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T & P said:
This not (yet) a recommendation but rather a comment on Who is Erin Carter, the Netflix’s new miniseries that has for some reason become one of the most Marmite shows ever. So much so that the degree of differing opinions has become news. For the most part it seems to be either 1/10 or 10/10 :D

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

'Who is Erin Carter?' is seriously dividing viewers

Is the new crime miniseries a 10/10 hit, or “corny”?
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We’ve watched the first two episodes and I would say it’s neither. 6/10 so far thanks to its fast paced entertaining plot. Perhaps it gets really bad in the latter episodes.
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It was both the best and worst thing I've watched for ages. Some of the acting is terrible, the police boss at one point says "you don't play by the rules but you get results and I like that" but I still really liked it. It was total froth but I would quite happily watch another series of it.

they leave the whole "kid seeing spooky goat people" and do nothing with it. Just bizarre.
 
I'd never seen Suits but gave it a whirl when I was sick with covid. It's very slick and watchable but after a while I realised I was hate-watching it. Obviously the fact that its about corporate lawyers doesn't endear me to it, but I realised it's worse than that, it's a kind of West Wing for the corporate law world - making a bunch of hyper-competitive sharks who'd kill their own grandmother for a fee into a bunch of slick, wise-cracking do-gooders with improbably good looks and likeable personalities. The West Wing for corporate lawyers. FYI, that's possibly the worst review I could give. Still, it is kind of watchable.
 
tommers said:
It was both the best and worst thing I've watched for ages. Some of the acting is terrible, the police boss at one point says "you don't play by the rules but you get results and I like that" but I still really liked it. It was total froth but I would quite happily watch another series of it.

they leave the whole "kid seeing spooky goat people" and do nothing with it. Just bizarre.
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It was her memories of her mum wearing a mask
 
tommers said:
It was both the best and worst thing I've watched for ages. Some of the acting is terrible, the police boss at one point says "you don't play by the rules but you get results and I like that" but I still really liked it. It was total froth but I would quite happily watch another series of it.

they leave the whole "kid seeing spooky goat people" and do nothing with it. Just bizarre.
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As it happens I was saying to the OH that I wonder if sometimes a weird/ unconvincing accent might make an actor's whole acting performance feel worse than it is. This is particularly so with Netflixt shows feauting non-English actors speaking in English. It just sounds weird to me.

I'm Spanish and I've seen a million established Spanish actors with heavy accents speaking English in films and TV series, and that doesn't get in the way at all. But I don't know what it is about Netflix shows sometimes, but when they feature a foreign actor unknown to you speaking in English, I'm not even sure if that's their real voice or if they've been dubbed by a voice actor putting on the foreign accent in question. It certainly preyed on my mind sometimes in this series.

However, I thought the girl who plays the main character's daughter in the present time delivered a fucking brilliant performance throughtout. One to watch :)
 
T & P said:
This not (yet) a recommendation but rather a comment on Who is Erin Carter, the Netflix’s new miniseries that has for some reason become one of the most Marmite shows ever. So much so that the degree of differing opinions has become news. For the most part it seems to be either 1/10 or 10/10 :D

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

'Who is Erin Carter?' is seriously dividing viewers

Is the new crime miniseries a 10/10 hit, or “corny”?
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

We’ve watched the first two episodes and I would say it’s neither. 6/10 so far thanks to its fast paced entertaining plot. Perhaps it gets really bad in the latter episodes.
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Yes, I guess it was a bit corny, but the action scenes were on point, the lead was a kick-ass character, there was a good car chase scene, some good fight scenes, the kid was brilliant. I mean it was a bit formulaic and ropey, but it's obviously not made on a Hollywood blockbuster budget, so you've got to be a bit forgiving. I'd watch a second season, for sure.
 
Still 2 eps to go on Erin but is enjoyable guff. That Brit police chief is the worst actor i think I have ever seen.

Also @T&P, I get that with the weird voice thing. I think it may be poor post production overdubs.
 
