Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I'm enjoying Bodkin, but they should have made them 30 minute episodes. 45 feels too long each time. I don't know why, but at the 30 minute mark in every episode I start to swtich off.
Hummm, I added it to my list yesterday, but this makes me want to remove it again.Finished Bodkin; christ it went on and on.....6 x 30 mins should have done it. 7 episodes, some if which were nearly an hour long, was too much. Needed a good trim.
There is a lot to enjoy about it, but it's uneven; it just had too many things going on by the end and it became less engaging as more directions were taken.
I thought Siobhán Cullen was great. A real presence. I've not seen anything she's done before.
Only seen first episode but it's not as oirish as some of the reviews are making out. It's kind of taking the piss out of those who are drawn to Ireland expecting the stereotypes.Hummm, I added it to my list yesterday, but this makes me want to remove it again.
Is it worth watching in your opinion?Only seen first episode but it's not as oirish as some of the reviews are making out. It's kind of taking the piss out of those who are drawn to Ireland expecting the stereotypes.
So far, at any rate.
It's kind of taking the piss out of those who are drawn to Ireland expecting the stereotypes.
Is it worth watching in your opinion?
Will plough on, the better half likes it, at any rate and she's wise to the stereotypesIt feels like that to begin with....but the stereotypes are strong within this one...
Am really liking Siobhan Cullen, who so far manages to rise above the material.Bodkin walks a fine line between taking the piss out of the American for wanting to see quaint oirish ways, and depicting quaint oirish ways for the viewer. You have to just let it happen if you're going to enjoy it. Mostly good but I agree some episodes could be shorter.
I got to the end, but yeah, that is a very good description...Managed 20 minutes of Bullet Train before bailing. Like a generative AI trained on nothing but Tarantino and Guy Ritchie. Just dismal.
Unbelievable. Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning article about a real life case. A young woman is raped and the police find it more convenient to make her say she made it up than to take her seriously. It’s bleak and frequently hard to watch but never less than captivating. Very skilfully written and acted — no scene is wasted, character development is artfully realised and dialogue always feels authentic. Well worth watching.
I finished it. I wanted to stop watching it at some points, because of the violence & torture porn aspect of it, but, something kept me watching it. I watched the dubbed version and thought that was done well (watching some dubbed shows, like Physical 100, doesn't work so well, bc there are too many people talking). So, yeah, there were some things I appreciated and other stuff I found abhorrent (maybe that was the point) and even a nod to A Clockwork Orange and some twists along the way.Not a recommendation but a heads-up for fans of Squid Game-type subgenre. Brand new Korean series The 8 Show has just dropped
The 8 Show – Review | Netflix Mystery-Thriller Series | Heaven of Horror
THE 8 SHOW on Netflix is a new thriller mystery series from South Korea (org. title: Deo Eiteu Syo) along the lines of Squid Game. Review >www.heavenofhorror.com
Premise is certainly my cup of tea. Reviews so far seem to gravitate between lukewarm and fairly watchable even if it’s not the next Squid Game. Will probably check it out but any early Urbanite reviews welcome.
I quite enjoyed this one. It made our paparazzi look like saints in comparison though and there was little sense of closure at the end, but that's how it was irl I guess.The Asunta Case is very interesting. It's a Spanish 6 parter about an apparently famous murder of a girl in Galicia.
It gives a fascinating insight into the bizarre (if true) way that criminal investigations are conducted in Spain, basically in public, with the lawyers and police reporting the whole investigation to the press as it develops.
Would have worked better as a miniseries, but it's an interesting prequel to the actual series, especially if you followed it all the way through.The Many Saints of Newark
Watched this over two nights. Mrs. I has never seen the Sopranos, and I've never seen it all the way through. This worked as a stand alone movie though - or worked up to a point.
The whole trope of the Italian-American gangster became a cliched caricature a long time ago. I frankly wouldn't have cared if any of these people died in a fire, and frankly the whole "dodgy guy tries to do a right thing, and is undone by his attempt" was done far, far better fifty years ago in Mean Streets than in anything since.
Like the Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the nostalgia for a time when the American Dream wasn't just a bad joke was palpable. What does that say about America today?
If you think it’s fairly mild comparatively speaking, shit gets increasingly real once you hit the middle episodes.We started The 8 Show last night. Another Korean game show style thing, possibly in the same vain as Squid Game (but i never saw that so cant really compare)