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Post by anephric on Feb 17, 2022 14:41:04 GMT
I'm very much enjoying For All Mankind. It's basically a more woke The Right Stuff, if the space race never ended.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Feb 19, 2022 12:45:18 GMT
Watched the first couple of episodes of Severance last night. Seems really good so far.
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Post by mikeck on Feb 19, 2022 19:50:41 GMT
Watched the first couple of episodes of Severance last night. Seems really good so far. Great to hear, very interested in starting this! |
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Post by ozthegweat on Feb 19, 2022 21:45:19 GMT
I watched Foundation and I don't get why it has mediocre reviews. It's great hard sci-fi. I really enjoyed it, and my only real gripe is that I fear that they could be stretching the source material over too many seasons.
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Post by Syrette on Feb 27, 2022 19:00:17 GMT
Severance is absolutely superb.
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Post by anephric on Mar 7, 2022 4:36:58 GMT
Yeah, it's great. If you like 70s style paranoia flicks, it cribs a lot from those. The music is near enough straight up ripped off from David Shire's score for The Conversation, for example.
It's very stylish and well directed by Ben Stiller. It's sort of like a much better Beyond The Black Rainbow. I don't quite know how to describe the genre of paranoid/corporate sci-fi with a mix of anachronistic modern and 70s trappings, by way of David Cronenberg. Possessor does much the same thing.
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Post by Syrette on Mar 18, 2022 10:18:50 GMT
I see Pachinko appears to be getting the reviews I thought and hoped it would.
Apple are on a great run at the moment if you ask me!
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Post by ozthegweat on Mar 18, 2022 13:44:02 GMT
Apple are on a great run at the moment if you ask me! Indeed they are. We have an Apple Music family subscription, and also need 200GB of iCloud space, and with Apple One we get TV+ for more than half off, which makes staying subscribed a no-brainer, even if we don't watch a lot. EDIT: LOL I just saw that Apple Arcade is also included, which makes Apple One even better. |
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Post by anephric on Mar 23, 2022 22:02:06 GMT
Watched the first couple of episodes of WeCrashed. Jared Leto is doing another accent ™ and it is much as you would expect, Social Networky but via the WeWork thing.
It's quite decent.
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Post by [maven] on Apr 1, 2022 20:22:08 GMT
Watched the first couple of episodes of Severance last night. Seems really good so far. Yeah, I just started watching and it's totally not what I was expected and also completely captivating. |
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Post by Reviewer on Apr 1, 2022 20:39:40 GMT
All of severance so far is good.
Slow Horses Episode 1. Seems good, I was worried it might feel like an itv drama but it’s much better than that so far.
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Post by Reviewer on Apr 1, 2022 20:41:54 GMT
Apple are on a great run at the moment if you ask me! Indeed they are. We have an Apple Music family subscription, and also need 200GB of iCloud space, and with Apple One we get TV+ for more than half off, which makes staying subscribed a no-brainer, even if we don't watch a lot. EDIT: LOL I just saw that Apple Arcade is also included, which makes Apple One even better. I wish they’d do an annual Apple One subscription, or do one for tv. At the moment it’s still cheaper for me to get the annual music sub then get the tv and data separately. |
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Post by ozthegweat on Apr 1, 2022 20:45:05 GMT
Indeed they are. We have an Apple Music family subscription, and also need 200GB of iCloud space, and with Apple One we get TV+ for more than half off, which makes staying subscribed a no-brainer, even if we don't watch a lot. EDIT: LOL I just saw that Apple Arcade is also included, which makes Apple One even better. I wish they’d do an annual Apple One subscription, or do one for tv. At the moment it’s still cheaper for me to get the annual music sub then get the tv and data separately. There is an annual subscription for ATV+? |
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Post by スコットランド on Apr 1, 2022 20:45:32 GMT
Watched the first couple of episodes of Severance last night. Seems really good so far. Yeah, I just started watching and it's totally not what I was expected and also completely captivating. I’m 3 episodes in and think it’s cracking, genuinely different and interesting. |
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Post by Reviewer on Apr 1, 2022 20:50:49 GMT
I wish they’d do an annual Apple One subscription, or do one for tv. At the moment it’s still cheaper for me to get the annual music sub then get the tv and data separately. There is an annual subscription for ATV+? I can only see monthly for TV, annual for music. Edit. Oh found it. Stupid Apple with their weird hiding of things. |
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Post by anephric on Apr 1, 2022 22:09:26 GMT
Yeah, I just started watching and it's totally not what I was expected and also completely captivating. I’m 3 episodes in and think it’s cracking, genuinely different and interesting. I don't think it's that different. Here are some things that came before it that are very much like it. Brazil (1985) Suture (1995) Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) Possessor (2020) The anachronistic retro technology fetish is very much taken from Terry Gilliam. |
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Post by スコットランド on Apr 1, 2022 22:12:08 GMT
I’m 3 episodes in and think it’s cracking, genuinely different and interesting. I don't think it's that different. Here are some things that came before it that are very much like it. Brazil (1985) Suture (1995) Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) Possessor (2020) The anachronistic retro technology fetish is very much taken from Terry Gilliam. Was thinking more of the whole "severance" concept. Haven't seen any of those films to be fair. |
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Post by anephric on Apr 1, 2022 22:21:31 GMT
I came up with that idea years ago, Ben Stiller stole it from me. I have complained at length to my missus.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 5, 2022 2:17:01 GMT
The first two episodes of Slow Horses were very good.
