What Have You Been Watching Lately? (No Spoilers)

Over the long weekend I binge watched "Who Is Erin Carter?" a netflix series about an ex-pat English teacher in Barcelona with a "mysterious" past.

Utterly unbelievable in places but good fun if you like action thrillers like The Bourne films / Long Kiss Goodnight / Nikita / The Accountant etc.
 
MarkG said:
Over the long weekend I binge watched "Who Is Erin Carter?" a netflix series about an ex-pat English teacher in Barcelona with a "mysterious" past.

Utterly unbelievable in places but good fun if you like action thrillers like The Bourne films / Long Kiss Goodnight / Nikita / The Accountant etc.
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Increasingly implausible and ridiculous, but moves along at pace and is watchable. The recent Idris Elba vehicle 'Hijack' was in the same vein.
 
Big Ron said:
Yep, saw that and even got the question right. Oddly enough, Charlie Methven sets some questions on Only Connect, wonder if this was one of his.

Some whopping score this team got, even though Jamie looks like a mass murderer.
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It is a different one.
 
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Boot Dreams, on BBC. A reality thing about a training camp for players who've been released from pro clubs, run by Gifton Noel-Williams. Fascinating and not sensational or overly sentimental.
 
Ahsoka S1 first 2 episodes (Star Wars related- im told it continues from Star Wars Rebels cartoon? ) slow start -but already building ,
so far most the main characters are female ( + one male main character and a droid character )

I am rather partial to Star Wars and related ( albeit Ive not watched Clone wars or Rebels - both cartoon series's) - so it'll likely have enough appeal for me. As long is its not as bad as the middle few episodes of Book of Bobba Fett, and half as good (or better than half as good) as Andor, that'll do for me
 
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MarkG said:
Over the long weekend I binge watched "Who Is Erin Carter?" a netflix series about an ex-pat English teacher in Barcelona with a "mysterious" past.

Utterly unbelievable in places but good fun if you like action thrillers like The Bourne films / Long Kiss Goodnight / Nikita / The Accountant etc.
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Just watched Ep 1 over the weekend, interested to see where it heads.
 
The final of Bake Off - The Professionals will be on for a few weeks on C4 catch-up.
The winners were the men from The Landmark, with a bravura 20's-flavoured pair of performances and a hand-carved Louise Brooks.

It's incredible what really-talented bakers (patissieres?) can do with sugar, chocolate and flavourings.
 
Ahsoka - star wars related ... now up to episode 4 - IMO its getting a bit good
 
I watched The Reckoning with Steve Coogan about Jimmy Saville. It was brilliantly done, but I found it incredibly hard and it took me a while to recover. As a docu-drama, it had been meticulously researched and the portrayal of Saville was chillingly realistic.
Anyone else watch it ?
 
I watched bits of it. I made the mistake of reading a review in advance - the overall message was that it was generally well made and puts across the appropriate tone and Steve Coogan did a good job. However, the series did little to add to the existing knowledge we have of Savile and fails to really add a great deal.

Which I generally agree with.

gofish2 said:
I watched The Reckoning with Steve Coogan about Jimmy Saville. It was brilliantly done, but I found it incredibly hard and it took me a while to recover. As a docu-drama, it had been meticulously researched and the portrayal of Saville was chillingly realistic.
Anyone else watch it ?
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bashamwonderland said:
I watched bits of it. I made the mistake of reading a review in advance - the overall message was that it was generally well made and puts across the appropriate tone and Steve Coogan did a good job. However, the series did little to add to the existing knowledge we have of Savile and fails to really add a great deal.

Which I generally agree with.
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I would broadly agree but I think what it demonstrated was how the collusion of the BBC and others was so instrumental in his crimes. I may not have appreciated that part previously.
 
Yeah and in hindsight I think I would have found it a much more compelling watch if I didn't go into it with the review fresh in my mind!! I should know better really, as I also let movie reviews too easily influence my approach to a new film.

Lately I've been watching Soldier,a BBC documentary about Infantry training. Very compelling, if slightly pornographic interpretation of the experience.

gofish2 said:
I would broadly agree but I think what it demonstrated was how the collusion of the BBC and others was so instrumental in his crimes. I may not have appreciated that part previously.
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bashamwonderland said:
Yeah and in hindsight I think I would have found it a much more compelling watch if I didn't go into it with the review fresh in my mind!! I should know better really, as I also let movie reviews too easily influence my approach to a new film.

Lately I've been watching Soldier,a BBC documentary about Infantry training. Very compelling, if slightly pornographic interpretation of the experience.
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I've been watching Soldier, it's rather sweet. Haven't got to the pornographic bits yet.
 
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