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Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:34 am
by deisegirl
Basualdo wrote:
deisegirl wrote:Finished The Deuce today. So grim but I found it compelling.

Watched a few episodes of the new series of Stranger Things. Not really bothered to finish it.

The Deuce is great, isnt it. I wouldnt say grim though, gritty maybe. Definitely compelling. I'm only 6 episodes in but I'm glad that Maggie Gyllenhaal has finally moved past the lingering self loathing looks in the mirror with fag in mouth that seemed to happen every 5 minutes.



You should have stuck with Stranger Things if just to see the now infamous clusterfuck that is episode 7. Truly a "what the fuck is this shit?" moment.
Remember that really funny Hitler/Downfall vid of 'Ronnie Irani gets into the Talksport editing suite' on Youtube?
Well they must have let Irani all over that episode, script, editing, design, direction, everything.

Apart from that it wasnt bad, nowhere near as good as the first series and I fear series 3 will be a disaster.
Someone on reddit said of this series that they would maybe give it a 'B' but episode 7 drags it down to a 'C' or 'C-'.


I didn't think the first series of Stranger Things was that great (I know I'm in the minority there) but I thought I'd give it a second chance and watch some of the second series but thought that was even worse.

Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:55 pm
by theleader82
kancutlawns wrote:
theleader82 wrote:I was thinking of watching peaky blinders. Is it worth getting into? I know there been a couple of series

Listen to the Sports Breakfast and avoid the middle man.

I want to get one of those peaky blinder hats

Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:04 pm
by kancutlawns
What are they like?

Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:37 pm
by Zambo
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Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 11:33 pm
by deisegirl
Binged The Sinner on Netflix. Pretty good and only 8 episodes so easy enough to work through

Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 10:34 pm
by carcinogen
carcinogen wrote:I haven't seen it myself, but I've heard very good things about 'Mindhunter'.


Up to episode 7. Fucking excellent. It's like the X-files, but set in the late 70s and not sci-fi but about the FBI starting to use profiling to hunt-down serial killers.

First class shit. I kid you not. 8/10.

Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:50 pm
by theleader82
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Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:58 am
by Zambo
Back tonight

Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:58 am
by lasharoo
This new series of Mr Robot is really grabbing me by the balls, last weeks episode was spectacular TV.......my one reservation is this could turn into some time travelling sci-fi codswallop, they have certainly dropped enough hints about it heading in that direction.....but in the meantime I'm enjoying the ride.

Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:12 am
by lasharoo
Basualdo wrote:
deisegirl wrote:Finished The Deuce today. So grim but I found it compelling.

The Deuce is great, isnt it. I wouldnt say grim though, gritty maybe. Definitely compelling. I'm only 6 episodes in but I'm glad that Maggie Gyllenhaal has finally moved past the lingering self loathing looks in the mirror with fag in mouth that seemed to happen every 5 minutes.

I'm still not sure what to make of The Deuce........I looked forward to watching it, I enjoyed watching it, it had a great cast and it re-created the scuzzy side of 1970's New York brilliantly.........but ffs nothing happened! It was all world building and character development and zero fucking plot........I think if this had been written by someone other than David Simon it would have got a harder time off the critics.

Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:55 pm
by Basualdo
lasharoo wrote:
Basualdo wrote:
deisegirl wrote:Finished The Deuce today. So grim but I found it compelling.

The Deuce is great, isnt it. I wouldnt say grim though, gritty maybe. Definitely compelling. I'm only 6 episodes in but I'm glad that Maggie Gyllenhaal has finally moved past the lingering self loathing looks in the mirror with fag in mouth that seemed to happen every 5 minutes.

I'm still not sure what to make of The Deuce........I looked forward to watching it, I enjoyed watching it, it had a great cast and it re-created the scuzzy side of 1970's New York brilliantly.........but ffs nothing happened! It was all world building and character development and zero fucking plot........I think if this had been written by someone other than David Simon it would have got a harder time off the critics.




Yeah it was glacially slow, but still very enjoyable.
My favourite characters were Stretch, the giant diner owner - who settled Reggie Love's hash, Rudy Popilo the happy mobster and Bobby the brother in law.

And that blonde housewife from Virginia Beach in the last episode was hot as fuck!

Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:01 am
by carcinogen
lasharoo wrote:This new series of Mr Robot is really grabbing me by the balls


I watched the first one of the new series and gave up. Then I gave it another go. So glad I did. Enjoying it.

Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 10:01 am
by lasharoo
Basualdo wrote:And that blonde housewife from Virginia Beach in the last episode was hot as fuck!

:wnk: :)

Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 10:03 am
by lasharoo
carcinogen wrote:
lasharoo wrote:This new series of Mr Robot is really grabbing me by the balls


I watched the first one of the new series and gave up. Then I gave it another go. So glad I did. Enjoying it.

This series just gets better as it goes on imo Carc, you made the right call to stick with it.

Re: What TV series should I watch?

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:11 pm
by Bad Blue 2000
Basualdo wrote:
lasharoo wrote:
Basualdo wrote:
deisegirl wrote:Finished The Deuce today. So grim but I found it compelling.

The Deuce is great, isnt it. I wouldnt say grim though, gritty maybe. Definitely compelling. I'm only 6 episodes in but I'm glad that Maggie Gyllenhaal has finally moved past the lingering self loathing looks in the mirror with fag in mouth that seemed to happen every 5 minutes.

I'm still not sure what to make of The Deuce........I looked forward to watching it, I enjoyed watching it, it had a great cast and it re-created the scuzzy side of 1970's New York brilliantly.........but ffs nothing happened! It was all world building and character development and zero fucking plot........I think if this had been written by someone other than David Simon it would have got a harder time off the critics.




Yeah it was glacially slow, but still very enjoyable.
My favourite characters were Stretch, the giant diner owner - who settled Reggie Love's hash, Rudy Popilo the happy mobster and Bobby the brother in law.

And that blonde housewife from Virginia Beach in the last episode was hot as fuck!

Totally agree with Lash's assessment.

It took me about 4 episodes before I realised Stretch was Slim Charles and Reggie wasn't Ice Cube.