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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 27, 2022 15:48:30 GMT
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Post by lugg on Dec 30, 2022 19:11:20 GMT
For me Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is the best thing on TV by a mile. I enjoy it too Mick but not seen the Norwegian episode yet , thanks for the recommendation.
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Post by lugg on Dec 30, 2022 19:20:26 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 31, 2022 12:09:30 GMT
I've been re-watching old series on the archive channels here: Tutti Frutti, the first big success for Emma Thompson and Robbie Coltrane. I had forgotten how dark some of it is - the quirky romance element and the farcical shenanigans of a fading rock'n'roll band on a comeback tour (round assorted bars and clubs in depressed former mining towns) contrasted with the implosion of one of the ageing rockers. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutti_Frutti_(1987_TV_series)One archive channel has been re-running the much slicker and glossier Hustle, in which a group of Robin Hood grifters develop various ingenious schemes to con greedy crooks to the benefit of their victims - and themselves, of course. It's all set in the shinier, steel-and-glass end of London - definitely in the atmosphere before the 2008 crash. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustle_(TV_series)My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by Kimby on Jan 3, 2023 12:44:05 GMT
We just watched the first two episodes of VIENNA BLOOD season one. It has promise. Reminds me a bit of Grantchester with its unlikely pairing between an inspector (detective) and another profession.
In Grantchester it was a minister; in Vienna Blood, it’s a young doctor-in-training who follows the teachings of Sigmund Freud. His observational skills are helpful in developing a profile of the possible killer, possibly saving the failing career of the detective.
I liked the Vienna scenes, including the climactic scene on the Reisenrad, which I rode as a 13-year-old on a family trip to visit my Austrian grandfather. That scene also brought to mind the OO7 scene in which James Bond and Jangle Jaws are locked in mortal combat on a gondola or tram.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 3, 2023 15:49:53 GMT
In a similar vein, I watched series 1 of We Hunt Together, which pairs a hard boiled woman police detective with a nice, polite, plays-by-the-rules partner whom she often shocks. The killers (revealed immediately) are similiarly mismatched -- a sweet prostitute with some issues from the past to settle, tangled with a former boy soldier African refugee who has seen and done unimaginable horrors, so she more or less uses him as a tool since he is in a permanent state of shock. Not for the faint of heart.
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Post by lugg on Jan 4, 2023 19:40:25 GMT
Tutti Frutti, the first big success for Emma Thompson and Robbie Coltrane. Gosh I had forgotten that series and how much I enjoyed it. Will now seek it out to watch again . Thanks Patrick.
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Post by lugg on Jan 4, 2023 19:41:39 GMT
I watched series 1 of We Hunt Together, which pairs a hard boiled woman police detective with a nice, polite, plays-by-the-rules partner whom she often shocks. Sounds good to me
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Post by Kimby on Jan 6, 2023 16:01:00 GMT
I haven’t watched it, but Netflix has a new dramatic series called THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS, which “adapts Italian novelist Elena Ferrante’s novel, telling a powerful story of young Giovanna’s transition from childhood to adolescence in 1990’s Naples…”
Sounds a bit like the series My Brilliant Friend, also adapted from one of her books. Anyone watching this?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 6, 2023 16:53:37 GMT
Not here yet, but knowing that Elena Ferrante is a masked pseudonym (apparently pierced but not admitted) kind of turned me against "her" for some reason. L'amica geniale was a huge success in France, too.
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Post by lugg on Jan 6, 2023 19:14:15 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 6, 2023 20:28:13 GMT
Yaaay, Lugg! Anyone who is not seduced by Paint it Black performed on the cello is dead inside. And oooooo ~ thanks for the reminder about Happy Valley. I know what I'll be doing this evening! re: Lying Life ~ I just looked at the trailer & it's a coming-of-age thing, which is a strike against it my book, plus seems overwrought. The only reason I could see for watching it is to see Naples.
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Post by tod2 on Jan 9, 2023 16:33:05 GMT
We are now wallowing in episode 12 of Keifer Sutherlands portrayal of Jack Bauer. Oh how it drags on and on and on.....
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Post by lugg on Jan 9, 2023 19:29:31 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Jan 12, 2023 13:37:04 GMT
YES! Vera is a wonderful series and this is great news, Thanks Lugg!
Tonight we will finish watching 24 with Kiefer Sutherland. For me it was too much of the same in many episodes. When people are kidnapped over and over, escape over and over, it becomes monotonous and I get bored. Will be looking for something very different to view this evening.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 12, 2023 14:14:06 GMT
That's exactly how I felt about 24 back when I watched it. I couldn't believe that they would do a second season, and I definitely did NOT watch it, not even a single episode.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 12, 2023 21:53:44 GMT
Forgive me for I have sinned. I watched one and three quarter episodes of Downton this evening. The first episode was very....2 dimensional....but I stuck with it. It improved a bit but it was very predictable. It reminded me of the old BBC costume dramas of the 70s..The Forsythe Saga etc. I didn't hate it. Jeff and Russ mocked me mercilessly so I turned it off.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 13, 2023 3:20:15 GMT
Well, here is the end of a beautiful friendship.
