TV Series

BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
Just finished Bosch Legacy on Amazon Prime. An awesome series 9.5/10.

And yet, Amazon didn't renew the series for a fourth season in spite of its popularity, citing high production costs and an upcoming Bosch spinoff as reasons...

FFS - I'm sick and tired of networks cancelling popular series based on number crunching. How about don't launch the spinoff if you want to cut costs; or, even better - why was Bosch Legacy at first only available for free with commercials? - why not available for free with commercials or commercial free with Amazon Prime?
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Absolutely brilliant series
 
bakerdave76 said:
Just finished Andor should i now rewatch Rouge one ?
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I am up to episode 7 of Andor S2 on the recommendations here.
Apart from the opening 5 minute scene in E1 it has been dull, very slow and it's complicated. When does it get better?
It looks good though on an 86" telly.
 
Pontypool Blue said:
I am up to episode 7 of Andor S2 on the recommendations here.
Apart from the opening 5 minute scene in E1 it has been dull, very slow and it's complicated. When does it get better?
It looks good though on an 86" telly.
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It does lack action like other Star wars tv series, it's more ot the political things going on (in a universe far far away) i think.thats why i ask should i watch rough one on my 43inch tv ...
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
It's interesting about TV series, isn't it?
Not a few, I find I've been pretty dubious about them at the end of the first season. And a season can be anything between 6 and 12 episodes. So it's quite an investment in terms of your time (I'll willingly spend an evening listening to music, or reading). And in quite a few cases, I downright abandoned, never to go back again, i.e. Game of Thrones, The Wire. These are series that people positively raved about to me.
And I suppose people will come back on it and post “Oh no, no, you must watch that!”.
But in a fair number of cases, having been thoroughly unconvinced at the end of the first season (I always make it a rule to watch through an entire season, to give it a fair crack of the whip), I picked them up again, sometimes an entire year or two later, and got more and more into them. A case in point was The Leftovers, which left me cold (and confused) in the first season. I just thought, “Where the hell's this going?” In the end I was enthralled by it. Same with — take a deep breath — Breaking Bad! (That that was so was almost entirely due to the interplay between the characters, esp. Jesse, Walter and Gus. The drug stuff, as such, did not fascinate me too much).
I picked up West Wing again fully two years after I'd watched — and not been convinced by — the first season of it. In the end, I enjoyed it, although I had to get past the sheer Americanness of it (I suppose you could say, that's the point of it). I saw it through to the end, and wouldn't rave about it, but found it watchable. And by God that's a long trek, if you watch all seasons.
Most recent case of this phenomenon was The Expanse. Started watching it idly (because I'm paying for Amazon). Was not very convinced for quite a long time. Well into the second season. Then didn't want it to finish by the end.

By the way, if The Last of Us involves zombies, that's already quite a turn-off for me. What on earth is it, this thing between the world and the zombie obsession?! Sick of zombie movies, zombies series. And sick to death of mafia/drug baron films and movies. I pass on those two themes pretty much systematically.
I'll discipline myself to give Last of Us a try. But if there's any Michael Jackson “Thriller“ stuff, or versions of it, I'm out.

PS Never watched even one episode of The Sopranos (for reasons just given) but even I know “He never had the makings of a varsity athlete”! Which crops up everywhere, in all kinds of variations…
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On that theme I avoid anything mafia/crime where the dominant factor is the criminals
Things like peeky blinders etc I haven’t even watched breaking bad despite friends telling me I’m missing out, however I love stuff like Bosch or 24 but my main interest in tv shows scifi and the expanse is probably the best scifi series ive ever watched.
 
BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
Just finished Bosch Legacy on Amazon Prime. An awesome series 9.5/10.

And yet, Amazon didn't renew the series for a fourth season in spite of its popularity, citing high production costs and an upcoming Bosch spinoff as reasons...

