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pahuyuth posted:I love that scene! H&CF is one of my favorite shows ever and I just started a rewatch a couple of days ago. I didn't care for Donna too much at first but she became one of my favorites. Toby Huss as Bos is great but the real stars as the seasons progress are Joe's and Cameron's hair. Just looked this one up having not heard of it before, and it's gone straight onto the quarantine binge-list. Thanks!
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Got caught up with Strike Back last week just before the series finale which just aired. Uh... what the hell was that? First half of the ep was fine, classic Strike Back gun fights and explosions etc but after the helicopter fight it got kinda dumb. So they escape to the shore and apparently there's a massive patrol of soldiers that just happened to be going through this random spot in the woods? Okay whatever it's Strike Back, more gunfighting is cool, looks like they're getting overwhelmed, fade to black. Next scene they're fine, they just killed them all I guess. They get Gracie patched up and discover the money is counterfeit and we get the scene of the real money being loaded up and taken away. Next scene Coltrane is in a house with Arianna, who escaped in the tunnel fight earlier. What? Did I miss something? Apparently they just tracked her down off-camera somehow and strolled in? I thought she and the money both got away and basically the Russian op was a success? Coltrane executes her, good guys win, show over. The whole back half felt really rushed and nonsensical, somebody tell me how I'm bad at watching TV and explain how Strike Back of all shows has me so confused.
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Apr 18, 2020 10:02
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Wafflecopper posted:Got caught up with Strike Back last week just before the series finale which just aired. Uh... what the hell was that? First half of the ep was fine, classic Strike Back gun fights and explosions etc but after the helicopter fight it got kinda dumb. So they escape to the shore and apparently there's a massive patrol of soldiers that just happened to be going through this random spot in the woods? Okay whatever it's Strike Back, more gunfighting is cool, looks like they're getting overwhelmed, fade to black. Next scene they're fine, they just killed them all I guess. They get Gracie patched up and discover the money is counterfeit and we get the scene of the real money being loaded up and taken away. Next scene Coltrane is in a house with Arianna, who escaped in the tunnel fight earlier. What? Did I miss something? Apparently they just tracked her down off-camera somehow and strolled in? I thought she and the money both got away and basically the Russian op was a success? Coltrane executes her, good guys win, show over. The whole back half felt really rushed and nonsensical, somebody tell me how I'm bad at watching TV and explain how Strike Back of all shows has me so confused. It's not you, apart from the John Wick like casino shootout with Novin it was quite sloppy and rushed. The helicopter chase looked nice initially but apparently it's armed with guided missiles that have a range of 25 meters and they still miss most of the time and require you to make three low passes over a boat with people shooting you to lock on. And no Scott/Stonebridge cameo ! Ivana Milicevic was wasted too, obviously she is not the killing machine from Banshee but on The 100 she was intimidating as hell just sitting in a chair.
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CeeJee posted:It's not you, apart from the John Wick like casino shootout with Novin it was quite sloppy and rushed. The helicopter chase looked nice initially but apparently it's armed with guided missiles that have a range of 25 meters and they still miss most of the time and require you to make three low passes over a boat with people shooting you to lock on. And no Scott/Stonebridge cameo ! Ivana Milicevic was wasted too, obviously she is not the killing machine from Banshee but on The 100 she was intimidating as hell just sitting in a chair. Watched it last night as well and I was super disappointed. Liked the series, even after the mini reboot. Such a shame. It felt really rushed and just ... bad.
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Apr 20, 2020 11:11
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Strike Back was never good imo. It's not at all on par with other action recommendations itt
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Apr 20, 2020 11:21
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pahuyuth posted:I've never seen more than the first couple of episodes of Mad Men so I can't compare it to that, but For All Mankind reminds me of H&CF in terms of the strong female characters and fictionalized history. Giving this a go too. It's got some good things going for it, I'm interested to see how it'll pan out. Not a series but I have started watching all of the James Bond films in order, having done the same with other franchises, and holy poo poo. Holy. poo poo. The sheer amount of sexual assault and outright rape depicted in the first films, with a straight boys-will-be-boys attitude, boggles the mind. I am at Thunderball and I must have seen these films before but I seriously do not remember the sexism (and racism, let's not forget about that) being this blatant, Jesus.
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If you haven’t yet read the James Bond book thread, it’s one of the best threads ever. The OP includes lots of details regarding the films, the actors, the foods, drinks, places and fashions of the times, a really good read. There’s also a lot of discussion on the issue of racism and sexism, as you’d imagine: what’s weird (and revealing) is that the ‘Bond Girls’ in the books are often really competent foils for Bond, rather than some hottie called Heavenly Polemuncher or something. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3861448&perpage=40
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:We caught up on Black Monday, and tonight Showtime airs the last episode that seems to have been finished before everything shut down (episode 6 out of a planned 10 for Season 2). I have no idea how far along they were with the rest. But drat, it was so much more fun, funnier, and better than I ever would have guessed. I need to start season two of Black Monday. And Happy Endings was such a great show. Ended far too early. Saw some folks mentioning Ash Vs. Evil Dead. Just started watching it a few days ago and I'm loving it.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Saw some folks mentioning Ash Vs. Evil Dead. Just started watching it a few days ago and I'm loving it.
