TV series worth watching/downloading

[404cameljockey]

BB alert: subtitles!

I watched the BBC Northern Ireland six part Gaelic language Crá - police procedural. Watched on BBC iPlayer, no torrents at all as far as I see.

It was excellent, if the dénouement was a little crammed into the final episode, but very plausible plot misleads and characters wrongly believing actions and motives, well written. The wild scenery (better even than Shetland) and characters were engrossing.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... aelic-noir

[thecolonel]

Watched the first 4 episodes of Black Doves on Netflix

It's now in the bin, rubbish!

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[dtaai-maai]

Watched the first 4 episodes of Black Doves on Netflix

It's now in the bin, rubbish!

You've binned Keira Knightley? Bold move...

[Dannie Boy]

The critics don’t always agree!!

First,

I can honestly say that I have seldom enjoyed a series more than this. I watched the first 3 episodes back to back, then 2 more the next night, and saved the final for the next day just because I didn't want to end it so soon. It's beautifully acted and the plot, while a bit ridiculous on some level, is nonetheless genuinely thrilling and extremely satisfying in the way everything gets resolved at the end. The writing has the necessary elements of black humor and intelligent dialogue that elevate this far above your average spy/gangster series. In short, I loved it and am actually a bit astounded that so many have rated it 1 star. Perhaps they didn't approve of the gay scenes? I mean, I usually don't care for those either, but in this case there was so much other good stuff that I could ignore that aspect fairly easily. This is easily one of the best most entertaining shows Netflix has ever done, maybe the very best. Five stars.

Second,

SlowHorses this ‘aint..
If there was a formula for the success of Slow Horses, the plodding, trite, woketastic dullards who thought they could replicate it in Black Doves were sorely mistaken.
My depression in watching banality this abysmal is that rather like Eric Morecambe playing the piano for Andre Previn, all the right notes might have been there but this time absolutely not in the right order. Morecambe was both funny and clever and this violent drivel is neither. Highly strung, underwritten, over-acted and with limp subplotting and the usually entirely unbelievable performance from a paper-thin Kiera Knightley (in all senses) who has apparently more access to enormous guns in her knicker drawer than she does feelings for the man she was extra-maritally shagging who gets rubbed out in an incredibly unlikely hit from 450 metres away across the river Thames with pinpoint accuracy. This series is the ultimate result in pop-fiction finally consuming its own still-born babies. An entire sequence of Maguffins with absolutely no connecting tissue but plottery as agile and sophisticated as Enid Blyton and some usual suspect starry actors phoning it in having been ordered to watch Pulp Fiction and as much of Kill Bill they could stomach as homework prior to convening for day one of entirely too cozy rehearsals with a creative team so ineffably smug and self-congratulatory that it really should have been called The Fundaments. Oh and while I’m clearly loving every minute of this dross let me ask, entirely into the thin air(presumably) why has it become both trendy, de-rigeur and even god help us, sexy to portray psychopathic professional serial killers as demi-heroes? Furthermore, while no familial traditionalist, is it not grtting, well all a bit you know trope-tastic that only gays seem to be both witty and capable of having fun? Really? Does this reflect on the ‘creative’ teams ..or the audiences? Either way, i am not entirely sure I care for any answer as in any case nihilism without absurdism is, well, merely, well, empty. Entirely par for a very ordinary course and a sad reflection on just how appallingly low human-nature has slipped, certainly as far as what passes for entertainment. God the noise of boxes being ticked in current TV fiction is as deafening as the gratuitous shoot outs. Sarah Lancashire is apparently also in it but both wasted and badly directed. I have just discovered a whole new TV writing genre: psychobathos. One star

[thecolonel]

The critics don’t always agree!!......

There was a FB post last night championing it but 80% of the replies panned it...

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[404cameljockey]

I'll definitely watch it, almost started last night but after a tip from a US friend I watched the first of five series of Longmire, a TV police drama set on the high plains, with Zack McLarnon (Indian police chief from Dark Winds) who I find magnetic on screen, and Australian actor Robert Taylor whose weird little empathetic half grin when delivering bad news creeps me out every time. I can't resist those plains police dramas set 'on the res'.

[migrant]

I'll definitely watch it, almost started last night but after a tip from a US friend I watched the first of five series of Longmire, a TV police drama set on the high plains, with Zack McLarnon (Indian police chief from Dark Winds) who I find magnetic on screen, and Australian actor Robert Taylor whose weird little empathetic half grin when delivering bad news creeps me out every time. I can't resist those plains police dramas set 'on the res'.

Excellent show!!

[thecolonel]

I just finished the recently released Yellowstone Season 5 part 2. To clarify this is episodes 9 to 14. Pretty good, not to taken too seriously, good watchable stuff.

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[pharvey]

I just finished the recently released Yellowstone Season 5 part 2. To clarify this is episodes 9 to 14. Pretty good, not to taken too seriously, good watchable stuff.

TBH I thought it was a complete let down after the previous Seasons. After the last Episode(s), I can't say I'm disappointed that it's come to an end. Rumour has it though that there will be (yet another) "Spin-off" with the "6666's" and Beth, Rip, Jamie et al.

[404cameljockey]

I just finished the recently released Yellowstone Season 5 part 2. To clarify this is episodes 9 to 14. Pretty good, not to taken too seriously, good watchable stuff.

TBH I thought it was a complete let down after the previous Seasons. After the last Episode(s), I can't say I'm disappointed that it's come to an end. Rumour has it though that there will be (yet another) "Spin-off" with the "6666's" and Beth, Rip, Jamie et al.

I've watched part 1 and enjoyed but definitely not as captivating as previous series, I never watched this series for politics which has now taken more centre stage. Pretty good is a reasonable description.

[buksida]

Two currently airing that I'll be trying:

One Hundred Years of Solitude, absolutely loved the 1967 GGM novel set in Macondo, Colombia so will be interesting to see how the TV adaptation works.

La Palma, a Norwegian disaster mini-series about a family trying to escape a tsunami.

Yet to start Landman and Black Doves, enjoying Yellowstone so far.

[sateeb]

/\ Landman is very good IMO. Billy Bob Thornton is, well, as only Bill Bob can be.

I'm watching Yellowstone in conjunction with 1883, didn't think it would be my cup of espresso but pleasantly surprised.

Black Doves is a bit off the wall, bit of a Guy Richie knockoff maybe.

[404cameljockey]

I enjoyed the first series of Ludwig, ignoring the occasional daft plot/exposition holes; I don't get bothered by lack of realism in this type of show where I do in more serious dramas. I know some are less forgiving!

I'd describe it as easy Sunday evening comedy/drama (it was shown on Wednesdays I think). I like watching both David Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin so I suppose it was always going to be a winner for me. A second series is coming at some point.

[pharvey]

^^ Landman has been excellent so far - La Palma has had a bit of a panning especially with regards to the shitty dubbing. Hopefully you'll be able to get hold of the original version to at least avoid that issue.

[thecolonel]

^^ Landman has been excellent so far - La Palma has had a bit of a panning especially with regards to the shitty dubbing. Hopefully you'll be able to get hold of the original version to at least avoid that issue.

La Palma has also had excellent reviews on FB, it depends where you look.

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