TV Show recommendations

Started by Archie Mitchell, June 23, 2009, 11:32:19 PM

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bennydorano

Half way through  I May Destroy you on BBC iplayer. Great show, hard to describe & pigeon hole, very intense & compulsive viewing at times. It deals with the contradictions of many Woke issues, hard to know at times is this being serious or satirical.

screenexile

Quote from: bennydorano on July 28, 2020, 03:36:10 PM
Half way through  I May Destroy you on BBC iplayer. Great show, hard to describe & pigeon hole, very intense & compulsive viewing at times. It deals with the contradictions of many Woke issues, hard to know at times is this being serious or satirical.

There's satire in there but it's definitely being serious... I'm similar it's very good and well done I think plenty of food for thought in it!!

johnnycool

Quote from: omagh_gael on July 28, 2020, 02:21:21 PM
Just finished the first series of The Sinner. Found it very good, some small plot holes but overall very enjoyable.

Season 1 and Season 2 are good, but Season three is the biggest bowl of pish I have sat through.

nrico2006

Quote from: johnnycool on July 29, 2020, 08:46:01 AM
Quote from: omagh_gael on July 28, 2020, 02:21:21 PM
Just finished the first series of The Sinner. Found it very good, some small plot holes but overall very enjoyable.

Season 1 and Season 2 are good, but Season three is the biggest bowl of pish I have sat through.

Only watched The Sinner 3 weeks ago.  I had heard the reports about the third season but battered on anyway.  Season 1 and 2 were pretty good though.
'To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal, light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle.'

laoislad

Quote from: johnnycool on July 29, 2020, 08:46:01 AM
Quote from: omagh_gael on July 28, 2020, 02:21:21 PM
Just finished the first series of The Sinner. Found it very good, some small plot holes but overall very enjoyable.

Season 1 and Season 2 are good, but Season three is the biggest bowl of pish I have sat through.
I liked Season 3.
When you think you're fucked you're only about 40% fucked.

Tony Baloney

Quote from: johnnycool on July 29, 2020, 08:46:01 AM
Quote from: omagh_gael on July 28, 2020, 02:21:21 PM
Just finished the first series of The Sinner. Found it very good, some small plot holes but overall very enjoyable.

Season 1 and Season 2 are good, but Season three is the biggest bowl of pish I have sat through.
Didn't like 2 (don't think finished it) and finished 3 but found the premise hard to deal with. Also, Mrs. Baloney kept going on about how he'd never be allowed to keep teaching, so that didn't help my enjoyment of it!

johnnycool

Quote from: Tony Baloney on July 29, 2020, 01:01:51 PM
Quote from: johnnycool on July 29, 2020, 08:46:01 AM
Quote from: omagh_gael on July 28, 2020, 02:21:21 PM
Just finished the first series of The Sinner. Found it very good, some small plot holes but overall very enjoyable.

Season 1 and Season 2 are good, but Season three is the biggest bowl of pish I have sat through.
Didn't like 2 (don't think finished it) and finished 3 but found the premise hard to deal with. Also, Mrs. Baloney kept going on about how he'd never be allowed to keep teaching, so that didn't help my enjoyment of it!

Mrs Cool was the same. Sure he'd not be allowed to follow him to NYC, blah blah blah.

johnnycool

anyone watch bloodline on Netflix?

Verdicts?

Geoff Tipps

Quote from: Thastheball on July 29, 2020, 02:14:36 PM
watched the first three seasons of 'Animal Kingdom' on Prime. Loved it

The film is far superior to this series.

Rois

Quote from: johnnycool on July 30, 2020, 04:33:18 PM
anyone watch bloodline on Netflix?

Verdicts?
Yep - I enjoyed it.  Great cast - and the characters were interesting because they developed in ways I hadn't expected.  I think if you liked Ozark, you'd like it.

I started watching because it was set in the Keys and it had Kyle Chandler in it.  But glad I did. 

Minder

Quote from: Geoff Tipps on July 30, 2020, 04:38:10 PM
Quote from: Thastheball on July 29, 2020, 02:14:36 PM
watched the first three seasons of 'Animal Kingdom' on Prime. Loved it

The film is far superior to this series.

The film is great
"When it's too tough for them, it's just right for us"

Main Street

Quote from: Billys Boots on July 28, 2020, 09:52:56 AM
Am enjoying the new Sky adaptation of the 'Perry Mason' yarns - seems to have drawn influences heavily from the recent German 'Babylon Berlin' adaptations.  Recommended ... if you like that sort of thing.
It's very interesting, pretty dark, doesn't resemble the Perry I remember and his handsome sidekick who had a knack of finding the smoking gun just before Perry did his summing up. They spent a bit of money on this production. Jesus saves but Perry will set you free.

lurganblue

The new series of Last Chance U has arrived on Netflix.  New team, new coaches and an inner city team this year from Oakland.  I have only watched 2 of the new series but it continues to be a great watch.  This new coach seems to be another character.

Amazing to see the lengths that the players/students go to, when also faced with society problems, family problems and this year, work problems.

oakleaflad

Quote from: lurganblue on August 03, 2020, 03:47:32 PM
The new series of Last Chance U has arrived on Netflix.  New team, new coaches and an inner city team this year from Oakland.  I have only watched 2 of the new series but it continues to be a great watch.  This new coach seems to be another character.

Amazing to see the lengths that the players/students go to, when also faced with society problems, family problems and this year, work problems.
Watched it all. Laney College, Oakland is certainly a different feel to East Mississippi or Independence, Kansas. This feels more like the nitty gritty of JUCO football as opposed to the facilities/money/scholarships etc seen at the previous schools. This coach is a bit more likeable than the others imo and agreed the lengths the players go to is really eye-opening.

Think this is the last football version of the show with Laney Basketball being covered next.

Targetman

Yeah great show thoroughly enjoyable, definitely no big time Charlies in this series, some of the players that the spotlight was on in previous series were definitely born with the silver spoon in their mouths, poor Dior has to sleep in his car!!