What Have You Been Watching Lately? (No Spoilers)

chuckbert said:
Just watched Don’t look up. Excellent, but hilarious and frightening.
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Interesting - I watched on the weekend because the cast was amazing. Unfortunately, it felt like none of the budget had been left for writing. At over 2 hours it was bloated. Repeated similar scenes (for example when the go on the chat show and get ignored by presenters), limited humour seemed to be restricted to interactions between Jonah Hill and Jen Lawrence but even they got stale after a while. The story didn't actually go anywhere. The message was lazy and obvious. It was patronising. I learnt nothing. I've already forgotten most of it.

Total waste of a brilliant cast.
 
Jason N said:
In the past year and bit through covid these are probably my favourites:
  1. Peaky Blinders
  2. Handmaid's Tale
  3. Ozark
  4. Sopranos
  5. You
  6. Stranger Things
  7. F1: Drive to Survive
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If you like those you'll probably like 'Years and Years' that's still on the BBC iPlayer... if you haven't already seen it.
 
QR said:
If you like those you'll probably like 'Years and Years' that's still on the BBC iPlayer... if you haven't already seen it.
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I remember that being very good 👍
 
Nordic Murders
Arctic Murders
Caught up on 'The Killing'.
The Crimson Rivers
Monkey Life

Don't know what it is like but have the Valley of Tears recorded to watch.
 
Not been watching the cricket, watching my toenails grow is more exciting.
 
Ted lasso, morning wars and re-watching The Newsroom.

Decided recently there were classic movies I haven’t watched, so dusted off The Deerhunter and Walkabout.
 
New season of Oxark is out. And Peaky Blinders soon. And His Dark Materials soon too.

In the meantime I’ve been enjoying The Witcher.
 
K2: Siren of the Himalayas.
First Responder.
The Witcher.
14 Peaks.
Green Planet.

Some good stuff amongst the other dross.
 
The Deuce

3 seasons about New York’s Times Square area at the height of the porn industry’s golden age. Directed and starring James Franco. Touches on the sleaziness of New York at that time with prostitution, pimps, peep shows, mob run businesses etc and also the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 80’s. Ends with how New York changed to what it is today. Really good watch with a great soundtrack.
 
Should add in...........

The Gentlemen

Its a Guy Ritchie film but a great mix of humour, violence and how things can be twisted very easily.
 
Bacon said:
The Deuce

3 seasons about New York’s Times Square area at the height of the porn industry’s golden age. Directed and starring James Franco. Touches on the sleaziness of New York at that time with prostitution, pimps, peep shows, mob run businesses etc and also the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 80’s. Ends with how New York changed to what it is today. Really good watch with a great soundtrack.
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Bloody hell, the porn industry had a golden age!? 😳
 
Bacon said:
The Deuce

3 seasons about New York’s Times Square area at the height of the porn industry’s golden age. Directed and starring James Franco. Touches on the sleaziness of New York at that time with prostitution, pimps, peep shows, mob run businesses etc and also the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 80’s. Ends with how New York changed to what it is today. Really good watch with a great soundtrack.
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James Franco is an inspired casting choice for a film about sleaze.
 
chuckbert said:
Ted lasso, morning wars and re-watching The Newsroom.

Decided recently there were classic movies I haven’t watched, so dusted off The Deerhunter and Walkabout.
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The Deer Hunter is one of the most powerful, impactful movies I've ever seen - with some of the most extraordinary acting - and I have absolutely no desire to ever watch it again. Disturbing and depressing in the extreme!

Ted Lasso is the absolute opposite - one of the most life-affirming, uplifting things I've watched in years.
(and you know what.....I can get my head around the fairly ridiculous central premise. If you were that good at man management then I think you could potentially switch sports. The only thing is, in real life you would need an incredible team of proper football coaches behind you to do all the technical coaching and strategy work. Not the combo of bookworm yank, genius kit man and 'Nice Roy Keane' that Ted has!)


I'm always late to things, but have just finished watching the Americans.
Really well written, well acted show that keeps you on your toes (though I would say that the first two seasons, and the last one were the best - there's a bit of a dip in the middle as they get bogged down in some pointless side plots).
Wouldn't quite put it in the very, very top tier of classic US TV (the tier where The Wire, The Sopranos & Breaking Bad sit), but it's just one rung below for me......
 
tonyw said:
The Deer Hunter is one of the most powerful, impactful movies I've ever seen - with some of the most extraordinary acting - and I have absolutely no desire to ever watch it again. Disturbing and depressing in the extreme!

Ted Lasso is the absolute opposite - one of the most life-affirming, uplifting things I've watched in years.
(and you know what.....I can get my head around the fairly ridiculous central premise. If you were that good at man management then I think you could potentially switch sports. The only thing is, in real life you would need an incredible team of proper football coaches behind you to do all the technical coaching and strategy work. Not the combo of bookworm yank, genius kit man and 'Nice Roy Keane' that Ted has!)


I'm always late to things, but have just finished watching the Americans.
Really well written, well acted show that keeps you on your toes (though I would say that the first two seasons, and the last one were the best - there's a bit of a dip in the middle as they get bogged down in some pointless side plots).
Wouldn't quite put it in the very, very top tier of classic US TV (the tier where The Wire, The Sopranos & Breaking Bad sit), but it's just one rung below for me......
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Agree re The Dear Hunter.

Have you ever watched Six Feet Under? Very good too.
 
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