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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2018 19:48:36 GMT
Is anyone else watching The Handmaid's Tale? Last night was another difficult-to-watch episode. If, like me, you consider religion to be more evil than good, you need to watch one of the greatest series ever made for TV. It's all too believable near future SF. Syria has got nothing on Gilead. Yes, we are a couple of episodes behind, but so far it’s as spine tingling, edge of your seat, disturbing as the last series, if not worse. An excellent series.
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Post by speedysteve on Aug 7, 2018 22:56:49 GMT
Better call Saul is back for a 4th series on Netflix.
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 7, 2018 23:23:10 GMT
Yeehah!!
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 7, 2018 23:25:32 GMT
Is anyone else watching The Handmaid's Tale? Last night was another difficult-to-watch episode. If, like me, you consider religion to be more evil than good, you need to watch one of the greatest series ever made for TV. It's all too believable near future SF. Syria has got nothing on Gilead. Yes, and we have been completely absorbed in it. I was going to say that I was enjoying it but that is just a little stretch too far! It's utterly compelling and it makes you think a bit doesn't it?
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Post by MartinT on Aug 29, 2018 9:34:07 GMT
Has anyone tried Bodyguard on BBC1? Ruth persuaded me to watch it and I found it quite well produced. Keeley Hawes plays the Home Secretary so obviously modelled on Theresa May, and about as repugnant when you first see her. She is even manoeuvring to become the PM. Ring any bells?
Her bodyguard is highly competent but carries baggage from the Afghanistan war. The plot is intriguing as it's possible that Hawes orchestrated the train bomb featured in the opening episode, that our bodyguard successfully defuses (the situation, not the bomb). All to gain power and control us dimwits - the general population.
Interesting storyline and, as I said, well executed even if some characters are somewhat exaggerated.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 9:54:05 GMT
Has anyone tried Bodyguard on BBC1? Ruth persuaded me to watch it and I found it quite well produced. Keeley Hawes plays the Home Secretary so obviously modelled on Theresa May, and about as repugnant when you first see her. She is even manoeuvring to become the PM. Ring any bells? Her bodyguard is highly competent but carries baggage from the Afghanistan war. The plot is intriguing as it's possible that Hawes orchestrated the train bomb featured in the opening episode, that our bodyguard successfully defuses (the situation, not the bomb). All to gain power and control us dimwits - the general population. Interesting storyline and, as I said, well executed even if some characters are somewhat exaggerated. Yes, we have started watching it and so far it appears to be very good
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Post by Slinger on Aug 29, 2018 13:10:18 GMT
I've just watched episode one of "Day 5" (Pick 22:00 Tuesdays) and it was quite good. It's another "after the apocalypse" drama (it was a deadly sleep virus this time, it appears) but this one seems to be shot through with a decent, and fairly sardonic in places, sense of humour. Every series in this genre I've watched in the past has ended up boring the backside off of me when it descended into an earnest and shabby diatribe on how humanity would always survive no matter how low it had to sink. I'm only one episode in and I've got slightly higher hopes for this one. Oh, and it's got what is normally one of my most hated characters in, an American child. This 13-year-old boy character is good value though.
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Post by Slinger on Sept 1, 2018 18:31:46 GMT
I've just started watching Torchwood again after buying the whole of it on Blu-ray. I'm currently sitting watching the "extras" after the first two episodes. It's still good. Doctor Who for (almost) grownups.
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 2, 2018 9:37:05 GMT
With some reluctance I watched Bodyguard
I confess it is good. Hoping it stays that way
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 2, 2018 10:55:50 GMT
Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime
Pretty good. Will be watching the rest.
Particularly like him being an analyst sifting through data to find information. Reminds me of The three days of the Condor which I rate very highly as a film.
At a meeting he refers to his S Q L search, not 'Sequel' search which I thought was odd in the US.
I can (barely) make SQL searches in databases. Very fast search and almost impossible to code for this punter.
(A database geek)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2018 11:40:44 GMT
We watched the last episode of Keeping Faith last week. Very good show, although some of the questions from the series weren’t fully answered and left open for a possible second series, I suspect.
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Post by Slinger on Sept 2, 2018 13:11:29 GMT
Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime ... At a meeting he refers to his S Q L search, not 'Sequel' search which I thought was odd in the US. I can (barely) make SQL searches in databases. Very fast search and almost impossible to code for this punter. (A database geek) Now I'm going to have to watch that. As I'm sure I've said before, I used to hand-code SQL on a SCO-Unix box.
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Post by MartinT on Sept 2, 2018 17:11:31 GMT
I'm fairly sure everyone says 'sequel'.
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Post by canetoad on Sept 3, 2018 3:17:41 GMT
I've never liked using that term either. S Q L for me too.
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Post by Slinger on Sept 3, 2018 8:56:26 GMT
I've always pronounced it alphabetically too - S.Q.L. Bloody Microsoft and their "Sequal Server" don't help matters. Wikipedia (I had to look) sounds it as S.Q.L. and then goes on to give the pronunciation as "sequal" so that doesn't help clarify anything. It's a T.L.A. (and I don't mean a "teela") - Structured Query Language. Ess Queue Ell. That's my take on it.
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 3, 2018 9:02:04 GMT
First time I heard Sequel I assumed it was something else
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Post by MartinT on Sept 3, 2018 10:24:04 GMT
...the follow-up?
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Post by Slinger on Sept 3, 2018 12:54:30 GMT
SQL2! The SQL. This time it's relational.
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 3, 2018 13:36:30 GMT
Which all goes to show that databases are cool
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 4, 2018 8:17:30 GMT
Jack Ryan, Amazon
Change from Pretty Good to Recommended.
Lots going on. Different threads set off all over the place. Not quite sure yet about baddies being a bit good and maybe vice versa
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