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Post by Digi on Jul 9, 2020 21:13:34 GMT
Blew through the third season of Westworld over the weekend. Really strong first half, but totally fell apart in the second half of the season IMO. Hopefully season 4 gets back on track. Just now I've finally started watching Watchmen. Perpetually late to the party I couldn't get into Westworld, didn't make it to the end of season 1. I've been dying to watch Watchmen but I don't have HBO, so I can't. I watched the first 2 episodes of Dark. Good stuff! I heard someone compare it to Stranger Things, but it seems a lot, well...darker. And while the 80s do play a part, there is not nearly the same level of nostalgia. That's too bad, I thought Westworld (at least, its first two seasons) are some of the best TV put out in years. I finished Watchmen today. Great music, great acting. Absolutely phenomenal production values--the world of the show feels absolutely real and believable, no part of it ever feels farfetched. But apart from the times when it dipped into the historical backstories of various characters....I found it kind of flat. I don't think I'd even rank it in my top 10 HBO series. Now to take a little break and spend some time back in the DCAU while I decide what to tackle next. I'm torn between Dark, restarting Better Call Saul from the beginning (because I haven't seen the latest season yet and it's been like two years since I saw the previous season so I've forgotten everything), and finally finally starting Six Feet Under from the beginning.
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melkur
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Post by melkur on Jul 9, 2020 22:57:17 GMT
Well, I've just finished off the three-part finale of 'Brooklyn Nine Nine' series 4 aaaand yeah, damn good! 'Looking forward to seeing how they deal with the cliffhanger when I start series 5 tomorrow
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Post by Tim Bradley on Jul 10, 2020 8:55:00 GMT
Hello everyone! I'm halfway through the 'Alex Rider' series on Amazon Prime. I'm greatly enjoying it. I haven't read 'Point Blanc' in a long time, but watching the series makes me want to read the Alex Rider books again. Tim.
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melkur
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Post by melkur on Jul 10, 2020 22:43:28 GMT
After ploughing my way through the fifth series of 'Brooklyn Nine Nine', at the moment I'm watching '99' / 'Game Night', Rosa's 'coming out' episodes. (I had hoped on watching them with my mother, but, as it's almost midnight...)
Here we are again <3
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Post by polly on Jul 10, 2020 22:53:52 GMT
Hill Street Blues: "Moon Over Uranus: The Final Legacy" - How is it that the Hill Street precinct has managed to lose two tanks in three seasons? Things are still cooking along nicely otherwise.
MASH: "Give and Take" - Another episode built upon a snowball of trades, deals, and favors. And presumably the last one, since we've got just episodes to go.
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Post by polly on Jul 11, 2020 6:19:14 GMT
Hill Street Blues: "The Belles of St Mary's" - I can't really blame anybody for being suspicious of people dying in Hill Street's holding cells. Seems to happen a lot. There was even a vampire that died down there. MASH: "As Time Goes By" - Second to last episode. Kind of feels like a Part 1 to the series finale, what with the time capsule and all. Especially Radar's bear!
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shutupbanks
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Jul 12, 2020 0:08:18 GMT
Warrior Nun episodes 1 - 3.
Slow-moving but in a good way. This feels like a show that is taking its time to build up to something which I normally love - the upside of binge-watching is that production companies can produce work that can unfold over several episodes rather than rush through episodic chunks to cater to occasional viewers - but I’m just not feeling it here. The characters are great, the setting is beautiful, the acting, direction and script are all passable, but I’m playing a lot of “spot the influence” here, which is a game that took me completely out of Avatar, ruining what should have been an enjoyable experience. It just doesn’t feel like it’s doing anything new. And I’m normally totally fine with that because I like dumb fun as much as the next guy but there’s a lot of background to this that just feels lazy and derivative for the sake of being derivative. So I don’t think I’m going to be watching the rest of this.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 12, 2020 19:36:12 GMT
Natalie Wood: What Remains
(New Documentary by her Daughter on her extraordinary Life, Career, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death, with in depth Interviews with those who knew her, including Wagner himself)
Regards
mark687
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Post by constonks on Jul 14, 2020 8:01:46 GMT
Survivors 109: Law and Order. Probably the most uncomfortable hour of the show yet for a whole bunch of reasons. The main two are under the tag, cause oh boy, spoilers ahoy: 1. The skeevy-but-likeable-as-a-fictional-character Tom Price (or at least that's how I'd have described him in the first eight episodes) gets drunk and murders (and maybe rapes) a girl. Then we have to just live with him afterwards. He's still in the show and still a free man - and every scene I liked of his (like that glorious first one) is now tainted forever.
2. Now, admittedly it's the 1970s and I don't think you can judge Then by the standards of Now - but Barney has always seemed like a caricature of a mentally handicapped person rather than a real character. So that's always been a bit uncomfortable but never more than in this episode, where his mental handicap lands him on the hook for murder - and stops him from being able to argue his way out of it.
