The TV you like thread - The Bear and Badger

Gremill

Watched the first ep of Taboo - cracking stuff.

[Deleted User]

Hardy is so good in it. Both his character and his acting make it feel like he could smash through the entire town like a wrecking ball.

Gremill

He's so fucking watchable - but the whole cast make it a compulsive watch.

g.man

Liveinadive wrote:

Did everyone else notice...

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The ghostly face in the background just after he pulled up all the shackles in the boat?

Ooooh, well noticed. It's about a minute after, but no, I missed it first time round.

Paul the sparky

Liveinadive wrote:

Yes, Stephen Graham appearing was a nice surprise.

Well, it would have been.

[Deleted User]

Don't worry it's not a Flashheart type surprise.

Yossarian

Liveinadive wrote:

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were you to busy checking out naked Hardy?

Of course.

g.man

It really is cracking stuff tho. Love it.

Blocks100

Oona Chaplin is pretty beguiling in it too. Mind you, she's pretty amazin in anything.

[Deleted User]

g.man wrote:

Liveinadive wrote:

Did everyone else notice...

Spoiler:

The ghostly face in the background just after he pulled up all the shackles in the boat?

Ooooh, well noticed. It's about a minute after, but no, I missed it first time round.

Spoiler:

g.man

That was my assumption.

[Deleted User]

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Blocks100

I suppose it's nice they throw those sort of hidden baubles into the mix; Westworld liked to do it too. But I'm never paying that much attention, so its wasted on me really.

[Deleted User]

Comes from my job I think. My eyes are always darting around the screen, analysing everything. It is my biggest problem with 3D films, I'm not always looking at what the director wants me to look at.

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Brooks

Taboo is adequately scratching the Sharpe itch of yore.

It's proper silly.

Matt_82

A screen shot from Ep 2 of Taboo in case anyone missed what's being discussed.

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Dark Soldier

I'll be binge watching it when done.

Brooks

Shot reminds me that whole show is the most egregiously colourgraded thing I've seen in a bit.

Blocks100

Ha!, still took me a while to spot it!

Yossarian

Brooks wrote:

Shot reminds me that whole show is the most egregiously colourgraded thing I've seen in a bit.

I recently watched the Crouching Tiger sequel on Netflix, that's on another level.

Dan

Escape wrote:

I've been watching Vikings. No-one else does, but I do. Vikings.

I do. Great show. Liking the second half the season 4 much more than the first for some reason.

It really benefits from a lower budget than game of thrones etc I think. Mostly shot outdoors, in real locations, has a gritty feel.

Fantastic score by Trevor Morris too.

Love the sequences with neo pagan music and natural imagery. Visual poetry.

tin_robot

I've been watching A Series of Unfortunate Events with the kids. (We've watched 3 episodes so far.) As I said before, I had some slight reservations going in - I wasn't a massive fan of the film and thought from the trailers that Neil Patrick Harris's rendition of Olaf was, well, looking a bit Jim Carrey.

In short, it's a lot better than the film. For better or worse it's much closer in style to the books themselves - both in its willingness to get dark, and for the ridiculous running jokes. (Just like the novels, the phrase "a word that here means..." is used a lot.)

NPH is also better than Carrey was, though he still fails to make Olaf seem terribly menacing, with more than a hint of Dr Horrible in there.

Patrick Warburton however is pretty much note perfect as Snicket, and even the baby's pretty good. (The child leads are OK if not spectacular, although how the Hell they found another actress who looks just like Emily Browning I don't know.)

They've also made some really interesting decisions with respect to adapting it, specifically...

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We'll certainly be watching the rest - the kids love it - though part of me doubts whether it will have the wider appeal needed to justify filming the remaining 9 books...

Paul the sparky

Another two episodes of Quarry down, great stuff.

g.man

Sherlock. Absolute bollocks.

poprock

g.man wrote:

Sherlock. Absolute bollocks.

Utter shit. Such a letdown after the excellent episode two.

poprock

Let’s hope they stop there, eh? Too embarrassing to continue, for all involved.

Yossarian

I enjoyed Sherlock overall. The ending could have been stronger, but aside from that, it was all good.

ShabbyMcCrabby

tin_robot wrote:

I've been watching A Series of Unfortunate Events with the kids. (We've watched 3 episodes so far.) As I said before, I had some slight reservations going in - I wasn't a massive fan of the film and thought from the trailers that Neil Patrick Harris's rendition of Olaf was, well, looking a bit Jim Carrey. In short, it's a lot better than the film. For better or worse it's much closer in style to the books themselves - both in its willingness to get dark, and for the ridiculous running jokes. (Just like the novels, the phrase "a word that here means..." is used a lot.) NPH is also better than Carrey was, though he still fails to make Olaf seem terribly menacing, with more than a hint of Dr Horrible in there. Patrick Warburton however is pretty much note perfect as Snicket, and even the baby's pretty good. (The child leads are OK if not spectacular, although how the Hell they found another actress who looks just like Emily Browning I don't know.) They've also made some really interesting decisions with respect to adapting it, specifically...

Spoiler:

Filling in a lot of the back story from the outset. The TV show lets you in on a lot of stuff that wasn't made clear until much later in the books - which from a narrative perspective makes a lot of sense. The early books are ridiculously repetitive, whereas this concept allows a little bit more of an apparent through narrative. On the other hand it makes the orphans seem considerably less isolated (and indeed possibly not even orphans). Part of the narrative in the book is essentially that Olaf keeps almost succeeding not because he's a genius, but because practically every other adult in the world lets him win because of their own stupidity or personal hang-ups. By showing the wider conspiracy the show permits a world in which there are other, equally competent people battling against him, behind the scenes. Which probably makes for better telly (and certainly makes a lot of motivations more intelligible), but robs it a little of the Kids Vs Adults theme that works so well in a lot of children's fiction. It'll be interesting to see what they do with this approach, particular as things start to really spiral out of control later on - assuming the ratings allow for further episodes.
We'll certainly be watching the rest - the kids love it - though part of me doubts whether it will have the wider appeal needed to justify filming the remaining 9 books...

Oh, didn't realise it was NPH. I'll check it out.

poprock

This morning I’m still annoyed by how shit Sherlock was.

It’s fallen into the same trap as Doctor Who and the Avengers movies. Every time it comes around, it needs to be such a big event that solving a crime isn’t enough. Saving a life isn’t enough. It has to be THE END OF DAYS or REVELATIONS ABOUT SHERLOCK’S PAST or fucking pulling the rug out from under previous parts of the story. Sherlock has been crushed by the weight of its own self importance.

I blame Moffat, the egomaniac.

On top of all that, though, last night’s was just bloody awful storytelling. Tripe.

Gremill

Forgot Shitlock was on.

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