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Thinking about u subscribing so was seeing if there was anything decent I needed to tick off before hand. Giving narcos a go. What do folks rekon?
I'm guessing the "just say no/drugs are bad mmok?", DEA in Whitehats vibe doesn't last?
 
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Mation said:
Oh my goodness. I'm 14 mins in to The Kitchen, and it's the bestest thing. For me, right now, at least. Keep pausing it as I'm already sad that there will very shortly be a time when I'm not watching it 🤦🏾‍♀️
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Brilliant young actor, Jedaiah Bannerman who played Benji. I've always liked Kano and missus and I both absolutely adore Hope Ikpoku Jnr who plays Staples.

Really enjoyed it.
 
Mrs Miggins said:
It might be what you'd call a hidden gem. I found a film called "Four" in the "90-minute films" section.

It's a low budget British film about a man who has hired a thug to kidnap his wife's lover.....but is that what is really happening.....?

Not the greatest thing I've ever seen but it felt refreshing to watch something with a tiny cast in one location that just let's it's story unfold without any gimmicks.

And I am a sucker for Sean Pertwee's mellifluous voice....
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I've seen this - found it so-so, doesn't really go anywhere but at least it tries to do something a bit different 👍
 
DaveCinzano said:
I've seen this - found it so-so, doesn't really go anywhere but at least it tries to do something a bit different 👍
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Totally agree with that. It's far from brilliant but it was different from what is generally available. And just 90 minutes is refreshing as well given how drawn out everything usually is.
 
Wanted to like The Kitchen but got bored by the pace and frustrated by
I found myself spending too much energy trying to figure out if he was the boy's father or not... Such an odd thing to have as a device to keep the viewer engaged until the end? If he was the boy's father he'd have told him straight away and the boy would also asked straight away. This isn't something people play games with? Just odd to me, it didn't work. And, of course he was his father, otherwise why would he come back for the boy at the start, on the motorbike??? Which then makes all the confusion pointless. But then it managed to confuse me enough later on. I mean, surely if he was his father he wouldn't so casually abandon him? Maybe that was the point of it but for me it fails, because in real life I don't think it'd play like that at all.

Or maybe it would? Maybe it was genius and I missed something along the way. I just remember feeling unsatisfied at the end.

edit: oh, no wait. Maybe he wasn't sure if he was his dad or not (as in, he was never told)?!?!? That makes more sense :D :D
 
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I have been watching Boy Swallows Universe.
It's been good, not mindblowing, but ok. However during episode 4 it really took off. Wonderful stuff that made 1,2,3 all worthwhile.
I still think I would have preferred it in 30 minute chunks.
 
Kaka Tim said:
Thinking about u subscribing so was seeing if there was anything decent I needed to tick off before hand. Giving narcos a go. What do folks rekon?
I'm guessing the "just say no/drugs are bad mmok?", DEA in Whitehats vibe doesn't last?
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Yes, Narcos finds its feet fast and is well worth it.
 
Silas Loom said:
Yes, Narcos finds its feet fast and is well worth it.
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Maybe it's just not for me, but I I couldn't get past the first episode and a half. I switched on due to recommendations and comparisons to things I liked on this thread. I was just bored and can't even remember what happened.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Ok I made it to the end of episode 4 of Fool Me Once, , but I think I'm out.
It's not 'shit funny' anymore, it's just boring and I couldn't give a shit about what she saw in ep one, nothing has advanced. It's also executed incredibly badly. Initially it was amusing, but now it's just painful. People are meeting each other on park benches like it's normal, talking for two minutes and walking off. The main protagonist woman, drives an hour to see someone who could have told her (information she already knew) over the phone. Then she drives off to her mother in laws place (this could also have been a phone call) and we first see them in the front room, not at the door. They are just standing there. She turns around "Oh hi, I was just standing here, in the middle of the room. What's up?".
The dialogue is atrocious and 95% of it would naturally take place on the phone or an email. Now I understand that doesn't make for great TV, but you shouldn't make reality bend to your shit script, you should make your shit script not so shit. Tell your story in a better way. This series needs a lot more show and a lot less tell. It's just people walking into rooms and saying the next bit of the plot to each other. . . .
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Watched the first episode of this farrago last night - and one is more than enough. It's absolutely dreadful in every way possible, except for the detective from Sherwood and Joanna Lumley (who is basically, well, Joanna Lumley). Utter, unmitigated drivel. Also had one of the worst Oirish accents I've ever heard on screen - perpetrated by an Irish actor no less (Emmet J. Scanlon, who was one of the bearded drug lords in the equally awful RTE series Kin).
 
planetgeli said:
People got killed. A lot.

Narcos (all of it) is one of the best things ever on TV, certainly on Netflix.
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I guess it just didn't do it for me.
It wasn't even that long ago that I gave it a shot. I just remember thinking "Is this really the thing that everyone is raving about?"
I haven't got confused have I? The thing with Pedro Pascal in right?
 
girasol said:
I couldn't get past the first 10 minutes of "Fool Me Once" before giving up :D
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I have no idea how I got three episodes deep. It's so weird. Drive here, say something for two minutes, drive there say something for two minutes. Walk into a room, everyone is standing there waiting for the scene to start, talk for two minutes, drive to the next location. . . on top of that it's shit.
Out of curiosity I jumped to the last ep and flipped through it. Utter garbage. Whole plot explained in a minute. You could literally watch a couple of scenes from ep 1 and two from the last one and not miss a single plot point.
 
Mrs Miggins said:
It might be what you'd call a hidden gem. I found a film called "Four" in the "90-minute films" section.

It's a low budget British film about a man who has hired a thug to kidnap his wife's lover.....but is that what is really happening.....?

Not the greatest thing I've ever seen but it felt refreshing to watch something with a tiny cast in one location that just let's it's story unfold without any gimmicks.

And I am a sucker for Sean Pertwee's mellifluous voice....
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10 minutes into this...Just checking in to say there are few things in UK cinema that entertain me more than Sean Pertwee in gangster mode:thumbs::thumbs::thumbs: ID and Love, Honour and Obey are both classics in my house (ID is a script I can recite pretty much all the key scenes).

Mad to consider he found real fame in Cold Feet (IIRC?) and voiceovers (as well as his famous Dad), like Home Alone was Joe Pesci's breakthrough role :hmm:
 
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