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@Crucial reminded me about the new Slough House book coming out this week. I'm so much looking forward to the TV series. My must-see for the year.
Apple’s ‘Slow Horses’ Adds Olivia Cooke & Jonathan Pryce, As Producer See-Saw Shoots Two Stories Back-To-Back
Apple's Gary Oldman spy drama Slow Horses has rounded out its cast, with Olivia Cooke and Jonathan Pryce joining.
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@Kruse Yes, one of the great things about Fawlty Towers was every episode was brilliant. The sort of brilliance that can only come from very talented people taking their time. Cleese said it took them six weeks to write each 30min episode. No show puts in that sort of effort these days.
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@R-L oh is there a 2nd season?
I watched S1, pretty silly but some very funny stuff too, plenty relatable to my 15 year old son and his gaming!
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse Yes, one of the great things about Fawlty Towers was every episode was brilliant. The sort of brilliance that can only come from very talented people taking their time. Cleese said it took them six weeks to write each 30min episode. No show puts in that sort of effort these days.
and they also stopped, by choice, once they had done what they wanted too, 12 episodes is it?
same with shows like Mr Bean or the UK Office, they loom large in the tv comedy landscape, or did for a long time at least and they're all only 12-15 episodes
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse Yes, one of the great things about Fawlty Towers was every episode was brilliant. The sort of brilliance that can only come from very talented people taking their time. Cleese said it took them six weeks to write each 30min episode. No show puts in that sort of effort these days.
Yep. There were stories about his mental health issues at the time too.
Genius and madness.
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Did anyone watch the final (S6 Part 2) season of Vikings? I just finished it and man it was pretty disappointing.
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Was stupid to kill off the main two characters so early in the season and then have nothing stories for two of the others (Ubba sailing to the Americas and Hvitserk the drug addict).
For a series that's been so focused on Kattegat, which has included lots of battles for it backwards and forwards, the series ends with some character who turned up midway through the last half season and really made little impression.
All if S6 was an attempt to redeem Ivar but he was too much of a Karmichael Hunt in the previous season for that to work.
Ubba spent half the season sitting on a ship in the sea.
Hvetsirk reiterates how much of a bad ass fighter he's always been and then instead of returning home he becomes a Christian.
Why the fuck was Erik the Red even a character, he added nothing.
Although how good were Princess Katia's tits?
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@Nepia i think I bailed a few episodes into 2nd last season? When Ivar was in Russia?
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@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
Did anyone watch the final (S6 Part 2) season of Vikings? I just finished it and man it was pretty disappointing.
I've only seen Part 1 of S6 so didn't read your spoiler. I'll watch the last 10 episodes when they appear on Netflix but this show has gone downhill since Ragnar died.
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After bingeing through Schitt’s Creek (brilliant) my better half and I breezed through
Good Girls
Workin’ MomsBoth very, very good
All three Netflix
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@MiketheSnow cool that's sitting in my list too, recommended from watching Loudermilk.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nepia i think I bailed a few episodes into 2nd last season? When Ivar was in Russia?
Yeah, that is Part 1 of the last season, they split S6 into two parts. I think they did the same with S5 as well.
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
Letterkenny
Quickfire Canadian hick comedy
PML
S02 Starter
Just discovered this one today. Watched the first episode and enjoyed it. I reckon the methheads are going to annoy me in the long run though.
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@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
Did anyone watch the final (S6 Part 2) season of Vikings? I just finished it and man it was pretty disappointing.
Yep, finished it last night.
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Agreed about Kattegat, pretty much zero story there, with a few bit-part characters fighting over the seat. Then Harold turns up with a handful of men, but apparently enough to takeover the city. Then fucks off again to let the bit-part folk get on with their squabbles nobody cares about.
And yeah, agreed on most of the rest.
Hvetsirk... I couldn't figure out what was happening at the end there... was he really converting, was he faking... it seemed to be stressing how much he looked like Ragnar, and that he was the only one to truly follow in Ragnar's footsteps? It looked like he might be smirking as he was baptised... but... might have been my hopeful imagination?Princess Katia was haaawt.
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@Frank said in TV Serieseseses:
True Detective
Thanks for the heads-up. Need something good to watch so will def. give that a go.
Started watching Wayward Pines gave up after two episodes. Found myself asking "How many times has this been done before?"
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Just finished part 1 (5 episodes) of Lupin (Netflix UK). French Idris Elba type plays a gentleman thief modelling himself on Arsene Lupin, a fictional character created in a series of actual short stories from 1905.
Set in modern Paris and has a touch of Ocean’s 11 about it. Surprise Netflix hit - recommended in The Times. Enjoyable fun.
Part 2 released in UK summer evidently.
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I just finished one episode (episode 4) of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.
Strange and pretty awesome.Standalone episodes of apparently varying quality.
I looked up various opinions of the best episodes.The episode I watched is called 'The Commuter' (with Timothy Spall).
Gonna watch 'Crazy Diamond' (with Steve Buscemi) next.
