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Post by daytona600 on Oct 20, 2021 17:04:46 GMT
BBC - Alma's Not Normal After a recent break-up, Alma tries to get her life back on track. But with no job, no qualifications and a rebellious streak a mile wide, it's not going to be easy. Meanwhile her mum, who is battling a heroin addiction, has been sectioned for arson, and her vampish Grandma Joan wants nothing to do with it.
Netflix - My Name Teenager Yoon Ji-woo experiences bullying at Shin Young Girls’ High School because of her father’s involvement in the criminal underworld. After his sudden death, Ji-woo reaches out to Dongcheon leader Choi Mu-jin, who subsequently trains the girl over the course of several years, and helps her infiltrate the Inchang Metropolitan Police Department. The storyline follows Ji-woo as she attempts to identify her father’s killer while fighting against a misogynist drug dealer.
BBC - Noggin the Nog - Worn out VHS "In the Lands of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the men of the North Lands sit by their great log fires, and they tell a tale..."
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Post by Slinger on Oct 26, 2021 14:02:11 GMT
For me, that is excellent news. I rate B5 as probably the best-ever "space opera" on the telly. It was also possibly the first series of its kind to have a multi-series story arc, which unfolded over the five seasons.
Goodies became baddies, baddies became goodies, seemingly insignificant players suddenly found themselves taking centre-stage...
My late wife referred to it as "War & Peace in space," due to the depth and complexity of the plotting.
I bought the "ultimate" 42-DVD box set, which included all of the movies and an absolute ton of "extras." There are even online suggestions (which we followed) of which order to plug the movies into the series so that characters/things don't appear out of sequence.
Bring it on! I'm only sorry Jeanette won't be here to share it with me.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 26, 2021 14:51:21 GMT
I rate B5 as probably the best-ever "space opera" on the telly Although short-lived, Firefly was also a contender.
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Post by Slinger on Oct 26, 2021 15:12:31 GMT
I rate B5 as probably the best-ever "space opera" on the telly Although short-lived, Firefly was also a contender. Firefly was fun, but nothing matches B5 for the breadth and depth of its storylines. Fretless over at HFS has put "The Expanse" up alongside it, and that's probably the closest for me too. Another contender might be "Farscape" if it weren't for some of those awful bloody puppets.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 26, 2021 18:51:23 GMT
Yes, The Expanse would be my favourite.
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Post by Slinger on Oct 26, 2021 21:54:51 GMT
The Nevers : Series created by Joss Whedon for HBO.
The series is set in Victorian London and follows a group of people, mostly women, known as the Touched, who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious and quick-fisted widow, and her best friend Penance Adair, a brilliant inventor. The series received a straight-to-series order from HBO in June 2018, after a bidding war with other networks and streaming services including Netflix.
I've just watched episode 1, and it was ripping.. Steampunk SciFi Fantasy, but I have a feeling it may have more threads to it than that by the time it's done.
People turning up are, and will be, Nick Frost (playing completely against type as a vicious villain), Olivia Williams, Pip Torrens, James Norton, Ben Chaplin, Mark Benton, and (roll on episode 6) Claudia Black.
It gets fairly lukewarm reviews but if it continues in the same vein as episode 1 I'm not going to let that bother me. Being HBO there is, of course, the obligatory nudity and swearing to prove it's for grownups.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 29, 2021 15:24:55 GMT
Old TV series I love but you are unlikely to ever see VR5 Strange Luck Dream On Dweebs
there will be others
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 29, 2021 16:02:41 GMT
I'd forgotten about Dream On - used to love that series.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 29, 2021 18:58:09 GMT
For some reason I always forget the title. So glad it came to me There must be other series but that lot stand out - of the ones that disappeared
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Post by Slinger on Oct 29, 2021 19:39:15 GMT
3 episodes of "The Nevers" down, and 3 to go. It's being served up as two 6-episode halves apparently. It's still great fun, a bit scary (the prime villainess is insane; seriously, irrevocably, freakin' insane) and has more than a few twists and turns in the plot. Joss Whedon usually gives good value, and this is no exception despite the already mentioned lukewarm critical reception. Sometimes it's worth ignoring the "experts". Don't forget that Whedon's "Firefly was cancelled after only 11 of its 14 recorded episodes had been shown.
