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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Sept 21, 2024 23:32:22 GMT
By coincidence, I started a rewatch of Industry tonight (ahead of S3 starting soon in the UK), and hadn't realised Nabhaan Rizwan, who plays Dionysus in Kaos, plays Hari in Season 1 episode 1... 😢
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Post by dfunked on Sept 22, 2024 8:34:13 GMT
Slow Horses S1 - 9/10 S2 - 8/10 S3 - 9/10
Cracking stuff! The last season got a bit daft with all of the action, but still a riveting watch. Need to decide if we just plough straight into S4 now or give it a couple of weeks to finish first...
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Post by paulyboy81 on Sept 22, 2024 22:33:48 GMT
Not a whole season, but...
Star Trek TNG: The Best of Both Worlds Part I & II
Stumbled across the TNG browsing Netflix and immediately made a beeline for this two part Trek classic.
Still remember watching this as a nipper and having to wait what felt like a fooking age for the start of Season 4 and the concluding part.
It's still great. Superb arc for Riker and the kind of big scale action you just didn't see on TV very often back then. It also finishes with that absolutely superb moment with Picard where you know he'll just never be the same again.
Pretty necessary companion piece to First Contact to boot.
9/10
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Post by Reviewer on Sept 23, 2024 7:38:22 GMT
I’m gradually working my way through a full watch of TNG. S1 6/10, S2 7/10
There are a few very good episodes in there and a few that are some of the worst mainstream tv made. At least I know it gets better but I wish more shows these days had so many episodes and so much time to find their feet. 1 season is as long as 3 of most modern shows, I can’t see this making it to 3 seasons (of 8 episodes per year) of S1 quality.
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Post by rftp on Sept 23, 2024 8:37:51 GMT
Perfect Couple (netflix) 6/10
being a little harsh on this, many will 7/10 it and the first half is an easy 8. very Knives Out whodunnit with a dollop of White Lotus starts strong but the last half has a strong "fuck it, that'll do" vibe
Information and plot points tossed out toward the end are presented as mic drop moments but are irrelevant to events - this person is richer than you thought! this person you think is posh started off poor! - or nonsensical, unintentionally hilarious. The spinning wheel of suspects stops where it does because the writers got bored spinning it.
I think it thinks it's making a clever point about how seemingly perfect marriages rarely are or how rich people are the same dumb fucked up apes you poors are, but duh
nevertheless it's entertaining, largely well acted (lead detective in particular does exquisite eye-roll) and at six episodes doesn't drag on
Finished it last night. Meh. It's a 5 here. Horrible bunch of twats all deserved each other.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 23, 2024 8:56:06 GMT
Only watched one episode but agree with the sentiment. But there's something compelling about that - reminds me of another whodunnit set in Seattle/Oregon about 10 years ago. Name escapes me at the moment. Beautiful hateful people being despicable to each other is strangely watchable.
Was called Harper's Island from a Google.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Sept 23, 2024 10:42:18 GMT
My downloader picked up Chicago Code this weekend. It has been sat in my wanted list for ages but there were never any copies available . It's still a decent show it's a crime it was cancelled.
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Post by BeetrootBertie on Sept 23, 2024 13:11:57 GMT
Twilight of the Gods (Netflix) 7/10 I quite enjoyed this animated series based on Norse mythology. I'm really not well versed on much of it or the telling of Ragnarok so can't say if it deviates from established tales but I've enjoyed the animation style and overall feel. There's some explicit language and scenes and it's got Snyder's name attached to it, if that matters to anyone. Even had some slow-mo I needed subs as there some softly spoken dialogue at times.
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Post by killerbee on Sept 23, 2024 13:23:15 GMT
Perfect Couple (netflix) 6/10
being a little harsh on this, many will 7/10 it and the first half is an easy 8. very Knives Out whodunnit with a dollop of White Lotus starts strong but the last half has a strong "fuck it, that'll do" vibe
Information and plot points tossed out toward the end are presented as mic drop moments but are irrelevant to events - this person is richer than you thought! this person you think is posh started off poor! - or nonsensical, unintentionally hilarious. The spinning wheel of suspects stops where it does because the writers got bored spinning it.
I think it thinks it's making a clever point about how seemingly perfect marriages rarely are or how rich people are the same dumb fucked up apes you poors are, but duh
nevertheless it's entertaining, largely well acted (lead detective in particular does exquisite eye-roll) and at six episodes doesn't drag on
Finished it last night. Meh. It's a 5 here. Horrible bunch of twats all deserved each other. I finished this recently and agree with that assessment. It started well but felt like they had no plan for how to end it, and the actual ending was a “will this do?” moment. A friend at work had read the book and says it has a completely different ending, and is much more about the characters and their lives than the whodunnit. I’d stretch to a 6/10 … just. We’ve now started on Nightsleeper on BBC. I thought the first episode was terrible and am kind of hoping my Mrs will let us try something else.
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Post by rftp on Sept 23, 2024 13:59:47 GMT
I have to be honest, by the end I was getting to a point where I genuinely thought that it was going to be that she'd drunk from someone else's glass and wandered into the sea, no murder I enjoyed the first couple of episodes, but it just seemed to get lost in "hey, but what about if... this?!" for the sake of an extra couple of episodes and they ended up taking away what little sympathy I had for anyone in it as a result. It could have been wrapped up a decent whodunnit story in three episodes.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Sept 27, 2024 5:15:08 GMT
The Orchestra (Orkestret) - S1&2
Danish sitcom about the cutthroat world of classical musicians. Follows two main characters, Jeppe who is a simpering and spineless administrator out of his depth in his job and dealing with his nightmare of a wife, and Bo, the orchestra's second clarinet who jealously battles for the position of first clarinet held by a brilliantly portrayed villain called Simon. Season 1 was great, all the characters are awful people but you somehow root for them. Season 2 leaned a little too far away from comedy and towards straight-up drama for my liking, and I hated how things ended for one of the main characters, but overall it was also highly enjoyable and both seasons had some proper laugh out loud moments scattered throughout. Gamers may find that one particular actor sounds familiar, and surprisingly he also looks a bit like the iconic video game character he voices too.
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Post by dmukgr on Sept 27, 2024 7:29:08 GMT
Oooh, I like the sound of that - will check it out, thanks.
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Post by Reviewer on Sept 27, 2024 10:11:43 GMT
Grand Tour S4, 5 and 6. 6/10
Mildly entertaining background noise with some very nice scenery. Every single episode is identical. No idea why I watched all of these.
Ted Lasso S1-3 rewatch. 8-9/10
Enjoyed it more this time but worryingly don’t remember so much of it from the first time, even things like the biscuits that are in almost every episode.
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