Soldato
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We have also started The Diplomat, 2 eps in and really enjoying it. Like you say moves along at a good pace.
What TV shows are you currently watching
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Yes, just got one more episode to watch (only 8 in the series). I like the format,pacing dialogue and the bit of humour it is very much an ensemble cast like WW, and it has potentially very long legs. I've just looked it up and a 2nd series is confirmed. 8.1 on imdb means that I'm not the only one liking it.
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Just finished the finale (Episode 9) of The Power on Amazon Prime. Not a popular show, for obvious reasons, but I enjoyed it, probably a 9/10. No idea if there will be a second season, but fingers crossed.
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After you posted, I looked it up and it looked to be my kinda show. Enjoyed S1 but things seems to be getting a little silly. I just watched S04E02 which was perhaps one of the silliest episodes of TV I've seen in some time. Martin Clunes shouldn't really have been cast there and his death is probably the worst acted I've ever seen on TV, it was almost comedic in nature, then the love interest gets hit with aa headshot and we have like two minutes of her dying in his arms whilst bullets fly all around?!. I'll keep watching (only just) but it definitely isn't 'great TV' at this point. It started well, so maybe it can come back.
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Just finished 'Cruel Summer' it's a drama about teens but not really a 'teen drama' set in the 90s that jumps back forth between a couple of years. About a kidnapping and the aftermath. It was actually better than I expected. It gets a 7.5/10 on IMDB. I'd happily give it a 7.
I'm jealous you get to go through it all with fresh eyes. I can never work out which I prefer out of The Wire and The Sopranos so depending on the day you ask me it can change but these two are my #1 TV shows by some distance.
It can be a bit 'slow' but something is always happening with the story. S2 was the weakest out of the 5 for me but it's still an important season as it sets everything together.
My only tip when watching the Wire is to just pay attention. There is no filler and every line of dialogue matters. For example in a later series/episode there is a 2-5 second clip of a camera panning across a room and you see a certain character. If you see him, his character starts making a lot more sense but if you miss it, you'll never see it again and lose a lot of context to the character.
Fantastic show, enjoy the journey!
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Yellowjackets is a trip. I really enjoyed it. But then I didn't know what to expect going in. I thought it was just an another networks's version of Amazon's 'The Wilds.' It's not. It's far better.
Great and disturbing performance by Christina Ricci.
I'm being on my best behaviour and only watching only 2 eps a night and ensuring I stay focused. I know it's been applauded, likely rightly so. Quite a slog ahead of me however!
(Yellowjackets)
Caught up to the middle of the second season and yes, definitely something of a mind job going on.
Mind at this point there really ought to be a bit more denouement going on to fill in some of the plot holes, like how they actually got rescued though...
At this point I still tend to come down on the theory that they all died in the crash and the events in the wilderness and subsequent "lives" up to the present day are part of some purgatorial afterdeath experience. Otherwise there is just too much that can't be explained rationally:
1. Aircraft don't tend to fly 600 miles off course for no reason and technology in 1996 as regards flight tracking etc. was still pretty sophisticated to have an idea of where it went down.
2. Yes Misty sabotaged the black box/transponder (is that really possible?) but again in 1996 a satellite would easily have picked up the wreckage and downed plane.
3. The cabin unlikely to have been built without some sort of access, a trail or dirt road, to get equipment and materials in.
4. There is no way after he wandered off, Travis' younger brother could have survived several weeks stranded in the cold, with no equipment or food.
5. There is zero coverage in the story of the efforts made by the authorities and families of the crash victims to locate them and the downed plane.
Definitley get the vibe this is going to end up like Jacob's Ladder, or that movie where the WWII airmen were camped around their crashed plane in the desert playing baseball, but one by one disappeared as their bodies were found - eventually just leaving one "ghost" who's body was off by the tail section and never found.
1. Aircraft don't tend to fly 600 miles off course for no reason and technology in 1996 as regards flight tracking etc. was still pretty sophisticated to have an idea of where it went down.
2. Yes Misty sabotaged the black box/transponder (is that really possible?) but again in 1996 a satellite would easily have picked up the wreckage and downed plane.
3. The cabin unlikely to have been built without some sort of access, a trail or dirt road, to get equipment and materials in.
4. There is no way after he wandered off, Travis' younger brother could have survived several weeks stranded in the cold, with no equipment or food.
5. There is zero coverage in the story of the efforts made by the authorities and families of the crash victims to locate them and the downed plane.
Definitley get the vibe this is going to end up like Jacob's Ladder, or that movie where the WWII airmen were camped around their crashed plane in the desert playing baseball, but one by one disappeared as their bodies were found - eventually just leaving one "ghost" who's body was off by the tail section and never found.
And yes, JL is sscary as hell, not least because she is increasinly a ringer for her old man!
I started both yellowjackets and will trent last night, enjoying both for very different reasons. Was off work today so continued with yellowjackets and have done the first 5.
Yellowjackets episodes are around ar hr each which is great. It's an interesting storyline, which has moved from a straightfoward gruesome secret to hinting at something more complex and I'm not entirely clear what that is.
Yellowjackets episodes are around ar hr each which is great. It's an interesting storyline, which has moved from a straightfoward gruesome secret to hinting at something more complex and I'm not entirely clear what that is.
I watched a few of them but soon got bored. Good idea but its very poorly done. The constant action replays are so tedious. I binned it off and incidentally noticed that Netlfix now allows you to cull your disinterested TV shows from your continue watching list now without having to log into the desktop site. It's probably been a thing for while though
I can't count though.
