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Post by rhaegyr on Sept 2, 2024 10:49:35 GMT
Pachinko is ace for the theme tune alone.
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Post by Tomo on Sept 2, 2024 11:25:37 GMT
Masters of the Air was a bit underwhelming and Silo was godawful in places. Both had their strong moments mind.
Severance is the only mandatory viewing on it I've found.
Calls was super interesting but I seem to be the only person in universe to have seen that.
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 2, 2024 12:02:12 GMT
Cannot wait for Silo season 2 in November, absolutely loved the first season, it's very inspired by the Interplay Fallouts (the author is a huge fan) and takes a lot more of a serious tone than the actual Fallout TV show. The power generator episode is insultingly bad on the physics front though.
Plus Rebecca Ferguson is the lead so there is that too.
Dark Matter has been renewed too but I really wasn't that keen on that.
Apple TV+ may not have the "water cooler" chatter but they're producing some of the best science fiction TV at the moment.
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Post by Binky on Sept 2, 2024 12:25:07 GMT
Cannot wait for Silo season 2 in November, absolutely loved the first season, it's very inspired by the Interplay Fallouts (the author is a huge fan) and takes a lot more of a serious tone than the actual Fallout TV show. The power generator episode is insultingly bad on the physics front though. Plus Rebecca Ferguson is the lead so there is that too. Dark Matter has been renewed too but I really wasn't that keen on that. Apple TV+ may not have the "water cooler" chatter but they're producing some of the best science fiction TV at the moment. I really want to like Dark Matter, but it's painfully slow going. |
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Post by muddyfunster on Sept 2, 2024 12:28:20 GMT
Thought Dark Matter was fairly good but the fact that it has been renewed makes me sceptical. They already stretched what was in the novel fairly thin and added bits in with mixed success.
Can anyone think of a sci-fi or fantasy adaptation that went beyond the source material and didn't get worse?
At least Silo has another two books to adapt.
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Post by mrpon on Sept 2, 2024 13:25:30 GMT
I thought the Silo set design was amazing. Amplified by watching the opening ep of Fallout and going.........oh.
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Post by muddyfunster on Sept 2, 2024 16:34:08 GMT
Agreed. It pretty closely matched how I imagined the layout from the books. I thought the Fallout series was good too though given they had to keep it coherent with expectations from the games. A major departure from the FO3 and FO4 look would also have been jarring.
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Post by ignatiusjreilly on Sept 2, 2024 20:12:10 GMT
Watching Sunny at the moment, another really good Apple TV show.
It's got Rashida Jones, robots and the yakuza in it.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 3, 2024 9:10:54 GMT
Watching Twin Peaks: The Return again.
It still amazes me that someone gave Lynch money to make this. It's so emotionally real and sad, but also the second scene is just a guy in the forest receiving a large delivery of shovels he's going to spray paint.
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Post by cubby on Sept 3, 2024 9:32:36 GMT
I need to do that, truly incredible stuff.
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Post by rhaegyr on Sept 3, 2024 9:35:27 GMT
It's honestly the best thing I've seen in the last ten years.
After 25 years of waiting the "I am the FBI" line is possibly my favourite moment in any TV show ever.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 3, 2024 9:46:25 GMT
I don't even mind the Dougie Jones bits anymore. I think when I watched those parts the first time I was thinking "ok, but surely Cooper is going to come back soon". But now I'm not thinking about that and can just treat them as their own thing.
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Post by Syrette on Sept 3, 2024 21:37:53 GMT
Colin from Accounts series 2!!!
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Post by Dougs on Sept 3, 2024 21:38:48 GMT
Yes! Solid start to episode 1.
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Post by cubby on Sept 3, 2024 21:41:32 GMT
I liked that, haven't seen s1 but felt I still got most of it.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 3, 2024 21:46:09 GMT
Got to watch S1!
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Post by dfunked on Sept 4, 2024 6:53:51 GMT
Wasn't that a classic Geefe move?
Watch S1 first you dingus.
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Post by TheSaint on Sept 4, 2024 10:05:15 GMT
Good bit of Rodriguez at the end of the first ep as well.
