It was released yesterday, or it was in the US at least. Reviews seem really positive so I’m definitely going to make time for it sometime over christmas.
So did we (well, me and my cousin). I reported that the first episode of S 2 was very disappointing to me and made me skeptical, but episode 2-3 were really good ! 
So all good. A fine series. Way above average. The books it is based on are pretty average, so it’s not as if it matters a lot of they go a bit off script
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I continue to be amazed by how successful the Netflix Harlan Coben shows can be given they are, without exception, utterly shit. I got sucked into another one this week that Mrs Limie’s parents started watching and so I felt compelled to finish once they’d left - Fool Me Once. This was supposedly one of their biggest hits of the year. The acting is terrible (except for Lumley), the plot is absurd (“they claim their drugs have no side effects, they are proud of it but it turns out that isnt true”…wrote a writer who has a 11 year old’s perspective on what a pharma company scandal would be) and the pay off is laughable.
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I am hoping for less Marvel and more grim dark Dark Knight. So I am hoping for Eisenhorn and less of the more over the top shooty stuff bereft of human interaction.
But it’s probably going to be Marvel-like and not John Blanchè style 40k.
Basically, if they just stick to Dan Abnet novels, it would have been great.
Cavel is an interesting man though. I think he will nail some of it, but you can’t please everyone and Amazon is a very sanitised firm, so there is much of the sinister grim dark bits that probably won’t be there.
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Yeah, one would expect a guy named Magnus to be looking for that version of Warhammer universe.
Looking at how Amazon handled the adaptation of Foundation and The Expanse, I’m quietly confident about all of this. Thing is, Games Workshop are difficult to deal with when it comes to their intellectual property, so I assume that they wouldn’t have signed off on a deal with Amazon if they hadn’t been sure that Amazon would respect their creative vision and guidelines.
I guess that it will focus, in the beginning at least, on Ultramarines and their story revolving around Horus Heresy but I’d love to see the exploration of other legions, especially the conflict between Space Wolves and Thousand Sons (with focus on Magnus’ story). The universe is huge, though, the planning could take months, let alone filming.
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Exactly. Games Workshop would not have signed this off without agreement from Amazon that they have significant control over the content. The deal would have been agreed a year ago if they were not stubborn on this point.
They’ve also given up a fair whack of their commercial rights to get the deal done - something they otherwise wouldn’t agree to unless they were certain that the content would be faithful to the source material.
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I can imagine this is the first show or movie, with Cavill in the lead as it is rumoured that this is the story that Games Workshop have been taking to film companies since they started trying to break into this medium.
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Have you read the book? Absolutely one of my favourites. It will be difficult to transfer that kind of lyricism to the screen.
Fingers crossed in trepidation.
Tulsa King, now half way through S2. Excellent stuff
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Yeah. I read it after the disaster that was Cloud Atlas and saw talk about the “most unadaptable” books with this getting a lot of mentions in that debate. I don’t have much vision for this stuff so for me any adaptation that isnt just a Watchman style frame by frame remake of the book a work of vision that I cannot comprehend, so I don’t necessarily understand those arguments. But it’s also clear there is a LOT of room for this to go wrong.
Fingers crossed. I am currently watching Black Doves on Netflix and it’s pretty disappointing, so hoping the next one I get to is better.
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Hands up if you played a character called Aureliano in a Netflix Series:
Just done likewise. Absolutely loved it.
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I’m not sure where to put this, but it looks like Kelly Cates will be the new Match Of The Day presenter alongside Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman.
Excellent choice, if true, as she is one of the few Sky presenters that doesn’t leave me wanting to throw things at the telly.
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Seriously? Would anyone really recognise him now?
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This was really shit. A stylish spy “thriller” for people with no style
Up next is Say Nothing, a multi generational story about the Troubles in NI. It is an adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefs acclaimed book and, at least in the US, is receiving absolutely rave reviews.
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Was planning to avoid anyway, I’m not a fan of Keira Nightley. I think she was great in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, I just don’t think I can warm to her in anything else.
Black Doves, classed as the Netflix version of Slow Horses…!!
It was more slapstick than serious, and that Grey Overcoat Reed (Sarah Lancashire), was wearing all the time, was a better actor than her…!
Second Season already in the planning stage though
They have great data on what works for them, but the things they deem a success for them are very often complete junk. It’s a travesty this is getting a second season but Kaos isn’t, but that’s pretty consistent with shit like Night Agent being a huge hit for them
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I’ve never really understood the popularity of Sarah Lancashire…?
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Imagine me trying to explain to Mexican friends that Raquel is what passed for a sex symbol on British soaps
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