TV Series

[journolud]

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

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

Would welcome recommendations for anything else on similar lines

The films Mystery Road (2013) + Goldstone (2016) that launched the two Mystery Road TV series (and its prequel Mystery Roads: Origins) featuring the Aboriginal Detective Jay Swan.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Season 2 of the Wire finished.
Great stuff.

And it gets better. Season 3's just as good and Season 4 is probably the pick of the whole bunch. As good as TV gets. There was a writer's strike in Hollywood, which is why Season 5 was the weakest, but even that's still quality

 

[Mike N]

Watched two episodes of the new Rebus on BBC. It’s really good.

 

[Longballutd]

Fool me once ,fooled me in to watching it.
Utter tripe

Total garbage that series, so bad

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

Started watching Blue Lights on Britbox. Excellent so far.

 

[heslops barnet]

Watched two episodes of the new Rebus on BBC. It’s really good.

Preferred Ken Stott……

 

[kaz7]

Finished the red door in the nite , really enjoyed it and good last ep, all loose ends wrapped up

 

[Bill Walker]

Total garbage that series, so bad

Agreed, only watched 3 then did something more interesting.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Yes I absolutely loved that.

It's good, isn't it? I was wary, because I'm an unconditional fan of the film. Once I got past that, I saw that they were trying to do something quite different (which was quite right, incidentally, why repeat a successful film in a tv series?). In my mind, I kept comparing it with the film — which I know very, very well — and saying, “Yes, that's interesting. Different way of doing it, just as valid”.
By God but Scott is creepy, though! Nobody does creepy like him (remember him as Moriarty in Sherlock? An absolute psychopath). There's something “off” about him right from the start. I wonder if he can do other types of roles. I'd be interested to see him leading in a remake of Mamma Mia, say, see how he handles that.

;-)

Oh just one thing that I found tiresome. I'm afraid I found that Sting's daughter brought nothing convincing to the role of Freddy, and frankly I wondered why she/he was in it.