TV Series

Well, after the excellent match, I thought I'd have a look at some spin-offs for 'Dexter' and found an animated series that's on YouTube, made in 2009, and also narrated by Michael C. Hall called 'Dexter: Early Cuts'.

Might be interesting to some of you that Hall's been working on this stuff a long time.

Here's the first one:

 
Boo or Boo-urns said:
Justified S1 uses the formulaic "villain of the week" format whilst slowly developing the Justified universe and side-characters in the background.

From S2 onwards we get the multi-layered stories that arch throughout the whole series, its absolutely worth sticking with for the final series payoff.

Boyd Crowther: "We dug coal together."

Justified.
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The emoji was well worth a like. :)

Never seen the show.
 
SamTheGuru said:
They have advertised it enough. Is it that bad?
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They had a chance to tell the story but they changed the language too much added deaths that just never happened and to add insult to injury diversified the fuck out of it.

Labyrinth with David Bowie made more sense.
 
mexico1970 said:
They had a chance to tell the story but they changed the language too much added deaths that just never happened and to add insult to injury diversified the fuck out of it.

Labyrinth with David Bowie made more sense.
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Don’t tell me spoilers -but was King Harold a lesbian in a wheelchair ?
 
Got through Wednesday season 2. The fact it took me this long to finish it when I watched the first season in a day or two says it all. Had no burning desire to watch the next episode it was a "I may aswell stick it on for an episode" approach.

Watchable but very forgettable and a drastic decline in quality from season 1. I'm struggling to recall the last thing on Netflix where season 2 was better than season 1.

Seems to me that because Netflix has a really shitty approach of just canceling everything after a solitary season, pitching anything to them beyond a single season is a waste of time on the creators part and then when they do commission a season 2, It has to be hastily put together and we get what we are currently seeing with poor follow up seasons.
 
mexico1970 said:
King & Conqueror BBC

An abomination burn it with fire.
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Unhistorical nonsense! Almost nothing in the series actually happened.

I think the only historically accurate things in the 8 hours running time are:

Edward the Confessor was very religious and had a stroke (but nothing like the timeline that happened in this series).
Harold Hardrada’s army invaded the North and Harold Godwinson went up North to fight them (with Tostwig - who was Earl of Northumbria but nothing like the timeline in this series - fought with the Norwegians).
William the Bastard’s army invaded the South and Harold Godwinson went back South to fight them.

I think that’s pretty much it. Everything else was made up. They even got the names of the women wrong. The Anglo-Saxon Morcar of Northumbria is played by a mixed race bloke and his Sister Edith (who is called Margaret in this series for some reason) is played by a woman of Sri Lankan descent.

William did not kill Harold in the Battle of Hastings. It’s said that they were nowhere near each other on the battlefield. The scene where they ended up by chance having a bath next to each other was ridiculous. They were never friends, they did not fight side-by-side protecting each other on trips to each others land… I think they only met once in reality.

The series played out in what felt like a timeline of no more than a year, but the things that did happen in the series happened over about a 12 year timeframe.
 
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.db. said:
Unhistorical nonsense! Almost nothing in the series actually happened.

I think the only historically accurate things in the 8 hours running time are:

Edward the Confessor was very religious and had a stroke (but nothing like the timeline that happened in this series).
Harold Hardrada’s army invaded the North and Harold Godwinson went up North to fight them (with Tostwig - who was Earl of Northumbria but nothing like the timeline in this series - fought with the Norwegians).
William the Bastard’s army invaded the South and Harold Godwinson went back South to fight them.

I think that’s pretty much it. Everything else was made up. They even got the names of the women wrong. The Anglo-Saxon Morcar of Northumbria is played by a mixed race bloke and his Sister Edith (who is called Margaret in this series for some reason) is played by a woman of Sri Lankan descent.

William did not kill Harold in the Battle of Hastings. It’s said that they were nowhere near each other on the battlefield. The scene where they ended up by chance having a bath next to each other was ridiculous. They were never friends, they did not fight side-by-side protecting each other on trips to each others land… I think they only met once in reality.

The series played out in what felt like a timeline of no more than a year, but the things that did happen in the series happened over about a 12 year timeframe.
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I got 30 minutes in and I hated it, only then did I read the reviews.

I much preferred this 1066, they aren't going to get everything right but at least they made an effort.

www.imdb.com

1066 (TV Mini Series 2009) ⭐ 6.4 | Action, History, War

2h 30m | 15
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