What TV Shows Are You Watching?

I'm on the final episode of The Crown.

Only one winner last night.

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Steven Yuen and Ali Wong won Golden Globes for Beef? Did anyone actually enjoy that grudge fest turned into mini series?
 
Fwiffo said:
It seems rather predictable. Outsider finds fame, fame gets to him, ditches all his friends, ... I can see the ending coming.

I didn't even know it was a real brand, but I knew Calvin Klein is (or was..I don't know how many of these 80 year olds are still doing the job).
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It wasn't meant to be a cliffhanger, just a rough biopic about an interesting moment in fashion history.
 
The Ernesto said:
Thought it was good, not great, interesting insight into an interesting time in the rag trade.
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After all the anger and debauchery disappeared the final 25 minutes was reconciliation and acceptance so it ended on a good note.
 
I finished The One. Hannah Ware is the CEO of a company that uses DNA to match you with your DNA soulmate. She and two other blokes she was in graduate school with came up with the idea. There's a falling out and a murder of one of the trio. The show starts off with a suspected jealousy/love triangle motive. It also has some sub plots of the police detective and a journalist and his wife who are also using The One to find their matches.

The show seems to be a series of Ware defusing curve balls, blackmail attempts, deleting social media references, police investigations, secrets in the past cropping up to haunt her, etc. The fact she spends 8 episodes and is victorious one after another makes it monotonous. You keep thinking she might get her comeuppance.

In the end Ware "prevails". She keeps her company. She continues her Marissa Mayer persona. She loses her DNA match (but that guy was really an experiment for her to test the company idea). The illusion DNA is the only thing needed to make chemistry between two people is maintained to the public. All the dead bodies are buried and enemies are dispatched. Total victory is kind of lonely.
 
I finally finished The Crown.

The use of 'ghost' characters to get some of the prior actresses back into the final season (Elizabeth Debicki, Olivia Colman, Claire Foy) was contrived. I think the show could have done without cameos to tell the story but I understand you want to extend the use of your better actresses.

Criticisms in the press about Imelda Staunton as the older Queen standing on the sidelines whilst the Charles/Camilla/Diana triangle resolved itself, and later an episode or two on William, is completely valid. It was nice to see the show pivot back to the Queen in the final handful of episodes starting with Margaret's health issues. I think Peter Morgan needed to figure out whether the show was about the sovereign or the royals. If it was the royals you could have made another series about it.

As for people and press criticising Morgan for the fantasy/hypothesis/fiction portions of the more recent times - it's fiction and not biopic so all he could do was take some headlines and reported stories and turn it into a television series. Charles being a petulant self involved man constantly eyeing the throne and moaning about his need for personal happiness - totally believable. William having that close one on one relationship with his grandparents after the death of Diana and the Camilla affair making his father absent in his life - believable. The Queen thinking of abdicating - preposterous retrospective fantasy.

In my opinion the best actress to play the Queen is still Claire Foy mostly because she had the most do and was often the centre of the script.

Throughout the series I have a newfound appreciation for Prince Philip with whom I previously thought was a sarcastic old man who was as prone to public gaffes as President Biden. If any of the series is true - his upbringing practically as an orphan - and his views to modernise albeit pragmatically - and taking care of the boys (especially William), it gave me newfound respect for a man who lived nearly to 100.
 
Of all the things Netflix cranked out last year - was Beef really the best thing? Scooped up a bunch of Emmys last night.

I can't even fathom re-watching any episode of that show.

Also - how is The Bear a comedy?
 
Fool Me Once is a solid Brit whodunnit with a good pace and cast 7.5/10

Boy Swallows Universe has moments of brilliance, but I’d hesitate to recommend it to a non-Australian audience. 8/10
 
Dropbear said:
Fool Me Once is a solid Brit whodunnit with a good pace and cast 7.5/10

Boy Swallows Universe has moments of brilliance, but I’d hesitate to recommend it to a non-Australian audience. 8/10
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Boy Swallows Universe was quite good
 
Is anyone watching The Brothers Sun? Is Michelle Yeoh cashing in on her Oscar because I'm not really sure why she is in this other than to attach her name to the series.
 
Fwiffo said:
Is anyone watching The Brothers Sun? Is Michelle Yeoh cashing in on her Oscar because I'm not really sure why she is in this other than to attach her name to the series.
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i binged through it and found it entertaining. you need to suspend your disbelief though. She is 61so a meaty role works for her and Netflix.
 
Thruth said:
i binged through it and found it entertaining. you need to suspend your disbelief though. She is 61so a meaty role works for her and Netflix.
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Pretty much this. It was fun enough for a watch. I think they’re supposed to be making a season 2.
 
