When I sat down to write this intro, I realized something: I don’t watch enough TV. The only thing I’ve watched since the last time I checked in is a healthy amount of Olympics, which I miss more than feels normal. Thankfully, we recorded the entire thing on YouTube TV and thanks to my 9-year-old’s request, have watched one particular part over and over and over: Tom Cruise mission impossible-ing the handoff from Paris 2024 to Los Angeles 2028.
and both of them looked so bewildered that I wondered if I had made the whole thing up. If you also missed this — I don’t blame you, it was, like, two hours into the Olympic closing ceremonies — I’ll catch you up. There are five people on a giant (too big in my opinion!) stage in the Stade de France: an organizer of the Paris Olympics, the mayor of Paris, the president of the International Olympic Council, the mayor of Los Angeles and Simone Biles. In a ritual that felt a little culty, the mayor of Paris waves the Olympic flag three times, passes it to the president of the IOC, who also waves it three times and passes it to the mayor of LA, who (spoiler) waves it three times and passes it to Simone Biles (who does not wave it!). Then, the musician H.E.R performs the national anthem (wearing a pair of sunglasses I must own immediately) and as she finishes, the camera cuts to the rafters and — surprise! — there’s Tom Cruise in a harness. Commentator Jimmy Fallon says what we’re all thinking (“TOM CRUISE!”). Cruise looks up at the camera, giving us a stellar view of his filler, and rapels down into the stadium, prompting my 9-year-old (who is just now being introduced to Cruise) to yell “CROM TUISE!”, thus dividing my life into two sections: the time before I decided to say “OK, Crom Tuise” anytime someone trips, and the time after.
As devoted readers of this Substack may know, I am watching "MILF Manor." And only "MILF Manor." Season two is somehow even better than season one (though, from what I can tell, it features zero Jews, sad).
Oh dear. I’m going to be a poopy head and throw negativity out. T cruise is a very bad man. He IS “culty” as you mentioned jokingly about the flag thing. The cult is Scientology and it is considered the most destructive cult. He has shunned his ex wives and his daughter. He allows the cult to inslave young people and older ones. The cult believes that psychologists are evil and that they are Nazis. I could go on. Please don’t have any respect for this megalomaniac t cruise and his harmful cult.
I am keeping up with Lady in the Lake and love the 60s vibe. Natalie Portman is the perfect Jewess.
For fun while waiting the new season of Fauda i watched Mossad. Stars that hunk from Fauda, Tsahi Halevi. It's such corny fun. It a bit of Israeli 'Naked Gun.' For more fun Israeli, i'm in the middle of Hashoter Hatov. I guess you could call this one the Israeli 'Brooklyn 99.'
forbidden love on tlc - especially interested in the jewish/catholic couple - he (jewish) wants her to convert and she wants to but it's not going smoothly according to what they are showing. hope it ends well.
I've been watching a French tv show called Des 7 Vies de Léa in an effort to improve my French comprehension. For the most part I'm staring at it very confused - but it's an awesome show. No Jews, but that doesn't stop me from pretending there are 😋
Rewatching Northern Exposure (wife had never seen it). Now we're gonna screen an episode and have a discussion as part of our Selichot service. And at least 3 other people in the congregation are also watching it now, too.
Just finished watching the 2nd season of "The New Black" on Chai Flicks. Thought it would be kinda cheesy and after the 1st episode on season 1 I was hooked! Hoping for a 3rd season, as the producers left the story open ended? Highly recommend it. You get attached to the characters...quickly.
Current on season 11 of M*A*S*H on Hulu because I don't think I've every watched it all the way through as I was born in '72. Waiting eagerly for the new seasons of The Rings of Power and Only Murders in the Building.
This summer, I've been mostly watching "reruns", with some of them "new to me": "Judge Judy" (a wise & "prickly", older "NY/NJ Jewess", like ME!); the original (and HILARIOUS & relatable!!!!) 1990's series, "Mad About You" (quasi-Jewish); the 1980's-90's series, "Seinfeld" (VERY Jewish, even if some of the Jewish actors aren't playing Jewish characters; yes, I did watch this series when it originally aired); "Hazel" (not "Jewish" at all, but VERY ENJOYABLE for me, as I was growing up during the early 1960s, when this show takes place, and I can identify a LOT with the family dynamics, non-"frou-frou" foods that the character "Hazel" cooks for the family with whom she is employed, and the clothing & hairstyles the adult female characters wear). Besides "topical News" programming and a "smattering" of (so-called) "reality" & "house" shows...that's IT 'til the new Fall programming begins on our "basic cable" system, in late September!
