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Bodies on Netflix - guess it's their new hit series but the first episode was not great.

It's fun and worth watching. It's like Dark but less complicated. Still a total plot hole mess, but enjoyable.

I tried with E01 but it dragged for me. there were some dodgy English accents amongst the police that kinda hampered those scenes

I've become a big fan of the guy who plays the jewish detective from the 40s, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. He was in the Great and Queens Gambit as well. Very charismatic. Plays Brian Epstein in an upcomming movie. Gonna be a star.

His was one of the accents I thought was dodgy, but actually he was born and bred in London! Lol I dunno. Maybe because he was trying for a broad kind of East End accent - more working class than his own. I see he's playing the Duke of Buckingham in a new version of Three Musketeers which I suspect he will excel at

I've been enjoying Scavengers Reign on Max. Recommended if you enjoy stuff like Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Fantastic Planet, and the comic art of Moebius. It follows people who have been shipwrecked on an alien planet as they make their way through an endless maze of bizarre and creepy wildlife. It can be pretty gross at times but also has many moments of serene psychedelic beauty and a killer synth-heavy soundtrack.

Thank you for reminding me of that! I've seen it recommended several times, and each time I forget about it, except for that there was something on Max that was recommended.

I tried Bodies but everyone in it is so weird-looking (the detective in the future looks like a child with premature aging disease) that I couldn't hang. Plus, the plot was a mix of not-thrilling mystery and tired detective-story cliché. Oh, the Victorian guy is a closeted homosexual? SHOCK.

Currently watching Midnight Mass and 30 Coins, both of which are really good but are causing me to have a weird "why is this shit working on me? I haven't been inside a Catholic church in 30 years" reaction.

bodies was terrible thin gruel, v comic book adaptation (nothing against comic books, but adapted they are invariably feeble).

i watched it all anyway.

Hair loopies and some nice Kyoshi Warrior makeup, if nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waJKJW_XU90

Didnt they already make multiple movies/shows out of that franchise!?

Watching this very long one-take monologue that kicks off the final episode of The Bear’s first season just makes me keep thinking – “He had to memorize this monologue…”.

It totally takes me out of the show, in that it puts the focus on the performance and “creative decision,” rather than what it’s actually expressing. (Just my 2 cents, as an accomplished & celebrated director of television shows.)

Quite the Deus ex canopener at the end there.

(nothing against comic books, but adapted they are invariably feeble).

fizzles have you seen American Splendour?

also I assume animated adaptations are exempt from this statement

Didnt they already make multiple movies/shows out of that franchise!?

There was a sequel series and an awful/racist M. Night Shyamalan movie adaptation that everyone considers an abomination, and that's been all in terms of film/tv.

Blue Eye Samurai is gorgeously animated (the attention to detail is amazing), and brutally violent, and the choreography is superb.

talking about Bodies, I enjoyed it, but the finale was....wow, that's all it took? a multi-generational conspiracy foiled by an extremely obvious move that Mannix should have seen coming? it was basically A Christmas Carol

jfc Netflix expect us to feel sympathy for Robbie Williams now, like no?

_(nothing against comic books, but adapted they are invariably feeble)._

fizzles have you seen American Splendour?

also I assume animated adaptations are exempt from this statement

Is it just me or is the first episode of Murder at the End of the World (Disney+ in Ireland) boring as shit? The reviews all praise Emma Corrin, but I'm not sure they're doing much here beyond giving it the pixie face every now and then.

Is it the Frank Black Pixie face, because I would watch that

That face is broken iirc

American Splendor is very good.

the Harvey Pekar movie?

my foggy memory of American Splendor is Giamatti's raspy voice being quite amusing. He was complaining about stink lines emanating from him in the cartoon and was reassured they were motion lines! Might have to watch that again.

Lupin series 2 is as enjoyable as the first.

We've been saving it up for when we're all in town at the same time (not easy) but yeah super looking forward to it

is it?! i been watching series 1.5… i guess? and i enjoyed the first lot but the second lot is not so good. but still a decent and enjoyable way to pass the time obv.

i finished the luxembourg police show CAPITANI, which did indeed have a vv different second season, which was maybe better than the first. luxembourg has few homicides but all of them occurred in this show apparently! good, not great, but it passes the time well.

Yeah hoping new Lupin is more like the fun, first half of season 1

oh I don't remember a drop off in quality... the new one is high stakes and a bit dark in places, lots of flashbacks that might seem a but irrelevant till near the end, but there's also plenty of inventive trickery.

Trying Peaky Blinders, wasn't expecting it to be more poor man's Deadwood than soap opera-y.

make sure to catch up on all the masculinity memes with peaky blinders characters in them afterwards

Somehow I finished Peaky Blinders but I wouldn't even call it poor man's Deadwood. The cast and production are great, but the writing is a zzzzz. I kinda liked the first two seasons and kept hoping it would get better but it got worse imo. It does have a lot of fans though, so there's an audience for it

Probably the best thing about the show is it got me to start listening to Nick Cave

Fellow Travelers (on Showtime) may lean a little hard on boomer revisionism in general, but it's also quite filthy at times and Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey are an intensely comely pair

Tho honestly this might have it beat in both revisionism and filth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC3ZOEvNsv4

Oops, I guess last week's episode of Upload was the season finale? Thought I still had two more episodes to go.

goosebumps takes a nosedive in the last 2 episodes, like they forgot how long the season was supposed to be.

Just started Deadloch what a fun show

there's an american music club song used at the end of an episode of Fellow Travellers, or so I'm told; one of the very first placements ever if you can believe it.

We started All the Light You Cannot See on Netflix last night, I kept falling asleep but it's corny beyond belief.

A month or so ago I watched a dark, violent Korean gangster movie called Believer on Netflix, and the sequel just landed this week, so I'm in for that.

My son and I started this new show on AppleTV, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.

I had no idea there was a “Kaiju-verse” of movies—all the various King Kong and Godzilla movies that have come out in the last 10 years or so have been interrelated. My son got into them a few months back and when he heard this show was coming, he made me watch all of them too.

The movies are fine, just summer blockbuster-style entertainments. Still it helped a little to have seen them recently as the first episode of Monarch does a lot of time jumping and exists in the shadows of a few of those movies, so it helped a little to understand that.

So far so good, we’re drawn into the mystery of some of the characters and there was enough monster action and suspense to keep it from too much exposition. Will watch the second episode tonight and then it’s weekly from there.

yeah i just watch ep 1 last night! it’s fine so far … always with these modern ones its too many ppl not enough monsters for my liking

unperson, i feel like you'd like MY NAME on Netflix, but maybe you already caught it.

having never seen a single episode i just watched S2E01 and S2E02 of SCHMIGADOON! (2001-) and i fucking love it! i don’t know how it manages the precarious balance between whimsy and snark like it does but it absolutely pulls it off imo (where a show like mrs davis absolutely did not, also imo)

Have also just watched the first episode of Monarch (and also with my son).

Wondering if Kurt & Wyatt Russell will be father and son or play the same character in the different timelines, which seems more likely given Wyatt being in the 1950s one

a: the latter

I think the latter

Chimp Empire on Netflix totally sucked us in, great stuff - a nature doc with a Game Of Thrones plotline