It’s fecked up in many ways, but well produced and will keep you watching till the end
Television Anyone recommend me any TV Shows?
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Messiah on Netflix January 1st looks good. A Homeland plot, but change the lead to Jesus/Antichrist.
Sounds good I'll give that a try.
I'm watching the first season of Hannibal again, chiefly for the fascinating, puzzling character portrayed by Gillian Anderson.
Upright Is brilliant. Probably the best thing I've watched this year. Very funny at times but it also hits you in the feels. Very Australian but in a good way.
Love parks and rec, watching it for the 3rd time right now
Started watching Letterkenny. Fecking brilliant.
Been watching S2 of You, enjoying it so far even though at times it is a bit ridiculous. Makes me want to rewatch Dexter.
The Witcher was very entertaining. Recommended to everyone who prefers a fun riding fantasy series.
Just finished watching Mrs. Fletcher. Wow that scene in the last episode. 
Honestly can't remember seeing something like that on television ever.
Honestly can't remember seeing something like that on television ever.Just finished watching the two seasons of The Purge on Prime. Thought it was ok, nothing special.
Going to start The Witcher on Netflix tonight. Will see how that goes.
Going to start The Witcher on Netflix tonight. Will see how that goes.
Messiah was very good, thought provoking.
I'm not necessarily recommending this as to confessing that I've never watched Gavin and Stacy until now. What a brilliant show, so well written and acted. If anyone hasn't watched this yet, get on it.
Enjoyed the first episode of the 3-episode BBC mini series "Dracula".
Puke.
Not a fan then? It's had me chuckling a few times.Yeah, too many people on there that annoy the feck out of me who are basically playing themselves. My Aunt and Cousin watched it at Christmas, I retreated upstairs with my Sister and watched Witcher instead.
I can see that, I never watched it because I'm allergic to James Cordon, watched the Christmas Special at my mates and thought I'd dive in and watch the rest out of curiosity. I've enjoyed it. Witcher has been very good.
Is that showing anywhere in the UK? I saw some clips and episodes on YouTube and they were brilliant. How are ya now?
I watched the first episode of Dracula. It was decent until the accent change and then the nunnery. Had plot holes and the nunnery just took it down the shitter a bit. Don't think I'll bother with the rest of it.
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Just finished season 1 of Fleabag and its fecking amazing. Thought it was just a stupid sex comedy but its fecking moving. Very similar to Bojack in the respect its hilarious in one moment and a tear jerker the next. Top notch.
Just finished season 1 of Fleabag and its fecking amazing. Thought it was just a stupid sex comedy but its fecking moving. Very similar to Bojack in the respect its hilarious in one moment and a tear jerker the next. Top notch.
I really like the look of this. Does it end after one season? Because I looked it up on imdb and it seems there's no info about a second season.
It depends on Netflix. The critics seem to be panning it unfairly. The ending concluded things nicely, but it left me wanting more and to see how the story progresses.
It's a slow burner and meanders alot, but I though it executed the concept of 'the 2nd coming in modern times' very well.
Agree, one of the best I've seen in the last few years. Season 2 gets better.
It's pretty great. Odd but very interesting. The way it manages to balance its kitschiness with the grisly stuff is quite impressive. It's silly and fun but also serious and smartly scripted, and faithful yet totally anachronistic. The acting is cheerfully hammy at times but then serious and affecting at others. Looks great too, with a number of original visual ideas on display.
I've been thinking lately that a lot of this BBC stuff is far more interesting and adventurous than the formulaic prestige stuff that HBO and the like continuously churn out.
dumbo your reviews always simultaneously make me want to watch and not watch something, it's truly a gift.
I've a poor, humourless attitude towards Gatiss, Moffat, LoG etc - I'm just utterly fed up of the Brit horror community's 'so bad it's good' approach to vintage horror. It's too often fundamentally childish, knowing, snide elitism disguised as affection.
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Messiah is interesting enough.
