Yea he’s clearly got skills on a horse. I’d love to learn how to ride.
Yea I saw he’s got a few other things he’s done, gonna try and watch more of them I think.
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Yea he’s clearly got skills on a horse. I’d love to learn how to ride.
Yea I saw he’s got a few other things he’s done, gonna try and watch more of them I think.
First season of Mayor of Kingstown is good.
update; finished The Diplomat.
That ending.... damn!
Anyone watch The Franchise, with Himesh Patel Richard E Grant, and Billy Magnussen? I’ve enjoyed it, really funny. Patel is a 1stAD on an unloved Marvel-spinoff film.
What about Our Flag Means Death? It bills itself as an uproariously funny show, but it’s Flight of the Conchords at sea, without the music. And without the comedy. Didn’t make it through the first episode.
The next two are good as well.
I'm on episode 6. It's not laugh out loud funny throughout but an enjoyable way to pass 30 mins.
I've also just begun Station Eleven, starring Patel. Strong start. He's an impressive actor.
Yea the diplomat is excellent.
New season of Silo has commenced. Becky Ferguson is great at carrying this show.
I wish Foundation was coming sooner.
I wish Foundation was coming sooner.
I like it but I can’t remember the last time I disliked a character as much as her husband.
I know lots of shows/films have characters who are nasty or flawed and they can be great to watch, but I just think he’s an annoying tw@t and no one would ever talk to him, let alone trust him with anything important. How many times is she going to shout at him….. then do the same thing again?
I watched S1 of Silo so will watch S2 but i hope the pace picks up a bit. It was quite a drag at times.
Had feck all to watch for a while but Jackal, Arcane and Silo has me well supplied for the next couple of weeks.
Finished the five episodes of Day of the Jackal that have dropped and its just so good. Apart from the partially annoying distractions that are their personal lives, it has been fantastic so far. Going to be a long 4 day wait for the next episode now.
Yeah the only memory I have of it is it was a slow grind. I’ll still give S2 a go though.
Thought S1 was decent with some funny parts but I heard it got cancelled after S2.
Could've sworn silo was coming in 2025. Great news.
Foundation can't arrive soon enough.
He's great. I laughed a lot in Franchise, little phrases like, "He's confused, like dogs in a washing machine" had me in stitches. Or when he tells the 3rd AD, "You're like a chicken peck peck pecking, with your questions. You're a question chicken." I wasn't aware of him until Station Eleven but I'd count myself a fan now.
It's very much standard issue Rhys Darby. I liked that schtick in Conchords, where he'd do things like say "Band meeting" and then take attendance, with Brett and Jemaine right in front of him. But it's that humor transplanted onto a(n inept) pirate ship. The knowing, smug, smirking comedy, like the US version of The Office, I can't stand.
Is Silo a JG Ballard type of dystopia, or a Fallout type of dystopia? I know the Mad Max style post apocalyptic show is catchier on the eye, but I think it's been done to death. Jason Pargin (former editor of Cracked, and author of John Dies At the End) is on Earwolf talking about this: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/why-hollywood-always-gets-the-apocalypse-wrong/ . EDIT: I just tried playing that link and it doesn't work, sorry. Search for it, I guess?
Currently reading Wool which I think Silo is based on. So will wait to finish that before giving that a go I think.
I had to pause it when Richard E Grant explained why he can't be cancelled cus I was laughing too hard, won't spoil the line here but it was genius.
Cool thanks for the update of your book in the tv thread.
I've come to accept that with almost all of the best TV series out there. Breaking Bad is incredible but I found the majority of Walt's scenes with Skylar and Walter Jr to be annoying as it often put the breaks on an intense episode.
Succession is my all-time favourite series and maybe part of the reason for that is because the family drama was so intertwined with the overall plot, which made every scene enjoyable.
Overall, The Day of the Jackal is a superb watch. I wish I hadn't bingewatched the first few episodes so quickly!
It’s a bit like Fallout without the humor but with Rebecca Ferguson. More or less standard Apple quality sci-fi.
I need Foundation and Andor back in my life though.
I was perhaps in the minority who thought season 1 of Silo started off very promisingly but became pretty boring as the season wore on. Most of the middle section was an absolute snooze fest, and that’s saying a lot because I am a sucker for slow burn sci-fi, but this series didn’t really grab me all that much. I’ll still watch season 2, but perhaps with lower expectations. Luckily I’ve seen some great series recently, especially The Leftovers, which I just finished.
