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Post by MartinT on Apr 14, 2021 15:42:33 GMT
He'll be needing a parrot, not a squirrel.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 15, 2021 5:36:27 GMT
I want to tell you about Debris. This TV series was released recently, in March. I was searching for a good movie or TV series dedicated to space and space exploration and found this one. Well, I'm still hoping to see it when it comes to the UK. Have you been enjoying The Expanse?
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Post by Slinger on Apr 16, 2021 21:02:43 GMT
I've just watched the pilot for "Debris," and I wasn't immediately grabbed by it. It reminded me a little of "Fringe," atmospherically speaking, but Fringe is a very hard act to follow. That explains a bit - the shows have DNA in common. Both were produced by Tanya Swerling, and they share a cinematographer too.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 17, 2021 13:59:57 GMT
I've just watched the first episode of "Them," on Amazon. It's supposedly set over 10 consecutive days, starting with a black family moving in to a nice house in the pleasant suburb of Compton, California.
It reminded me a little of Lovecraft Country, but without Cthulhu, Dagon, Shoggoth, and their bug-eyed, tentacled, mates, probably because of the similar scenario in LCs later episodes. There is a seriously sinister and spooky undercurrent bubbling just beneath the surface, and it's also making me as angry as Lovecraft Country did, over the way the "Jim Crow," laws and attitudes followed the black migration to the West Coast even though they weren't supposed to exist any more. I hope that watching it makes a lot of Americans (and Englishmen come to that) feel very uncomfortable.
It's definitely worth sticking with, especially as my usual lunchtime fare, Bosch, has finished for now. I await Bosch series 7's arrival on Prime.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 17, 2021 23:00:59 GMT
Episode 2 of "Them" : Still good. Still spooky. Still making me angry at the ignorant racists.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 18, 2021 11:04:50 GMT
Thanks for the warning Paul We won't be watching it
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Post by Slinger on Apr 18, 2021 17:33:11 GMT
Thanks for the warning Paul We won't be watching it Provoking a reaction like that, I see as quality telly, Mike. It's uncomfortable to watch at times, yes, but to me that only speaks to the way the cast/director/writer/etc. are handling it. I made the point about Lovecraft Country, if I remember correctly, that at the time it was portraying racism came as naturally as breathing to many white Americans, and so it's shown in pretty much the same light in "Them." The difference is that in the era Them is set in the Jim Crow laws have been repealed and it's supposed to be a bright shiny new age of enlightenment. It wasn't. Yet again, by the way, the lead actor is a Brit. I thought I heard his American accent slip just once, which is why I checked. The female lead is also a Brit, as are several other cast members, along with some Aussies (Ryan Kwanten - True Blood) and Canadians, like the great Christopher Heyerdahl. It wasn't a warning, Mike, in a way it was a recommendation.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 18, 2021 20:03:12 GMT
Thanks for the warning Paul We won't be watching it Provoking a reaction like that, I see as quality telly, Mike. It's uncomfortable to watch at times, yes, but to me that only speaks to the way the cast/director/writer/etc. are handling it. I made the point about Lovecraft Country, if I remember correctly, that at the time it was portraying racism came as naturally as breathing to many white Americans, and so it's shown in pretty much the same light in "Them." The difference is that in the era Them is set in the Jim Crow laws have been repealed and it's supposed to be a bright shiny new age of enlightenment. It wasn't. Yet again, by the way, the lead actor is a Brit. I thought I heard his American accent slip just once, which is why I checked. The female lead is also a Brit, as are several other cast members, along with some Aussies (Ryan Kwanten - True Blood) and Canadians, like the great Christopher Heyerdahl. It wasn't a warning, Mike, in a way it was a recommendation. Point taken I'm already uncomfortable with racists. Don't need the anger It's not you it's me !
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Post by Barrington on May 6, 2021 7:45:13 GMT
I enjoyed Snowpiercer ( 2 seasons) I think they need to improve for the 3rd season as it began to run out of steam
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Post by Barrington on May 6, 2021 7:48:34 GMT
Shadow and Bone (Netflix) , fantasy world with 19th Century Russian type characters and settings , people with special gifts and powers , good story line but difficult to portray the books on screen , never going to compete with GOT and they haven't tried .
