What TV Shows are you watching? ζ: The seventh-season itch
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When filming The Lord of the Rings, Brad Dourif's British accent was so convincing that when he switched to speaking in his own American accent, Bernard Hill asked why he was speaking in a fake American accent.
Just bought the entire Season 1-11 Blu-ray box set of The X-Files from Amazon.de.
The German release has English audio and subtitles. At around 78 Euros on sale right now, the offer was simply too good to pass up.
Gonna be so much fun to revisit all the classic episodes and this time in restored HD. Thank god they shot the episodes on 35mm film.
The German release has English audio and subtitles. At around 78 Euros on sale right now, the offer was simply too good to pass up.
Gonna be so much fun to revisit all the classic episodes and this time in restored HD. Thank god they shot the episodes on 35mm film.
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I doubt that but since it was TV2 showing English Saturday afternoon football for decades it clearly can't be the only one to blame here. The matches, though, were commentated by a man from Turku who also was the arena announcer in ice hockey games in Turku for even longer. This is clearly a reason for rivalry.
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No wonder they changed the name from The Virginian to The Men from Shiloh as the 9th season is collection of independent episodes extremely loosely tied by Shiloh. These could've easily been TV movies with a pair of familiar names occasionally mixed. Granger is good basically playing himself and the surprise gem (so far) has been the appearance of Peter Lawford.
The most interesting thing was my first properly impure thought and the target of it. A feisty blond aesthetically peaking quarter of a century before but all in her presense breathing the idea that she'd been there & done that and the ride with her would be an awesome experience.
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I guess I should at least consider this show. What is the basic plot line?
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The initial premise is that the Soviets beat the US to the Moon. However, it's not really focused on the politics; they play a part, but it's more of a character drama involving the space program.
Don't expect anything grandiose or high stakes like Man in the High Castle. That's how I went into it and it made me really iffy on the show. With the right expectations, though, it does its thing very well.
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Given your age (
) and that you're an American, you'll be able to easily recognize the divergences from real life, so it will probably be more interesting to you too. I'm a foreigner who couldn't care less about the late 60s to mid 80s of American history, so many of the alternative events are meaningless to me.
I'll let you know once I take it on.
I may have been sucked into the Story of Yangxi Palace, a 70 episode Chinese, Qing Dynasty, historical drama that in 2018 was the most watched show in China. Then it got taken off the air because it did not support current socialist virtues.
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Slow Horses (2022) through 3 eps.
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Spoiler me too :
Midnight At The Pera Palace. The premise is that a Turkish journalist travels by accident to 1919 Turkey, while Turkey is occupied by the Western empires, and needs to prevent that Atatürk is murdered and that the modern Turkish state is formed.
Interesting scenario, partially okay done, partially badly executed. The script suffers from occasional random moronism, and the actress is playing like a naive teenager for the beginning, but getting a bit better later.
The premise is interesting, and I like the scenario. That the script writers were imbeciles at important story points is a problem though. The protagonist needs to prevent that Atatürk gets murdered. The problem is that it's her fault. While she, without any issue, believes that she got magically transported to 1919, she doesn't have qualms sitting down with the British officers and telling them everything about the upcoming Turkish revolution. EVERY viewer must be sitting there face-palming hard.
The script and acting of the protagonist get better through episodes 3-5. At the beginning of episode 6, the script writers go again brain-dead. The protagonist gets send again to another time, with the instructions to not interact she knows in case she ends up in the wrong time. Guess what is the exact first thing she does after ending up in the wrong time?
The show involves sadly more time travel, although they manage to resolve the story coherently (if you don't think to hard what causes what).
I would have wished that the series focuses more on important events, like Timeless, but sadly they didn't.
The end of the 8 episodes sets the whole thing up for another season. You get an idea about that from parts of the other episodes already earlier on, so it's not so that the script writers are completely stupid. I hope Netflix doesn't cancel the show, because I want them to make a better 2nd season. I think there's a chance it might happen.
Interesting scenario, partially okay done, partially badly executed. The script suffers from occasional random moronism, and the actress is playing like a naive teenager for the beginning, but getting a bit better later.
The premise is interesting, and I like the scenario. That the script writers were imbeciles at important story points is a problem though. The protagonist needs to prevent that Atatürk gets murdered. The problem is that it's her fault. While she, without any issue, believes that she got magically transported to 1919, she doesn't have qualms sitting down with the British officers and telling them everything about the upcoming Turkish revolution. EVERY viewer must be sitting there face-palming hard.
The script and acting of the protagonist get better through episodes 3-5. At the beginning of episode 6, the script writers go again brain-dead. The protagonist gets send again to another time, with the instructions to not interact she knows in case she ends up in the wrong time. Guess what is the exact first thing she does after ending up in the wrong time?
The show involves sadly more time travel, although they manage to resolve the story coherently (if you don't think to hard what causes what).
I would have wished that the series focuses more on important events, like Timeless, but sadly they didn't.
The end of the 8 episodes sets the whole thing up for another season. You get an idea about that from parts of the other episodes already earlier on, so it's not so that the script writers are completely stupid. I hope Netflix doesn't cancel the show, because I want them to make a better 2nd season. I think there's a chance it might happen.
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It's a Spooks/MI-5 type counterterrorism thriller, rather than a Broadchurch type murder-mystery or a LeCarre-style drama. Not as tense (or as good) as Bodyguard. It has an odd sense of humor - a group of tryhards, burnouts, and nitwits who can't simply be fired stumble onto something real - but won't commit to being a dark comedy. I haven't gotten onto its wavelength yet, tonally. I keep wondering if I'd prefer it either keep a straight face or just dive headfirst into satire. If you're choosy about spy/detective thrillers, this one isn't top-shelf yet, but I'm enjoying it enough to keep watching.
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Yeah, it's actually more serious than I expected going into - meaning that it is closer to straight spy thriller like MI-5 but with a catch that the main characters are in the doghouse. Much of the - attempted - humor seems to come with Oldman's flatulence and overall curmudgeonliness than any real dark humor. But the rest of it is pretty good so far, and when Oldman isn't breaking wind he's fun to watch.
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Anything compareable to Spooks is worthy of checking it out. That's the 2nd best TV series of this millennium and since it's one of my favourite gripes in tv/movies it has dealt the best with the avoidance of cursing etc. I think it has two f-bombs in all but I can only remember one specific case and it very rarely has the feeling that verbal conversations are monitered by big brother.
I'm under the impression that it was shown post watershed in the UK so the language shouldn't have been a problem either way. That might've happened after the incident with deep frying female face instead of french fries in the first (or 2nd season) which was deemed more violent than Clarkson.
I'm under the impression that it was shown post watershed in the UK so the language shouldn't have been a problem either way. That might've happened after the incident with deep frying female face instead of french fries in the first (or 2nd season) which was deemed more violent than Clarkson.
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Ehhh. It didn't end on a 10. It did end on a 9.5, though.
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Speaking of which, the trailer for season three released today. It'll start airing June 10.
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I'm going to start a rewatch of Star Wars Rebels before Obi-Wan releases. I'm finally going to watch the final season of Fresh Off the Boat. I had been waiting for it to get added to Netflix, but instead, the entire show's disappeared from Canada, so I guess I won't wait any longer and instead borrow an American friend's account (it's on Hulu). I will also start watching Severance soon.
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