Episode of what Griff???


Ha, you will never know!

Should put that in spoilers.

I've started watching Succession. It's decent, eh?

I should watch season two before the third one starts really. First season was great.

I'm also interested in Scenes From a Marriage but the concept stresses me

Foundation Episode 4. I'm enjoying this more, with the story of Empire being the best bits.

GooberTheHat wrote:

Ted Lasso season 2 seems a bit... off the pace? Not sure what it is but it's lost something.

For me it's that feeling of artificially generating drama but not doing it particularly well, like plot points drift in and out of relevance.

I don't usually watch series stuff but having heard of Squid Game mentioned enough times I  decided to give it a watch. 2 episodes in and, while I enjoy the premise enough to keep on watching, I can't help but feel it isn't particularly well made. The characters are kind of crap, and their interactions are crammed with cliche. Parts of the screenplay have all the rigidity and stunted flow of a video game cutscene, with extras in the background making the sort of theatrically orchestrated gestures that wouldn't look out of place for a background sprite in SF2. But yea, it's watchable.

Yeah, drags a bit and isn't very scary.

Blocks100 wrote:

b0r1s wrote:

Foundation Episode 4. I'm enjoying this more, with the story of Empire being the best bits.

It's so slow though...

Loving Foundation. I've no issue with the pacing. The show is so detailed there's tonnes of stuff to notice and observe. This is one of those shows that can be rewatched and you'd keep on noticing things.

Thank god we soon have the return of The Expanse to deliver some proper space opera:



Although I would be perfectly content to watch a spin off series where Shohreh Aghdashloo plays a constantly stressed out space hotel manager in the farthest reaches of the galaxy where she constantly berates her weird alien staff for messing things up:

What do you mean you've booked the fucking Thargoids in suite 22?! That was reserved for the Andorian ambassadors you useless sack of shit! How can you possibly make a booking error of that magnitude?! - you've got seven sets of compound eyes protruding from your forehead, but they may as well have put them on your goddamn ass for all the good they do you!

equinox_code wrote:

I don't usually watch series stuff but having heard of Squid Game mentioned enough times I  decided to give it a watch. 2 episodes in and, while I enjoy the premise enough to keep on watching, I can't help but feel it isn't particularly well made. The characters are kind of crap, and their interactions are crammed with cliche. Parts of the screenplay have all the rigidity and stunted flow of a video game cutscene, with extras in the background making the sort of theatrically orchestrated gestures that wouldn't look out of place for a background sprite in SF2. But yea, it's watchable.

Yeah it's shite

Blocks100 wrote:

I think the main issue I have with it was the way in which Jared Harris

Spoiler:

was billed as the main character in all the trailers but then they killed him off in the second bloody episode!  I really hate series that do that - bringing in a big name for marketing purposes and then bumping them off as soon as.  Plus he was murdered  after, what, a heated exchange with one of his underlings during dinner?! -  made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

My take was that...

Blocks100 wrote:

I think the main issue I have with it was the way in which Jared Harris

Spoiler:

was billed as the main character in all the trailers but then they killed him off in the second bloody episode!  I really hate series that do that - bringing in a big name for marketing purposes and then bumping them off as soon as.  Plus he was murdered  after, what, a heated exchange with one of his underlings during dinner?! -  made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

I am liking the whole cloned tribunal thing, but rather disliked the way they set that young girl up to be other main character, and then

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  suddenly jettisoned her off into space!  The narrative structure is all over the shop!

Re spoiler two. See the end of the latest episode….

Also, the Max Richter soundtrack is superb.