スコットランド
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Post by スコットランド on Oct 14, 2021 21:21:35 GMT
Ted Lasso S1 - 7/10 Just a little too schmaltzy for me. I think I have myself to blame also for picking at the football detail unnecessarily (final game of the season on a Sunday night, rather than afternoon - wut??), especially as the action is pretty well done for the most part. You have no soul. |
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Post by Dougs on Oct 14, 2021 21:50:59 GMT
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Post by PatrickEwing on Oct 14, 2021 23:50:37 GMT
Ted lasso S1 - 9/10
Ted lasso S2 - 4/10
We had the squid game email from primary school. Asked my 10 year old of all the stuff he’s seen such as stuff he’s seen on screen……people on fire, heads exploding, bodies cut in half, aliens with thermal vision, sharks chomping people, Soldiers waking around carrying their own decapitated arm…. What’s tha worst scariest thing he’s seen and he instantly said people kissing.
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Post by rawshark on Oct 15, 2021 0:28:30 GMT
Ted lasso S1 - 9/10 Ted lasso S2 - 4/10 We had the squid game email from primary school. Asked my 10 year old of all the stuff he’s seen such as stuff he’s seen on screen……people on fire, heads exploding, bodies cut in half, aliens with thermal vision, sharks chomping people, Soldiers waking around carrying their own decapitated arm…. What’s tha worst scariest thing he’s seen and he instantly said people kissing. I hate to be that guy but you can’t decapitate an arm. Bodies are decapitated when the head is removed. Limbs are severed. Your son is right though. Kissing is the worst. |
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Post by brokenkey on Oct 15, 2021 9:12:11 GMT
Mare of Eastown 8/10
Interesting spin on the whodunnit. Has a similar pacing to the What If episodes, there's no messing around with transition scenes, they just move on to the next bit of content, which I like.
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Duffman5
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Post by Duffman5 on Oct 16, 2021 8:29:55 GMT
Dexter: Season 4. Excellent. I'm now moving into the territory you lot are telling me is pants! we shall see. Episode 1 of 5 was fine. Don't do it Duff! ... all finished and I'm still enjoying! also 3 episodes into season 6 and guess what...still enjoying. I think as much as I liked the Trinity season, my fav my well be the Jimmy Smits season |
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Oct 16, 2021 11:04:42 GMT
Succession finally back on Monday folks....
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Post by Dougs on Oct 16, 2021 11:38:39 GMT
Is it the whole lot, or weekly?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2021 11:43:37 GMT
I imagine it will be weekly, think it's only Sky Originals they drop all at once.
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Post by MysteryLamb on Oct 16, 2021 11:47:36 GMT
Succession finally back on Monday folks.... Plus Curb Your Enthusiasm is back the following Monday |
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Post by rawshark on Oct 16, 2021 20:48:37 GMT
Yep Succession is weekly - they’re releasing g at the same time as HBO so it’s a 2am release if you feel like staying up.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Oct 16, 2021 20:57:33 GMT
Fuck's sake, I really thought this weekly release bullshit was a thing of the past.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 17, 2021 2:33:33 GMT
Fuck's sake, I really thought this weekly release bullshit was a thing of the past. Personally, I much prefer it. Stops me binging on stuff and burning out, and also allows me to have something to look forward to. |
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minimatt
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Post by minimatt on Oct 17, 2021 2:40:43 GMT
I think my memory's shot but can barely remember story threads a week later. And get this weird resentment if a show "isn't good enough" to warrant a weekly release - Better Call Saul, fair enough, you deserve that weekly sense of occasion, Nine Perfect Strangers, nah, you're average at best mate.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 17, 2021 2:54:10 GMT
Yeah, I feel you on the memory thing. But it makes the show feel more 'substantial', rather than something to burn through in a weekend. If I binge the entire show then I'm likely to forget it in its entirety.
The Mandalorian, for example, worked really well for me as a weekly release. I think I'd have burned out on it pretty quickly if I was just binging a whole season.
Side note: My kids are growing up in the world of streaming, so they don't really know anything other than being able to binge entire seasons of new shows. It's weird.
They'll find a new favorite show (Recently was Wolfbood on CBBC), and then they'll watch nothing else for 2 weeks and binge all 5 seasons. Then they'll move on to another show and do the same.
I remember waiting all week for the next episode of Mysterious Cities of Gold and talking excitedly about it with mates at school and what just happened or might happen. ah.. the good old days.
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minimatt
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Post by minimatt on Oct 17, 2021 3:04:21 GMT
aye it's a different world. And that Netflix "are you still watching?" prompt is a judgmental little prick 
edit: oooh, btw, you can blow kids tiny little minds with a depiction of telly white noise too
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Post by Nanocrystal on Oct 17, 2021 5:24:56 GMT
Depends how you binge I guess. For me, binge watching is an episode each evening. Wouldn't ever sit and watch four episodes of anything back to back.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 5:41:37 GMT
Fuck's sake, I really thought this weekly release bullshit was a thing of the past. Personally, I much prefer it. Stops me binging on stuff and burning out, and also allows me to have something to look forward to. I agree completely, but it depends on when it drops. It has to be a Friday or Sunday. Then I'm looking forward to it all week, and I'm on schedule. These Wednesday Marvel drops make it easy for me to lose track, though. There was a bit in the Jason Segel/Paul Rudd comedy "I Love You, Man" where Rudd's character talks about how he can't go out on Sundays because that was his and his lady's HBO night and I was like "YES! I feel you 1000% here!" |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 17, 2021 7:52:51 GMT
I used to always have to rush home from work on Tuesdays (i think?) because Farscape was on at 6pm.