Bloodline

We found this one by accident, I don't think it's been widely promoted. Sam Shepherd is the patriarch of a small-town bigshot family in the Florida Keys. Think a smalltime version of the family in Succession, only worse. And I do mean worse: the first member we see is the black sheep eldest son, who is riding the bus home to attend a big family celebration. At first you'll just write this guy off as a twat, but pretty soon you'll find out that he Has His Reasons. He's also far from being the worst of them: the youngest brother Manchild with anger issues is the kind of shithead you'd want to give a wide berth to in real life. The family matriarch, meanwhile, may want Mr. Twat her eldest son to come home, but not at the price of acknowledging what happened to make him that way. Ever think your family's dysfunctional? Well, this shower may make you rethink that opinion.

We're two episodes in, and the plot is thickening nicely. It's already clear that it's not going to end well for any of these characters, but we'll take the ride and see where it leads to (there's already a developing subplot about bootleg petrol and a dead body found in the everglades).

If you ever read and enjoyed James Lee Burke's Lousiana mystery novels, you'll like this one. Bloodline - it's good.
 
I've been watching Atelier, a Japanese drama series about a couture lingerie design house. There's a young woman who starts there, can't remember if she's originally an intern. Just moved to the big city, trying to make her mark and carve out a career kind of thing. She makes some gaffes, makes some friends and allies, and a male colleague develops a crush on her and it's all a bit awkward and cute. The business needs to innovate and modernise. There's shenanigans with competitors, etc.

I started watching it because I like sewing and fashion design and textiles and so on. So I'll probably stick with it for that reason, and because I'm curious to find out how it pans out and because I'm a completist - I've started so I'll finish, kind of thing.

But I'm finding the two lead actresses a bit extremely irritating in all honesty. I know it's for dramatic effect, but some of the scenes between the young lead and the older boss (with Anna Wintour-style bobbed hair) irk me tremendously, like the young character throws strops/tantrums and sulks at the boss in a way that I find hard to imagine flies. And in return, the boss snaps back. But then they both pull faces and harrumph and cross their arms and stuff, it's like really terribly badly hammed-up childish over-acting. Do Japanese dramas tend to be over-acted?
 
AnnO'Neemus said:
I've been watching Atelier, a Japanese drama series about a couture lingerie design house. There's a young woman who starts there, can't remember if she's originally an intern. Just moved to the big city, trying to make her mark and carve out a career kind of thing. She makes some gaffes, makes some friends and allies, and a male colleague develops a crush on her and it's all a bit awkward and cute. The business needs to innovate and modernise. There's shenanigans with competitors, etc.

I started watching it because I like sewing and fashion design and textiles and so on. So I'll probably stick with it for that reason, and because I'm curious to find out how it pans out and because I'm a completist - I've started so I'll finish, kind of thing.

But I'm finding the two lead actresses a bit extremely irritating in all honesty. I know it's for dramatic effect, but some of the scenes between the young lead and the older boss (with Anna Wintour-style bobbed hair) irk me tremendously, like the young character throws strops/tantrums and sulks at the boss in a way that I find hard to imagine flies. And in return, the boss snaps back. But then they both pull faces and harrumph and cross their arms and stuff, it's like really terribly badly hammed-up childish over-acting. Do Japanese dramas tend to be over-acted?
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The simple answer is a question. Do British dramas tend to be over-acted?

In film, theatre, television etc there's a whole range of styles. Overacting, subtle, realistic, physical, comical, stylised, soap, and as many as you'd expect as in every other country.

Of course, Noh and Kabuki would be the most recognised types of acting. But like Britain's Shakespeare and say, music hall style, they're not representative of acting at large in the respective countries.

Am suspecting that the programme you are watching is akin to the equivalent of a soap opera, where the actions and expressions of the characters are exaggerated for effect.
 
krtek a houby said:
The simple answer is a question. Do British dramas tend to be over-acted?

In film, theatre, television etc there's a whole range of styles. Overacting, subtle, realistic, physical, comical, stylised, soap, and as many as you'd expect as in every other country.

Of course, Noh and Kabuki would be the most recognised types of acting. But like Britain's Shakespeare and say, music hall style, they're not representative of acting at large in the respective countries.