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Post by wunty on Sept 4, 2024 10:52:37 GMT
House of the Dragon S2
Two episodes in. Gives me total early GoT vibes and I love it. It's all plotting and people being pricks to each other. S1 was a massive surprise as I genuinely didn't expect to get sucked in as much after having severe GoT burnout (like most people) and it looks like S2 is weaving a similar magic. Seems a bit more expansive so far as well which is cool. Nice to see Winterfel again, if only briefly.
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Post by simple on Sept 6, 2024 7:06:35 GMT
Started the US version of Alone on 4OD.
After the British version was full of people with personal problems going on a reality tv ‘journey’ the immediate difference is that the Americans and Canadians they’ve recruited are all way hardcore. Some of these feel like they’d be doing this even without the cameras.
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Post by Tomo on Sept 6, 2024 8:33:07 GMT
Also started Colin S2. 3 episodes in. Better than first series so far. It's not hilarious, but very light easy watching. Did enjoy the feud with the other couple over Colin and when Heavy comes to stay.
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Post by minimatt on Sept 6, 2024 21:25:00 GMT
Perfect Couple (netflix) first episode looks promising. kinda like knives out & white lotus
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Post by Dougs on Sept 6, 2024 22:44:23 GMT
Heard very good things. Next on the list I think (after Colin, Kaos and Clarkson 3).
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Post by Blue_Mike on Sept 7, 2024 15:56:18 GMT
Been doing a rewatch of Elementary, and I would just like to say how much I appreciate when a show does a travelling from anywhere to London transition scene but resists the urge to use "London Calling" as the soundtrack. Even if in this case (Episode 2x01) they did use an Oasis song instead.
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Post by Mark1412 on Sept 8, 2024 8:46:06 GMT
I generally agree that Apple is pretty b-tier on the whole but I'm watching Pachinko right now and it is excellent. Don't even know when it happened, but there's a moment where you realise you really, really care about these characters and their stories.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Sept 10, 2024 23:58:23 GMT
Episode 1 (of 6)
(Warnings: Scenes of suicide, children covered in gore, religious child abuse)
Samantha Morton is a vicar who drags her teenage daughter Ruby Stokes to a rural village where, during the 16th century, two girls were burned at the stake during religious purges. In the modern day, girls have a history of disappearing from the village without a trace.
On her first day on the job, some random leaves an exorcism kit on her doorstep. This doesn't go down too well, as it's alluded the reason she had to leave her previous posting in Nottingham was exorcism/child-death related.
Flashback scenes show events leading up to the disappearance of the two girls, with at least one of them having a mentalist for a mother.
If the Wicker-Man vibes aren't clear enough, there are little twig figures left all over the place.
It was... alright, I guess? Didn't really feel like enough to judge it on, being mostly set-up. Did feel like menacing music was doing some heavy lifting in what would otherwise have been some fairly plodding scenes. Will continue with it.
Other people who are in it:
• Paul Bradley who was Elliot Hope on Holby City
• Alan Dawson as a Renfield type weird guy • PC Kerry Young from The Bill • That bloke who was LeStrade in Sherlock
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Post by simple on Sept 12, 2024 13:33:55 GMT
I need a new proper show or film series project to get on with. At the moment I’m slowly rewatching Detectorists while cooking, then we’ve got Celebrity Masterchef and two different reality gameshows about winning houses in the countryside (a farm in Northumberland and a cabin in Alaska) as midweek stare at the telly spacefillers.
What crime drama or hard sci-fi has been good recently?
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Post by rftp on Sept 12, 2024 13:39:33 GMT
The Perfect Couple Two episodes in and it's been mostly entertaining so far. I sort of want them all (except Bono's kid and her parents) to be hit by a freak wave, the bunch of trust fund cunts |
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Post by dfunked on Sept 12, 2024 13:40:41 GMT
simpleI can't vouch for it, but Tokyo Vice is on my watch list. It's more of a thriller, but definitely check out Slow Horses.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 12, 2024 13:41:14 GMT
I keep meaning to start Under the Banner of Heaven on Disney, which was received well. Then there's the Jodie Foster True Detective, which I don't think hit the heights of S1, but she's damned good and always worth watching.
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