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I’m about to settle in to watch Timetrap. I’ve watched 5 minutes. The set up is coming across like a made for TV sci fi movie, so of course I’m sold. I’ll be tucking into the port we found in the cupboard and maybe some crisps. Catch you on the other side. I’ll let you know how I get on.
 
I assume most of you are aware of The Last Kingdom.

Viking stuff which isn't usually my bag and I thought it would be along similar lines to Game of Thrones, which I thought was nonsense and didn't pursue, but my son got me into it and I binged all 3 seasons over Christmas. It's obviously fiction but there's a (small) degree of history in relation to the 9th century Saxon kingdoms and Viking raiding. Think of it as Sharpe (also Bernard Cornwell) but a thousand years earlier. It's really very good once you get invested and season 4 is coming out at the end of this month.
 
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danny la rouge said:
Timetrap was one of the silliest things I’ve ever seen. It was incoherent, full of clunky exposition dialogue, rushed, full of ideas that haven’t been worked through or linked together, cheesy, chaotic and utterly fabulous.
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I'll watch it tomorrow on the strength of that.

If it's pish you owe me 2 hours.
 
purenarcotic said:
Binged the entire two series of Shtisel over the past couple of days. There better be a third series and they better put it on Netflix because it was a wholly unsatisfying ending otherwise.
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I really liked this, but am only half way through the first series, I can't remember why i stopped. Getting back to it now.
 
danny la rouge said:
Just tried to watch the Tiger King programme everyone is going on about. Got about ten minutes in. Nope. Not for me. I’m out. Load of shite.
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I watched a about half of the first episode and whereas I didn’t particularly disliked it I didn’t get why the entire world seems to be going mad about it. However I’ve since been told things go proper mental in the second episode.

I will probably check ep2 on the basis of that, but not sure I can be arsed to finish ep1. If anyone here who’s watched it thinks I will spoil it if I don’t finish the first episode, please let me know.
 
Spymaster said:
There are 7 episodes. I agree with you though and can't really see what all the fuss is about. I kept watching it thinking that if everyone's talking about it, it must get better but it doesn't.
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Got to admit though until things take a darker turn-Joe Exotic's obsession with the evil Carol Baskin was pretty funny?
 
The Platform was well made but maybe the stupidest film I've seen in a while (and that includes Butt Boy). The characters constantly spell out what would be subtext in a less clunky film and who would
take a little dog into this system, especially when they know exactly what happens in there. :mad:
 
Reno said:
The Platform was well made but maybe the stupidest film I've seen in a while (and that includes Butt Boy). The characters constantly spell out what would be subtext in a less clunky film and who would
take a little dog into this system, especially when they know exactly what happens in there. :mad:
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You watched a film called Butt Boy? :hmm:
 
Spymaster said:
If you’re into those you'll probably like Suits as well. Give it a couple of episodes because it looks a bit silly at first but then turns into good drama.

Also check out Damages with Glenn Close. That's really good. I think all the seasons are on All 4.
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Ah, the better half watches both of these. I couldn't get into them at the time.
 
I have to say, season 3 of Fauda has turned the show into a right bag of shit. I'm at episode 10 so I'll see it through but at times it's like the A team.
 
Reno said:
I watched this last night and the subject matter is interesting but I wished it could have done without all the melodramatic contrivances. It was a German co-production and it feels like a lot of German tv drama, which I generally avoid. I listened to an interview with the woman whose story this was based on a while ago and I’m sure more talented filmmakers could have still made this diverting while not piling on the cliches.

The thing I enjoyed most about it was seeing a lively Berlin, a place which after over two weeks of shutdown here feels ever more remote.
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I really enjoyed it. Liked how it went between past and present and thus the community and Berlin, made the contrast stark. Loved seeing Berlin too; these bits were totally romanticised but I get that was part of the difference. Didn't realise til after that that bit was totally made up but can see why that was done and liked the explanation from the makers in the mini documentary on why Berlin and why the story there.
But the bits in the Hassidic community were the most interesting. Esty getting training on how to consummate her marriage was tragicomic.
What were the melodramatic contrivinces? The only thing that bothered me was the cliched rebirth in the lake. I would also expect a Hassidic Jewish woman to drown as would never have learnt to swim :)
Had never heard Catnapp's music before, it's beautiful.
 
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