Fun documentary on Paramount+ about 80s metal and the rise of it helped by MTV. And then of course MTV killed it when they embraced the rise of Grunge. It even affected KISS.

But all these years later, metal is still as popular as ever and fans have returned to see them in arenas and stadiums once again.

To Fagen's credit, despite the "fuck you" snippet heard at the end of the film he apparently authorized the use of four Steely Dan songs for the documentary.

The Lazarus Project (TV series 2022-2023)

2 seasons - 8 episodes per season - 16 episodes - less than 50 minutes each.

Time travel.

The gist, things can be reset to July 1st of the current year if catastrophe strikes. If not, the year passes and the calendar marches on. Often, such terrible things happen they are forced to reset, and to learn enough to fix it, they may have to reset a dozen times or more.

A formula/serum/injection can give people the ability to remember previous time loops. Or, about 1 in 100,000,000 people naturally can. Most think such people are crazy, of course, though the Lazarus Project tracks them down and recruits them and trains them as agents.

Alas, just because your dearest love dies, or your partner, or your family, the Lazarus Project won't reset the world for such small potatoes, as this affects the lives of billions of people even if only in small ways for most - though some may not be born, while others will be. Things change. So they reserve this trick for world-ending events, like nuclear war, perhaps man-made pandemics, or that sort of thing.

But when George makes a mistake and his girl friend is killed, well, all bets are off, and he'll do whatever it takes to trigger disaster to force a reset and get his girl back.

I enjoyed this enough to pretty much binge the whole thing in 2 days on on-demand TNT channel. They were free.

I'd recommend it, if you enjoy time travel stories.

It could have gone a 3rd season, but it was cancelled. However, it ends satisfactorily enough.

Coming January 17th is the second season of one of TVs best shows Severance on APPLE TV+.

Today while going into the city (to see the Broadway musical & Juliet) as we walked through Grand Central we came upon a Severance pop up located in Vanderbilt Hall. Apparently last night the actual actors were there including Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower and director Ben Stiller. My daughter saw them (she works across the street).

Severance looks interesting, but there are too many streaming services now.

This season of Severance has been off the hook, epic television on a Twin Peaks level. One of those shows where the discussions after each episode is fun.

white lotus 3 - not bad, endless possibilities......

Last nights SNL 50 celebration on NBC was typical SNL, some good some bad. Eddie Murphy showed up and killed it, great in all his sketches. Lots of celebrities in the audience some who also did sketches during the evening. Cher showed up as did Jack Nicholson.

Musically the show was eh, Paul Simon is very old now and his pairing with Sabrina Carpenter was odd. Skipped Little Wayne, didn’t really dig Miley Cyrus doing a Sinead O Connor song (Prince) and Paul McCartney ended the night with Golden Slumbers but boy is his voice shot. That was rough but it was live.

Repeats on Peacock TV.

Yep we watched that at 9PM while taping the SNL special. One thing about White Lotus episodes, the characters are usually unlikable and lots of unlikable people last night. But the seasons do turn out to be damn interesting.

I see they brought back some characters from Season 1.

very sad about mccartney, he really can't sing anymore..........A for effort though.

I'm cutting Paul some slack because he did just play 3 shows in 4 nights at the Bowery.
Between 22 and 25 songs each night.

Read-thru for the SNL50 Anniversary Special!

It was nice to see Prince at the SNL 50 Concert Friday night.

We watched it as well. Some of the skits went on way too long, and there was too much focus (skit-wise) on the more recent years, given who they had there. Chevy Chase and Jane Curtin were both present but not shown until the end, as well as a few others (I saw Terry Sweeney, among others). Adam Sandler's song was excellent, and Bill Murray was great on Update. Musically, I think much of the thunder was taken by the Questlove special and the streaming show (which we haven't watched). Personally, I'd have loved to seen Paul have Ringo join him so they could ask for their $3,000.

SCTV is what deserved the gala 50th anniversary treatment, not this.

Dana Carvey had the flu, and Dan Ackroyd was absent.
Would have loved to have seen the Festrunk Brothers on Wayne's World.

Maybe they ran a 50 Anniversary SCTV special up in Canada?

No such luck.

If they did, it'd get blowed up real good!

I laughed hardest at Jon Lovitz (3:38 - 5:05). Cher. Seth and the inclusion of Ray Romano and Al Sharpden (6:50 - 7:20). Little things like that were hilarious.


The whole New York history was funny, too, particularly Hakuna Matata (Cocaine and some Vodka) and other bits, too. I bet Disney's gonna be psyched!


And Adam Sandler's song was touching and kind of fun.