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Mar 21, 2020 - 6:59 PM
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Xebec
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Well I finished watching Avenue 5, I enjoyed it, but I found it a bit underwhelming. The young actress with the frizzy hair who played Billie (Lenora Crichlow) was brilliant, & she should have a hell of a future.
Yah, she is great. I'm slightly underwhelmed overall, too, but really want to like it. I've a few episodes left, and will definitely watch a second series of it. I just want it to be better. I genuinely think it might be better with an actual written script, as it feels like some muddled swearing ad-libbing is replacing tight, funny writing. (though i might be wrong and it's just not written as well as it could be)
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Mar 22, 2020 - 3:10 PM
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Spinmeister
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Elite S3
Muy, muy entretenido. A bevy of young, pretty things continue their hot-headed, sexy squabbling over affections, grades, money, crime and murder at a plush private school in Madrid.
Top of the class teen soap.
Man, I too love this show. 
The black lit camera pan following the trail of florescence from Malik's lips to his crotch … then over to Omar behind the bar, and then to Nadia, had me in absolute stitches.
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Mar 25, 2020 - 8:15 AM
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Jim Phelps
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The Rockford Files. Season 3 to be exact.
People often remark how The Rockford Files is nostalgic for them because they grew up in 1970s Southern California, and they're fortunate that their corner of the world was extensively filmed when most were not. Through the show, viewers are transported back to the California of their youth and are able to once more revisit the landmarks, shops, and restaurants of the mid-and-late '70s, most long gone.
The thing of it is is--to quote Rockford associate Richie Brockelman--their nostalgia is my nostalgia, too, even though I've never set foot in California. That adopted nostalgia is due to the fact that The Rockford Files made such extensive use of location shooting: four out of every six shooting days were spent on location, much to James Garner's chagrin. This extended immersion in Southern California's mid-'70s world makes it an influential and inclusive viewing experience.
Even 40 years after my initial exposure to the series in syndication, The Rockford Files' imagery has remained emblazoned on my memory: the wood-paneled fern bars and restaurants, the seedy, open-air dives, the various food stands, Mid-Century skyscrapers and office buildings, the brown smoggy L.A. haziness with an alarming lack of trees--the cops in cars, the topless bars... I especially appreciate the "night for night" filming, which was another hallmark of Universal TV series of that time.
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Just finished Knightfall. My interest in this Knights Templar drama was started way back in the 80s with the Robin of Sherwood episode Seven Poor Knights From Acre. While the cgi was a bit obvious in the first episode it was quite sweepingly dramatic overall. Of course it's another Arthurian tale both within the story and characters names.
First season was a better viewing experience, brighter and lots of shots of the Templars costumes en masse. The second series has a grey-er colour palette and trying harder than the first to ape Game of Thrones, not to mention more 'effing and jeffing'. But Series 2 does have old Luke Skywalker himself doing a turn for many episodes. His voice mind, is a bit caricatured. In fact I finally realised Mark Hamill's voice seems based on Bela Lugosi's Igor from the Universal Frankenstein films! Even went a bit Yoda in the last episode...
Music's good. Two different approaches. More orchestral in the first series, and minimalist in the second. Both ok though. Would enjoy a third series but there may be reason to think the following isn't quite there for that. Hope I'm wrong.
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I gave up on knightfall, Paul.
Wasnt holding me. I dunno, i thought the concept was ok but it just seemed a bit flat and weak.
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