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@mn5 said in TV Serieseseses:
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@crazy-horse said in TV Serieseseses:
Apologies if this has been mentioned, but was the entire season of Reacher based on one book?
Yes. So the actor playing Reacher has a job for life...
that dude is fucking huge
6'5 if i'm not mistaken
188cm according to Google, so 6'3"
Still. Fucking unit.
188cm is 6’2”. 191cm is 6’3”.
I thought you were a maths and science nerd?
I made no claims about my typing
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Just finished ‘This is going to hurt’ on BBC iplayer. Based on the best seller of the same name, by Adam Kay. Centres around the author’s time as junior doctor in the NHS in the early 2000s (played by Ben Whishaw).
Black humour, graphic visualisations of child birth, sadness; it’s polarised opinion. I thought it was unmissable, but it’s not a feelgood watch.
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@jc said in TV Serieseseses:
Severance on Apple TV+. About a company where some employees have had surgery to disconnect their work memories from outside work ones. Very weird indeed.
Yeah, very weird. I'm two eps in and it hasn't grabbed me but I'm kind of interested in where it goes.
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@crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
@jc said in TV Serieseseses:
Severance on Apple TV+. About a company where some employees have had surgery to disconnect their work memories from outside work ones. Very weird indeed.
Yeah, very weird. I'm two eps in and it hasn't grabbed me but I'm kind of interested in where it goes.
Same
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After Life
Didn't really get this series to be honest. There is some laughs in it, but not a hell of a lot. It's pretty damn depressing on the whole & there isn't a huge evolution of characters. Some of the characters are pretty out there and worth a bit of a giggle. But it just sort of feels like you are watching a few months in somebody's life where they were seriously miserable.
Probably fits a few bullshit stereotypes about UK life for the Yank audience. Although the quantity of swearing, especially the C word, is to behold. One of the genuine big laughs is when Diane Morgan drops it for the first time.
All in all, probably one for hardcore Gervais fans, but not so much others.
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Reacher
Think they got the character quite in synch with the one from the books. Atrocious French accent on his mother though, they should be ashamed about that one.
Am I the only one that thought he was a bit of a doppelgänger for our own Riche McCaw?
One thing I thought they may have stuck too close to the books is the pace. The books are seriously slow. As was this.
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@majorrage said in TV Serieseseses:
After Life
Didn't really get this series to be honest. There is some laughs in it, but not a hell of a lot. It's pretty damn depressing on the whole & there isn't a huge evolution of characters. Some of the characters are pretty out there and worth a bit of a giggle. But it just sort of feels like you are watching a few months in somebody's life where they were seriously miserable.
Probably fits a few bullshit stereotypes about UK life for the Yank audience. Although the quantity of swearing, especially the C word, is to behold. One of the genuine big laughs is when Diane Morgan drops it for the first time.
All in all, probably one for hardcore Gervais fans, but not so much others.
Agree, bit of a wasted series for me. Got sick of his depression (time to move on mate), laughs just not consistent.
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I quite liked Seasons 1 & 2 of Afterlife but agree that it was not always laugh out loud. What I did like was that it addressed grief but also entertained. However, 2 seasons covered all that and 3 was really just taking the funny elements of the side characters and running with it. Did not really add to the story.
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@nta said in TV Serieseseses:
1883
Amazing writing and execution. This is streets ahead of Yellowstone which was great overall, but a bit cardboard- cutout at points.
It's visceral, and unapologetic with it. The casting is superb and can't wait for the next installment, 1932.
100%
And a fantastic conclusion
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@mikethesnow ha I thought the finale was a bit off, but enjoyed it otherwise.
Only found half way through the series that James and Margaret are husband and wife in real life too (Tim Mcgraw and Faith Hill)
I've only see S1 of Yellowstone and not sure I'm gonna get around to the rest.
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@catogrande said in TV Serieseseses:
I quite liked Seasons 1 & 2 of Afterlife but agree that it was not always laugh out loud. What I did like was that it addressed grief but also entertained. However, 2 seasons covered all that and 3 was really just taking the funny elements of the side characters and running with it. Did not really add to the story.
agreed, we watched season 1 and 2, was clear about telling this story of someone really struggling with grief...watched like 2 episodes of season 3, theyre trying to spin all these other characters off into their own stories...completely lost its way
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@mikethesnow ha I thought the finale was a bit off, but enjoyed it otherwise.
I thought it hit the mark, and beautifully. The whole series captured the struggle and hardship of what settlers had to face, and that winning = surviving.
I've only see S1 of Yellowstone and not sure I'm gonna get around to the rest.
I'd say S2 is better overall, with S3 good but S4 starting to get a little samey.
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@nta was more I think that aspect dragged for was it 3 eps.
I just felt Yellowstone was too much like SOA.
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@taniwharugby Have not seen SOA but get the same vibe - except it's cowboy gangsters.
The trap Yellowstone fell into a little was searching for newer and bigger villians, and more elaborate ways to justify killing them with zero consequence.
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