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Stranger things isn’t the best scifi/”horror” program, but it is somewhat entertaining. Enough for me to have watched all seasons so far, usually more than one episode per time watched.
I’ve enjoyed it, and plan on watching series 5 when it comes out sometime next year, but probably not until I can spend some time (again, multiple episodes at one sitting).

If you…ahem…have access to Amazon prime, The Expanse is some of the best futuristic fiction I’ve ever seen. Won’t call it Sci-Fi. Takes place after we’ve moved out to Mars and the Belt. Hyper realistic space-physics. The weapons are realistic, the ships are realistic…and the only “alien” will scare the crap out of you.

Get a VPN, load KODI on a jailbroke firestick and Bob’s your uncle.

“The Peripheral” on Prime was/is an interesting sci-fi show.
And for those who hate half a story I’ve seen indications Amazon has given part 2 a positive nod.

We just finished watching the Guy Ritchiesque Movie “Bullet Train” on Netflix. Being low class sorts who often prefer light (violent mayhem filled) sorts of movies like Die Hard, or Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels to high minded art movies like Manchester By the Sea, we went against the hoity toity artsy critical reviews and enjoyed it.

Stranger Things? Season 4 is better than 2 and/or 3. So I’ve heard.

Stuff I’ve been watching (sailing the high seas and all that – after all, I’m in the Philippines):

1923 – Harrison Ford / Helen Mirren – Yellowstone prequel, Ep 1 okay, Ep 2 Meh. Cattlemen vs. sheep ranchers, hunting man-killers (tigers, lions) in Africa, other stories in that time period

Tulsa King – Sylvester Stallone – EXCELLENT. NY mobster moves to Oklahoma and takes over.

Slow Horses – Gary Oldman – EXCELLENT. UK spy stuffs

Yellowstone – Kevin Costner – Season 5 has been very good.

Fleishman Is in Trouble – Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes – about a marriage falling apart, some eps are hilarious, some eps are cringe, some eps are meh

The Peripheral – Chloe Moritz – Virtual reality sci-fi thriller. I bailed after ep 2.

Fire Country – Prisoners become fire jumpers. Characters and dialog sucks. I bailed after ep 1

Dahmer – Dramatized bio of Jeffery Dahmer. I would watch, then quit, then go back, then quit again. Finally quit during ep 6. Extremely creepy. Dahmer was very strange and very evil.

The Expanse – sci-fi, space stuffs – watch out for season 5 – they get extremely woke and weird. Such great potential, augured into the ground.

Andor – Adult Star Wars – the pacing is veeeeeery slow. But the production values are excellent.

House of the Dragon – Fantasy, Game of Thrones prequel, EXCELLENT. This is what Rings Of Power wanted to be, and at probably a 10th of the cost.

Tokyo Vice – EXCELLENT. Tokyo, Japan, Yakuza and newspaper reporters and all that.

Treason – spy stuff. Just started ep 1, but hasn’t fallen on it’s face yet.

George And Tammy – bio about Tammy Wynette and George Jones. Interesting at time, cringe at others. Lots of chemical abuse and the bad behaviors that go with it

Three Pines – Alfred Molina – Crime in a small town, detective goes to solve, stays to solve others, all might be connected? Hard to stay with this one, I watch then quit then watch then . . .

The Terminal List – Chris Pratt – Very Good. Navy Seal investigates the murders of his platoon members.

The Bear – Good – a five-star chef take over his dead brother’s sandwich shop in Chicago.

Jack Ryan – EXCELLENT – a CIA analyst goes into the field to solve various world crises and shoot people, all with a sour face. Actually pretty good.

Is that enough? Of course, Rick & Morty if you like animated (but Season 5 went downhill) – Panhandle is interesting but strange, Wednesday is a YA Goth / Monsters romcommystery thingy, and finally Alice In Borderlands (Korean) a “lets make people play violent games” thing like Squid Game.

Being retired and disabled, and not an easy traveler anymore, I spend a lot of time in the house tinkering with electronics and programming while various junks are playing on a separate system. If it sounds interesting, I stop and watch. If not – it’s just background noise until I find something better.

Tim, Taylor Sheridan is working on something else too. They’re filming US Civil War segments in January just west of Fort Worth, like they did for 1883. We think it’s for Pea Ridge/Elkhorn Tavern, but it may just be some random act of violence sometime around 1862 as it was for Sam Elliott’s big charge in 1883.

Another chance to be immortalized as a member of a background mob on the big screen 😁

Rumor has it it is for a series about Bass Reeves, first black marshal west of the Mississippi so we’ll spend a day forming lines, burning powder and charging around like a disorganized mob to get enough film for 2 seconds of an episode. But it pays good to have fun in the old hobby and they usually put on a great feed!

If anyone needs film footage for Dust Bowl Days—head for Amarillo. Warm at 58 degrees and windy at 58 miles per hour, gusting into the 60s, today at noon. Not really as bad as the dust bowl during the depression; farming and ranching conservation methods are constantly improving, but wind never changes. Ironically, all the wind-powered energy-generating windmills will be locked down because it’s too dangerous for them to operate in winds like this.

@Durnedyankee, I love the civil war era. My favorite is Ken Burns’ Civil War, I have watched all episodes over and over. I particularly like Shelby Foote, historian with a great accent. Too bad he has passed.

I wonder how long people will be able to tell these stories, this history, unedited and uncensored. Folks are far too sensitive these days.

@Tim – I can tell you Civil War reenactments changed a while back. Needless to say various Confederate battle flags are no longer acceptable to even be seen. Pretty much both sides are considered evil, too many white male patriarch-ists.
The high water mark for the hobby was the 135th anniversary because it was shortly after the Gettysburg and Glory movies.

@Tim Carlson

We are so hooked on K-dramas. “Money Heist” is my fav so far. “Kingdom” is good too…and Pacinko (a bit of a tear-jerker with Godfather vibes)

So far 1923 is a disappointment. I’m still bummed at 1883’s finale…but Yellowstone is back kicking ass, so there’s that. So many Rip wannabees…those of you who live in cowboy country know what I mean…every male from 6 yrs old to 90 is wearing a Greely Reiner crease…without the band, of course.

I decided to watch all our DVD movies again…started with Bronowski’s “The Ascent of Man”. The scenes shot in Stanford’s computer lab were amazing in 1973. Parkinson interview with Dr. Brownowski in 1974 is worth a squiz.