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talkativesprout said:
Its like the Dr Who production team tried to write and produce something grown up and got Cleethorpes am/dram to act it out under the watchful gaze of BBC head of inclusion.

Watched it because the subject matter is of interest, but i'm finding it hard to watch and wondering a what point a transexual will turn up is giving me a mangina
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Funny that because I got a Dr Who vibe off the programme too.
 
Whilst I slagged it off and there were fillers in the 2nd part of Stranger Things S4.. what an ending. Superb series.

I can't do the spoiler filter on here but gutted somebody got killed off as they were one of the best characters from this series
 
willipp said:
Few people i know have said the last kingdom is one of the best things they've seen in a long time. Going to start it this week.
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Another vote for Last Kingdom here. Have just finished the final season and it was excellent. Hadn't realised how emotionally invested in the characters I had become, much more so than the likes of GoT. Really well done and like others, looking forward to the film.
 
Just watched Miriam Margoyles...Up for Grabs on I Player.Really enjoyed it.
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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.
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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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Boys from the Blackstuff

Alan Bleasdale's tender, tragic portrait of life on Merseyside in the Thatcher era.
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Tugay One Cup said:
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.
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Agree watched two episode is of this season then binned it off get fed up with shows like this now..
 
waspish said:
Agree watched two episode is of this season then binned it off get fed up with shows like this now..
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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.
 
Tugay One Cup said:
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.
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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!
 
Bigga said:
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!
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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.
 
Tugay One Cup said:
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.
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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.
 
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