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gosub said:
Annoyingly written to have a second series, but as Hardy is £2mill in the hole over the last one-unlikely
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No, that was some Sun hack looking at his company reserves and drawing the most headline-grabbing conclusion he could think of. It says nothing about the success of the show.
 
I watched it to the end, and I don't do that with many series, but I can't give it a hearty recommendation. What initially seemed a really punchy series full of intense conflict was undermined later by the plot wandering all over the place. I also felt the representation of colonialism was rather half-hearted in the end. I thought the series was going to be actually interested in the Empire but it was mostly interested in moodiness and banging of various sorts.
 
Brainaddict said:
I watched it to the end, and I don't do that with many series, but I can't give it a hearty recommendation. What initially seemed a really punchy series full of intense conflict was undermined later by the plot wandering all over the place. I also felt the representation of colonialism was rather half-hearted in the end. I thought the series was going to be actually interested in the Empire but it was mostly interested in moodiness and banging of various sorts.
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Yes, it somehow had 'quality' written all over it, but the component bits of it got increasingly daft. If there's been another episode, I doubt I'd have watched it.
 
Watched it to the end, it did meander a bit.

Also, I'm getting really cross with drama series like this that expect you to commit to watching them and then leave so many lose ends and plots lines just hanging. I know it's so they can try to option another season but I feel it's cheating and a betrayal of the covenant between viewer and programme makers. If I give them five hours of my life I want them to tell me how the story ends. If I didn't want that, I'd watch a bloody soap opera.

That is all..
 
Thought the last episode was weak and let the rest down.

e to a : I did enjoy it as well.
 
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enjoyed it. well filmed, good set dressing etc. hardy as good as he ever is. saw him in peaky blinders just now doing his ronnie kray voice, does he do owt else apart from bad guys?
 
He's like a better class Ray Winstone but not as one dimensional. They acted together in Sweeney Todd as well.
 
malatesta32 said:
enjoyed it. well filmed, good set dressing etc. hardy as good as he ever is. saw him in peaky blinders just now doing his ronnie kray voice, does he do owt else apart from bad guys?
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I still think his best performance was not as a bad guy but as a guy whose life is dissolving around him in Locke. No one else on screen, entirely filmed in a car, about as exposed as he could be as an actor on film and still mesmerizing. Dodgy welsh accent but hey.
 
malatesta32 said:
enjoyed it. well filmed, good set dressing etc. hardy as good as he ever is. saw him in peaky blinders just now doing his ronnie kray voice, does he do owt else apart from bad guys?
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Locke (2013) - IMDb
This is a weird one with him in it...totally filmed in his car having various conversations on his phone...sounds shit, but it's really good.

I loved him as Heathcliffe, sultry and moody...sexy as hell :oops: :D
 
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felixthecat said:
I still think his best performance was not as a bad guy but as a guy whose life is dissolving around him in Locke. No one else on screen, entirely filmed in a car, about as exposed as he could be as an actor on film and still mesmerizing. Dodgy welsh accent but hey.
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SNAP :D
 
A380 said:
Watched it to the end, it did meander a bit.

Also, I'm getting really cross with drama series like this that expect you to commit to watching them and then leave so many lose ends and plots lines just hanging. I know it's so they can try to option another season but I feel it's cheating and a betrayal of the covenant between viewer and programme makers. If I give them five hours of my life I want them to tell me how the story ends. If I didn't want that, I'd watch a bloody soap opera.

That is all..
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How can they tell you how the story ends, when the story hasn't ended? It's supposed to last for 3 seasons.

Hardly a "betrayal"........
 
Finally caught up ... thoroughly enjoyed the ending, no fucking idea what happened though :D Yes it's a bit obviously set up for a second series but I'd give that a go.

sojourner said:
I really like the music actually!
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Me too! Particularly the theme. it was never intrusive, only enhancing.
 
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