Maybe a bit harsh. For me it hinged entirely on giving a fuck about the ( endless) memories/flashbacks/feelings of a load of robots. I didn't. I don't know why anybody would. It seemed like they were building up to explaining why they made us watch a sad, mopey robot for so many hours and I don't think they did. Is that meant to make me a terrible person? I just found no tension in any of it because, like Ed Harris kept saying, you can't lose. Who was I rooting for exactly?
The acting, the storyline and the dialogues are painful.
It's supposed to be about the Hudson Bay company trying to preserve it's hold on the fur trade as they face rivalry from "independent", French, Scottish and American merchants.
This sounded very promising but the characters are very badly written and full of Cliches.
The acting, the storyline and the dialogues are painful.
It's supposed to be about the Hudson Bay company trying to preserve it's hold on the fur trade as they face rivalry from "independent", French, Scottish and American merchants.
This sounded very promising but the characters are very badly written and full of Cliches.
The acting, the storyline and the dialogues are painful.
It's supposed to be about the Hudson Bay company trying to preserve it's hold on the fur trade as they face rivalry from "independent", French, Scottish and American merchants.
This sounded very promising but the characters are very badly written and full of Cliches.
Good TV Shows?
No you are right.... Just a warning that it is not.
No, it's pretty relentlessly heavy. You really do feel the struggle from every single character. I totally get that won't be some people's thing, but I found it rewarding.
It has some of the best acting I've ever seen in any form, but if you don't particularly enjoy the slow, endless musing on how people react to all the guilt, trauma, resentment, hope, despair etc. It's definitely got its lighter moments and the themes aren't all that heavy, but its definitely not something to just have on in the background.
Saying that, the whole thing is so beautifully shot and put together, you just have to want to embrace the melancholy.
Mikey Brown wrote:No, it's pretty relentlessly heavy. You really do feel the struggle from every single character. I totally get that won't be some people's thing, but I found it rewarding.
It has some of the best acting I've ever seen in any form, but if you don't particularly enjoy the slow, endless musing on how people react to all the guilt, trauma, resentment, hope, despair etc. It's definitely got its lighter moments and the themes aren't all that heavy, but its definitely not something to just have on in the background.
Saying that, the whole thing is so beautifully shot and put together, you just have to want to embrace the melancholy.
Mikey Brown wrote:No, it's pretty relentlessly heavy. You really do feel the struggle from every single character. I totally get that won't be some people's thing, but I found it rewarding.
It has some of the best acting I've ever seen in any form, but if you don't particularly enjoy the slow, endless musing on how people react to all the guilt, trauma, resentment, hope, despair etc. It's definitely got its lighter moments and the themes aren't all that heavy, but its definitely not something to just have on in the background.
Saying that, the whole thing is so beautifully shot and put together, you just have to want to embrace the melancholy.
Hooked and halfway through the second season
Good to hear, despite my efforts to put you off.
It really would be difficult to pick out the best actor amongst that lot.
Mikey Brown wrote:No, it's pretty relentlessly heavy. You really do feel the struggle from every single character. I totally get that won't be some people's thing, but I found it rewarding.
It has some of the best acting I've ever seen in any form, but if you don't particularly enjoy the slow, endless musing on how people react to all the guilt, trauma, resentment, hope, despair etc. It's definitely got its lighter moments and the themes aren't all that heavy, but its definitely not something to just have on in the background.
Saying that, the whole thing is so beautifully shot and put together, you just have to want to embrace the melancholy.
Hooked and halfway through the second season
Good to hear, despite my efforts to put you off.
It really would be difficult to pick out the best actor amongst that lot.
So, I've sort of gotten hooked on Orange is the New Black. Currently around halfway through season 2, and some episodes are a bit uneven (and I wish Larry would just fuck off, as he's outlived what little usefulness he had) but I actually quite love the structure of the episodes as they are.
I'm a god
How can you kill a god?
Shame on you, sweet Nerevar
About to finish the Man in the High Castle, was disappointed with how series 1 ended but it makes sense now, though I've still no idea what's happening.
Taboo with Hardy on the Beeb is good.
Edinburgh in Exile wrote:Anyone watched Goliath? It's on Amazon Prime, only watched the first couple of episodes, it its pretty fucking good so far.
OptimisticJock wrote:About to finish the Man in the High Castle, was disappointed with how series 1 ended but it makes sense now, though I've still no idea what's happening.
Taboo with Hardy on the Beeb is good.
Edinburgh in Exile wrote:Anyone watched Goliath? It's on Amazon Prime, only watched the first couple of episodes, it its pretty fucking good so far.
Thats on the to watch list
Not very impressed with Hardy's acting to be fair... or maybe just his character...
Mikey Brown wrote:Yeah, he's fantastic. As with most on the show he plays the shades of grey really well. Even at his most c*nty you kind of get where he's coming from.
Just looked at the dates. You're really ploughing through it. I'm keen to see what you think at the halfway point.
Never got back to you on this. Wasn't impressed with the last season as it followed all the cliches. Some character got on ny nerves, the near perfect teen and the sister in particular.
Hmm. I'm sort of surprised to be honest. I thought it avoided a lot of the obvious turns, but each to their own.
I can't imagine how I'd have felt about the characters and the overall intensity of the show if I'd blasted through it all in one go rather than over 4 years. Maybe that made a difference. I thought it had a great amount of subtlety to it.
Mikey Brown wrote:Hmm. I'm sort of surprised to be honest. I thought it avoided a lot of the obvious turns, but each to their own.
I can't imagine how I'd have felt about the characters and the overall intensity of the show if I'd blasted through it all in one go rather than over 4 years. Maybe that made a difference. I thought it had a great amount of subtlety to it.
Aye. I think binge-watching stuff is enormously overrated, but it's hard when you discover something and all of it is so readily available.
I feel weirdly sad and put out that it disappointed you. I think a lot of fantastic shows end terribly and this one felt quite cathartic without any kind of rushed, fairytale closure.
& following on from the phenomenal international success of Magnificent Century (long-running drama about the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent when the Ottoman Empire was at its height, though actually more about the harem - see page 3 of this thread for more), it seems a new series about Abdulhamid is on the way. Abdul was one of the last sultans, and the last to actually rule with authority, and is blamed for the start of atrocities against the Armenians (who he scapegoated as the empire began to crumble). So it'll be interesting to see how they handle this.
If they're good enough to play at World Cups, why not in between?
