Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

[McNab]

Wasn't bad as such, but a bit of a let down. A bit of a poor mans Mr & Mrs Smith...

I know she's supposed to be a national treasure or something, but I can't stand Olivia Colman.

[Sunny]

First season of The Pitt. A&E drama done exceptionally well.

[Taipan]

Letters to Juliet. My wife liked it, me, less so...

Then in the following lists of films, I saw Colm Meany in A Lobster Tale. I like Colm so we put it on. What a very strange film, clearly made on a low budget etc. Can't say I disliked it, but not quite sure why I watched it either!

[Taipan]

True story, and that was what kept me watching it. Not saying it was a bad film, but it was loads of clips of him going into banks in different disguises and it became very repetitive.

[Taipan]

Enjoyed this a lot more than i was expecting to!

[MyLittleStudPony]

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Tres bien!



https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_um ... bourg_1964

Netflix, prime?

I'm sorry, I don't know. I typed it into the tv, pressed buttons, paid a small change I think, and there it was.

[MrLongbeard]

Mock the Week https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463827/

Sooooo glad this is back (on TLC) dropping it was one of the worst decisions the BBC has ever made

[Count Steer]

Starfleet Academy
Absolute dross, after enjoying Discovery and even Strange New Worlds I was looking forward to this, but it seems to be very PC and overly inclusive, even having the characters swear regularly to try add some grit just falls flat on its face.

Just started on the boxed set of Star Trek: Discovery after completing the full set of DS9 for the second time.

The graphics are pretty good and they spent a few bob on the first 2 episodes. Given where it sits in the timeline vis a vis ST, DS9, Voyager etc the technology they have is rather advanced - just one example, holo-communication. It feels like I've misunderstood something somewhere!

So far, so good but ep. 1& 2 are scene-setting I guess. Whether it survives all the chopping and changing they did with the key production people....I'll find out pretty soon.

[Taipan]

Our daughter is staying with us and suggested we watch a stupid comedy. She was half right...

[Bustaspoke]

I'm still working my way through the complete series of Breaking Bad that I bought a couple of months back.I'm half way through Series 4 as of tonight, some of the characters & twist plots

[v8-powered]

Goliath on Prime.

Billy Bob Thornton series with him as a rough lawyer - really good series, surprised not on one of the bigger channels really.

[KungFooBob]

Predator Badlands.

Just a bit of brain off fun, I liked it.

[Taipan]

Predictable but enjoyable nonetheless...

[gremlin]

Louis Theroux's Inside the Manosphere is a worrying but compelling watch. On Netflix.

[Count Steer]

Watched all but the last episode of season 1 of Star Trek: Discovery, so far.

Well, erm, the visuals are pretty stunning but the plot I know you have to suspend disbelief somewhat with these things but.....

DS9 used the mirror universe as a bit of light relief and to let the actors ham it up a bit rather than a key plot-line and to let characters be miraculously reincarnated. It's guff quotient is off the charts. Fun to watch, mostly, but I hope that subsequent seasons get back to some sort of 'Star Trek reality*'.

Oh yeah...the 'spore drive'. Uh huh. 10 years before the time setting for the original series and as fitted to the Enterprise - not.

I'm wondering if boss man Bryan Fuller jumping ship (creative differences, as is his usual exit line) will perk up the plots?

4 more seasons to go.

* warp drives, wormholes, replicators, beaming up, timey wimey stuff and bubbl'n'squeakion particles as plot get-out-of-jail cards are permissible.

[Taipan]

Very enjoyable!

[Sunny]

Good luck, have fun, don't die.

Random but entertaining.

[gremlin]

The Immortal Man Peaky Blinders film on Netflix.

Really did feel like they were just picking whatever scraps of meat were left on the carcass of a once-decent drama that just went on past its sell-by date.
Disjointed, with a wafer-thin plot (WWII spy, forged fivers, Hamlet-esque father/son dynamic) that somehow did nothing more than a middling TV episode did in half the time.

[Taipan]

[636mick]

I Swear.
Darkly comical, educational, in places a bit tugging at the heart strings. Well worth a watch, a couple of very funny lines, “spunk for milk” made me laugh, in a court room!!
On Netflix.
Mick