Am suspecting that the programme you are watching is akin to the equivalent of a soap opera, where the actions and expressions of the characters are exaggerated for effect.
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Yeah, I guess so. It was just such a contrast to another foreign (to me) language show I'd watched (albeit on Amazon), the French series The Collection.

Another difference was that they were set in different eras, but in the Japanese series the acting seemed so overdone and there was so much gurning and more ham than a Spanish bar.

But yeah, maybe it's intentionally more of a soap-style production.
 
Ordinary Men : The Forgotten Holocaust.

Documentary looking at ordinary Germans... who massacred Jews.

The dynamics between the commanders and the ordinary men grouped into these killing units is described as friendly...not dictatorial. General Trapp ...their "Papa" instructs them and is visbly upset at the orders sent down to him. He gives the soldiers an opt out choice..with no potential repercussions. One man steps out and his captain starts to yell.. and then Trapp takes hjm under his protection and reitterates the choice. About a dozen more men step out and go over with Trapp..not wanting to kill anyone.

So these men and all killing units were all treated the same way. They all had that choice. Every one of them could walk away without repercussion...why didn't they?
why did so many go on to kill to order. Their job becomes the implementation of the Nazi cause. Grouped into battalions they are sent to Poland to interrogate and murder Jews. These are not SS. They are Mobile Killing Units. Programmed to kill. Honoured for their murders.
Some of the killers becomes traumatised and start refusing to kill. The gas chambers are then built.

Over 2 million Jews died face to face with their killers. Records were sent to Berlin giving a picture of who they killed and where.

Benjamin Ferencz investigated the murders. And he came accross death lists. He adds up what these groups reported. He wanted to put these SS on trial...and for his first case as a lawyer he becomes the prosecutor for the biggest murder crimes in the 20th century.
 
T & P said:
Did you finish it? Haven’t tried it yet but it has stellar reviews, including at the time of writing the much coveted 100% Rotten Tomatoes approval rating.
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I did indeed! Enjoyed every episode except for the finale. Would still recommend, though.
 
T & P said:
The new and final season of Sex Education has just dropped. Very enjoyable first episode. And I was so happy to see who plays the creative writing teacher :)
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It's been panned by the Guardian but I'm a few episodes in and still enjoying it hugely. Love Gillian Anderson in it.
 
izz said:
It's been panned by the Guardian but I'm a few episodes in and still enjoying it hugely. Love Gillian Anderson in it.
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Enjoying it too. The Guardian talk out of their arses sometimes when it comes to film and TV reviews and no mistake. It has been very well received among most other critics, incidentally.
 
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T & P said:
Enjoying it too. The Guardian talk out of their arses sometimes when it comes to film and TV reviews and no mistake. It has been very well received among most other critics, incidentally.
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Good to hear. Was worried it would go the same route as Scrubs did for its last season. Relocation of the gang and a load of new characters.
 
Episode 6 is very good, and rather moving
for parts of it. Different vibe from the preceding ones and all the better for it.

It also has a very short cameo from an actor I hadn’t seen in anything since he played arguably the biggest evil cunt in TV history :D
 
Anyone seen Wrestlers? Great fly-on-the-wall documentary series about a real spit-and-sawdust professional wrestling outfit, permanently on the edge of going bust. All run by 1990s legend Al Snow, who lives and breathes it, overspending budget much to the chagrin of the local businessmen he has brought in to fund it.

It’s a real story of passion and broken people that have each other, but fear losing it.
 
kabbes said:
Anyone seen Wrestlers? Great fly-on-the-wall documentary series about a real spit-and-sawdust professional wrestling outfit, permanently on the edge of going bust. All run by 1990s legend Al Snow, who lives and breathes it, overspending budget much to the chagrin of the local businessmen he has brought in to fund it.

It’s a real story of passion and broken people that have each other, but fear losing it.
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Have you seen 'Fighting with my Family'?
 
Sweet FA said:
No, it's a lovely and touching family comedy drama based around (UK) wrestling. It's very good - Stephen Merchant wrote/directed & Florence Pugh plays the lead (Nick Frost is great in it too).
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There's also a documentary about the IRL family - not sure whether that is available on Netflix though, we had both that and Disney + at around the time we watched it and it was a while ago.
 
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