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Post by lugg on Apr 27, 2020 19:32:23 GMT
Have I missed any discussion re Series 3 of Killing Eve ? Very mixed reviews ....but I am now 2 episodes down and still entertained
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Post by lugg on Apr 27, 2020 19:39:49 GMT
Any Enid Blyton fans ? I was delighted tonight to discover my binge viewing for future days - Malory Towers on CBBC - that is Children's BBC . Yes -- I know I should be way beyond childhood stories and may regret viewing ......but .....it could be a tonic www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0872dbq/malory-towers
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 27, 2020 22:29:09 GMT
I haven't watched any of season 3 of Killing Eve yet, but plan to.
And thank you for the reminder about the Enid Blyton series. I read about it a while back & don't know whether I commented here or not, but I was so excited I almost splashed around lashings of pee-pee. And just think -- when I watch it I'll finally be able to hear those kids speaking the way that Enid heard them in her head, rather than in my accent.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 27, 2020 23:55:36 GMT
With the library closed, and streaming not practicable on our dodgy internet connection, we were THRILLED to begin two new series on PBS’s Masterpiece Theater: WORLD ON FIRE is a BBC production, set during the German invasion of Poland during WWII, and has engaging characters, a love triangle and several strong female leads, including Helen Hunt as an American journalist. There are 7 episodes, and eventually the action will expand beyond Poland to Britain, France, Germany and the US. www.imdb.com/title/tt8001092/BAPTISTE is a spin-off of The Missing, and spans six episodes. It is set in Amsterdam, where a sex worker goes missing, and leads to a human trafficking gang. There is a cold-blooded Romanian killer to start things off, and two engaging two leading men, Tcheky Karyo and Tom Hollander. www.imdb.com/title/tt8259142/These two series are enriching our weekends, though I’d really prefer they were on different nights instead of one right after the other on Sunday night. (Yes I know we could DVR them and watch whenever....we’re too eager to wait!)
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Post by lugg on Apr 28, 2020 9:31:59 GMT
but I was so excited I almost splashed around lashings of pee-pee Haha Kimby Baptiste is great isn't it I saw it when it first aired .
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 28, 2020 15:32:08 GMT
I watched two episodes of Malory Towers last night. It was okay for the mood I was in (wimpy, didn't feel very well), but don't know that my adult self will stay interested. The girl who plays the lead is great & I wallowed in my dislike of Gwendolyn.
Kimby, thanks for posting about Baptiste. It's been mentioned here before, but never with enough detail to make me follow up on it. You do make it sound most interesting. What about The Missing -- what's it about & is it worth watching?
Just learned today that Lesley Manville is in World on Fire. The series seems promising anyway & I will watch anything with Lesley Manville.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 28, 2020 16:34:05 GMT
Leslie Manville is just fantastic in World on Fire. I didn’t know about her before, but will keep my eyes open for her in the future.
Is The Missing a series? I recall a film (both original foreign and remade American versions with a similar title The Vanishing, maybe), but what’s this about a series?
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Post by lugg on Apr 28, 2020 19:25:40 GMT
Yes Bixa - The Missing is definitely worth watching - ( there are 2 series - 16 episodes in total ) but you don't need to watch it to watch Baptiste although I would personally because it sets up the story about Baptiste and his brain tumour. link to the two series for Kimby www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b07xt09g/the-missing?seriesId=b07zhfsb
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 28, 2020 21:10:01 GMT
Thank you, Lugg! I will definitely watch The Missing first.
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 29, 2020 5:35:01 GMT
Leslie Manville is just fantastic in World on Fire. I didn’t know about her before, but will keep my eyes open for her in the future. These may not be easily available to you (in which case I apologise in advance), but she was the lead in Mum one of those "nothing much happens but everything happens" observational sitcoms, about a widow adjusting to life not quite on her own, since she's surrounded by her family, each of whom has their own ideas about who she is and what she should be and do. She was also in Cranford, as the young doctor's housekeeper (a costume drama, with lots of very well-known actresses doing great bonnet work!), and in several of Mike Leigh's movies, such as Vera Drake and Secrets and Lies (both great movies, in my view).
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2020 5:53:16 GMT
I loved Mum so much I could hardly stand it. Don't forget Harlots, where Lesley really puts the h in harridan.
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Post by lugg on Apr 29, 2020 19:16:28 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2020 20:03:36 GMT
Thanks for your recommendation of Normal People, Lugg, as I've been wondering about it.
Last night I went to watch The Missing, then realized it was about a missing child -- surely one of the most distressing topics imaginable. So I decided to watch World on Fire instead. Okay, not exactly relaxing! It's well cast & the clothes, sets, etc. look authentic, but there is some little something I can't put my finger on that makes it feel a tiny bit artificial. It could be because that was only the first episode. The plot is compelling and the war-is-hell scenes are so well done they're hard to watch, so I know I'll continue with this series.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 1, 2020 16:17:39 GMT
I confess that I ended up watching all 52 episodes of Falling Skies against my better judgment. The aliens became more and more ridiculous as the series progressed and the humans were too totally predictable. Good people too good and noble and bad people too bad and treacherous. However, I will not deny that some of the episodes were excellent as were a few of the plot twists. I have more than a few general peeves about it all, though. For example, even though there are more than a few moments when there is a respite from fighting aliens, everybody is almost always totally grimy. I cannot imagine that modern Americans, even without regular access to running water, would not make an effort to at least wipe the shit off their faces. Also, all sorts of good characters are killed off all the time. But Noah Wyle's three excellent sons, in spite of the most horrible things happening to them, survive to the end.
