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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 22, 2022 11:16:46 GMT -5
Slam_Bradley , glad you enjoyed it. It’s also great that they got Gwendoline Christie in the show, and the young woman who plays Enid is super likable and is a fabulous counterpoint to Wednesday. Yeah, I really liked the lil gal that played Enid. Super cute, but you suspect there's hidden depth. I don't really know Gwendoline Christie (I've still not watched Game of Thrones). I guess she was also in a Star Wars movie, but those honestly leave almost zero impression on my noggin at this point. |
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Post by The Captain on Dec 22, 2022 11:40:13 GMT -5
Slam_Bradley , glad you enjoyed it. It’s also great that they got Gwendoline Christie in the show, and the young woman who plays Enid is super likable and is a fabulous counterpoint to Wednesday. Yeah, I really liked the lil gal that played Enid. Super cute, but you suspect there's hidden depth. I don't really know Gwendoline Christie (I've still not watched Game of Thrones). I guess she was also in a Star Wars movie, but those honestly leave almost zero impression on my noggin at this point. The two things that I know Christie from are GoT, as you mentioned, and Sandman, where she played Lucifer. Her height obviously helps, but the woman has serious screen presence whenever she’s there. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 31, 2022 12:47:37 GMT -5
Anybody else here watching Avenue 5? I just watched the last episode of season 2 last night...
I liked this season quite a bit better than the first season, although I still can't say I think this is an outstanding or excellent show. But it is entertaining. And now I find myself wondering if there's going to be a season 3, since this second season closed with quite a few loose ends.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2023 8:59:01 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Jan 18, 2023 12:01:57 GMT -5
I've finally started the last season of Better Call Saul, which I think has been one of the best shows of its era, even better than Breaking Bad, so one of the few cases of a sequel or prequel surpassing the original. My only problem - and it's a relatively minor one - is that I can't feel as much sympathy for the two main characters as previously, due to their latest scheme. Since we knew from Breaking Bad how Jimmy/Saul ended up, this isn't a surprise, of course.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2023 7:04:18 GMT -5
Watched a Season 2 episode of NCIS last night. A CID agent appeared at one point. CID? The only CID I had heard of was the Criminal Investigation Department in UK police forces. I had no idea there was a CID in the US, which if I have it right, is the law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of the Army. Interesting to know that the US has a CID even if it is different from our CID.
Also watched the pilot episode of NCIS: Hawaiʻi, which saw the team investigate when an experimental Navy aircraft crashes into a mountain. Great plot, and Hawaiian scenery is always nice, but I don’t feel this could hold a candle to the other NCIS shows. Perhaps one spin-off too many? I’ll give it a chance, anyway.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 1, 2023 9:09:54 GMT -5
Just got through watching the fourth season of Babylon Berlin last night:
This is a pretty good show overall, and I really liked this last season in particular. Looking forward to the next season.
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Post by berkley on Feb 1, 2023 11:57:15 GMT -5
Anybody else here watching Avenue 5? I just watched the last episode of season 2 last night... I liked this season quite a bit better than the first season, although I still can't say I think this is an outstanding or excellent show. But it is entertaining. And now I find myself wondering if there's going to be a season 3, since this second season closed with quite a few loose ends.
First I heard of this show and I'm definitely interested. Ianucci and Laurie doing a SF series sounds good to me, don't know how I missed it up to now.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 22, 2023 14:34:00 GMT -5
Watched a couple of thing recently. I watched the entirety of Cunk On Earth. I was not familiar with Diane Morgan's character Philomena Cunk, but I'm a fiend for mockumentaries. I was very pleased overall with the show. Morgan had great comedic timing and the interviews with experts were outstanding, particularly the ones who really leaned in to the bit. Super funny stuff.
On the other hand History of the World, Part II was awful and I gave up after the second episode. I had hoped, but probably shouldn't have, since I haven't liked anything that Brooks has done since the original History of the World. No...I didn't like Spaceballs. Honestly this was just pretty dire and it wasn't helped in any way by the way it was put together with the sketches disjointedly continuing over several episodes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2023 8:52:04 GMT -5
I’ve been watching a few UK detective dramas recently, such as Redemption and Better.
In a lot of modern dramas, while detectives are interviewing suspects, the solicitor is sitting there quietly, making notes. They say nothing.
Yet when I watch classic detective dramas, the solicitors are constantly interrupting the detectives, questioning something, correcting (or trying to correct) a point, etc.
Interesting. Not sure what it’s like in real life.
I tell you what show I wasn’t a fan of: Judge John Deed, starring Martin Shaw as a High Court judge. During trials, he was talking all of the time. Maybe he did so because the show was Martin Shaw’s, but it was even mentioned in one episode, when a barrister said to him, “My lord, may I remind you that this is my case to prosecute?”
I much prefer seeing US legal dramas where the judge lets the prosecutor and defender do the talking.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 27, 2023 16:18:47 GMT -5
I’ve been watching a few UK detective dramas recently, such as Redemption and Better. In a lot of modern dramas, while detectives are interviewing suspects, the solicitor is sitting there quietly, making notes. They say nothing. Yet when I watch classic detective dramas, the solicitors are constantly interrupting the detectives, questioning something, correcting (or trying to correct) a point, etc. Interesting. Not sure what it’s like in real life. We watch many of those British detective/police shows, too, and are curious if that's just the way things are or whether it makes those kinds of episodes a helluva lot easier to write. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2023 16:32:53 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 27, 2023 16:45:28 GMT -5
Which ones have you watched recently, Prince Hal ? Always happens on "Vera." Also on "Shetland," "Endeavour," and "Grantchester," just off the top of my head. Occasionally a suspect will say "No comment," but I can't recall ever hearing the solicitor say a word. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 3, 2023 13:40:08 GMT -5
My wife and I finished the first season and started the second season of Reservation Dogs. What an amazing show. Great combination of comedy and coming-of-age, with a fair bit of pathos without ever being schmaltzy. It follows four young native Americans living on an Oklahoma reservation in the aftermath of the death of a fifth friend. The setting is a huge part of the show and it probably helps if you've grown up near a reservation and/or dealt with the native population in your work life. All the writers and directors are indigenous peoples and most of the cast are North American indigenous actors. It's great to see Zahn McClarnon and Wes Studi in continuing roles. But it's the four young main actors who really shine and make this way better than the average TV show.  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 3, 2023 15:35:34 GMT -5
My partner had a no-work day today and decided to start watching the HBO series Julia, which is about the start of Julia Child's television career at the beginning of the 1960s...
She ended up binging the entire series (8 episodes) and I half-watched most of it while working (or trying to) and then just sat down with her to watch the last two episodes in the evening.
If you ever watched that movie Julie & Julia and, like me, wished there were more of those flashback scenes featuring Child and her husband Paul (played there by Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci respectively) when they were living in France in the 1950s, this is for you. It's a really, really well-made and entertaining series with a fantastic cast: Sarah Lancashire does a bang-up job portraying Child, and David Hyde Pierce as Paul Child and Bebe Neuwirth as her best friend Avis DeVoto are similarly brilliant.
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