How do you rate The Order? Started to watch it but don’t feel too attached. Earlier watched The Invisible City, pretty good.
Can’t. Fucking. Wait.
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How do we put spoilers on here? THanks
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Wheel top right of text box click left mouse button opens menu then left click hide details. I think you can change ‘Summary’ to Spoiler’ if so wished.
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Ok so, enjoying this but last nights episode…
Spoiler alert
Anyone else find it odd that when Davidson suggested that she was set up and they “conveniently” found the burner phones in PC Jatris house they let Davidson go and didn’t even question her relationship with PC Jatri when they found out about it? Surely upon finding out they were lovers they wouldve said to her…well thats lucky isnt it - you say you have been set up and now we have found burner phones in your ex-lovers house?
Don’t live in the UK, so late on this, but just saw first episode of Small Axe and was very impressed. Looking forward to the rest.
I’m pissed that in the US a niche streaming platform have picked up Line of Duty. They picked up it up for S5, but I assumed that once S6 came around S5 would be released back to Amazon. Apparently not though. Might have to wait until this season is done then try and blast through 2 seasons within my free 7 day trial period.
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Over the weekend, I stumbled across The Circle on 4OD.
Season 1 was a belter, and very much relevent to online and social media usage at the moment.
With a good VPN, I think you should be able to pick up all series on BBC
Watching Unit 42 on Netflix. Pretty good, specially considering I have been watching Originals before this. Anyone got any recommendations???
Just finished watching Your Honor, thought it was very good
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Now watching The Mantis (La Mante) on Netflix. Pretty good.
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Allen V. Farrow.
Yes, it’s a one sided take that shows only the pro-Farrow side, but fuck Allen. His defense of his actions, both from him and an industry that has closely protected him, has dominated the public conversation for the past 20 years so this is a much needed rebalancing of the narrative.
Even with the above caveat, I dare anyone to watch it and not come away thinking Allen is a monster.
Been rewatching some series on Prime.
Mozart in the Jungle - light, fun and capable of some very good reflective telly as well (the jail episode/the tea in Japan). Recommend it to anyone wanting something easy and enjoyable
Fleabag - Brilliant. Hilarious. Watch it.
Mad Men - even though i’ve seen it through multiple times I’ve binged the whole first season again today. A brilliant example of character driven drama
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Watched the first season of Young Wallander.
First three seasons of Madmen are fantastic. Didn’t like it when that French woman arrived, although it does still have it’s moments (Roger on acid!)
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I finally started watching it a month or so ago and I’m conflicted. I finished the first series and thought every single individual episode was really well done, but as a series I felt it was lacking something. I had expected something so highly acclaimed to have more of a point…more of a direction in the narrative. Instead it just felt like a collection of episodes, admittedly incredibly well done episodes, about people in the time period.
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My sentiments, word for word. However, I thought the series really picked up from season three onwards, I absolutely loved it, even if I found all the characters completely unrelatable. Extremely well written and brimming with outstanding performances. I felt a bit limited by my lack of knowledge of American pop culture of 60s, I think those references would have made the show even bigger and more layered to someone like me.
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Well, of course, it’s all subjective, but even if you don’t get into Don Draper’s waltz with calamity, there’s always Peggy’s development, which really takes off in season two and three. Joan is a compelling character too in my opinion.
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In retrospect I think I probably could say the same thing about the Sopranos. Most shows, even ones that are primarily character driven, there is a 1 or 2 sentence description you can give about the overall narrative point. Like in Deadwood, yes it’s about the interesting characters in a largely lawless western town, but I think the overall direction of the show is about how this dynamic is affected by growing influence of the Federal Government and the reality of Statehood. With the Wire, it’s about crime in Baltimore, but it’s also a story about how competing self-interest blocks real progress. I don’t know that I can do that for the Sopranos other than say it’s about a Mob family (part of the reason I though it was slightly over rated), and I cant identify anything yet for Mad Men after 1 season. We’ll see how it develops from there.
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