At the same time I'm struggling to get through Fool Me Once. It's about an ex British military service woman whose husband dies but could still be alive or died under suspicious circumstances. The show's opening credits says it's from Harlan Corben - I assume he is famous? Anyway. Michelle Keegan is nice looking.

So far the plot seems to be going all over the place. Maybe the deceased had a mistress. Drug company cover up. Michelle Keegan going crazy with post military PTSD.
 
Fwiffo said:
At the same time I'm struggling to get through Fool Me Once. It's about an ex British military service woman whose husband dies but could still be alive or died under suspicious circumstances. The show's opening credits says it's from Harlan Corben - I assume he is famous? Anyway. Michelle Keegan is nice looking.

So far the plot seems to be going all over the place. Maybe the deceased had a mistress. Drug company cover up. Michelle Keegan going crazy with post military PTSD.
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I’ve recommended it several times in the past but if you like British humor you should watch Brassic. She’s one of the stars.
 
Dropbear said:
I enjoyed it, even if the ending was ridiculous. Its forgettable binge viewing popcorn at its finest
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it is something to blast through when there is nothing else. Coben has this Netflix deal that adapts 14 of his books into series set in the UK (English) and European countries (French, Spanish, Polish) instead of the US.
 
Monsieur Spade on AMC+ with Clive Owen playing Sam Spade. Have to admit I'm finding this one pretty engrossing after two episodes. Will definitely keep going with this.
 
there's a Sexy Beast tv show now. i'm not sure how I feel about this one.

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Sexy Beast (TV Series 2024– ) ⭐ 7.2 | Drama

Sexy Beast: Created by Michael Caleo. With James McArdle, Emun Elliott, Sarah Greene, Stephen Moyer. With their reputation growing across London, thieves Gal and Don are recruited by renowned criminal boss Teddy Bass for a high-stakes job. But as they continue to rise in the criminal world, they...
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The Brothers Sun is slowly making more sense to me. At least the disparate characters are being tied together. On the last episode of Fool Me Once and it's making less and less sense to me.
 
Fwiffo said:
The Brothers Sun is slowly making more sense to me. At least the disparate characters are being tied together. On the last episode of Fool Me Once and it's making less and less sense to me.
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Yeah fool me once when down hill FAST.

Starting Griselda this week.
 
I didn't know Sofia Vergara was in her late 30s when she did Desperate Housewives. I knew she was young(er) and had a fully grown son from being a teenaged bride.

I read the offspring of the drug lord want to sue her and Netflix for making him look bad. I don't believe the offspring of the dead person can sue for libel and defamation against a dead person - unless the dead person set up a trust or something.
 
Fwiffo said:
I didn't know Sofia Vergara was in her late 30s when she did Desperate Housewives. I knew she was young(er) and had a fully grown son from being a teenaged bride.

I read the offspring of the drug lord want to sue her and Netflix for making him look bad. I don't believe the offspring of the dead person can sue for libel and defamation against a dead person - unless the dead person set up a trust or something.
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Can't defame the dead.

True Detective 4 is a bit weird. Has some Twin Peaks type tropes.
 
I finally finished Fool Me Once. I actually had it on whilst cooking this past weekend and 2/3 through I had to stop it because I had no idea with all the flashbacks and flashforwards what was going on.

Last night I sat down and actually watched it from beginning to end. Who edited the final episode? Did they just randomly assemble filmed segments together? It could have been sequentially arranged to give a much more comprehensible ending.

The passing out/drug part for the DS finally made more sense too.

Anyway with so many characters dead or jailed I don't think this one is coming back for a second season.
 
tried watching Expats on amazon prime. ended up having to torrent it because amazon is doing commercials now.

its pretty awful. im starting to think nicole kidman is clinically depressed, she only does these horribly depressive shows now.
 
Grand Potentate said:
tried watching Expats on amazon prime. ended up having to torrent it because amazon is doing commercials now.

its pretty awful. im starting to think nicole kidman is clinically depressed, she only does these horribly depressive shows now.
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I am watching it only for the interesting Hong Kong backdrops.

Otherwise after two episodes it seems like your typical ex-pat insular community (their lives absolutely don't reflect the normal people there) and the perils of outsourcing your child care to someone else.
 
I watched Mr. Bates vs the Post Office only because I kept hearing about it on Sky News.

It's ridiculous how some IT system bug ruined so many people's lives and it took these people a decade to (begin to?) clear their names and get reparations. It takes an episode to get going. When it finally focuses on Toby Jones he drives the main plot. The beginning is a bit choppy because it's trying to introduce the problems faced by two other sub postmasters.
 
apparently Tokyo Vice is back on for season 2. i saw absolutely no mention of this when I opened the Max app the other day.
 
Is Michael Mann still involved? I will check it out when more episodes are out.
 
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