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Post by MartinT on Nov 26, 2018 22:40:20 GMT
Beck was good as ever. Hope there will be another series.
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Post by speedysteve on Nov 27, 2018 16:39:31 GMT
Beck was good as ever. Hope there will be another series. Yes agree, esp the last episode was good. Swedish / Stockholm's police, Norwegian police inspector (Steinar aka Wildlings leader GoT) and a Danish psycho villan, shooting people left right and centre.. Covered all nationalities of Scandi noir there..
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 27, 2018 17:16:18 GMT
I think Steinar is a great character!
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Post by speedysteve on Nov 27, 2018 23:19:20 GMT
Another Swedish noir you'll be lucky to see.. Midnight sun or Midnattssol in Swedish In Swedish with a bit of French too. Set in the far north. The French policewoman assigned to the case asks.. "when does the sun actually go down?" The answer, "in a few weeks" The opening scene murder is rather implausible, any engineer / physicist knows the vibration would be too destructive. But I am prepared to look through my fingers (as it were) and enjoy the Northern landscape and Swedish and French. 2 episodes in and it's rather good..
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 29, 2018 14:44:26 GMT
I'm now looking for another dose of Scandi and not sure what to pick.
Steve - I'm wondering what have been your favourite Scandi shows so far?
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Post by MartinT on Nov 29, 2018 14:54:01 GMT
Did you watch Rebecka Martinsson, Jules?
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 29, 2018 15:30:00 GMT
Yes I loved it Martin.
I particularly like the series which are set in the countryside. Something like that would be perfect!
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Post by Slinger on Nov 29, 2018 15:57:23 GMT
I've just read that Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale for publication on 10 September 2019. 'The Testaments' is set 15 years after Offred’s final scene in The Handmaid’s Tale and is narrated by three female characters. SOURCEAlso on the TV drama front, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Dr Who, etc.) are making a 3 x 90-minute episode mini-series of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Inspired by the classic novel, it will " re-introduce the world to Dracula, the vampire who made evil sexy" says the Beeb's bumf. " In Transylvania in 1897, the blood drinking Count is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast." The Danish actor. Claes Bang, who has been in a little bit of everything over the last couple of decades, including The Girl in the Spider’s Web, The Affair, The Square and Borgen, will play the title role. I couldn't think of a better pairing to produce a "new" Dracula. Everything Moffat touches seems to (deservedly i.m.h.o.) turn to gold, and Mark Gatiss is an out and out, very literate, horror fan, and you can find his 3-part " A History of Horror" on YouTube. It should be required watching for other horror fans. More on the new Dracula
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Post by MartinT on Nov 29, 2018 21:56:34 GMT
Yes, I read the Atwood item today, too. Interesting, and judging by The Handmaid's Tale's success, it'll probably be dramatized for TV at some point.
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Post by Slinger on Nov 29, 2018 23:38:23 GMT
Yes, I read the Atwood item today, too. Interesting, and judging by The Handmaid's Tale's success, it'll probably be dramatized for TV at some point. <iframe width="34.180000000000064" height="2.9200000000000017" style="position: absolute; width: 34.180000000000064px; height: 2.9200000000000017px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 15px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_59989963" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="34.180000000000064" height="2.9200000000000017" style="position: absolute; width: 34.18px; height: 2.92px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1638px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_4110855" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="34.180000000000064" height="2.9200000000000017" style="position: absolute; width: 34.18px; height: 2.92px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 15px; top: 87px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_83129961" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="34.180000000000064" height="2.9200000000000017" style="position: absolute; width: 34.18px; height: 2.92px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1638px; top: 87px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_74613355" scrolling="no"></iframe> I imagine someone in America is trying to option it already. It's the Dracula story that has me interested, though.
