Fives List

It is rare to be able to watch any film or TV show more than once.  Often even making it through the first in the series is an click the big X on the streaming screen.  Here are five TV shows you can watch more than 5 times.   The reason these are repeatable is the cadence and score.  The shows are more like an opera or symphony, with a cadence.

• • Prime Suspect Series 1 – The show has a score by Stephen Warbeck and the entire series has a rhythm, a cadence, a relentless consonance and dissonance  that underscores the misogyny, not just of the crime but also the workplace and at home.
  • The Fall – This is another series with a incredible dissonant film score. Not as watchable as Prime suspect but the length of the show, three series, not ever moment can be perfect.
  • The Sopranos – If you watch this enough, soon you will be comparing your Ziti recipe.  The opening theme music really helps but this one is all about the acting and the script.
  • Mad Men – The series spans the 1960s decade and is such a commentary on the times in America.
  • Star Trek (Original series) – You don’t have to be a Trekkie to appreciate this show.  Styrofoam rocks rule and even have a species.

Isn’t it frustrating to find an incredible show, the production, the writing, the direction, the sets, the acting, the editing, the score mind blowing good…only to be left hanging with no real resolution or satisfying ending to the series? Or worse?

Here’s five shows that really need to be revived.

• The Fall – Yes, it did resolve but what happens to the rest of the characters?  What about sexual feminista extrodinaire Stella Gibson?
• Mindhunter – The Netflix series ends with lots of relationships left dangling, lots of creepy serial killers left to interview, plenty of cases to put behavioral profiling to the test, but no season 3.  This is a masterwork by David Fincher.
• Taboo – An incredible cast rounds out this original story written by Tom Hardy’s Dad and himself.  Max Ritcher scores.  While the series ends with most of the story resolved, we are left dangling on a host of characters and their fates, as they set sail for new horizons.  Supposedly a second series has been written and filming should start in 2023.
• Carnivale – HBO’s Carnivale was a marvel to behold.  Card tricks and demons, carney’s and the cosmos, just when the cauldron of trouble is really boiling the show ends.  The entire story arc was ruined kind of like being stuck on a roller coaster at the top of the ride.
• The Knick – Steven Soderbergh’s drama about hospital at the turn of the century is mind bending.  The entire cast is incredible and the story lines touts a fine line between madness and genius.

The #MeToo movement has just scratched the surface on how sex is used as a weapon. From financial and professional ruin to outright loss of life, despite the headlines, little has changed. Here are five films that ever woman needs to see.

Unbelievable – The title is quite app and the show is available on Netflix. Not only is the story a classic blame the victim and deny, the acting is also incredible.

The Loudest Voice – Roger Ailes has made history for starting Fox News. But he also was a notorious sexual harasser and workplace rapist.   On Showtime.

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber – Another Showtime series and while this is about the tech company Uber, it also typifies tech and Silicon valley culture against women which to this day goes unabated.

Fithy Rich – By now most know Jeffrey Epstein routinely had underage girls dished up for himself and his friends. What’s most terrifying is how this guy became so wealthy and connected in the first place. Epstein is so disgusting, watching this in pieces in recommended to avoid getting sick.

Untouchable – This is one of the first documentaries on convicted rapist and Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. The thing is, this maybe the casting couch but almost every industry has an undiscovered Weinstein in their midst. On Hulu.

With the advent of streaming and premium cable channel content creation, TV has reentered a golden age.  Here are five incredible TV Dramas.

The Sopranos – This HBO show ran from 1997-2007.  It is as addictive as Camella’s Ziti.

Breaking Bad – Walter White goes dark in this intense, morally adrift on blue ice drama

Mad Men – Advertising executives in the 1950s thought the early 1970s.

Twin Peaks – David Lynch’s series went to places TV had not gone before.

Six Feet Under – A family funeral business and another HBO masterpiece.