Buck and Carrie Try to Watch TV Together, Fail

BUCK: Over the weekend, I was with my fiancee, Carrie. We kept trying to find something to watch. Now, I have really gotten into this show Alone where they drop the people… Have you guys seen this, by the way? Mike, have you seen this? This would be… (interruption) You gotta check… (interruption) Come on! You gotta check… (interruption) No, not your thing? They drop people out in the middle of the woods in Canada with minimal — very, very minimal — gear, and there are grizzly bears walking around and they have to basically build really more like a log cabin than anything else.

They build a little structure for themselves, some kind of a hut. Then they got go out there and fish. It’s very cold. Sometimes it snows. Anyway, I find it fascinating. Unsurprisingly, Carrie does not love this show. So, I tried. We turned on another show that is about some lawyer lady, who is in a plane crash in Canada, and then is in a survival situation — noticing a theme here — and that one didn’t pass muster, either. She did not… You know, that did not go over well. So, I’m trying to expand the palate out a little bit, if you have any great suggestions.

You’re trying to thread that needle of a show that, you know, like Ali and Gerrard. Ali and Gerrard are engaged. I want to know what is the show that you guys can watch together, ‘cause we tried… (interruption) You have one for me? ‘Cause I tried The Time Traveler’s Wife, which was not very well done and then it’s also bizarre that this guy is traveling back to talk to his future wife when she’s 12. It’s just weird, right? Like, that’s a weird thing. I know it’s time travel so it’s not real but, like, it’s still a little weird to me. I couldn’t really get past that whole situation. So that one didn’t last very long — and we watched a movie.

There must have been some good movies that have been made in this past year, and we found one that we could kind of both agree on, although really she was just being nice to me because I had failed so miserably with… I can’t even remember the name of the show, but it’s about this woman; she’s like, “I’m an important corporate executive and, like, I need to get where I need to go right away, sir!” These two guys are like, “All right. We’ll take you in a plane.” Boom! Plane crashes. She’s like, “Oh, my gosh. I’m cold. I’m, like, my nails are chipping and, like, this is so bad.” (interruption)

Yeah. (interruption) No, it’s a real… (interruption) I’m serious. This is the show. I’m telling you, this is the show. I do not remember what it’s called. It’s a Netflix show. So they’re in the Northwoods. I don’t know if there will be, like, any wokeness involved ’cause there’s, like, no people. Just really grizzly bears and the occasional marmot, perhaps. But, anyway, we tried some of the survival shows. I like those. I cannot get Carrie to be a fan of those. And then we watched this… It’s an old — not older, but from earlier in the year called The Outfit, and it was a gentleman’s B+, I would say.

So, maybe more like a B- but I’d give it a B+ ’cause I’m in a good mood today. It’s about… It’s like 1950s era Chicago, guy is a tailor — a British guy is a tailor — and then mobsters descend on his life. I’ll just put it that way. It’s pretty good. It’s like… It was, like, okay. I learned a little bit about… I kind of wanted to get a tailored suit made after that. I was like, “Oh.” But then I realized, eh, sweatshirts are more comfortable. So we watched that show. So I’m just saying there’s such a lack — and people always send me, they’re like, “Oh, have you heard of this show called Breaking Bad?”

I was like, “Yeah, of course, I’ve seen all the greats. I’ve seen…” You know, there’s this show that I think you might like, Game of Thrones.” Yes, I’ve seen Game of Thrones. I’m looking for something that’s a little under the radar ’cause I love those ones. I was an early adopter of The Last Kingdom, which I… Have you seen that one, Producer Mike? (interruption) I’m pounding the table in here. You need to check that one out. Producer Ali knows. It’s fantastic. Very, very good show for what it is. I like that one a lot.

And I was kind of an evangelist for that one. It’s now in season 5. Obviously Peaky Blinders, which Clay has told me… I think he just says it to placate me now, but he’s told me that he will watch that. That show is amazing. It’s very, very good. For this audience, I think one that is… If you haven’t seen it, it is definitely good; like, there’s no part of it that will upset you or make you… It’s a little slow in some parts, but is… Oh, my gosh. Poldark! Have you seen Poldark? This is one that I recommend to people.

I recommend it to my mom and my sister. They loved it. Handsome British guy, maidens on the farm, comes back from the Revolutionary War. I don’t know. I don’t know how to describe it other than he fixes the town, does some good stuff. It’s a good show. It’s a good show, and you can watch it. I think you watch that whole show even with like the kids. It’s a whole family watch, I think it’s fair to say. There’s no naughty stuff particularly going on there, which I know some of you are like, “Well, that sounds boring.”

But it is definitely not Game of Thrones-like in that respect ’cause there were times even when I was watching Game of Thrones where I was covering my own eyes. I don’t think I should… I don’t think I should watch that one. Any, I was just looking for a show we could watch. I’m using all the resources at my disposal, Googling things and try to find something, and it is amazing how much garbage there is on Netflix. I don’t even… I dropped my Hulu. I think I’m gonna drop my Netflix subscription. I don’t even know if it’s worth it anymore, just in protest at how bad so much of the content is.

I got rid of… Well, somebody I know may have been loaning me their Disney+, but that person got rid of their Disney+ because of what they did to Gina Carano. So, I was kind of part of that righteous moment, I guess, just by the fact that I was no longer watching Disney+. I got rid of my Hulu. I got rid of Paramount+. You know, you would think it’s so hard to get a show made, it’s so hard to get one of these projects greenlit, and then yet you see all these projects, and they’re just trash, and you say, “Why are they making so many really, really bad shows?”

So, I retreated into my Keegan’s history of The First World War, which is A+, not gentleman’s B+, not even gentleman’s A+. A+. Great overview history of the First World War, which I would highly, highly recommend to anybody out there. So, we’re doing a little bit of book… I wish I had a great show recommendation for the audience. Poldark is old. It may be over a decade old now. It was Masterpiece Theater, though. Carrie’s probably telling me, “I didn’t mind the survival show,” which she says… Yep. Yep. She’s listening. She doesn’t… That’s always a fun thing, too, when the fiancee’s listening to the show.

She’s like, “I didn’t say it wasn’t good.” It’s like, “Honey, you kind of fell asleep on my shoulder five minutes into it. So I think if you were really into it, you would not, if you loved that survival show.” You know, part of the survival show that is also, I find, of the Alive show — or Alone. Alive is different. That’s about a soccer team in the mountains and then there’s a little bit of cannibalism. That happens. Stuff happens. Old movie. Yeah, that was a real thing from back in the day. In the eighties, I think it was.

Alone, though, they leave these people out there, and what you see is… I remember, I loved the movie Cast Away with Tom Hanks. I don’t know why. And, you know, there’s no… There’s really very little music, there’s real very little sound effects. It’s just him on the island. You get some of those vibes except you know how Wilson becomes… Be honest. Did you cry when he lost Wilson? Did you tear up a little bit? I got super sad when he lost Wilson, which, usually it’s just when anything bad happens to an animal that I have to fight back the tears.

Any dog, anything happens to a dog I get a little weepy. But when he lost Wilson, I got really sad. You see these people who are out there in the woods and they haven’t talked to anybody in, like, two or three weeks, they start getting a little weird. They start getting a little out there. (laughing) They, like, start singing crazy songs to themselves, wander around in the woods, and you realize, like, we’re all used to a very structured and communal and comfortable society. You leave people out in 30-degree weather and they’re hungry for a few weeks, and things start getting pretty weird out there. Anyway, I’d recommend that one. That’s a fun show, Alone.