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- Sagrilarus
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British police procedurals seem to have the same 20 or so actors in them, all guest starring on each others' shows either as murderers or victims or witnesses. We kept stumbling across Nicola Walker, first in Scott & Bailey and now in a series of shows where she is the lead character. My wife and I were amused that we kept seeing her pop up, so we're going after her stuff on purpose now, at first as a joke now as a mission..
She very good at her job and appears to be starring in multiple series at the same time. So there's plenty to choose from. Last night we cracked open Conspiracy, and the first episode got down to business in a big hurry. A murder of a no-name pizza delivery man in what appeared to be a professional contract killing. Plot quickly thickened, plenty of detail to choose from.
I appreciate you all are watching science fiction and superhero stuff but I'll be honest -- super powers are completely spent as far as I'm concerned. If it pops up in a show I stop watching. It's become trite to me, and shows like The Boys are just dismal. Perhaps a sign of my age. As far as I'm concerned I never need to see another Marvel movie again. They are magnificently done, but they've become the equivalent of Fast & Furious 12 . . . same plot, same people, remix the footage and sell. As for science fiction . . . well, I like brooding science fiction, and there isn't much of that being released.
So in an era when there is about zero new TV being produced my wife and I are going deep into the British library. We just need to figure out who to follow next once Nicola is complete. With 8 or 10 seasons of MI-5 in the hopper it could be a while.
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Sagrilarus wrote: I appreciate you all are watching science fiction and superhero stuff but I'll be honest -- super powers are completely spent as far as I'm concerned. If it pops up in a show I stop watching. It's become trite to me, and shows like The Boys are just dismal. Perhaps a sign of my age.
So in an era when there is about zero new TV being produced my wife and I are going deep into the British library. We just need to figure out who to follow next once Nicola is complete. With 8 or 10 seasons of MI-5 in the hopper it could be a while.
I hear that a love for british police shows (drama or comedy), cooking competition shows, and anything on HGTV is the final phase of officially becoming an 'Old Fogie Boomer'. Welcome! Now your only remaining choices are Foxnews or CNN
I see the same thing with Vancouver shows. Lots of cross over of actors. Not quite a studio system but highly network centric.
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jason10mm wrote: Now your only remaining choices are Foxnews or CNN
Blessedly, I have no cable.
I'm stuck reading the news, which is positively gutenburgian.
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Harry Pierce (Head of MI5) is an absolutely iconic character suffering inter agency battles as well as external agency intrigues. I would put it pretty high up in my all time great shows.
The follow up movie is rubbish though (For the Greater Good).
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ThirstyMan wrote: MI-5 (known as Spooks in the UK but considered too sensitive a slang word in the US) is very good indeed.
Oh right! I did wonder what show Sag was talking about and assumed it was one of many that had passed me by. Agree wholeheartedly that it’s an excellent show, although I felt that it took a dip a few seasons in.
Would also recommend Life on Mars and the follow up Ashes to Ashes which are cop shows with an interesting twist.
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Life on Mars is awesome. I re-watch the series every few years. I think I've watched it about 3 times.
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It's about a criminal prosecutor who always gets to the bottom of the mystery and fights corruption. This guy is ice cold, and if he doesn't deem a conversation as worth having, he just walks away from someone or ignores them entirely. It's kind of wild.
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It was good for the first four episodes and then turned to garbage when a hard sci-fi story took a left turn and decided to abandon all that and turn hard fantasy.
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This show is ROUGH. Very adult, very harsh depiction of a pandemic. It uses the now expected format of a group of almost impossibly broken people forced together with flashbacks showing all their other problems. The virus or whatever is almost completely peripheral to the show, yet it is so bizarre and overly complicated in its effect I feel like TTL must be a spin off of another show that dealt with the virus more directly.
Anyhoo, it has all the pandemic things we might have expected (anarchy, panicked mobs, harsh government crackdowns) before we actually experienced a version of it, so a warning to those that might get emotional. This show is 100% adult. The one little kid is basically a pawn for his parents to hate each other and is rescue bait. The teens are there mostly for some sex appeal and to be problems for their parents. The adults are mostly just horrible or forced to be horrible to keep on living. Part survivalist experience, part spiritual allegory, part heroes journey, it is oddly compelling (to me). The Russian perspective is fascinating. If the dubbing were a bit better I'd almost think the show was set in Canada or montana, it feels so familiar. But then the show will buck western conventions and show some of what I think of as slavic grit in what they prioritize and value over american ideals.
It ends rather abuptly on a massive cliffhanger though with little to no resolution of anything, so if that bothers you then hold off until there is a season 2.
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This show is pretty awful. The mystery is not really very engaging. A lot of the writing is just really bad. And it suffers from that thing that so many historically set TV shows do, where they try and work in every reference to the time period they possibly can. It's the 1890s so Hearst is one of the main characters and everyone is a (nascent) suffragette.
It's not so much the old "accuracy" thing, that bit's fine - it just feels lazy, and it's not like the yellow press or women's rights are being fully explored - they feel like by the numbers tropes.
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