Apple TV+ recommendations?
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Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Severance is so much better than anything else on Apple TV that I have no faith they will commission its like again.
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
Criminal Record started this week - London-based thriller with Peter Capaldi as a bad cop. Two episodes available then one a week.
First one started slow, got better by the end of the episode.
First one started slow, got better by the end of the episode.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I am watching The Crowded Room - I like it, but my fucking god it suffers from "why make 3 episodes when 10 will do?" syndrome - talk about long and drawn out, would have worked better as a mini-series type thing, it just goes on and on and on and fucking on.
I mean it's my sort of thing and I like it, good cast too, but just why so many episodes?
I mean it's my sort of thing and I like it, good cast too, but just why so many episodes?
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Just watched the first episode of Masters of the Air. Fantastic production values and seemed to give a realistic impression of what the American bombing campaign must have been like. Haven’t got fully to grips with the characters yet and suspect lots of them will be gone soon.
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
Yup, it’s good - watched first two episodes tonight.
High production values, the flying scenes are terrifying and horrific in equal measure.
Obvs very “we won the war” American PoV and maybe a bit Spielberg schmaltzy but very watchable.
High production values, the flying scenes are terrifying and horrific in equal measure.
Obvs very “we won the war” American PoV and maybe a bit Spielberg schmaltzy but very watchable.
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Going to have to give that a go, I'm a bit fussy about war movies, but I do like some (the less gung-ho ones with a thoughtful/sorrowful message, obviously).
Please god be under 3 hours long though, my life isn't getting any longer. I'm starting to lose patience with overly long films (yes, Killers of the Flower Moon, I am looking at you)
EDIT: Oh it's a mini-series, I can cope with that better as long as it's well paced.
Please god be under 3 hours long though, my life isn't getting any longer. I'm starting to lose patience with overly long films (yes, Killers of the Flower Moon, I am looking at you)
EDIT: Oh it's a mini-series, I can cope with that better as long as it's well paced.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Oh god how many episodes? I only have Apple for another 2 months, I don't want to get embroiled in something I can't finish!!!
Why is everything so fucking long these days? It's like we've forgotten how to tell a story.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
As a gamer, I've already resigned myself to the fact that I could well be dead before TES VI is announced, I'm reluctant to commit long-term to TV series.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Is 9.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I am absolutely loving Lessons in Chemistry, thanks for that recommendation.
Just over halfway through (on episode 5 of 8, but they are all available now so I can just binge it which is what is putting me off newer series that are an episode a week).
It's a little quirky and bonkers (and concerns subjects which I am interested in, well science and cooking!), which I am enjoying.
Just over halfway through (on episode 5 of 8, but they are all available now so I can just binge it which is what is putting me off newer series that are an episode a week).
It's a little quirky and bonkers (and concerns subjects which I am interested in, well science and cooking!), which I am enjoying.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Masters of the Air.
Isn't as bad as I feared it could be but it lacks something that Band of Brothers and Pacific had. Although I must confess I have watched both more than once so it's probably buried them deeper in my consciousness. I gave both episodes another go on Saturday just to make sure.
Buck/y can't remember which one tbh, is too good looking, I mean come on. He's a fucking poster boy, it's too much.
Some of the CGI was lacking, especially the low level flying. But most of it was super impressive and also pretty brutal.
I'm sure it will develop but I think the fact the characters are spread over an entire squadron rather than in a company unit may mean it's hard to build a relationship with them. Also most of them will probably die anyway.
I'll give it 750/1000 bomber raid.
Saw this just now and it made me laugh.
Isn't as bad as I feared it could be but it lacks something that Band of Brothers and Pacific had. Although I must confess I have watched both more than once so it's probably buried them deeper in my consciousness. I gave both episodes another go on Saturday just to make sure.
Buck/y can't remember which one tbh, is too good looking, I mean come on. He's a fucking poster boy, it's too much.
Some of the CGI was lacking, especially the low level flying. But most of it was super impressive and also pretty brutal.
I'm sure it will develop but I think the fact the characters are spread over an entire squadron rather than in a company unit may mean it's hard to build a relationship with them. Also most of them will probably die anyway.
I'll give it 750/1000 bomber raid.
Saw this just now and it made me laugh.
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I've binged Slow Horses; I don't binge anything, but it's very watchable because it's funny, has a brilliant cast and makes great use of real London locations.
The plots are as shabby as shit though...
It's worth it for Gary Oldman channelling his Sid Vicious & Joe Orton characters through Jackson Lamb
The plots are as shabby as shit though...
It's worth it for Gary Oldman channelling his Sid Vicious & Joe Orton characters through Jackson Lamb
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Interview with one of the writers.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
The programme is based on a series of novels. The novels are great. As a reader of crime fiction, I think the plots are in the top percentile of the genre.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
How many novels are there?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
9 (or rather 8 if you don’t count the latest, which is more of a prequel/origins story)
T & P
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Continuing to enjoy Masters of the Air, but not for the first time regarding American films or series about WWII, someone unfamiliar with the history of the conflict could be forgiven for believing the Americans fought the Axis powers single-handedly. For the most part the few British servicemen shown have been mostly snobbish unlikable types sneering at their American allies in pubs.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Spielberg and Hanks have never really given the Brits a fair crack of the whip.
