Love/loved Stranger Things. New Walking Dead pretty pants at the minute, and a bit all over the place and confusing. Don`t really get any time for telly now, and haven`t watched any of the common/popular box sets, but one thing we have been watching, which I think is brilliantly written and acted, is 13 Reasons Why. About half way through and it is pretty powerful stuff ;ok
And one other thing, when did "series" become "season" ??
Madcap Americanisms creep into everything. Even in the FA Cup the rounds are termed differently especially on the BBC. The first qualifying round is something like the round of 764
Enjoying Mindhunters on Netflix, just finished the first series.
Depicts the formation of the first FBI serial killer profiling unit, dramatized and yet based on truth, apparently the prison dialogues are reproduced from the tapes of the actual real life interviews.
A bit dark and maybe not everyone’s cup of tea but the tension in the interviews is palpable.
The Hobbit was a poor attempt to cash in, 9 hrs of films with new characters that were not in the book, with little of the darkness and all the time your thinking well we know where this is going....
Either they will have to introduce new characters, and hope people care about them, or lose all narrative uncertainty, since we know how the characters end up.
OR, as is the wont these days to precede everything with a warning, warn that "these programs are only suitable for viewers who have neither read the books nor seen the films".
There are lots of things they could adapt, based on the LotR appendices, and books like The Silmarillion. Some of those were touched on in the movies and books (Lay of Luthien, Elrond's wife, Thrain...the dwarf rings, Aragorn's mother, the 'Necromancer', the Last Alliance etc) all of which could potentially be a rich narrative stream....
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Plot Spoiler!!!
Lord sugar to Karen brady
On summoning up a 5 star hotel make over
West Ham's trophy room has more in it!!!
Karen was silent
Man Utd, Arsenal, City, Spurs don't have one of them.... coyi
***SPOILER ALERT***
A young woman is found dead on the Wind River Reservation during winter. And someone is responsible!
don't watch Surbibicon from George Clooney, worst movie of the year possibly decade.
Thor: Ragnarok was good fun, looking forward to Justice League and Star Wars.
Checking out Murder on the Orient express soon.
TV:
Walking Dead is back not bad but not great yet either at the moment hoping for some gritty stuff to go down soon.
I found out they did a season 2 of the Shannara Chroniicle on Channel 5 it was so bad it was good so definitely getting on that bandwagon again.
Lucifer on Amazon Prime still good
started watching Preacher (bit weird but Dominic Cooper is a baller)
Stranger Things on Netflix is very good.
And one other thing, when did "series" become "season" ??
I'm still waiting to get round to Season 1!
Re FA Cup, I've just looked on the BBC website, and they seem to call it Extra Preliminary Round and Qualifyng-First Round.
Not loving the second series of preacher but sticking with it.
Thought Jungle was an ok film
Can't wait for peaky blinders.
Depicts the formation of the first FBI serial killer profiling unit, dramatized and yet based on truth, apparently the prison dialogues are reproduced from the tapes of the actual real life interviews.
A bit dark and maybe not everyone’s cup of tea but the tension in the interviews is palpable.
Mindhunters sounds interesting maybe switch...
Really struggle to see what they could bring that was different to the films.
And this between the Hobbit and LotR timeline.
Episode 1 Bilbo goes for a cup of tea...
There are lots of things they could adapt, based on the LotR appendices, and books like The Silmarillion. Some of those were touched on in the movies and books (Lay of Luthien, Elrond's wife, Thrain...the dwarf rings, Aragorn's mother, the 'Necromancer', the Last Alliance etc) all of which could potentially be a rich narrative stream....