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Post by Reviewer on Oct 10, 2024 21:04:24 GMT
Seemed like standard ITV drama standard but with a huge budget.
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Post by rawshark on Oct 10, 2024 21:32:17 GMT
Loved this story I heard…
Guy on a WhatsApp group with old friends
The Acolyte comes out. One friend lives it. One friend hates it.
Acolyte gets cancelled. The guy isn’t even aware. Within ten minutes - 128 missed messages.
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Post by A46Matt on Oct 11, 2024 16:37:52 GMT
Loved this story I heard… Guy on a WhatsApp group with old friends The Acolyte comes out. One friend lives it. One friend hates it. Acolyte gets cancelled. The guy isn’t even aware. Within ten minutes - 128 missed messages. I understand all the words but am none the wiser for reading. What am I missing? |
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Post by dmukgr on Oct 11, 2024 16:51:39 GMT
I thought it was just me
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Post by rawshark on Oct 11, 2024 17:19:06 GMT
Sorry - failed to write that especially well. Might have been a bit drunk.
Basically the show’s cancellation sparked off a mass argument on the group between these two guys to the complete bemusement of the otherwise disinterested third group member…
I swear the friend who told me about it made it sound funny. (I might have been a bit drunk).
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Post by Nemesis on Oct 11, 2024 21:31:40 GMT
Succession.
Everyone is shitty and your current hated character will soon be your favourite and visa versa.
10/10
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Post by Blue_Mike on Oct 11, 2024 21:36:49 GMT
Rewatch of Elementary, just finished up season 5.
God, the Shinwell arc is depressing on a second watch when you know where it ends up.
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Post by Dougs on Oct 11, 2024 22:37:59 GMT
The Perfect Couple. 5/10. I might have pushed it to 6.5/10 until the last episode, as I was enjoying the trashiness. But what a shit ending. Makes very little sense, even if you squint.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Oct 13, 2024 14:39:57 GMT
Refreshing my memory of Industry ahead of S3, and boy have I enjoyed it... Industry S1 - 8/10 Starting with the criticisms, it feels a little disconnected as a season, with lots of individual episodes and events and only a handful of storylines running throughout. The sex is sometimes gratuitous and the shock factor has aged a little, but largely develops the characters and their relationships, particularly Harper, Yas, and Rob. Overall it's absolutely fantastic - I worked in finance for longer than I care to remember and it's some of the events are not a million miles away from things I experienced in my 20s, and that obviously makes the show feel more relevant. Sesh is a 10/10 and hits the nail on that stomach drop feeling of fucking up big time at work (I had a 5 figure fuck up once). And the Nutcracker Christmas episode brings back a lot of fuzzy memories. Industry S2 - 9/10 When this first showed in weekly serial form I didn't enjoy it as much as S1. There are a handful of weaker characters given too much screen time (nu-Kenny and Venetia are constant irritants), it leans heavily into a post-Covid society and some of that impact of life after lockdown has been lost with time, and at times there's an odd amnesia about some of the things that went on before. But running through the season are 4 or 5 strong storylines and it feels as through the lead actors have really found their feet, and there's far less reliance on sex and drugs (though plenty of that still). It builds to a brilliant climax where the dynamic and illusion of who is really in control shifts constantly in every storyline. It's an easy and lazy comparison given the subject matter, but I'm pretty sure that - up to this point - I like Industry more than Succession. Let's see how S3 goes... FFS. Industry S3 - 5/10 Positives and negatives: - Takes the most interesting character in the series and all but sidelines her - Takes the least interesting character in the series and makes it all about her - Adds Kit Harington sounding like he's doing a bad impression of Tom Hardy's character in Inception, who is in turn doing a terrible impression of Tom Hardy - like a mini-Inception of dimensions of people trying to sound like Tom Hardy + Adds a decent new character or two + Bins off one of the worst characters early on + Randomly chucks in the best moment of the entire season halfway through the first episode + Mixes in an interesting plot about the future of Pierpoint - Ignores that interesting plot as much as possible, and instead half-develops a story around a fringe character, then shuts it down without any real conclusion - Throws in some direction which wouldn't look out of place in Neighbours with meaningless rapid flash-backs - Adds one of the most clichéd drug trips you'll ever see on TV - Throws in a weird episode focused on Rishi and a loan shark - Drifts the conclusion towards a literal Downton Abbey love triangle Everything I've read rates S3 as the best, but it just feels miles off the cutting edge storytelling and direction of S2. And I really hate Kit Harington, who for me drags the whole series down. It's been renewed for S4, but from the way S3 concludes I fear it may be more of the same. |
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Post by Duffmangb on Oct 15, 2024 7:51:36 GMT
We binged watched the entire 40 episodes of Breeders over the past couple of weeks. Loved all of it and that in spite of not loving Tim and thinking he is one of the luckiest actors on tv/film with the roles he gets, he just has zero charisma although I will concede he was great in Fargo. Anyway Ali (who is pretty hot also), Darren (he had some brilliant dialog) and Jim were the standouts. I think it could have run for a couple of seasons more but alas that is not to be.
10/10 across all seasons.
Also not a full season as I have not completed yet but TLoU episode 3 (the Bill and Frank one) was wonderful
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Post by Dougs on Oct 15, 2024 8:49:03 GMT
Probably one of the best episodes of any TV show ever.
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Post by Gruf on Oct 15, 2024 8:50:38 GMT
Burning through Slow Horses two seasons down. 8/10 so far
I must be thick because I don't know what is going on half the time. But Lamb is such a great character and it is decent, if not
top tier writing, conversations appear to be more naturalistic, good job by all of the cast/directors/writers.
