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Post by lugg on Dec 19, 2023 20:28:21 GMT
I came quite late to The Crown ( was dragged there ) and I am told have have missed all the really good parts so really am not qualified to comment , but agree Lesley Manville , as ever, is excellent.
I have now finished the Boat Story and , having managed to move passed the initial violence , really "enjoyed" it ( or at least was very entertained by it ) .
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 22, 2023 21:23:14 GMT
I often scroll through this thread looking for series to which I might wish to give allegiance. The best thing is that the entries here are by real people watching tv at home, often with a significant other, so that we get two viewpoints per post. Too often lists of "best tv" or whatever seem to be made by professional critics, some of whom must have no taste or are being paid off. Because of that, I thought maybe you all would appreciate this list by Guardian readers: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/22/slow-horses-to-ghosts-its-guardian-readers-best-tv-of-2023*side note: just before reading that list, I'd read an article with people's reminiscences about being devastated upon learning there is no Santa. I don't remember that particular trauma, but know that I am horrified down to my socks by learning that there is a musical episode in the current Star Trek series. Is nothing sacred?!
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 2, 2024 13:24:03 GMT
I've just discovered that the BBC's 1982 series of Barchester Chronicles has been put by some kind soul on the Dailymotion website: Geraldine McEwan, Nigel Hawthorne and Alan Rickman respectively intriguing, blustering and slithering through mid-Victorian church politics to achieve their ambitions. Perfect for the next few days/weeks of dull and dismal weather. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 2, 2024 14:18:28 GMT
I watched Des gens bien ordinaires / A Very Ordinary World which is not at all your usual mini series. It was created by Ovidie, a former porn star who has become a film director of feminist projects. And this series is extremely subversive in view of current events. It's about a young university student who enters the porn industry, mostly on a whim (to piss off his parents). It is not immediately obvious, but it is soon clear that something is off. At the end of the 20th century the porn industry is controlled by women. They direct the content, most of the viewers are women, and they just use men as silly sex objects. The men are happy for the attention until they understand how much they are being used and how nobody listens to them. The women also like some male gay scenes to be included in the films because they think it is hot, no matter how ridiculous the scene. (Sound familiar?) Young Romain quickly becomes a star under the name Buck Love, but he is still totally ignored by the women controlling the industry. Production is stopped at one point because there is a big AIDS scare (it is 1999), and to survive most of the performers have to work in peep shows or do lap dances for the leering women. Anyway, the series takes us up to the annual porn awards in Cannes in 2000 when 'Buck' and some others want to demonstrate and start a trade union to protect their rights...
It should be pointed out that this programme is rated for age 12 in France, and there is no full nudity or visible sex acts in it.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 3, 2024 22:37:57 GMT
A great week for nerds like me on tv. On Monday we had a documentary (with Sir David Attenborough of course) about a huge plosaur fossil excavated from the Jurassic Coast cliffs around Dorset.Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster Yesterday a new series of Digging for Bitain started (presented by the wonderful Professor Alice Roberts) with the latest archeological digs and discoveries around the UK (it was on again this evening, fascinating stuff) then we watched a new epiode of The Repair Shop.
Brilliant.
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Post by mich64 on Jan 3, 2024 23:53:51 GMT
We have been watching Lincoln Lawyer. A Netflix series based on book author Michael Connelly. Easy watching, keeps my mind busy for a few hours each night.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 4, 2024 1:42:54 GMT
You must be happy as a clam, Cheery! Thanks, Mich. I've read a couple of the Lincoln Lawyer books, but didn't know they'd been turned into a tv series.
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Post by lugg on Jan 4, 2024 20:02:00 GMT
Ooh thanks all - good viewing will watch . In the meantime I am x3 into a Harley Coban adaption on Netflix which is just the ticket for me in early , dismal Jan. www.netflix.com/gb/title/81588093
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Post by lugg on Jan 9, 2024 20:32:26 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 9, 2024 20:38:56 GMT
The series about the Post Office scandal was one of the best series I have seen. It’s certainly shaken things up.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 9, 2024 22:17:51 GMT
I finished all the seasons of Ted Lasso, which I positively adored and now understand why some people go back to the beginning & watch it all over again. Casting around for some other series, I remembered how resistant I had been to Ted Lasso, so decided to give another show that I'd tried & disliked a second chance. This was mainly because of people who'd said, "Ohhh, stick with it -- you'll fall in love with the characters!" Thus it is that I'm about six episodes in to Schitt's Creek and am not even in like with any of the characters nor anything else about the show. Okay, I kind of like Stevie, but only because I'm forcing myself to find some shred of something redeeming about this opus.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 9, 2024 22:31:05 GMT
That was exactly my opinion of Schitt's Creek.
