Television Anyone recommend me any TV Shows?

Finished watching The Fall last night, the one about the serial killer in N. Ireland. Engaging over 3 seasons and scope for a 4th to answer some remaining questions.
 
Last one Laughing Prime.
Watched it in one go, I enjoyed it. Some good comedians. This is the British version, started the Canadian one. It's so much worse, can't see that one through. Not sure who the host on the Canadian one is but his over the top fake laughing is embarrassing.
 
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Last one Laughing Prime.
Watched it in one go, I enjoyed it. Some good comedians. This is the British version, started the Canadian one. It's so much worse, can't see that one through. Not sure who the host on the Canadian one is but his over the top fake laughing is embarrassing.
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Worth watching for the Danny Dyer bit.
 
My god the woman MI6 agent in Day Of The Jackal is awful. Gets everyone around her killed and fecks up everything with zero accountability. Also her storyline is boring.
 
I just finished my third rewatch of The Leftovers. Holy feck what a show! Can’t recommend it highly enough
 
Finished Reacher S3. More brainless but fairly fun dad tv. Not as good as S1 but nowhere near as bad as some people are suggesting. That said some of the dialogue was terrible. Add a few better scriptwriters for S4 please.
 
Just started watching Impractical Jokers, really funny.
 
I'm three episodes into The Pitt and it is very very good. Its definitely fast paced and tense with how much is going on and, it seems, it is also largely medically accurate. Great acting all around and you can't take your eyes off the screen.
 
Is The day of the jackal worth watching? The reviews are decent
 
Binged "We own this city (2022)" miniseries.

Bunch of "The Wire" people is involved, which is always nice.

Not as good of course (the show feels more like a TV show instead of real life docureality like the Wire) but it was good for sure.

Based on a true story about a corrupt Baltimore Police special unit. It also covers a bit of Trump coming into power and the dismantling of civil rights institutions in the US.

7/10
 
wr8_utd said:
I'm three episodes into The Pitt and it is very very good. Its definitely fast paced and tense with how much is going on and, it seems, it is also largely medically accurate. Great acting all around and you can't take your eyes off the screen.
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How do I watch this in the UK?
 
George Owen said:
Binged "We own this city (2022)" miniseries.

Bunch of "The Wire" people is involved, which is always nice.

Not as good of course (the show feels more like a TV show instead of real life docureality like the Wire) but it was good for sure.

Based on a true story about a corrupt Baltimore Police special unit. It also covers a bit of Trump coming into power and the dismantling of civil rights institutions in the US.

7/10
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But the institutions are doing everything they should?
 
watched the 2 episodes of The Studio. Seth Rogen is pretty much doing a Jeff Garlin riff. His best friend is pretty funny. It kinda gave up having any sort of plausibility, but how broad it’s trying to be keeps changing.

Whoever said it’s like Curb Your Enthusiasm is right in my book. Takes place in a parallel universe where a video store doofus can be in charge of hundreds of millions of dollars without seemingly understanding anything about the business. It’s hard to want Rogen to succeed because he’s so clearly unfit for purpose, but also everyone around him is the same or even worse.

It also wants to be patted on the head for doing something like having a complicated one-shot scene while having an entire episode about the same concept as sort of a meta meta take.

For those fortunate enough not to be surrounded by the film industry, this show worships actors and directors while vilifying the “suits” just like on Entourage — but in real life studio executives are very similar to bankers. They are polite, well dressed, and Republican. in the second episode, it would actually be the producer telling the director to just get the fecking shot while the director dithers, havers, and throws a tantrum.

I’m surprised people outside the LA film world like this show, to be perfectly honest, because the entire things is a navel gazing in joke. but then again, i never understood why people watched Entourage if they weren’t hate-watching it.
 
All I will say is episodes 7 & 8 will be the most violent and action packed.
 
Bodies.
I’ve been trying to finish these 8 episodes for like 6 months. I keep falling asleep. Can someone recap wtf happened in this show? I would like to have the payoff of the series without having to watch any more of it. Stephen Graham is in it, but the terrible version of him. He has a kid with his friend’s daughter while he murdered so that in 3 generations the child born will be his father so that the body that keeps showing up…. Help.
 
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema.
Mark Kermode continues his fresh and very personal look at the art of cinema by examining the techniques and conventions behind classic film genres, uncovering the ingredients that keep audiences coming back for more.

Mark turns to horror and shows how film-makers have devilishly deployed a range of cinematic tricks to exploit our deepest, darkest and most elemental fears. He explores the recurring elements of horror, including the journey, the jump scare, the scary place, the monster and the chase. He reveals how they have been refined and reinvented in films as diverse as the silent classic The Phantom of the Opera, low-budget cult shockers The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Evil Dead, and Oscar-winners The Silence of the Lambs and Get Out. Mark analyses the importance of archetypal figures such as the clown, the savant and the 'final girl'. And of course, he celebrates his beloved Exorcist films by examining two unforgettable but very different shock moments in The Exorcist and The Exorcist III.

Ultimately, Mark argues, horror is the most cinematic of genres, because no other kind of film deploys images and sound to such powerful and primal effect.
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wr8_utd said:
Been meaning to start this. I've heard Tom Hardy is pretty good but Brosnan is the one who is a bit disappointing?
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First episode was pretty watchable. Hard to say where things will go once the episodes not directed by Guy Ritchie kick in.

Decent performance by Hardy so far. Brosnon and Mirren add a nice touch to the cast, as does Alex Jennings.

It has a whiff of perhaps a modern day Lock Stock about it, except since this piece was written by someone else, the dialogue isn't quite as witty as Ritchie's early films.
 
The editing in Day of the jackal is very poor and jarring at times isn’t it.
 
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