TV Series

Just finished the latest Borgen.
I enjoyed it.
Watch it via the subtitles as the dubbing is not great.
 
Nethermoor said:
Some series are like that.

Game of thrones, walking dead, breaking bad.

Yellowstone gets better and better
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Yellowstone’s one of the best series I’ve seen in a very very long time, brilliantly written, my girlfriend actually said something to me me about it which I had to stop and think, and it was simply words to the effect that every single episode offered something to the show, there wasn’t a single ‘filler’ episode, and she was absolutely correct.

Just started ‘1833’, which is good and very well written, but it’s left me wondering how they’re having such a hard time going from Fort Worth Texas to Oregan, yet obviously found it easy to go all the way to Turkey to have ‘Turkey teeth’ done, and then come back again, baffling ;-).
 
Son of a Critch.

Newfoundland based Wonder Years. The kid is brilliant and his family are great characters. It feels more Irish/English than Canadian. Very well done all round.
 
Binge watched Traitors U.S. not quite as good as our version, probably because half of them seemed to be minor 'celebrities' already. One or two of them were truely horrible humans, but I guess that added to the drama.
 
WNRH said:
Even Jimmy!?
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Haha fair point mate.
On reflection maybe less so with Jimmy.
You’re right inasmuch as he certainly wasn’t a tw@t, quite affable really, but he also wasn’t the brightest and kinda came across as the ranch gimp.
I felt sorry for the lad more than anything but, like I said, I’ll give it another go.
 
The Patient.
Was OK, but not great.
Thought the actor who played Sam was very good though.
Just realised he is Brendan Gleeson's son, and that he was in Ex Machina (which I saw a few years ago).
I really like him, he is good.
 
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Eccles Blue said:
If you just want to switch off (no pun intended) and have a relaxed watch without engaging brain; Brokenwood, set in NZ and a detective sort of series but some amusing scenes in it.

I confess also that I love The Last Leg. Last night with David Tennant made me laugh out loud a few times and that doesn't happen often these days at TV programmes these days.
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Last leg is one of my fav friday night shows , that and gogglebox , watch both on sat evenings when there is nowt on most of the time
 
New show from Korea called the Island

Won Mi Ho's arrogant and selfish attitude causes her father banishing her to Jeju island. Unbeknownst to her, the island is where evil roams free.

 
Finally finished the last season of Better Call Saul just last night, and yes, I do admit that I now see what all the fuss is about. In a previous post I expressed some impatience about the slow pacing of the previous seasons, but actually it all comes home in season 6 and you see that that pacing was necessary, to allow you to really soak up Jimmy, Kim, Gus, Mike and the Salamanca tribe. You look back at the long journey from Jimmy, the loveable card sharper always in the shadow of his brilliant brother, to Saul, where he really becomes an arsehole basically, and then his afterlife in Nebraska, where he's just marking empty time.
Perhaps in the middle of it all, the saddest story is Nacho's. He in any case is the one I felt saddest about.
I was glad that at the very end Jimmy does the right thing so that Kim doesn't have to spend the rest of her life paying for his stupidity (and her admitted complicity in it).
You can't completely hate Jimmy. You just can't, somehow. At the end of Breaking Bad, I hated Walter, as I think everyone does. He has turned into an unrecognisable monster. Even as Saul, Jimmy never turns into a monster. An arsehole, yes. But not a monster.
 
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