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Post by lugg on Apr 13, 2022 19:15:05 GMT
Julia is making its UK debut on Sky Atlantic on April 12, with the first two episodes airing on the channel; the first four episodes are going to be available to stream should viewers like. After the first week, new episodes will debut weekly on Sky TV. source Ok many thanks Bixa - it may be on NOW so will have a search Definitely 4, 9pm to 1 am. I have 4 recorded episodes. They lied. What channel Mick ?
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 13, 2022 19:28:12 GMT
Sky Atlantic as detailed above by our great and glorious leader.
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Post by lugg on Apr 13, 2022 20:01:28 GMT
Cheers Mick - I missed that
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 13, 2022 21:20:52 GMT
I made a brioche once, carefully following Julia Child's instructions on her televison programme. I must have been about 14. My mother humoured me. It didn't turn out bad, but I never wanted to make another one again.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 14, 2022 20:24:04 GMT
Confused.com
Julia episodes 1 and 2 are on again tonight on Sky Atlantic. Wtf?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2022 1:50:20 GMT
They're doing it on purpose to **** with your head.
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Post by biddy on Apr 23, 2022 2:12:48 GMT
I'm watching 'Tehran' on Apple Plus. Pretty riveting so far. I'm also watching Slow Horses. I generally am a fan of spy shows this series does not disappoint. On a lighter note I am also watching Ted Lasso which I like alot.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2022 5:22:36 GMT
You are well-rounded, Biddy!
Last night I watched the first episode of The First Lady and mostly thought it was sort of okay, although I don't know yet if it will hold my interest.
Eleanor and Franklin were the most believable, probably because they're before my time, so I don't have such a strong mental image of them. Also, I like both Gillian Anderson and Kiefer Sutherland, who so far seem to be doing a good job with their roles.
Michelle Pfeiffer is rather too skinny and brittle to be playing Betty Ford, but we shall see as the show goes on.
What I simply cannot get over, in the what the hell were they thinking department, is the casting of Viola Davis as Michelle Obama. For one thing, she is just too old for the role and it shows. Viola Davis is 56+. Michelle Obama was 43 in 2007 and looked even younger. The only thing Viola Davis gets right is that her voice mostly sounds like Michelle's. But her movements and body are all wrong. But the worst, the very worst, is this thing she does with her mouth. Mrs. Obama has somewhat of an underbite and has a distinctive way of holding her mouth at times, but it's very subtle. Viola Davis has chosen to interpret this with exaggerated and continuous lip-pursing, which is distracting and adds to a general cranky old lady persona that she's projecting.
O-T Fagbenle, on the other hand, creates a very convincing Barak Obama, even though he looks nothing like him. He does this by pretty much acing Obama's speech pattern, but more brilliantly, by having his style of movement down pat.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 23, 2022 12:34:06 GMT
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Post by casimira on Apr 23, 2022 15:45:46 GMT
I did see a clip of Viola Davis's portrayal of Michele Obama and throughout she does that pursing of her lips in a most exaggerated and unbecoming, unflattering way. There was heavy criticism of her portrayal by a number of people. The age difference is also in much dispute.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2022 16:16:04 GMT
I believe one of the Presidents - Gerald Gord - is being played by Aaron Eckhart, the nephew of my old walking buddy. (My brush with fame!) www.imdb.com/title/tt13223570/By the way, the title is The First Lady. Thanks, Kimby -- I've edited my post to reflect the correct title. Aaron Eckhart didn't have much screen time in that first episode, but he really looks like Gerald Ford! Thanks, Casimira -- it's impossible that I was the only person put off by the casting of Viola Davis & her portrayal of Mrs. Obama. I know she's famous and a good actress, etc., but there are so many talented young actresses who probably could absolutely nail that part.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 23, 2022 18:55:10 GMT
We are watching face à face. 2 women who are half sisters but didn't know it have to work together. One as a judge, the other as a cop, working under direction of the judge's husband. Who cheats on his wife btw. Yes it is a french series...
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Post by casimira on Apr 24, 2022 14:52:26 GMT
I finished watching a series The Godfather of Harlem. Two seasons thus far, it focuses on Harlem in the 1960's and captures the political tension going on leading up to JFK's assassination, the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("just a piece of paper..."), Malcom X and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. portrayed brilliantly. The historical footage of the riots I remember so well. The violence is quite vivid and graphic, not for the faint of heart.
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Post by lugg on Apr 24, 2022 20:06:30 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2022 23:46:59 GMT
Thanks, Lugg, both for your comments & for including that Guardian review. The review says everything I thought about the book. I guess I just have overriding disappointment with Kate Atkinson. I read Behind the Scenes at the Museum and thought, "Oh -- more of this author, please!" But it was all downhill from there. I hated A God in Ruins so much that I abandoned it almost immediately.
I'm still vacillating about Godfather of Harlem. On the one hand, it has Forest Whitaker, a truly great actor. On the other hand themes and re-visiting that part of history. In The First Lady there is real footage of a later period of the civil rights struggle cut into the show and it's almost unbearably moving.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 26, 2022 0:16:26 GMT
Got BARRY from the Sanibel Library and watched the last two episodes, which seemed kind of formulaic and anticlimactic. I can’t believe it’s in the third season with a fourth apparently in the works.
Hard to imagine there’s a story left to tell.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 27, 2022 4:22:20 GMT
Stop the presses! I have a new favorite show ~ The Man Who Fell to Earth.
