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@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
House of the Dragon S2
Anyone watched?
I watched as the episodes were released. It's a decent watch and S3 (scheduled for 2026) looks to be where the war starts. There are meant to be four seasons.
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@Bovidae said in TV Serieseseses:
I've started watching this. Gritty and violent.
I watched this on your recommendation, was thinking of doing so anyway but seeing a good review helps. Enjoyed it would probably be the wrong term but it was good and very watchable. As you say, gritty and it made me gen up on the Utah War. Brigham Young, what a fluffybunny eh?
Thought the ending was a bit flat but in truth it was always going to be difficult to end it satisfactorily.
No tits though.
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@Catogrande I finished this last night. I was expecting the twist at the end but unsure how it would play out. Yeah, I doubt the Mormons are happy with how they are portrayed. Hypocrites.
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@MN5 Charles Dance was a geat villain in The Last Action Hero.
I finished Day of the Jackal last night, agree with most of what has been said, just a good series with plenty of 'yeah right' moments, but thats why I watch this type of shit, good story, plots with holes for buses, but thoroughly enjoyable.
Gotta say was glad when Bianca bought it, man she was an annoying fucking character. I guess she was given the latitude for her fuck ups cos they wanted her to fail initially.The Jackal just needed to remind Dance's character that he follows up unpaid debts, reckon he'd pay up promptly then.
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Bianca was annoying as fuck in No Time to Die as well. Maybe she is just very annoying.
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@Catogrande said in TV Serieseseses:
Bianca was annoying as fuck in No Time to Die as well. Maybe she is just very annoying.
Also very un hot
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@booboo said in TV Serieseseses:
Boy Swallows Universe
Started off,even up to Ep5 of 7, really good. Brilliant even.
A couple of brothers from broken family living on the fringes ... OK kind of in the midst of ... drug culture in working class Brissy in the mid 80s, complete with cop corruption.
Funny, sad, scary, challenging, all the feels. Very 'Boy' Iike.
Apparently book upon which it was based was written by a bloke brought up in that sub-culture (parents arrested for dealing heroin etc).
Really enjoying the story and trying to work out how it will all tie back and deal with the baddies.
But it didn’t.
Whole story fell off a cliff in the final two episodes. Ep6 lost that innocence and joy of the first 5, and then Ep7 just got silly.
Won't recommend against it as the first 5 eps were enjoyable and watchable on their own. And the ending in itself was ok if it had nothing to do with the start.
OK but ultimately disappointing.
Finally finished this series last week. Couldn't agree more with your summation. Even the head honcho played by Anthony LaPaglia felt more like parody with the way the character was played.
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@Bovidae I'm halfway through this, pretty good, but as you say, brutal.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@Bovidae I'm halfway through this, pretty good, but as you say, brutal.
I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I couldn't help think there was something missing. It didn't quite make it into my favourites.
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Man on the Inside
watched it over the weekend, great fun, is it me or are they making less comedies now days? maybe im just noticing the difference to when they use to do 22 episodes a season
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@Crazy-Horse maybe some likeable characters? None of the main ones were particularly likeable, but maybe that was the point, given the brutal nature of the world they lived in, they had to be the way they were?
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@Crazy-Horse maybe some likeable characters? None of the main ones were particularly likeable, but maybe that was the point, given the brutal nature of the world they lived in, they had to be the way they were?
Yeah that may be a part of it. Also, once I got past the usual reluctant, grumpy and mysterious main man and the know it all female who doesn't listen to the main man I enjoyed it more.
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Silo
IMO season two is better than season one.
Landsman
Still enjoying this, even if the storylines for the ex-wife and daughter are boring.
The Agency
About to watch the ninth episode and this has been much better than I originally thought it would be. A lot less Jason Bourne than I expected coming from the Americans without the humour of Slow Horses. Still well scripted and acted (Fassbender and Gere et al)
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@Crazy-Horse just been doing a bit of googling on the Mormons, and turns out Brigham Young, the Governor of Utah in the series was based on a real person, along with some key events in the series based on fact, with plenty of liberties taken as they always do.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@Crazy-Horse just been doing a bit of googling on the Mormons, and turns out Brigham Young, the Governor of Utah in the series was based on a real person, along with some key events in the series based on fact, with plenty of liberties taken as they always do.
I think he was also a character in Hell on Wheels too.
Mormon history is nuts, you could make crazy violent/political epic shows about them.
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@Nepia yeah you could be right.
That new movie Heretic had a mormon theme to it, and I recently had an interaction that lead to me to learn more about mormon life.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nepia yeah you could be right.
That new movie Heretic had a mormon theme to it, and I recently had an interaction that lead to me to learn more about mormon life.
There's a shit load of Mormon content on YT these days. I was watching a doco about ex Mormons and they were talking about how young women in the church were encouraged to become influencers on the platforms, but often the trad wife ones (which I don't understand, if you're a trad wife why are you running a social media business)?
A bunch of my relations are Mormons (some studied at BYU - Brigham Young Uni), I've always found it odd that so many Maori are Mormon considering how racist the church was back in the day. (TBF, that is likely true of all the churches Polynesians adopted when colonised).
I didn't see Heretic, but saw the trailer, so the two girls were on their mission and door knocked on Hugh Grants place?
The Book of Mormon musical is great, obviously the church aren't great fans of it.
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