Every evening we publish our night viewing recommendation here on the “Time Out” website. We aim low: things you can watch at night without burning your brain with an overdose of stupidity – you can do that yourself – even if they are not supertemporal masterpieces. The recommendations are sometimes based on watching individual episodes that show potential, but you are definitely welcome to complain about us in the secret Facebook group “The spoiler: what are you seeing today”. In honor of the weekend and for your convenience, we are grouping all the recommendations in one place for the traditional end-of-the-weekend binge, ranked according to how much we like them.
1. Trust Sol
Before the first episode of “Trust on Sol”, “Breaking Bad” fans had quite a few questions, mainly – why? Why take Saul Goodman and give him a spin-off? What is the value in taking a likable supporting character, a comedic interlude at most, and building on it a continuation of a series that, overall, totally left a great taste at the end? Why open everything again? Now, six seasons later and with the end of “Soul”, we have an unequivocal answer. Because he was the one who could do what Walt never could. Because Saul Goodman, God help me, can repent. The “Breaking Bad” comic interlude has become one of the most fascinating, complex, brilliant and tragic characters in the Mathverse (yes, it’s a combination of Math and Metaverse. Face it). The ending of “Trust Sol” is slightly more complex and ambivalent than that of “Breaking Bad” – just like the difference between the series – And completes in the most satisfying way one of the greatest works ever. We really couldn’t have asked for more.
All seasons of “Trust Sol” are now available on Netflix
2. She-Hulk
The creators of the series have done an excellent job of refreshing the old Marvel formula with a series that is much more dialogue (and sometimes even courtroom drama) than actual action. Jessica Gao especially stands out as a witty and creative screenwriter, who takes everything that should fail the series and uses it to her advantage. Despite some plot holes and a load of guest appearances (except for Megan De Stallion’s guest appearance. She’s great) She-Hulk is an interesting, fun and even important female protagonist. Precisely thanks to the fact that it has no self-importance.
The first episode of “She-Hulk” is available on Disney+
3. The dark side of comedy
The cliché of the sad clown is both worn and true. But what if we look at the history of the best comedians (at least in the United States), we find a whole buffet of mental illnesses, tantrums, drugs, alcohol, guns, gambling and other bad habits. What is? Is it simply too free access to the best temptations of the world, is it simply a desire to be rockstars even if they don’t know how to play? Or maybe there is something deeper here and there really is a fundamental connection between the need (and maybe even the ability) to laugh professionally and some big and fundamental hole in the soul?
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This is exactly the question Vice’s new docu, which aired as part of their TV channel in the United States (so you’ll have to look for the episodes in Israel in more creative ways), “The Dark Side of Comedy”, tries to answer this question. The first episode, which aired yesterday, dealt with the life of Chris Farley – a loud and unrestrained energy bomb, who was an improv star (he trained with Stephen Colbert at Chicago’s Second City Theater), became one of the symbols of “Saturday Night Live” in the early nineties (alongside Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, David Spade and others) and is considered a kind of spiritual successor to John Belushi the legendary Tragically ironic, he inherited not only his talent and unbridled comedic energy but also his appetite for drugs – and died, just like him, at the age of 33 from an overdose of “speedball” (cocaine and heroin).
“The Dark Side of Comedy” is broadcast on Weiss TV
4. Come eat with me
“Come eat with me” is a one-of-a-kind phenomenon on Israeli television. There is no parallel content that really resembles her – in the vibe, the editing style, the very specific kind of cult adoration she receives. In its previous five seasons, it served as a microcosm of everything that is strange in Israeli society – it brought together population groups to examine and challenge the hostility between them, exposed people at the height of their pettiness and directed a powerful spotlight at the judgmentalism and over-honesty – but also the hypocrisy – of its participants. Yesterday it launched its sixth season with a new collection of characters that could be called Weredoos, but come on, it’s not necessarily them, that’s how the format works.
The new season also commits to the singles format to which the show went in the previous season – that is, five hosts, an episode every day, five days a week. After an entire singles season, the longing for the doubles format still hasn’t passed, either because of the dynamics created in a group of three couples or because of the length of the episodes. Even if the current format provides in total more hours of material, the format of two long episodes gives a more satisfying feeling at the end of the viewing. But even when “Let’s Eat With Me” is not at its peak, it is still a fun and addictive television product, which packs more interest into a single 27-minute episode than a week of “Wedding at First Look” digs.
