Not a bad watch.
Maybe more geared for people who’ve played D&D board games or rpg games like Warcraft etc.
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The last fight scene in that movie is literally like a 5 man dungeon final boss fight.
They nailed the genre etc pretty well without taking themselves too seriously.
I saw it described as Succession without self-aware writing. Think that about sums up what I saw of it.
I just finished Peter Burg’s American Primeval and fuck it was spectacular. It’s about the conflict in Utah among the Federal government, the mormons who claimed the territory for themselves and the native tribes, and the travellers/settlers who get caught up in it. It is the most brutal and violent depiction of the West I think we’ve ever seen so definitely not for everyone. Given that, I dont think it could have sustained more than the 6 episodes it gave us without becoming exhausting, but christ, what a production.
I know Burg was only a producer on the TV version of FNL, but that show took a lot of styling from his film. One of the things it was known for was its poignant shots that lingered on a character as they were going through something emotional as music builds in the background. You get a lot of that here as well, but rather than it being in a scene where a kid finds out he cannot go to college because he just made his girlfriend pregnant, here its someone hugging their child as an arrow goes through the two of them and they take their last breathes in each others arms. If you are a fan of FNL it is a bit jarring when you realize the parallel, but it works just as well in this setting as it does there.
It’s also great to see Taylor Kitsch (FNL’s Tim Riggins) continue to get good roles, and a reminder that the ultimate all American guy is actually from British Colombia 
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Related, but has there been another TV show since ER that gave us so many stars?
Kitsch, Jessie Plemmons, Zach Gilford, Jurnee Smollett, you can even include this as being Michael B Jordan’s big break through
Does Band of Brothers count. It’s straddled by ER and only had the one season?
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Sorry, Press Gang gets the credit for Dexter Fletcher.
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the wire went quite well aswell…
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Freaks and geeks launched quite a few careers
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Miami Vice has a decent guest star appearance list, im not sure if they were already made stars, or a relative unknowns
Seinfield had a few too…
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MV was pre ER surely.
The Wire, of course.
Madmen introduced me to quite a few; Moss, Hamm, Hendrix, Slattery, Jones etc
The man born with a golden voice… What a Gangster he makes :0)
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Have anyone watched Golden Kamuy?
Only the film.
Which isn’t of much use in this thread.
How is it?
I enjoyed it. Nothing intellectually challenging, of course, but good fun.
Not sure how well it would do as a series, though, as it would really drag on… in my opinion. I note there are five seasons; not sure how they’ve made the story last that long.
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I was wondering, were TV shows like Twin Peaks, Homicide: Life on the Street, Millennium and The X-Files popular in your countries during their day, i.e. '90s? I find myself often coming back to the first three like a moth to a flame (I still haven’t watched The X-Files, though, and I’m about to find out whether it’s a ban-worthy offence).
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Twin Peaks was pretty big here in Germany, at least until that ‘Who killed Laura Palmer’ was solved, X-Files was very popular (not my thing personally). Homicide I heard about much later (after The Wire).
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Watched those two and they were popular. BTW, I think Twin Peaks were earlier (80s?) than the X Files.
X files was by far the most popular of those shows. Definitely worth watching even if just for the cultural references to the show.
I never watched Twin Peaks but I think that was also very popular in the UK.
I loved Millenium, that wasn’t as popular as the other shows sadly. Being much darker in tone and shown on a 10pm Sunday slot probably didn’t help with that.
I, like you, was a big fan of Homicide: Life on the street. I think it was fairly popular but the UK at that time was blessed with a number of big US cop shows that were all very popular so it probably never got the viewing figures it probably warranted in terms of quality. I think audiences preferred shows like NYPD Blue.