It does feel totally pointless trying to create new small-town, murder dramas at this point. This one feels particularly unimaginative. Like it’s been created with a paint-by-numbers prestige TV kit. With whole themes, characters, settings etc. just pasted from Sharp Objects, True detective 3, Broadchurch etc. And even those were borrowing heavily from everything before. Saying that, it could be based on a book written 50 years ago for all I know.
I get why Kate Winslet wants to do something different as an actor, but it’s incredibly distracting trying to believe her as this character.
Despite all that I kept watching past the first 2 and it did seem to get a bit better.
Its also taken heavily from the killing where the hero female lead is surrounded by weak/ incompetent / evil men - take your pick
Her husband lives in her backyard apparently ruining her life no explanation as to why he lives there etc
Son kills himself, dad dead presumably all useless
The last episode is just preposterous - the bath scene ffs
I've long been a fan of the You Tube show Hot Ones and its variant on the idea of Desert Islands Discs, and I'll mention this latest because I know a number here are fans of Malcolm Gladwell. The format works a little better when the guest doesn't take such little nibbles but even allowing for him wussing out there are some interesting observations
Which Tyler wrote:Sex Education - so inappropriate
Funny, but I can't get my head around there being a huge American high school in the Forest of Dean, when I know that the 2 towns acting as locations have a total population about the same size as the student population of the campus used (local knowledge really doesn't help the suspesion of disbelief). No problem with the 80s setting, but it being american (except for the accents and rugby balls instead of USfootballs) just seems weird to me, and keeps pulling me out.
Very funny and yes inappropriate; I do think the setting is deliberately off-kilter to avoid pigeon-holing time or place'. Even whackier when the actress who plays Maeve is actually French.
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Really embarrassed to have succumbed to the hype and watch Squid game. Jesus christ that was so unbelievably terrible. I kept watching, thinking surely this must get better? Surely this must go somewhere? I fell for it. Netflix won. Absolute garbage. 0/10.
Just finished series 3 of Succession. While it doesn't, can't, live up to series 1 it's still good TV, although have to say the series as a whole was rescued by the finale. Had that last show been anything other than what it was, you'd be fuming at the writers taking the piss, but the intensity of the last episode just about made up for the vacuousness of the rest of them.
Someone needs to tell the writers that "snappy dialogue" doesn't mean impenetrable bullshit.
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It was so much easier to blame Them. It was bleakly depressing to think They were Us. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
Also about half way thru 9 Perfect Strangers, which is a weird show that I can't think I've seen anything like it before. Nothing much really happens,but it's intriguing and beguiling and keeps you hooked in.
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It was so much easier to blame Them. It was bleakly depressing to think They were Us. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
The Witcher series on Netflix is shite. Which is quite an achievement given they were gifted strong source material from the books and further material, and excellent costume designs, from the games. Instead it's bland costumes, wacky casting, chaotic timelines and many, many stupid changes to the plot and/or characters -- both large and small.
Henry Cavill, the guy playing Dandelion/Jaskier, and Ciri would be the exceptions to this.
zer0 wrote:The Witcher series on Netflix is shite. Which is quite an achievement given they were gifted strong source material from the books and further material, and excellent costume designs, from the games. Instead it's bland costumes, wacky casting, chaotic timelines and many, many stupid changes to the plot and/or characters -- both large and small.
Henry Cavill, the guy playing Dandelion/Jaskier, and Ciri would be the exceptions to this.
Is it just that everything Netflix have control over is awful? Strict formulas for success and creativity by mass committee.
Enjoying Dexter: New Blood. It's just a little bit far-fetched, particularly the coincidences that occur in episode 1, but if you can accept that it's good fun. This is a well-timed revival for me since I only got round to watching the later seasons of Dexter in the last couple of years, so the hiatus has only been about 1 year for me.
Son of Mathonwy wrote:Enjoying Dexter: New Blood. It's just a little bit far-fetched, particularly the coincidences that occur in episode 1, but if you can accept that it's good fun. This is a well-timed revival for me since I only got round to watching the later seasons of Dexter in the last couple of years, so the hiatus has only been about 1 year for me.
I'm quite enjoying this, I would be enjoying it a lot more if ghost of Deb wasn't in it, The Kurgan from Highlander is proving a worthy adversary.
Dexter is one of those shows I’m utterly ashamed to have actually kept watching. It really was dreadful (but somehow very watchable) for a long, long time after some promising early episodes.
My memory of the ending is not great but I’m very confused how a sequel is even possible with the same character. Does this get explained?
Mikey Brown wrote:Dexter is one of those shows I’m utterly ashamed to have actually kept watching. It really was dreadful (but somehow very watchable) for a long, long time after some promising early episodes.
My memory of the ending is not great but I’m very confused how a sequel is even possible with the same character. Does this get explained?
Well I'm not sure as I stopped watching the original series when he started sleeping with Deb, in the new series he has changed his identity if that's a clue?
Mikey Brown wrote:Really embarrassed to have succumbed to the hype and watch Squid game. Jesus christ that was so unbelievably terrible. I kept watching, thinking surely this must get better? Surely this must go somewhere? I fell for it. Netflix won. Absolute garbage. 0/10.
Dopesick on Star is excellent so far, I've watched about 4 episodes, it's about the opiod crisis and seen from the different angles, from the gluttunous pharma company to the doctors they hoodwinked to the impact on the communities and also the start to finish of the legal process, I can't recommend it enough.
Numbers wrote:Dopesick on Star is excellent so far, I've watched about 4 episodes, it's about the opiod crisis and seen from the different angles, from the gluttunous pharma company to the doctors they hoodwinked to the impact on the communities and also the start to finish of the legal process, I can't recommend it enough.
That sounds like heavy going? Or is that lighter than it sounds? It's a terrible name for a show but that's an interesting premise.
Just started Mindhunter and oh my god it's really very good. Not sure why I waited this long. I assumed all 'cop shows' were just terrible now.
Numbers wrote:Dopesick on Star is excellent so far, I've watched about 4 episodes, it's about the opiod crisis and seen from the different angles, from the gluttunous pharma company to the doctors they hoodwinked to the impact on the communities and also the start to finish of the legal process, I can't recommend it enough.
That sounds like heavy going? Or is that lighter than it sounds? It's a terrible name for a show but that's an interesting premise.
Just started Mindhunter and oh my god it's really very good. Not sure why I waited this long. I assumed all 'cop shows' were just terrible now.
It's quite heavy going I suppose but very interesting, Mindhunter is brilliant, it's a shame that Fincher isn't doing any more as it was building nicely.
