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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@nepia I havent watched Wandavision, just didnt look like my thing.
@Crucial has it always been on Netflix? I saw it pop up the other day, not sure if I have seen any of it?
Don’t think so. It is BBC. I don’t know if Netflix has all the series but if so get into it. The series showing on TV1 is the latest (and presumably last) but I don’t think they have shown any of the others. Huge audience in the UK in part because it has cliffhangers so interest gets wound up each week and more people get on board.
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I think some/many of us would agree that The Wire is the greatest TV show ever made. I didn't know that Felicia "Snoop" Pearson [Snoop is her real nickname] fwas a street kid, convicted murderer, and drug dealer who was recruited by Michael Williams (Omar) when he met her in a club. Crazy fucking story hearing her talk about her life.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@nepia I havent watched Wandavision, just didnt look like my thing.
@Crucial has it always been on Netflix? I saw it pop up the other day, not sure if I have seen any of it?
Nepia is right, Falcom & Winter Soldier is like a long (good) Marvel movie. I'd give Wandavision a shot though if you like Marvel movies. The trapped in a TV sitcom part is just laying the groundwork for a pretty heavy storyline (for Marvel). Sort of the Marvel version of Afterlife, a look at grief.
It's nice to see them take a chance with some of their creative decisions.
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@kirwan said in TV Serieseseses:
@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@nepia I havent watched Wandavision, just didnt look like my thing.
@Crucial has it always been on Netflix? I saw it pop up the other day, not sure if I have seen any of it?
Nepia is right, Falcom & Winter Soldier is like a long (good) Marvel movie. I'd give Wandavision a shot though if you like Marvel movies. The trapped in a TV sitcom part is just laying the groundwork for a pretty heavy storyline (for Marvel). Sort of the Marvel version of Afterlife, a look at grief.
It's nice to see them take a chance with some of their creative decisions.
Yeah - 100% agree with all of this.
Falcon & Winter Soldier - just a Marvel movie stretched out to 300 minutes.
And yeah, the old-timey sitcom schtick of Wandavision is just some very extended groundwork. I really wasn't sure if I would be able to stick with it even halfway through the first episode, but then they started dropping clues that it wasn't just going to be a feel-good Bewitched remake with comic book characters. It's just that the clues are few-and-far between for the first couple of episodes... it's exquisite building of suspense for those who stick with it... but in this day-and-age, extremely risky. ("It said made by Marvel, where's the 'splosions!!!??? Fuck this, I'm off to re-watch American Gladiators")
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Can confirm that Mare of Easttown is well worth watching. Winslet is excellent and makes the usual 'cop with personal troubles' thing really believable.
Not a slow burn at all. Shit gets real quickly although I suspect much of it is red herrings.
I think it also suits watching in episodes rather than binging. Would probably feel a little heavy in one sitting.
If you liked S1 of the US version of The Killing this has a similar vibe (without the constant rain) -
@crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
Can confirm that Mare of Easttown is well worth watching. Winslet is excellent and makes the usual 'cop with personal troubles' thing really believable.
I have read a couple of articles about the show and it was interesting that Winslet was the only non-US actor who was confident enough to switch between her on-screen Delco accent and her normal accent between takes.
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Holy macaroni and praise be, may the lord open...
Not one episode
Not two episodes
Only three bloody amazing episodes of HMT season 4....
I feel like the pace has picked up a bit now, so much going on and theres going to be big moments and movements. I feel like we will see her safe in canada pretty soon.Jeez everybody just watch it now and fangirl with me. Commander Blaine has me all swoonie.
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@r-l said in TV Serieseseses:
feel like we will see her safe in canada pretty soon.
Didn't she throw away that opportunity in s2 after so much was sacrificed to get her there? Pretty sure I bailed soon after that.
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@taniwharugby urgh your such a "commander" typical male response...
Pick it up again and watch it aaaaall, so good
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I've quit on City on a Hill
Got to Episode 5 and noooothing was happening. There were approximately 40 little stories going on at once, but i didn't care about 39 of them. What i thought should have been the main premise actually gets the least attention. So fuck that show, i have better things to do with my time.
I think i am over TV.
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@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
I think i am over TV.
Be over it after you've watched Handmaid's s4
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@r-l said in TV Serieseseses:
@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
I think i am over TV.
Be over it after you've watched Handmaid's s4
my wife has started watching that from the start. the bits i saw over her shoulder looked depressing as fuck. i saw some shot where a bunch of women were herded in to what looked like an empty football stadium, and stuck in nooses, all very Eastern Europe circa 1943.
I don't think i need that level of dark in my life.
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@mariner4life omg I cried my heart out to that episode, it had This Woman's Work as the soundtrack, remember it well. Aaaaaargh, your wife will love the latest eps when you guys can watch them, i cried again tonight. Give it another go, it can be depressing but its also got that cheer on the underdog vibe, like Gladiator..kinda.
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@r-l said in TV Serieseseses:
@mariner4life omg I cried my heart out to that episode, it had This Woman's Work as the soundtrack, remember it well. Aaaaaargh, your wife will love the latest eps when you guys can watch them, i cried again tonight. Give it another go, it can be depressing but its also got that cheer on the underdog vibe, like Gladiator..kinda.
nah i'm not watching it. she's too far in to wait for me. I'll take your word for it
yeah the music over the top was perfect, it was a beautifully created scene, but that's deep shit for me just wanting to switch off for an hour at the end of my day
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@mariner4life oh no, oh no no no, this is not "switching off" TV. Move along and watch The Simpsons, you don't deserve HMT anyway.
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@r-l said in TV Serieseseses:
@mariner4life oh no, oh no no no, this is not "switching off" TV. Move along and watch The Simpsons, you don't deserve HMT anyway.
wow. that's pretty harsh.
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we'll be watching HMT, have to make sure we havent missed a season or something, seems like ages ago we watched it last
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@kiwiwomble Yeah catch up on s3 and then dive into s4.
That's one thing i hate about good TV series now, that huge gaps between series and obviously covid messed that up even more.
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@r-l yeah, was talking about this to the wife, even just back in the 2000's seasons (i noticed it when i watched West Wing again last year, 22 well written episodes a season) would be +20 episodes and so the time between the end of one season and the start of the next might only be six months...but now seasons are only 6-10 there is a much bigger gap and i struggle to keep up to date sometimes