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Post by speedysteve on Dec 8, 2018 17:05:45 GMT
Started watching Graven (The Grave). Swedish police drama. Missed it until now.. Made back in 2004.. no iPhone, Nokia ruled the airwaves.. After a slow start setting up the criminal investigative team things got better and weirder! How young Kjell Bergqvist looks compared to in the recent Springfloden (Spring tide).. It might well have been on UK TV back in the day, or perhaps it was before our quite recently found love of noir done Scandi style.. If you can find it on dvd European release with English subs, it's well worth a watch for us Scandi noir lovers. Plenty of forensic and other action
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Post by speedysteve on Dec 8, 2018 17:16:57 GMT
I'm now looking for another dose of Scandi and not sure what to pick. Steve - I'm wondering what have been your favourite Scandi shows so far? I suppose Førbrydelsen (The killing) for the way it built tension and the acting / drama was imho top notch. Nothing wrong with her knitted jumpers either Wallander the Swedish one of course - didn't really like seeing Kenneth however troubled and deep he may be, poncing about in southern Sweden Krister Henriksson was my favourite Never got on with the first Swedish Wallander oaf Recently dear troubled Rebecka of course I mean, what's not to like Calm down Martin Beck is Good, Springfloden is good. Graven is Good etc etc. Sad they don't all make it over here. I'll watch em all. Sometimes over again..
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Post by julesd68 on Dec 8, 2018 17:28:18 GMT
I reckon my faves so far are The Bridge / The Killing / Wallander - but only with Krister Henriksson of course!
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Post by speedysteve on Dec 8, 2018 18:49:18 GMT
Forgot about Bron aka The Bridge.. Have you seen the American version? That was okay but they canned it prematurely..
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Post by MartinT on Dec 9, 2018 1:41:30 GMT
Calm down Martin You show four photos of Ida Engvoll and tell me to calm down?!
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Post by MartinT on Dec 9, 2018 21:31:53 GMT
The First It's about the first man on Mars, but not the first mission, which fails tragically. Actually, it's not really about the mission but much more about the background and build-up for the team members. A superb study in storytelling with a great cast and affecting performances all round, especially from Sean Penn, Natascha McElhone (whom I last saw in the excellent Solaris re-make) and Melissa George. Anna Jacoby-Heron is impressive as Penn's daughter, too. This is a slow and excellently scripted depiction of human behaviour, much more than just SF and so much the better for it. Even so, there are nice little touches of near-future depiction which only add to the portrayal. Top quality drama.
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Post by speedysteve on Dec 10, 2018 14:46:37 GMT
The FirstIt's about the first man on Mars, but not the first mission, which fails tragically. Actually, it's not really about the mission but much more about the background and build-up for the team members. A superb study in storytelling with a great cast and affecting performances all round, especially from Sean Penn, Natascha McElhone (whom I last saw in the excellent Solaris re-make) and Melissa George. Anna Jacoby-Heron is impressive as Penn's daughter, too. This is a slow and excellently scripted depiction of human behaviour, much more than just SF and so much the better for it. Even so, there are nice little touches of near-future depiction which only add to the portrayal. Top quality drama. Yeah we're watching The First. Marie likes the touchy feely human stuff. Me I just wanna see rockets all the time We did start something called Ascension. Rather too perfect female cast to be plausible. Trump or some other allegedly sexist male must have commissioned it back in the day, before 'me too' It's set on a very big rocket going somewhere very far away, so generations later will / may stand on a planet somewhere some day It was, get this, launched in secret by the military, not by Nasa, back in the 60s. They have CRTs, old fashioned reel to reel etc There's only one season so either it was great, done and dusted in one, or it gone canned as it was rubbish.
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Post by Slinger on Dec 10, 2018 15:35:01 GMT
I hat to admit it, but I was really looking forward to "The First" and by episode three I'd given up. Like Steve, if I've understood him correctly, I thought there was too much fiction and not enough science.
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Post by MartinT on Dec 10, 2018 15:40:19 GMT
You should have stuck through E5 towards E6. It really is very well written and performed.
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Post by speedysteve on Dec 10, 2018 16:02:25 GMT
Yes, we're sticking with The First to the last
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