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Saw the latest Peter o'Toole documentary on sky.
Was very good. Impressive knowledgeable talking heads Hopkins, Blessed, sian phillips, jacobi, brannagh.
"...When war started i was 6 and evacuated to Gainsborough, on farms and things. i went back to Leeds when i was 12 and i went to school, for my first time really, for 2 years, and i left, joyfully, whistling. Because i really couldn't bear school. They couldnt teach me anything i wanted to know. Ive got the kind of mind that rejects anything that i dont want to know." - Peter O'Toole
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Thought Perry Mason s2 was superb.
Blocco 181 also good, about italian and el Salvador drug gangs.
Still getting thru 3 seasons of Deadwind, Scandinavian cop series. Decent.
I was a late starter with Happy Valley - Sarah Lancashire very good as leading cop. S1 has been about kidnap - and i detest kidnap films with a passion. Always tedious n slow....standoffs, waiting games, drop-offs, invariably the victim bonds with the nicest kidnapper...argh, so fkn boring and predictable! But this has just about been tolerable.
Im trying Sky atlantic's latest big plug, the Swarm, where sealife starts going potty for apparently no reason, - so its Hitchcock's the Birds Goes to Sea. Or a Fish Version of The Last of Us. Jury's out.
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The Ark. A SyFy show about young human survivors finding a new planet to rebuild society, starting with their command crew being decimated by a mysterious attack. It's overall okay with the actors playing their limited roles nicely, and thankfully it soon turns from a calamity-of-the-week plotline to something a bit more intriguing, though the main villain is as mustache-twirly as it gets. I'll watch a second season, though I'd be heavily surprised if it gets approved.
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Currently watching OUTER RANGE.
Gorgeously photographed and superbly acted TV series starring Josh Brolin, Will Patton, Lili Taylor. I'm always hesitant to watch a new story based TV show, as it’s hard to know upfront if the makers know and have planned on how to end it. I'm 4 episodes (of 8) in and so far it's very interesting.
Premise: Wyoming Rancher Royal Abbott discovers one day a mysterious hole on his land, that appears to be a time portal of sorts. When one of his sons accidentally (in a fight) kills the son of a scheming neighbor, he lets the dead body disappear in the hole, with unforeseen consequences.
It's a beautifully crafted show, lots of care obviously went into it, before and behind the camera. Amazon shows it in UHD/4K, and it looks first rate. The first 4 episodes were quite engaging, the next 4 episodes will probably show if it was worth starting.
Unfortunately, and that is why I don't watch a lot of TV series, the series just fizzles out instead of ending with a bang; apparently, there is going to be a season 2, but for all the effort that went into season 1, the story isn't going anywhere and the mix of science fiction and modern day western feels contrived. So I doubt I will tune in for season 2. Too bad, would have liked to like this more than I did in the end. Great actors, especially Josh Brolin, Lili Taylor and Will Patton, but the makers seem to be unclear about the kind of story they want to tell, so there is never any real urgency to the proceedings.
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To be honest kev it promised more than it delivered. And ended up a bit Abyss-like.
During the boat journey last few episodes i got a bit tired of when they wanted characters to bond, they have 1 on deck alone staring wistfully out to sea and another character comes to chat to them. Over n over. All a bit lazy. See if you can count the "on-deck chats" kev
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My dad trimmin' his bush!
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Cannot recommend enough netflix The Diplomat. Really excellent. Joan hue steered us toward it and its great.
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Ive always liked Succession. Critics in uk bigging it up, and truthfully, when Brian Cox as Daddy Roy was in it, it was required tv. But Roy's kids, and several of the supporting characters, are as irritating and scummy as you can get. And so with Cox missing for most of the last series, omg...it was tortuous!!. I couldnt wait for it to end. I think the scriptwriters probably felt like that too. What started as clever, quirky dialogue with amusing phrasing finished up as irritating, tedious meanders which took 5 minutes to make any point. 3 episodes in to final series i was rooting for a private plane crash over some mountains with remaining cast lost.
First 2 series 8 out of 10.
Final series 5 out of 10. 
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Thanks Bill. All my local friends and I have been debating the ending. Thank goodness for season 2 that is being filmed.
Pretty obvious i think joan. Theyre grabbed because news of the bomb has injured or killed a certain person (RS).
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Fubar on netflix with Arnie is amusing.
Is like the guy from True Lies grandad is an operative with his daughter ! Lol
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Straight after diplomat and Fubar, my new favourite binge watch this week is the black comedy Barry. Its kinda like a funnier sicker hitman version of Dexter.
Out of a tour of Afghanistan, a sniper turns hitman and then tries to run a parallel life by joining an acting class (run by Henry Fonz Winkler). Very funny, particularly the things going on in the background. 8 out of 10
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Try Barry then. Its much better. Funnier anyway
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Van der valk
Itv the new one, s3.
Really don't know why i am watching this. Episodes are way too long at 2 hours. The characters are predictable and unengaging, dialogue lazily written, plots are formulaic and the villain always seems to be the only periphery suspect who you see briefly after the murder for questioning and then not again till the big reveal. Its smugly, vomit-inducingly woke and while set in Holland, the actors all speak with mostly cockney or posh voices. Other than the limited exterior scenery there is zero dutch about this series. Very fucking odd.
5 out of 10
P.s and you remember that fantastic theme? Well, its so well disguised and hidden and ruined in the main title theme, sherlock Holmes himself couldn't find it.
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The Witcher s3 netflix.
Its gone from adult series about a swordsman killing monsters and wandered badly into a silly series about mages/witches and the melodrama n hysteria is aimed at teenage girls.
Big wait for s3, but its lost its way.
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