Reply With QuoteI’ve been meaning to watch this. Only put it off as I knew I’d be glued to the armchair for days if I start. Maybe Sunday.Originally Posted by P ELLIS
I can also recommend Yellowstone. Really enjoying it, movie quality production, great acting and really interesting story line!
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I’ve been meaning to watch this. Only put it off as I knew I’d be glued to the armchair for days if I start. Maybe Sunday.
Just finished the 1st season of Seal Team and season 4 of The Affair.
Enjoyed both. The acting and writing in the Affair this season was very strong and a great thing to watch
Andy
The Ozarks (S2) is back on Netflix from the 31st.
Really looking forward to seeing that.
This +1 S1 was fantastic. Like the breaking bad of accountants. Also loved the different images at the start of every episode which showed a snapshot of what that episode was about. Genius
not sure if it has been mentioned but sons on anarchy is very good.
As was the music
I have been given a box set of the hbo series Banshee. A bit OTT but quite enjoyable.
I'm caught up now in Season Two of Get Shorty with Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano. It's terrific and keeps getting better...along the lines of Pulp Fiction and Fargo!
It got so ridiculously unbelievable for me, I gave up. It had so much promise and potential early on.
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Loved this all the way through, have to suspend belief a fair bit but it’s bloody good fun!
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Yeah its a fun ride.
Only managed to get to watch 2 seasons.
Think i started with season 3 but never carried on.
Did it last for 4 seasons?
I really enjoyed Banshee and it had a decent ending.
The Son, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3839822/. Really enjoying this, Pierce Brosnan is superb. I'm streaming it free from https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/the-son if you have a VPN/SmartDNS. It's one of those programmes where the scenes jump between the young and old Eli (Pierce) - we are who we were.
Haven’t heard of this before, looks really good. Thanks!
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Hope you enjoy. Here's a dramedy Australian series, https://www.justwatch.com/uk/tv-series/rake on Netflix UK. Richard Roxburgh (Rake) is a lovable rogue. The typical larrikin Aussie us Brits expect. It's superb. I don't know whether it ever made it to BBC/ITV but it would be a hit.
In Australia there isn't a licence fee so ABC doesn't have a lot of money to play with, and the commercial stations mostly import US stuff, so very few local winners.
That does look good, thanks for that and I’m definitely going to use ‘larrikin ‘ a lot more
I will check it out. There was a superb Aussie series called Underbelly a few years ago. Similarly not huge budgets but an amazing look at the criminal side of life in Oz. Highly recommended!
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Watched first series and enjoyed it. Follow-ups seemed to rely on the same gratuitous sex and violence for notoriety so gave up on them.
FYI, the violence in Aus is not as bad a UK. I read the UK newspapers and am shocked at the amount of violence reported. It's gotten a lot worse in the 13 years I've been away. Melbourne, in comparison, is genteel. Here's the local paper, https://www.theage.com.au/. You get 20 articles a month, if you run out remove the cookies and start the 20 again. Wouldn't want any potential migrants to think it's the Wild West!
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I thought they were all superb. The violence might be better now but was pretty bad in the 90’s. There was a season based in the red light district of Sydney in the 90’s when I was there, I actually remember some of the stuff that was going on and some of the nightclubs that it was going on in, pretty hairy stuff. I also lived in Melbourne, Sydney and Surfers for about 3 years and it was pretty spicy at times. St Kilda in the 90’s was a very different place than it is now! (There’s no Chopper Read now for one thing!)
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The wife and I have been ploughing through Bones. Educational, entertaining and nicely humorous.
Good fun.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Just started watching first series of Broadwalk, really enjoyable
Watched the first series of Orphan Black - really enjoyed it and now on S2
I did start that but got bored after a couple of seasons
Check out "Bodyguard" started tonight BBC1, continues tomorrow then another four episodes to follow.
Looks promising.
Agreed, it's very gripping. The opening episode was proper intense. Recommended.