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Post by tod2 on Jan 13, 2023 10:56:36 GMT
Tuned into The Blackheath Poisonings mainly because I like watching anything that Zoe Wanamaker stars in. Well for the first hour I couldn't fathom out what was going on and I don't think I'll be watching anymore this evening. The costumes are fantastic but I am sorry to say I did not loose the plot....I never found the plot in the first place.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 16, 2023 22:07:20 GMT
I watched the French mini-series Vortex, which takes place in 2025. The police are now using VR technology and drones which can recreate elements of the crime scene. The protagonist is a police investigator who lost his wife, an apparent cliff suicide in 1998, on the same beach where a new death is being investigated. During the investigation, he suddenly spots his dead wife from long ago in his VR goggles. And he can talk to her (don't ask me to explain). She thinks that this older bearded man is a random loony, but he has enough elements to convince her that he is telling the truth. She is going to die in 11 days. Can it be prevented? Trouble is, he is happily remarried with a child, so if he changes the past, we all know what happens to the future...
It is actually quite clever and upsetting until the very end. No, I will not say what happens.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2023 6:10:28 GMT
Happy Valley! Unlike the smart kids -- Cheery & Patrick -- I failed to go back & refresh my memory about everything that had gone before. This led to a bunch of confusion for me in this latest episode (season 3, episode 3), so I turned to The Guardian for help. Not only did it straighten everything out, but it included this: Last week’s episode was scheduled against ITV’s Prince Harry interview, beating it in the ratings by more than a million. Yorkshire 1, Sussex 0. I've long thought that James Norton is an excellent actor, even through his dreary stint in Grantchester. But jeepers creepers is he utterly, scarily convincing in this season of Happy Valley! He manages to turn his every gesture, every facial expression, and even his posture into a portrait of pathological creepiness that is so real seeming that I have trouble looking at him at times, I'm so icked out. It's an phenomenal portrayal.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 18, 2023 15:03:28 GMT
For some reason we haven't watched Happy Valley at all. I expect that we will eventually I'm not into gritty dramas atm. More Jeff's sort of thing, he is watching the latest season of Silent Wintess. I've recorded old episodes of Miss Marple and Morse to watch in the early evenings whilst Jeff is in his man cave playing with his guitars. I missed several shows in the 90s and 'noughties' because I worked so many nights and weekends.
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 18, 2023 18:15:17 GMT
I'm not into gritty dramas atm. The Drama channel has been re-running Hustle, which is also on the UKTVplay streaming app. A series of conmen capers (but they only ever diddle assorted crooks and ratbags), with some sneaky gags along the way. Not gritty at all - not a cadaver in sight. uktvplay.co.uk/shows/hustle/watch-online
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Post by onlyMark on Jan 18, 2023 18:42:46 GMT
I've watched only a handful of series all the way through but Hustle was one of them. Enjoyed it.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 20, 2023 18:45:38 GMT
I'll have a look at Hustle Patrick, I haven't seen that before.
I'm looking forward to watching the Miss Marple that I recorded today...a young Bendyback Clumberpitch is in it!
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Post by lugg on Jan 21, 2023 19:35:54 GMT
But jeepers creepers is he utterly, scarily convincing in this season of Happy Valley! He manages to turn his every gesture, every facial expression, and even his posture into a portrait of pathological creepiness that is so real seeming that I have trouble looking at him at times, I'm so icked out. It's an phenomenal portrayal. I agree and Sarah Lancashire is equally so.
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Post by lugg on Jan 21, 2023 19:41:38 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 21, 2023 21:23:26 GMT
It seems very brave of the BBC to have filmed such a programme.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2023 21:50:02 GMT
Sarah Lancashire is equally so. Equally creepy, or equally giving a phenomenol performance? (I do love her dangerously icy, barely there voice. Her goofball sister should be terrified!) I was transfixed watching this 2 part series-- just fantastic. Thanks so much for the recommendation for Mayflies & the link. I thought the critic was a bit too much into walking his wits rather than writing the critique, but I still want to watch the show. Also, that link had something crucial in the sidebar that I'm hastening over to Documentaries to post.
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Post by tod2 on Jan 23, 2023 12:52:28 GMT
After scrolling hither and thither we decided to watch the last two series 5&6 of Endeavour on Britbox. Never thought it was wonderful in the past but my eyes were opened when after reviewing the last two episodes in season 4, just to refresh the old memory, I realised how well made and put together the series of stories have been. I like it when I can follow the plot. I like it when I cannot fathom who the killer is. And I really like it when the credits roll at the end and I want to immediately watch another episode! I think a lot of newer crime series have got weak plots and boring outcomes.
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