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Im doing the inverse — just started Kindred this morning now that I finished The English last night.

Bad Girls is truly great but why is is SO LONG

Very subjective opinions bc of how much I loved the sister relationships, but without spoiling, this is what I thought after the finale.

barry sito (gyac)
Posted: 14 October 2022 at 17:50:25
I don’t really go with the shorter argument since a lot of the small seemingly meaningless details had payoff in later episodes, and also as I said upthread it was a joy to watch cos of strong casting and the believability of the bond between the sisters. I guess the time that went into that bonding and detail was too much for some people, even though there’s no way you can stick this landing without it.

I finished The English last night. I’m not sure I ever fully acclimated to how bright the show is—bright blue sky, golden desert, and everyone’s clothes looked freshly laundered at all times. But it was an entertaining 6-episode run.

I did not know late stage syphilis was so similar to leprosy, so it was educational too.

I’m giving The English a whirl - agree w pgwp, tis a very “laundered” looking version of the West but i am enjoying it so far

Speaking of laundry, I blew through the entire season of Kindred yesterday while doing unending loads of laundry. It was good - maybe not mindblowing but it was tightly plotted and kept me engaged from episode to episode. Helped that not every episode was that long - I think half of them clock in under 40 minutes, while the other half tip closer to 50-55.

Now I'm onto the new season of Slow Horses.

We're doing one episode a night so should be done this week. I'm also watching Narcos: Mexico, which is much better than Narcos, which suuuuucked.

Bad Girls is truly great but why is is SO LONG

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bad sisters?

talkin' bout those sad sisters

Naughty Naughty Girls

Bad Girls - MIA kills Diplo, no one's sure who to root for

my wife is watching the sex lives of college girls show and i know it's "not for me" but also it seems bad? really hacky and cheap-looking and poorly acted. sorry if you like it but i can't complain to her so i had to come complain on here

She doesn't post here anymore?

not really

Not enough talk about Fleishman is in Trouble. Last night was the episode everything's been building up to and it was incredible.

dan, my partner and i just binged through the series over the last three days. I have minor complaints (the plotting feels a bit loose in places, there's a tendency to overplay the hand, i was getting exhausted waiting for the other perspective to come into play, it's more than a tetch bougie) but it's awfully good and the most recent episode was an absolute showstopper, especially THAT scene which got both of us tearing up on the couch. Everybody is acting the hell out of this script.

FiiT doesn't reach the UK (Disney plus) until February.

I watched a little; it was very clearly Not For Me

Rogue Heroes through two episodes is less Sons of Anarchy meets Band of Brothers than expected. Went in hoping for Cinemax Banshee quality rather than BBC co-production.

after an amazing 7th episode, i thought the last episode of Fleishman is in Trouble was a total belly flop and actually detracted from my opinion of everything that had come before

the use of Claire Danes in this series was "off" and despite her showcase in Ep 7 i really dont get why she even agreed to be in this? I sort of dig the overall message of Libby's realization about ~lyfe~ in the finale but yeah the focus of the last episode was odd, havent read the source novel maybe it makes more sense as adapted from text. still give the whole thing a modest thumbs up but feels like the whole structure of the series was f'ed.

Has anyone watched this show Treason on Netflix?

My bf watched it and I had one eye on it while doing other stuff - it got quite gripping! Ciarin Hinds always seems to play these characters.

I wanted to like that so much but had to bail after 1.5 episodes - felt like another one of those shows where characters just keep making stupid decisions and not in a fun way. the wife character was the worst… like how are you married to the deputy chief of MI6 but still get suspicious when he has to do clandestine shit? and not just that, but you go blabbing about it to your friend at the CIA who mysteriously re-enters your life just when your spouse got promoted to chief? Some shows are just too dumb to stick with, even one as short as this one.

We watched "Treason" in full over the last few days. It tried to cram too much into too little space imo; the CIA subplot could have been cut and more attention could be paid to the nuances of the main plotline/Baku backstory. It was... fine, you know. Not totally irredeemable but not especially gripping or engaging either. I did like that the younger kid was a selfish brat who was always complaining while his parents were trying to keep him from getting killed. Damn kid.

Started digging into Rogue Heroes, it’s good. I’m mostly over the Peaky Blinders style for sure, it’s not very appealing, but the story is strong.

Trying to find another solid mystery series after wrapping up Deadwind season 3 (the weakest of the three seasons due to padding things out with one unnecessary subplot and turning a series-long background story into a minor conspiracy sub-subplot) but the lead actor is really strong in a likable enigmatic way. Started Broadchurch, but only viewed one episode. Maybe I’ll get back to it.

omar, have you watched Line of Duty? recently re-watched a chunk of that and it remains one of my faves.

Thanks for the reminder! I actually watched the first few episodes of the series one and need to get back to it. I started in on it after binging bodyguard, which I think was from the same creative team.

I watched the first six seasons of spiral (Engrenages) when they were on Amazon prime and hope to track down seasons seven and eight at some point since I was enjoying that one.

