What Have You Been Watching Lately? (No Spoilers)

[SteMerritt]

Paradise available via Disney+ is excellent.

Yeah we enjoyed that, even if it did end the series with a blatant set up for a second series. Hopefully it'll be signed on for another run.

 

[tonyw]

Yeah we enjoyed that, even if it did end the series with a blatant set up for a second series. Hopefully it'll be signed on for another run.

It was renewed back in February for a second series........

 

[chuckbert]

Adolescence on Netflix, powerful, stunning TV and amazing technically as each episode is a single shot. Some amazing performances, episode 3 is stunning.

Just watched E1 - damn good.

 

[MarkG]

I'm really enjoying watching Homicide again. Sad about Andre Braugher.
Also how young everyone looks.
Except Ned Beatty - the episode I just watched he says he is 50 and looks years older. A bit like Cheers with Cliff Clavin, and Norm Peterson when the actors were in there 30s.
I love that Richard Belzer turns up as Detective Munch in other shows like X Files, Law and Order SVU. apparently ten different shows.

The other real twist was when when one of the characters didn't reappear after one of the series which I assumed was the actor just moving on and they had been written out. Then a couple of series later they found his skeleton/skull.

I was watching again last night and one of the characters was called Chris Novaselic. Apparently it's an Easter egg that they sneaked in grunge musicians as character names.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Last One Laughing on Amazon Prime is hilarious! I highly recommend searching for Last One Laughing Ireland too which was also full of proper belly laughs.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Just watched E1 - damn good.

The psychologist episode is my favourite.

 

[Bitter]

Adolescence on Netflix, powerful, stunning TV and amazing technically as each episode is a single shot. Some amazing performances, episode 3 is stunning.

Best TV I’ve seen since Blue Light. Seen two episodes so far and it is brilliant.

 

[NorthWestOx]

This City is Ours on BBC iPlayer.
Very, very good.

 

[bicesterox]

This City is Ours on BBC iPlayer.
Very, very good.

Just watched the first 2 episodes , very good.

Also recently enjoyed Protection

 

[chuckbert]

Enjoying “An t-Eilean/the island” from bbc alba. Gaelic police procedural set on Harris and Lewis.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Enjoying “An t-Eilean/the island” from bbc alba. Gaelic police procedural set on Harris and Lewis.

Niche!

 

[QR]

Enjoying “An t-Eilean/the island” from bbc alba. Gaelic police procedural set on Harris and Lewis.

How homesick are you?!!

 

[Sarge]

counting the days to April 22nd *, Andor Series 2 launches on Disney +

* Edit - decided to rewatch Andor Series 1, Series 2 now launches April 23rd

 

[chuckbert]

Niche!

Says the wannabe Orcadian!

Have you watched The Outrun? That's a fantastic film mostly located in the Orkneys.

 

[tonyw]

counting the days to April 22nd *, Andor Series 2 launches on Disney +

* Edit - decided to rewatch Andor Series 1, Series 2 now launches April 23rd

For you.
It's released at 9pm on the 22nd over here.

Disney clearly just didn't want anyone else watching it before us, because.......'Murica, or something.

Also rewatched the first season myself in preparation, and yeah, it's still so damn good. It's an HBO-quality examination of fascism, conformity and rebellion, that somehow found it's way into the Star Wars universe. The writing is amazing, and the acting is top shelf (seriously.....getting Fiona Shaw, Stellan Skarsgaard, Forrest Whittaker and Andy Serkis into the same show would be a coup regardless of the subject matter!).

I just pray the studio heads didn't meddle, left Gilroy & co. alone and that the second season will keep up the standards.

 

[holdsteady]

Last series isn’t it? To expensive to make.

 

[tonyw]

Last series isn’t it? To expensive to make.

Yep. Rumour is that it's going to finish right at the point where Rogue One starts (which of course in turn finishes right at the beginning of A New Hope).

But I don't think that's a bad thing.

It's the American TV disease that they flog any show that becomes critically or commercially successful way past its sell-by date.

Much better to have a shorter, self-contained program that maintains the same quality (as long as the writers know when it's going to end, and can plan accordingly - and Andor's team did before they started writing the second and final season).

 

[Sarge]

For you.
It's released at 9pm on the 22nd over here.

Disney clearly just didn't want anyone else watching it before us, because.......'Murica, or something.

Also rewatched the first season myself in preparation, and yeah, it's still so damn good. It's an HBO-quality examination of fascism, conformity and rebellion, that somehow found it's way into the Star Wars universe. The writing is amazing, and the acting is top shelf (seriously.....getting Fiona Shaw, Stellan Skarsgaard, Forrest Whittaker and Andy Serkis into the same show would be a coup regardless of the subject matter!).

I just pray the studio heads didn't meddle, left Gilroy & co. alone and that the second season will keep up the standards.

100% ( 6 episodes in to rewatching Series 1 so far )

 

[mooro]

Simon Sharma - Journey to Auschwitz

A fascinating angle

 

[PottersRightBoot]

This City is Ours.

Visceral, Shakespearean,Lemo, House of Bamboo.

Must see.

 

[Village-Yellow]

Just watched the first episode of Mobland.

Think I’m going to enjoy it

 

[QR]

Simon Sharma - Journey to Auschwitz

A fascinating angle

Totally agree. This is a must watch. But so is most of Simon Sharma output. You may not agree with how he draws the facts together to inform his political conclusions (although personally I can't see how one couldn't) but you can't deny the facts.

 

[SteMerritt]

Toxic Town (Netflix) is worth a watch. I'd not heard of the Corby scandal before.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

I'm looking forward to the final series on The Handmaid's Tale out next month.

 

[chuckbert]

I'm looking forward to the final series on The Handmaid's Tale out next month.

Is that for real, or a satirical comment about the state of the world?

 

[Mike_H]

Enjoying Slow Horses on Apple+ : apparently series 5 will be out in the summer, possibly September.

 

[Yellowmania]

Kinahan: The True Story of Irelands Mafia on BBC is a decent watch.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

The new Black Mirror series is decent so far.

 

[BenjaminStevens]

Ipcress file +1

 

[Essexyellows]

Kinahan: The True Story of Irelands Mafia on BBC is a decent watch.

Came here to post this........... now I`ll just agree.

Proper boys.