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  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 8,293
    Legends on Netflix. Half way through this 6 part series, about customs officers in the 90s tackling heroin imports.
    ,
    Absolutely excellent to date. A true story with a stellar cast including Tom Burke (main character in Strike series with Holliday Grainger) and Steve Coogan.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,543
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    LargeAddick said:
    Finished ‘Two Weeks In August’.  Wish I hadn’t bothered starting.
    I'm enjoying it. The characters are irritating but it's well observed.
    Hmm. I persuaded my wife to start it with me last night, because I'd read an absolutely stellar review of it in The Guardian. (and therefore I wouldn't be too bothered that Large and Carly don't like it😉 - just joshing, guys). But actually we didn't even get to the end of the first episode. I get that we are not meant to like any of the characters but it's just too painful an effort. 

    I guess it must have been inspired in some way by the White Lotus, I only watched series 2 of that but I could enjoy how appalling  the guests are because they are  all Americans, and feed my prejudices😉. When it's middle-class Brits I guess it hits too close to home.


  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 9,078
    Glovepup said:
    The Boroughs on Netflix is worth your time. A bit of a stranger things vibe, think there is a crossover with the producers of each show. 
    Yep, Duffer Brothers 😊
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,458
    MrOneLung said:
    Finished The Cage with Sheridan Smith 

    sack of shit. 
    She used to an attractive girl but what on earth has she had done to her face?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,895
    LargeAddick said:
    Finished ‘Two Weeks In August’.  Wish I hadn’t bothered starting.
    I bailed after the first episode.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,975
    PragueAddick said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    LargeAddick said:
    Finished ‘Two Weeks In August’.  Wish I hadn’t bothered starting.
    I'm enjoying it. The characters are irritating but it's well observed.
    Hmm. I persuaded my wife to start it with me last night, because I'd read an absolutely stellar review of it in The Guardian. (and therefore I wouldn't be too bothered that Large and Carly don't like it😉 - just joshing, guys). But actually we didn't even get to the end of the first episode. I get that we are not meant to like any of the characters but it's just too painful an effort. 

    I guess it must have been inspired in some way by the White Lotus, I only watched series 2 of that but I could enjoy how appalling  the guests are because they are  all Americans, and feed my prejudices😉. When it's middle-class Brits I guess it hits too close to home.


    It ran out of steam by the end. The storyline just got too contrived.


  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,788
    bolloxbolder said:
    Legends on Netflix. Half way through this 6 part series, about customs officers in the 90s tackling heroin imports.
    ,
    Absolutely excellent to date. A true story with a stellar cast including Tom Burke (main character in Strike series with Holliday Grainger) and Steve Coogan.
    It’s very good and agreed about the cast … mega soundtrack too 
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,601
    PragueAddick said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    LargeAddick said:
    Finished ‘Two Weeks In August’.  Wish I hadn’t bothered starting.
    I'm enjoying it. The characters are irritating but it's well observed.
    Hmm. I persuaded my wife to start it with me last night, because I'd read an absolutely stellar review of it in The Guardian. (and therefore I wouldn't be too bothered that Large and Carly don't like it😉 - just joshing, guys). But actually we didn't even get to the end of the first episode. I get that we are not meant to like any of the characters but it's just too painful an effort. 

    I guess it must have been inspired in some way by the White Lotus, I only watched series 2 of that but I could enjoy how appalling  the guests are because they are  all Americans, and feed my prejudices😉. When it's middle-class Brits I guess it hits too close to home.


    Lucy Mangan in the Guardian has absolutely the worst taste. Despite her 5 star review, we gave it a go and got 15 minutes in before binning. White Lotus is much funnier and has a good level of tension between staff and guests (although I didn't much like the third series). 

    Last night wanted the first episode of Shifty - first episode of a documentary with lots of great clips from 1979/1980. Really very well done (my favourite was a cricket match on the construction compound of the motorway extension - everyone in their whites playing in two inches of mud). About 15% of it was politics, specifically Thatcher monetarist experiment. The onscreen captions were pretty superficial and one-sided but the only flaw in an otherwise excellent documentary. Looking forward to watching the others. 
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,608
    Finished the boroughs. Very good.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,422
    Clem_Snide said:
    lordromford said:
    siblers said:
    Finished the final season of The Boys.
    The weakest of the 5 seasons which was no real surprise as there was nowhere really to go plot wise. Great cast but poor script
    Agree that earlier seasons were better scripts, but still enjoyed it. Weirdly, Butcher’s “cockney” accent bothered me less this season.
    One positive I will say about this season:

    At least they actually wrapped up the story pretty well rather than either a) continuing to have cliffhangers into infinity or b) spoil it by rushing to a conclusion like GOT.

