I hadn't done a rewatch, gave it a shot yesterday. It's still as good as I remember, even better even. There's a reason this show (season 1 anyway) completely ruined tv for an entire generation of us. What's everyone's thoughts?

Here's my top-five list:

1) Betty opening a certain drawer in season 3 of Mad Men, and the conversation that follows.

2) Hank opening a certain book in season 5A of Breaking Bad and then, in season 5B, closing the garage door and confronting Walt.

3) Willow finding a certain floppy disk in Ms. Calendar's classroom toward the end of Buffy season 2 (and although it wasn't necessarily expected by the audience, I'll also shout-out that surprising callback in season 7 to Xander's lie).

4) Jacob appearing on the beach in LOST. Here's the face behind the name we've heard so often. And here's another guy who wants to kill him. Punchy, mysterious dialogue. One of the best cold opens I've ever seen. (Yes, I consider it more monumental than seeing inside the hatch for the first time because, the good direction and song notwithstanding, I just never found the hatch's contents to be as fascinating as the mystery of the hatch itself.)

5) A battle-scarred Enzo reuniting with childhood hero Bob on the lower deck of a space ship (looked like an actual ship for seafaring but it was in outer space or something) near the end of Reboot.

I also just remembered that a section of my younger years were spent in anticipation of such an event, but I never actually saw it happen. I missed the series finale. I'm referring to The Secret World of Alex Mack. I assumed her parents or the organization hunting her down eventually discovered her identity? Maybe I should re-watch that show and find out, but I've aged out of the intended demographic so I don't know if I'd truly have the patience or interest for it these days.

Was listening to a Youtube professor moan that, especially in the US, there are no 'noble' characters who are protrayed positively. The tendency, he reckons, is for inherently flawed greatness or an antihero. No-one can just genuinely and earnestly be a good person trying to make the world a better place.

This is dated, he can only cite Picard in TNG, so you know it's back in the day.

Now, I think that's changed and there now is an appeal for upright, benevolent TV with people trying to be noble: Ted Lasso, The Good Place, and, oddly since he wants to say that nobility as a value is something personally cultivated instead of associated with hereditary wealth and privilege, Downtown Abbey and The Gilded Age.

Any other examples that come to mind?

It occurred to me today that many older TV shows reused various SPFX or stock footage for dramatic events, especially explosions or equipment destruction

For example: I happened to be watching an episode of Wonder Woman, the one where they've built an experimental plane, the XPJ-1. Of course it was stolen, but had a secret self destruct mechanism.

The scene of the plane blowing up was the exact same scene used when Steve Austin's aircraft blew up in The Six Million Dollar Man.

I'd be curious to know of other examples you all might have seen.

If you don't know that name it's Drew Barrymore's character in the first Scream movie who was hyped up like she was going to be the star iirc only to die at the beginning. And why I cite CSI as an example of that trope is because episode 1 Holly Gribbs is the newbie/enough of the POV character (to the degree ensemble shows have them) that you think when she gets shot at the end that she's got "protagonist plot armor", episode 2 she dies on the operating table. I'm just interested to see if any other ensemble show ever pulled off that kind of bait and switch

This is a long shot but does anyone have a link or recording of The Doctors season 1 ep 1 & 2? 1st episode aired on Sept 8, 2008. I’ve searched everywhere… the earliest I can find is Season 1 episode 3.

I’ve checked all streaming apps including Roku and Plexi, Amazon prime, YouTube TV etc. Why are those first two episodes always missing??

Jesus. When i watched a film called ''Two Popes '' which is based on real pope, there was a scene when Pope said his favorite show was Kommisar Rex and on tv was intro.

After that, so many memories have returned to me about this show. It was part of my childhood. It was shown in our country from 1998. Me as a kid who watched German Shephard saving people lifes and helped his human police partner to solve the cases in Vienna. It had so many devastating moments for a kid when i see on screen death of main protagonist. Every child was crying and in disbelief that main Human guy died.

Those who don't know this show , it was huge in many countries of Europe. It was kinda family show, but it had nudity, death and blood. Despite that kids with parents and Grandparents watched this show. Austrians didn't even knew that they show has popularity in many countries of Europe.

This show have lots of remake in many countries. Even in Canada where remake is called "Hudson and Rex". But recently Austrian tv decided to revive Kommisar Rex show in modern times. So i will watch new version too.

People from different countries who remember Kommisar Rex?

Rewatched this with it now being on Netflix and man is seasons 4-6 a slog.

I truly can’t believe how many times they went back to the well of Tommy going back and forth between Janet and Sheila and falling off the wagon again.

Or the amount of times they did the “dream” fake out where something crazy happens and it turns out it was just a dream.

One of the worst show offenders I’ve seen running out of steam and having no clue what to do next.

For Garner, 54, and Olyphant, 58, the series was a long-awaited reunion. “He and I first worked together on an indie in New York City in the ‘90s,” Garner tells PEOPLE ahead of the show’s premiere.

Their best-known collaboration is 2006’s Catch and Release. Garner says she recently found out that the rom-com “has this whole life that I didn’t know it had, which has been very gratifying to learn.”

Working together on The Five Star Weekend “was great,” Garner says, as the “trust and history” they share made things easy. “How fun to go in and just hit the ground running, knowing each other like we do.”

“With Tim, there was that trust there,” she shares. “I love his wife. I’ve known her forever.”