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Post by MikeMusic on May 6, 2021 8:31:37 GMT
Fargo Series 4 starts C4 and others on Sunday
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Post by Barrington on May 6, 2021 10:58:40 GMT
Fargo Series 4 starts C4 and others on Sunday Oh wow , love Fargo .
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Post by Slinger on May 6, 2021 12:09:01 GMT
Fargo Series 4 starts C4 and others on Sunday Thanks, Mike, I hadn't seen that. Recorder set.
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Post by Slinger on May 9, 2021 19:33:49 GMT
Stan Against Evil. 30 minute episodes on Amazon Prime. It's a pretty average American comedy that ran from 2016 to 2018, but raised up by the wonderful John C McGinley who you may remember as the irascible Doctor Cox from Scrubs. He played a brilliant psycho in the TV version of Dean Koontz's "Sole Survivor," too.
Anyway, if you've got 21 minues to kill (that's what's left of a 30-minute show when you take out the American ad breaks) it's worth a go.
An aging police sheriff (McGinley) begrudgingly joins an alliance with a new sheriff, Evie Barret, to battle angry demons haunting their small New Hampshire town.
Apprently there were 172 demons but it only ran for 3 x 8 episode seasons, which means that 148 of them must still be out there.
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Post by MartinT on May 11, 2021 21:57:47 GMT
I've been watching a Spanish SF series on Netflix called "Si no t'Hagués Conegut" - If I Hadn't Met You.
It's a slow burner but quite thought-provoking and ultimately rewarding even if you can see the big reveal before it happens. Being in Spanish, it has quite a different cadence from my preferred Scandi and Belgian fare, but I can recommend it to fans of SF alternate universe tales.
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Post by MikeMusic on May 12, 2021 9:12:17 GMT
Stan Against Evil. 30 minute episodes on Amazon Prime. It's a pretty average American comedy that ran from 2016 to 2018, but raised up by the wonderful John C McGinley who you may remember as the irascible Doctor Cox from Scrubs. He played a brilliant psycho in the TV version of Dean Koontz's "Sole Survivor," too. Anyway, if you've got 21 minues to kill (that's what's left of a 30-minute show when you take out the American ad breaks) it's worth a go. An aging police sheriff (McGinley) begrudgingly joins an alliance with a new sheriff, Evie Barret, to battle angry demons haunting their small New Hampshire town. Apprently there were 172 demons but it only ran for 3 x 8 episode seasons, which means that 148 of them must still be out there. Good in parts. Horror genre not for us though after 1 and a bit episodes
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Post by MartinT on May 12, 2021 20:54:00 GMT
I've been watching a Spanish SF series on Netflix called "Si no t'Hagués Conegut" - If I Hadn't Met You. Really very good. I'm astonished (as always) at the criticisms on IMDB from people with short attention spans. It seems that the joke made with rfan8312 about some Americans (not him) needing explosions in every episode prevails! This is good if you accept the slow pace and the richness of storytelling. It's Spanish, so some of the emotions are strung out as you would expect from a Latin source. The way the science ties up at the end is clever and self-fulfilling. The performances are good. It's an easy watch.
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Post by MikeMusic on May 13, 2021 9:45:53 GMT
If done well anything can be made watchable
Has to be done *well* - and that makes it difficult for the not so well made, the average and the dross
Amazes me I can sit and watch TV and fillums where there is almost nothing going on and enjoy it - all due to being well made
I also give up with not so good whereas before I would have watched it. We have left a trail of films and TV on Amazon where we gave up
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Post by MikeMusic on May 15, 2021 18:14:47 GMT
The Underground Railroad on Prime
Not sure I can watch it. Grimmer than grim
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Post by MartinT on May 15, 2021 19:01:22 GMT
Has anyone else managed to watch Counterpart on Starz on Prime yet? Still ranks as one of the best ever series I've seen. Need to watch S2.
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