super_city_si
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Just finished ‘The Bear’ in pretty much one go. What a fucking brilliant series. Hope they renew for a second season.
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FantasyIreland
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I was half way through watching last night when i got distracted,its currently on paws.
Tugay One Cup
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The Boys was shit. Feel like it's really started to outstay it's welcome and things tend to go around in circles. Antony Starr as Homelander is still the best bit about it but the rest has just become a bit dull.
Just watched Miriam Margoyles...Up for Grabs on I Player.Really enjoyed it.
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Then stumbled on The Boys From The Blackstuff.Hope time has been good to this.One of the best ever.
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imagine... - 2022: Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Miriam Margolyes talks to Alan Yentob about her career highs and most vulnerable moments.
www.bbc.co.uk
Boys from the Blackstuff
Alan Bleasdale's tender, tragic portrait of life on Merseyside in the Thatcher era.
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Bigga
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Waitaminute!
'The Boys' kicked off the current genre of superhero angst on TV, so they're the ambitious trailblazers.
Now the shock factor has gone, they've had to up the ante in other ways (the storylines in the main, here). The fight scenes are, actually, like as you would read in the comics and played out in that realisation. I'm a huge critic of this stuff, but the work produced on 'The Boys' on a budget nowhere near a film budget is exceptional.
Nobody has done it better.
Bigga
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You don't find the mirrored tyranny interesting? The blurred lines of 'good' and 'bad'?
I found this particular series interesting on a philosophical level!
Tugay One Cup
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There are interesting themes but I can't help but get the feeling that Eric Kripke is Supernatural-ifying it and he's just going to carry on running it into the ground rather than taking the characters and story to a reasonable conclusion.
I enjoy how it bounces between being subtle to truly on the nose when it comes to things like parodying celebrity culture and political commentary but the actual specifics of the plot have become a pretty predictable because everything comes back to the same point.
I just genuinely think they don't know how to progress the story any further, for the most part. They seem to have a really strong start and mid point mapped out for each character and then seem to just keep them that way.
Bigga
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Yeah, I get that.
I know the producers are at their limit with source material, having skipped and merged bits, so it's going to be interesting what they do for this [final?] series.