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Originally posted by Gerontophile View Post
What have you already seen? TV series wise? And, have you done "Still Game"?
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post
I watched it, tuning in each week, and it kind of left me cold. I never got invested or cared. The actor playing Karli was the revealed face of "Enfys Nest" in Solo and she really didn't carry the Karli role for me either. She was too blank-faced and pouty instead of passionate and determined. It's as if staring into the middle distance is how leadership happens.
And then we had all the stuff about the shrimp boat and trying to keep it, and we were meant to care about LaMarr even though he was a sidekick to a side story. And I dunno. It felt like a mess tbh. Who were the good guys? Both sides felt like bad guys.
I didn't really care about the Flagsmashers either.
I liked Wandavision more, but this was fine. Not awesome, just ok. It just crammed too much into too few episodes.
I like Invincible a lot more.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
No. Where do I look? The Marvelous Mrs Maisel is by some distance the most reliably funny series I've seen in the past few years. It only ran for three seasons so I suspect that's why.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
Well it's more of an unconscious thing in terms of choice (I'd also add Ginny and Georgia (or the other way round?) They're just more appealing and interesting to us I guess. Though the notion that every police force in the Western hemisphere, is dominated by a female hard-ass is a bit of a cliche, not to mention really unlikely. The only male focused shows we've watch lately have been the Irish policier Bloodlands, and the Swedish hockey drama Beartown, both excellent BTW.
If that's whats on TV, and it's good, what's the issue?
Sir... you are way beyond sexism, but it's not about you. Quick joke: How many straight men does it take to make an episode of "Drag Race"?
Answer: Who cares. Is it good?
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Why is someone on Jimmy Fallon pretending to be Rita Rudner?
Rupi Kaur there, riffing on... stuff I agree with, but refusing to mention that she has ripped her whole thing from Rita Rudner. Slap me silly, if I am incorrect.Last edited by Gerontophile; 29-04-2021, 07:37.
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BBC2 had a very entertaining documentary last night about the rebirth of Derry City FC in the 1980s. The tone was unashamedly partial and affectionate but, with the Super League splashed across all the news bulletins, it was a welcome reminder of why football can be a wonderful thing.
BBC iPlayer - Different League: The Derry City Story
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Why is it Sky, for all their barrels of cash, can't make a TV series that doesn't look and sound like it cost 8 pence to make?
BBC can do it. Channel 4 can do it. Shit, even ITV - the Lidl of TV channels - can make a professional looking tv show that doesn't appear to have been scripted by slightly fewer than infinite monkeys.
Intergalactic looks about 50% shitter that Red Dwarf did in 1986 and the characters are significantly more one dimensional. It's the sort of appalling dogshit that SyFy would have knocked back and they commissioned Sharknado.
Which is a shame, because there's been some really great female led science fiction over the last few years, like Fringe, killjoys, Orphan Black etc.
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Apple+‘s Mosquito Coast is off to an interesting start. I haven’t read the book it’s sorta based on* but I saw the Harrison Ford film version in the 80s and so far the plot is very different, even though the main characters are similar.
* The book was written by Paul Theroux. The lead role in the show is played by Justin Theroux, the author’s nephew.
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- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until I can forgive them for hiring Jose), Liverpool, and Dortmund
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Episode 2 of Mare was packed with a lot of twists. I'm surprised by how much unfolded in an hour. Felt like I had watched for a couple hours, but in a good way.
The other night I watched Better Days, which was one of the Oscar nominees for Intentional Film. It's a Chinese film. This one was long enough that I watched across two nights. Excellent cinematography and an interesting twist on a bullying in school story. Definitely not an uplifting film and at times felt very novella/soap operaish given the amount of tears but I thought it was a good film.
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Alister Appleton is challenging Portillo in terms of sartorial elegance in today's Escape to the Country. First outfit matched a dark blue shirt, top two buttoned undone, with a vibrant orange cardigan. Undone top and bottom buttons served to draw the viewers eyes to the post-lockdown belly. Second outfit for a visit to a wild flower garden was a royal blue chore jacket with red buttons. How much these outfits were inspired by rural Shropshire I cannot say.
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