TV Series

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart - 8/10 - watched this over a couple of evenings with the missus. Really good miniseries. Currently on Prime.
 
journolud said:
Been watching a couple of Aussie series, Black Snow was good and half way through Scrublands. Would welcome recommendations for anything else on similar lines
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Try Underbelly if you haven't already seen it.

From an old Guardian review of Season 1:

'Underbelly is the ABC miniseries that chronicled the real-life story of the Melbourne drug wars of the 90s that claimed 30 lives, in which Carl Williams played a central role. Compared favourably by critics to The Sopranos, Underbelly is thrilling television; the carnival of grotesques that was Australian criminal royalty at the time is never less than compelling. Not merely a saga of coked-up trashy hoods, it's a modern-day parable on loyalty, betrayal and the corrupting influence of power.'

Seasons 2 & 3 are excellent too, as is Season 5 (which I'm half-way through at the moment).

Wasn't quite as impressed with Season 4 but that was still watchable.

Also, a big thank you to whoever it was that recommended Love/Hate on here a couple of months ago. Am still watching the final Season. The first two were good, but 3, 4 and now this last one have been exceptional.

There are some great characters, though my personal favourite has been Alan Price-lookalike 'Fran'.
 
ZenHalfTimeCrock said:
Try Underbelly if you haven't already seen it.

From an old Guardian review of Season 1:

'Underbelly is the ABC miniseries that chronicled the real-life story of the Melbourne drug wars of the 90s that claimed 30 lives, in which Carl Williams played a central role. Compared favourably by critics to The Sopranos, Underbelly is thrilling television; the carnival of grotesques that was Australian criminal royalty at the time is never less than compelling. Not merely a saga of coked-up trashy hoods, it's a modern-day parable on loyalty, betrayal and the corrupting influence of power.'

Seasons 2 & 3 are excellent too, as is Season 5 (which I'm half-way through at the moment).

Wasn't quite as impressed with Season 4 but that was still watchable.

Also, a big thank you to whoever it was that recommended Love/Hate on here a couple of months ago. Am still watching the final Season. The first two were good, but 3, 4 and now this last one have been exceptional.

There are some great characters, though my personal favourite has been Alan Price-lookalike 'Fran'.
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Underbelly is great , watched two seasons and didnt realise it continued , is it on netflix or something ?
 
ZenHalfTimeCrock said:
Try Underbelly if you haven't already seen it.

From an old Guardian review of Season 1:

'Underbelly is the ABC miniseries that chronicled the real-life story of the Melbourne drug wars of the 90s that claimed 30 lives, in which Carl Williams played a central role. Compared favourably by critics to The Sopranos, Underbelly is thrilling television; the carnival of grotesques that was Australian criminal royalty at the time is never less than compelling. Not merely a saga of coked-up trashy hoods, it's a modern-day parable on loyalty, betrayal and the corrupting influence of power.'

Seasons 2 & 3 are excellent too, as is Season 5 (which I'm half-way through at the moment).

Wasn't quite as impressed with Season 4 but that was still watchable.

Also, a big thank you to whoever it was that recommended Love/Hate on here a couple of months ago. Am still watching the final Season. The first two were good, but 3, 4 and now this last one have been exceptional.

There are some great characters, though my personal favourite has been Alan Price-lookalike 'Fran'.
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Do you need to watch love hate from the start or could you just watch the latest season for example?
 
Kinkladze 1 said:
Do you need to watch love hate from the start or could you just watch the latest season for example?
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I think you need to watch it from the start, as some of the plot lines carry over into Season 3.

Seasons 1 & 2 really aren’t bad (though I wasn’t all that impressed by the first couple of episodes) and it’s only my view that the series got exponentially better from S3 onwards.

It’s a bit like a typical City season: S1 & 2 = Before Christmas

S3 - 5 = After Christmas
 
IrishBlueSince92 said:
Watched the first series of the Responder

Sort of lost interest halfway through and it was only on in the background.

Picked up a bit near the end when the cops fella locked her in a cupboard.

I'll give the second series a go. Fuck all else to be at these nights with no football on
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I stuck with it, finished series one last night, agree with you, hard to stick with at times! I found his mannerisms and facial expressions, make it hard to take him seriously, It's like he walked straight out of 'The Office' and put a cops uniform on!
 
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