I haven't read the Mick Herron novels it's based on, but I will be seeking them out. They've been adapted for TV by Will Smith of The Thick Of It and Veep writing glory, so I wasn't surprised to see him bring in an alumnus actor like Paul Higgins, who so far has been relegated to a nicely spoken background character that the others seem to regard as insufferably cloying, but given that all these people are in Slough House for some career-torpedoing sin, I fully expect them to reveal that there is an anger management issue behind that facade of niceness, and when it drops he will go the full Jamie.
As far as the overarching plot goes, they are on the trail of some particularly nasty white-nationalist-english-types who kidnap a Brummie asian student, and I enjoy anything that (hopefully) depicts those types of racist cunts getting their heads kicked in.
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That puts Marvels' recent battery of cock-ups about London geography in Moon Knight to shame.
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Post by lexw on Apr 6, 2022 16:27:19 GMT
Yeah, it's great. If you like 70s style paranoia flicks, it cribs a lot from those. The music is near enough straight up ripped off from David Shire's score for The Conversation, for example. It's very stylish and well directed by Ben Stiller. It's sort of like a much better Beyond The Black Rainbow. I don't quite know how to describe the genre of paranoid/corporate sci-fi with a mix of anachronistic modern and 70s trappings, by way of David Cronenberg. Possessor does much the same thing. Yeah that's a good analysis of it. It's not something we've never seen before, but it's much better version of that sort of general thing. It just does so many things right, or elegantly. Like I really appreciated Helly calling out the "code detector" as "sounding like bullshit", because, yeah, it probably is, it's probably a trick of some kind because to do that technologically would require Star Trek: TNG levels of technology - but the other characters believe in it, and that impacts her in a plausible way. Most shows do characters like her pretty poorly, either having them as lunatics or pretty wimpy/lazy, and she's much more relatable and genuinely angry. I always feel like there's a bit of Harold Pinter in the dialogue and situations when this sort of thing is done well too (particularly The Birthday Party), and definitely here. It's also quietly very funny, like the stuff with "The You You Are", which is utter drivel/tripe but they don't have any other reading material but The Handbook, so obviously it's blowing their minds. Everyone is great in it too - I'm shocked by how fucked-up and haunted Adam Scott looks. I've not finished the season yet but I'm expecting it to hold up. |
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Post by ozthegweat on Apr 6, 2022 21:37:37 GMT
Scott looks bloated and unhealthy. Wonder if he did that for the role or if he just looks like that nowadays.
Didn't click the spoiler as I'm only 3 episodes in and I don't know where the spoiler occurs.
Also, it just got renewed for a second season.
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Post by anephric on Apr 6, 2022 21:54:33 GMT
Ahh, I'm not sure I'm interested in them dragging it out for another season. If anything suits a one-and-done it's this.
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Post by Whizzo on Apr 8, 2022 15:13:30 GMT
Severance was the best thing I've seen on TV this year, the way the first season ends leaves things in a really interesting place.
Doubt it'll go more than another season though.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 9, 2022 14:52:06 GMT
Only 3 episodes in of Slow Horses and it's already done enough world building that I would eagerly watch a prequel series.
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Post by スコットランド on Apr 9, 2022 17:06:20 GMT
Just finished Severance, outstanding , very little to fault .
Acting, writing, atmosphere all top notch.
Gripping, creepy and thought provoking.
Loved it.
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Post by スコットランド on Apr 9, 2022 17:06:50 GMT
I came up with that idea years ago, Ben Stiller stole it from me. I have complained at length to my missus. Fucking Rotter! |
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Post by ozthegweat on Apr 10, 2022 9:21:40 GMT
Saw the season finale of Severance yesterday. Outstanding show.
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Post by スコットランド on Apr 10, 2022 10:15:12 GMT
Saw the season finale of Severance yesterday. Outstanding show. Yep, soooo good. Didn't even realise that was John Turturo. |
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Post by anephric on Apr 10, 2022 12:21:20 GMT
Saw the season finale of Severance yesterday. Outstanding show. Yep, soooo good. Didn't even realise that was John Turturo. Which one was he? The guy that really looks, sounds and acts like John Turturro? |
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Post by ozthegweat on Apr 10, 2022 12:46:44 GMT
Nah, the red-head.
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