Saturday, August 18, 2018

I've been watching the Get Shorty Series lately

When I was in Santa Barbara My knee still wasn't completely healed and so I couldn't go walk on beaches or go swimming like I would have liked to in the ocean as walking on sand is one of the hardest things to do when your knee or ankle isn't working right yet. So, though I could enjoy the beach weather which was mostly between 75 and 85 highs which is nice in Santa Barbara and the smoke from the fires I saw a little but couldn't really smell which just meant it was too high in the air (like a cloud) to breathe so I was fine there.

So, in Santa Barbara they have Cox Cable for TV there and I found a way to get "Get Shorty" the TV series based "very Loosely" on the Travolta Movie and on "Be Cool" it's sequel. However, there are many differences. For example, it doesn't start in Florida in Miami and instead starts in Las Vegas even though it winds up happening both in Pahrump (near Las Vegas) (Pahrump is the nearest city of any size to the old Area 51 which isn't used anymore by the way because too many people who worked for the government died there. So, it became to unsafe to be there anymore. So, there are two new locations the government uses which are in Utah and Colorado (and possibly more as well now).

So, the Travolta character is now played by an Irish Actor who became known in the  "IT Crowd" from Great Britain which is a very funny series too if you haven't watched it before about Computer techs who work for a company in Great Britain.

So, in Santa Barbara through Cox Cable I found I could get the Get Shorty series for free. So, I watched a few episodes there. Later when I returned home my local cable provider is Comcast and I found I had to purchase the season 1 episodes so i went to Amazon Prime and bought the first season in HD for 14.99.  Then when I went through the whole season I wanted to see the first 4 episodes that are out from the 2nd season that started recently. For some reason I couldn't find the 2nd season no matter what I did at Amazon Prime (even though my first time in I could). So, I tried Youtube which also has the "Get Shorty" series and was able to find it there but I couldn't create the subtitles because I'm not familiar with their system. (ON amazon prime and Netflix it is easy if you have a RokU like I do because there is a little star symbol on the controller that brings up the Closed Captions.

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