FFS - I'm sick and tired of networks cancelling popular series based on number crunching. How about don't launch the spinoff if you want to cut costs; or, even better - why was Bosch Legacy at first only available for free with commercials? - why not available for free with commercials or commercial free with Amazon Prime?
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Iptv sorts this out
 
Danny Hoekman said:
Watched the first episode of Yellowstone last night. Does it get better?
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In theory you should watch 1883 then 1923 then Yellowstone but you can watch Yellowstone on its own. I swerved all these for quite a while but thought all 3 were brilliant in their own way.
I think if you stick with it youll end up watching every season.
1883 was the best for me very similar to American primeval but not as brutal.
 
Pontypool Blue said:
I am up to episode 7 of Andor S2 on the recommendations here.
Apart from the opening 5 minute scene in E1 it has been dull, very slow and it's complicated. When does it get better?
It looks good though on an 86" telly.
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It is a complicated show, indeed. If "complicated" is difficult to follow, then it's not for you, really.

It's a show of dichotomy, juxtaposition and little pathways and battles 'in the dark' before things come to light. You know... enemies, spies and rebellion. Planning a rebellion is a dull affair that last for years in real life and this is that reflection TV style.

As for when it "gets better", you're right on the cusp, actually.
 
roach3 said:
On that theme I avoid anything mafia/crime where the dominant factor is the criminals
Things like peeky blinders etc I haven’t even watched breaking bad despite friends telling me I’m missing out, however I love stuff like Bosch or 24 but my main interest in tv shows scifi and the expanse is probably the best scifi series ive ever watched.
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I do understand you, of course. And no — you can skip on Breaking Bad, you can skip the Wire, you can skip House of Cards. You can really skip any tv series whatsoever. They take up one hell of a lot of your time, and if you've got things you'd rather be doing — do them. That's the way I see it.
I've been a filmgoer all my life. I do it less now, partly because I've got old and lazy, partly because I now live in a small town that shows only Mission Impossible, Spiderman or “funny” films that simply don't make me laugh. But from when I was about ten, and I'd go with my big brothers, I've loved the business of going out, preferably with a girl on my arm (or a boy, why not?), going to the big dark room, seeing an amazing film on the big screen with a lot of other people. I suppose I could think of ten to twenty films that have had a bigger impact on me, hands down, than any tv series I've seen.
But I think my original point was that the best tv series have an arc. They seem to have been planned so that they start kind of low key (and you maybe think, “Well, this is pretty banal. We've seen this a thousand times before, surely? Why am I watching this for an hour every evening?”. You have a beer or two, a glass or two of Merlot and well… it passes the time). Then, if you're lucky, and you persist, they build. And build. And build. The thing about Breaking Bad, for instance, and I talked about this with my son — we both agreed that, finally, Gilligan and his team planned out the whole thing, season by season, so that it would rise to something extraordinary. And you can see that by the end. Same for me as far as the Expanse was concerned.
I watched every single season of House M.D. I enjoyed it for quite a while, but it definitely got to a point where a formula was being repeated over and over and over. And there was a real sense of them just dragging it out by the last three seasons, in my opinion, because it had become this world-wide phenomenon, watched from Japan to Peru.

Most satisfying series I've watched in the last seven years or so — Man in the High Castle. But that's just me. I like alternative history — “what if?” — series. It's extremely well filmed. They've put the money into it, and to my eye the CGI sequences, you can just barely see that they're CGI (go back to Gladiator and it's really obvious how much CGI has come on in the intervening period). It doesn't go on for too long, in my opinion, (just like the Expanse) and doesn't milk a good idea beyond its shelf life. Above all, the acting is generally good. (I think in a lot of series the acting is very uneven, with the B-list actors showing why they're B-list, and will never be A-list).
 
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Really enjoyed this, Kevin Kline, Leslie Manville, Cate Blanchett. Sacha Baron Cohen.

Superb story and great acting.
 
Just finished first season of the Last Kingdom. I cannot believe I missed it when it was out. Brilliant stuff, if you liked the Vikings, then this is kind of telling the same tale but from the Saxon perspective. Alternates from light humour to hard gore to quite deep moments. The storyline also goes on massive curveballs from what would be expected from foreshadowing. It is quite fast paced for a series of this genre too. The episodes are over an hour watch time and pretty much have major shit going on in every one. The first three episodes are very fast paced and scene setting to get straight into what is coming. The main conflict of it all is religion of course. Looking forward to watching the second season.
 
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