The TV Thread redux

Just watched the first episode of Sharp Objects. Good start, getting True Detective season 1 vibes from it.

Itā€™s bleak as fuck.

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Now Season 5 of Slow Horses is completed, and being readied to goā€¦ Season 6 has just been given the green light and confirmed for production

The series 4 finale episode might have only just streamed last week, yet Slow Horses , one of Apple TV+'s most popular shows, has just been renewed for its sixth series.

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I havenā€™t ever rewatched any of his stuff, but I keep finding myself thinking about Midnight Massā€¦ damn, that was a good series. HoHH probably his best overall, though.

Any idea if heā€™s working on anything new?

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Itā€™s quality - but I would also call it ā€œbleakā€ if I was allowed just one word to describe it. The reveal at the end especially.

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Life of chuck which is based on a stephen king novella is his latest one.

Heā€™s got another project due 2026 which does have a proper title yet.

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about a week to go until the start of the new season of Arcaneā€¦brilliant animation that one, hope season 2 can live up to the standardsā€¦

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He owns the rights to the tv adaptation of the Dark Tower, but who knows if weā€™ll ever see that. He got big press a year or two for launching a new production company and confirming a big deal with Amazon. Lot of the coverage connected the dots as Bezoā€™s desire for them to have their own their own Got style epic means they are probably the only company out there who would be willing to back such a grand scale production that the Dark Tower would require, but I havent heard any progress on it since then.

He did announce recently though that he was doing a TV adaptation of Carrie through that Amazon deal.

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Offsetting the bleakness with a more cheerful murder mystery - OMitB.

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Also, heā€™s slated to work on TV show adaption of Carrie. I have to express my continuous disappointment with remakes and sequels that are fed to us lately (save for a few exceptions such as Eggersā€™ Nosferatu, which will be a complete reimagining). With all the quality writers out there, youā€™d think that there should be a torrent of original, gripping work in cinema and TV.

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I missed it first time but there are hidden ghosts EVERYWHERE

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I started seeing them pretty late and in very obvious locations (there was some scene in the outside where the black shape is clearly visible against the green backdrop in one scene), so when I finished the season, I looked up all of their appearances. So, so clever from Flanagan!

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3 episodes in, fucking hellā€¦ you werenā€™t kidding.

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The best bit is that while some of them are really clear once you start looking past the focus of the shot (especially scenes in and around the main staircase) some of them you have to really squint to try to see.

See this Michael Myers looking MFer over in the right corner as an example of the clear ones that are easy to see once you know to look in the corners and is present a lot

But its more these guys that drive the impact

It means even as a viewer you know there is lurking you just arent entirely sure where, and when you see something you dont know if it is real or if you are seeing something in the shadows that isnt there.

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Sorry, mate, I canā€™t see them because thereā€™s Carla Gugino in the photo.

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feels like you lads and lasses are hanging on everyword i say on the subject, soā€¦Arcane eps 1-3 dropped and it was everything i was hoping for and probably moreā€¦

thought id pop this in here aswell, i assumed this thread was deleted but saw it cropped upā€¦

for those that like it, id love to hear from youā€¦

for those that dont know it, watch it, from season 1, its next level stuff

for those that have watched it and cant be arsedā€¦you are of course wrong and have serious issuesā€¦

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Iā€™ll give it a watch at some point. Just got too many other shows on my list at the moment, and not enough time to watch it all.

Never heard of it, so I googled it.

What the fuck is ā€œsteampunkā€ meant to be? :man_shrugging:

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Itā€™s ok, the phrase was only coined in the '80s, so well after your timeā€¦

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I get the sense of frustration at not being acknowledged lol, so I will say I greatly enjoyed the first season (despite never having played League of Legends or knowing anything about its lore), and plan to watch the secondā€¦ just havenā€™t got around to it yet.

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