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"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?"

2 part mini series Paris Has Fallen is very good. You can’t get a better villain than Bethnal Green boy Sean Harris. I’ve never seen him in anything bad . Great actor . 

First episode of The penguin was brilliant. 

Enjoying the Mr McMahon documentary on Netflix as well.

Joker 2 sounds like a dark remake of a A Star Is Born. Will be shit.  

Colin from accounts season two is fucking dreadful, had to turn it off.

After watching Reggie Perrin with Martin Clunes, I'm giving 'Warren' a look, it's not great but a nice little sitcom and only six episodes.

New series of Gone Fishing started. Very funny.

I’ve also started catching up with Colin from Accounts. Pretty good.

Recently/Currently watching:

For All Mankind (alternate space history...what if USSR won the race to land on the moon). Worth a watch.

All American (black lad from the hood gets taken to Beverly Hills to become a high school football star). Good if you like coming of age American Football dramas...a bit like Friday Night Lights. Only on season 1 though .

Parenthood (One to watch with the missus
 Light hearted family-based drama..Pretty good, all be it a bit asinine).
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Manuel wrote: ↑23 Sep 2024, 15:50 …although The Joker sequel is meant to be shit.
 

I really liked the Joker, so I'm dreading to see what they've done to the sequel.

I normally struggle with spin offs because the majority of them are just cash cows for the original project, but I'm quite keen to see the Penguin from what's been said on here.

Yep, The Penguin looks great and not as dark as I thought it might be. I love the Batman films and the spin off stuff, although The Joker sequel is meant to be shit.

Agreed that The Penguin 1st episode is good. 

I have done the caley sleeper about 30 times being an anorak and I couldn't handle it myself.

Regarding the sleeper they upgraded the rolling stock about 5 years ago and the seated section is 10 times worse.

Alfs wrote: ↑22 Sep 2024, 13:22 The first ep of The Penguin is excellent.

Agree . Thought it was excellent.  I'm not going to look at options to binge, happy to savour weekly. 
Colin Farrell was brilliant 
 

The first ep of The Penguin is excellent.

Agrre Alf.
I gave up after 20 mins. The beeb is gone ro shit. Atrocious stuff

Night Sleeper on the BBC is simply the worst drama I have ever endured.  Avoid at all costs.

The Penguin with Colin Farrell looks promising 

OK. Think I'll give it a shot.

Manuel

Yeah I watched The Perfect Couple and enjoyed it. Nice to see the once love of my life Isabella Adjani (watch La Reine Margot) acting again. I probably still would. 

DD Lewis bagged her didn't he? 

Finished Kaos on Netflix, not something I’d usually be into but really enjoyed it.

we’re watching “ breeders” now with Martin Freeman, decent watch.

has anyone seen “this country” I’ve never heard of it but it’s supposed to be brilliant.

Anyone watched the new Netflix series The Perfect Couple with Nicole Kidman and Ray Donovan? Generally getting good reviews.

Series two of Colin from accounts is complete garbage, turned it off.

I got excited when I saw they're making a Lord of the Flies 6 part TV series with Hans Zimmer doing the music.

Then I saw it was the BBC making it.  

Noticed today that Colin from accounts had a second series, thought it was fairly decent.

Great start to Slow Horses. Bit shocked as not to spoil but a main character dies but does he/she ? I hope not. 

Slow Horses is back next week.

"I was aware of it before but what I found fascinating hearing from Rick was the amount of interference he suffered during his career from producers and the like. I understand putting money in to a film and wanting to have a say but when you hire ""an expert"" in a particular field surely you are hiring them because of their expertise so just leave them alone and allow them to do what they do well and you might just end up with a better film than what you end up with with interference. The proof of it shows when you compare American Werewolf, where Landis just let him do his thing bar original instructions on what Landis wanted, and The Wolfman which should have been a great film but wasn't. I saw something recently on You Tube where someone had edited various scenes in Jason and The Argonauts, including the classic skeletons scene, to make them ""smoother"" and less clunky. It looked awful compared to the original. As I say there are reasons why these experts are experts. Bit like Sullivan hiring a DOF then deciding to sign players himself!"