we've been watching disney+ stuff for a couple of days now. my brother is watching the MCU TV shows (none interest me this time) & we are watching star wars; skeleton crew.

i think they were going for a 1980s live-action kids move vibe. i can see the makers being inspired by the last starfighter and flight of the navigator, with a bit of the goonies and E.T. thrown in. they ride on some kind of mini-speeder bikes (wim's has a basket), they live in a suburban area, wim & neel look like they live in/on a cul-de-sac.

we are 4 episodes in and both me & my brother feel they were going for a han solo vibe with fern. her jacket, the way she was sitting outside of the principal's (they had a different term) office & her whole attitude during that scene. as a woman who wanted to be a girl version of han solo, i love it.
wim is an idiot, i don't know if that will change. his friend neel is the the fat (nerdy?) friend that is often in these kid's things. KB has 2 moms & i guess that was in the background enough that i didn't hear complaints about it when this first came out.
i would watch a series about fern & KB having adventures. maybe solving mysteries like nancy drew. but the rabid fan boys don't like female-lead SW stuff.

plutoTV is....interesting. buzzer has some game shows that we never heard of. like Body Language where people play charades & then just the words to fill in a mad libs type puzzle? they also have channels with supermarket sweep, family feud (dawson & combs ears, as well as the newer ones) '70s match game, the price is right (barker & carey eras) & a few others.
there's a columbo channel (they're supposed to have kojak & quincy M.E. too, but don't) & we watched that for a bit. there's a murder she wrote channel (which has the show logo in the corner all of the time, very annoying) & the nice thing about episodic TV is that you can jump in anytime and not be lost. also, the show is an interesting mix of old movie actors & future stars. george clooney was in an episode, and linda hamiliton was in another.

we decided to forgo youtubeTV for a month (suspend? pause?, i forget the term) or so in order to get disney+ again. because they list of MCU things is getting longer & avoiding spoilers is becoming an olympic level sport.

we would've done this last month, but thunderbolts didn't have a release date yet, now that it does we put the plan into action.

of course now that we did this, CBS announced that the amazing race is coming back in september. but it's all big brother people & their friend/spouse/sibling racing this time. i don't watch BB & this might be the first time since the "second chance" season that i have little interest in watching TAR.

my brother's main show, the rookie, is rumored to start a new season in january.

to fill in non-disney+ time, my brother got the plutoTV application for the tv (it's free) & so far the saying "you get what you pay for" applies.
it's owned my paramount & there's a lot of paramount/CBS stuff (they own CBS, if you didn't know). they have channels of just one show, which is odd. and what looks like all of the major market CBS news stations (like reruns of the daily news?) but there's a bunch of star trek episodes, columbo, murder she wrote, old game shows, and the NBC & ABC news streaming channels (oddly enough) so it's not horrible, but it's not that fun either.