Originally posted by HORN
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We watched the 1st 3 episodes of The Stranger (netflix) last night. Felt like an ITV drama - glossy & lightweight - but we’re hooked.
Now I’m not an expert on Greater Manchester, but even I recognised some of the central & suburban filming locations, and as it preposterously jumped between them it got me thinking of those old films set in London & the like where the continuity was just downright silly (eg character walks out of Park Lane hotel, strolls round the corner to cross Tower Bridge, then immediately pops in for a beer in a pub in Chelsea). It’s fiction, of course, but it’s unsettling/amusing if you know the real life areas involved.
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As mentioned earlier it improves well enough to stick with. We just finished the series and I found the last two or three episodes the most enjoyable; fairly typical British crime drama but decently done. Richard Armitage gets a free pass Chez Sits as he’s Mrs. S’ heartthrob. He’s pretty good, but the strongest acting for me was from Siobhan Finneran.
Edit: and nice to see Stephen Rea. Been ages since he was in anything we’ve watched.
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Originally posted by Sits View PostFrom our vantage point it felt pretty English.
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Originally posted by Sits View Post
No, English. Filmed in the Forest of Dean area IIRC but not local actors anyway. Maeve is half French.
As ever, the Welsh media would like to highlight the Welsh locations, music and actors in it too.
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Originally posted by Ginger Yellow View PostSex Education has the same weird America-in-the-UK aesthetic that The End Of the Fucking World does. It's quite disconcerting to see it become so widespread.
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Originally posted by Sits View PostI just assumed those things were supposed to show the school/cafe aspiring to an American aesthetic, rather than the show’s creators doing so.
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I completely forgot about Deutschland 86 and started watching it. I can tell you that a lot of office scenes at the intelligence ministry in East-Berlin have been filmed at the Stasi Museum (which I visited last month - well worth a visit)
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Originally posted by Moonlight shadow View Post
Just finished it! Complete bollocks but great fun to watch, wife and I enjoyed it.
Spoilers: (scroll over to read.)
1) How do our two protagonists account for the neighbour with three bullets in him in the woods? And the buried body at his feet?
2) Hiding the gun in the house of the rat-cop proves nothing. How would he have killed the neighbour and replaced the gun when he was already under arrest? Why would he have killed the neighbour, he'd had nothing to do with him or his family?
Really, total and utter bollocks. And a pity because the lead up had been pretty decent.
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Hard to argue with you there Amor, although it didn’t ruin it for me.
Spoilers: (scroll over to read.)
When we cut to the final scene and Siobhan Finneran’s retirement was mentioned, I assumed she had taken the fall for killing the neighbour. But somehow only been kicked out of the force, not jailed, on grounds of self defence. Or something. Actually that’s just as far fetched now I write it down, the neighbour was unarmed.
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