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#3248178 12-Jun-2024 20:18

Really enjoying a new series on Netflix - A Man in Full - staring Jeff Daniels. 7/10.

“Follows an Atlanta real estate mogul as he faces sudden bankruptcy, and tries to defend his empire from those attempting to capitalize on his fall from grace.”

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#3248225 13-Jun-2024 04:27

We’ve just finished rewatching season 1 and season 2 and the new season 3 of Clarksons Farm.

It’s such a fun show. Miss 12 is a particular fan of Clarkson, who she calls “the swearing guy.” She’s at the age where anyone swearing is cool so she’s a big fan.

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#3248267 13-Jun-2024 09:50

Quite excited to see that season 3 of Outlaws has been quietly dropped on Amazon Prime.

It's a series that stars Stephen Merchant and a supporting cast that is frankly excellent, as a bunch of very different people who end up working together on a Community Service project as a part of their various court-determined sentences for a range of misdemeanours.

There's a lawyer, a business owner with money issues, an activist, a "nice girl" rebelling, a rich girl with drug habits and more.

If you haven't seen season 1 and 2, but like a good English dramedy, I'd go check this out.

Bonus - it also stars Christopher Walken, playing the most Christopher Walken character ever.

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#3252036 23-Jun-2024 08:35

We are really enjoying S2 of the excellent UK cop show The Responder, starring Martin Freeman, on BBC.

However we got a bit tripped up by a quirk with the show. It’s set in Liverpool and due to a combination of strong scouser accents, mumbly speech and variable sound-recording quality, we were having huge trouble understanding the dialogue. Unfortunately subtitles are not available on BBC on Apple TV.

Yesterday we noticed the show being promo’ed on TVNZ+. Checked it out and, yay, subtitles. So, having watched two episodes on BBC, we started TVNZ+ at E3. Then confusion reigned because we had already seen what we were watching - and it should have been a new episode. So we scrubbed forward and found stuff that we had not seen in that ‘episode’. Could not for the life us work out what the hell was going on - was doing our heads in.

After a lot of mucking around I had an idea: Checking, I found S2 on BBC is five one-hour episodes. S2 on TVNZ is six roughly 45-minute episodes. Very tricky. Maybe non-commercial BBC sell a different cut for commercial TV operators who want to add ads but keep to a one-hour limit - or perhaps more likely TVNZ do the cutting themselves.

It seems obvious now we know what is going on but last night it was almost too much for us old farts.

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#3252247 23-Jun-2024 19:30

All of Hazbin Hotel on Amazon Prime. Nice to see an indie cartoon get picked up.

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#3252391 24-Jun-2024 11:42

The Boys has been typically explosive out of the gate in this latest season.
Controversial, but also fully expected. They have ramped up the violence and sexual depravity quite a bit, which should surprise absolutely nobody.

It’s a hard watch sometimes, but I’m so invested, I just look away for the bits I can’t stomach.

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#3252400 24-Jun-2024 11:51

Thank you to those who suggested Clarkson's Farm. I have enjoyed it, very funny moments, a nice way to get an insight into farming and impressed by how much he and his girlfriend gave a go themselves. Pleased to read season four is being made.

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#3252407 24-Jun-2024 12:05

Been at home for the last week with Covid, so have been watching a lot of TV (and some movies). I'm now thoroughly sick of the TV and am in desperate need of fresh air and real human contact!

House of the Dragon (S1, Neon) - 7/10

With S2 dropping my partner and I decided to rewatch S1 to refresh our memory. My main recollection from S1 the first time around was how confusing the characters were - many are similarly named (Laena/Laenor, Rhaenyra/Rhaenys, etc) and some even have a very similar look (with long, flowing white hair), that it can be hard to keep track of who is who. Coupled with an incredible incestuous storyline it's really challenging trying to keep track of everyone, and who is allied with whom. It also suffers from the same problem that often afflicted Game of Thrones, with very dark lighting making it hard to work out what is actually happening. I found turning on subtitles helped a little. I think I followed things a bit more the second time around, but it was still quite convoluted. It's a great story regardless - the machinations of the family politics are intriguing. But I think it suffers a little by comparison to the first few seasons of Game of Thrones.

Succession (S1, Neon) - 8/10

This has been on my list for a while but didn't really have time to commit to a new series. A week on the couch with Covid gave me the time I didn't have.

