Paid Members Monkee Posted February 25, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 25, 2020 (edited) I watched The Hunters on Amazon Prime at the weekend. What a hell of a show. I thought the acting throughout was fantastic - 3 highlights: Al Pacino was almost unrecognisable and I thought he was quite subtle compared to other stuff I’ve seen him in; Logan Lerman was great and I loved his character development through true series; and I didn’t realise that Josh Radnor was in it - I’ve only seen him in How I Met... and thought he was a bit of a pretty boy but this really showed some skills. The plot itself was fascinating as there were so many truths and real people named in it but I can see why the fictional aspects are controversial and have been condemned by Holocaust historians. It did well to hide where the story was going right up until the last episode too. I didn’t expect what happened and I hope there’s a second series. @SuperBacon What were your reasons for disliking it so much? Edited February 25, 2020 by Monkee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Tonally it was an absolute mess, and didn’t seem to know what it was aiming for throughout the whole series. The main baddie (the young lad; can’t even remember his name) was woeful. A bad actor and just not a very bad baddie. The “peanuts on the plane scene” was excruciating. Plus as you mention the almost “holocaust-porn” of some of the fictionalised scenes. There was enough horror that they could’ve used, again this added to the tonal weirdness. I didn’t even make it as far as the end and I’ve seen the twist and absolutely fuck that. Just a terrible thought to do that A shame as I’d been really looking forward to it. There’s a great series/film from that Hunters subject. This sadly ain’t it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 For me it's a case of good casting and decent enough performances but a show that struggles to really come together to create something good. There's a few elements here and there that work but it's a bit of a jumbled mess overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 I’ve been watching Loudermilk. It’s very watchable, not hilarious but funny enough. It’s one of those American sitcoms that looks and plays like a drama a lot of the time. I was trying to place where I knew the main guy from, he was the lead in Office Space. It’s got that big fat man who used to do the Stone Cold impressions in the attitude era as well, he looks the same age now as he did then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Red Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Ron Livingston and Will Sasso in a sitcom sounds horrible to be honest, watchable is probably as good as they’d hoped for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Anyone kept up with The Outsider? It's fascinating because it's the usual Stephen King shit show blended with the full HBO polish. So it looks great and it's shot like it's as serious as something like True Detective but it's obviously stupid. It's a shame because it starts off great and the performances are really good. Paddy Considine in a bit part ffs! If and it's not even a rhetorical if because they definitely won't but if they somehow manage to stick the ending I'd say the producers have done a miraculous job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted February 26, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 26, 2020 Yeah, not really seeing this series 2 downturn in Killing Eve you're all wrong about. The Hungry Caterpillar is the best episode yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 Watched a couple of the new Twilight Zone and they're just fine. They remind me of a less clever version of Inside No. 9. It's miles off that show in terms of writing but it's good enough to have on in the background but I wouldn't go out of my way to watch them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted March 4, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 4, 2020 On 2/12/2020 at 1:53 PM, HarmonicGenerator said: We thought this week's was very weird indeed - then I read the articles about it on Den Of Geek and fully understand why we thought that. Â On 2/12/2020 at 2:07 PM, Factotum said: @HarmonicGenerator - Yes I was wondering how it played to those unaware. If you know it was great, if you don't, you would think it a bit shit I imagine. Finally got around to watching episode 2. I also thought it was weird but I kind of expect that from them anyway. I only went looking for an explanation because I remembered Harmy's post about it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have thought twice tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted March 4, 2020 Awards Moderator Share Posted March 4, 2020 Rewatched all of Psychoville this week because of that episode. First series is incredible, superb fun. Second series is good but doesn't half flunk the ending. Needed more silent singer. The rest of Inside No. 9 has continued brilliantly, showing such range of storytelling, visuals and humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Inside Number 9 deserves every award going. How they constantly think of new and original stories is such a credit to them. Pemberton and Shearsmith are just fantastic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Factotum said: Inside Number 9 deserves every award going. How they constantly think of new and original stories is such a credit to them. Pemberton and Shearsmith are just fantastic I spoke to Steve Pemberton about it once. He was writing the shoe episode at the time, and he got the idea just from seeing a discarded shoe near his house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted March 4, 2020 Awards Moderator Share Posted March 4, 2020 "Where do you get your crazy ideas from?"Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 This Country series 3 is dead good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 The Outsider didn't stick the ending or even come close. It didn't even stick the middle. Dog shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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