What Have You Been Watching Lately? (No Spoilers)

[Essexyellows]

Alex Honnold climbing Taipei 101............. its on Netflix.

If you get "queasy" around heights then its best avoided!

 

[JerryL]

Alex Honnold climbing Taipei 101............. its on Netflix.

If you get "queasy" around heights then its best avoided!

I saw the one where he was climbing in yosemite, that was a goodun
The camera panning to show him from above with the ground so far down and all the blurry trees below him genuinely made me go EUUUGH
Which isnt saying much really, those glass railings on the top floor of the westgate and at banbury tescos make me do that, too
Probably still gonna have to watch this new one, pray for me

 

[chuckbert]

Alex Honnold climbing Taipei 101............. its on Netflix.

If you get "queasy" around heights then its best avoided!

I went to the top of that in a lift in December and was nearly sharting when I got close to the windows.

 

[Essexyellows]

"Lee" ........... on NowTV about Lee Miller, model, war photographer........... played by Kate Winslet..... most excellent.

 

[Emilio]

How To Get To Heaven From Belfast

Comedy/Murder/Thriller set between Belfast and Donegal. By the same people who made Derry Girls. Funniest thing I've seen in a while.

8 episodes, 45 mins each. Netflix

 

[Big Ron]

"Lee" ........... on NowTV about Lee Miller, model, war photographer........... played by Kate Winslet..... most excellent.

Went to a brilliant Lee Miller exhibition commemorating her life and work at the Tate between Xmas and the New Year.

 

[Essexyellows]

Just started "The Blacklist"............ rather enjoyable on a dull, dreek Sunday.

 

[Essexyellows]

Went to a brilliant Lee Miller exhibition commemorating her life and work at the Tate between Xmas and the New Year.

Friend of ours went, also recommended the film to us sadly the Tate exhibition finished........... today.

 

[Stanford yellow]

Currently getting through small prophets, really enjoyable

 

[Essexyellows]

Currently getting through small prophets, really enjoyable

Mackenzie Crooks follow on from Detectorists, an equally pleasing series.

 

[chuckbert]

Just started "The Blacklist"............ rather enjoyable on a dull, dreek Sunday.

(dreich?)

 

[Morris Oxford]

Currently getting through small prophets, really enjoyable

I do like the scenes in the DIY store where Michael (Pearce Quigley) encourages customers not to buy anything, especially the one with a mountain of buckets in the background.

Clearly some similarities to Detectorists in the characterisations, Mackenzie Crook’s writing is excellent.

Detectorists is one of my all time favourite TV series, I’d recommend anyone to watch it while it’s still available on iplayer.

 

[Sarge]

A Knight of Seven Kingdoms ( HBO) - one episode left to go of S1 now - 30min episodes- entertaining watch - every episode ( its a GoT prequel), previously read and enjoyed the novellas, a decent series so far

 

[Essexyellows]

(dreich?)

That as well!

 

[Llangennech]

NRL pre-season. Indigenous All-Stars yesterday. Interesting war dances. NZ football team should do the Haka.

 

[OUFCwaffle]

Rick and Morty

 

[stokeu]

Storyville, The Darkest Web, currently on BBC Iplayer on bbc3 later, the darkest ugliest side of humanity exposed together with the quest to stop them.

We really are a vile species.

 

[Essexyellows]

Storyville, The Darkest Web, currently on BBC Iplayer on bbc3 later, the darkest ugliest side of humanity exposed together with the quest to stop them.

We really are a vile species.

There are some who don`t deserve to be part of humanity - truly beyond the pale.

 

[QR]

Dirty Business - Channel 4

The privatized water industry gets the 'Mr Bates v the Post Office' treatment. A great watch.

Aptly it will boil your p**s!

 

[chuckbert]

Brockmire has just appeared on Netflix in Oz, so rewatching it (I binged it on some long flights a couple of years ago). Hank azaria plays a baseball commentator in a small town. Funny, a bit twisted and well made.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Currently watching Bridgerton. Started the Night Agent in the break between episodes which is very good.

Enjoyed The Night Manager and looking forward to S2 of Paradise.

 

[Boris]

Currently watching Bridgerton. Started the Night Agent in the break between episodes which is very good.

Enjoyed The Night Manager and looking forward to S2 of Paradise.

Yes, Night Agent is a cut above the usual formalised spy thrillers.

