TV Serieseseses
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@SynicBast said in TV Serieseseses:
Just watched Barbarens (Barbarians - German produced Netflix)) and Queen's Gambit. One was purely entertaining once you went past the dramatic license that had to be applied, and the other was beautifully filmed, had some nice expository touches and left me wanting more despite a very clean conclusion. I'm not a huge chess person, I can't play for shit but I know some of the history opf chess and thankfully this was not some re-telling of Bobby Fischer which would have left me reaching for my Luger, but some classy acting and atmospheric detail that killed.
Barbarens is sort of Centurion meets King Arthur but thankfully was made by ze Germans so we do not get American accents featuring at all.
Queens Gambit has apparently gotten a lot of people back into chess, me included. My boys realised really quickly while on holiday that the best way to beat me was ensure I was a bit distracted ( ie in one case someone turned up at the Bach while we were having a game so I had to stop and chat to them ).
Fuck knows how the main character ( forgotten her name already ) managed to beat multiple people at once.
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@Bones said in TV Serieseseses:
The Valhalla Murders
Yeah probably my favourite foreign language series. Really good.
There's been some good ones turning up on Netflix. Just finishing Borgen as well; a political series in Denmark.
If you haven't seen it, check out Norsemen - it's like Vikings, but funny.
Couldn't get into Norsemen at all. Agree re Borgen, though I've only watched the first episode as yet.
Very good overall.
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Slough House tv series started filming in November. Gary Oldman is the lead.
Apple drama Slow Horses begins London shoot, starring Gary Oldman
The drama is adapted from two of Mick Herron's series of novels about exiled M15 agents
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Just like the beer thread, I'm very late to this party.
Good Netflix series I've watched over the last couple of years:
Peaky Blinders
Vikings
Janet King
Narcos
Ozark
Marco Polo
After Life
The English Game
El Chapo
Thieves of the Wood
The Last DanceI'm a classic binge watcher, if I find something good I'll sit up far far too late at night watching just one more episode
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I just finished watching Raised By Wolves. I think I'm the most confused ever by a show - I really don't know if I liked it or not. It had some interesting ideas, mostly looked good, had some good performances but I really don't know if it was brilliant or bollocks.
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@Bones I kept thinking about giving up, but by 4 or 5 eps in I decided I had to finish to see what was gonna happen...then, I kept thinking about giving up, but by the end I decided I was no more clued up than I was half way through
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Currently watching The Serpent on BBC and BBC iPlayer. 8 ep series about Charles Sobhraj a French thief, fraudster and serial killer who preyed on Western tourists on the SE Asia hippy trail, throughout the early 70s.
Quite gripping and beautifully shot. Also has Lord Percy and Capt Darling from Blackadder (well Tim McInnerny).
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@scribe yeah we've finished it - pretty astonishing and really well done series, but so frustrating to watch eh. I remember reading a book about him many years ago and it's surprising he's not more infamous.
For some reason I have a (seemingly false) memory that he operated a fair bit in "higher circles" targeting wealthy women, so I'll have to see if I can find the book again to check.
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@scribe i had spotted that and added to my watch list.
Just finished No Mans Land, pretty good series, has James Purefoy.
Has some subtitles, about a French guy whose sister was killed in Egypt but he think he has seen her in a conflict zone on a news report so goes hunting for her and ends up in Syria.
Also follows 3 Brits who commit to ISIS in Syria.
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The Stand - mini-series on Stephen King's novel.
Pretty good and some of the characters are better than the 1994 version with Gary Sinese, it doesn't quite have the sense of impending doom that series had.
3.5/5
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@Tim said in TV Serieseseses:
Mike Judge's Tales from the Tour Bus is one of the best things I've seen in years. All those country music boys were degenerate motherfuckers.
Extremely entertaining and well edited. Recommended.
Where did you watch this Tim, sounds great
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Hearing good things about Bridgerton on Netflix anyone watching yet!?
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@R-L watched it, it was good, worth it if your ok with those period kind of shows
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@Kiwiwomble I haven't even watched Downton Abbey but I'm all for trying something new.
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@R-L where as Downton is probably more true to history, Bridgerton is more idealized, everything is bright, modern songs played by tradition instruments and a minor plot point is the inclusion of people of colour into throughout all levels of society, was very enjoyable