I looked at a few items about the series and approve that Noah Wyle said that he was relieved when the series ended. Even though The Librarians is much more stupid and ridiculous, at least it never pretends to take itself seriously. I enjoy watching its ridiculousness whenever I get a chance.
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Post by patricklondon on May 2, 2020 6:05:21 GMT
Thanks for your recommendation of Normal People, Lugg, as I've been wondering about it. Last night I went to watch The Missing, then realized it was about a missing child -- surely one of the most distressing topics imaginable. So I decided to watch World on Fire instead. Okay, not exactly relaxing! It's well cast & the clothes, sets, etc. look authentic, but there is some little something I can't put my finger on that makes it feel a tiny bit artificial. It could be because that was only the first episode. It may be the effect of a cross-cultural/international co-production. I did read somewhere that plenty of Poles watched it with a feeling of "and about time too", since there's a great sensitivity there - and among Polish expats - that just what they list wasn't wholly or properly appreciated elsewhere. But also there are all sorts of strains on credulity: the snooty lady living alone in the huge house hasn't had evacuees billeted on her (or even seen it requisitioned for a small school or something similar)? No-one seems to be observing the blackout (that's a common one these days)? Polish resistance fighters manage to trek unchallenged and undiscovered all the way across Germany to meet up with the BEF in Belgium just in time to retreat to Dunkirk? Is the US reporter really allowed to get away with finding out so much about what's going on behind the scenes?
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Post by patricklondon on May 2, 2020 6:06:17 GMT
Thanks for your recommendation of Normal People, Lugg, as I've been wondering about it. Last night I went to watch The Missing, then realized it was about a missing child -- surely one of the most distressing topics imaginable. So I decided to watch World on Fire instead. Okay, not exactly relaxing! It's well cast & the clothes, sets, etc. look authentic, but there is some little something I can't put my finger on that makes it feel a tiny bit artificial. It could be because that was only the first episode. It may be the effect of a cross-cultural/international co-production. I did read somewhere that plenty of Poles watched it with a feeling of "and about time too", since there's a great sensitivity there - and among Polish expats - that just what they went through and lost hasn't been wholly or properly appreciated elsewhere. But also there are all sorts of strains on credulity: the snooty lady living alone in the huge house hasn't had evacuees billeted on her (or even seen it requisitioned for a small school or something similar)? No-one seems to be observing the blackout (that's a common one these days)? Polish resistance fighters manage to trek unchallenged and undiscovered all the way across Germany to meet up with the BEF in Belgium just in time to retreat to Dunkirk? Is the US reporter really allowed to get away with finding out so much about what's going on behind the scenes?
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Post by bixaorellana on May 2, 2020 16:49:24 GMT
I did read somewhere that plenty of Poles watched it with a feeling of "and about time too" That's one of the reasons I was interested in the series, that so much of it was to be set in Poland. I started watching the third episode last night, then just gave up. Really, it is just a lazy production in ways that are an insult to the audience. Besides the strains on credulity you listed and others you didn't, every character is a trope simply meant to be pushed around in the sloppy plot until it's time for a point to be made. And worst of all, they're recent tropes, such as the girl losing her virginity "to get it over with". This must be some kind of idiot Generation Z cliche, as it seems to be in quite a few shows. I quit watching around the time it became obvious that the "factory girl"'s repellent brother was about to show hero tendencies.
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Post by onlyMark on May 2, 2020 17:25:43 GMT
I'm very much into a scifi series called The Expanse at the moment. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series)Set a couple of hundred or so years in the future there are four series of which I've so far watched two. It revolves around the tension, or a sort of Cold War, between Earth, Mars and those that live on the asteroid belts. Each are jockeying for position when they know of the existence of a special weapon. It's political, adventure, space, detective and all sorts. The acting is pretty good and now the various plot lines have come together it becomes clearer what is happening. It's been said to be a quite realistic and scientific portrayal of what life could conceivably be in those times. Of all the actors I like best a woman who in real life is called Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian/American, who is playing a member of the United Nations Security Council. It took me a while to get used to her accent but not only doesn't she show her age, she dresses beautifully and I take great delight in when she plays the hard ass and starts making threats and swearing.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 2, 2020 18:07:57 GMT
I've started watching the HBO series High Maintenance. Nasty. It's about an NYC drug dealer and the people he encounters.
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Post by spaceneedle on May 9, 2020 8:10:38 GMT
I'm on Season 3 of Ozark now. Wow, it's getting darker and darker, Bixa!