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Post by simple on Oct 17, 2021 7:55:59 GMT
That BBC2 6pm spot was always good stuff, Star Trek, Farscape, Buffy and then it would be ruined by awful tennis taking over during Wimbledon
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Post by rawshark on Oct 17, 2021 10:28:40 GMT
One thing about weekly releases is it mitigates the threat of spoilers. Something like Mare of Easttown would be really boned if some jerk on Twitter blurted out the big reveal.
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Post by JYM60 on Oct 17, 2021 14:01:57 GMT
Dexter: Season 5... all finished and I'm still enjoying! also 3 episodes into season 6 and guess what...still enjoying. I think as much as I liked the Trinity season, my fav my well be the Jimmy Smits season I actually really like season 6. Season 5 was pretty meh though. It's from 7 on it goes completely off the rails. Finished Squid Game Was certainly entertaining, if mostly fairly predictable. The games were just takeshi castle with blood splashes, but there was some more brutal violence towards the end. 8/10 The whole police guy finding out his brother was the black mask was predictable. But it just went nowhere. How was he an old winner who is now in charge? Just seemed pointless really. |
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Post by Mr Wonderstuff on Oct 17, 2021 16:45:42 GMT
Jeremy Clarkson's Farm. 8/10. I have a new found respect for farmers, the work they do and the real ramifications of a 'bit of rain'. Jeremy certainly goes at it with his bull-in-a-china-shop mentality from the off but his enthusiasm and dogged determination to get all sorts of stuff done is admirable. The supporting cast are great characters (Kaleb especially never intimidated by Clarkson given his age). Not sure there will be a second season but I may just drop by the farm shop as it is not to far from me.
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Post by H-alphaFox on Oct 17, 2021 17:26:09 GMT
Season 7 of Stargate SG1 7/10
Now you are starting to see the writing on the wall after 7 seasons. More than one flash back episode and story starting to push a bit outside of the generic mission episodes. To be fair that sets up what comes next and now we can watch 1 ep of SG1 and 1 of Atlantis in tandem following the time line.
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Post by geefe on Oct 18, 2021 18:18:12 GMT
Reminds me I need to do SG1. Is it streaming over here yet? I can't be arsed to VPN my laptop and then connect it to the TV and euuuurgh. Could torrent it but also effort. Anyway...
The Shield (4)
Well that kicked up a notch. Best one so far. We're still not quite Wire territory but we're definitely giving Breaking Bad some pause for thought (fuck you, final series). Glenn Close was an excellent edition and she continued her ability to just act the fuck out of everything and make you forget that Glenn Close even exists.
9/10
Just started series 5 and it's gone all Forest Whittaker. This feels like it's going to be even better.
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Post by vicedestroyer on Oct 19, 2021 1:15:41 GMT
Dexter: Season 5... all finished and I'm still enjoying! also 3 episodes into season 6 and guess what...still enjoying. I think as much as I liked the Trinity season, my fav my well be the Jimmy Smits season Duff, I knew there was a reason that I liked you. For me, personally, I found the Jimmy Smits and Ray Stevenson seasons the best out of the whole lot. In all honesty, I didn't really enjoy Dexter too much, but those two characters made their respective seasons fantastic! I'd rate those two season an 8.5/10. Every other one about 4/10. Perry Mason (2020) 7/10I have never watched an episode of the original show, so am not disappointed by the changes that have been made. I am told that Paul Drake was white and Della Street was not lesbian in the original. On top of that, the show is excessively violent and excessively gruesome and surprisingly dark. I have high hopes for season 2. |
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Post by Gruf on Oct 19, 2021 7:26:33 GMT
Fuck's sake, I really thought this weekly release bullshit was a thing of the past. Personally, I much prefer it. Stops me binging on stuff and burning out, and also allows me to have something to look forward to. I am finding that these days, weekly is preferable. Foundation being an example, its not brilliant but it look spectacular, look forward to that at the end of the week. Ted Lasso as well, until it wore out it's welcome, sickly stuff. |
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Post by Dougs on Oct 19, 2021 7:29:09 GMT
Username checks out.
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Post by dfunked on Oct 19, 2021 8:18:48 GMT
Agreed on Ted Lasso. As the quality kept dipping and it dragged on I just wanted to finish it off, instead of having that weekly episode to watch when we could be watching anything else.
Given the choice I'd rather have a full season dump, and usually try to wait until a weekly one has finished or is close to finishing airing.
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Post by Gruf on Oct 19, 2021 9:07:01 GMT
Heh, each their own Dougs Just began to see the plotlines coming a mile off, and it was all a bit twee, for me anyway Spoiler, the Indian guy will manage another team who will meet Ted on the final day of the season with the Premier league title at stake and he will lose, but in doing so will realise the valuable life lesson that the spitting thing is maybe not the right way to go, ends in a good old sing song. Enjoy! |
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