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Escobarbarian posted:Loving Pachinko so far Same! I've read the book and was cautiously optimistic, but so far it's an excellent adaptation. Open Source Idiom posted:SHA-LA LA-LA LA-LA  
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Escobarbarian posted:2 and 3 are a huge step up especially as they play more into the camp elements and Lauren Ambrose starts really chewing the scenery
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I am really liking The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, more people should give it a shot.
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Pachinko is wonderful. I love how they've adapted it so far.
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The trailer for "Suspicion" made me feel like I was watching some kind of clip package of every network/basic cable action show and low-budget thriller from the aughts. I didn't think it looked bad, just incredibly uninteresting. Which, in the age of infinity options, is pretty much the worst thing a show can be.
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I watched Suspicion because Elizabeth Henstridge was in it, but I haven’t made it beyond the first three episodes or so, it’s just not super interesting.
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I've only ever seen Elizabeth Henstridge in Suspicion so I don't know if it's just her appearance in the show, but she looks very distractingly like Kiera Knightley in it.
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Metis of the Hallways posted:Pachinko is wonderful. I love how they've adapted it so far. its very good. like a real proper tv show you know
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Severance and Pachinko both superb this week. Pachinko had some amazing payoff for both major storylines so far. Also really enjoyed the first episode of Slow Horses. Gary Oldman is excellent and it’s a very promising spy thriller story with some decent wit.
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Apr 1, 2022 14:36
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I had thought Servant was building up to Dorothy finally realizing what had happened to Jericho, instead something else happened. Maybe now she'll learn what happened to Jericho when the same thing happens to her 
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Open Source Idiom posted:Big week for women dancing in freaky masks. Severance, The Dropout, WeCrashed, anything else? Somewhat enjoyed #1 of Slow Horses, but my heart sank a bit when I realised the opening sequence was pointless backstory. Also, not actually nitpicking whatever it sounds like, Oldman the Old Man (he's an old man) would never say "spies" when referring to a fellow agent FFS, no matter how much of a fuckup they were. (It was mostly corrected later on, to be fair.) Of course, both the above points could be wrong.
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Episode 2 of Slow Horses does a lot to establish that River is a loving moron and nowhere near as good a spy as he thinks he is.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Big week for women dancing in freaky masks. Waffle House is switching tactics.
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Slow Horses makes a lot more sense when you realise it’s based on books that are affectionately parodying Le Carré. Gary Oldman is killing it though.
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/harrison-ford-to-star-in-apple-tv-series-from-ted-lasso-team-1235124956/ I hadn't seen any posts about this show yet, Harrison Ford has signed on to a new Bill Lawrence/Brett Goldstein show also written/produced by/starring Jason Segel, called "Shrinking" quote:The series, picked up in October 2021, centers a grieving therapist (Segel) who begins to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge changes to people’s lives — including his own.
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I haven't watched any of his other stuff, but Dispatches from Elsewhere was so great that I am interested to see what Segel does next.
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I’m watching Servant, towards the end of season 2 now, and is the intended response “all these people are absolutely vile and idgas what happens to any of them?” I mean I’m actively rooting for something horrible to happen to pretty much all of them. Possible exemption for extremely creepy kidnapped nanny.
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Beefeater1980 posted:I’m watching Servant, towards the end of season 2 now, and is the intended response “all these people are absolutely vile and idgas what happens to any of them?” I mean I’m actively rooting for something horrible to happen to pretty much all of them. Possible exemption for extremely creepy kidnapped nanny. Yeah. It's a class warfare story -- it's called Servant for a reason. I think it's possible to feel some sympathy for the family, at times, but the third season makes it very clear how you're meant to think about the cast.
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Yeah, it's either the last or second to last episode of the third season, where it is explicitly stated outright what the relation dynamic is meant to be. I do think the show is good in going back and forth between sympathy for and frustration at Sean and Dorothy, occasionally at odds with each other. Also the show needs to go back to more food porn! I agree with Sean this season, Julian was more fun as a drunk. The whole cast of Servant is really good, especially considering how out there some of the stuff is.
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Rupert Grint is so good. He's had an interesting career since the rowling.
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I got the trailer for Tehran season 2 before the Severance final episode and I’m laughing my rear end off that the Iranian intelligence guy that was literally shot dead at the end of season 1 is back. Like they realised oh gently caress we killed off the one interesting character we have once they had the second season commissioned. Also ep 3 of Slow Horses was real good, it’s gonna be real fun now poo poo’s properly hit the fan for everyone involved.
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I got a promo for the new baseball thing and it had PST times and I’m in EST and that’s so Apple.
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Right, you'd think they'd adjust for daylight saving time at least.
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slow horses needs a thread it's probably wrong to lump all the miserable crime poo poo that the UK pumps out together but this show is SO much better than bodyguard, which had so much bloody noise around it or like.. Kin or Gangs of London which are basically marvel shows in comparison I got enjoyment out of them all but yeah... slow horses is a level above.
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Yeah it’s better than most modern British spy shows for sure. Great stuff. Pachinko also continues to be very good and moving
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The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey had a very satisfying ending, this was a really nice show.
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Beefeater1980 posted:I’m watching Servant, towards the end of season 2 now, and is the intended response “all these people are absolutely vile and idgas what happens to any of them?” I mean I’m actively rooting for something horrible to happen to pretty much all of them. Possible exemption for extremely creepy kidnapped nanny.
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Escobarbarian posted:Yeah it’s better than most modern British spy shows for sure. Great stuff. What other modern spy shows came out? I'm rather disconnected from British TV, but love the pulpy lunacy of something like Line of Duty
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Boy, Roar is pretty disappointing.
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Oasx posted:The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey had a very satisfying ending, this was a really nice show. yeah. just a short and sweet series.
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Escobarbarian posted:Boy, Roar is pretty disappointing. Well yeah, it’s a TV show with Nicole Kidman
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Escobarbarian posted:Boy, Roar is pretty disappointing. What disappointed you about it?
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Slow Horses still good now it's fully into the 3-way spy vs spy vs actual enemy phase of things.
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Open Source Idiom posted:What disappointed you about it? So much of it is a show full of the most basic, insipid metaphors, treated like they’re the first person ever to use the concept. There’s an episode about how women can feel like they’re put on shelves and treated like objects…..that’s about a woman who is literally put on a shelf. And then they don’t really go further with these concepts, they just point at them like “eh? eh???? do you get it???”, and it’s like, of course we do. I’ll probably finish it because anthology, but so far the only episode I’ve really liked is the Alison Brie one….which is episode six of eight. On twitter I compared it to that Star Trek script Kinsey wrote in Mad Men about a planet where the white people are the ones who are the slaves which I think is a pretty apt metaphor
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Escobarbarian posted:So much of it is a show full of the most basic, insipid metaphors, treated like they’re the first person ever to use the concept. There’s an episode about how women can feel like they’re put on shelves and treated like objects…..that’s about a woman who is literally put on a shelf. And then they don’t really go further with these concepts, they just point at them like “eh? eh???? do you get it???”, and it’s like, of course we do. In all honesty, I've seen the first episode and it was straight up awful. It really feels like a show which has nothing to express. Is the first episode outstandingly bad? Otherwise I won't even try the other ones. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Apr 16, 2022 |
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The people who did Drive to Survive are doing a surfing one for Apple TV+: https://twitter.com/BoxToBoxFilms/status/1516088014610518022
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I hope it has as much fake drama in as Drive to Survive because surfers are not the kind of people I'd rely on to provide natural conflict to a film crew.
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