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 Posted:   May 13, 2024 - 7:49 AM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

Agreed on Banner of Heaven, very well done and I think was overlooked by many. Excellent performances all
around.


Yes, I agree. I love Andrew Garfield. All the actors in this series were excellent.

 
 
 Posted:   May 13, 2024 - 8:02 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

Fall of the House of Usher - absolutely brilliant, chock-full of references both obvious and sly to Poe’s work. Also dripping with dark humour. I laughed so hard at Leo’s demise that I had to pause Netflix for a couple of minutes.

 
 Posted:   May 13, 2024 - 8:12 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Been a while since I saw Usher now, but I thought it was OK.

 
 
 Posted:   May 13, 2024 - 12:35 PM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

The TV channel Dave started showing The Shield daily last week. I looked at the first few episodes, & very good, I think I'll carry on watching.

 
 Posted:   May 13, 2024 - 1:38 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Tell you what's also getting a run from the beginning...The Shield. Which is excellent.

 
 
 Posted:   May 13, 2024 - 2:09 PM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

Tell you what's also getting a run from the beginning...The Shield. Which is excellent.

I...don't know what you men guv'nor. smile

 
 Posted:   May 13, 2024 - 2:20 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

You won't be disappointed it gets even better.

 
 
 Posted:   May 13, 2024 - 2:30 PM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

You won't be disappointed it gets even better.

Great. I've read about it & nearly bought the DVD box set once (which would be on the shelf unwatched, with many other box sets). You have to keep your eye on the schedules these days, there's some good stuff coming unheralded on a lot of the less watched channels, like my favourite US sit-com, How I Met Your Mother on E4 at around 5am which has just finished its run & The Outpost which started on Sky Sci-Fi last week.

 
 Posted:   May 13, 2024 - 9:20 PM   
 By:   Warlok   (Member)

Comments on Masters Of The Air are appreciated, as I eye the bluray set sitting on my couch.

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan is the one I am going through now. Good actors, good dialogue, fast stories. The disc set is comprised of many mini-tales, which pleasantly surprised me. Much to see in the complete set. Ryan (played by John Krasinski) is slightly too kickass to my mind - like a Tier 1 operator - nonetheless good stuff reminiscent of 24.

 
 
 Posted:   May 14, 2024 - 2:09 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

I done get the TV channel that shows Masters Of The Air, so I'm hoping for a Blu-ray release, but that's not a given these days.

 
 Posted:   May 15, 2024 - 4:18 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Like with The Pacific, make sure you watch the accompanying Master of the Air documentary of savvy, erudite vets "The Bloody Hundredth".
Like all such things, most moving n poignant.

It's worth getting Apple even for a month just for Ted Lasso, Sugar, Manhunt, See, Silo, Slow Horses and Masters of the Air.

 
 Posted:   May 16, 2024 - 2:19 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Very much enjoying Lawman Bass Reeves on paramount. Excellent casting, including Donald Sutherland as a tough judge.

Sugar on apple started as LA noir and drifted after a twist in a supremely wacky direction but still very good. Finale tomorrow.

 
 
 Posted:   May 19, 2024 - 2:55 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

Started series 2 of The Responder on BBC.
We enjoyed series 1, in which Martin Freeman (with seriously good scouse accent)* just gets deeper and deeper into the shit while trying to navigate night copper duties in Liverpool.
It's starting to stretch credulity a bit, as these things do, but the black humour and farce like scenarios are keeping it from wallowing in its grim situations.


* trust me, it's easy to do a shit OTT scouse accent, plenty do, including knobs like John Bishop..

 
 
 Posted:   May 21, 2024 - 4:42 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

The second series of RESPONDER also features one of the final performances of the late Bernard Hill (Yozza 'Gizz A Job' Hughes to my generation and Capt of the Titanic/LOTR for the newer gen).
I always thought he was a scouser, due to his breakout role as Yozza in The Boys From The Blackstuff, but turns out he was a manc (and a scum supporter at that!!).
Also, he was married to (the very fetching) Marianna Hill (just check out those stills in The Travelling Executioner CD booklet).

 
 
 Posted:   May 21, 2024 - 7:54 AM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

Sugar on apple started as LA noir and drifted after a twist in a supremely wacky direction but still very good. Finale tomorrow.

Agreed. Didn't see the twist coming, but we liked the whole series. Finished Defending Jacob. Liked it until the odd ending. The series should have ended like the novel.

We were watching Under The Bridge. Hubby thought it was too slow, but I may finish it.

 
 Posted:   May 21, 2024 - 8:06 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Joan, did you try Masters of the Air and Bass Reeves yet? I think you would like.

 
 
 Posted:   May 21, 2024 - 10:12 AM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

I loved Masters of the Air. I don't have Paramount so I can't see Bass R.

 
 Posted:   May 21, 2024 - 10:40 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Shame. But it's expensive having everything.
Glad you liked Masters of the Air. It was gripping but I found the aerial battle scenes so disturbing. Such bravery when they were so vulnerable.

 
 Posted:   May 21, 2024 - 10:43 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Dp

 
 Posted:   May 29, 2024 - 4:28 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

After the film was a cut above, I thought Sexy Beast the series would be shite. But it's really good n I'm blitzing thru the series.
Decent cast n choice for young Gal, psycho Don, Deedee n Teddy Bass. I'd give it 8.5 out of 10.

 
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