Legit favorite restaurant and bar in the city. Cozy modern setting without being pretentious or typical generic gastropub interior. Awesome chef with rotating menus and new dishes. Drinks always on point. Very reasonable prices. And the staff/owners are just wonderful people.

I like the concept and vignette style story telling.

I made it halfway through the 3rd episode and just had to turn it off. The writing is awkward and unnatural, no matter how well the high profile cast delivers it. Lot of awkwardly cringy scenes with comical one-dimensional characters - the villains in this show are just laughably simplistic. Episode 2 - beyond the whole talk to whales thing - was filled with really ham-fisted poetics delivered dryly by Meryl Streep. Scenes went on for way too long with this kind of dialogue and it was apparent that the show leaned hard on writing to supplant the lacking visuals. And I'm not asking for a grand CGI fest but the director shot the show in a very plain shaky cam shot-for-shot manner that didn't match the tone or severity of the subject.

This might be the wrong place to ask this, and excuse my ignorance, but I moved to the city a couple months ago and have to take the 2:40am Amtrak out of Penn Station every once in awhile. I live in Hell’s Kitchen and usually try to walk everywhere.

Long story short, is there a… safest avenue to walk down to get to 34th around that time of night? 10th is a bit too no-man’s-land, 9th is decent then dead after port authority, 8th is the straightest shot and usually more active - but usually active with questionable stuff.

I’m a dude in his late 20s but look pretty young and have gotten heckled at a few times. Not trying to be alarmist and it seems mostly fine - just keep walking and ignore everyone. I suppose I could take the subway down but it’s slightly out of the way and walking is about the same.