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Dirk Gently update. I've stuck with it and am now on ep 5. It's growing on me though still fairly clueless as to wtf is going on.

Also, it seems the actor playing Dirk is a big fan of Sheldon Cooper.
 
TheHoodedClaw said:
Watched the first two episodes of The OA, and I'm not yet sure what it is I'm actually watching. I suppose that is the point at this stage. There's been a couple of sequences of great beauty, a couple of total WTF.
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Binged this today,
A bit WTF for episodes 1&2, 3,4,5,6,7 great story. Episode 8 great finish
really enjoyed it. The Merlot hepled.
 
Spymaster said:
Occupied is a ten part Norwegian political thriller that we're coming to the end of.

The Green Party comes into power and cuts off the oil supplies in favour of a new, climate friendly technology they've developed. The rest of the EU uses Russia as a proxy to invade Norway and restore the oil supply. The series looks at the political machinations, spies, and resistance movements, as well as running a couple of murder enquiries alongside.

Well acted and some nice photography of Norway. One for DotCommunist
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Just started on this, I like how the pieces are being placed on the board... Got a lot going for it - creator Erik Skjoldbjærg did the excellent white noir Insomnia, and superlative heist flick NOKAS, and it brings to mind the eighties Soviet invasion mini series Amerika.
 
T & P said:
Just starting Dirk Gently (new 2016 remake). Has anyone seen it?
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Binge watched all 8 and it's fantastic! It gets better and more ludicrous the more episodes you watch.

Also watched the original 2010 BBC UK Dirk Gently which was a bit pants then got really good in the 3rd and last episode. Shame they didn't take that further?
 
'dreams of a life' - if anyone remembers a few years ago when a woman was found dead in her flat in wood green and she had been there for three years and the TV was still on, it's a documentary about that - I remember hearing the story and it's so tragically sad
 
pengaleng said:
'dreams of a life' - if anyone remembers a few years ago when a woman was found dead in her flat in wood green and she had been there for three years and the TV was still on, it's a documentary about that - I remember hearing the story and it's so tragically sad
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Watched that a while back; really strange case, and very sad to hear her friends talk about the whole thing.
 
Lord Camomile said:
Watched that a while back; really strange case, and very sad to hear her friends talk about the whole thing.
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wood green is such a nasty place as well near that shopping city :(

felt proper weird watching it knowing I went there on the regular and walked past her flat all the time she was dead
 
TheHoodedClaw said:
Just completed Person of Interest (tho had to skelp season 5 off the torrents as it doesn't seem to be on Netflix yet). For something that seemed to start off as a simple procedural, albeit with an interesting premise - and on US network TV to boot - that was pretty damn great. It ended up in all sorts of of unexpected places, and drew some characters that this viewer really came to care for. Top stuff.

is it too much to ask for "The adventures of Shaw and Bear, with Root whispering in Shaw's ear"?
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I loved that and it's one of the few series they've shown in full on 5 USA or was it PICK usually you get a season or 2 on almost constant repeat.

It's set up for a new team spin off and hopefully it will become a lot more international; as I think NY has really been done to death and almost all of the main players killed off.

It really had great character development/writing especially Detective Fusco who went through this whole transformation from dirty cop to hero and if you noticed (after the episode where he protects the guy who coaches men on how to date) became a lot more confident and playful in his interactions with others. It's subtle and I only picked it up on my 3rd re-watch :hmm:

Even the dog was well written into episodes :thumbs: The dog how can write for a dog but they did and did it well.

Not sure why you needed to torrent the episodes as almost everything appears on multiple streaming host sites within 7 days of broadcast.
 
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Ergo Proxy said:
Not sure why you needed to torrent the episodes as almost everything appears on multiple streaming host sites within 7 days of broadcast.
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Just old-fashioned I guess. The moody streaming sites are basically just streaming the same files that appear a few hours after broadcast on the torrent sites anyway.
 
Ergo Proxy said:
Even the dog was well written into episodes :thumbs:
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Heh, yeah. Introducing a dog side-kick is usually a very bad sign. But Bear is cool, and used to slightly take the edge off one or two of the human characters. Come to think of it, the writing as a whole includes a bit more humour once Bear is on the scene.
 
I watched RATS last night - morgan spurlock's new thing and it was alright, the catcher dude made it, wish there was more of him, it felt half finished, it didnt really go into much info was more like 'look at all these rats it's well bad' I was expecting more than what it turned out to be

6/10
 
Fresh Dressed on the other hand was awesome :cool: but i dunno if thats just cus i love fashion or what - it's about hip hop fashion and is pretty interesting
 
Audrie & Daisy - pretty dark about teenage girls in america who suffered sexual assaults and the social media demonisation of them
 
Just seen Fury..which was watchable . Decent action . Not brilliant but watchable.

Then " the art of the steal " which had Kurt Russell, Terence Stamp and a few others in an art thief type caper . It'll certainly not win any awards but it was fun to watch . A few decent chuckles . Mebbe a twist and turn too much though .

Started watching this van Helsing thing...not bad enough to be total shite, definitely not good enough to justify watching this much of it . Zombie apocalypse type thing except with vampires..and things . Not great .

Been waiting ages for new episodes of Z Nation, Falling skies and Vikings . Giving up hope they'll ever appear .

Narcos was v good mind . Well worth the watch . Marco Polo too.

Thinking of checking out the Medici series .
 
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