All the TV Thatâs Fit to Stream
Welcome back to streaming variability, a newsletter all about tv and whatâs worth watching written by some random idiot on the internet!
Quick Thoughts
Yo! I hope you are doing well and better than me as I was nursing a pretty bad hangover this morning after walking in the Seattle Pride Parade and then consuming too many beers, seltzers, Negronis and a glass of champagne at Pride Fest afterwards yesterday.
In better news, Iâve got some new glasses and a new haircut and now feel like a whole new person. And I can see again, which is always a positive.
Iâm currently six episodes into S2 of The Bear and Iâm loving every second of it. I fired up a list on Trakt of the best individual episodes of 2023 and Iâve already added E3 and E6 to it. E6 was absolutely spectacular and I hear the season only gets better.
Weâve got a few shows wrapping up this week, and honestly, not much quality new stuff to replace them in The Schedule. The Other Two, which has been amazing this season (E5 also made my best episodes list), Silo, which Iâm sadly behind on, and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal will all depart us this week.
Lastly, before we get into the new stuff, I figured Iâd mention some additions to the foofaraw line-up: silver-screen voyage is a new newsletter all about movies and trailers, and sonic vibrations is another new newsletter that will drop every Friday covering the weeks album releases. Both are meant to be super concise to keep you in the know of whatâs coming out and worth checking out. I set these up so you wouldnât receive them unless you choose to, so youâll have to hit that Manage Subscription button above and select âem if you want âem.. Iâm also planning on bringing back sequential variants. Since that one was already set-up, you may receive that (I unfortunately canât update it on my end), so if you have no interest in comics or youâd rather not receive it, hit that Manage Subscription button to remove it (or unsubscribe from this mess altogether đ€·ââïž).
New Stuff
Hijack S1 (Apple) â June 28
Idras Elba seems to have found a lane that I wish he didnât. I think he is a great actor, but it feels like heâs been in a string of b-movie action flicks and this Apple series seems to be right in line with that. Maybe heâs trying to find his Taken, but personally, I donât think Liam Neeson has really done any quality stuff since. Still willing to give this a shot and add it to The Schedule. For now.
The Witcher S3 (Netflix) â June 29
I donât watch The Witcher, but I figure some of you might since the last Henry Cavill season drops Thursday.
Warrior S3 (Max) â June 30
Another one I donât watch, but wish I did. Maybe Iâll try to fire up S1 soon and give it a go since I hear itâs solid. Will be interested to see if it gets another season given all the WB cost cutting measures going on.
Tom Clancyâs Jack Ryan S4 (Amazon) â June 30
Lastly, one more I donât watch. Itâs only a six episode season with two episodes dropping a week. I wish I werenât such a compulsive completionist because Iâd jump in and check this and Warrior out in a heart beat if I would let myself.
The Schedule
Wednesday
Platonic (Apple) 1:8
The Clearing (Hulu/Disney) 1:7
Itâs Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX/Hulu) 16:5
đ Secret Invasion (Disney) 1:2
Hijack (Apple) 1:1-2
Thursday
The Other Two (Max) 3:10
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount) 2:3
Friday
đđ© Silo (Apple) 1:10
đ© Unicorn: Warriors Eternal (Adult Swim) 1:10
đ© Painting with John (Max) 3:5
Sunday
đ© The Righteous Gemstones (Max) 3:4
Legend
Season/Series Premier: bold
Season/Series Finale: italic
Highly Anticipated: đ
Top Notch Viewing: đ©
Lastly
Thatâs it for me today. Iâm looking forward to the expansion of the foofaraw line-up. The tentative plan is: tv on Mondayâs, comics on Tuesdayâs, movies on Thursdayâs, albums on Fridayâs, and the news on Saturdayâs. the news will (probably) also include links to all of the weeks posts if youâd rather get one e-mail instead of five. I hope you are ready for the foofaraw media empire to take over the world.
As always, stay sane.
-humdrum