ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Just watched the first s2 and wondered if I hadn't just compleatly misunderstood what happened at the end of S1. I thought it was all wrapped up.
I'll really have to watch it again.
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I'll really have to watch it again.
T & P
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Same here. Even though my memory is quite shit, I still manage to remember basic plot lines and characters of series I’d really enjoyed, but I could not make sense of the beginning of S2. But once you get pass the container park game, things get better and and more familiar characters from S1 show up.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Did you go back for a recap?
I am finding it difficult to care. In fact I have just realised that I didn't even watch episode one to the end. . . I have literally only just turned the telly off.
T & P
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As it happens we decided beforehand to watch the last 20 minutes of the last episode of S1. It made fuck all difference
We haven’t finished S2 yet, but there is a much stronger connection to S1 in the middle episodes. But apart from that, you could just enjoy the episodes 3-5 as standalone mini stories. Basically, there are two new games, one set in an old prison and another in an industrial building, and the set ups of each game are very enjoyable and twisted. So worth watching those regardless.
T & P
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Yeah, I kept thinking that there must be a way for an intelligent enough contestant to map out a successful exit strategy.
I would have been royally fucked if I were in there though- not a chance
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
I'm watching this, it's absolute tosh but very enjoyable. Has strayed into rom com territory a little too much but plenty of dashing about getting into trouble.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Would like to recommend Top Boy. Had avooided this years ago, as saw it was described as the British Wire. Loved The Wire and cant see anything living up to it, so reckoned Top Boy would be disappointing.
Well, was wrong about that. It is heartbreaking, gripping, shocking and some fine performances. Little Simz, Kano, Jasmine Jobson and Micheal Ward in particular.
It is not the British Wire, though. Nor should it try to be.
Well, was wrong about that. It is heartbreaking, gripping, shocking and some fine performances. Little Simz, Kano, Jasmine Jobson and Micheal Ward in particular.
It is not the British Wire, though. Nor should it try to be.
T & P
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I finished Alice in Borderland. First of all, the positives: the series ends properly, with a proper ending and explanation for the events we have witnessed. So credit there for it bothering to acomplish what so many series of the genre can't be arsed to do.
The ending itself left me somewhat underwhelmed. Having said that, conceiving a full plausble and credible solution to the premise of the series was always going to be a tall order. But it is not a terrible outcome either, and the background story of the main characters and what we saw in the very first episode are well integrated into the wider story.
I really liked the way things seemed to be heading halfway through the episode, when he's led to believe everything he'd experienced was a PTSD episode in his mind due to his causing his friends' deaths. That whole passage in the psychiatric hospital was fantastic, and could have been a very plausible real explanation
Another criticism is that the final episode is stretched a bit much. Good story, but some key scenes are draaaaaaged a bit much.
Overall 7/10. Worth finishing if you are reasonably enjoying it.
Ah, and the penultimate episode (7)... Fuck me, that was brutal...
The ending itself left me somewhat underwhelmed. Having said that, conceiving a full plausble and credible solution to the premise of the series was always going to be a tall order. But it is not a terrible outcome either, and the background story of the main characters and what we saw in the very first episode are well integrated into the wider story.
I really liked the way things seemed to be heading halfway through the episode, when he's led to believe everything he'd experienced was a PTSD episode in his mind due to his causing his friends' deaths. That whole passage in the psychiatric hospital was fantastic, and could have been a very plausible real explanation
Another criticism is that the final episode is stretched a bit much. Good story, but some key scenes are draaaaaaged a bit much.
Overall 7/10. Worth finishing if you are reasonably enjoying it.
Ah, and the penultimate episode (7)... Fuck me, that was brutal...
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Watched The Witcher Blood Orange. Silly but thoroughly enjoyable. Apparently the uber fans are angry because it's not respecting the lore and it's "woke".
Getting so sick of that word.
Getting so sick of that word.
Alice in Borderland
you're right about stretched. the final ep could definitely have stuck to an hour. didn't need the extra 20 mins. but being on a streaming service not constrained by broadcast schedule time slots, it seems like the creators can get over indulgent when not forced to trim the excess.
my major complaint about the whole series, both s1 & s2 is the amount of padding. e.g. the shipping container maze tag game didn't need to be dragged over 2 episodes.
and the sheer number of times the voice over would explain the rules, a character would repeat those talking to themself, then add "in other words" and paraphrase the rules again.
was pleasantly surprised by the ending - such a positive message for such a grim show. glad I finished it when had been tempted to not bother after how much bits dragged or were just too silly. e.g.
the car flips over with no-one wearing seatbelts and noone's hurt at all.