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 10, 2024 10:30:45 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 10, 2024 20:19:43 GMT
I couldn't get into Schitt's Creek and have never looked at Ted Lasso. Might have a look. This evening I'm watching Digging for Britain again, then another new episode of The Repair Shop. I'm pretty predictable
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Post by lugg on Jan 10, 2024 20:26:01 GMT
No idea about Ted Lasso so will have a look The series about the Post Office scandal was one of the best series I have seen. It’s certainly shaken things up. It sure has ... I am now watching Series 2 of The Tourist , I really hope that I am not disappointed as Series 1 was terrific
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Post by Kimby on Jan 15, 2024 3:13:41 GMT
Watched the first four episodes of Billions on the plane, to see if we might want to borrow the DVD from the library. It has some of the same elements as Succession, and I liked it a lot. The cast features Paul Giamatti as a ruthless US Attorney and Damian Lewis as a ruthless billionaire hedge fund manager who is suspected of trading on insider information. That sounds dry, but it’s done in a way that engages the viewer. I wonder if Lewis’s character is based on a real person… www.imdb.com/title/tt4270492/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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Post by onlyMark on Jan 31, 2024 20:19:09 GMT
I'm having a little bit of an Indian season at the moment. All with subtitles though.
Indian Predator for example. It's true crime and three series with just a few episodes in each. For example - "Mutilated bodies unearthed, 14 murder victims and an alleged cannibal."
Then there is Delhi Crime. "Following the police force as they investigate high-profile crimes in Delhi, this series has seasons inspired by both real and fictional events."
A gentle and humourous series about an engineering graduate who is unable to find a job of his calibre. So, he ends up working for a governor in a remote Indian village and deals with several mundane challenges.
Lastly though, a film but also a true crime drama - a "horrifying story of lies and poison".
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 31, 2024 22:49:01 GMT
Looks like something I'd like to see.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 1, 2024 1:55:42 GMT
Just scrolled through the last two pages of this thread looking for something I may have missed that will fill my viewing needs. What I found, which I already knew, is that many of you have a much higher tolerance for gritty than I have. I think this quote from one of Lugg's reviews sums that up: 2 episodes into The Boat Story and still trying to continue despite the violence. But thank you all anyway! Last night I watched the finale of the mini-series Station Eleven, which I thought was excellent. Again, if you haven't watched Ted Lasso, do so. An older series I loved was The Detectorists. For others who like gentle humor, good acting, & a plot that's a little out of the ordinary, seek it out. The same can be said for The Change, which was recommended by someone here -- apologies as I don't remember who it was, but thank you. In line with those preferences I am very drawn to Panchayat, which doesn't seem to be the least bit blood spattered. I will report that, once again going back to try something I'd rejected in the past, I am watching Sex and the City. And yes, I guess I am fairly naive for someone my age, but I really had no idea it had so much sex in it!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 1, 2024 4:44:32 GMT
The title of the series perhaps could have tipped you off.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 1, 2024 6:09:27 GMT
You'd think, right?!
I just figured the title was a gimmick to get people to watch -- television click bait.
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Post by lugg on Feb 14, 2024 20:14:07 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 14, 2024 20:20:15 GMT
GBM is exactly what I’m watching at this minute!
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Post by htmb on Feb 14, 2024 20:26:48 GMT
I need Netflix recommendations and I see that One Day is available to me. Wonder if I’d like it. I don’t like many RomComs.
GMB? Not on Netflix, I’m guessing.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2024 21:22:50 GMT
My need for an amusing, good-spirited sitcom was not really being met by Sex & the City so I decided that enough years had passed (10+?) for me to enjoy Friends again. It is every bit as funny as it was the first time and I look forward to every episode. I like that the quick and funny lines are sometimes quite witty and I appreciate that a certain amount of slapstick-y humor is part of the show. One main thing is that it's easy to like all the characters.
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Post by lugg on Feb 15, 2024 20:27:39 GMT
I need Netflix recommendations and I see that One Day is available to me. Wonder if I’d like it. I don’t like many RomComs. I think you might Htmb - give it a go maybe ? GMB - Great British Menu - its on BBC 2 if you can get it
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Post by htmb on Feb 16, 2024 9:48:25 GMT
Thanks, Lugg. I’ll give One Day a try.
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Post by lugg on Feb 16, 2024 20:54:00 GMT
Thanks, Lugg. I’ll give One Day a try. Great because I think my rom -com description actually is a disservice it is better than that. I did have look at Netflix to see what else I had viewed and found that I had not much recently, but if you want something that seems to have entertained many ( including me) have a look at Fool Me Once Otherwise my viewing for some great comedy on BBC is ~ Here We Go www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0byxbkn/here-we-go
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 26, 2024 21:54:25 GMT
I recently read Sally Rooney's Normal People for the first time. I had seen maybe 2 or 3 episodes of the series at random back when it was showing and was sorry not to have seen more. But now I have plunged into Normal People correctly, and for one I have to say that the serie seems superior to the novel, which is rare. This is almost certainly because of the actors, particularly Paul Mescal who strikes me a super appealing non-alpha male. In fact his weakness regularly is annoying, but he is such a nice guy, never pushing the girl, tht he can be forgiven for being too nice.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 26, 2024 22:04:02 GMT
The Ukrainian series In Her Car is extremely gripping. It takes place right now during the war and is about a therapist who takes people to safe places. Each episode is a car ride where you get to know about the people being transported. Definitely not the usual insipid crap.
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