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I think The Power on Prime is intriguing. Watched the first 3 EPs, good cast including Toni Collette and John Leguizamo. I have to say a rare bum note from the usually reliable Eddie Marsan as an ever so cockernee gangsta, the girl playing his daughter sounds like a shit Emma Hayes!!!!

Anyway young girls around the world suddenly begin to discover latent powers of being able to generate electricity, best explained as being akin to electric eels.

Anyway multiple storylines following different characters over the world. One horrible story with a black girl being abused by her foster father and generating a charge to kill him and ending up at a strange convent.

Other stories involve a high school girl in Seattle with her mums who's the mayor and her dad a doctor. Another strand is a cult of women with the Power in Nigeria.

Guess there are some broad parallels with the Handmaid's Tale though that deals with female oppression whereas this is the opposite, with women taking control.

Wonder how it'll pan out, showing a matriarchal society realistically or sub Star Trek or dare I say it, The Worm that Turned, from the Two Ronnies?!?!
 
blue wang said:
Rewatching Boardwalk Empire.
Set in the prohibition era.
Steve Buscemi and Michael Kenneth Williams ( Omar, The wire ). Put in outstanding performances.

Give a solid 8.3 out of 10.
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It’s been sat in the middle of my list of ‘tv series to binge on’ for ages but your description’s put it at the front of the queue .
 
8 episodes into Beef (Netflix) - its got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes so thought I'd check it out. Its not bad at all although I'm not sure why its got a 100% rating. Nothing is perfect apart from The Wire.
 
madloaf said:
Succession ep3. Absolutely incredible. I thought the last of us ep.3 was the best hour of tv I'd seen in many a moon, but this just might have topped it.
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Couldn’t sleep last night so watched the 2am showing ….then couldn’t sleep once it had finished! Acting is incredible by the whole cast but Keiran Culkin in particular is off the charts
 
madloaf said:
Succession ep3. Absolutely incredible. I thought the last of us ep.3 was the best hour of tv I'd seen in many a moon, but this just might have topped it.
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I started watching Succession some time back due to the rave reviews. It was very entertaining for me up until episode 3 or so. I gave up watching the series after episode 5-ish.

Why did I give up on the series?

I gave up, because it's patently unbelievable - but that seems to be somewhat intentional - but moreover, because it's formulaic and repetitive.
 
ballbag said:
8 episodes into Beef (Netflix) - its got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes so thought I'd check it out. Its not bad at all although I'm not sure why its got a 100% rating. Nothing is perfect apart from The Wire.
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I'm going to be controversial and say that the Wire is vastly overrated! Cue the angry mob!
 
BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
I started watching Succession some time back due to the rave reviews. It was very entertaining for me up until episode 3 or so. I gave up watching the series after episode 5-ish.

Why did I give up on the series?

I gave up, because it's patently unbelievable - but that seems to be somewhat intentional - but moreover, because it's formulaic and repetitive.
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Likewise. 2 episodes. I could not understand the hype at all.
 
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