Series 3 of Star Trek: Discovery - 5 episodes in, and a bit mindblown to see "The" David Cronenberg turn up in an acting role Excellent stuff.
"Crossing Lines" the German-French-Italian-American action crime thriller television series on 5USA is still good value. Also 5 episodes in, and it's very slick, and a bit gritty with it. Definitely for grownups. If you fancy catching up with it I'd suggest you start on the My5 streaming service and begin at episode 1. The characters are not incredibly complex, but quite a lot of history is explained as the series progresses.
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I forgot about Foundation. I've just caught up with episode 7, and I'm still not sure about it. It's got a touch of David Lynch's "Dune" about it, both spectacle-wise, and in the amount they're having so shoehorn in. It's nowhere near as disjointed as Dune became though.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 30, 2021 20:39:01 GMT
Not drama but reality. I'm late to Greatest Events of WWII in Colour on Netflix. What a superb documentary series. Just seeing all of the colour footage taken makes it more real, more impactful and more recent than watching black & white newsreel. The narrators, a selection of British, German and American historians, really tell it well and in stark terms. A must-see series.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 30, 2021 21:41:19 GMT
Black Spot (Zone Blanche) Small town - Villefranche - relatively cut off from the rest of France, no mobile or GPS(!) signal, creepy forest surrounding it and strange goings-on. While it spurns realism, it's suspenseful and mysterious while also containing some deliberate laughs. It's going in the direction of Stranger Things or Twin Peaks. Pretty good so far. Whoa - that turned out to have a seriously unexpected ending to S1. The French take on dark thriller is different from Scandi-noir but just as effective. I've enjoyed it.
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Post by Slinger on Nov 1, 2021 15:53:52 GMT
The new Dr Who - s13 e1 - started last night, and it was a bit like throwing a bowl of spaghetti at the wall to see how many strands stuck. So many (seemingly) disparate threads that only started to come togetrher towards the very end of the episode, and even more with much further to go. I have faith in the showrunner and the scriptwriter(s?) though, as they've always come through before. Weeping Angels, new aliens, Sontarans, John Bishop being kidnapped by Bungle from Rainbow... well, it sort of looked like Bungle... it was all happening. There was even time for a glorious (for us Liverpool supporters) in-joke where " The Doctor" says " I was a ballboy for Trent once," while standing in front of Anfield, thereby claiming the legend of " corner taken quickly... Origi!" (Google it) for herself. I shall be watching with interest as the plot(s) hopefully settle down a bit, especially as The Doctor has now declared herself to be a Liverpool supporter who has " seen the Barcelona match 9 times".
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Post by MartinT on Nov 1, 2021 17:51:51 GMT
Ah, the Weeping Angels. Best horror creatures in all of Dr Who.
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Post by Slinger on Nov 1, 2021 21:58:56 GMT
That's the first 6 episodes of "The Nevers," series one watched. Now I've got to wait until next year for the second half of the season. Good value, as always, from Joss Whedon though and if I thought e1 of Dr Who was a bit mad, well e6 of The Nevers went a bit bonkers with the time line(s) and made Dr Who seem quite easy to follow by comparison.
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 1, 2021 22:51:28 GMT
I saved it to my list yesterday and will make a start on it soon. Started watching Bordertown tonight, looks decent enough.
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 2, 2021 10:12:35 GMT
Leverage Redemption not as good as the original. Not bad
Free on Imdb with minimal adverts
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Post by Slinger on Nov 2, 2021 16:12:31 GMT
Has anyone watched "Homecoming," on Amazon? It's got Julia Roberts, Bobby Cannavale, Stephan Jame, Sissy Spacek, Chris Cooper and Joan Cusack amongst others, and oddly, for a program like this, it's in 30-minute episodes. I'm halfway through series 1 at the moment (it has 10 episodes in total) and series 2 only runs to 7 episodes. Apparently the second season features a new story and characters. It's odd but enjoyable, and the 30-minute bite-sized episodes make it perfect for watching over dinner, or lunch.
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 2, 2021 18:21:02 GMT
Tried it, gave up
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Post by Slinger on Nov 4, 2021 14:04:08 GMT
Season 4 of Star Trtek: Discovery, will premiere on the streaming service Paramount+ on November 18, 2021.
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