Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls

[HairySpotter]

"Just finished The Killing liked it a lot but not really the last season as much. Breaking Bad, Homeland done Was going to do Luther or The Wire next - can you tell me which one is best of the two?"

[Council Scum]

"""Alfs 5:34 Sun Feb 4 Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls As I said, Manuel, don't compare. Ben Kingsley is an incredible actor and his performance in the film was stunning"" I never really rated the film and found Kingsley to overact, to the point he was like a cardboard cut out gangster and it ruined the film."

[ludo21]

I don't think anything will come close to Band of Brothers but thoroughly enjoying Masters of the Air. Anyone know if it is based on a book or memoirs like the other two? I'd love to know if the episode three raid that flew onto Algeria actually happened as that seems quite unlikely. Perhaps if they wanted to move the unit to N. Africa but a regular mission? At the very least it takes them out of the front line for a week or so and unable to fly missions which I can't imagine happening. I'd love to see how they are going to repair the B17s and fly back to Blighty having landed in the middle of nowhere. Also suspending belief at the level of damage to every B17 on every mission. Be interesting to see if episode four starts with them back on base in England without any explanation of how they got back. I hope it is all factually correct as that was the beauty of BoB.

[Jim79]

Masters of the Air is much more in line with Band of Brothers than The Pacific ever was. Shaping up to be a brilliant bit of TV.

[Northern Sold]

Episode 3 of Masters of the Air was the nuts....

[Sydney_Iron]

"Maybe mentioned but Slow Horses is worth a watch, just finished season 2 and know onto 3. Gary Oldman, top stuff and plenty of familiar faces pop up in supporting roles for an episode or 2."

[Manuel]

"Alfs - Yep true enough. I've watched the first four available now and really enjoying it, but who doesn't like a London gangster yarn anyway."

[Alfs]

"As I said, Manuel, don't compare. Ben Kingsley is an incredible actor and his performance in the film was stunning."

[Manuel]

"Sexy Beast - Will lean towards Alfs that it's pretty decent, but fuck me some of the violence is close to the mark, who wants to watch people having their heads caved in? It's hard not to compare the characters from the film though, on that I think Gal is reasonably convincing and does actually look like a young Ray Winstone, but Don and Teddy Bass are not convincing at all to me and hard to take seriously."

[collyrob]

"Thought the new season of Fargo was fairly good, up until the last episode which was absolute pony. Just watched that mr bates vs the post office, knew nothing of the story, fuck me, my blood was boiling watching it."

[Alfs]

"I've watched the first 3 eps of Sexy Beast now, and I have to say, it's pretty good. Don't let the shit reviews put you off - and as mentioned, forget the film, and pretend that the tv version is called 'Psychotic Thugs'."

[Jaan Kenbrovin]

"You can watch them here, zeb. https://watchseries.mx/tv/masters-of-the-air-61wk4/1-1"

[zebthecat]

"I'd love to watch Masters of the air as Band of Brothers is my favourite but it is just another subscription I can't be arsed with. Mind you I had totally missed that Pacific was even made so picked up a second hand Blu-Ray set on EBay so, at least, I have that to look forward to."

[zebthecat]

"Alfs 6:02 Sun Jan 28 Spot on. The script, direction and cast are all superb. Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, Ray Winstone and especially Ben Kingsley (the latter two playing totally against type) play it perfectly. The TV series was more or less doomed as soon as they came with the idea."

[Manuel]

"Yep, it's completely shit but somehow a good watch."

[zico]

"Manuel, yes the second one is more ridiculous but I enjoyed both to be fair. Yes it's awful but it's an enjoyable awful with none of the modern day box ticking, preaching statements or virtue signalling. Looking forward to the 3rd series."

[Manuel]

"Reacher is absolutely fucking awful, but somehow still worth a watch. Is season 2 as ridiculous as the first one?"

[Jim79]

"I really enjoyed Loudermilk and actually know Ron Livingston pretty well these days. His wife, Rosemarie De Witt plays the mother of my daughter in a film to be released on Disney+ later this year and I spent all of last week with Ron and his family at the Sundance Film Festival. He's a top top bloke and hoping Loudermilk gets picked up to crack on with the 4th season as the broadcaster who funded the first 3 seasons went bust but its popularity on Netflix recently has brought some other firms to the table with a view to filming the 4th season. The writers actually have it scripted out to 7 seasons in total so if it does get picked up there's plenty of scope that it could get a good run and another 4 seasons in total to come."

[Council Scum]

"Agreed, Loudermilk is an easy watch."

[Council Scum]

"Agreed, Loudermilk is an easy watch."

[Haz]

Another shout out for Boy Swallows Universe. I'm enjoying Loudermilk too.

[Jaan Kenbrovin]

Fargo was very good and back to form. True Detective 4 is shite. Hopefully will get better but I doubt it.

[collyrob]

"Loved boy swallows universe, great shout sold0. Enjoying the latest season of Fargo so far. Will move onto the new true detective next"

[Percy Dalton]

The wife's uncle was a pilot in Bomber command only done five trips killed on the Nuremburg mission which was a disaster his plane being the 100th to be lost on that mission

[Percy Dalton]

The wife's uncle was a pilot in Bomber command only done five trips killed on the Nuremburg mission which was a disaster his plane being the 100th to be lost on that mission

[Northern Sold]

"Percy... the lads both Brits/commonwealth and the Yanks had horrendous casualty figures... in 1943 (when the series is set) the US 8th was going over the pond with no fighter escort and the average life expectancy was 11 missions... seeing as your tour of duty ended at 20 missions (IIRC) the likely hood is that you never got there.. it was only when the US got the P-51's as fighter escort that the figures turned in their favour. Bomber Command tours were much longer... 30 first then a small time off and then 20 for second etc... the Yanks found it hard to believe that Guy Gibson done over three tours with over 170 sorties... both day and night time. In all 125,000 British/Commonwealth served in Bomber command, 46% made the ultimate sacrifice... only 28% made it through unscathed... the rest were either POW's or killed in accidents. Where US 8th or Bomber Command for me they were the bravest of the brave getting up in those tin cans... Bless them all..."