Reply With Quotereally enjoyed this series but have lots of questions about the real truth in the storyline.Originally Posted by johnboy9876
Watched the first episode of Mammoth last week. A PE teacher is frozen in an avalanche in 1979, and revived perfectly preserved in 2024. A bit like Life on Mars in reverse. In essence - it's about a normal bloke with sensible values in a world gone mad.
Loved it. Especially liked the dialogue with the lesbian PE teacher he shares an office with. BBC2.
really enjoyed this series but have lots of questions about the real truth in the storyline.
If you have kids, Renegade Nell is worth a watch. Even for me it was mildly entertaining but my daughter loved it.
Not sure if its been recommended yet, but Dark on Netflix is simply amazing.
Time travel in a small German town, with some really interesting paradoxes / time loops.
Some of the characters are represented by 3 different actors in the different eras and it is creepy how well they were cast.
At one point, I thought, "Aw, that's disappointing. They just put a wig and make up on the actor to make him look older." But it turned out to be an older actor that just looked ridiculously like the younger guy!
Story is great too. Sad it's over...
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Four episodes in of Apple TV's 'Sugar' with Colin Farrell.
I'm loving the format.
We finished the series last night. Absolutely loved it. I'm sure there is some artistic license but it's so brutally honest that I suspect a lot is true.
Not heard about this but added. Thanks.
I’ve recently discovered ‘Gone Fishing’ with Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse. I’ve no interest in fishing but it’s such a relaxing and funny programme. It’s the TV equivalent of having a joint.
It’s great, more about their friendship than the fishing.
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Just watching the last episode now.
I have enjoyed it, but it's full of flaws, things that make no sense, and I'm one all for suspending disbelief.
Also major characters come and go in the blink of an eye.
I'm guessing some of this is due to condensing a large book into 8 episodes, but sometimes it does seem painfully inconsistent.
One example, in this episode, they're desperate to save weight on a space craft and yet fit a.complex, electric/hydraulic hatch to it when a simple screw down or even welded one would have done just as well...
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
One of the things that they do in the series is that some characters from the books are split into multiple characters on the screen. This enables them to have conversations, expository dialogue, things like that?
Also, I think you could probably happily stop the series after ep 5 (with the ship - you know what I mean) and it would work fine - ep 6-8 are from later books (which I've not read).
Agreed, I was a bit skeptical, but I laughed out loud quite a few times.Watched the first episode of Mammoth last week. A PE teacher is frozen in an avalanche in 1979, and revived perfectly preserved in 2024. A bit like Life on Mars in reverse. In essence - it's about a normal bloke with sensible values in a world gone mad.
Loved it. Especially liked the dialogue with the lesbian PE teacher he shares an office with. BBC2.
Good start.
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
Sugar-Apple+ TV
Colin Farrell-total guff
Trying to be arty LA confidential esque
Farrell is just such a bad actor
Shogun on Disney+ has finished now, and what an excellent series it was. You had to properly concentrate on it, which was a refreshing change, but it made me realize that while I'm not very good at multitasking, I'm pretty poor at single tasking these days as well. Concentrating on only one thing for an hour at a time was challenging.
I found it good up to the last episode, found the end pretty disappointing
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Colin Farrell is a hard-boiled 'tec (Moody? check. Likes old films? check. Drives a classic convertible? check. Handy with his fists protecting a dame while wearing a suit? Check check check) but sweet inside ("Sugar"...)
Aims for Bogart but usually achieves Jim Rockford with a migraine.
The poster says as much:
It is well made. It is guff, but cool guff. That much, they got right. I am enjoying it.
Watched the first episode of Mammoth last week. A PE teacher is frozen in an avalanche in 1979, and revived perfectly preserved in 2024. A bit like Life on Mars in reverse. In essence - it's about a normal bloke with sensible values in a world gone mad.
Loved it. Especially liked the dialogue with the lesbian PE teacher he shares an office with. BBC2.
Thought it amusing for a couple of episodes but found Mike Bubbins impression of Ricky Gervais in The Office starting to grate.
I've finally worked out the true meaning of Three Body Problem!
I wasn't sure after the first episode, but it became clear as the series progressed:
There are 3 cast members who can't act
The appearance of any of these three bodies destabilises the frame beyond comprehension.