The other half just put on Cross, on Prime. You can see what it’s trying to do. It’s like a cross (zing!) between Luther and Sherlock, but rubbish. Yes, rubbish. The whole season is utter tat. Really low grade TV making. For such a flagship show, this was just poor all round from Amazon. The acting is ropey at best, the plot leaps are preposterous, it plays like a Tyler Perry piece - which is a low bow, admittedly.
Aldis Hodge is decent as Cross. But most of the other characters are just caricatures of their supposed roles. The well meaning Best Friend Forever, who’s ready to give him tough love. Grandma at home, who keeps it all together and tells it how it is. The perfect, Uber talented kids, who have run ins at school courtesy of Daddy’s high profile. The cliche police chief who is blind, deaf and dumb to everything her star detective has to say in one scene, and in the very next is dealing with the explosive fall out of him being right again. But of course, the very next time they interact she’ll take his badge again and act like his theory is the ramblings of a crazy man. Rinse and repeat.
The laughable villain, who has the most bizarre motivation imaginable, and all his hyper influential and successful acolytes who are seemingly very happy to throw away a life’s work so this nutter can complete his weirdo magnum opus. And then there’s the random, never flustered, always chipper, white FBI lady, who shows up at the right time, every time, with a crucial piece of plot, just to keep it all moving along. She apparently has all the resources of the FBI at her disposal but zero procedures to follow, and is always on hand to help Cross, for no discernible reason, and never with any back up.
And then there is Cross himself. A man so brilliant, he has revelations just drop out the sky. A man so good at reading people and psychologically breaking them, that no suspect stands a chance. In the opening sequence he breaks a seemingly unbreakable suspect through the power of his dick alone. Yet this is also the guy who gets wound into a violent rage, time and again, by dinner party guests who say slightly mean things, and when exposed for misdemeanours in his past, can only resort to “No, listen, he’s doing this, can’t you all see? He’s the crazy one. Listen, please, it’s not me, it’s him! Step off or I’ll feck you up!” Truly a brilliant man.
But it’s okay, even if we manage to sidestep the fact that the show runners can’t decide if he’s a genius criminal profiler, psychologist and detective, or just a bad ass, ass licking, angry detective; we are still left with the question as to why this supposed genius is working for a local police department - an institution clearly full of corruption and incompetence, and one he shows enormous exasperation and contempt for - instead of one of the major federal law enforcement agencies. At one point he says it’s about being close to his family, but white saviour FBI lady who tries to recruit him, pops up in nearly every other scene; so clearly working in the area for the FBI isn’t a problem.
I won’t even get into all the race politics. Clearly there is an important and socially relevant point to be made there, but the handling of it is so ham fisted as to be laughable. Most of it boils down to black good, white baaaad. And it’s not that that is offensive, it’s just that it so incredibly lacks nuance that the entire point fails to get made, because nothing about the social structures reflect real life. As I said, it’s about the level of a Tyler Perry adaptation, or one of those terrible - mass produced - Harlan Coben mini-series on Netflix. It all plays out like a slightly edgy soap opera, rather than a serious show.
I know they are adapting famous books, but this series is not actually based on any book, it’s an original “Alex Cross” story for Amazon. And you can tell. Because it’s nonsense. They went for a sort of American John Luther type character and show, but ended up with something so flimsy that I suspect the majority of audiences will either drop it or just forward through to the relevant plot points.
Total waste of time. It’s also currently ranked number 1 in the US for shows on Amazon.
The other half just put on Cross, on Prime. You can see what it’s trying to do. It’s like a cross (zing!) between Luther and Sherlock, but rubbish. Yes, rubbish. The whole season is utter tat. Really low grade TV making. For such a flagship show, this was just poor all round from Amazon. The acting is ropey at best, the plot leaps are preposterous, it plays like a Tyler Perry piece - which is a low bow, admittedly.
Aldis Hodge is decent as Cross. But most of the other characters are just caricatures of their supposed roles. The well meaning Best Friend Forever, who’s ready to give him tough love. Grandma at home, who keeps it all together and tells it how it is. The perfect, Uber talented kids, who have run ins at school courtesy of Daddy’s high profile. The cliche police chief who is blind, deaf and dumb to everything her star detective has to say in one scene, and in the very next is dealing with the explosive fall out of him being right again. But of course, the very next time they interact she’ll take his badge again and act like his theory is the ramblings of a crazy man. Rinse and repeat.
