Severance, really enjoying it, quite quirky, very funny at times, dark and mysterious. It reminds me of another good show I saw a few years which I can't remember the name of, set in a workplace or lab, same sort of vibe but much more sci-fi, think it was a research institute of some kind, dystopian again, which I really like.
Back to Severance, really good performances, Tuttorro and Walken, Adam Scott, who I have not seen before, and Patricia Arquette, and Tramell Tillman is really menacing, everyone in it is good in it.
And yet again there's a same sex love-affair which doesn't beat you over the head with messaging, and therefore seems real and not forced, or shoehorned in - it's just two people who met and fell in love, if you write relationships of any kind into TV and movies, then sensible people accept it and believe it whatever it is, and like the carachters. But clearly too many writers do not possess the skills to pull this off, and are driven by agendas/forced into tickboxing by studio higher-ups,
Sad to say they were writing better gay carachters in the 90s, which were apparently the darker times.
Just found out there's a S2 - execllent.
Also just finished Shetland, all 7 series, interesting murder mystery plots, tackling issues such as people trafficking, gangs, drug abuse etc but also properly fleshed out carachters you grew to love, despite their weaknesses. Proper TV writing.
