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I thought The Haunting of Hill House got great around the middle episodes (especially the funeral one) and then took a nosedive into sentimental mush. The last episode ruined the show for me. Read a few reviews which claim that the follow up is even more melodrama than horror, so not that excited about it.

Yes that is a fair assessment.
I liked it although the few English accents being done by Americans were a bit jarring. Thankfully few.
 
It's the first season of what is an anthology show about haunted houses. They take a literary classic of the horror genre, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James for this second season and then they only keep the character's names from the books and make up a different story.

The Haunting OF Bly Manor definitely keeps quite a bit of the story of The Turn of The Screw as well.
 
The Haunting OF Bly Manor definitely keeps quite a bit of the story of The Turn of The Screw as well.
I will probably get round to it eventually but as I wasn't that huge a fan of Hill House, it's lower down on my priorities. Always so much to watch these days, just giving Lovecraft Country a go.

Mike Flanagan works exclusively in the horror genre in films and on tv and he is incredibly prolific. I always want to like his work more than I do.
 
I will probably get round to it eventually but as I wasn't that huge a fan of Hill House it's lower down on my priorities. Always so much to watch these days, just giving Lovecraft Country a go,

I am literally just about to start watching that too :D
 
Just watched Slaughterhouse Rulz.
Shite.
Then watched Master of None season 2 episode 6
Dev is not really in it beyond a 30 second set up at the beginning and it follows three short stories of random New Yorkers who 'sort of' cross paths. Magnificent, could have watched a whole film based on this set up.

Fantastic episode, the one that I remember most about from all of them
 
Fantastic episode, the one that I remember most about from all of them
There has been a few good ones, (and some not so good) but because because it aways revolves around Dev there is only so much that can be done to flex the creativity and style that the series writers obviously relish. Not that he's a bad character. I did like the first story the best, with a couple of set ups for some uh oh moments, that later are just delt with as if they might be in real life, and not cinema farce life. . . . and they were not in the least bit unsatisfying because of that, almost certainly more satisfying.
 
Sorry If already mentioned. Song Exploder (stories behind the song basically)

Only one series and four episodes so far but hell so much potential.
 
I'm watching - "I'm with the band, Nasty Cherry".

Listed as documentary following the formation of a girl punk band. . . . .
And what could be more 'punk' than putting a couple of session musicians and two models (who can't play or sing) together in a house in LA for a TV show. Couple of contrived set pieces later - "Ooh, so this is your first red carpet?" - "Let's buy piñatas, but ride in the shopping trollies" - and bingo, we have a show.
Man it's well shit.

I 'recommend' you don't watch.
 
Oktoberfest .... For starters I had to listen to it in its original German because they've dubbed it into English with Brummie accents and it just sounded like a Peaky Blinders rip off. Secondly I'm not sure I completely followed the plot but I made it to the end of the series and sort of understood what was going on ... I think. It's quite snazzy to look at and the main wench is stunningly beautiful so it wasn't all bad, if a little violent on occasion.
 
Well the Chicago 7 (?8) should be renamed the Chicago 5 because apparently two of them don't warrant featuring :confused: apart from that it's watchable enough but even to me who knew very little about the events the film portrays it's obviously a really polarised take on it.

The judge is fantastically dislikeable though.

And Eddie Redmane is distracting throughout.

So yeah, not convinced.
 
Oooh... I was just checking the ‘Coming this week’ section and watched the trailer for The Trial of the Chicago 7.

I hadn’t even heard of it before but it looks promising as fuck, which a good, solid cast and very positive reviews so far. Reminder set :)
Really enjoyed that.
 
Judy and Punch
An Australian film set in an imaginary 17th century village loosely based on Punch and Judy. It's a strange, fairytale affair exploring violence towards women and mob justice which is also very funny. It's a bit uneven but I enjoyed it for its general oddness.
 
Just watched The Trial of the Chicago 7 and it was bloody brilliant.
Gripping, faced paced (rare for a courtroom drama) funny and really upsetting.
 
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