    😎

    Apparently there is a spin off focusing on Soldier Boy coming.
    Are you sure you haven’t been looking at porn parodies??  🤷🏻‍♂️

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  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 17,221
    Just watched second episode of Dear England. How depressing was that?! Almost enough to put me off football for good. 
  • Pavoren007
    Pavoren007 Posts: 2,632
    Spider-Noir (new to Amazon) is excellent so far. Basically, it’s Spider-man within the multiverse but this version known as ‘The Spider’ and black costumed is set in 30s New York City within the Great Depression post WW1. Nicholas Cage is as you would expect, fantastic as the reluctant Spider-Noir while Brendan Gleason plays a fittingly nasty lead villain. The sets, story, action and lines of humour so far have been totally on point for me. A very solid 9/10 BUT I am only two episodes in atm.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 12,054
    Watched the finale of Half Man.

    Brilliant series overall, but ultimately a little diappointed with the ending.
  • Return of the SE7
    Return of the SE7 Posts: 548
    Clem_Snide said:
    Watched the finale of Half Man.

    Brilliant series overall, but ultimately a little diappointed with the ending.
    Yes, thought the same.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,154
    bolloxbolder said:
    Legends on Netflix. Half way through this 6 part series, about customs officers in the 90s tackling heroin imports.
    ,
    Absolutely excellent to date. A true story with a stellar cast including Tom Burke (main character in Strike series with Holliday Grainger) and Steve Coogan.
    Loving it
  • Boom
    Boom Posts: 1,724
    Is v good

  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 8,445
    Boom said:
    Is v good

    The original series in the 80s was good when it first came out, but you’ve arrived a bit late to it. Watch out for the bit where Diana eats a rat.
    The 2009 reboot was disappointing.

    😉
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,734
    lordromford said:
    Boom said:
    Is v good

    The original series in the 80s was good when it first came out, but you’ve arrived a bit late to it. Watch out for the bit where Diana eats a rat.
    The 2009 reboot was disappointing.

    😉
    Ha. Quality. 
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,975
    Return of the SE7 said:
    Clem_Snide said:
    Watched the finale of Half Man.

    Brilliant series overall, but ultimately a little diappointed with the ending.
    Yes, thought the same.
    I thought the ending worked. A brutal series and gripping watch.
  • Return of the SE7
    Return of the SE7 Posts: 548

    Thought they'd made up


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  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 8,445
    Return of the SE7 said:

    Thought they'd made up

    You might want to indicate what programme your spoiler spoils mate.
    😎
  • Return of the SE7
    Return of the SE7 Posts: 548
    lordromford said:
    Return of the SE7 said:

    Thought they'd made up

    You might want to indicate what programme your spoiler spoils mate.
    😎
    Ha ha, was linked to comment about the ending of Half Man. First time I've done a spoiler, what a twat.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,543
    Up to S3 of Dear England, and definitely a big fan now. The conversation between GS and John Major, soon after the 1996 match had ended, was superb. It set my teeth on edge, the way Major called him "Gary", clearly didn't know anything about football, and tried a throwaway ice-breaker line about he also had "problems with Europe". Sure, a distraught 25 year old footballer was really going to warm to that, wasn't he? But the director got Major's effort dead right. Stilted, but sincere. Brilliant drama. Hope it is broadly true.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,458
    edited June 1
    PragueAddick said:
    Up to S3 of Dear England, and definitely a big fan now. The conversation between GS and John Major, soon after the 1996 match had ended, was superb. It set my teeth on edge, the way Major called him "Gary", clearly didn't know anything about football, and tried a throwaway ice-breaker line about he also had "problems with Europe". Sure, a distraught 25 year old footballer was really going to warm to that, wasn't he? But the director got Major's effort dead right. Stilted, but sincere. Brilliant drama. Hope it is broadly true.
    I'm really enjoying it too, but I thought the conversation in the garden  between GS and HK seemed very unlikely.
    I like the way the tension is built up in each episode, concluding with a tournament outcome.
    England win sod all


    But the clips back of previous England managers gave me the shivers: McLaren, Eriksson, Capello...gaaaaah

  • jose
    jose Posts: 1,376
    Liked seeing Greenwich Park featured in episode two of Dear England.
    I there another episode? I thought E2 was it.
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 9,078
    Watched the first 3 episodes of the new Four Seasons.
    Bloody funny. I was worried it wouldn’t be as good this time around but loving it so far.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,608
    Anyone still watching ‘From’?

    5 episodes into the new series and still absolutely none the wiser about what or why anything is happening.

    Its actually beginning to piss me off.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,543
    jose said:
    Liked seeing Greenwich Park featured in episode two of Dear England.
    I there another episode? I thought E2 was it.
    3 and 4 released on IPlayer yesterday. 
  • Greenhithe
    Greenhithe Posts: 959
    ValleyGary said:
    Anyone still watching ‘From’?

    5 episodes into the new series and still absolutely none the wiser about what or why anything is happening.

    It’s actually beginning to piss me off.
    Same as that. Yellow suit man is a cracking character though. 

    It’s going to turn into Lost I tell ya. 
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 12,054
    Greenhithe said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Anyone still watching ‘From’?

    5 episodes into the new series and still absolutely none the wiser about what or why anything is happening.

    It’s actually beginning to piss me off.
    Same as that. Yellow suit man is a cracking character though. 

    It’s going to turn into Lost I tell ya. 
    We aren’t going to find out what is happening in this series either.

    The writer confirmed in an interview that it concludes at the end of season 6

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