Physics hasn't yet found a general solution, and neither have the producers.
Apart from that, it's enjoyable hokum, and clearly very expensively produced. It wisely tips its hat to Stanisław Lem, which regains it some points, before losing them all again when one of the three bodies gets their call.
This thread is proof that we're lucky to have TV this good to mock.
I didn’t make it through the first episode, just found it dull.
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Well reviewed, lol'd Rockford with a migraine. Enjoying it also.Colin Farrell is a hard-boiled 'tec (Moody? check. Likes old films? check. Drives a classic convertible? check. Handy with his fists protecting a dame while wearing a suit? Check check check) but sweet inside ("Sugar"...)
Aims for Bogart but usually achieves Jim Rockford with a migraine.
The poster says as much:
It is well made. It is guff, but cool guff. That much, they got right. I am enjoying it.
Hijacking of flight 601 has kept me watching this afternoon, very well executed, on Netflix.
Also, Red Eye on ITV seemed promising having watched a single episode assuming we could have watched on demand. Alas, no.
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Agreed, I was expecting more but enjoyed the series.
Thank you!
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Dopesick is now on BBC, was one of the best series I watched on Disney during lockdown
Finished if…. It’s superb
Highly recommended
Having been subjected to being stalked personally (nothing like as serious as anything that happened in this series) it brought back some weird memories….
Whether they’re mad or bad is for others to decide…. They’re most certainly confused and suffering…. Fascinating and challenging insight into how abuse can impact you too…
I binge-watched it via ITVX.
Jing LuSi is rather nice!
That is mega up-to-date techno telly viewing for me! Only free-to-view in this house.
Just finished Mr Inbetween so will be starting this and The Offer and Shogun.
Finished Mr Inbetween at the weekend.
Series 1-nearly gave up as it was ridiculous.
Series 2 better but a bit of a ridiculous body count.Enjoyable enough.
Series 3 much better and with a much lower body count and better story.
I'd say it's a series that guys would prefer. The Mrs gave up after 3 episodes of series 1.
Fallout was OK, nothing special despite some people raving about it. I'm liking American Rust Series 2 - Broken Justice, but then I'm a Jeff Daniels fan- Both on Amazon Prime.
Andy
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Coma on 5 was a pretty good yarn.
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Rewatching Dope Sick on the iPlayer, an incredible story with a great performance by Michael Keaton.
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Finished The Tattooist of Auschwitz this afternoon and whilst I think it was a very important story to tell and unbelievably horrific in parts, I felt that it wasn't made very well
The story jumped from place to place too quickly leaving questions unanswered and sometimes repeated itself with a different outcome
Has anyone else watched this? What was your opinion??
Red Eye starts into a decline early on and it keeps going, the ending was just ‘Meh!’ and we’d worked out the villains early on too
Yes, after writing that I binged it all on ITV X I would agree with the decline!Red Eye starts into a decline early on and it keeps going, the ending was just ‘Meh!’ and we’d worked out the villains early on too
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FTFY
As I was typing it, I knew in my head there was a better phrase to keep with the aviation theme!FTFY
Series 2 of The Responder very good so far (first 4 episodes)
Andy
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Agree, just discovered and onto episode 4 of series 1. Glad to hear it's not losing any sparkle
Thanks enjoyed S1 was unaware S2 is out
Clarkson's Farm is great viewing, also really enjoyed, Shardlake on Disney its a medieval who dunit.
Ripley on Netflix is superb.
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They've made a series featuring CJ Sansom's 16th century lawyer?
I love the books but I don't think I would watch a TV series on them TBH.
Cheers,
Neil.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...d-tudor-sleuth
I really liked it, the actor is disabled so the character does come to life more. Give it a go only 4 episodes.
I might well do.
Shardlake is actually a hunchback in the books. I like the sweep of the stories with real historical characters involved.
Cheers,
Neil.
Spy/Master on BBc4 if you like 1970's spy things. Romania/Russia/USA.
Sugar, great twist, loving it.
Dopesick, very watchable and emotive
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A man in full on Netflix is brilliant!
A "stand out" performance in the last episode
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