Dave Worth

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I would much prefer a higher concentration and the ability to just take a shot of it. Only way I could see myself trying it again

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You can buy edibles from a company (I use Enjoy Hemp…website should be easy to find) and ship them to you. I get 12mg gummies (25 to a bottle) for about $40. There’s your concentrated shot. Take as many as you need.

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Mad Men


Oh good I’m not alone.

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A few weeks ago I saw the complete series on sale for $35 on Apple. Always wanted to watch it and the only place is through AMC streaming or buying it.

I'm 4 episodes in and don't get the appeal so far. I'm hoping it gets better as you get to know the characters. At this point it seems almost like an SNL skit about how men acted in this time period, but amplified.

I'm not asking if I should keep going...I wouldn't bail on an such an acclaimed show after just a couple of episodes. But I am wondering if it does get better. Advertising might be like medical dramas to me...I just don't care too much about the genre.

I asked ChatGPT why does Jack Reacher walk funny with short strides? I'm very new to ChatGPT and having fun asking it stupid questions to learn how it works.

It gave 5 possible reasons covering info from books, movies and the show:
-Military training I talked about
-It's due to his size
-Actor decision to make him more imposing and deliberate
-Just to be opposite of Tom Cruise's portrayal which was more fluid
-Psychological aspect: reflects his readiness to stop, turn, or react at any moment.


I'm going with a combo of military training and to make him look bigger, stronger and more ready to go at all times. Even if it looks funny. Some Reddit people think it's because the actor is only 6-2 and is wearing lifts to seem taller and that has an impact :dunno:

Love the books (read them all except maybe the latest one), the first movie (second was okay), and all 3 season so far (Season 2 was good, not great, to me).

I tried watching this a few months ago. I would watch it at night after my wife fell asleep and the edibles had kicked in. That was a bad idea because I would either fall asleep or not really remember what happened. I tried to start up where I left off a couple weeks ago (Episode 4) and had no memory of what happened.

I got a little sick this week so I started Monday night with Episode 1 and finished Episode 10 last night. Fantastic show. I would get confused a lot trying to remember which character did what, and sometimes why, so I would often pause and have to look up stuff. Would have been way easier tracking this thread after each episode! Reading through it today either showed me stuff I missed or reinforced things I thought.

One thing that surprised me about this thread is how little discussion of the prisoner being boiled alive there was. I can watch a lot of sick stuff and not be really bothered. I don't know if it's because I was sick for that episode, but his screams being dragged to the pot haunted me all week. Something about knowing you're about to die in one of the most horrible possible ways resonated with me.

Also saw there's a Season 2. Hoping for the best, expecting the worst. I did watch some of the behind the scenes stuff and saw that the actor playing Toranaga is a main producer and one of the most respected actors from Japan. I think he's also an expert on that era down to clothes, customs and even the way they walked/moved. They showed how he would film his scene, then take off his wig and costume and go straight to advising on another scene. His (and the other experts the show used) continual involvement will be a huge positive. I will start watching Season 2 the day the first episode is released.

Good theory!

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Oh yes, of course we would get a climate change narrative

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We'll have to see what the messaging is inside the show. Most reasonable people agree that climate change is happening...as it's happened for billions of years. We are currently at the end of an ice age so it should come as no surprise that the earth can warm up. The normal argument is how much is man made or preventable and not a topic I want to go into on the Movie TV board.

I'm no expert by any means and just read a few things about this today. But there appears to be a correlation between melting ice caps and volcanic activity. Whether there's causation or not I don't know, but it would make for an interesting scenario for a doomsday movie/show. How they handle the reason for the climate change could turn either side off. I can probably deal with either scenario as long as it's not an obvious overarching political message.

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So what are we thinking it was that ended the world? I'm assuming an asteroid, since they knew about it for a while.

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I'm going to look for a good screen shot of the tablet when the President was reading it, but I did get the gist of it I think.

I paused on that scene and could see some stuff about atmospheric changes and the explosion of either a super volcano or a bunch of super volcanos.

