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Feb 25, 2021 - 11:55 AM
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TominAtl
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The Blacklist
One time entertaining series has truly turned into one of the worst series on Tv. The plots have got super sillier, more desperate, more pointless, and way more contrived than ever. Its just nonsense. The acting and lines of dialogue , especially by the actress playing Elizabeth Keen and the FBI team has got worse and more false.
Spader as Reddington is still its only redeeming factor, but like so many series where they run out of ideas, its turned to shit.
Wow, hate to hear this about this show. I used to be a HUGE fan of it, especially the first 3 seasons. Used to be witty, thrilling and intriguing. And Spader was in fine form at that time. It's a shame then if the writing has gone off the rails that badly then.
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Xeb i gave up on that 3rd day poo after about 25 mins.
Always gonna be tosh.
And i have to cast serious doubt over the sentence - for any production - "Jude Law is excellent in it" 
Are you sure you aint been at Clark's spliffs up at Ice Station zebra?
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Rawhide season 7 ep. 13
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Mar 2, 2021 - 8:57 AM
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Xebec
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Thought i'd give THE STRAIN a go. A horror series about... vampires... or a virus that causes vampires? I'm not sure. as I've just started the first episode.
In a baffling bit of pointless dialogue, a man who works as an air traffic controller stands next to a plane and says with unnecessary awe: "They're so much bigger in person than on the screen. They're like buildings with wings."
What? Script editor needed their scissors there.
Anyway, hopefully it's a good show.
Oh dear, two eps in, the writing by Guillermo Del Toro and others is quite bad, too often. One doctor to do 206 autopsies? With no help? The main guy not telling his boss about a murder when the authorities are trying to say everything is okay. Chunks of clunk expositional dialogue. The writing is very fudgey.
Hopefully it improves. I do like the set-up and tone. Reminded me a touch of stephen King's The Night Flyer (just the vampire and an airport part).
Ep 5. Man sees dozens of infected people who chase him in a deserted subway tunnel, who does he tell? Nobody. Why? Because plot.
An infected attacks a care home, killing several in front of dozens of witnesses? Not mentioned again, because the wider story needs the infection to remain a secret, so neither news nor police are mentioned dealing with it.
The vampires also have tentacles that come out of their mouths that stab into people, and they hit every time, unless its a main character, where they miss wildly from even the shortest of distances.
I quite like the first five episodes but it's stupidly infuriating too often and there's no really good writing to counter it.
End of the first season - it actually is enjoyable and they have a decent team of characters, and it's well-acted, bar one bad English actress.
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I remember enjoying THE STRAIN Ob, but I think the channel I was watching it on fell off the TV map and never showed the final series.
I vaguely recall reading that the final series was rushed through with virtually no budget and new locations/crew to just get it over and done with.
Maybe I should just quit while I'm ahead?
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Mar 4, 2021 - 6:16 AM
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TominAtl
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Thought i'd give THE STRAIN a go. A horror series about... vampires... or a virus that causes vampires? I'm not sure. as I've just started the first episode.
In a baffling bit of pointless dialogue, a man who works as an air traffic controller stands next to a plane and says with unnecessary awe: "They're so much bigger in person than on the screen. They're like buildings with wings."
What? Script editor needed their scissors there.
Anyway, hopefully it's a good show.
Oh dear, two eps in, the writing by Guillermo Del Toro and others is quite bad, too often. One doctor to do 206 autopsies? With no help? The main guy not telling his boss about a murder when the authorities are trying to say everything is okay. Chunks of clunk expositional dialogue. The writing is very fudgey.
Hopefully it improves. I do like the set-up and tone. Reminded me a touch of stephen King's The Night Flyer (just the vampire and an airport part).
Ep 5. Man sees dozens of infected people who chase him in a deserted subway tunnel, who does he tell? Nobody. Why? Because plot.
An infected attacks a care home, killing several in front of dozens of witnesses? Not mentioned again, because the wider story needs the infection to remain a secret, so neither news nor police are mentioned dealing with it.
The vampires also have tentacles that come out of their mouths that stab into people, and they hit every time, unless its a main character, where they miss wildly from even the shortest of distances.
I quite like the first five episodes but it's stupidly infuriating too often and there's no really good writing to counter it.
End of the first season - it actually is enjoyable and they have a decent team of characters, and it's well-acted, bar one bad English actress.
I actually quite enjoyed the series overall. Yeah, it stumbles often but for what it was, I liked it and looked forward to each episode.
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WandaVision - Loved it! Not bad for someone who has very few of the MCU films. BUT I did read Marvel avidly until the mid 70s so I knew who the characters were. Didn't lose anything for seeing only the first Avengers film. Loved the fun of the sitcom through the decades thing and the Agatha song!
Behind Her Eyes - Reasonable mystery thriller involving a love triangle, but then takes an unexpected turn of unbelievability to make it not what we thought. Because of this it came over as 'far fetched' as we say 'round our way.
I'm Alan Partridge - Steve Cooghan's classic inept comic character shines well in this part of his career. Third time I've seen it and gets funnier every time.
Doctor Who starring Jon Pertwee - My Doctor, and my umpteenth trawl through his time and nearing the end now. Definitely the best era for me with little Jo-Jo Grant, and the UNIT mob headed by the wonderful Brigadier Lethbridge Stuart. When all else fails this period of this show always cheers me up.
Prisoner: Cell Block H eh? I'll never forget the day when a bunch of mates told me they'd seen repeats of The Prisoner billed in the 'regional variations' section of TV Times (a UK TV guide). All excited they were as it was merely billed 'Prisoner'. Then they found out it was some old Aussie prison soap lol! Still provided years of a bit of trash telly to watch before bedtime.....
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Doctor Who starring Jon Pertwee - My Doctor, and my umpteenth trawl through his time and nearing the end now. Definitely the best era for me with little Jo-Jo Grant, and the UNIT mob headed by the wonderful Brigadier Lethbridge Stuart. When all else fails this period of this show always cheers me up.
Hick, it always amazed me that for a brigadier it was odd that he only ever had command of about 4 men (the same 4 men) and, at the most, 2 jeeps!
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