And HOW could I have forgotten my steady, Sunday night "appointment TV date" with..."The Dick Van Dyke Show"??! This classic, early-to-mid 1960s "work & home-place" comedy (created by Bronx-born & raised-in-a-Jewish family, Carl Reiner, dad of Rob Reiner) revolves around a charming and attractive, non-Jewish, "edge-of-show-business" couple and their adorable young son, living in New Rochelle, NY, with "busy-body" Jewish neighbors, "wise-cracking" co-workers (one of them Jewish), and sprinkled with LOTS of Jewish guest-stars each season. I regularly watch this GREAT CLASSIC program every Sunday night, as a way to "cap-off" the weekend, on the "MeTV" station my cable company (and most others, I understand) carries. CHECK IT OUT!
As devoted readers of this Substack may know, I am watching "MILF Manor." And only "MILF Manor." Season two is somehow even better than season one (though, from what I can tell, it features zero Jews, sad).
Oh dear. I’m going to be a poopy head and throw negativity out. T cruise is a very bad man. He IS “culty” as you mentioned jokingly about the flag thing. The cult is Scientology and it is considered the most destructive cult. He has shunned his ex wives and his daughter. He allows the cult to inslave young people and older ones. The cult believes that psychologists are evil and that they are Nazis. I could go on. Please don’t have any respect for this megalomaniac t cruise and his harmful cult.
Lady in the Lake on Appletv+. Very Jewish and very Baltimore.
I am keeping up with Lady in the Lake and love the 60s vibe. Natalie Portman is the perfect Jewess.
For fun while waiting the new season of Fauda i watched Mossad. Stars that hunk from Fauda, Tsahi Halevi. It's such corny fun. It a bit of Israeli 'Naked Gun.' For more fun Israeli, i'm in the middle of Hashoter Hatov. I guess you could call this one the Israeli 'Brooklyn 99.'
forbidden love on tlc - especially interested in the jewish/catholic couple - he (jewish) wants her to convert and she wants to but it's not going smoothly according to what they are showing. hope it ends well.
I've been watching a French tv show called Des 7 Vies de Léa in an effort to improve my French comprehension. For the most part I'm staring at it very confused - but it's an awesome show. No Jews, but that doesn't stop me from pretending there are 😋
Rewatching Northern Exposure (wife had never seen it). Now we're gonna screen an episode and have a discussion as part of our Selichot service. And at least 3 other people in the congregation are also watching it now, too.
Just finished watching the 2nd season of "The New Black" on Chai Flicks. Thought it would be kinda cheesy and after the 1st episode on season 1 I was hooked! Hoping for a 3rd season, as the producers left the story open ended? Highly recommend it. You get attached to the characters...quickly.
I'm watching a lot of Rom-com on Amazon Prime TV. Timeless and fun.
All the new stuff I’m watching and excited about (there’s a lot all of the sudden)
https://substack.com/@bethlisogorsky/note/c-65617711?r=eeh87&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
And “Lady in the Lake” is a constant though I’m betting we get a very unreliable narrator conclusion
Current on season 11 of M*A*S*H on Hulu because I don't think I've every watched it all the way through as I was born in '72. Waiting eagerly for the new seasons of The Rings of Power and Only Murders in the Building.
This summer, I've been mostly watching "reruns", with some of them "new to me": "Judge Judy" (a wise & "prickly", older "NY/NJ Jewess", like ME!); the original (and HILARIOUS & relatable!!!!) 1990's series, "Mad About You" (quasi-Jewish); the 1980's-90's series, "Seinfeld" (VERY Jewish, even if some of the Jewish actors aren't playing Jewish characters; yes, I did watch this series when it originally aired); "Hazel" (not "Jewish" at all, but VERY ENJOYABLE for me, as I was growing up during the early 1960s, when this show takes place, and I can identify a LOT with the family dynamics, non-"frou-frou" foods that the character "Hazel" cooks for the family with whom she is employed, and the clothing & hairstyles the adult female characters wear). Besides "topical News" programming and a "smattering" of (so-called) "reality" & "house" shows...that's IT 'til the new Fall programming begins on our "basic cable" system, in late September!
And HOW could I have forgotten my steady, Sunday night "appointment TV date" with..."The Dick Van Dyke Show"??! This classic, early-to-mid 1960s "work & home-place" comedy (created by Bronx-born & raised-in-a-Jewish family, Carl Reiner, dad of Rob Reiner) revolves around a charming and attractive, non-Jewish, "edge-of-show-business" couple and their adorable young son, living in New Rochelle, NY, with "busy-body" Jewish neighbors, "wise-cracking" co-workers (one of them Jewish), and sprinkled with LOTS of Jewish guest-stars each season. I regularly watch this GREAT CLASSIC program every Sunday night, as a way to "cap-off" the weekend, on the "MeTV" station my cable company (and most others, I understand) carries. CHECK IT OUT!
Sadly, I haven't really found anything to replace Ted Lasso (which of course featured Brett Goldstein).