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Clarke has the Flame!

that last season was soooo friggin' bonkers. even for that show! but it WAS an actual ending. which i appreciated.

We just started watching the 100 as well - weird, hasnt it been around for years? Maybe its new to netfux I dunno. Anyway, I feel like I could enjoy it in the same hammy scifi way I'd enjoyed stuff like Silo, but for the fact all the teenagers are annoying as piss and make me want to slap them. Maybe that gets better?

it totally gets better and more fucked up if you hang in there. its been on netflix forever.

part of the fun for me watching it again was seeing those sad babies at the beginning turn into what they turn into later on.

Nice, I shall press on then! My partner is relentless with TV and keeps pushing new shows on me. He just binge watched all howevermany seasons of a Touch of Frost, ffs. I never want to hear a saxaphone solo again.

oh i had my dalliance with a touch of frost during the pandemic. i can relate.

Speaking of sci fi shows have we talked about Constellation yet?

It’s about halfway through the season now. Latest episode moves the story forward a bit but overall it’s a little tedious. There’s not a whole lot to it beyond solving the mystery of it all. I’m also trying hard not to think too deeply about the parallel continuities because I think my head would fall off.

Small thing but the Expanse makes space combat more exciting than any other show - any projectile is going to punch right through these tin cans and fuck everybody’s day up.

― papal hotwife (milo z)

i think the first use of a rail gun and its "effect" was a good sign that the show was going in some unexpected directions.

i think the casting can't be underrated either, there are a lot of familiar faces put to extraordinarily good use, and the slow development of a minor walk-on character in season 2 into one of the most badass protagonists in tv history is a joy to watch.

despite a lot of really out there sci-fi stuff, there was a lot of really hard sci-fi things going on as well.

Both Drummer and Draper were introduced in S2 of the Expanse and both were awesome characters

Trayce have you seen “Touch Of Cloth”

(What I was about to ask - Police Squad for angry UK polis)

watching the last episode of Tulsa King. i can't believe i'm saying this but i wish there were more than 9 episodes. i'm a simpleton at heart. Lodge Kerrigan directed the last episode. Take that Sundance! my brother-in-law edited his movie Keane. i should get the blu-ray of that one.

Maria and I watched the first two episodes of The Expanse last night. They were better the third time around. I think we are both up to the task. Maria is reading the Noumenon books right now so she's in a deep space frame of mind.

Touch of cloth is the only good Charlton brooker programme

watch the next two and let us know what you think

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i'm into it.

Criminal Record doesn't really maintain the level that the first episode sets, which was really solid police procedural. However, it does have Peter Capaldi fully in his silver fox era.

Re Constellation: it's not a good show but it's well made. At this point its options seem to be (a) gimmick huge twist asking for a Season 2 or (b) coast to a slow stop.

i gotta say, as far as game shows go, i am enjoying Halo way more than I enjoyed The Last of Us. maybe because The Last of Us just made me want to watch the good seasons of The Walking Dead again.

also, Kwan is way cooler than that baby-headed girl on The Last of Us. she was okay though. just kinda generic. that whole show was kinda generic. which seems different than the game cuz i have a friend who said that he cried at the end of the game.

Trayce have you seen “Touch Of Cloth”

Certainly know of it ,but no I dont think I have? Or if I have, maybe like a tiny bit on YT or something.

https://www.polygon.com/entertainment/24102239/max-streaming-annual-subscription-deal-sale

Might be the first time I spring for an HBO subscription! Mainly interested in the Ghibli stuff I haven't seen yet.