The laughable villain, who has the most bizarre motivation imaginable, and all his hyper influential and successful acolytes who are seemingly very happy to throw away a life’s work so this nutter can complete his weirdo magnum opus. And then there’s the random, never flustered, always chipper, white FBI lady, who shows up at the right time, every time, with a crucial piece of plot, just to keep it all moving along. She apparently has all the resources of the FBI at her disposal but zero procedures to follow, and is always on hand to help Cross, for no discernible reason, and never with any back up.
And then there is Cross himself. A man so brilliant, he has revelations just drop out the sky. A man so good at reading people and psychologically breaking them, that no suspect stands a chance. In the opening sequence he breaks a seemingly unbreakable suspect through the power of his dick alone. Yet this is also the guy who gets wound into a violent rage, time and again, by dinner party guests who say slightly mean things, and when exposed for misdemeanours in his past, can only resort to “No, listen, he’s doing this, can’t you all see? He’s the crazy one. Listen, please, it’s not me, it’s him! Step off or I’ll feck you up!” Truly a brilliant man.
But it’s okay, even if we manage to sidestep the fact that the show runners can’t decide if he’s a genius criminal profiler, psychologist and detective, or just a bad ass, ass licking, angry detective; we are still left with the question as to why this supposed genius is working for a local police department - an institution clearly full of corruption and incompetence, and one he shows enormous exasperation and contempt for - instead of one of the major federal law enforcement agencies. At one point he says it’s about being close to his family, but white saviour FBI lady who tries to recruit him, pops up in nearly every other scene; so clearly working in the area for the FBI isn’t a problem.
I won’t even get into all the race politics. Clearly there is an important and socially relevant point to be made there, but the handling of it is so ham fisted as to be laughable. Most of it boils down to black good, white baaaad. And it’s not that that is offensive, it’s just that it so incredibly lacks nuance that the entire point fails to get made, because nothing about the social structures reflect real life. As I said, it’s about the level of a Tyler Perry adaptation, or one of those terrible - mass produced - Harlan Coben mini-series on Netflix. It all plays out like a slightly edgy soap opera, rather than a serious show.
I know they are adapting famous books, but this series is not actually based on any book, it’s an original “Alex Cross” story for Amazon. And you can tell. Because it’s nonsense. They went for a sort of American John Luther type character and show, but ended up with something so flimsy that I suspect the majority of audiences will either drop it or just forward through to the relevant plot points.
Total waste of time. It’s also currently ranked number 1 in the US for shows on Amazon.
I loved the family drama in Succession, it really added to the plot. In this, I don't think it makes any sense. I understand why they maybe do it but it's been quite annoying in this series tbh.
Yeah, Succession is very much the exception. For most TV series that involve crime, it is difficult to make the character's personal lives anything other than an annoying sidebar.
Finished cobra Kai last night. Hate it when they do half the episodes and then another half in a few months.
This is worse! Part 1, 2 and 3! Think Cobra Kai’s the first to do that.
There’s another series I’ve seen called Outter banks, they brought out a new season a few months ago aswell and they did 2 parts to the new season.
Dune: Prophecy
Watched the first episode, and it’s pretty great. They spent a fortune on it, is visually amazing, extremely well put together show. The story is interesting, more emphasis on the game of thrones aspect of the Landsraad. Basically 10k years before Paul Atteides, this is about a ruthless Reverend Mother trying to secure the bloodline, plenty of intrigue, murder, cool space ships. This feels as big as the recent Dune movies.
Watched the first episode, and it’s pretty great. They spent a fortune on it, is visually amazing, extremely well put together show. The story is interesting, more emphasis on the game of thrones aspect of the Landsraad. Basically 10k years before Paul Atteides, this is about a ruthless Reverend Mother trying to secure the bloodline, plenty of intrigue, murder, cool space ships. This feels as big as the recent Dune movies.
SAS Rogue Heroes is coming back soon. The soundtrack alone is worth it
Day of the Jackal is great stuff.
I might watch this. I had avoided it up to now assuming that is was some reality nonsense.
I enjoyed it more than Fallout.
Cross didn't engage me at all and we didn't go back after 1 episode.
Great show in my opinion. Any show that starts off with “if you want blood” by AC/ DC will get the adrenaline going and it’s based after the start of the SAS.
The Diplomat first episode was way too hectic and overwritten. I hope it's just the pilot episode buff talking. Otherwise it seems good enough.
Episode 6 of The Jackal was a bit below the level of the previous 5 but I feel it's setting up the next four well.