Movie Monday 1/26

Well, my college son is STILL home sick, sick wiped out from mono in November. Spring semester starts in 2 weeks, so the count-down is on! He is determined to be ready to move back by then. When he got up today and I asked how he felt, he said thoughtfully, "Not terrible." That's an improvement!

So, we are still watching a lot, though last week we focused more on TV shows. He and I are making our way through the early NCIS seasons, currently on Season 3, at lunchtime. With my husband, the three of us have been watching Elementary, Scorpion (love that show!), The 100, and we just started Backstrom last night (great so far). We finished The Mentalist season 6 and are still working on Castle season 6, both Christmas gifts for the boys. And the whole family enjoys Bones and finally finished Firefly - we made that one and only season last! I have heard good things about True Detective and Black Mirror, but we are trying to find someplace where we can see them (we don't have Netflix or Hulu Plus).

As for movies, we watched one on Friday night:

We watched The November Man, starring Pierce Brosnan, one of six films released last year featuring, as one reviewer put it, "aging hitmen coming out of retirement for one last job." Yup, it's true - count 'em up. We enjoyed this one. Brosnan is an ex-CIA agent living a quiet life when he is asked to help extract an old colleague (and his ex-lover) from an undercover job in Russia that has turned dangerous. He does this but is shot at in the process by a group of agents, one of whom he recognizes as the young man he himself trained years earlier. It's a bit confusing at first because it seems like it's US agents trying to kill other US agents (yup, it is), and you aren't sure who the bad guys are. So, this movie is full of suspense, with a nice complex plot that keeps you guessing and, of course, plenty of action including the usual car chases and shooting. Can you tell I am tiring of thrillers?

Which TV shows do you enjoy? Have you seen any good movies lately?