Line of Duty gets better after the first season IMO but majority of it is very very good i think.

agreed!

Line of Duty rules, highly recommend

TBH i need something new to watch.
we watched all of Taskmaster.... twice.

Knocked out the new season of Slow Horses. Excellent stuff, works like a machine and leaves no residue.

Finally getting around to last season's Ramy and finding it amazingly uncomfortable. Everybody's damaged. It works sometimes but it's about 1/3 great, 1/3 agita inducing and 1/3 not very good.

High School is enjoyable, low stakes teen drama.

W/crime stuff I find a lot of it wanting, which maybe is why I gravitated to Bosch when it was on (still gotta watch the final season and Bosch: Legacy) because it was solid no-frills cop shit. Spiral hit the same sweet spot with added Francophilia and more tension and a impressively frazzled and intense performance from the lead actor, Caroline Proust. Line of Duty did seem to mine a similar vein in terms of delivering the goods.

Caught up on Fleishman and totally disagree. Loved the show completely. Love Lizzy so much and her monologues killed me.

Slow Horses is great - if you want British spies flailing, watch that instead of Treason.

just finished the first season of White Lotus... I liked it overall but not sure if I want to continue to s2, didn't find its critique of whiteness/privilege very interesting or insightful.

Finally getting around to last season's Ramy and finding it amazingly uncomfortable. Everybody's damaged. It works sometimes but it's about 1/3 great, 1/3 agita inducing and 1/3 not very good.

That kinda describes every season of Ramy, to a point. I enjoyed s1 maybe just because of the novelty of it compared to everything else on TV, and s2 was elevated by Mahershala Ali. But the latest season was a let-down. Ramy, the character, has become unlikable and frankly pretty inessential to the show.

Something called Kaleidoscope just popped up on Netflix—a heist show with Giancarlo Esposito. That’s literally all I know but “heist” + “Giancarlo Esposito” is a pretty strong sell.

pgwp, i think that's where I'm at with S3. He was always a fuckboi but now he's less engaging than the rest of the cast, who unfortunately just don't have much room for growth.

XP to Dan, I dunno man. I found the conclusions of the story remedial at best and the writing took a nosedive. "you'll never be as young as you are right now"? Maybe the reason we get tired of being in relationships is because we've lost track of who we were? the bit where she ventriloquizes the ending of the show through the narrator as "a book she's going to write"? Thanks, I'm good.

Current rotation:
Rogue Heroes - it's okay, pacing is a bit weird with the love interest and spy McNulty and zero desire to make anyone but the Irishman a sympathetic character. Feel like it would have been much stronger sticking to the Band of Brothers/Dirty Dozen script and leaving out Cairo. SAS founders being British aristocrats makes them 300% less sympathetic than average war movie/show protagonists.

Reservation Dogs - genius

What We Do In The Shadows - near-genius

From - horror Lost, just keeps stacking "and thens" like a bad improv troupe, going to push through the first season to see if it improves

Willow - kind of dumb but joyously so

Leftovers - completely unhinged, it's great

we watched all of Taskmaster.... twice

This will not tide you over for long but there was a New Year special yesterday!

New episodes of the exceptionally wholesome Old Enough now on Netflix UK.

Apparently Kaleidoscope has a structural gimmick, which is that you can watch the episodes in any order (except for the finale which they want you to watch last).

Here's an article discussing it and recommending potential episode sequences. (It seems that when you bring the show up on Netflix's site, it offers you the episodes in random order (with the finale last, of course).

Ooh... I'm up for a gimmick like that.

Fleischman is a weird show, the pacing alone (waiting 6 episodes to provide some perspective from the female characters, possibly to prove some sort of point of Eisenberg's lack of empathy and blinkered perspective?). But I liked a lot of bits, and it's been sticking with me because I happen to be the exact target demographic (nearly 41 year old Jew, with friends who are going through some not dissimilar marriage issues).

I hadn't felt too compelled to check out Fleischman as I feel sort of (perpetually?) saturated on neurotic New York Jew content, but as I too am a nearly 41 year old Jew with friends going through marriage issues, you have piqued my interest, Jordan.

Not new content, many of you have likely already seen it, but I just finally got around to Station Eleven and it was really fantastic, highly recommend!

the waiting 6 episodes to get to Rachel's story is a pretty big part of the point of the series, and I felt it was effective.

two episodes into Kindred and liking it a lot so far, I think it's the only Butler book I haven't read and I only vaguely knew the plot, so it has been exciting!

Enjoyed “Don’t Worry Darking” which popped up on HBO. It takes a bit for things to get and start getting weird, but once it does it’s pretty good. Not a wholly original idea (no spoilers), and it gets a little messy at the end. Some great details though. Might rewatch to look for “clues” in the first two thirds. Hard to talk about w/o spoilers.

I watched an episode of Kaleidoscope and it was replacement-level hip heist show. About as good as an episode of, say, Leverage. I'll watch a couple more.