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Sep 29, 2019 - 11:27 AM
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Spinmeister
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Two productions from the Ryan Murphy mill:
American Horror Story S9E2
Annnd … I'm out!
A lazy, tepid and, more crucially, humourless regurgitation of all the over-used and abused Friday the 13th tropes. Also … Ryan? Fetishistic displays of bodily violence aren't scary, they're just cheap, cheap, cheap testaments to creative bankruptcy.
The Politician S1E3
David Corenswet is positively dreamy and I'd watch an entire show of the camera just gliding from his forelock to his precocious dimples to his luscious lips, and then down, down, down the expanse of his alabaster torso, but this witless Wes Anderson knock-off is just so flat-footed and tonally inconsistent that even Corenswet's natural beauty can't persuade my further indulgence.
Oh! And Ben Platt's performance is supremely annoying.
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Just finished WAYWARD PINES.
I thought this was quite good, both seasons.
There is one sequence where. a character in suspended animation awakens every 20 years- to see if mankind still exists!
An amazing and haunting montage that should have garnered acclaim.
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Catherine the great with Helen Mirren.
The usual skullduggery and lethal politics around the ruler of russia.
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COLUMBO: Etude in Black
For about the 20th time!
KUNG FU season two
" The Passion of Chen To"
Ditto
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Vietnam. After reading Max Hastings’s epic history of the war in south-east Asia, it’s fascinating to see the same thing unfold in newsreel and interviews. Tragic and frightening. Deep respect to those who were involved.
I have that book to read, i saw a few episodes of the Burns doco but haven't gotten around t the rest of it but what i was was excellent.
If you want to know about Vietnam, Ken Burns ain't the one to learn ya'.
Oliver Stone's docs are a much better source for the REAL story
Read " JFK AND VIETNAM" by John Newman for more on how we got in.
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YELLOWSTONE
another ' one and out' craptacular.
Not as bad as SUCCESSION, though.
Nothing could be THAT ' horrible
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Oct 8, 2019 - 10:08 PM
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joan hue
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OUR BOYS This series is on HBO
IMDB summarizes this series stating:
“In the summer of 2014, three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped and murdered by Hamas militants. Israel is shocked, shaken and furious. Two days later, the burned body of a Palestinian teenager from East Jerusalem is found in a forest on the western outskirts of the city. In the ensuing days, Simon - an agent from the internal terror division of the Shin Bet, investigates the murder, while the parents of the slain teenager begin their long and anguished journey toward justice and consolation. The series, based on the true events which led to the outbreak of war in Gaza, follows the investigation of Mohammed Abu Khdeir's murder.”
You have to have a lot of patience to watch this series. It is very slow moving at times. The languages are Arabic and Hebrew so you have to read subtitles.
I don’t remember this incident, so I watched the whole series. At times it really dragged. At other times, I found it fascinating. When the Palestinian teenager is kidnapped, the Israeli police force employ cameras and forensics to find this teen. It is tense in parts. The series puts human faces on this event showing the anguish of the Arab parents as well as the heart-break of the Jewish parents. Interesting series and slice of history, but patience is needed.
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Whats this The Name of the Rose on bbc2 at 9 tonight? 8 part tv version?
Ahh John Turturro tv version. Im watching it but it seems redundant after the movie.
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X COMPANY
s.3
Finally, a quality series from CBC ( although, typically low budget)
Canadians get their due in.this long suppressed story of resistance fighters and their Canadian supporyers6 in.occupied Europe
Check it out!
Fyi s.3 features the dreaded ' neck snap' trope.
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Catherine the great with Helen Mirren.
The usual skullduggery and lethal politics around the ruler of russia.
This started promisingly but by ep3 started to grate.
The rumblings of discontent between Catherine and her jealous lover became tiresome and what started as open warfare with her advisors dwindled to a smoulder.
Although diana rigg saying the four letter c word in Game of Thrones was both shocking and amusing, here we get to see Helen Mirren say it. I had to smile. Little things please tiny minds! 
Couldve been so much better. Dunno about great, Catherine the average.
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Is this Watchmen tv series likely to be shite?
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