Netflix wise the past year I’ve liked:
Dirk gentlys holistic detective agency
Dark
Orange is the new black (old but gold)
True detective s1 (forget s2)
Ozark
Unabomber
I’ve been watching The Outsiders on Netflix recently.
Well through the second series already.
Anyone else enjoying it?
Cheers,
Adam.
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Finally got around to watching fauda. Crap dubbing, terrible effects, cheesy characters, but I love it, fantastic show. The sense of tension during the ops is incredible.
True Detective s1 might just be one of the finest series ever made.
We are onto the final season now, and have really enjoyed it.
Season 2 is out, but I'm going to wait and see what people think. I gave S1 a thumbs down because although it had a promising start, it just got increasingly implausible as it went on. And not in a good, gripping-storyline kind of a way; in a "are these people all that unbelievably stupid?" way.
A lot of people seem to like it though, so I'm willing to give S2 the benefit of the doubt if people say it gets better. But then again a lot of people said they really liked the Walking Dead at the time. Until about season 5, when they somehow all collectively realised it had been awful the whole time (for similar reasons). I stuck with that one for far too long hoping it would get good, but it just got worse.
I’m rewatching The Wire with my wife (it’s her first time watching it). We’ve just started season 3 and it is still every bit as good as it was the first time I watched it.
A few of my favourites recently: Manhunt - Unabomber, The People vs OJ, Dark.
I do enjoy foreign series - Fauda, Hostages, The Killing, Stella Blomkvist, La Casa del Papel, Dark, etc. - actors I don't recognise, which makes them more believable, and locations that are unfamiliar and make a change from London or New York.
So, just watched the first episode of a Polish series called Ultraviolet on Netflix. Looks promising.
Will have a look at that next. Although just seen a new series of atypical so that might take priority!
Currently watching a series based on a book by Dan Simmons about Franklins Arctic expedition called The Terror. The book was excellent and the series doesn't dissapoint either.
My wife and I finished watching Ozark S2 the same weekend it came out - perhaps not as good as S1 but really enjoyed it nonetheless. On S4 of Orphan Black now and have enjoyed that too.
No wonder nothing gets done around the house at the weekends!
Counterpart has been mentioned previously. Just started watching it and it's a good watch about a very intriguing topic. Interested to see a hard border in Berlin! Not that many people know about it. For those with a VPN it's on in Aus, https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/counterpart.
Can't bring myself to watch S2 of Ozark as the original series all tied up so well at the end. Loved it.My wife and I finished watching Ozark S2 the same weekend it came out - perhaps not as good as S1 but really enjoyed it nonetheless. On S4 of Orphan Black now and have enjoyed that too.
No wonder nothing gets done around the house at the weekends!
Cheers,
Neil.
Series 2 - absolute dross!
Disappointing.
Fauda is decent.
Just started rewatching Band of Brothers.
I think I do BoB every year!
Getting through Orange is the New Black and it's rather excellent!
Fully agree such a waste of air time
I will sack off s2 then. Netflix seem to be putting out shit at the moment. I stopped watching shooter 3 episodes into the new season.
I am currently watching maddam Secretary. If anyone hasn't watched that. I recommend it
Fauda, Night & Day, Before We Die and Acquitted
All subtitles but each one excellent
Oh no it's not is it as I have 3 episodes of season 1 of Ozark left to watch and I am enjoying it, so is series 2 a miss then?
Jack Ryan on Amazon prime worth a look.
Run on All 4 very good, but not going to cheer you up.
Andy
Wanted - Damasko DC57
The Bureau is excellent. The IMDB score is wrong, so don't be put off. It scores really well under it's original name, Le Bureau des Légendes, so not sure what happened there.
Another vote for Jack Ryan on Amazon here...
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Black Earth Rising made a good first impression.
John Goodman is an interesting and sort of surprising choice.
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
More Netflix, I've bingewatched and enjoyed both the first seasons of Final Space and Paradise PD.
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