Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 23, 2023 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 23, 2023 Started watching Man Like Mobeen today and it's so obviously great that I'm once again annoyed at myself for not having got round to it earlier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted January 24, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted January 24, 2023 Finished The Devil's Hour last night. It's a testament to how much I enjoyed it that I'll excuse the final episode being 90% exposition. Every episode has a kind of interrogation room scene that all falls into place and builds to the finale - though, actually, the series would function exactly the same without them, and it just feels like a way to get Peter Capaldi in every episode. It was good. Everyone's performances meant that when the material gets a little weaker, you don't mind, and it's still carried. Some spoiler-y thoughts: Spoiler I'm really hoping that the last episode isn't the end of Isaac, and I expect it's not. There's not really any reason for Lucy to trust or believe anything Gideon says without the connection to Isaac - if we're now in the timeline where she's a police officer and he was never born, she's not going to be so much at the end of her tether that she's prepared to listen to him, not going to be obsessed with tracking him down, and definitely not going to be as prepared to give any credence to his explanation. Mike was a horrendous character. He was obviously really unlikable by the end, but there's just a real pivot from well-meaning absentee father to abusive, irredeemable dickhead that basically comes out of nowhere. It feels like the moment that they start teasing that Lucy could get with Ravi, they realised they need to make Mike a villain so you don't feel bad for him not getting his relationship back. I kind of hope we never see that character again now, because he can either go full panto villain, or get an undeserved redemption arc, and I don't think either would be justified. What I kind of like about the last episode is that there isn't really anything to figure out - there's no rational or scientific explanation for the different timelines, or whatever you'd call them, and the audience have already basically figured out that's how it works, we just don't know how Gideon's exploiting them. We still don't really, just that he's aware of them. The drama was from around whether Lucy and Ravi would believe him, and what that would mean. So, yeah. It was good, well acted and well made, with the more mundane character work making a lot of the "timey-wimey" stuff work better than it otherwise might have done. It has every sign of disappearing up its own arse in subsequent series, and I hope it doesn't.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organizedkaos Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 16 hours ago, Merzbow said: The only reason I started the show was seeing there was a new season like The Return, shame to hear it's maybe not so great. Season 2 sounds like a trip though and I'm going to enjoy it. Ah the first two hold up great and most of us had always treated 2 as an ending given no-one expected a return... And not to say S3 is bad or anything, it doesn't quite have the weird spark of the original thing. It may be that that's part of it's reason to be - in the same way that The Return is tied to the aging of the cast and creators I think Exodus is too - except with Exodus it's more about Lars Von Trier not quite being the young provocateur any more. It also working against the fact that most of the memorable character's actors are dead... We'll see, I feel like it's the sort of thing that's hard to gauge until the end. And yeah, the first two parts are still excellent regardless of how part three pans out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organizedkaos Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 (edited) -- Curses -- Edited January 24, 2023 by organizedkaos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organizedkaos Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 (edited) -- Double Curses. Why does "Reply" not visibly post your reply -- Edited January 24, 2023 by organizedkaos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 24, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted January 24, 2023 1 hour ago, organizedkaos said: -- Double Curses. Why does "Reply" not visibly post your reply -- It does if you're on the latest page of the thread, but if you're on a previous page, it doesn't. That's what happens for me anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHighlightReel Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 We’ve started Mad Men and whilst I’m quite happy with slow burners, we’re about 10 episodes in and just nothing has happened. Is this one of those you have to give some time to before it clicks? Or if we’re not feeling it yet is it not going to happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 10 minutes ago, TheHighlightReel said: We’ve started Mad Men and whilst I’m quite happy with slow burners, we’re about 10 episodes in and just nothing has happened. Is this one of those you have to give some time to before it clicks? Or if we’re not feeling it yet is it not going to happen? I love it but it is a slow burner. If you aren’t feeling it though don’t waste your time. If you stick at it you have Lane Price in season three and I fucking love him. Jared Harris is phenomenal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Mad Men is fantastic but yeah it's slow. Its not like it suddenly kicks into a higher gear at any point. It is what it is and I doubt you'll change your mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted January 25, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted January 25, 2023 Mad Men is a real slow burner but I remember enjoying it at the time. Unfortunately the final season was split into two and when I was watching it on Netflix, they never added the second half of the final season so I never saw how it ended. When I went recently to rewatch it all, I wondered how I managed it first time round because as you said, nothing happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Has anyone heard from @Frankie Crisp  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Having finished it a month or so again, I have been re watching MR INBETWEEN on Disney+ and I seriously think its a masterpiece. Don't sleep on it. It's an all timer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 7 minutes ago, Factotum said: Having finished it a month or so again, I have been re watching MR INBETWEEN on Disney+ and I seriously think its a masterpiece. Don't sleep on it. It's an all timer Hadn't seen it before but after reading the recommendations on here I got through it in about a week. What a fucking show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 1 hour ago, DavidB6937 said: Hadn't seen it before but after reading the recommendations on here I got through it in about a week. What a fucking show. It really is something special. The fact he wrote them all as well is so impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Don’t ask why, but I’m trying to think of a TV show that was on (I think) Channel 4 or 5. It was a technology type of game show, narrated by a female, and had a giant green robot looking thing moving about on the spot, in between the articles that were. Been trying to find what it’s called, clips etc, but can’t for the life of me find anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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