Want to watch and chat about an FK episode?

[brightknightie]

Anyone interested in some desultory, informal chatter about an FK episode over the next few days or week? I'll pledge to watch a specific episode tonight, and to post about it, if there are at least two other people willing to watch the same episode and chat just a very little — squee, analyze, lament, reminisce, joke, whatever — about it.

I'd like to say "you pick (any episode!)" but... I'm going to pre-emptively exclude TFI, BMV, OtLi, THF, BB1, AtA and LK for known sensitivities. (We want a fun chat! Not reopened wounds.)

What do you think?

Addendum: Sholio is in and PJ1228 is half in! Anyone else? If you'd like to join and name the episode, please do so by 7:00 PM (Pacific Time) tonight. (Sholio requests that it be from season one or two.)

Addendum II: Unless someone tosses a hat in the ring and requests an episode by 7:00 PM (Pacific), the random-number generator picks ... "The Code."

Addendum III: And so it is "The Code!" Please consider rewatching it and chatting with us about it!

Comments

[senmut]

If I were not trying to carve time for Nero Wolfe, I might have taken you up on that!

[brightknightie]

Perhaps another time!

I'm dearly fond of Rex Stout's stories about Wolfe and Goodwin, too! :-) I once lucked into a small pile of vintage Stout hardbacks at a library sale; I snapped them up as fast as ever I could.

[senmut]

A friend hooked me on the A&E series, so we're getting the rest of the house interested in them. I plan to eventually read them (mystery was not my drama, nor crime novels as a youth) but I love the acting in this.

[brightknightie]

I've never seen an episode of the A&E series, though I remember some clips/commercials. The characters are both archetypal and unique, and immortal in the very best literary-iconic way.

I suspect that most of us who love the stories do so for the characters; the mysteries are varied excuses to spend time with the characters and see them in their respective elements. :-)

[sholio]

I would be up for it, if it's an episode from season one or two! (Those are the only ones I have on DVD.)

[brightknightie]

:-) No one has yet named an episode. Would you like to? :-) (episode list)

First season is my own, personal favorite. Second-season is also very good.

Third-season is out of production on DVD and not currently available for sale streaming. One generally has to get the third-season DVDs second-hand, and watch for deals, because they often go for $100+.

[brightknightie]

Deadline for picking an episode:
tonight, Saturday, 10/10, 7:00 PM Pacific Time :-)

Otherwise, I'll get a random-number generator to generate an episode number up to 48 (season one 22 + season two 26)...

[sholio]

I don't really have a preference; I'd be happy with any of them except maybe the first few of season one (not because I dislike them, but because I've seen them enough that I remember them much better than the rest of the series, so it would be nice to watch an episode that's not quite so familiar!).

"The Code"

[brightknightie]

Told to pick a number between 5 and 48, this random-number generator produced... 46.

In production order, that's "The Code," near the end of second season. (In aired order, it would be "Baby, Baby" in that slot, but I'm surely the only one with an aired-order obsession anymore. The DVDs used production order except for "Francesca" and "Ashes to Ashes," of course.)

If no one steps up with a request, shall it be "The Code" at random?

Re: "The Code"

[sholio]

I'd be happy with that one!