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Torquemada posted:If you haven’t yet read the James Bond book thread, it’s one of the best threads ever. The OP includes lots of details regarding the films, the actors, the foods, drinks, places and fashions of the times, a really good read. There’s also a lot of discussion on the issue of racism and sexism, as you’d imagine: what’s weird (and revealing) is that the ‘Bond Girls’ in the books are often really competent foils for Bond, rather than some hottie called Heavenly Polemuncher or something. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3861448&perpage=40 That looks interesting, thanks. The films were released like, 2 years apart, so it'll be great to watch them crawl through the decades at least.
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Apr 21, 2020 17:00
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*Staring at glass case emblazoned with "in case of barrel bottom watch Bosch"* Some lovely trailer really rubbed me the wrong way. "That's not a cop, that's a killer" lmao my man what fictional precinct do you work for.
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Apr 21, 2020 19:15
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Eh, Bosch is fine. Looks glossy enough, everyone can act to a greater or lesser degree, bit of jazz, few gunfights, what’s not to like? My wife’s watching Once Upon A Time and it looks like poo poo made on someone’s phone.
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Apr 21, 2020 20:15
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I was getting by on British crime procedurals but I knew I was a loving junkie when I left London. The locations kept getting quainter as the dialects got more incomprehensible. Need a fix.
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Apr 21, 2020 20:39
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I'm watching The Shield now just to kill time. There's an awful lot of plots involving people being raped which I don't like. Like SVU levels of rape plots. Doesn't compare to The Wire other than being a show with cops.
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Apr 21, 2020 20:55
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The shield is a show where it’s premise and it’s genre clash a lot. It’s an action show whose whole premise is against action cliches
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Apr 21, 2020 21:00
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Yeah, it’s first season is now 18 years old, it was ridiculously common to use rape as a quick dramatic device back then. In its defence, it does also depict a main male character being orally raped, and the fallout and trauma is addressed multiple times and not just swept under the carpet, which is kind of progressive, maybe? (I realise ‘more rape’ is probably not the answer). That aside, The Shield is unparalleled in its payoff: every season builds on the one before, and you never get the feeling they’re making it up as they go along. Everyone ends up getting theirs, in one way or another.
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Apr 22, 2020 10:08
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Gaunab posted:I'm watching The Shield now just to kill time. There's an awful lot of plots involving people being raped which I don't like. Like SVU levels of rape plots. Doesn't compare to The Wire other than being a show with cops. People get raped a lot
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Apr 22, 2020 11:11
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Zzulu posted:People get raped a lot Speaking of which, been watching Outlander which has been great.
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Apr 22, 2020 13:38
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Fleabag. Why did I only watch this now?
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Disharmony posted:Fleabag. Did you watch both seasons? Just saying there are 2 because would not want you to miss out.
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Laterite posted:I too thought Fleabag was...fine. Funny, and worth watching, but not some amazing achievement. Another case where everyone other than the lead character is more interesting and empathetic. Even when you find out why Fleabag keeps running the store the way she does, it just didn't quite land for me. I found the sister's story much more compelling and Olivia Coleman knocks her role out of the park. Brett Gelman is fantastic at playing a despicable prick. Fleabag started getting weird near the end of the second season when her boyfriend or whatever started calling her for breaking the fourth wall. Either have her do it or don't.
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Apr 22, 2020 15:03
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Fleabag started getting weird near the end of the second season when her boyfriend or whatever started calling her for breaking the fourth wall. Either have her do it or don't. That was the best part! It also is integral in portraying how much of a match they are for each other. The closer they get to each other, the more he notices her turning to the camera. That's just me though.
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Apr 22, 2020 15:18
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Meatgrinder posted:Did you watch both seasons? Just saying there are 2 because would not want you to miss out. Yeah, finished it 6 hours straight. I had no idea what it was about coming in but kept seeing it on Amazon for years and I got time to kill because of the quarantine. Andrew Scott was fantastic on this one and was a departure from his usual roles which tend to be either evil, hammy, over the top or evil hammy and over the top.
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Apr 22, 2020 16:02
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Disharmony posted:Yeah, finished it 6 hours straight. I had no idea what it was about coming in but kept seeing it on Amazon for years and I got time to kill because of the quarantine. He’s still morally grey in that one. Check him out in the second episode of the latest Black Mirror series too.
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Apr 22, 2020 17:10
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If you're looking for dark gritty British police procedurals , never watch a touch of cloth. In other news, everyone should watch a touch of cloth
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Apr 22, 2020 17:47
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Antifa Poltergeist posted:If you're looking for dark gritty British police procedurals , never watch a touch of cloth. Agreed... if you're looking for a snide Police Squad!-esque satire of Brit police procedurals, be sure to watch A Touch of Cloth.
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Apr 22, 2020 18:01
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Mrs. Bojangles and I finished binging through Daybreak yesterday and enjoyed it every step of the way.
