TV Serieseseses
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@NZbloke said in TV Serieseseses:
@bovidae said in TV Serieseseses:
Airing at the end of the month (spoiler alert).
Really enjoying that series... brilliant !!!
At SFO about to head back home for first time since November 2019. Will watch final stretch when I get back to UK. Can’t wait to see Ruth going all in!
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@Bones said in TV Serieseseses:
@MiketheSnow you getting that from alternative sources? I'll watch anything with Gio
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@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
@dogmeat said in TV Serieseseses:
@crucial I've watched Ep 1 and while I agree with everything you say I'm still a little underwhelmed.
It's like every performance 80% nails it but the sum of the individual parts is less than 80%
I think you're probably right about the plot - although I didn't notice that with the books. Just seems like you don't get enough of the depth of the characters especially the interaction between the Slow Horses themselves. We know nothing of Roddy for example. Given how little plot development there was though - if you delved more into the characters it would be very slow indeed.
I'm trusting its a slow burner and will develop. I'm also going to recommend it to someone who hasn't read the novels for their take.
I haven’t read the novels and really enjoyed the first two episodes. Less enthused by the direction of episode 4 though.
I think they did an ok-ish job with the characters, although they could have done a settler episode after ep 1 where we get to know the slow horses a bit better.
It's a big part of the books that details about the characters eke out over time. The same experience as the show where you are just thrown in and it takes you a bit to get your head around their quirks.
Already in the show they have let on far more about Lamb/ Standish than the books and that is one of the keys to his character.Do you know if it's this continuing next week? It was clearly the finale for this storyline but looks like it's carrying on but I'm unsure if it is S2 or continuing.
I mostly liked this season so keen to watch the next epsiodes.
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S1Slow Horses and S1Tokyo Vice both very enjoyable 👌🏻
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@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
@dogmeat said in TV Serieseseses:
@crucial I've watched Ep 1 and while I agree with everything you say I'm still a little underwhelmed.
It's like every performance 80% nails it but the sum of the individual parts is less than 80%
I think you're probably right about the plot - although I didn't notice that with the books. Just seems like you don't get enough of the depth of the characters especially the interaction between the Slow Horses themselves. We know nothing of Roddy for example. Given how little plot development there was though - if you delved more into the characters it would be very slow indeed.
I'm trusting its a slow burner and will develop. I'm also going to recommend it to someone who hasn't read the novels for their take.
I haven’t read the novels and really enjoyed the first two episodes. Less enthused by the direction of episode 4 though.
I think they did an ok-ish job with the characters, although they could have done a settler episode after ep 1 where we get to know the slow horses a bit better.
It's a big part of the books that details about the characters eke out over time. The same experience as the show where you are just thrown in and it takes you a bit to get your head around their quirks.
Already in the show they have let on far more about Lamb/ Standish than the books and that is one of the keys to his character.Do you know if it's this continuing next week? It was clearly the finale for this storyline but looks like it's carrying on but I'm unsure if it is S2 or continuing.
I mostly liked this season so keen to watch the next epsiodes.
They filmed Dead Lions (second book) at the same time as the first. No news on when it will show. My guess is they were waiting on reaction to S1 before doing S3 and will now try to spread it out. If the show wasn't well received they probably would have dumped S2 online asap.
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
Solid start
Is this based on Jon Krakauer's book?
Edit: Google says yes. Might have to look it up. Be interested in how they make the story fit the facts.
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Watching 1883 after a number of recommends here.
Arguably one of the most visceral things I've watched. Bloody great series though.
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watched a series called You're the Worst.
S1 is pretty good, some funny shit, S2 is hit and miss, the story arc with one of the main characters is taking away some of the humour.
Think there are 5 seasons, not sure how they can keep it up for that long, cos I think I might bail after S3 if it doesnt pick up again.
Also 3 seasons into Brooklyn 99, only ever watched bits here and there, so started from scratch, pretty good, some genuine laugh out loud stuff, some less funny, but enjoying it.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
watched a series called You're the Worst.
S1 is pretty good, some funny shit, S2 is hit and miss, the story arc with one of the main characters is taking away some of the humour.
Think there are 5 seasons, not sure how they can keep it up for that long, cos I think I might bail after S3 if it doesnt pick up again.
I stayed until the end, I did enjoy that series
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We own this city. (Should be titled “Return to Baltimore”)
Class TV with the same quality levels of The Wire in scripting, acting, production..
Whether the story (long term police corruption and the difficulties of policing in a iPhone world) is going to have the attraction of gang land drug dealing will be another thing.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
watched a series called You're the Worst.
S1 is pretty good, some funny shit, S2 is hit and miss, the story arc with one of the main characters is taking away some of the humour.
Think there are 5 seasons, not sure how they can keep it up for that long, cos I think I might bail after S3 if it doesnt pick up again.
Also 3 seasons into Brooklyn 99, only ever watched bits here and there, so started from scratch, pretty good, some genuine laugh out loud stuff, some less funny, but enjoying it.
You’re The Worst started as a comedy and then became a drama. I liked the comedy version but checked out as it became a drama.
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I have been finishing off watching the last episodes of Ozark this week.
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This is a show I have talked up, but I was disappointed with the final episode. It seems to be very polarising too, you either liked it or hated it.The car crash was a big tease, other than proving it seems that the Byrdes can't die. In the end they will do anything to stay together and survive, which I guess was the point. I really wanted Wendy to die a horrible death.
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@Bovidae I was genuinely happy with the finish of this show.
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I'm sick of shows where everyone gets their comeuppance and it's nice to see that sometimes bad people do prosper, having left a trail of wreckage behind them.
##endspoilerNice to see Netflix support a show to its natural conclusion with such excellent writing and acting.
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The Responder
Spoilers...
Near the end there, I was a little irritated by the "baddie then bigger baddie"... but the finish was fucking good.
Just leaving everything so messy... zero tying up of loose ends, because... that's not how shit works. It was a fucking mess, everybody involved was a fucking mess, and it ended up being a fucking mess, and...Well done. 4.5 hapless-druggies out of 5 "was he an hobbit?"s.
0 tits.
Fuck-all violence.
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I think it's a series
Sign me up
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
I think it's a series
Sign me up
I'm pretty sure my first "album" was Weird Al's "Fat".
And to risk repeating a topic which has been done many times before, derailing many a thread...
First "album" of any content in any form: Weird Al's "Fat" (dubbed cassette)
First "proper music album" in any form: Def Leppard's Hysteria (dubbed cassette)
First legal album: Guns and Roses Use Your Illusion II (cassette)
(fond memories of my curious father and auntie putting it on the car stereo on the way home, and "Get In The Ring" coming on - as I was reading the lyrics in those little booklets that came with it)
First CD: purchased 3 at the same time, with my Aiwa 3-CD stereo... Smashing Pumpkin's Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Queen's Greatest Hits Vol 1&2, and something else... can't remember. Genuinely can't remember, but I'm wondering if it's deliberate amnesia, and it might have been Live's Throwing Copper?
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The Staircase with Toni Collette & Colin Firth. Docudrama about Michael Peterson and did he kill his wife or not.
Got rave reviews, but we gave up after 2 episodes. Just trying to be too clever by half and it became a bit unwatchable for me.
Under the Banner of Heaven (TV Mini Series 2022) ⭐ 7.5 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