I can rarely remember the names of things I've watched, but I did enjoy From Belfast to Heaven

 

[tonyw]

Enjoyed The Night Manager and looking forward to S2 of Paradise.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first series of the Night Manager (and it's almost completely Oxford public schoolboy cast!)......right up until the ending,

Spoiler

when they threw out the classic Le Carre "little guy gets completely squashed by the system, whilst the evil billionaire gets off scot free" ending in favour of a saccharine, fairytale finale.

Kind of put me off watching the second season, but open to being persuaded of the error of my ways! Worth a look?

 

[werthersoriginal]

I thoroughly enjoyed the first series of the Night Manager (and it's almost completely Oxford public schoolboy cast!)......right up until the ending, when they threw out the classic Le Carre "little guy gets completely squashed by the system, whilst the evil billionaire gets off scot free" ending in favour of a saccharine, fairytale finale.

Kind of put me off watching the second season, but open to being persuaded of the error of my ways! Worth a look?

It’s entertaining and exciting and features a stunning Colombian woman, but you can tell it’s post Le Carre from all the car chases and unlikely cliffhangers. The ending is certainly not saccharine!

 

[TheDukeOfBanburyshire]

I do like the scenes in the DIY store where Michael (Pearce Quigley) encourages customers not to buy anything, especially the one with a mountain of buckets in the background.

Clearly some similarities to Detectorists in the characterisations, Mackenzie Crook’s writing is excellent.

Detectorists is one of my all time favourite TV series, I’d recommend anyone to watch it while it’s still available on iplayer.

Me too. Absolutely superb stuff.

Really looking forward to starting Small Prophets, once we've finished Schitt's Creek. (About 4 years late to the party there).

 

[tonyw]

It’s entertaining and exciting and features a stunning Colombian woman, but you can tell it’s post Le Carre from all the car chases and unlikely cliffhangers. The ending is certainly not saccharine!

Hmmmmm.....not sure this is convincing me.

My favourite TV show of all time is the Alec Guinness version of Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy.....and that's mostly old guys smoking and talking to each other in board rooms.

Not sure how keen I am on this entertainment and excitement you speak of........

 

[werthersoriginal]

Hmmmmm.....not sure this is convincing me.

My favourite TV show of all time is the Alec Guinness version of Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy.....and that's mostly old guys smoking and talking to each other in board rooms.

Not sure how keen I am on this entertainment and excitement you speak of........

Scary baddies, sexy heroine, twists and turns … it’s a good Sunday evening thriller but not a very serious work.

 

[Boris]

Hmmmmm.....not sure this is convincing me.

My favourite TV show of all time is the Alec Guinness version of Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy.....and that's mostly old guys smoking and talking to each other in board rooms.

Not sure how keen I am on this entertainment and excitement you speak of........

One of the reasons why Le Carre was such a good spy novelist was because his work was more cerebral and he shunned all the ridiculous gadgets and fast cars that people like Ian Fleming were so fond of. You're always going to get compromises when a rather dry book is turned into a film but too often it's at the expense of what made the books so good in the first place (plot over sensationalism and characters over flimsy dialogue). Having said that, The Constant Gardener and Tinker.Taylor, Soldier, Spy were both excellent adaptations of Le Carre books and both remained largely true to the original written work

 

[holdsteady]

The old Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy adaption with Sir Alex Guinness is the best Le Carre on screen, don’t think his books really lend themselves to films as the plots are so intricate, plus it looks gloomy and run down like how you imagine it from the books. Not sure if it’s available to stream anywhere now though.

 

[tonyw]

One of the reasons why Le Carre was such a good spy novelist was because his work was more cerebral and he shunned all the ridiculous gadgets and fast cars that people like Ian Fleming were so fond of. You're always going to get compromises when a rather dry book is turned into a film but too often it's at the expense of what made the books so good in the first place (plot over sensationalism and characters over flimsy dialogue). Having said that, The Constant Gardener and Tinker.Taylor, Soldier, Spy were both excellent adaptations of Le Carre books and both remained largely true to the original written work

I also thought the Philip Seymour Hoffman adaptation of 'A Most Wanted Man' (his last lead role as well) was excellent......but I doubt it got a wide viewership!

The old Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy adaption with Sir Alex Guinness is the best Le Carre on screen, don’t think his books really lend themselves to films as the plots are so intricate, plus it looks gloomy and run down like how you imagine it from the books. Not sure if it’s available to stream anywhere now though.

It's available to stream in my house! The joys of a large DVD collection and Plex.......