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I need to check out the Evangelion movies, I had meant to after finishing the series but I didn't get to it.
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Once I finished that, I binge watched The Valhalla Murders. Broadchurch levels of fucked up. Yes, that's the metric I go by now when talking with my wife about them. I really liked it, but some of the subplots had no payoff.
Now, I'm watching the Finnish police drama Bordertown. Approaching Broadchurch, but not there yet.
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hotseatgames wrote: I think I'm at the point that I don't care if I don't see any more Lovecraft Country. It's just not impressing me.
Yeah, I'm sorry to say that this is almost where I am, as well. Episode 4 just lost me completely. It was a hopscotch of plot elements and had none of the eeriness or dread that I normally associate with HPL. It was an Indiana Jones adventure. I'm just not interested in that. Haven't seen episode 5 yet (we're in the middle of moving) and will probably catch up on it by the weekend, but I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
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Wildly uneven at best, outright bad at worst. It’s sad it didn’t turn out well, but there it is.
Against my better judgement, I started watching The Boys. What a surprise, it’s actually really darn good. I don’t like Garth Ennis and the vulgarity/extreme violence is tiresome, but the characters and storyline as well as the satirical elements are great.
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Shellhead wrote: My girlfriend doesn't normally like superhero stuff, but she is watching The Boys. The shock plot twists remind her of Game of Thrones in a good way, and the cynical humor feels like it is aimed at her corporate bosses.
On behalf of the rest of the world, I'll respond "ugh". I grinded through the end of season 1 hoping for some respite from the descent into pointlessness, and found none. It will take a Clockwork Orange scenario to get me to watch season 2.
I'm trying to remember my reaction to the first few episodes, because clearly I liked them enough to continue watching.
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Rliyen wrote: Been on a thriller/crime binge as of late. Started with Signs, a Polish murder drama. Blew through the 1st season and the 2nd season is coming up tomorrow, I believe.
Once I finished that, I binge watched The Valhalla Murders. Broadchurch levels of fucked up. Yes, that's the metric I go by now when talking with my wife about them. I really liked it, but some of the subplots had no payoff.
Now, I'm watching the Finnish police drama Bordertown. Approaching Broadchurch, but not there yet.
This is where my wife and I have been for weeks now, watching police procedurals out of the UK and really enjoying them. I've already mentioned Scott & Bailey and recommend it highly. Most recently we've watched all three available seasons of Unforgotten which are excellent (season 2 is simply magnificent) and have been working into Vera which has been good as well. Each episode is film-length so there's time to develop serious plot.
The British shows make American police procedurals look like reruns of Charlie's Angels, and I think some of them are rewrites of the same plots. Really elementary stuff that doesn't hold together. The British stuff has attention to details and complexity that the American market clearly isn't interested in. They also benefit from not having a machine gun solve everything. Makes me realize just how vapid the Law & Order franchise has been for the last 30 years.
As best I can tell we haven't really even waded in up to our knees yet. There seems to be a lot more material to choose from that we haven't even heard of yet. Britbox has a lot of these, Netflix and Amazon have their share.
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Shellhead wrote: My girlfriend doesn't normally like superhero stuff, but she is watching The Boys. The shock plot twists remind her of Game of Thrones in a good way, and the cynical humor feels like it is aimed at her corporate bosses.
On behalf of the rest of the world, I'll respond "ugh". I grinded through the end of season 1 hoping for some respite from the descent into pointlessness, and found none. It will take a Clockwork Orange scenario to get me to watch season 2.
I'm trying to remember my reaction to the first few episodes, because clearly I liked them enough to continue watching.
I think that The Boys has a certain compelling quality because it successfully captures the zeitgeist of America in 2020. Not the social distancing of the pandemic, but all the escalating craziness of the rest of the news. The cynical capitulation of one of our major political parties to a hostile takeover by a crime family. The protests, riots, and attacks by counter-protesters. The separate reality of Wall Street. The abject adulation of completely corrupt public figures. The new irrelevance of sports. The casual takedown of so many societal norms. The political polarization of a medical crisis. The Boys is not about what we are actually experiencing in America today, but it has a similar surreal and ugly quality to it.
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Oh we have our fair share of derivative rubbish, you’re just getting the “best of” collection with the imports.
Seeing as you mentioned BritBox I’ll pitch again that you should use it to check out Inside no.9 - it’s not a crime drama but is incredibly well made and inventive tv.
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Seeing as you mentioned BritBox I’ll pitch again that you should use it to check out Inside no.9 - it’s not a crime drama but is incredibly well made and inventive tv.
Yep, it's on the list! Thanks.
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dysjunct wrote: I am watching THE BOYS s2 and enjoying it. The loss of Elizabeth Shue is deeply felt, but Stormfront is such a great character (although her hero name is a little on the nose). The frenemy dynamic between her and Homelander keeps me watching. The rest of the cast is fine, I guess. Karl Urban is a treat. I am actually enjoying The Deep's descent into not-Scientology.
Every time I see Butcher (Urban) on screen, I instinctively see him as simple, one-note character, a man obsessed with vengeance. And then he routinely disrupts that impression with surprising revelations of humanity. I enjoyed Urban when he played Judge Dredd and Bones McCoy, but he really has the script here to express a more nuanced character.
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