Pleasantly surprised by Monsieur Spade. It really really really doesn’t need to be Hammett fanfic but Clive Owen does a good hardboiled dick schtick and it’s in the Talented Mr. Ripley realm of ‘not great art but postwar Europe sure is vibey.’

watched You Hurt My Feelings on Hulu and it was mildly entertaining to watch while i cleaned and priced Walker Brother 45s. i know you guys are all homo erectus for that director but i haven't seen the movie that makes me gaga for her yet. if julia-louis hadn't been in it i think i would have changed the channel. i will try that one with her and tony soprano. i haven't seen that one. i feel the same way about noah baumbach too. that marriage one was such a yawn and greenberg was one of the worst movies ever. fun to watch in a bad movie way though. like if you have bad movie night with plan 9 from outer space. kicking and screaming felt the most real in that first novel kinda way. and the rest he kinda bluffed. jeff daniels made squid & whale worth watching. i didn't hate frances ha because the script was good! refreshing. the meyerowitz stories was fun. i do love walking and talking...wait, maybe i like these people. walking and talking feels like a million years ago. all these movies make me want to watch The Daytrippers. why isn't that director famous? wait, i just looked it up the director of Daytrippers directed Superbad???!!!! i had no idea.

walking and talking feels like a million years ago.

Almost 30 years ago!

why doesn't this country have a joanna hogg? maybe we are too young and stupid. in a thousand years there will totally be serious movies here again. that movie Afire i watched on Criterion channel. i don't even know who directed it but nobody could make that here. it would just be something...not as good. i dunno. i think i need to move to spain.

if they would have me...

i just repaid for yearly MHz Choice channel and they are merging with Topic channel so that I get twice as much snowy murder now! or almost now. in a week or so.

i feel guilty that i haven't watched anything on MHz in a while. but i've been busy with other channels. they do have tons of great stuff though. i like knowing i have the option. there is a new Finnish crime show that looks cool. A Good Family.

I like Homicide Hills. gonna watch more of those.

i am watching The Devil’s Hour on Prime w Peter Capaldi. It’s kind of daft but creepy, I like it so far i think

lot of table-setting tho

Will Trent is the best network cop procedural in a while, love the characters

i like it too but almost feel like a trauma warning should start that show. its intense. at least the first season. haven't watched the latest episodes.

please explain that show to me
it has good ppl in it but imo the will trent guy in the trailer seems like the least interesting thing about it!

I kinda hate-watched the first season but no longer have Hulu so can't see the new one, even though I totally would because an actress I really like has been added to the show.

My wife and I watched the first two episodes of the seven-episode Netflix show about the life of Rocco Siffredi. It's pretty bad, but the main actor gets one very important thing right: the look of violent rage in Rocco's eyes while he's fucking.

ahh! i don't want to watch a rage porn netflix show! that sounds scary.

"please explain that show to me"

its trauma ocd columbo only with more action. its entertaining. the main people all grew up together in abusive group homes and trent is a weird cop. he's good on the show. his accent is cool. but if you don't like him you won't like the show.

my money is on Elsbeth though. i wish they would put out another Elsbeth though. i don't think that pilot was the best.

oh and what's her name from the wire is the chief on will trent! she's funny on it. she's almost a parody of the gruff police chief.

and erica swimfan is good on it. i always kinda had a crush on her. i guess she was last on Parenthood? which i watched even though it wasn't great. it had a good cast. can't not watch lauren graham in something. its the law.

ok i’ll give it a go, i need a good cop show

Maria and I just finished episode 5 of The Expanse.

aw yeah, that's the stuff

I believe the guy who plays Will Trent was also on the Wire, one of Omar's lovers

it's kind of like a less broad/schticky Monk basically

yeah i’m enjoying the first ep thank you guys!

why doesn't this country have a joanna hogg?

You don't have as much public arts funding would be my guess?

you could be the next joanna hogg and just make movies on your phone. if you wanted to. not saying that money doesn't make things easier/bigger/better but i don't understand why more people don't take advantage of this amazing tech in their pocket.

new (2023) frederick wiseman doc will be on pbs in a couple of days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heZOZ7CzuRw

The camera's far from being the biggest expense in Joana Hogg's films!

tbc I think America has plenty of great directors, and some use phones. But Hogg strikes me as the kind of artist that only really springs up in a context where there's a certain amount of state funding, I don't think she'd be out there if the BFI wasn't.