Not sure if there was more to it than that. Looking forward to reading the reddit pages on this when I have some time. I love this show so far. Great mix of flashbacks to keep our favorite dead characters still involved. Love the mystery and I'm a sucker for end of days type scenarios. I just hope they don't move too fast to get out of the bunker. I enjoy seeing what "normal" life is for the survivors.

I did pick up on Sinatra saying if others found out where they were they would be in danger. That seems to set up some kind of conflict with outsiders for maybe future seasons if not the end of this season. I also think Xavier's wife will be alive out in the destroyed earth at some point.

I really liked it. I generally like Vince Vaughn but sometimes he's a bit much. For whatever reason I liked him in this. Highly recommended.


Some Apple shows that have been mentioned but not talked about a lot:


Black Bird. Great mini series based on a true story about a felon trying to get his sentence commuted by getting the goods on a fellow inmate suspected of being a serial killer.

Slow Horses. We're at 4 seasons now and the first 3 were truly great. I just started season 4 so I don't have an opinion. I believe each season is 6 episodes so it goes quick. Gary Oldman is by far the best part of the show.

Shrinking. This is talked about more than others but not as much as it should. If you like Scrubs, Lasso, Bad Monkey or even Cougar Town then this is a show for you. It's the same creator and does a great job of balancing genuinely funny moments and deeply serious subjects. You can easily go from belly laughs to tears in minutes.

Acapulco is another good one but I'm not very far in. It's a half hour comedy about a rich man reminiscing on his experiences working at a resort. So far it's decently funny and has a good heart. I think there's 3 seasons out with a 4th confirmed.

Mythic Quest comes back this week, maybe even tonight? Half hour comedy about a video game company starring Rob McElhenny from Sunny in Philly. I personally love this one and am excited it's back. Rarely ever talked about and I love it.

I liked Presumed Innocent with Gyllenhaal. Good, not great mini series that got picked up for another season but will go with new people/case. Worth the watch even if you saw the Harrison Ford movie.

Dark Matter is on my list but wife isn't interested and I haven't gotten to it yet. But it has great reviews and I'll get to it soon.

Morning Show was really good for 1 season, okay for 1 season and almost unwatchable last season. I'm hoping they get back on track but I'm not hopeful. I'll probably still watch another season because there have been some very good pieces.

If you liked Band of Brothers and The Pacific then you should give Masters of the Air a shot. It's the third best of the 3 Hanks/Spielberg series but I still liked it a lot. I think they do a good job of showing the hell our bombers went through. It has it's detractors but I appreciated it.

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That's a shame. I liked the book version better where he was a tunnel rat w/ the Big Red 1 and while a contrarian and independent thinker, was never what i would call a hard arse.

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I've read all of the books and would say Titus plays the character pretty close to the books.

The Tunnel rat background was cool, but to apply it here Bosch would have to be in his late 60s or 70s at the start of the show. That's a bit old to still be an active detective.

The Special Forces background doesn't get a lot of detail if I remember. As in, they don't make him out to be Rambo or some superhero. Just a guy who was a good soldier and is now a cop with a military background like so many others. The Special Forces just identifies him as one of the better soldiers.

Hard disagree. I want to see the opposite where one of the primary functions of the government is to help these kinds of people. I'm sure I'll hear about 100 different reasons why people would hate this and I'll listen.

Best example is from Hawaii's fires. And please tell me if this was another story on the internet that proved to be false later. The way I heard it was it would take $5B to rebuild the homes lost in the Hawaii fires. At the same time, there was an accounting error that sent an additional $6B to the Ukraine. Not $6B total...but an extra $6B on top of everything. If true then that's criminal to me.

Like I said, I don't know the hurdles and roadblocks to it. But I'd much rather see the Government putting money to rebuild our own communities before another country's. And while I don't doubt their ability to frick things up, I don't trust the insurance companies either.

And this is not to excuse a state like CA not doing the right things (forest cleanup, water retention). But half, give or take, of any population usually didn't vote for the side implementing government policies. And "they should just move" is one of the most ignorant responses I've come across. That's great when you can afford it and have other options. It's not easy for most to leave family, friends and work.

Like most issues in this country/world, it's not an overnight fix that one vote can handle.