The actual discussion in the community about what to do and how to do it works, though. As ever, Abby is the heart of it and Carolyn Seymour is perfect. But dang that's probably not an episode I'll be watching again. Now onto episode 10 because quite frankly I don't want to leave it there!
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Post by doctorkernow on Jul 14, 2020 20:57:57 GMT
Hello again.
Oh Constonks, Survivors 1975 is a hard watch, I watched all of series 1 but had to stop after series 2 episode 1. I just couldn't take the unrelenting grimness of it all. I will return to it when I feel stronger. It is enthralling albeit strongly middle class and that Anthony Isaac's theme music is chilling.
On a lighter note: The Other One episodes 3 and 4. What a warm and funny sitcom. It takes particular delight in contrasting the clash of culture between the middle class and the working class. As in this exchange:
Cath: Are you soda-streaming wine? Cathy: Yeah. We had fizzy tea earlier.
Heartily recommend this one. The characters are beautifully written and performed. It reminds me of Only Fools, a very ordinary situation, not as joke-filled as Only Fools but equally well-observed by creator Holly Walsh.
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Post by polly on Jul 14, 2020 21:32:23 GMT
Hill Street Blues: "Life in the Minors" - This show can have some real tough material at times. I mean that in a good way. I like that it's daring, and that some of the social issues and the minorities vs police stuff is still unfortunately topical. But this is the first one to make me genuinely uncomfortable. This Emmy-winning episode features one of our regulars acting like a total creepazoid toward a teenage schoolgirl temptress and only bailing out at the last second. Losing some major respect points, my good man.
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Post by constonks on Jul 14, 2020 21:39:26 GMT
Oh Constonks, Survivors 1975 is a hard watch, I watched all of series 1 but had to stop after series 2 episode 1. I just couldn't take the unrelenting grimness of it all. I will return to it when I feel stronger. It is enthralling albeit strongly middle class and that Anthony Isaac's theme music is chilling. Yeah, I actually hadn't watched it since May, despite thinking it's great because it's a big old downer most of the time and I wasn't at my best. To be honest, I wasn't feeling great last night either so I don't know why I watched two of them! But I'll probably finish off the first season soon so I can go through the first three BF sets (the first two stories are where I started).
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shutupbanks
Castellan
There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Jul 15, 2020 9:43:49 GMT
After Life series 2. Just fantastic. I’m not sick of the characters or their shticks yet, as I often am with a lot of Ricky Gervais’ work by season 2. And while the tears moments were liberally spread out in the first season across each episode, here they all seem to be saved for the last two episodes.
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Post by melkur on Jul 15, 2020 18:17:44 GMT
Over lunch I finished series 6 of 'Brooklyn Nine Nine', and should be making a start on the latest series later this evening.
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Post by polly on Jul 15, 2020 19:09:58 GMT
MASH: "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" - Wow. I got all misty-eyed in under fifteen minutes and remained so for pretty much the full duration. It took Mr Polly and I under a year to get through the series, never mind 11, but it was sad to say goodbye all the same. A moving, epic-length sendoff that set the gold standard for series finales to this day.
I had seen some of MASH before, but as random reruns. I had never sat down at watched the series start-to-finish in order. So this time, I get the full impact. The series overall was a great experience. Funny, biting, bittersweet, innovative, and sometimes surprisingly experimental with its format.
I do agree that at some point it fell victim to its own length, and I think the dividing line is Radar leaving. After that season, it just settled into a comfortable holding pattern until the last couple episodes. Repetition in plots is not as widespread as people told me it was, but it did happen on occasion. It remained consistently enjoyable, and cranked out a couple outstanding episodes per season, but didn't shake up the status quo as often as it had done. I think they had kind of achieved as much as a TV show possibly can and were just making time until the end.
Phenomenal show. Truly the end of an era and a landmark in TV history
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Post by iainmclaughlin on Jul 16, 2020 1:32:55 GMT
Rewatching Jonathan Creek on iplayer. Discovered that I like it better after Maddie left. And I already liked it a lot when she was there. Maybe it's just the mood I'm in at the minute. Just finished the first ep after he got married. Sarah Alexander, Rik Mayall and Lucie bleedin' Miller. Great stuff. Definitely a show that would work on audio...
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Post by Timelord007 on Jul 16, 2020 6:54:39 GMT
Rewatching The Boy's, Karl Urban just hilarious in this series the scene were he uses a babys heat vision to kill some bad guys cracks me up.
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Post by Digi on Jul 17, 2020 4:19:35 GMT
Three things on the go, so I can flip back and forth whenever I feel like I'm burning out on one:
King of the Hill - Currently in Season 4 Six Feet Under - Currently in Season 2 My DC Animated Universe rewatch - Currently up to where Superman and BTAS/TNBA are running at the same time
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Jul 17, 2020 8:54:25 GMT
Brave New World episode 1. Rubbish.
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Castellan
You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jul 17, 2020 10:52:26 GMT
Started the Walking Dead this week - Wow!
Great series, only 3 episodes in but already starting to feel addicted.
Am watching Person of Interest with my good lady at he same time.
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