The episodes of “Let’s eat with me” are now available on Kan 11 and YouTube
5. A league of their own
Although it’s still not easy for us with the robot culture, sometimes there are ideas that we actually like. Let’s say, let Will Graham (“Mozart in the Jungle”) and Abby Jacobson (“Broad City” Forever) turn the cute nineties comedy “A League of Their Own” (1992) into a current series. That is, as recent as possible for the series that takes place during the Second World War. But hey, it’s going to be more fun than it sounds.
Like the original film, the series will deal with the birth of the Women’s Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) which was formed in 1943 because the men were sent off to war but the show must go on. The new Rockford Pitchers team recruits a lineup of talented women, but because it’s the 1940s, most of them are housewives who play sports and want to prove they have a place in the league. Sorry, in a league of their own. And there is even some happy news – despite the lesbo-erotic subtext of the first film (after all, a film about a female professional sports league), many in the community were disappointed that no allusion materialized into a real moment. But in 2022, Seder is no longer afraid to deal with burning issues for the Jewish people, thus making a historical correction to the original sin.
The first season of “A League of Their Own” is now available on Amazon Prime Video
6. Beau Burnham, “The Inside Outtakes”
Chances are you’ve already seen Bo Burnham’s Inside, and either you fell in love with it completely orYou weren’t quite sure what he wanted from your life – You agreed that this is one of the few works of art that knew how to try to capture – and succeeded – in real time the universal experience that the human race has had for many years, of being stuck, alone, at home, while outside there is a corona. Burnham recorded himself sitting at home, slowly going crazy and trying to do the best (or at least, the funniest) with the endless free time he had created out of nothing, while doing what Burnham knows how to do: breaking the fourth wall, muttering to himself, digging into art His during and five minutes before and five minutes after he does it. It can be tiring, egocentric, brilliant, frustrating, smart – for sure, all this self-preoccupation suited the corona closures like a face mask.
Now (and after “Inside” won him a series of awards, including an Emmy and a Grammy. Come on, a Tony and an Oscar and you have an EGOT), or rather a month and a half ago, on the anniversary of “Inside” coming out, Burnham released his quarry, “Inside Outtakes” on YouTube ” (Get it? Got it) – apparently the b-sides of this show, the best pieces left on the editing room floor. Is it really accurate? Probably not, because there are some sections that look as if they clearly and with a little exaggerated precision are for the success of “Inside” and were probably sewn up later – but Burnham doubtless maintains the illusion that they were part of the process, doubtless winks at us that they were completely filmed recently. Does it matter? Not so. and how are they? Well, the verdict is pretty clear: it’s somewhere on the impossible axis of stand-up, sketches (or one terribly long sketch, if you will) and songs, if, like most, you liked “Inside” you’ll definitely like this too, and if “Inside” Was too much for you, so not sure why you’d even consider spending an hour with the bonus tracks.
Bo Burnham, “The Inside Outtakes” is available on Netflix, and also on YouTube right here
7. Inside the minds of cats
The Internet, as we know, was invented in 1983 with the creation of the TCP/IP protocol, with the aim of allowing humans to share pictures and videos of cats with the whole world. Along the way, digital photography, digital video, YouTube and the smartphone also had to be invented, but what can’t be done for cats. After almost 40 years of technological evolution, Netflix’s algorithms have also realized that the Internet is for cats, and today they are sending you “Inside the Minds of Cats”, a documentary that tries to do exactly that and understand what goes on inside the heads of these howling furries.
“Inside the Minds of Cats” presents for an easy hour a narrative brought from the mouths of physiologists, scientists and various cat experts according to which it is indeed a miraculous animal that deserves our worship, as if we needed a Netflix docu to know that, including a host of unobtrusive demonstrations and experiments starring cute cats. Because all cats are cute. The film tries to ask some of the really interesting questions about cats such as “do they know their names” and “are they crazy”, and above all of course the question “do they love us”, as if it is not clear that they love us and would eat us for dinner if only for their size would allow it.
“Inside the Minds of Cats” is now available on Netflix
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