New Tv series (REMEMBER: No Spoilers)

TEL

Jessie said:

TEL said:

Jessie said:

moutuakilla said:

Bournemouth Addick said:

I'm struggling a bit with Dark. 

I think initially it was the young kids all looking quite similar and it not being 100% who was who as adults. Possibly getting my head around it a little better now but maybe I shouldn't watch it when I'm absolutely knackered late at night and a bit more with it!

If you think it is confusing now, just you wait! You'll be putting up a pin board and getting out some thread in no time

I watched the TV series version of 12 Monkeys last year and enjoyed it very much. I saw many people mention Dark while discussing similar series but I eventually decided not to watch it because it seemed even much more complicated than 12 Monkeys and I just didn't think it would be a good idea to keep using my brain after a day's heavy work (I work in a bank and do forex trading)😂



I've been watching an old FX series Justified. It's quite funny with some very well developped storylines and characters. Plus as a fan of Band of Brothers and The Pacific, it's been great to see so many familiar faces. It's not top-tier TV shows like Boardwalk Empire etc. but enjoyable enough to keep me watching an episode each evening for a couple of months.

Justified was excellent Jessie. I might just revisit it again. I liked Timothy Olyphant  in that role. 

Yes he's great. I also like a lot of the side characters. Have you watched the follow-up City Primeaval? My mum who's a fan of the original show said it was garbage and didn't even finish it😂

No I didn't see that. I saw Olyphant in a later series where he has had major dental work. It's changed his look completely and not for the better 😁

LonelyNorthernAddick

Carter said:

The Acolyte 

Eurgh ahhhh, I get a feeling this was written and filmed peak BLM/#metoo, it really gave me the impression it had sacrificed storytelling for hitting the right social winds that were blowing. It does look amazing and the last 30 seconds of the second episode kept me suitably hooked. I just think after Ahsoka and how good that and the Mandalorian is, which incidentally has some amazing female leads and is effortlessly diverse and does not in any way feel forced mainly because I'm paying too much attention to whats going on and having my mind blown. 

Don't really see where you picked up the BLM/Metoo aspect to it?

Enjoyed the fights having a bit more of a martial arts element to it but otherwise found the story quite rushed and awkward to be honest. It moved forward at a really fast pace but felt like none of the characters had any depth.

Carter

The storyline was rushed, I dont care enough yet about any of the characters except the little pocket droid. I'll end up triggering people but the casting is pure diversity casting and I find it a bit insulting,  mainly to the minorities involved, its impossible not to notice. The main protagonists have two mothers because, of course they do. So that's another box ticked but what distracted me most of all was a fire happily licking away. In space. Not an explosion that swiftly went in on itself, a crackling fire! I can accept Jedi wookies and green painted people, laser swords and an invisible energy source called the force, talking droids and even jar jar binks but fire in space. Nah

I'm probably doing a bad job of explaining it, you can have an amazing, interesting story with a diverse cast but when the story is limp and the main thing I'm taking is, wow, they have really made an effort to cast this in way a diversity lead would approve,  its a miss.

Ahsoka is an example of that, so is house of the dragon, game of thrones, better call Saul all driven along by incredible, string female leads and people who happen to be a darker skin pigmentation.
My mate who is mega invested in all things star wars was ranting on about another angle I hadn't noticed and probably won't understand without reading comics or listening to hours of audio audiobooks or YouTube vvideos to do with bastardising the force but I sidnt understand that. Just sent back a thumbs up emoji 

guinnessaddick

Clem_Snide said:

Started Obituary on Netflix. Black comedy set in Ireland.

Reporter at a local paper who writes Obituaries is forced to go free lance and get paid by the article, so she starts killing people to create her own content. 

First couple were pretty good.

One reviewer labelled it Dexter meets Bad Sisters!

Really enjoyed it, also know the areas of Ballyshannon & Bundoran, where it was filmed, which is also weird watching.

Billy_Mix

Shed & Buried: Classic Cars
total disappointment
I've got a lot of time for most of Henry Cole's TV and his presenting, all pretty fluffy and inconsequential but plenty of credible entertainment
Fuzz Townsend is actually a bus mechanic with a car restoration business and a dozen years or more on the telly doing just that
His role in S&B:CC is baffling, he's not one of Henry's tribe of resto mates, he never gets his hands dirty just drives the van sometimes
None of the 'restored' cars ever actually got sold on, some 'classic car dealer' gives a broad valuation and lo' & behold HC has 'made a tidy sum'.
Guff, avoid.

Clem_Snide

Finally got round to watching Kin. Enjoyed the first series, some of it felt a bit nonsensical, but overall pretty good 

Billy_Mix

Covered End said:

The Responder is excellent.

finale seemed a little too neat but with maybe a couple of strands from which a season 3 (not yet commissioned) could be spun...

ValleyGary

Carter said:

The storyline was rushed, I dont care enough yet about any of the characters except the little pocket droid. I'll end up triggering people but the casting is pure diversity casting and I find it a bit insulting,  mainly to the minorities involved, its impossible not to notice. The main protagonists have two mothers because, of course they do. So that's another box ticked but what distracted me most of all was a fire happily licking away. In space. Not an explosion that swiftly went in on itself, a crackling fire! I can accept Jedi wookies and green painted people, laser swords and an invisible energy source called the force, talking droids and even jar jar binks but fire in space. Nah

I'm probably doing a bad job of explaining it, you can have an amazing, interesting story with a diverse cast but when the story is limp and the main thing I'm taking is, wow, they have really made an effort to cast this in way a diversity lead would approve,  its a miss.

