The TV Thread

Brio

I'm enjoying Special Ops: Lioness at the moment.
Pretty much 'by the numbers' action but it keeps the tension up for me, plus Zoe Soldana!

BigBearKris

Brio said:

I'm enjoying Special Ops: Lioness at the moment.
Pretty much 'by the numbers' action but it keeps the tension up for me, plus Zoe Soldana!

It feels a bit "plastic" but it's enjoyable. 
Zoe with hard-ass attitude and dirty mouth is a bit of a different and new look for her - but it works. 

EricTheWeary

EricTheWeary said:

Most of the way through The Last of Us on Sky/Now. Standard US post apocalypse stuff mostly but very well done standard US post apocalypse stuff. 

Finished The Last Of Us which was good but the main character was a man in his fifties and at no point did he mention his pension forecast so I felt it lacked credibility. 

Started on Good Omens 2 (Prime). If anyone knows the pyramids off the M8 near Glasgow apparently mostly filmed in a studio just behind them. 

usedtobe

Just watching We hunt together, on iplayer.. Really enjoying it!

Chuffola

fretmeister said:

I finished Mad Men.

Loved it. 

I need something new now.

Me too. Missing it having binged an episode a night. Fantastic.

Haych

We have started watching Only Murders in the Building and are now close to the end of season one.

I really like it.  It's well made, light hearted and has enough intrigue to make you want more.  The characters are well written and with Steve Martin and Martin Short in the leads, plus Selena Gomez, it's well acted and feels like quality stuff.

It also has the element of trying to guess who dun it.  It's on Disney + if anyone wishes to give it a try.

goldtop

We've run out of TV series to watch on Netflix, so we've started on the Spanish "Money Heist".

Two episodes in - does it get better?

HerbieTheRadDorklift

duotone said:

I just started The Bear: Season 2 on Disney+. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452776/

 I really enjoyed Season 1 & this is more of the same.  Really easy to watch 30-40 minute episodes in the evening about them opening up a new restaurant, with their target of achieving a Michelin star. Recommended!

I don't get series 2. It feels different somehow. Pretentious, yet almost trying to be a sitcom. I can't explain it.

VimFuego

Just started watching the Oppenheimer series from 1980, in iPlayer. It was a bit before my time back then so have no memories of it. Only one episode in, and whilst it does feel like something of it's time, it does well at putting over the idea that at the time the development of the A bomb was seen as a moral imperative as Hitler was developing it etc. And it does well to pastiche and mock the champagne socialists of the time.

JEM

goldtop said:

We've run out of TV series to watch on Netflix, so we've started on the Spanish "Money Heist".

Two episodes in - does it get better?

No, it just gets more and more ridiculous.

EricTheWeary

JEM said:

goldtop said:

We've run out of TV series to watch on Netflix, so we've started on the Spanish "Money Heist".

Two episodes in - does it get better?

No, it just gets more and more ridiculous.

I loved the original series. Second one not so much, Korean remake was just odd (and even more ridiculous, you might not have thought it was possible but it was). 

It is fairly low budget, fairly silly, eye popping product placement, quite sexy, possibly homophobic (the second series seems to over compensate for this and also has a shed load of violence but by then they were making it for the American market). Enjoy it as Spanish quirkiness. My son’s boss is Spanish and lives in Spain (works entirely remotely) and apparently it was a national obsession. 

goldtop

JEM said:

goldtop said:

We've run out of TV series to watch on Netflix, so we've started on the Spanish "Money Heist".

Two episodes in - does it get better?

No, it just gets more and more ridiculous.

Oh no. It's not as if the writing is so good and the characters so interesting that you can happily ignore the plot holes.

I'll let Ms GT know and we'll decide whether to carry on with it tonight.

Philly_Q

Haych said:

We have started watching Only Murders in the Building and are now close to the end of season one.

I really like it.  It's well made, light hearted and has enough intrigue to make you want more.  The characters are well written and with Steve Martin and Martin Short in the leads, plus Selena Gomez, it's well acted and feels like quality stuff.

It also has the element of trying to guess who dun it.  It's on Disney + if anyone wishes to give it a try.

Yeah, I'll probably be starting on the third series very soon.  The characters can be a bit annoying at times but the storylines, once they get going, are pretty good.  And I'm developing a sad-old-man crush on Selena Gomez.

Nitefly

EricTheWeary said:

JEM said:

goldtop said:

We've run out of TV series to watch on Netflix, so we've started on the Spanish "Money Heist".

Two episodes in - does it get better?

No, it just gets more and more ridiculous.

I loved the original series. Second one not so much, Korean remake was just odd (and even more ridiculous, you might not have thought it was possible but it was). 

It is fairly low budget, fairly silly, eye popping product placement, quite sexy, possibly homophobic (the second series seems to over compensate for this and also has a shed load of violence but by then they were making it for the American market). Enjoy it as Spanish quirkiness. My son’s boss is Spanish and lives in Spain (works entirely remotely) and apparently it was a national obsession. 

@goldtop - what @EricTheWeary says is all true; I'd add that I was very curious as to how they would do it, so I watched all of series 1 and stayed interested.  This is unusual for me as I normally have the attention span of a tadpole.

Series 2, however... suffice to say, I lost interest, but Our Maud ploughed on to the bitter end!  

damodai

Watched "Fisk" first season on netflix in one sitting .  Clever , understated and hilarious      

goldtop

EricTheWeary said:

JEM said:

goldtop said:

We've run out of TV series to watch on Netflix, so we've started on the Spanish "Money Heist".

Two episodes in - does it get better?

No, it just gets more and more ridiculous.

I loved the original series. Second one not so much, Korean remake was just odd (and even more ridiculous, you might not have thought it was possible but it was). 

It is fairly low budget, fairly silly, eye popping product placement, quite sexy, possibly homophobic (the second series seems to over compensate for this and also has a shed load of violence but by then they were making it for the American market). Enjoy it as Spanish quirkiness. My son’s boss is Spanish and lives in Spain (works entirely remotely) and apparently it was a national obsession. 

Yes, we normally love Spanish movies, and it's definitely quirky, but with some boorish writing/direction.

The first time we gratuitously see 'Tokyo' in her skimpies, part of my brain thought "great!" and the other part thought "really?". Then there's the pervy bit of watching the young girl being sexploited twice.

We'll see...

duotone

Finished Season 1 of Atlanta last week. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4288182/ 

Really enjoyed it, nice & easy to watch in the evenings. No complicated storylines to follow. 8/10

Most likely will start Season 2 soon.

EricTheWeary

Dexter: New Blood

Sky Atlantic/ NOW 

I had been quite excited about this then completely forgot about it until recently. It’s not brilliant, it’s not terrible. Probably a bit pointless if you don’t have at least some familiarity with the original series. Watched it for a sense of completeness I guess. 

boogieman

I started looking through all the stuff I’d bookmarked on Netflix ages ago but never got around to watching. Made a start on The Chestnut Man last night, a Danish crime noir series. It’s pretty gruesome but I’m already hooked after a couple of episodes. 

EricTheWeary

boogieman said:

I started looking through all the stuff I’d bookmarked on Netflix ages ago but never got around to watching. Made a start on The Chestnut Man last night, a Danish crime noir series. It’s pretty gruesome but I’m already hooked after a couple of episodes. 

We watched that last year as part of our prep for going to Denmark. Didn't help but it was a good series. 

Watched Good Omens 2 on Prime. I don't know what I think about it really. Looks nice.