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Post by casimira on May 9, 2020 12:16:19 GMT
Yes Spaceneedle, it is pretty dark which makes it that much more riveting.
(I read or heard somewhere that there will not be a Season 4 of Ozark. I sure hope I am wrong).
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Post by bixaorellana on May 9, 2020 14:45:14 GMT
I'm on Season 3 of Ozark now. Wow, it's getting darker and darker, Bixa! Ha ~ ain't that the truth?! I got to the point where I turned it on with trepidation. The pacing in that show is brilliant and the way it allows you to feel what the individual characters are feeling is uncanny. (I read or heard somewhere that there will not be a Season 4 of Ozark. I sure hope I am wrong). Say it isn't so! I would say that the ending of season 3 was such that it could go either way -- continue with the saga of the Byrdes, or let season 3 be the official end of the series.
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Post by casimira on May 9, 2020 15:25:43 GMT
I too, hope that I am wrong. (I have mixed feelings about whether or not I am satisfied with the final episode of Ozark serving as a finale. Maybe I need to go back and watch it again).
Netflix has been canceling a lot of shows.
Some I could not give a hoot about but there have been others that I am distraught over.
Whether or not it's virus related I have no idea.
I believe that their streaming service has been at an all time high due to more and more people self isolating, particularly families.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 9, 2020 15:33:31 GMT
Casimira, cast around on the internet & you'll find some articles announcing which shows & movies are ending soon on Netflix. This will help you decide what to watch before it's gone. I believe the way that Netflix acquires, shows, & stops showing things is related to licensing. As for me, and I might well get mocked for this, I am completely immersed in After Life. This of course happened after I said I couldn't possibly watch it because I really can't stand Ricky Gervais. It must also be admitted that I once said the same thing about Jack Black & anything he was in. That's okay. I am a person capable of growth. Anyway, it is one of those shows about which you can truthfully say, "I laughed! I cried!" and Gervais is brilliant in it, along with a perfect supporting cast. Here is a review which I have not read because I still have a couple of episodes to go & don't want them spoiled: www.news18.com/news/movies/after-life-review-ricky-gervais-is-sublime-in-dark-comedy-about-acceptance-of-loss-2610769.html
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Post by kerouac2 on May 9, 2020 16:19:15 GMT
I finished watching the four seasons of High Maintenance, and it turned out to be really different from my first impression. It is an anthology series which tells a multitude of different stories and the only link is "the guy" (who is never named) who provides drugs to all of the characters. Sometimes he has a major role in the story and other times he hardly appears. I found it to be a revelation about all of the various communities in Manhattan and Brooklyn, from nudists, to obese Asian lesbians, to a strict Indian family, to Orthodox Jews, to a cross dressing husband, etc... The story that struck me the most was about a Latino couple who order a fake but totally realistic baby to appease their impossible parental desire. It was heartbreaking.
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Post by Kimby on May 9, 2020 17:00:27 GMT
I watched 4 episodes of the final season of The Good Place (with Ted Dansen and Kristin Bell heading up a very good cast) on the airplane. If I’m lucky, there’ll be 2 or 3 more to watch on the way home. I really like that show, and Mr. Kimby didn’t, so airplane travel allows me to catch up on “my shows” without monopolizing our TV room.
Another one is Big Little Lies, the second season, which introduces Meryl Streep as one of the leading ladies’ passive-aggressive mother-in-law. The Sanibel library just set up a contactless pickup system for items ordered online. After I picked it up, he said he wasn’t interested in it anymore. But I’d already started watching it on a plane this winter, thinking I’d re-watch with him. Now I’ll just retire to the guest room to binge watch it on my own.
Together we’ll be watching This is Us, the third season. And we got two movies, too! Plus World on Fire and Baptiste continue on Sundays. After the long coronavirus drought, this is almost too much! When it rains, it pours!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 9, 2020 17:27:50 GMT
I love Afterlife might have to watch both series again...
I have a 30 day free trial of Amazon Prime so I'm watching Picard and enjoying it tremendously.
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Post by lugg on May 9, 2020 19:40:26 GMT
As for me, and I might well get mocked for this, I am completely immersed in After Life. This of course happened after I said I couldn't possibly watch it I am just about to start watching it tonight after persuading my daughter - neither of us can stand him but I have heard such good things about it.
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Post by lugg on May 9, 2020 19:41:33 GMT
The Expanse sounds like something I would enjoy - thanks Mark
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Post by Kimby on May 12, 2020 11:03:19 GMT
Is anyone else a SURVIVOR fan?
The “original” reality show (on American TV, anyway), Survivor is one 2-hour episode away from concluding its 40th season (20 years spring and fall) by awarding the “sole survivor” a bigger than ever $2 million dollar check.
This year, all 20 contestants were former winners of Survivor. All familiar faces to regular watchers. It’s amazing that the show hasn’t lost its momentum long before now, but they keep throwing in new twists that improve the show. This year, tribe members voted off the island go to another island where they bide their time waiting for their chance to win a challenge that puts them back in the game.
Survivor is my guilty pleasure. (Hey, at least it isn’t The Bachelor!)
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