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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 16, 2024 21:55:14 GMT
Right... wife and I just finished the latest season of "Bridgerton".. Again, quality scripts and acting for it's 4th season all up. 1 thing they changed at the end which got her all "excited/quizzical". They changed the gender of an upcoming character.. This person was male for a specific reason, now female.!
(Wife read all the books about 20'ish years ago when she was at University". There is now a 2 year wait for the next season. far out.. I need my thin skinned pomposity and over exaggerated British accents !!
![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif) The Diverted from the Books?! Try Upstairs Downstairs, Downton Abby, or if your want done with a Writer pushing his luck [which he admits too] look for The Grand by RTD. Regards mark687 LOLZ. Francesca Bridgerton married Lord Stirling (?), in the books he dies pretty soon from the flu or something, then she ends up marrying his cousin named "Michael". At the wedding he introduces his cousin "Miichaela" and she is clearly.. taken by her beauty..
Lets see how this plays out HAHA !
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 18, 2024 10:38:27 GMT
The last 3 days while lyying down with elevated pulverised foot.. I smashed through the 2 seasons of "Mindhunter".
The story of how an inquisitive FBI agent in the early 70's - slowly, and with a Lot of resistance, built the task force to deal with serial killers etc..
Great show!
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Post by number13 on Jun 18, 2024 10:56:19 GMT
The Diverted from the Books?! Try Upstairs Downstairs, Downton Abby, or if your want done with a Writer pushing his luck [which he admits too] look for The Grand by RTD. Regards mark687 LOLZ. Francesca Bridgerton married Lord Stirling (?), in the books he dies pretty soon from the flu or something, then she ends up marrying his cousin named "Michael". At the wedding he introduces his cousin "Miichaela" and she is clearly.. taken by her beauty..
Lets see how this plays out HAHA !
Another good suggestion might be 'The Duchess of Duke Street'. From about the same time in both production and setting as 'Upstairs, Downstairs'.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 18, 2024 11:03:14 GMT
LOLZ. Francesca Bridgerton married Lord Stirling (?), in the books he dies pretty soon from the flu or something, then she ends up marrying his cousin named "Michael". At the wedding he introduces his cousin "Miichaela" and she is clearly.. taken by her beauty..
Lets see how this plays out HAHA !
Another good suggestion might be 'The Duchess of Duke Street'. From about the same time in both production and setting as 'Upstairs, Downstairs'. Our all time favourite show is "Upton Rectory"...
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Post by number13 on Jun 18, 2024 11:40:52 GMT
Another good suggestion might be 'The Duchess of Duke Street'. From about the same time in both production and setting as 'Upstairs, Downstairs'. Our all time favourite show is "Upton Rectory"...
Lol! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/mW7FMmAyG_vqxkNOJyyh.gif) Is that a documentary? Because there really is a town in England called Upton(-on-Severn) and once, it had a rectory...
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 18, 2024 12:14:46 GMT
Our all time favourite show is "Upton Rectory"...
Lol! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/mW7FMmAyG_vqxkNOJyyh.gif) Is that a documentary? Because there really is a town in England called Upton(-on-Severn) and once, it had a rectory... LOLZ.
Sorry I jest.. it was a joke from "The Simpsons".. a play on "Downton Abbey".. My bad !
GOLD ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/mW7FMmAyG_vqxkNOJyyh.gif)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2024 12:18:31 GMT
LOLZ. Francesca Bridgerton married Lord Stirling (?), in the books he dies pretty soon from the flu or something, then she ends up marrying his cousin named "Michael". At the wedding he introduces his cousin "Miichaela" and she is clearly.. taken by her beauty..
Lets see how this plays out HAHA !
