What are you watching/Random TV thoughts

This reads like sci-fi jargon. Like this could totally be a line from Snowcrash. I've just realized the world has become cyberpunk so slowly I didn't even notice.

Syndication

We've been rewatching Scrubs because it's good comfort-food TV and just hit My Screw-Up last night. And even though you know what's coming, man, I was still crying at the end. One of Scrubs' best - for all its comedic sensibilities, it handled deaths in a really affecting way. Oof.

I know exactly what you mean with Tubi.

With the Percy Jackson series the breaks seem to make sense. But I suspect with some of the shows from even two years ago it won’t. They clearly were aware that people were starting to switch out to better value packages over the last year or so.

The placing of the breaks make sense, but the Commercial Placeholder Black Screen lingers waaaaaay too long. It’s really awkwardly done.

To be fair the books are set in generic Northern New Jersey suburbs so that’s consistent. And in Fool Me Once they sort of got at local uniqueness with the scenes in the downtown Victorian arcade mall and the Burketts manor house

I’m acquainted with a professional mermaid - not sure if she was in that show, her name is Emily. She was in charge of the decorating room at Wilton when I worked there, and I only found out about the mermaid thing later. I can’t imagine it pays super well most of the year in Chicago.

I am the exact wrong demographic for this show because I'm damn near 40 (though I will be going on YouTube solely to see what they make Toby Stephens do as Poseidon, whenever he shows up) so I genuinely know nothing about it aside from the general premise and the casting, but I'm willing to bet "Percy" is short for "Perseus." Also, come on. You know why. They're not going to race-bend the main character of a Disney Plus show, but the Smurfette is fine.

From what I can tell, Jared Keeso does very little to no press, which is a shame 'cause I'd love to hear from him.

With Letterkenny now completed, I have been looking for another show to satisfy my "small town weirdo community" hunger. To my surprise I discovered that Northern Exposure is streaming on Prime.  It had been maybe 30 years since I had seen any episodes, and I only remembered generalities about it.  As is often the case, the first several episodes are only so-so, but maybe 5 or 6 episodes in the show begins to find its voice.
  The show is about Joel Fleishman, a jewish New Yorker fresh out of medical school or residency  or whatever, who has to practice in Alaska for four years to complete a contract to repay his student loans/scholarship money. He expects to be sent to Anchorage, but instead is sent to Cecily, a little town of 800 somewhere in the Alaskan wilderness.  
   It's hard for a Hollywood production to capture the feel of a small community but eventually NE gets the job done. 
   The show is obviously dated in some respects, being over 30 years old. Joel starts out as a lame Woody Allen  imitation, but quickly leaves that behind.  Some characters have attitudes that were common 30 years ago that wouldn't be acceptable today, but as the series progresses, they do learn and grow.  I felt more than a twinge of nostalgia watching an episode featuring the local bar getting a 10 foot satellite dish and suddenly going from no tv to hundreds of channels.
  The best thing about the show is that it treats it's odd assortment of characters with respect, the locals, the native population, and the occasional visitor who passes through. By the beginning of the second season, where I am now, the characters are growing emotionally and the weirdness of a small fairly isolated community is increasing.  The episodes are getting more inventive. You'll see.
  I would put it up there with Letterkenny, Green Acres, and Parks and Rec as being accurate about the flavor of real small town life, if maybe not exactly the reality. No, they pretty much nail down the reality.
  I like it.

That's like, every procedural series, though.  Did this central casting person do it? Nah, too early in the episode...