TV Series

No doubt its probably had a mention in the last 275 pages, but Mrs TFC and myself got done with season 1 of The Fall on Netflix a couple of nights ago. Its an extremely well written, complex drama with loads of smaller story lines that intertwine superbly with the main one (and the main storyline is fascinating). Excellent stuff, cant wait to get cracking on season 2.

Also, let me just take a minute to comment on how beautiful Gillian Anderson is. Nice to see a yank playing English for a change rather than the other way around :)
 
Ragnarok said:
No Supernatural fans here?
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All over it. Watched every season, over and over again. I've nearly worn out my box set of seasons 1 to 3! Love season 4.
 
Having been forced to wstch bgt for the last hour I can well understand how it's not had a mention in this thread.
 
mackenzie said:
4th episode of 1864 now and really enjoying it. Beautifully done.
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It's definitely the most interesting thing I've seen recently. It's not just another period drama, that's for sure. I've only seen episode 1 & 2 but will sit down to the lot later on.

Don't mind me, I'm just going to go off on one here for a bit...

I heard someone describe it as 'dream-like', and I thought that summed it up well. It's obviously 'too' beautiful. It's deliberately a lie, a real story told by someone there, mixed up with stuff they had to imagine, or flesh out, and filtered through someone else's idealised past. It's one of those where you think you know where a scene is going, and start anticipating how it will make you feel, but then quite subtly it ends up going in a different direction, often quite an ambiguous one. The overpowering beauty, and these shifts in behaviour and tone make it quietly very surreal. The characters inhabit different worlds, and are quite playful and headstrong. Sometimes they themselves lie for no apparent reason apart from to make the story they are telling beautiful and dramatic. When they overlap, different worlds collide, it's kind of bewlidering. And then it will suddenly seem very straightforward, real and heartfelt. I'm still trying to figure out what I felt during the scene with the three of them in the water. Having said that, some of it misses the mark by quite a long way, like the fat boy aping Hitler's mannerisms, although I guess you could say that's how the girl reading the diary would imagine him (or maybe I'm just reading too much into it all again).

It's kind of like a much more intricate and weighty version of Atonement's depiction of memory and the process of reimagining the past.

(If you read this far, please don't hold it against me)
 
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