Another good suggestion might be 'The Duchess of Duke Street'. From about the same time in both production and setting as 'Upstairs, Downstairs'. Duke Street was never as interesting or as involving as Upstairs, Downstairs for me. What I WOULD suggest though is Tenko. Ahead of it's time for representation, shows Lou Jameson's best role and puts a twist on "how the other half live.." for sure. But honestly Bridgerton is just a frothy soap and not even remotely in the conversation with legendary TV like Upstairs, Downstairs. Neither is Downton Abbey which is just a soap-opera version of Upstairs, Downstairs. People also forget "U,D" had a revival about 10-15 years ago - Jean Marsh came back. Keeley Hawes was in it, Art Malik, Eileen Atkins. But it didn't have the charm without The Bellamys or the amazing cast of downstairs - Angela Baddely as Mrs Bridges (people listening to Chimes for Big Finish won't even get the tribute to her..), Gordon Jackson as Hudson, Pauline Collins as Sarah - a truly world class bit of TV and one of the first fully UK shows to be a smash hit in America. At the Emmys, it was beating the likes of Mary Tyler Moore and MASH.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 18, 2024 12:19:10 GMT
Another good suggestion might be 'The Duchess of Duke Street'. From about the same time in both production and setting as 'Upstairs, Downstairs'. Duke Street was never as interesting or as involving as Upstairs, Downstairs for me. What I WOULD suggest though is Tenko. Ahead of it's time for representation, shows Lou Jameson's best role and puts a twist on "how the other half live.." for sure. ooh..! I shall put it on my "list" to get through.
Thanks. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/mW7FMmAyG_vqxkNOJyyh.gif)
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 18, 2024 12:33:17 GMT
"House Of The Dragon" Season 2 episode 1. Well.. Lucky I happened by legit accident upon a spoiler. I knew the exact moment to tell wife to close her eyes and block her ears. If you have seen the episode you would know about the last scene.. (Wife is a teacher so 2 things she cannot abide by- animals and children..) Besides that- great episode , the tension is so building awesomely..! ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif)
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Post by number13 on Jun 18, 2024 12:51:58 GMT
Lol! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/mW7FMmAyG_vqxkNOJyyh.gif) Is that a documentary? Because there really is a town in England called Upton(-on-Severn) and once, it had a rectory... LOLZ.
Sorry I jest.. it was a joke from "The Simpsons".. a play on "Downton Abbey".. My bad !
GOLD ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/mW7FMmAyG_vqxkNOJyyh.gif) I knew! ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/IwGTjEvWiMqDCgEk5m52.gif)
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Post by number13 on Jun 18, 2024 12:58:52 GMT
Duke Street was never as interesting or as involving as Upstairs, Downstairs for me. What I WOULD suggest though is Tenko. Ahead of it's time for representation, shows Lou Jameson's best role and puts a twist on "how the other half live.." for sure. ooh..! I shall put it on my "list" to get through.
Thanks. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/mW7FMmAyG_vqxkNOJyyh.gif) Seconded, 'Tenko' was excellent. But not the 'thin skinned pomposity and over exaggerated British accents' you requested or I'd have recommended it! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/mW7FMmAyG_vqxkNOJyyh.gif)
If we're going wider, then 'The Onedin Line' (Victorian) and 'When The Boat Comes In' (1930s) ran for lots of series each in the 70s and are both very good and different from the others.
Also, for something costume and lighter, try the ITV 1970s 'Raffles' about E.W.Hornung's "gentleman thief" and his pal Bunny helping themselves to the valuable trinkets of posh Victorian England.
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Post by theillusiveman on Jun 18, 2024 13:56:00 GMT
"House Of The Dragon" Season 2 episode 1. Well.. Lucky I happened by legit accident upon a spoiler. I knew the exact moment to tell wife to close her eyes and block her ears. If you have seen the episode you would know about the last scene.. (Wife is a teacher so 2 things she cannot abide by- animals and children..) Besides that- great episode , the tension is so building awesomely..! ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif) Sounds like it was a intense episode I heard that James Dreyfus got a role in season 2 So wonder when he will show up
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Post by shutupbanks on Jun 23, 2024 1:18:19 GMT
Renegade Nell
Fantastic series about a young woman who returns home after running away to war (which is a story I’d love to see) and gets framed for the murder of a local magistrate. Courtesy of a fairy she also has superpowers, providing she’s using them for the right reasons. It’s a great mix of comedy drama, fantasy, horror. And written by Sally Wainwright, a name probably familiar to this parish.