I wasn't sure about it to start with, but by the end of the second episode I was hooked. It's a dark dramedy with a dry sense of humour, something that isn't always evident. The general plot is about a Rupert Murdoch-esque family-owned media business, where the aging head of the family is mulling over handing the reins to his son Kendall. But there are lots of power plays, family politics, foul-ups, and all kinds of drama along the way. All of the characters are awful, but a bit like a car crash you just can't look away. Brian Cox as the head of the family is very compelling, but the scene stealer is Roman Roy played by Kieran Culkin. Matthew McFayden is fantastic too (though I'm not sure he always gets away with his American accent). I'm halfway through s2 (it helps that there's only four seasons, 10 episodes each), and I'm fascinated to see where it ends up.

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#3253577 26-Jun-2024 18:54

Blue Lights (S1 and S2), TV3 9/10

My wife and I binge-watched the two series. BBC police procedural drama along the lines of Line of Duty and The Wire but set in Belfast; the setting is drug crime and some pretty horrendous neighbourhoods, with impact of the Troubles still evident. After first episode I looked at my wife and asked, is this supposed to be post-apocalyptic? But no, that's the environment they're in. This show is different from others in that not only do we see the human side of the police but they are all nice and likeable: we see one pair sharing their home cooking while waiting for a callout, and another sharing their tastes in music on the police car stereo. Series 1 10/10, series 2 8/10.

Drops of God, Apple TV+, 10/10

For the winos amongst us. A wine expert dies and leaves behind the world's biggest wine collection, to be inherited by the winner of a contest between his estranged daughter and his top oeneology student. Set in France and Japan, it is credited as a French/Japanese/American production but it's refreshingly Hollywood-free. Great characters, great acting, just the right amount of drama. Binge-worthy.

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#3254243 28-Jun-2024 17:54

The Bear is back for season 3!

I’ve only watched episode 1 so far but it’s continued to be incredibly innovative and challenging TV. If it carries on this way it’ll be another amazing season.

IMO it’s the best tv show currently on.

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#3254258 28-Jun-2024 19:27

Handle9: The Bear is back for season 3!

I’ve only watched episode 1 so far but it’s continued to be incredibly innovative and challenging TV. If it carries on this way it’ll be another amazing season.

IMO it’s the best tv show currently on.

I hope you’re right… Loved the first two seasons but my anticipation at the new season’s arrival was somewhat deflated after I read this: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jun/27/the-bear-season-three-review-unbelievably-frustrating.

Edit: and another - https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jun/28/it-isnt-hard-to-see-where-things-went-wrong-how-the-bear-went-off-the-boil

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#3254261 28-Jun-2024 20:18

Handsomedan: The Boys has been typically explosive out of the gate in this latest season.
Controversial, but also fully expected. They have ramped up the violence and sexual depravity quite a bit, which should surprise absolutely nobody.

It’s a hard watch sometimes, but I’m so invested, I just look away for the bits I can’t stomach.

Homelander is so much like Jethro West*1000 with sup powers :)

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#3255154 1-Jul-2024 14:00

Started watching Dark Matter on Apple TV+.

It's a dark scifi drama, which explores the possibility of a multiverse?

I'm only an episode in and part way through ep2, but it's good so far.

Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connolly are the two leads, with a strong supporting cast.

From IMDB:
A man is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could've lived, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from a most terrifying foe: himself.

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#3255292 1-Jul-2024 18:58

Started "American Chinese" - semi-serious high school teen comedy with a Sun Wukong superhero angle. Survive or forward the opening scenes with the terrible colouration and the dollar shop beards it's so much better after that. The soundtrack is oddly 80s in places although set in present day. Two episodes in I think I was hooked halfway through the first. I liked it. Fingers crossed it can maintain.

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#3255564 2-Jul-2024 15:19

Watched quite a bit of TV recently.

Watched the entirety of the new season of The Outlaws on Prime.
Really enjoyed it. Well worth watching.

Also watched the final episodes of the newest season of Upload on Prime - not as good as the earlier ones, but still a fun watch.

Watched the latest season of The Traitors UK on 3Now. That took a bit of getting into, but it got there in the end. Another quite good diversion.

Started watching The Traitors NZ last night on 3 - I do like Paul Henry in this role. I can see myself enjoying this too.

Watched a couple of seasons of Acapulco on Apple TV+ which is quite enjoyable, albeit a bit light and formulaic. More subtitles in the latter episodes than there were in the initial few.

Also finished Loot, Sugar and The Big Door Prize on Apple TV+ over the last few weeks. Enjoyed all three, but Sugar was by far the best...until it wasn't.

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