The teenage daughter is distracting though. She looks absolutely nothing like either of her parents and it's annoying me.
The teenage daughter is distracting though. She looks absolutely nothing like either of her parents and it's annoying me.
According to my missus that's quite common, I mean my kids don't even have the same skin color as me, that just happens sometimes.
I sort of know what you mean. Childish and knowing, even smug I'd agree. Snide elitism is to strong for me, and I personally think the affection is there.
Dracula might not be for you. There are a couple of eye rolling moments early on that I feel you either have to go with, or you'll resist entirely. Still its fundamentals are strong and it has a bunch of creativity.
Maybe because they read like an over-excited puppy word vomiting on the carpet.
Which is how I usually feel writing them.
Well the positive ones at least - I should probably see someone about the negative ones.
Yes, actually I now think you're right on both counts.
For once, that wasn't a cheap pun.
More BBC PC nonsense. It's like they sit down with a check list of agendas to tick off before they write the show .
Curious, that, because at least one of the two creators is regularly accused of misogyny and homophobia. This particular show received similar criticism.
Watching Band of Brothers for the first time. 4 episodes in and if anyone hasn’t seen it, it’s brill.
Incredible show; one of the best.
They made anther one similar to it called The Pacific. It's takes place in WW2 again, but focuses on, well, the Pacific conflict instead. Nowhere near as good though. Band of Brothers is great TV.
The “PC Nonsense” (or if you prefer, the “perfectly normal updating of a 100+ year old novel thats mostly just a bunch of correspondence, per the style of a lot of 19th Century lit, to suit the trends of the modern era - like most of the hundreds upon hundreds of other adaptations did before it”.... and which is probably actually a lot closer in psycho-sexual themes to the intent of it’s potentially closeted author) was actually some of the best things in Moffat’s Dracula. Specifically Dolly Wells’ atheist nun Van Helsing, who as easily the most interesting character in the whole thing, despite them “fake out” killing her at least 4 different times....
The problem, in the end, was Moffat, who managed to Moffat the Moffaty feck out of the last episode in the most Moffy way imaginable, almost to Sherlock season 4 levels, disappearing up his own arse to a near incomprehensible degree.... which basically means almost a full hour of people standing in dramatically under-lit rooms trying to explain how clever the plot is to each other, and failing spectacularly, until the day is won through some random overly emotive linguistic maguffin that absolutely doesn’t work if you think about it for more than a minute afterwards....Which was a shame, ‘cos I can like a lot of his work, and thought episode 2 was actually rather good.
Shat the bed though.
But if you liked Claes Bang, I’d recommend the Swedish existentialist modern art film The Square, which I assure you is a lot less wanky than that sounds....
The problem, in the end, was Moffat, who managed to Moffat the Moffaty feck out of the last episode in the most Moffy way imaginable, almost to Sherlock season 4 levels, disappearing up his own arse to a near incomprehensible degree.... which basically means almost a full hour of people standing in dramatically under-lit rooms trying to explain how clever the plot is to each other, and failing spectacularly, until the day is won through some random overly emotive linguistic maguffin that absolutely doesn’t work if you think about it for more than a minute afterwards....Which was a shame, ‘cos I can like a lot of his work, and thought episode 2 was actually rather good.
Shat the bed though.
But if you liked Claes Bang, I’d recommend the Swedish existentialist modern art film The Square, which I assure you is a lot less wanky than that sounds....
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For the first time! How is that even possible?
Aye absolutely brilliant series, must have watched it about 5 or 6 times.They also made a follow up series called The Pacific which focuses on the war in the Pacific against the Japanese. It’s not as good as Band of Brothers but still well worth the watch.
Just after watching The Bodyguard on Netflix thought it was really good, short series only 6 episodes. A lot of BBC stuff is usually hit or miss but this is one of the better ones.
Strange...Dracula is now available on Netflix, but with no 'play' button, just the blurb.