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Late Night Open Thread: Amazon’s New Pilots

by Anne Laurie|  February 7, 20143:04 am| 39 Comments

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Anybody else taking the opportunity to watch any of these, while they’re free?

I quite liked Chris Carter’s THE AFTER, and would be interested in seeing how its karass (granfallon?) of eight survives the apocalypse. (Also, since LEVERAGE isn’t coming back, Aldis Hodge/Hardison needs another steady job!)

Next up on my list, BOSCH…

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  1. 1.

    Thymezone

    February 7, 2014 at 3:11 am

    That list looks like something from The Onion. How about a show about a woman who performs a transplant on herself, replacing her diseased liver with one from a javelina she discovered digging up her prized vegetable garden?

  2. 2.

    JoyfulA

    February 7, 2014 at 3:11 am

    Bosch could be good if it’s along the lines of the older books. The series kind of slid into Serial Killers!!! and I haven’t read one in a while.

    Tell me how you like it once you’ve seen it.

  3. 3.

    Mustang Bobby

    February 7, 2014 at 3:23 am

    “The After” sounds like my office. (Just kidding, folks! You’re the greatest! Haha!)

  4. 4.

    Mustang Bobby

    February 7, 2014 at 3:34 am

    Since this is an open thread, I see that Mitch McConnell is currently up the creek in the Senate race in Kentucky. He’s got lower approval ratings than Obama there. http://barkbarkwoofwoof.com/2014/02/mitch-in-the-ditch/

    To paraphrase the immortal Jimi Hendrix, ‘scuse me while I schadenfreude.

  5. 5.

    Monty

    February 7, 2014 at 4:11 am

    Bosch?! There can be only one.

  6. 6.

    Monty

    February 7, 2014 at 4:20 am

    I have only recently discovered Breaking Bad. Still on the first season, but so far it looks good.

    Moral ambiguity. It’s my thing.

  7. 7.

    Ramalama

    February 7, 2014 at 5:20 am

    I’m kinda liking Alpha House and Betas so will have to go over and check out The After. Amazon’s interface is terrrrrrible so I appreciate anyone who can point me in a good direction of what to watch.

  8. 8.

    raven

    February 7, 2014 at 7:48 am

    tap tap

  9. 9.

    Baud

    February 7, 2014 at 7:51 am

    @raven:

    Nobody’s home.

  10. 10.

    Betty Cracker

    February 7, 2014 at 7:58 am

    @Thymezone: Now see, I’d watch that!

  11. 11.

    raven

    February 7, 2014 at 8:00 am

    @Baud: I’d like to see if the logs reveal the longest period of time that there has been no action on the BJ.

  12. 12.

    Baud

    February 7, 2014 at 8:03 am

    @raven:

    Probably some time in the middle of the night. But it’s been rather slow lately.

  13. 13.

    raven

    February 7, 2014 at 8:05 am

    @Baud: The disease/choice conversations are wearing people out. I think I won’t have a drink to that!

  14. 14.

    Baud

    February 7, 2014 at 8:08 am

    I missed this news when it happened:

    The Wall Street Journal, picking up from an earlier report by , explores that question Wednesday about what happened at PG&E Corp.’s Metcalf transmission substation — an event that has received relatively little attention until now.

    The top of the Journal’s story grabs your attention:

    “The attack began just before 1 a.m. on April 16 last year, when someone slipped into an underground vault not far from a busy freeway and cut telephone cables.

    “Within half an hour, snipers opened fire on a nearby electrical substation. Shooting for 19 minutes, they surgically knocked out 17 giant transformers that funnel power to Silicon Valley. A minute before a police car arrived, the shooters disappeared into the night.

    “To avoid a blackout, electric-grid officials rerouted power around the site and asked power plants in Silicon Valley to produce more electricity. But it took utility workers 27 days to make repairs and bring the substation back to life.”

    According to Foreign Policy, which was less definitive about whether the attack was the work of more than one person, at least 100 rounds were fired from at least one high-powered rifle.

  15. 15.

    Baud

    February 7, 2014 at 8:08 am

    @raven:

    I tended to avoid those conversations. Not my area of expertise.

  16. 16.

    Betty Cracker

    February 7, 2014 at 8:19 am

    @Baud: What are y’all talking about? Disease / choice? I’m confused…

  17. 17.

    Betty Cracker

    February 7, 2014 at 8:20 am

    @Baud: April 16, huh?

  18. 18.

    Baud

    February 7, 2014 at 8:23 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    I think it has to do with the nature of addiction.

