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Xeb i thought sister agatha was the best thing about the show. Less said about the usual BBC box-ticking history rewrite.
I'll go with that. There was a nice rivalry between her and Drac, and I thought both were fine. But the curse of Moffat and Gatiss meant a lot was indeed poor. I don't mind the gags, but they like to go for them above the drama. The same was true of Moffat's Doctor Who. And yes, that conversation at the gates of the nunnery was great... apart from the stupidity of the mixed race crowd. Just plain dumb.
Thought the first episode was good, but a whole episode on board the ship would have only been good if it had been a longer series, but as it was a three parter it took up too much time. Apart from the ending of the second part being quite fun, it meant the third part was disappointing.
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I'm currently rewatching Farscape (on DVD).
Favourite sci-fi/fantasy series evuh.
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STRANGE REPORT (1969)
I've long wanted to see this Anthony Quayle detective show, and am glad to find all 16 episodes up on YouTube. Quayle is an ex-Home Office investigator who now works privately helped by two young assistants - Ham Gynt (yes, that is indeed the character's name), an American scientist played by Kaz Garas and Evelyn McClean (Anneke Wills) an artist who lives next door to Quayle's Adam Strange character.
Quayle is great, the stories are swiftly told and sometimes tackles serious issues, and Roger Webb's theme music is super-cool, one of those themes you greatly anticipate as the case is wrapped up and the end credits are ready to roll.
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E4 or More4 have started reshowing Misfits, which I loved years ago.
Watched the first episode again last night. Still brilliant.
Although it did go down in quality with each passing series and the loss of the original/main characters.
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May 4, 2020 - 5:53 AM
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So after finishing series three of the wunderbar Babylon Berlin, Mrs TG says like Do you fancy watching DEVS on BBC iPlayer?
An' I says, I'm not watching no Coronation Street spin-off, fanks all the same.
Turns out it's nuffink to do wiv no corner shop, it's some science fiction malarky about a futuristical company owned by a super rich megalo who's driving his Development team to establish an' perfect a sort of visual time travel. Summink to do wiv his daughter, a spooky statue of who (whom? what?) looms over the forest-bound HQ of the tech company.
Normal speech patterns will now ensue.
The main characters in this series of eight episodes are all well-drawn, but are really secondary to the overall concept, as you might imagine from an Alex Garland story (he wrote and directed). Some good twists, however, and the visuals are great apart form some obvious CGI in a motorway (sorry, it's set in San Francisco, so freeway) set piece.
Like Batwoman, the heroine here is played by someone who's more model than actor, and this is never more apparent than when she swears; it's as if she's never said the words before and isn't quite sure how to pitch them. Twenty years ago she might have been played by Halle Berry, and much better.
Worth watching if only for the big idea behind it and the FX that underpin the tale. Also for the heavy, who's one of the nastiest pasties since Don Logan.
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Just finished season three of Westworld. I figured the finale would make everything clear to me so I wouldn't feel like a dummy. Well, I still feel a bit dumb. Can't say I understood all of it. Should you watch it, be sure to not leave when the end credits start as it continues a bit more with a few more characters.
Thanks Joan. Id watched it and deleted it, had to go back and retrieve it to find the ending post credits. Tbh although well made and stylish, its probably the most bewildering series ever made - a riddle wrapped in 20 enigmas. You get the feeling the writers are up-their-own-arse a bit with "Oooh lets see how confusing and ambiguous we can make it." This season they introduced virtual people too. Trouble is, when viewing humans invest time in something and feel played with, eventually many of them wont engage anymore. As so many characters are robots now and life is cheap, i started to not even care.
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May 18, 2020 - 2:34 PM
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How to Get Away With Murder S6
So, after 6 seasons, Shonda Rhimes' "How to Get Away With Murder" comes to a breakneck, sanguinary end, which, not unlike an especially frenzied last act of an Italian opera, sees one character after another dropping like flies into pools of their own blood. The soft-focus hagiographic denouement for Annalise Keating, a la Six Feet Under's much remarked R.I.P. montage, was all too much, but par for the course for this trashy, giddily over-indulgent series.
Kudos to Viola Davis for elevating the content with her always commanding performance. But Frank, I'm really gonna miss you, you sexy, scruffy sociopath you.
Hollywood (Mini-Series)
Ryan Murphy's latest: a glossy, feel-good, Golden Age What If? that fantasizes what might (and could) have been had the white, pearly gates of minority exclusion been dismantled and consigned to the scrap heap of history a whole lot sooner—which, for the better part of 6 episodes was all very choice, cheeky and chuckle worthy—but then came the 7th, and alas—as he has let happen before—Murphy gave licence for his writer to set down his pen to pick up an anvil, and, just like that, all the goodwill the show had fostered was summarily pulverized under blow after blow of weepy, ham-fisted, drama-killing polemics … otherwise known in media critic circles and many a mother's basement nation(s)wide as the "coup de la SJW."
So, ya, it's quite watchable (lots of pretty boys and girls in various stages of undress), it's just … ya gotta close your eyes and ears for the last 50 minutes of blue dye-jobbed bathos.
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just tell him to go to the dumpster 
