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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2021 13:07:34 GMT
The first series of Fargo. I'm about halfway through. Great performances. Not exactly gripping but very watchable.
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Post by oh oooh on Apr 30, 2021 13:24:39 GMT
The first series of Fargo. I'm about halfway through. Great performances. Not exactly gripping but very watchable. It's great but the second is even better.
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Post by oh oooh on Apr 30, 2021 14:00:57 GMT
Isn't Billy Bob Thornton in the first? That's one magnificent performance! I remember I couldn't wait until he next appeared - he was so good, so funny.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2021 14:05:55 GMT
Isn't Billy Bob Thornton in the first? That's one magnificent performance! I remember I couldn't wait until he next appeared - he was so good, so funny. Word Johnny. When he shines he fucking shines!
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2021 11:01:39 GMT
He's very good, as is Freeman.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2021 11:02:37 GMT
What did people think of the last episode of Line of Duty? The consensus seems to be that it was a bit disappointing.
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Post by rayge on May 3, 2021 11:42:42 GMT
What did people think of the last episode of Line of Duty? The consensus seems to be that it was a bit disappointing. I thought it was well done. I think some people are a bit disappointed because (or so it seemed to me to) it deliberately set out to demythologize itself. Very nice (in the old sense of the world) wrap-up sequence, too.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2021 12:25:54 GMT
What did people think of the last episode of Line of Duty? The consensus seems to be that it was a bit disappointing. I thought it was well done. I think some people are a bit disappointed because (or so it seemed to me to) it deliberately set out to demythologize itself. Very nice (in the old sense of the world) wrap-up sequence, too. I like the fact that Mercurio has returned things to a more realistic portrayal of how corruption usually occurs ( older officers corrupting younger ones, who then continue the corruption), but I did think that, dramatically, it fell a little flat. One of the problems with the last few series, for me, is the disconnect between the portrayal of the OCG and their supposed power ( assasinations, controlling events within prisons, ambushing police convoys etc.) and what we actually see of them, which just seems to be a small number of localised street criminals. It's difficult to see how they're capable of yielding all that power.
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Post by rayge on May 3, 2021 13:53:02 GMT
I thought it was well done. I think some people are a bit disappointed because (or so it seemed to me to) it deliberately set out to demythologize itself. Very nice (in the old sense of the world) wrap-up sequence, too. I like the fact that Mercurio has returned things to a more realistic portrayal of how corruption usually occurs ( older officers corrupting younger ones, who then continue the corruption), but I did think that, dramatically, it fell a little flat. One of the problems with the last few series, for me, is the disconnect between the portrayal of the OCG and their supposed power ( assasinations, controlling events within prisons, ambushing police convoys etc.) and what we actually see of them, which just seems to be a small number of localised street criminals. It's difficult to see how they're capable of yielding all that power.
Well, that's what I meant by demythologizing, rowing back from the heroic underdogs facing a monstrous entity, which is how AC-12 (incidentally, if you, like I, were wondering how they got to 12 as a number, when we only hear of 3 and 6, consider the combat88 trick of letting numbers represent letters by their position in the alphabet, then AC12 = ACAB, All Coppers Are Bastards, which is more or less the message of the whole show) & Hastings in particular (there's a sense of Ahab about his obsession at times), have been tending to see it, to uncover something that is monstrous only in its banality. The baddies won, because the baddies are the 'establishment', and they set the rules and perceptions. It's difficult not to see it as a political analogy.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2021 14:10:23 GMT
New fargo starts on sunday on channel 4. Nice, still need to watch the first season though.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on May 7, 2021 14:42:42 GMT
The first series of Fargo. I'm about halfway through. Great performances. Not exactly gripping but very watchable. First two are very good. I gave up after that.
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Post by oh oooh on May 9, 2021 9:54:11 GMT
New fargo starts on sunday on channel 4. Nice, still need to watch the first season though. Just a bump to remind people. Starring Chris Rock - not sure if I've seen him do any serious acting before. It's actually a pretty decent TV night as well as that - Alex Higgins doc, Lily James in The Pursuit of Love, and G's pal Trevor McDonald on late C4!
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2021 10:44:24 GMT
Watched all four parts of the new Netflix documentary on the Son of Sam shootings in New York and the theory that Berkovitz didn't act alone. I was already familiar with this theory and I think the documentary made a convincing case that it was very likely that he didn't. Some of journalist Maury Terry's wider beliefs about the case went down a conspiracy rabbit hole and the documentary showed how he lost his way with the case. Quite a fascinating doc, would be interested in whether anyone else watched it?
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2021 10:57:32 GMT
SAS: Who dares wins.
I'm a sucker for this show, even though it has turned in to a bit like x factor with tragic background stories. Though no where as bad as x factor.
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Post by oh oooh on May 10, 2021 13:32:40 GMT
That new Alex Higgins documentary last night was very good. It was interesting to see Ray Reardon who obviously still feels a little bitter about the attention Higgins got for winning "only twice" (and he won six times). I'd also forgotten that it wasn't cancer that killed Higgins - he'd recovered from that. It was malnutrition and pneumonia in the end. A sad story but a really interesting man.
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