New season of "Peaky Blinders" comes out next week. I think this may be the final season, but not sure on that. Why does everything come out at the same time and in the summer no less? We are still finishing up the most recent season of "Billions". Still have to catch up on "Ozark", "Better Call Saul" with the new seasons of "Stranger Things" and "The Boys" on the watch list as well.
Anyone bring up the Netfix show The Lincoln Lawyer? Im 5 episodes in and its pretty good. Little courtroom and lots of whodunit. Well written , enjoyable charactors. I like it.
We've just started The Staircase and after the first episode we are quite intrigued. Looks like a good one! Strange hearing Colin Firth speak in an American accent.
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I'm one of the 212.
Binged the first six episodes of Stranger Things (season 4) over the long weekend. Pretty good and the wife is even digging it this time.
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We watched episode one last night, and while I think I'm going to enjoy the story as usual, I'm having trouble believing that they couldn't cast an actor to play the Eddie character that is in the same age range as the stars. Both he and the jock/captain of the basketball team are so clearly pushing thirty that it's really distracting.
David
Happy with what I have to be happy with.
Been wondering about this one, since it's based on Michael Connelly's novels, and Connelly wrote the Bosch novels, which spawned probably my favorite current TV show.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
I didn't think that about Mason Dye, for me it's more of a problem with Joseph Quinn.
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I haven't been watching much tv lately because of the hockey playoffs, but did finally hit the first two episodes of Stranger Things final season. Lovin' it! Good edge to it like the 1st season. This Vecna is bad ass! And brutal!
"Who would have thought a whale would be so heavy?" - Moe Sizlak
I binged it. Really strong lawyer show ala LA Law (there is some shared pedigree).
Duncan's going to make a Horns Emoticon!!!
Lincoln Lawyer - 2 episodes in, so far so good for a storyline, except ... the lead actor isn't very "lead" if you know what I mean. He's also not doing a great job of faking an accent. He's a Mexican actor trying to add some weird kind of Brooklyn into his voice and he often slips back into a Hispanic pronunciation of some words. It would have been better if he just kept the Mexican accent I think and stopped trying to fake it.
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Yes!! I noticed that around Ep 3 and was a little confused. He is fairly consistent from then on so I had forgotten the conflict between the two accents. Really should have been SoCal Mexican accent, a common lilt for second generation Hispanics in the LA and San Diego areas.
Duncan's going to make a Horns Emoticon!!!
Lots of new series but I am an old school sci-fi horror TV fan:
Land of the Giants
Time Tunnel
Star Trek The Next Generation and Voyager
The Munsters
Streets of San Francisco (with Douglas before Hatch)
The Invisible man
Game of Thrones (not American but best of the Brit stuff)
Penny Dreadful (also Brit but excellent)
The Strain (superb Guillermo Del Toro horror series)
The Fugitive (not Ford but David Janssen)
Amazing Stories
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
Westworld (my only new one)
Now that was excellent TV!
Great callout to [b]Streets of San Francisco[b/]!! I am a huge Quinn Martin Productions fan, a true TV pioneer and legend. His list of hits is longer than my arm, and I got long arms!
Canon
Barnaby Jones
Dan August
The F.B.I.
The Fugitive
The Untouchables
TSOSF
Banyon
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Nobody else on this one? Episode 7 (of 8) airs tonight and we are so hooked! It's quite visceral and gripping, and with a strong cast. Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Juliette Binoche, Sophie Turner (Sansa from GOT)... they seem to get everything right: the tone, the writing, direction...
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Is this show based on the real life husband murdering wife by pushing her down the staircase?
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I saw the new trailer for Westworld - they have mangled this story so far beyond the limits of logic and reason that I can't even remember what happened in the last season. But yeah, I'll still watch it even though I suspect that they're in the same rabbit hole as X Files and Lost, just making up shit as they go along.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
This gives a bit of a description and a very vague trailer.
It does look interesting. I'll add it to the list.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Yes, although I never knew or heard of that story, so I don't even know the outcome yet, or how many liberties are taken with the story (doesn't matter much to me, the whole thing could have been fiction for all I care, it's just so well done). When it's over, I'm going to watch the documentary that was made about this case, the making of which is a central part of this series as well.
I'm always annoyed when trailers give too much away, but man, that one is the opposite!
BTW I really think Juliette Binoche is a terrific actor. She is so natural. Also impressed with Sophie Turner. I don't think Sansa Stark was a role that required a lot from her, or at least not in comparison to something a little meatier, like this. Funny to see how many Brits and Aussies are on these series these days, playing Americans. They seem to do a much better job of the accents than the other way around, for the most part anyway.
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The wife started it and I kind of got sucked into it. Then she got bored with the pace of it. I need to get back to it - I've been distracted by other series.
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Like GoT, they ran out of source material.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Sounds like my first marriage.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Sounds like my first marriage.
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We're two episodes in, I think it's going to be one of those series where I find no-one likeable at all.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I'm one of the 212.
You will not find a bigger science fiction/fantasy (SFF) fan than I, but seeing Land of the Giants at the top of your list fills me with dismay. That was the worst of the largely-incompetent Irwin Allen's sci-fi shows: and I use the word "sci-fi" advisedly. Any serious fan of SFF knows that "sci-fi" is a term created by marketing hacks in the 1950s, to describe movies about brobdignagian arthropods devouraing large swathes of major urban areas, with little or no concern for actual scientific plausibility, and none for plot logic. The Land of the Giants fits this description quite excellently. It is a morbidly bad television program. It, not to polish the turd, sucks.
The Time Tunnel, another Irwin Allen production, fares a little better in my memory, in that it at least did attempt some historical plausibility, and possibly even minimal research. The concept was done much better decades letter by Quantum Leap, but, for the 1960s, it isn't bad.
The Munsters simply rocks. I can't wait to see what Rob Zombie does with it. Did you also like The Addams Family? I think it's slightly better than The Munsters, but only slightly.
If you like The Fugitive, you really ought to see The Invaders, Qunn Martin's next show. It has a paranoia level similar to that of the roughly contemporaneous The Prisoner, with the nice flip that, instead of trying to get out, the hero is trying to get in and obain proof of what he's seen. The episodes get a little formulaic as, with each passing show, they have to come up with some reason why he doesn't get the proof he needs, but it's great fun anyway (as far as I've gotten into it).
And in all that Irwin Allen, you don't mention Lost in Space? For shame!
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