you're right about stretched. the final ep could definitely have stuck to an hour. didn't need the extra 20 mins. but being on a streaming service not constrained by broadcast schedule time slots, it seems like the creators can get over indulgent when not forced to trim the excess.
my major complaint about the whole series, both s1 & s2 is the amount of padding. e.g. the shipping container maze tag game didn't need to be dragged over 2 episodes.
and the sheer number of times the voice over would explain the rules, a character would repeat those talking to themself, then add "in other words" and paraphrase the rules again.
was pleasantly surprised by the ending - such a positive message for such a grim show. glad I finished it when had been tempted to not bother after how much bits dragged or were just too silly. e.g.
the car flips over with no-one wearing seatbelts and noone's hurt at all.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
I hope you watched Top Boy Summerhouse first. Netflix really ballsed the naming up
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
I'm loving Physical:100, South Korean, child friendly, low violence (only wrestling) Squid/Gladiator games. There's a lot of repetitive scenes, slow mo - but that does give you a chance to get to know the contestants. There are some truly amazing people taking part in it. You can tell the contestants are loving it too and enjoying meeting some of their idols and competing against them. My 7 year old granddaughter is into it, it's a 12 but I haven't seen anything wildly inappropriate for a 7-year old apart from the occasional "shit", she's used to that, as "shit" is everywhere 
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Oh yeah, wasn't that difficult to work out running order. Best if it had all been under one name, though.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
* kisses teeth *
T & P
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I usually only browse Netflix through my Virgin Media’s built-in app, which is a bit shit and doesn’t suggest or highlight nearly as many interesting stuff as my phone app.
I’ve just discovered on the latter that there’s an Asian Mind Game TV Shows category. This is relevant to my interests
I’ve just discovered on the latter that there’s an Asian Mind Game TV Shows category. This is relevant to my interests
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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What is an Asian mind game?
T & P
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‘Asian mind game TV shows’. So a subgenre of survival thriller escape room type series, spearheaded by the likes of Squid Game and Alice in Borderland. Similar to Scandinavian crime TV shows having become a subgenre of their own, I guess.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Oh
braindancer
not for long
I'm loving Physical:100, South Korean, child friendly, low violence (only wrestling) Squid/Gladiator games. There's a lot of repetitive scenes, slow mo - but that does give you a chance to get to know the contestants. There are some truly amazing people taking part in it. You can tell the contestants are loving it too and enjoying meeting some of their idols and competing against them. My 7 year old granddaughter is into it, it's a 12 but I haven't seen anything wildly inappropriate for a 7-year old apart from the occasional "shit", she's used to that, as "shit" is everywhere
I watched the first couple of these with my teens last night. We kind of enjoyed it but blimey it could do with some pruning.... in the second episode they showed about 15 minutes of the contestants choosing their opponents for the ball-game, and then in advance of each match went back and showed them doing it again - blimey - just get on with it!
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Normally I would agree. . . but as a family viewing experience, with comments, speculation etc, I am totally fine with how it is playing out. I actually would have liked to have seen a bit more of the (presumably ) less interesting games that they only showed short clips of. Episode 4 is mostly choosing teams, but I was fine with it. . . ."ah but what is the next game. . will they throw a curveball, this episode is called underdog remember". . .
It reminds me in a way of a Japanese show called Sasuke. It's essentially what has been converted into Ninja Warrior around the world, except it's not a half hour TV show in Japan, it's the whole thing. . . 3-6 hours of TV, it's an event. It makes for a very different viewing experience more akin to how I imagine (from watching American film and TV) american families watch american football.
Anyway. So far I quite like it. Every time I get a little bored, they change something in Physical 100 just enough to keep me on board. . . even if some of the editing is obviously a bit . . .creative.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
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girasol
Addicted to handstands!
Yeah, I've been enjoying the pace because, as i mentioned before, it gives time to know the contestants a bit more and gets you more sucked in. We literally moaned when we were left hanging at the end of Episode 4. Who got the most sand??? We think it was the underdogs and we were really rooting for them! It's a pretty cliched cliff hanger but it's well done, it works.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Obvs rooting for the underdogs, but the other guys did have a lot of sand. Could be double bluffing you. The editing is all over the place. Time be damned. Bit cheeky if you ask me.
T & P
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Strong recommendation for Girls5eva. A Tina Fey-produced comedy series about a one-hit wonder girl band from the 90s who decide to reunite and try to relaunch themselves.
Fantastically enjoyable, very funny, and thoroughly bingeable.
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Fantastically enjoyable, very funny, and thoroughly bingeable.
Girls5Eva review – Tina Fey’s gags are so good they should be revered
There are shades of 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt in this hilarious show about a one-hit-wonder girl band reuniting after 30 years. No wonder, given it’s by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock
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