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Post by Kestrel on Jul 14, 2024 15:57:09 GMT
Up to episode 2 of season 2 of My Adventures With Superman. Terrible title, great show.
I used to absolutely love Superman. I can't really say much about that, though, because I do t actually remember the hows or whys -- that's how young I was before I felt like I'd "outgrown" the character. It's entirely possible that Superman was one of my very first hyperfixations, right blocks and my big, red toy fire truck.... which, in my memory, was a metal-and-plastic behemoth two meters long.
So, anyway, yeah. I outgrew the character, the genre, the medium, whatever. And nothing about any of the subsequent Superman media in my lifetime really sparked any interest -- especially those godawful, utterly bleak Zach Snyder movies. Oof.
My My Adventures (maaaaan that title is bad) is really making me relive that kind of... prehistoric childhood joy, if that makes sense. It's fun, optimistic, its heart is consistently in the right place, and it absolutely nails the characters. The actual plots stringing the season arcs together may not be all that much to write home about, but I can forgive that, considering just how much I love this version of Clarke, Lois, Jimmy, Perry, and even Lex.
Clueing in Jimmy and Lois to Clarke's secret identity early on was a brilliant move that, alone, elevates this show well above all the other Superman media I've seen. And the social politics are decidedly on-point -- like Captain America, it's all-too-easy to cast Superman as a propagandistic figure for the American establishment, fighting to maintain a status quo that only really benefits the most powerful among us. So it's really nice to see Superman's biggest foes being the U.S. government first and foremost, followed by amoral tech corporations, while still taking time every now and then to do things like, say, not-so-subtly criticize the American prison industry.
Is it perfect? Nah. Do I love it anyway? Hell yes. Really hope this one doesn't get canceled early, or at least any time soon. I'm liking it so much I'm even finding myself optimistic for that new Batman cartoon that's supposed to start next month, though that's about all I know about that.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 18, 2024 11:00:57 GMT
So I was 9-10 years old when I saw the "Karate Kid" movie in the cinemas back in '84-'85 then immediately took up Tae Kwan Do.. Just smashed through all latest eps of "Cobra Kai" on Netflix. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif)
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Post by christmastrenzalore on Jul 21, 2024 17:41:26 GMT
The Acolyte Bits of it were good, but I was left quite frustrated and confused by the choices characters made. Especially the last big descision, the logic of which I couldn't begin to track.
Cobra Kai Season 5 Part 1 It's strandling an interesting line of having a lot of conflict boiling beneath the surface, without having the characters completely regress into the pettiness of prior seasons. And the final captain's battle had me hooked with it's high emotion and coriography.
