{"id":2010,"date":"2017-11-20T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T06:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2017-11-20T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T06:38:37","slug":"watching-listening-11-20-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/watching-listening-11-20-17\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCHING \/ LISTENING 11.20.17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TV:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/2017\/11\/watching-listening-11-17-17\/st-splash\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2011\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2011\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/st-splash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/st-splash.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/st-splash-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/st-splash-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/st-splash-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Umm, OBVIOUSLY. <strong>Stranger Things (Netflix)<\/strong><br \/>\n2nd season was a blast. I have thoroughly enjoyed Steve&#8217;s evolution from Nancy&#8217;s douchey boyfriend to babysitter hero. So much to love about the kids &#8211; can&#8217;t believe the kid who plays Will &#8211; who was so absent in the first season &#8211; is such a good actor. They&#8217;re all great but he was a surprise. The whole cast is superb.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2012\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/search-party-posters-season-2-709x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"709\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/search-party-posters-season-2-709x1024.jpg 709w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/search-party-posters-season-2-709x1024-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Search Party (TBS)<\/strong><br \/>\nI absoutely adored the first season and its truly hilarious cast of well-meaning-yet-criminally-self-absorbed\/deluded Millennials.\u00a0 Can the second season live up to the binge-worthy-ness of the first? I hope so. First two eps were great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/2017\/11\/watching-listening-11-17-17\/dg-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2013\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2013\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dg-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dg-1.jpg 624w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dg-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dg-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dg-1-200x200.jpg 200w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dg-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dirk Gently&#8217;s Holistic Detective Agency Season 2 (BBC America)<\/strong><br \/>\nI will shamelessly admit to watching basically everything Elijah Wood has ever been in (including every. single. episode. of Willfred) so he is the reason I started watching this show. I&#8217;m not a Douglas Adams fan, whose book series this is based on, so it certainly wasn&#8217;t that. But this show straddles the line of absurdist humor, heart, and intelligence, and is thoroughly enjoyable. The first season I started watching for Elijah Wood but stayed once I realized there were ghost cats\/sharks (?). Anyway, it&#8217;s fun. This season is about an alternate dimension.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PODCASTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nerdist &#8211; Episode 912, The Duffer Brothers:<\/strong> Well obviously this one caught my eye as I&#8217;m currently going through a Stranger Things phase. Fun interview with the creators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Favorite Murder:<\/strong> OK it&#8217;s growing on me. I figured out how to fast forward through the ads on my podcast app, so that helps. \ud83d\ude1b I often find their rambling annoying, though. My sister says the newer episodes are better; I started from the beginning while she started from the newest and is working her way back.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/watching-listening-11-20-17\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV: Umm, OBVIOUSLY. Stranger Things (Netflix) 2nd season was a blast. I have thoroughly enjoyed Steve&#8217;s evolution from Nancy&#8217;s douchey boyfriend to babysitter hero. So much to love about the kids &#8211; can&#8217;t believe the kid who plays Will &#8211; who was so absent in the first season &#8211; is such a good actor. They&#8217;re &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/watching-listening-11-20-17\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WATCHING \/ LISTENING 11.20.17&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,338,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-podcasts","category-tvmovies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}