Ahsoka is an example of that, so is house of the dragon, game of thrones, better call Saul all driven along by incredible, string female leads and people who happen to be a darker skin pigmentation.
My mate who is mega invested in all things star wars was ranting on about another angle I hadn't noticed and probably won't understand without reading comics or listening to hours of audio audiobooks or YouTube vvideos to do with bastardising the force but I sidnt understand that. Just sent back a thumbs up emoji 

I watched the first two episodes and it’s 100% box ticking. 

thewolfboy

Watched episode one of 'The Diplomat.' Non comprende. 

DaveMehmet

Carter said:

The storyline was rushed, I dont care enough yet about any of the characters except the little pocket droid. I'll end up triggering people but the casting is pure diversity casting and I find it a bit insulting,  mainly to the minorities involved, its impossible not to notice. The main protagonists have two mothers because, of course they do. So that's another box ticked but what distracted me most of all was a fire happily licking away. In space. Not an explosion that swiftly went in on itself, a crackling fire! I can accept Jedi wookies and green painted people, laser swords and an invisible energy source called the force, talking droids and even jar jar binks but fire in space. Nah

I'm probably doing a bad job of explaining it, you can have an amazing, interesting story with a diverse cast but when the story is limp and the main thing I'm taking is, wow, they have really made an effort to cast this in way a diversity lead would approve,  its a miss.

Ahsoka is an example of that, so is house of the dragon, game of thrones, better call Saul all driven along by incredible, string female leads and people who happen to be a darker skin pigmentation.
My mate who is mega invested in all things star wars was ranting on about another angle I hadn't noticed and probably won't understand without reading comics or listening to hours of audio audiobooks or YouTube vvideos to do with bastardising the force but I sidnt understand that. Just sent back a thumbs up emoji 

I’ve actually quite enjoyed the first two episodes but you’re right, the box ticking is cringeworthy.

Bournemouth Addick

Watching the second series of Tour De France:Unchained. As before it's fascinating behind the scenes stuff and some cracking in race footage.

Even if you're not into cycling I'd recommend. 

MrOneLung

Anyone watched Outer Range on Amazon ? 

Bournemouth Addick

MrOneLung said:

Anyone watched Outer Range on Amazon ? 

I've just started the second series of this as well. Along with Dark I seem to be gravitating towards time travelling/alternative reality stuff at the moment. 

MrOneLung

Bournemouth Addick said:

MrOneLung said:

Anyone watched Outer Range on Amazon ? 

I've just started the second series of this as well. Along with Dark I seem to be gravitating towards time travelling/alternative reality stuff at the moment. 

Just finished first series. 

Wish it wasn’t so damn dark - can barely see what is happening half the time 

Bournemouth Addick

MrOneLung said:

Bournemouth Addick said:

MrOneLung said:

Anyone watched Outer Range on Amazon ? 

I've just started the second series of this as well. Along with Dark I seem to be gravitating towards time travelling/alternative reality stuff at the moment. 

Just finished first series. 

Wish it wasn’t so damn dark - can barely see what is happening half the time 

Half of it does seem to happen in the night. I wished I'd rewatched the last episode of S.1 before diving into S.2 tbh. It took me 3/4 of the first episode to start remembering who was who and what had happened. 

SomervilleAddick

MrOneLung said:

Anyone watched Outer Range on Amazon ? 

I have, I quite enjoyed it, although it can be a bit slow in places. I just hope they’ve got an ending in mind - lots of unfinished business at the end of Season 2, and I hate it when the keep pushing on with endless plot twists until they run out of ratings, and it just disappears in a puff of smoke. 

kafka

Anyone watching Legacy? On Series 1 and it's a good Danish drama. Scandi Succession 

guinnessaddick

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing will return with Series 8 

North Lower Neil

Has S7 been on yet?

Glovepup

Am enjoying Kin

McBobbin

Diving headlong into Traitors US series 2. The absolute state of these people... This could be very entertaining if the first episode is a marker

Weegie Addick

V good last episode of Inside No 9.

Clem_Snide

First 3 episodes of the new series of The Boys arrived on Prime today. Watched the first one and it's as good as ever.

Croydon

Got Gotti on nettlix. 3 episode documentary on the take down of John Gotti by the FBI. Interesting if, like me, you're into mob/mafia stuff. 

North Lower Neil

Weegie Addick said:

V good last episode of Inside No 9.

Sad it's finished, some of my favourite ever TV.

man_at_milletts

North Lower Neil said:

Weegie Addick said:

V good last episode of Inside No 9.

Sad it's finished, some of my favourite ever TV.

Yes, hats off to Shearsmith and Pemberton for keeping up the creativity throughout all series.

MrOneLung

McBobbin said:

Diving headlong into Traitors US series 2. The absolute state of these people... This could be very entertaining if the first episode is a marker

started watching the first series just after our first series finished, but the fact most of them are reality stars already put me off

AllHailTheHen

The Boys. More of the same brilliantly messed up stuff. Love it.

Croydon

Two Spanish drug series on netflix.

Iron Reign = good
Gangs of Galicia = annoying  

Weegie Addick

Just finished “Eric” on Netflix. Brilliant.