Now it's teaed up nicely, both with the final Tournament, and the lingering questions the first half asked.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2024 17:48:10 GMT
The AcolyteBits of it were good, but I was left quite frustrated and confused by the choices characters made. Especially the last big descision, the logic of which I couldn't begin to track. Cobra Kai Season 5 Part 1It's strandling an interesting line of having a lot of conflict boiling beneath the surface, without having the characters completely regress into the pettiness of prior seasons. And the final captain's battle had me hooked with it's high emotion and coriography. Now it's teaed up nicely, both with the final Tournament, and the lingering questions the first half asked. Acolyte at least seemed to be telling a new story....then last ep we get major characters from the Jedi and dark side to tee up S2. Hate that, makes the universe seem so small. Just like Uncanny Valley Luke at the end of S2 of Mandalorian. Cobra Kai's end will be interesting as S6 is split into 3 chunks but we're also getting a new Karate Kid movie which is going to link the OG films to the Jackie Chan one. Not sure why (apart from "what else can we milk this for?") as it's two different martial arts that are in both - Jackie taught Kung Fu.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 21, 2024 20:11:33 GMT
Binge re-watching "House M.D." the last couple months whenever I can squeeze some episodes in. Up to Season 6 episode 4, where House voluntarily booked himself into a Psychiatric Ward. Still with the flawless American (albeit generic as Hugh Laurie puts in) accent. (Black Adder!) ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif)
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Post by Kestrel on Jul 31, 2024 18:04:59 GMT
Still (very slowly) making my way through Columbo and enjoying it (speaking of which, I just learned that they've started filming a second season of Poker Face!). From the memes, I've been kind of expecting the who to eventually jump the shark, or slowly flanderize the titular character. I was not expecting to see shark-jumping as early as season 3, however! But at least this moment of metaphorical surfing involved a disconcertingly familiar face: ![Columbo, season 3, episode 6](https://i.imgur.com/0e4Jl37.jpeg) I definitely was not expecting to see the Forbidden Planet robot again, so soon, and in Columbo of all things! It's kind of interesting to compare this updated version of the prop to the movie's original, to see how it was modified over the years: ![Forbidden Planet](https://i.imgur.com/RBLnPPu.jpeg) Between the ridiculous sci-fi robot wobbling around and Columbo constantly recording himself on a tape-recorder... yeah, that's a bit of a shark jump to me. I wouldn't mind seeing the robot again, if only for the sheer cheese factor, but the tape-recorder bit was super annoying and I really hope it was just a one-off thing for this episode. ( Columbo season 3, episode 6, by the way.)
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Post by Kestrel on Aug 2, 2024 4:12:50 GMT
You know, I was a bit worried I might have cause to eat my words about Columbo jumping the shark in episode 6 (season 3), but man, if I didn't think it'd jumped the shark then I sure would've by episode seven. Seriously, y'all: this one is wild.I thought Leonard Nimoy and Stephen Spielberg were both surprisingly big names to see attached to this show, nevermind the original alcoholic robot, but this time, for some reason, it's Johnny Cash?!?Imma hafta put the rest in spoiler tags, because, again, wild. (CW: SA){Spoiler}A quick summary of my initial thoughts while watching through the first ten minutes or so of the episode: - They got Johnny Cash for this?
- They got Johnny Cash to play the murderer?
- They got Johnny Cash to play the murderer who is also a pedophile?
Like I said: wild.
And the murder plot itself is just ridiculous: it involves Cash parachuting out of an aircraft after drugging the passengers, and then cartwheeling down a small hill so he can pretend to have been on-board during the crash. Oh, and this passengers? Cash's wife, who's been blackmailing him in order to fund the construction of a megachurch (my fondest regards to any of you blessed enough not to be familiar with such things) and is implied to be an evangelical Christian (likewise) -- so, you know, real sympathetic. And, naturally, the blackmail material is Cash's (character's) rape of a teenager... who is still in the employ of the couple, and working with them?!? The young girl, of course, is also murdered, as collateral damage. But the really nutty thing is how the scenes try to frame Cash's character as sympathetic: he's effectively a rock star, but because of the wife, is unable to enjoy the usual accoutrements of that fame -- like, Aw, shucks, poor Johnny Cash: his mean old lady ain't letting him rape teenagers any more! Only... he still manages to be raping some, just... not enough? And that's... bad? He's not allowed to own a car, either, because... he'd rape teenagers in it. That's not a joke, by the way -- that's in the script. My friends, I am only 28 minutes into this episode. I dunno much about Johnny Cash beyond a sort of general knowledge and an awareness of those prison shows, despite tending to like really old music of that general era (more into, say, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, etc.) so I don't really have any idea what the man was like, or what his public persona was... but it's hard to imagine any celebrity agreeing to be in a show with this script. Wild. Hog wild.
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