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 15, 2024 9:15:58 GMT
Slow Horses is pretty straightforward; everyone in charge at the Park are cunts and those at Slough House are largely useless until they're not. I'm amazed Will Smith does such a great job in writing while appearing in action movies so frequently. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 15, 2024 9:21:19 GMT
After this series it does seem like the most prudent thing to do would just be firebomb Slough House and erase the Cartwright bloodline.
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Post by cristar on Oct 15, 2024 10:37:34 GMT
Watching the rest of 24 after originally watching only S1 like 20 years go.
24: S2
America doing an atrocity so they can attack the middle east and steal oil. Not sure how they got that idea. Cameo overload. Jigsaw, Hank and Johnny Drama!
Loved it. Intense.
9/10
24: S3
The English doing a covid on the US. I did not know all these actors were in 24. Spock and bloody Gail the Snail! Loved it again. Ridiculous of course. But great.
9/10
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Post by Blue_Mike on Oct 15, 2024 10:37:56 GMT
I do hope they get to do all eight of the (Slow Horses) books, and the way they seem to be filming seasons back to back very quickly gives me hope that they will.
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Ah, it seems Mick Herron has a ninth one due to be published next year.
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 15, 2024 10:44:53 GMT
Gary Oldman is clearly enjoying himself and has said that when the job is done he'll quite happily retire. Filming the books back to back is very handy in it not having so long between seasons which is becoming a bit of a ridiculous problem for a lot of streaming shows.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 15, 2024 11:10:36 GMT
I was saying this to a mate yesterday. The only 'network' show I'm watching at the moment is From which is coming out annually, pretty much, so I can actually remember what happens between seasons. On the other hand, it will have taken stranger things 10 years to pump out 50 episodes of TV which is absolutely ludicrous. How do they expect people to stay engaged with their products?
'Oh, nobody is watching Season 2 of this show, maybe we should cancel it. Its only been three years since S1'
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Post by dfunked on Oct 15, 2024 16:23:56 GMT
Burning through Slow Horses two seasons down. 8/10 so far I must be thick because I don't know what is going on half the time. But Lamb is such a great character and it is decent, if not top tier writing, conversations appear to be more naturalistic, good job by all of the cast/directors/writers. I found S2 to be a bit on the confusing side with all of the Russian names, and I was never really 100% on who was who. S3 and S4 were far more forgiving for someone utterly shit with names like me. |
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Post by Mark1412 on Oct 15, 2024 18:51:30 GMT
Pachinko Season 2. 10/10
As good as the first, love everything about it except for the fact season 3 hasn't been confirmed yet. If Apple don't renew for a final season to end this story I will cry.
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Post by Reviewer on Oct 15, 2024 20:53:40 GMT
I was saying this to a mate yesterday. The only 'network' show I'm watching at the moment is From which is coming out annually, pretty much, so I can actually remember what happens between seasons. On the other hand, it will have taken stranger things 10 years to pump out 50 episodes of TV which is absolutely ludicrous. How do they expect people to stay engaged with their products? 'Oh, nobody is watching Season 2 of this show, maybe we should cancel it. Its only been three years since S1' I’ve taken to trying to only watch limited series (like Ripley), series where each years episodes are pretty much their own thing, and shows that have finished their run. I’ve binged things like The Americans in recent years and even when they were every year I’ve no idea how people pick up on all the little things and links when it’s like that |
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Post by brokenkey on Oct 16, 2024 6:23:06 GMT
Trowel 🏴 you missed the fully erect, real penis in your list. A landmark in broadcast TV.
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Post by rawshark on Oct 16, 2024 10:36:01 GMT
Have there not been any others? I'm wracking my brain but can't think of any to be fair. None outside of a documentary anyway.
Even the prosthetics are all swinging low.
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Post by simple on Oct 16, 2024 10:44:24 GMT
I thought you weren’t allowed to show a genuine erection on tv in Britain?
Even in Robert Winston fertility documentaries they’d be disguised by stuff like Predator heat vision and stuff
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Post by Dougs on Oct 16, 2024 11:06:50 GMT
I thought that too.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Oct 16, 2024 11:09:56 GMT
Seems they cut it from the scene in the BBC version.
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Post by mrpon on Oct 16, 2024 11:10:07 GMT
I thought you weren’t allowed to show a genuine erection on tv in Britain? Even in Robert Winston fertility documentaries they’d be disguised by stuff like Predator heat vision and stuff Doctor, I've got 3 red dots on my penis, should I be worried? |
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Post by askew on Oct 16, 2024 11:19:23 GMT
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
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Post by Dougs on Oct 16, 2024 11:31:34 GMT
Watching the rest of 24 after originally watching only S1 like 20 years go. 24: S2 America doing an atrocity so they can attack the middle east and steal oil. Not sure how they got that idea. Cameo overload. Jigsaw, Hank and Johnny Drama! Loved it. Intense. 9/10 24: S3 The English doing a covid on the US. I did not know all these actors were in 24. Spock and bloody Gail the Snail! Loved it again. Ridiculous of course. But great. 9/10 Season 2 is where Kim.is hilariously incompetent, yes? And has an encounter with a cougar? Cracked me up. |
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Post by cubby on Oct 16, 2024 11:59:45 GMT
Oh god, the cougar! How that didn't manage to coin it's own "jump the shark" term for whatever that was is beyond me.
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