  19. 19.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    February 7, 2014 at 8:23 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    Addiction, in the Philip Seymour Hoffman threads.

  20. 20.

    Baud

    February 7, 2014 at 8:24 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    Is that date significant?

  21. 21.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    February 7, 2014 at 8:24 am

    @Betty Cracker: That’s the day after April 15th.

  22. 22.

    Betty Cracker

    February 7, 2014 at 8:26 am

    Ah, okay, thanks. I’ve mostly skipped those threads because I find the topic (Mr. Hoffman’s death) profoundly depressing. I didn’t realize a controversy was playing out within, but of course it is.

  23. 23.

    Betty Cracker

    February 7, 2014 at 8:30 am

    @Baud: It seems like that week (not day, necessarily) is a favorite of nutjobs.

  24. 24.

    Marc

    February 7, 2014 at 8:36 am

    Here’s a fun one: the Nation wants to reform how we elect presidents.

    Great, right? Except in two paragraphs they go from “We understand that keeping the presidency out of right-wing Republican hands has value” to this:

    we will pay attention to serious independent and third-party candidates, who in the best tradition of Progressive Bob La Follette, Socialist Norman Thomas and Ralph Nader, present radical ideas that will eventually be viewed as common sense. We’ll draw attention to ballot access and debate access fights, recognizing that voters deserve a broad discourse, and that front-runners become better contenders—and better presidents—when they’re forced to expand their frame of reference.

    So now we know that the Nation has an institutional memory of <14 years.

  25. 25.

    Ash Can

    February 7, 2014 at 8:39 am

    @Baud: It’s instances like these when government-administered groups of people with the ability and know-how to quietly track down domestic terrorists can come in awfully handy.

  26. 26.

    OzarkHillbilly

    February 7, 2014 at 8:40 am

    While another week is slipping by me and I still haven’t found God, it gives me great pleasure to announce that somebody has found the Bhudda….. ‘s remains.

  27. 27.

    raven

    February 7, 2014 at 8:40 am

    @Betty Cracker: Yea, they were going at it pretty hard.

  28. 28.

    Ash Can

    February 7, 2014 at 8:45 am

    @Marc: I can see something like that succeeding if the Democratic Party were to actually break apart, in the same manner as the GOP appears to be headed for. It would take a cataclysmic event like that to open the door for non-major-party groups.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    February 7, 2014 at 8:45 am

    @Marc:

    Nader’s a caricature these days, but he did some positive things once.

    @Betty Cracker:

    Spring — when a young man’s fancy turns to mayhem.

  30. 30.

    Marc

    February 7, 2014 at 8:52 am

    @Baud: Not as a presidential candidate. What did his campaigns accomplish that’s worth emulating?

  31. 31.

    Baud

    February 7, 2014 at 8:53 am

    @Marc:

    Agreed. I was thinking on the ideas he had back in the 70s.

  32. 32.

    OzarkHillbilly

    February 7, 2014 at 8:55 am

    @Baud: Holy sh!t… somebody’s serious.

  33. 33.

    OzarkHillbilly

    February 7, 2014 at 8:58 am

    @Baud: Little things… like seat belts. (don’t recall if he was responsible for that, but that was his shtick back then)

  34. 34.

    NotMax

    February 7, 2014 at 9:02 am

    @Baud

    Convenient that they skip over Ross Perot, John Anderson, George Wallace, Gene McCarthy, Strom Thurmond and W.E.B. DuBois, to name just a few.

  35. 35.

    Baud

    February 7, 2014 at 9:03 am

    @NotMax:

    And Tom Tancredo!

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Nader’s thing was auto safety, IIRC. He did some good work there back in the day.

  36. 36.

    NotMax

    February 7, 2014 at 9:11 am

    @<a href="https://balloon-juice.com/2014/02/07/late-night-open-thread-amazons-new-pilots/#comment-4857435"Baud

    Lyndon LaRouche, Teddy Roosevelt, Bob Barr, Lenora Fulani, Ron Paul, Dick Gregory; the list goes on. And on.

  37. 37.

    NotMax

    February 7, 2014 at 9:14 am

    @OzarkHillbilly

    Unsafe At Any Speed in the 60s was where he made his name (and killed the Corvair).

    By the 70s, he had generalized into consumer safety and early environmentalist causes.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    February 7, 2014 at 9:15 am

    Okay, obviously too logy to format properly. Morpheus beckons.

  39. 39.

    Elizabelle

    February 7, 2014 at 11:05 am

    @Baud:

    Hadn’t seen. Thanks for informing. Oddest detail is FBI’s asserting this is not terrorism.

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