Watches

Playlist of watched movies, television shows, online videos, and other visual-based events
Watched "Glee" Vitamin D from Netflix
Directed by Elodie Keene. Will challenges the kids to a healthy dose of competition with boys against girls in a mash-up showdown. Meanwhile, Terri takes a job as the school nurse, despite having no medical experience, to keep an eye on Will.
The idea of Terri becoming a school nurse was tremendously outlandish, but just worked. The things they used Figgins for to contort the plots sometimes were crazy, but somehow worked with his delivery and timing. I’m surprised he didn’t use budget as a reason to hire her. Who would have thought they’d have someone arrested for smurfing on this show?
Watched "Glee" The Rhodes Not Taken from Netflix
Directed by John Scott. Will thinks the glee club desperately needs more of an edge, so he brings in his former classmate, April Rhodes, to spice things up. Will's plan seems to be going smoothly until he realizes he may be losing a key member of the club.
Season one really was a solid showing for a new television show. It just kept getting better rather than leveling off after the first handful of episodes. Pulling out guest stars like Kristin Chenoweth really pulled up their game.
Watched Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) from Netflix

Directed by George Lucas. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness. Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.

Continuing on in my effort to watch all the films in order, or at least pretty close since I’ve snuck this one up in order for a little monkey–her first time watching it.

She was pretty entertained, and surprisingly wasn’t scared or upset by it. A week or two ago, we couldn’t make it through Brave. She said it wasn’t even as scary as Harry Potter 2.

Rating: ★★★★

Watched Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) from Netflix

Directed by George Lucas. With Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee. Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.

Functional, but dear goodness…. The whining, the blatant racism, ugh. What princess cum senator could find something endearing about this kid?

Rating: ★★

Watched Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) from Warner Bros.

Directed by Mel Stuart. With Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear. A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.

Saw this pop up on Netflix and thought it’d make an entertaining thing to watch while I worked on other things in the background.

Rating: ★★★★½

Watched "The West Wing" The Wedding from Netflix
Directed by Max Mayer. President Bartlet's plan to attend his daughter Ellie's White House wedding is jeopardized when Russia and China mobilize troops over growing chaos in Kazakhstan. The Santos campaign has gained ground on Vinick over the last few weeks, but with less than two months until the election it's not clear that the gap can be closed. As Josh obsesses over the electoral math, tracking polls, and decisions...
Watched Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes from The Joy of Stats - BBC Four | YouTube

Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.

More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l

I really love the visualizations here! There’s so much to pull apart and analyze. I do wish I had a more focused view on some of the time lapse. There are some countries moving around in interesting ways and I’d love to be able to watch what they’re doing and match them up with various historical events. Watching Japan, for example is fascinating. The near-global dip for large portions of the connected world in 1918 was particularly interesting to see as well.
Watched PBS NewsHour, January 29, 2020 from PBS

Wednesday on the NewsHour, carefully scripted legal arguments give way to senator questions in President Trump’s impeachment trial. Plus: Legal experts analyze the latest from the impeachment trial, how China and the global health community are responding to the outbreak of novel coronavirus, understanding traumatic brain injury, saving Australian wildlife after bushfires and Now Read This.

Editor's Note: The first segment of tonight's show incorrectly identified the location of the bakery sending cakes to lawmakers in the Senate. The cakes did not come from a bakery in Washington, D.C., but rather from one in New York. The segment's transcript has been corrected. NewsHour regrets the error.

Watched "The West Wing" The Al Smith Dinner from Netflix
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter. With Alan Alda, Kristin Chenoweth, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina. A pro-life special interest group launches an ad attacking Santos for his abortion stance, but Vinick also sees it as trouble since he's also pro-choice and doesn't want to draw attention to the issue. With Vinick ahead in the polls, he has no incentive to debate Santos and thus continues to drag his feet over negotiations. Back at the White House, C.J. orders new Communications Director Will ...