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@JC said in TV Serieseseses:
I'm looking forward to American Gods, based on the Neil Gaiman novel, which is one of my favourite fantasy novels. I hope they don't screw it up, the trailer is awesomely gory but the lead is some dude who used to be in Hollyoaks :(. They've cast Ian McShane as Mr Wednesday though, so hopefully we should get Al Swearingen with a big hammer. Out on Amazon Prime on 1st May.
Have you been watching this, getting decent reviews but been holding off.
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@taniwharugby I've started watching it, but hasn't grabbed me after the first episode - I just really don't get it. Didn't read the novel though...
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@Bones maybe I'll hold off a bit longer and wait until its finished then see
Finished The Expanse, was pretty good, although I gotta say, that chick from Shortland Street wasnt well cast.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@JC said in TV Serieseseses:
I'm looking forward to American Gods, based on the Neil Gaiman novel, which is one of my favourite fantasy novels. I hope they don't screw it up, the trailer is awesomely gory but the lead is some dude who used to be in Hollyoaks :(. They've cast Ian McShane as Mr Wednesday though, so hopefully we should get Al Swearingen with a big hammer. Out on Amazon Prime on 1st May.
Have you been watching this, getting decent reviews but been holding off.
Yeah, Ep 6 just finished. I'll say it's very faithful to the book, which is both good and bad. The good is obvious if you're a fan of the book, the bad is that the pace is slow a lot of the time. One thing I took out of it is what would GoT TV version actually have been like if it had been exactly the same as the book? And the answer is that they have show-writers for a reason!
Having said that if you can kick back into the pace of the thing it is really well filmed and with some truly disturbing content.
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Some pretty graphic male-on-male action in one episode. Much full frontal nudity, male and female. The dead wife who comes back is grotesque, with her arm fallen-off arm, autopsy wounds and toilet stops to void elbalming fluid.
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It won't be everybody's cup of tea by a long chalk but if you're a Neil Gaiman fan it's great
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@taniwharugby From someone who has never watched a single episode of Shortland St, she's not a great actor. But I understand that she was perfectly casted based on the character in the book. If anything, Bobbie wasn't tall or muscular enough.
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@Bovidae I dont watch SS either, but know she was from that..fair enough if she is true to the book, I just didnt feel she was very good...guess it'd be good to see her in another role to see if she is any better or just the same.
Yeah given what her character was supposed to be in terms of a 'warrior soldier' type, she didnt sell it to me.
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@taniwharugby Yeah, her acting was pretty rough. Kind of one note, with that note being petulance. Also, her fight scene in the last episode was horrendous.
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@Bovidae said in TV Serieseseses:
I find Latta enjoying in the ads so there is no way I'm watching any TV show with him in it!
Free-to-air TV in NZ is shit.
assume that is supposed to be annoying
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@taniwharugby Yep, I was typing too quickly. Make that VERY ANNOYING.
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Hope this is as good as it has potential to be!
Also a few new series that could have potential.
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Just about to start The final series of Orphan Black. The last one seemed to pull things onto a good track after slightly wobbling so I'm hoping for a good ending for the clones and Donny to go out in a blaze of gunfire.
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@Crucial I'm gonna wait until I can watch it in a week.
Just started The Americans final season.
FTWD has started again, they really need to do something with this otherwise it is just the same as TWD but with more characters you want to get eaten...assume there has to be some crossover with TWD as well at some point, again otherwise it is just another Zombie series.
Anyone else watching Gotham? Finished the latest season, is still enough to keep me interested, but I do wonder if fans have waiting for the inevitable introduction and development of batman as opposed to it being more focused on Gordon given the way the season ended.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
Anyone else watching Gotham? Finished the latest season, is still enough to keep me interested, but I do wonder if fans have waiting for the inevitable introduction and development of batman as opposed to it being more focused on Gordon given the way the season ended.
Yep, I watched the last few episodes of S3 last week. The problem with the show is that you know what happens, it's just how they frame to plot to get there.
I started watching S2 of Billions last night. So far, so good.
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