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@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
Larry Ellison
I've started watching The Dropout (about Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos chick)
So far the most unlikeable character by far is Ellison. They've painted him to be a giant fucking douchebag.
Which is concerning for the rest of the show to be honest
Ta.
Now on my list. Read about this a fair bit.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
Larry Ellison
I've started watching The Dropout (about Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos chick)
So far the most unlikeable character by far is Ellison. They've painted him to be a giant fucking douchebag.
Which is concerning for the rest of the show to be honest
Ta.
Now on my list. Read about this a fair bit.
Watched a doco that was good too, I think it was The Inventor.
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@Bones said in TV Serieseseses:
@Victor-Meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
Larry Ellison
I've started watching The Dropout (about Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos chick)
So far the most unlikeable character by far is Ellison. They've painted him to be a giant fucking douchebag.
Which is concerning for the rest of the show to be honest
Ta.
Now on my list. Read about this a fair bit.
Watched a doco that was good too, I think it was The Inventor.
Doco and book excellent
This has started a bit naff to be fair, and if they make her sympathetic i am going to be pissed
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@mariner4life I listened to a podcast (The Dropout) she was unlikeable and I bailed halfway through, despite being fascinating.
I expect that is easier to deal with watching something than purely listening.
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
Get on it
The Old Man
Best thing on TVWhat platform do you have it on?
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@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
Get on it
The Old Man
Best thing on TVWhat platform do you have it on?
Raging Rivers
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Watching For All Mankind Series 3.
Might just be the best yet. Quite superb.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
Watching For All Mankind Series 3.
Might just be the best yet. Quite superb.
This has been one of the best shows of this current era of too much TV. I usually wait for a whole series to drop but I like this so much I started watching weekly (well I started by accident, not realising it was being released weekly, but carried on).
@Victor-Meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
The Undeclared War
Six-parter about a cyber-war between the UK & Russia.
Bit of a curates egg. Premise and tension was good and the plot believable, though it did go a bit OTT in places. Characters were generally strong & well-written and the main protagonist - a Muslim junior GCHQ employee - was really believable and played brilliantly by Hannah Khalique-Brown. Simon Pegg played the other main role.
Good watch and better than most of this genre - 4/5
I enjoyed this but like Tokyo Vice it had a non ending ending. So if it doesn't get picked up for a second season it will be annoying.
I liked the switch of focus in episode three (I think) and it was ballsy of them to do a whole episode that way.
I also found her to be fairly rounded as a character for a short TV series, at times she was straight up annoying and at others she was very sympathetic.
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@JC said in TV Serieseseses:
Just started watching Black Bird on Apple TV. About a drug dealer who has to try and get a confession out of a serial killer in exchange for release from prison. Promising start.
This is excellent so far, really enjoying it.
Mystery Road Origin is a really good Aussie show, follows a young Aboriginal detective investigating some crimes in the outback.
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I think a lot of makes a great TV series it is down to good writing, rather than simply a clever plot and an innovative premise. When you get the two together you generate magic.
We're watching Vigil at the moment and the plot & premise is v. good, but the characters are so identikit (you just knew the submarine commander would be black and the female detective lead have a tortured past) and the dialogue just so cliched it detracts from it.
For me it's the writing that made The Undeclared War enjoyable and FAM so brilliant.
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@Victor-Meldrew I just gave up on Rig 45, really similar premise to vigil but even stupider in terms of characters. 3rd episode fucked me off it was so moronic.
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@Bones said in TV Serieseseses:
@Victor-Meldrew I just gave up on Rig 45, really similar premise to vigil but even stupider in terms of characters. 3rd episode fucked me off it was so moronic.
I'm going to treat myself to a decent copy of Edge of Darkness from the '80's and give it another watch to see if it's as good as I remember. Was a seminal show.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
@Bones said in TV Serieseseses:
@Victor-Meldrew I just gave up on Rig 45, really similar premise to vigil but even stupider in terms of characters. 3rd episode fucked me off it was so moronic.
I'm going to treat myself to a decent copy of Edge of Darkness from the '80's and give it another watch to see if it's as good as I remember. Was a seminal show.
If it doesn't stand up don't tell me as I shall probably weep.
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@Catogrande said in TV Serieseseses:
@Victor-Meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
@Bones said in TV Serieseseses:
@Victor-Meldrew I just gave up on Rig 45, really similar premise to vigil but even stupider in terms of characters. 3rd episode fucked me off it was so moronic.
I'm going to treat myself to a decent copy of Edge of Darkness from the '80's and give it another watch to see if it's as good as I remember. Was a seminal show.
If it doesn't stand up don't tell me as I shall probably weep.
Don't think the theme tune has changed. That on it's own would make it great.
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@Victor-Meldrew A very 80s theme, plus of course that scene where Bob Peck sniffs his own dead daughter's dildo.
Loses points though for not enough Joanne Whalley
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@Catogrande said in TV Serieseseses:
@Victor-Meldrew A very 80s theme, plus of course that scene where Bob Peck sniffs his own dead daughter's dildo.
I have been trying to think up a suitable rejoinder to that all afternoon
Loses points though for not enough Joanne Whalley
She wore a nurse's uniform - which was probably enough for most people...
