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Post by MartinT on Jun 16, 2016 20:25:09 GMT
The nice thing about it was that The Tunnel was an alternative take, but not dumbed down. The two leading parts are every bit as good as the originals. Both are great series.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 19, 2016 10:34:53 GMT
I've just finished the final series (S4) of Wallander, the British version. Kenneth Branagh plays the part with an excellent sense of slow pace, and in the final episode, he portrays the sick and increasingly weary and confused detective with great sensitivity. The English language set in Sweden slightly jars (I'm used to Scandinavian drama in the native language with subtitles) but the lead parts are very well played and the stories genuinely intriguing. This was a beautiful series of self-contained stories. When his occasional girlfriend Baiba leaves on the train for the last time you really feel the sense of lost opportunity and unsaid things.
Of course, the Emily Barker theme music Nostalgia is very fitting, too.
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Post by Tim on Jun 19, 2016 11:20:15 GMT
I preferred the Swedish version, but they are both good. Emily has just rerecorded the theme tune for I believe either a film, or new series?
She's a busy girl, just recorded an album with Sam Phillips (of Sun Studios) in Memphis, promises to be good.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 19, 2016 11:32:55 GMT
I preferred the Swedish version I usually do, but in Wallander and The Bridge/The Tunnel, the remakes are equally as good. |
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Post by speedysteve on Jun 19, 2016 12:37:59 GMT
Wallander was good.
I'm going to watch the more recent Swedish ones again;)
GoT rumbles on. Enjoying it. Marie won't watch it:(
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 19, 2016 16:44:26 GMT
The Disappearance finished last night Got better as it went along and the end was quite a twist. Hard to believe a French cop could care less about anything though  |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 19, 2016 18:40:55 GMT
GoT rumbles on. Enjoying it. Marie won't watch it:( Expect an epic battle tomorrow. |
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Post by John on Jun 20, 2016 4:47:38 GMT
Yes it was epic
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Post by MartinT on Jun 20, 2016 20:01:07 GMT
What an episode!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 20:28:00 GMT
Just finished watching Banshee today, what a really excellent show, right up there as one of the best series of recent years IMHO.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 21, 2016 5:23:20 GMT
After Game of Thrones and Banshee I'm going to have to get a life!
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Post by Barrington on Jun 21, 2016 10:50:21 GMT
If that was the last GOT episode ever I would be happy , its going to take some beating.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 21, 2016 12:21:59 GMT
The slo-mo of the horses charging should win an award. Tremendous sense of battle power, sinew and impending death.
Goodness knows what the budget was for that episode!
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Post by speedysteve on Jun 21, 2016 12:30:44 GMT
Banshee was for me watchable but I have a very low threshold for implausible gun violence. Same as someone bring hit ridiculously hard multiple times. GoT fell foul of that on the last episode with Snow hammering Bolton's face in a manner where both hands and face would take major surgery to make usable again. Snow seemingly unaffected. Bolton able to speak straight after. At least he finally got his comeuppance! I can't abide pet cruelty. Good showing of dragons too:) Nice rear shots of the wannabe ironbourne queen, very much mantle piece and fire with her
Interestingly, Daenerys ruled nothing out in that scene:) How will it all end? |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 21, 2016 13:20:22 GMT
Nice rear shots of the wannabe ironbourne queen, very much mantle piece and fire with her It wasn't just me, then?  |
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Post by Barrington on Jun 22, 2016 20:05:03 GMT
The making of the battle of Winterfell
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Post by MartinT on Jun 25, 2016 19:13:23 GMT
Well, that's the end of Banshee, so superb that it goes straight into my top 5 ever TV dramas, which now look like this:
1. Game of Thrones
2. Battlestar Galactica (reimagining)
3. Banshee
4. Homeland
5. The West Wing
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Post by steveeb on Jun 25, 2016 20:13:52 GMT
The slo-mo of the horses charging should win an award. Tremendous sense of battle power, sinew and impending death. Goodness knows what the budget was for that episode! Season 6 average is $10m per episode. That one took 24 days to film and was anything but average. How can the finale not be an anticlimax? |
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Post by speedysteve on Jun 25, 2016 20:58:37 GMT
The slo-mo of the horses charging should win an award. Tremendous sense of battle power, sinew and impending death. Goodness knows what the budget was for that episode! Season 6 average is $10m per episode. That one took 24 days to film and was anything but average. How can the finale not be an anticlimax? Er, Fast forward to dragons v whitewalkers and everyone has their t!ts out? |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 25, 2016 21:26:13 GMT
Has anyone tried Wayward Pines? I was about to write it off as being a bit Under-the-Dome meets Rosemary's Baby, but then from Ep.3 it has started getting really seriously bizarre in the manner of Lost. I'll stick with it for a while, see what happens next.
What it has going for it is M. Night Shyamalan's direction.
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