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 Posted:   Oct 2, 2022 - 4:16 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

The first 20 some minutes of Inside Man on BBC.
When David Tennant owned up to the child porn flash drive that wasn't his (following some ridiculous USA death row shenanigans) that was enough for me to cut the shit.
How do these guys (Moffatt et all) keep getting work?

 
 Posted:   Oct 2, 2022 - 8:45 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)


When David Tennant owned up to the child porn flash drive that wasn't his


What?! Never mind, don't want to know.

 
 Posted:   Oct 2, 2022 - 8:49 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Ive re-watched the first half of season one of Stargate: Atlantis. At the time I thought it was a decent popcorn Sci Fi/Fantasy television series. Watching it again, MY GAWD, it really hits home how terribly written movies and television series are today. Really enjoying the series again. 4.5-5.

 
 Posted:   Oct 3, 2022 - 12:20 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Finally wangled Netflix
First up Narcos and probably Better call saul, which ive been envious of the people who had access to it from the start.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 4, 2022 - 2:45 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

I've been meaning to watch Better Call Saul for the past 3 or 4 years now, Bill.
Loved Breaking Bad and everyone I know who's watched BCS has said it's just as good, if not better.
After I'm done with the latest series of Cobra Kai (which is garbage, but really enjoyable garbage) I'm deffo gonna start BCS.
It helps now that it's all been done and dusted, so no waiting around for the next series to drop.

 
 Posted:   Oct 4, 2022 - 1:52 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Few episodes in of narcos - its great. DEA v escobar

Just finished Staircase. Need joan to explain it to me. I lost track of the ending. Guilty or not or just a dishonest two-faced creep living a lie who caused a dysfunctional family who pretty much abandon him by the end.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 4, 2022 - 4:59 PM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

Hey Bill, he took an Alford plea which is a guilty plea, but won't admit to being guilty. Judge gave him time served so he is free. I think he killed her and lucked out. Yes, he destroys the family.

 
 Posted:   Oct 4, 2022 - 9:18 PM   
 By:   Warlok   (Member)

The Punisher
season 1 & 2

(new Bernthal series)

I was very skeptical about this one, thinking that it would not be serious enough, and thinking that they didn't need to monkey around with his origin. The final show however is very well-crafted, and Bernthal is a perfect fit for the character.

Good choreography. Very violent, very brutal, quite adult.

Minor appreciation: I like Bernthal's "punisher walk"... something characteristic about it... something inherently confident & badass.

8/10

 
 Posted:   Oct 4, 2022 - 11:34 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Hey Bill, he took an Alford plea which is a guilty plea, but won't admit to being guilty. Judge gave him time served so he is free. I think he killed her and lucked out. Yes, he destroys the family.

Thanks joan. I got the alford plea part, its just the ending seemed a bit flat. I thought id missed something.

What i didnt get was that the daughter had the power of saying No to the exhumation, so they never got to check the skull for owl dna. I think. Very odd, i thought authorities just did it if they thought there was grounds for it, and by the sound of it there was.

Overall , although as you say it was well acted by all the cast - it was a) too long and b) i always find these open shruggy you-decide endings a bit of a cop out. Fascinating ride, feeble finish.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 5, 2022 - 9:54 AM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

Bill, can't remember the issue you mentioned. Been a while since I viewed this. I do know that Firth was amazing in The King's Speech. He certainly does "British" well of course. LOL.

So, to see him in this series playing a reprehensible American just demonstrates what a versatile actor he is. Sorry he didn't win the Emmy.

 
 Posted:   Oct 5, 2022 - 11:39 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Yes he played a good part.
Nice switches from amiable n smooth to screaming and bitter.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 6, 2022 - 10:04 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

The Ken Burns doc series, The Vietnam War, an amazing series. I saw it when it first went out & a short while ago it was repeated on Sky Documentaries & I recorded it & am four episodes in.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 9, 2022 - 2:11 PM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

Finished series 5 of Cobra Kai.
Absolute comic book dross but ridiculously entertaining and addictive fun.
This should be the end of it now though. Everything is rounded off nicely.
Dragging it on beyond this series will piss me off.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 9, 2022 - 2:14 PM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

Also watched the first episode of The Midnight Club (the latest Mike Flanagan series) having enjoyed Midnight Mass and Haunting Of Bly Manor, but it was so bad, I doubt I will be watching any more of it.

 
 Posted:   Oct 10, 2022 - 12:11 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

The Witcher s1.
Not sure yet. Thought might be good, but cant quite work out if its Game of thrones for teenage girls or if gonna be good.

Fight scenes are good but I think including the irritating minstrel was a big mistake - just weakens it n makes it silly. Jury is out.

 
 Posted:   Oct 10, 2022 - 12:12 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Narcos
S1
Recommended to me by a pal. Superb.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 11, 2022 - 12:37 PM   
 By:   Nils   (Member)

Currently into season 2 of The Man in the High Castle (an "alternate reality" series set in 1962, after Germany and Japan have won WWII, and the US is split into the Greater Nazi Reich in the East and the Japanese Pacific States in the West).

I'm usually not too fond of dystopian TV shows, but this is so well written, produced and acted that I got hooked. Highly recommended!

 
 Posted:   Oct 11, 2022 - 2:43 PM   
 By:   steffromuk   (Member)

The Taskmaster.
This British show is one of the best comedy/reality show ever made! I only discovered it a week ago. Started with season 8 going backward.
It makes me miss London so much. I love Brits!

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 16, 2022 - 4:46 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

I've been stringing out the two series; Dexter & Mad Men for the past few years (two to four months between seasons), I've just been enjoying them so much. Anyway, I finished Dexter last night, the eighth (problem) season...& I loved it! It was a bit over-egged with more serial killers that you could shake a stick at, but that's forgivable seeing as it's the last season, & the stretching credibility ending worked for me. So ready for New Blood now (I have the Blu-ray box set), maybe around Christmas or January...& ready for the last season of Mad Men.

...& five episodes into season two of House, excellent, although in many ways as far fetched as Dexter.

 
 Posted:   Oct 16, 2022 - 6:32 AM   
 By:   Warlok   (Member)

Ken Burns' multi-part documentary The US And The Holocaust. The first episode sets the stage in America... pre-WWII, to actually see video & audio of the rank racism is a magnitude more impactful than reading about it.

Excellent thus far.

 
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