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Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 6:27 pm
by Mikey Brown
Numbers wrote:Mikey Brown wrote:Yup. I’d actually commented to people and they told me it was still worth finishing the second series. Watched it last night it somehow got even fucking worse. What the fuck was the point of that blonde, rocker guy? He was possibly the shittiest character I’ve ever seen in anything. Everybody became fully 2 dimensional but this guy really stood out as barely having 1 dimension. I’m angry because my dad is a twat. Brilliant. Who fucking cares?
I absolutely agree they ran out of ideas after the first season.
It felt like they were making it up episode by episode. Each character was given one mood/expression to maintain throughout the series and that was it.
Truly, truly awful.
Sorry. I know people love it. But after all the hype that was a massive letdown. The music was pretty great throughout, but not nearly enough to save it.
I'm struggling to see the massive differences between the first two seasons other than they had a far bigger budget for effects this season.
If you are looking for character depth that is not what 80s nostalgia is about, see the Goonies and look for the depth of character ditto all the other 80s films.
If you want character acting see Rectify.
I suspect the next series will see the rocker bloke as some sort of antihero but I doubt you'll be watching that judging by your comments.
I don’t want to keep banging on about it. I just can’t see how it was anything other than bad. Expecting a script to somewhat resembles how actual people speak and interact isn’t going overboard. Every scene felt like a terrible trailer. Drama unfolds, musics builds, cut away to something else, repeat.
I appreciate that banging on about it was exactly what I did there.
Rectify is fucking fantastic though. So there’s something.
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 7:36 pm
by OptimisticJock
You're lucky I'm not a mod in here
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 10:54 pm
by Mikey Brown
Why? You a big fan of the crying kid? Or the other crying kid? Or the crying Mum? Or the kid that cries but also has a bleeding nose?
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 3:46 am
by morepork
Mikey B, you are a champion. You should do this professionally. For professionals.
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 9:42 am
by SerjeantWildgoose
I haven't watched either series of Stranger Things, but on the strength of the evidence presented here I can categorically state that Farrell is the best player in the Northern Hemisphere (We're talking about Chris, right?)
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:58 pm
by kk67
Blue Planet II.
It's dangerous to anthropomorphise animals.. 'fuck off, Grandma'.
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 10:34 am
by Numbers
kk67 wrote:Blue Planet II.
It's dangerous to anthropomorphise animals.. 'fuck off, Grandma'.
Have you seen any of Matt Berry's nature short films, they are quite funny.
What is annoying me about Blue Planet 2 is the sound effects they put on for the underwater sequences, other than that it's pretty good.
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 6:09 pm
by kk67
Thought that's Matt Beery...?.
Haven't seen it. Know him from Mighty Boosh.
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 8:20 am
by Donny osmond
Employable Me. Ooft, got abit dusty in my living room while that was on.
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Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:16 pm
by paddy no 11
3 episodes into Ken burns Vietnam doc, its brilliant but so heavy, what a disaster, taking me a while to get thru it
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 1:19 pm
by Numbers
paddy no 11 wrote:3 episodes into Ken burns Vietnam doc, its brilliant but so heavy, what a disaster, taking me a while to get thru it
Have you seen Ho Chi Min's son yet, that haircut is remarkable.
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:15 pm
by paddy no 11
Ha no, I look forward to it, unlike the rest of the show which is going to increasingly distressing
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 1:50 pm
by Which Tyler
Black Mirror coming out between Christmas and New Year - should make for a cheerful break from our current reality - which is probably why he isn't doing a 2017-wipe (it was depressing enough last year before the full horror of reality had hit)
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 2:18 pm
by Numbers
Which Tyler wrote:Black Mirror coming out between Christmas and New Year - should make for a cheerful break from our current reality - which is probably why he isn't doing a 2017-wipe (it was depressing enough last year before the full horror of reality had hit)
I'm looking forward to that, there's also a new series of Sneaky Pete on Amazon shortly which should be good.
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 5:22 pm
by Mikey Brown
Which Tyler wrote:Black Mirror coming out between Christmas and New Year - should make for a cheerful break from our current reality - which is probably why he isn't doing a 2017-wipe (it was depressing enough last year before the full horror of reality had hit)
That’s a shame. Or are we just that far beyond satire at this point?
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 4:04 pm
by WaspInWales
The League of Gentlemen series 4 has started.
Outstanding show. Very funny and dark. Just hope it can live up to the first 3 series.
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:38 pm
by WaspInWales
Watched the first episode of Black Mirror series 4 last night. It was pretty good too. It had the familiar cynical feel for modern technology, but with a nice homage to Star Trek.
Got the rest lined up to watch today.
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:20 am
by fivepointer
Spiral, the excellent French crime drama, is back on BBC4. Well worth a watch.
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:07 am
by Stones of granite
fivepointer wrote:Spiral, the excellent French crime drama, is back on BBC4. Well worth a watch.
+1
Can’t follow the French, though. Need to persevere
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:10 am
by Adder
Started watching "dark"a German show on netflix.
Similar in some ways to stranger things but better
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Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:15 am
by Mikey Brown
Adder wrote:Started watching "dark"a German show on netflix.
Similar in some ways to stranger things but better
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That looked quite good. How far in are you? I'm still a bit scarred after the horrendous nosedive that Stranger Things took.
Watching the Leftovers at the moment. It's pretty patchy but really quite powerful at times.
Re: RE: Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:23 am
by Adder
Mikey Brown wrote:Adder wrote:Started watching "dark"a German show on netflix.
Similar in some ways to stranger things but better
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That looked quite good. How far in are you? I'm still a bit scarred after the horrendous nosedive that Stranger Things took.
Watching the Leftovers at the moment. It's pretty patchy but really quite powerful at times.
I've seen 8episodes out of 10.
I would recommend. Really appreciating the way the plot is slowly revealed. A bit less Goonie like than stranger things if thats what got to you.
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Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:23 pm
by J Dory
Fargo season III, similar to the last two, worth a look.
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 11:34 pm
by cashead
Anyone watching Ash vs the Evil Dead?
It's great, undemanding viewing, with each episode being a brisk 30 minutes or so each. It's a pulp series that oesn't have any pretensions about what it is, and chooses instead to revel in it, while demonstrating an astonishing command of its own characters (you'd expect that considering that the Raimi brothers are involved)
Re: Good TV Shows
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 11:15 am
by Mikey Brown
cashead wrote:Anyone watching Ash vs the Evil Dead?
It's great, undemanding viewing, with each episode being a brisk 30 minutes or so each. It's a pulp series that oesn't have any pretensions about what it is, and chooses instead to revel in it, while demonstrating an astonishing command of its own characters (you'd expect that considering that the Raimi brothers are involved)
I’ve been told it’s like the good bit s of walking dead without all the preachy, emotional bollocks. Fair?