci quality to it all.

[revbob]

The Boss and I watched the first episode of White House Plumbers last night, a deliberately farcical interpretation of Nixon goons Hunt and Liddy. Because the source material is already laced with absurdity and incompetence, the leap to farce doesn't come off as forced. Last year's Gaslit already made Liddy out as comically insane—The Boss knows only the very rough basics of Watergate, so she was stunned and kept asking me if such and such was true; inevitably, I'd say, yeah, not a whole of exaggeration here—but this goes a step or two further.

Two episode in, this is very entertaining. There's a very Ianucci quality to it all.

I started the first episode but I was seemingly the only one interested.

[Mimi]

I started Harlots on hulu but stopped after the fourth episode. I have lots of thoughts.

[Dr. Medulla]

The Boss and I watched the first episode of White House Plumbers last night, a deliberately farcical interpretation of Nixon goons Hunt and Liddy. Because the source material is already laced with absurdity and incompetence, the leap to farce doesn't come off as forced. Last year's Gaslit already made Liddy out as comically insane—The Boss knows only the very rough basics of Watergate, so she was stunned and kept asking me if such and such was true; inevitably, I'd say, yeah, not a whole of exaggeration here—but this goes a step or two further.

Two episode in, this is very entertaining. There's a very Ianucci quality to it all.

I started the first episode but I was seemingly the only one interested.

There's a possibility that I'll be teaching the US post-45 survey this upcoming year. I said to the Boss I might do two Watergate lectures this time around. One on the conventional, serious stuff, leading to Nixon quitting like the failure he was, and another on all the weirdo stuff that is jaw-droppingly hilarious in its grandiose incompetence. Because it's a story, in both approaches, of how disconnected and fundamentally incompetent political elites had become.

[Low Down Low]

The Boss and I watched the first episode of White House Plumbers last night, a deliberately farcical interpretation of Nixon goons Hunt and Liddy. Because the source material is already laced with absurdity and incompetence, the leap to farce doesn't come off as forced. Last year's Gaslit already made Liddy out as comically insane—The Boss knows only the very rough basics of Watergate, so she was stunned and kept asking me if such and such was true; inevitably, I'd say, yeah, not a whole of exaggeration here—but this goes a step or two further.

Two episode in, this is very entertaining. There's a very Ianucci quality to it all.

That's me sold. Also reminds me I've yet to start on Series 2 of his science fiction show I've forgotten the name of.

[Dr. Medulla]

The Boss and I watched the first episode of White House Plumbers last night, a deliberately farcical interpretation of Nixon goons Hunt and Liddy. Because the source material is already laced with absurdity and incompetence, the leap to farce doesn't come off as forced. Last year's Gaslit already made Liddy out as comically insane—The Boss knows only the very rough basics of Watergate, so she was stunned and kept asking me if such and such was true; inevitably, I'd say, yeah, not a whole of exaggeration here—but this goes a step or two further.

Two episode in, this is very entertaining. There's a very Ianucci quality to it all.

That's me sold. Also reminds me I've yet to start on Series 2 of his science fiction show I've forgotten the name of.

Avenue 5, which was unfortunately cancelled. I get the criticism of it that it was kind of pointless in terms of narrative, but the steady batshittery worked for us.

[Dr. Medulla]

I started Harlots on hulu but stopped after the fourth episode. I have lots of thoughts.

So, uncomplimentary thoughts? I've never heard of it (tho we do call our one cat Charlotte the Harlot).