Whole series has been best in a while for me. Nothing too dragged out.
Whole series has been best in a while for me. Nothing too dragged out.
I had to look after a friends place over the weekend, she had Netflix so I put on some Brooklyn 99. That show really is joyous. I forgot what it was like to actually laugh at a comedy show.
A lot apparently. I'd be interested to know how the money flow worked.
I have only watched three episodes but
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A fuck ton.
You get a slightly better scale of how much they were making closer to the end (although not the full picture), it just seems that they could get money at will from their followers. Most were middle class or higher too.
I finished it the other day and it's a seriously great documentary.
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Bill Hader's new hitman thing started on HBO last night and it's off to a hell of a start. There's enough comedy in there to suggests there's more to come it's played just straight enough for what needs to be menacing to feel that way. I'm in.
Apparently Terence Stamp was in the cult too, his Sannyasin name was Swami Deva Veetan and then he landed the General Zod role.
Clearly works.
I've started watching this new thing on AMC called The Terror. It's about a real-life British naval expedition that got lost in the Arctic while trying to find the Northwest Passage in the mid-1800s.
In reality we only have a limited amount of information on what happened to them, but this is apparently based on a historical novel of the same name, that seems to have put a creepy, supernatural twist on proceedings. It makes for a really interesting mix of two genres, the first two episodes are out and I really liked them both. It also doesn't hurt that it has has Ciaran Hinds and Jared Harris in the two lead roles, both of whom I really like.
Sounds a bit like The River, which was really shit but in an almost charming way.
Finished Wild, Wild West. It is very, very good.
Sheela got twenty years and served 29 months. That's pretty crazy.
They really didn't do that much.
Illegal wiretapping, attempted murder, planned assassination of a governor...
Wild Wild Country was great. The new Dre/Iovine doc is a decent watch too, though I have an invested interest in both. It's a little flimsy in it's premise but works well as an examination of unlikely allies with similar traits.
10 minutes into Wild Wild Country and the constant aspect ratio switching is doing my head in. Why couldn't the newly filmed parts have just been 16:9 so they'd fill the screen and it wouldn't have been as noticeable? As it is, it's fucking black bars along the top and bottom one second and then at the sides the next.
Anyone watch Life In Pieces on Amazon? It's got an Arrested Development/Modern Family vibe. Great cast too (including Colin Hanks, son-of-Tom, who looks kinda distractingly alike his pa).
I'll not catch Wild Wild Country for ages but this sums it up alright.
That's a lot of attempted murder.
He looks like he could be Snoop Dogg's Indian half-brother or something in that picture.
Snoop Rajnesh is a completely plausible name too.
Started watching 'Unsolved' on iPlayer last night when I was trying to get to sleep. It's like a bad rip off of Making a Murderer/Serial. It is so shit but I'm probably gonna keep watching.
Barry is fucking great.
Brooklyn Nine Nine is on a serious roll at the moment too. Last night's episode played like a very conscious homage to the best Homicide episode, but somehow stayed very funny.
The best joke in the episode was a complete throwaway that happened off screen, and once again involved Holt being ludicrously formal.
Was that when he started spelling his name?
I think Holt is my favourite character in anything ever. His "vin-di-CATION" at the end of that episode where he made the balloon arch being top of a long list of best moments.
I've almost caught up on Brooklyn 99. That series where they were in Florida or whatever
I liked yesterday's but I cannot put my finger on the bit you're talking about.
The delivery was great, as it always will be with that actor. It was just a lazy joke in a period during which they told a lot of similar lazy jokes.
Holt's 'HOT DAMN' and the series of clips after Rosa says the word 'bone' are far better examples of essentially the same joke.
Finished series 2 of 'Sneaky Pete' yesterday - not as good as the first series, but certainly held its own and the various plot lines intersected well. Hopefully there will be a third series.
Im upto season four of Silicon Valley and still think it’s great. Season three was probably funnier than two too.
I'm a twit
The Expanse started back last night. I've seen absolutely no hype or press for it, so that was a nice surprise.
I started back on the Walking Dead last night with first episode after the mid-season break. Didn't realise there was so much of it out already. I don't think I'll bother with it any more. I don't give a shit about any of the characters, Negan and the saviours are boring now and I kept feeling like I was only watching it because I'd watched so much of the show already.
The woman who made Fleabag has adapted a spy/conspiracy novel, Boydy.
Killing Eve.
Only one episode out so far, is there? Did you watch it? Is it any good?
I see the BBC started an adaptation of China Miéville's The City and The City the other week starring David Morrissey. I read the book quite recently and it's pretty mad so it'll be interesting to see how that works on TV.
The whole season of The City and The City is available. They released the lot for download ahead of showing it, which seems to be happening more and more at the moment and which I don't like.
I haven't watched Killing Eve yet.
So talking Wild Wild Country, am I the only person that would love a go on Sheela? Not now like, although I wouldn't dare so no. When she was in her 20's or whatever. What a ride that would be.
Two episodes into The Terror, and if it keeps up the quality of those two it'll be the best dramatic series since Breaking Bad finished. It's certainly the best looking since Breaking Bad, and the music is Leftovers good.
I've just finished it, and the quality definitely keeps up throughout, it my opinion. It's very difficult to compare it to something like Breaking Bad, because it's so different, and it isn't a five season story-arc. It's certainly the best thing I've watched in quite some time though.