I have found it alright but not sure why everyone is calling for Bella Ramsay to win awards for that last episode. It wasn't especially stand out for me.
I have found it alright but not sure why everyone is calling for Bella Ramsay to win awards for that last episode. It wasn't especially stand out for me.
Final episode watched. It definitely needed a longer season to flesh it out for me. Joel and Ellie in this kind of felt like acquaintances rather than the father/daughter relationship from the game, until this episode. It felt like the only real time they connected well.
It's been a pretty good and true adaptation of the game so far. Though Pedros' Joel seems to be more of a broken good man trying to keep his shit together, rather than the more morally ambiguous man trying to make the best of it in a world gone to shit, like in the game.
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Joel is a very bad man indeed and that reputation follows him through both games.
The Rise and Fall on 4 is The Traitors on steroids.
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It's a decent show but I've no idea where some of the adoration it's getting is coming from.
Cutting her mushroom head open in the game without any MRI scans or tests is dumb. The way her immunity is implied in the series gives them an easy out.
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The game barely touched on the cause of the outbreak to focus on the people. The series has to explain stuff like the roundtable cordyceps discussion or Ellie's infection. Maybe that's the product of being on TV for a broader audience but it's not like TV can't be smarter than that.
Is there a reason that mandalorian season 3 isn’t receiving even half the attention the other two did?
I’m just on episode 1 and it seems to be of the same quality as the other seasons.
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The TLDR is that Disney have fucked the franchise so much no one cares about any of it anymore.
I think, aside from The Drinker fishing for sweet views, Disney didn't help by mixing it up with Boba Fett. The Mandalorian is one of the strongest shows they have, I'd argue stronger than the Marvel shows because MCU stuff needs you to have seen the other stuff to grasp what is going on, but a lot of SW stuff is happening in far removed sections of the time line to the films and other series so you don't need to know too much.
The Last of Us having the same lead and only just finishing likely adds to the less tangible reaction so far.
I do say this from a position of ignorance given I've not actually watched any of the later Star Wars stuff that's come out, but, I get the feeling Alec Guinness was right in that clip from Parkinson when he said people are going to read too much into it all.
Andor made up for all the other latter guff.
The new Waco documentary on Netflix doesn't present anything new, however, it really reinforces the fact that both sides were fucking mental. The cops are fucking idiots and the people inside are fucking loopy paedos.
Finished The Last of Us over the weekend. I enjoyed it. It's not the best show ever but it was pretty good. I haven't played the games so don't know the storyline from them or care if it sticks to that or not.
Nothing (other than Succession obvs) is going to be the best show ever on the current model of TV production, so it's usually the needless marketing hype that does for these things.
It is the most American thing that ever happened. It's lacking in racism, but otherwise it's just vintage Murika.
I also watched all of the Last of us recently (right after the last episode aired, whenever that was) and echo what Boyd has said. It's good but people are also massively overrating it at the same time. Particularly the episode with Nick Offerman. I'm not saying it wasn't good, it was a good episode. But all the "best episode of television EVER!" talk that flooded the internet straight after it aired? No.
I watched both seasons of White Lotus very quickly afterwards too. The first season was excellent. The second season not so much. Still pretty good, but more of a 7/10 affair. It just felt like they were trying to recreate lightning in a bottle after season one. They shouldn't have brought the Jennifer Coolidge character back either. She was brilliant in season one and annoying as fuck in season two.
Anyway, the undisputed cream of the crop (Succession) has now returned to make all other television obsolete for a couple of months.
I think I actually preferred season two to season one of white lotus but I can see why you'd like it the other way round.
I started season two of The White Lotus a while ago but decided I couldn't be arsed with it. The first one was alright but I didn't really get the massive fuss about it.
Season 1 is about as good as it gets.
Greg was in top form in the Succession premiere.
I started Power and am impressed, late to the party I know. As said above makes you laugh that TLOU is being hailed as the best TV show ever with a copy paste of a game plot whilst a show like Power really sticks the landing with multiple plot threads in season one.
It’s back?Greg was in top form in the Succession premiere.
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Just rewatched the finale of season 3.
Also, Soccer AM has been cancelled. Final episode is 27th May.
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Three episodes into Blue Lights and absolutely loving it.
My favourite aspect of Waco is how thick Koresh sounds.
After what I thought was a weak start, Picard has been a huge improvement on the previous 2 series. I hope they don’t fuck it up with a stupid ending.
Workaholics aside, I really do not rate American comedy shows at all but I’m really really enjoying I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson on Netflix.
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Mandalorian with some unexpected A List cameos this week.
I'm about 4/5 episodes in and it's more Star Trek (or a feature film version of TNG) than the first two series. I'm not sure on the worf/rafe side story as they have zero chemistry but I'll keep faith.
How are C4 getting away with a show similar to Naked Attraction but instead they’re getting their kit off to kids? What the fuck
Sounds fairly standard for the times we live in.
I don't know if there are any Race Across the World watchers but after 2 very good series set across Asia and South America, their latest offering has them merely criss-crossing across Canada. Now ignoring the stereotypes of them all being dull people in a dull country, they've managed to remove all the language and cultural interest points that were fundamental to the show's success and it's now just a montage of gammons car-sharing with gammons. So fucking pointless.
It was weird for them to have 3 cameos in a show that hasn’t really had them before but I thought the episode was incredible.
The SA edition won't ever be topped. The highlight being the couples not being able to enter Ecuador due to "civil unrest".
Yeah the ad for that is insane. Take away the cameras and it's noncery. C4 really just pitch anything with cocks and fannys out, as if anyone wanting that doesnt already have it at their fingertips.How are C4 getting away with a show similar to Naked Attraction but instead they’re getting their kit off to kids? What the fuck
I still enjoy the Race show and it's nice seeing places I've been but the single country format where everyone can speak your language does mean it suffers compared to the other series. Hiring cars should be banned for future series too, fuck that.
I was chatting with a mate last night on Skype while he was watching it and his biggest complaint is that it just wasn't a race. Things like "it's been 22 hours since we last moved on". I mean, why?
We're told every 5 mins "in a country with little public transport..." to ominous music so presumably it's some third world out there and me having to watch some old absent father be a cunt to his now adult daughter for the 4th time as some sort of filler is neccessary.
I saw a bit of that the other night. Honestly, it was quite good. They're teens in the show, like, and there's nothing sexual about it. It's just like "this is what normal people's bodies look like" and is probably a necessary corrective to porn (which they're absolutely watching already) and social media influencers.How are C4 getting away with a show similar to Naked Attraction but instead they’re getting their kit off to kids? What the fuck
The last line slightly muffled being bundled into a police car.
Who was the third after Black and the Doc?
Henry, GS, now Boyd. Why are all the board nonces from Northern Ireland?
Pavel's also from Top Ireland.
We need a Dispatches episode on this, and on how noncey Vicars and Priests are to blame, immediately.
It's basically a PSHE lesson, you freaks.
*rapes a toddler*
"They have to learn about the birds and the bee's somehow".
The backlash against all this woke paedo shite is encouraging.
Lizzo as Black’s wife. Admittedly I only knew that from looking it up afterwards.
In an afterthought I thought it might be her as she had a charisma on screen.
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