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Apr 22, 2020 18:02
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Thwomp posted:That was the best part! It also is integral in portraying how much of a match they are for each other. The closer they get to each other, the more he notices her turning to the camera. My point is that other characters shouldn't notice or react to a character turning to the camera if that's a major storytelling device in the show. Either it means there's a camera nobody else notices or she has a sever break from reality. Either way it puts a damper on the show for me. Just my opinion.
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Dicty Bojangles posted:Mrs. Bojangles and I finished binging through Daybreak yesterday and enjoyed it every step of the way. Are you talking about Taye Diggs' Groundhog Day or the Netflix zombie thing that I wrote off ten minutes in?
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Apr 22, 2020 20:21
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Are you talking about Taye Diggs' Groundhog Day or the Netflix zombie thing that I wrote off ten minutes in? Netflix zombie. She and I both enjoyed it quite a lot, but to each their own.
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I'll give it another shot
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:My point is that other characters shouldn't notice or react to a character turning to the camera if that's a major storytelling device in the show. Either it means there's a camera nobody else notices or she has a sever break from reality. Either way it puts a damper on the show for me. Yes, I think "severe break from reality" was what they we're aiming for.for both characters actually, but in different ways they are breaking from their own realities.fleabag gets up his own rear end sometimes because it thinks it's much clever than it actually is, but that part was well done imo.
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Apr 22, 2020 21:43
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Speaking of the Taye Diggs 'Day Break', does anyone know if any streaming service has it? I watched a few episodes a long time ago, and I'd love to run all the way through it. It was pretty great from what I remember.
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Halfway through Tim Minchin's "Upright" and loving it so far. Australia feels so otherworldly. Both Minchin and Milly Alcock are amazing together, as is the soundtrack. Sandstorm just started blasting out of loving nowhere, lol And 5 minutes later right in the feels again. Whoof. Edit: Finished it. It's so, sooo good. 
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:I'll give it another shot Give it until the third episode. It's an ensemble show and the obnoxious dude from the first two episodes isn't actually the main character. From the third episode on, the show goes totally apeshit. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Apr 23, 2020 |
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RestingB1tchFace posted:I need to start season two of Black Monday. And Happy Endings was such a great show. Ended far too early. I don't think anyone else here is into Black Monday aside from us, but they just posted on Facebook that Season 2 will return on June 28th, hopefully for all four of the remaining Season 2 episodes. My cable company just ended the free month of Showtime they were offering everyone, so I figure I'll resubscribe in July when I can binge the rest of Black Monday and hopefully all of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I don't think anyone else here is into Black Monday aside from us, but they just posted on Facebook that Season 2 will return on June 28th, hopefully for all four of the remaining Season 2 episodes. Thank god haha. I was genuinely worried about how the limited season would affect the show's prospects.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:My point is that other characters shouldn't notice or react to a character turning to the camera if that's a major storytelling device in the show. Either it means there's a camera nobody else notices or she has a sever break from reality. Either way it puts a damper on the show for me. Disagree, that was the best moment in the entire series.
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Antifa Poltergeist posted:Yes, I think "severe break from reality" was what they we're aiming for.for both characters actually, but in different ways they are breaking from their own realities.fleabag gets up his own rear end sometimes because it thinks it's much clever than it actually is, but that part was well done imo. That's was my problem with Fleabag, it thinks it's much more clever thank it is. And it trys to heavily milk sympathy for a posh rich girl and, for me, just failed to sell it. Granted, they're were some suite funny moments in it. Currently watching Tales from the Loop, which his the spot. A comfortable slightly sweet, slightly bitter Twilight Zone. Re British crime procedurals, I had no idea how many there were or how formulaic they were until I visited an elderly relative who watched them all. Set in some picturesque regional location, lead is seasoned and slightly grumpy but clashes with their superiors, has a younger assistant who makes mistakes and gets too close to the case, which always had something to do with a dark secret from years ago.
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nonathlon posted:Re British crime procedurals, I had no idea how many there were or how formulaic they were until I visited an elderly relative who watched them all. Set in some picturesque regional location, lead is seasoned and slightly grumpy but clashes with their superiors, has a younger assistant who makes mistakes and gets too close to the case, which always had something to do with a dark secret from years ago. There are loads of shows like this and they are pretty much a genre to themselves beyond crime procedurals in general. It's not really something that appeals to me (except Hamish McBeth) but yeah they're very popular in both the UK and US, there are a lot of them (both TV and fiction) and they're very formulaic. They're the UK's equivilent of stuff like Murder She Wrote and Matlock. There is also a pretty strong tradition of stuff that doesn't follow this template and is usually a lot darker, things like Cracker, Prime Suspect and Luther, which I think tend to be more popular in this thread and what people are often talking about when they're praising Brit crime shows We've also had our fair share of regular crime procedurals that are similar in format to your Law and Order and type shows, but they don't seem to be as popular here. e: When I say "your" here I was assuming you were in the US. Adjust if not appropriate. Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Apr 24, 2020 |
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