I saw the David Bowie movie when it first came out in the sixties. Mainly what I remember about it now was how blown away I was by Bowie removing his human eyes to reveal his weird yellow eyes with slitted pupils. #nogreatvisualeffectsbackthen
A little while back, I read the book because I wanted to read something by Walter Tevis after watching The Queen's Gambit. It was of course dated, but still showed what a good and imaginative writer he was. So the idea of an all new, updated version of the story was very appealing and it promises to be wonderful.
No surprise, Chiwetel Ejiofor makes his character real, but also phenomenally relatable even right off in the first episode. He has to play a completely bewildered, physically uncomfortable being along with portraying someone tragically focused on a crucial mission. He completely makes us believe as he flickers between abject innocence in our world and a creature intellectually advanced far beyond any human.
And Naomie Harris keeps right up with him in the immersive acting department. She takes a character who too easily could have been overplayed into (understandable) hysteria, and turns her into a person with whom we can completely identify. Both leads have us buying into them 100%.
One rather charming and poignant surprise is the first sight of Bill Nighy at the end of the first episode. It's impossible not to think that his part would have been played by David Bowie had he lived. Don't worry -- Nighy owns the part beautifully.
Can't wait for more of this!
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Post by lugg on Apr 27, 2022 20:06:50 GMT
ooh that looks good off to search it out . I hated A God in Ruins so much that I abandoned it almost immediately. Me too, but I am continuing to enjoy the TV Life After Life
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 27, 2022 23:04:23 GMT
Thanks, Lugg. re: Life After Life ~ it involves period costumes, so it's inevitable I'll wind up having a look at it.
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Post by Kimby on May 2, 2022 19:25:46 GMT
Has anyone watched Yellowstone? We watched the (2018) Season One Premiere last night. It surprised us by not being a historical series, i.e. set in the past, though “1883” is a prequel that IS set in the past. The series follows the Dutton family’s battles with a neighboring Indian Reservation and a ruthless real estate developer. Patriarch Kevin Costner is well-cast. It combines elements of Succession, Dances With Wolves, and Romeo and Juliet (1 son is married into a tribal family). The scenery is gorgeous (Utah stands in for Montana, though the Dutton family lodge actually is in Montana, about an hours drive away from us.) I could watch more of it, despite the many obvious factual errors in the storyline (e. g. you can’t just build a dam on your property in Montana - water rights law is well established going back over a century)... Updated: we finished Season One. There are at least 4 seasons, it appears, and after the third season the production abandoned Utah, and it WAS filmed in Montana. (I think it has been renewed for a 5th season.). So much happened in the first season it’s hard to imagine what was left for the subsequent seasons. Just finished Season Two and wow! Lot of action. Not all of it what you’d expect ranchers to do, though there’s a lot of that, too. Season 4 was filmed in Montana and Season 5 is now casting extras in my area. I’m not interested but have a friend who would be perfect. A ranch wife, rides horses, has a great weathered face and wonderful wild mane of silver curls. Like a female Arlo Guthrie. A guy friend went out for the sister series “1883” and got cast as a trader, wearing furs and peddling his wares at a rendezvous or to settlers passing by. He’s got the most wonderful handlebar mustache in real life, so I can see why they chose him. He’s a retired fireman, and had a great time, and got paid to do it, too. Almost covered his gas and motel room!
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Post by kerouac2 on May 2, 2022 19:30:28 GMT
What a shame not to see you, Kimby!
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Post by Kimby on May 2, 2022 19:31:57 GMT
I’m not their type. And I’m way too nice!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2022 4:01:04 GMT
So tonight I decided to watch Life After Life & went into it with a certain amount of enthusiasm.
The show is 50+ minutes long. I lasted 14 minutes.
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Post by Kimby on May 5, 2022 12:58:46 GMT
Back to YELLOWSTONE. Season Three begins with a coming-to-terms (sort of) with the multiple murders committed by the ranch hands at the end of Season 2. Though the bad guys “needed killing” as Texans would say, there ARE still laws in Montana.
What does surprise me, now that I think about it, is that the Governor of Montana is portrayed as a woman. A corrupt woman, colluding with (and sleeping with) the owner of the Yellowstone Ranch who happens to be the state Livestock Commissioner.
We did have a one-term lady governor long ago - an Olympic speed-skater who was an ineffective conservative and pretty forgettable - in today’s political climate, I don’t think MT will elect another woman even as Lt. Governor...
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Post by kerouac2 on May 5, 2022 13:55:29 GMT
You mean it's all a fantasy?
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Post by tod2 on May 5, 2022 16:24:00 GMT
We watched the entire series of Poiret with David Suchet.....then from there have now started the entire series of Frost with what I can clearly recognise as Dell Boy in the series called Frost.. He is very good. I am so glad I subscribed to BritBox. From there who knows but I do love my murder mysteries!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 8, 2022 19:44:56 GMT
Russell T Davis has announced the new Doctor Who. Ncuti Gatwa an award winning young actor.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 8, 2022 20:35:35 GMT
Yes, I saw that. That means I suppose that the following Doctor will be Asian, since they are going down that road.
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Post by whatagain on May 8, 2022 22:10:08 GMT
Poirot ! Sounds like poireaux, leaks (leeks) - vegetable. Suchet IS Poirot !
We watched the first episode of a new french series. Gerard Darmond (excellent) is Ange, a corsican cop, who must work with a new inspector - black. In Corsica... first episode was good, nearly very good.
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Post by biddy on May 8, 2022 23:13:22 GMT
Just started Season 2 of Tehran. So far so good.
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