Series and Shows

[MagsJ]

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Agatha Christie’s Poirot..

[WendyDarling]

Cobra Kai (available on Netflix and the illegal dark web freebie sites) Seasons 1-3
Great show. The fight choreography at the end of season 2 was epic.

[Jakob]

Nothing really beats the Sopranos, and I think well over 50 percent of that is casting. James Gandolfini has surpassed Brando, de Niro, Pacino and all of them by several laps and acted circles around them, going places no stage or movie actor has ever imagined. And he's not the only one in that show giving unprecedented performances.

It's one of those things where humans get to act out what they really are, beyond the humanity - what they are in terms of the Ancient Game (Life),
What theyve truly inherited from those millions of ancestral beings.

Here's David Chase explaining how he wrote the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtW0e-JW8Cc

Have you seen it? How many times? Whats your favorite scenes and performances? Best lines?

[Jakob]

On a more mundane level of quality, Pablo Escobars portrayal in Narcos is very convincing.

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I honestly had little to no idea about the character of Escobar until I saw this show. Most I knew really, was that in the 90s, when I was fan of the Colombian football team (with players such as Valderama, Rincon, Asprilla and Higuita), a player called Escobar made an own goal and was subsequently shot dead.
It seems however that Escobar was one of these peole who starts out with genuinely good intentions and, having these spat upon, turns to a completely remorseless avenging machine.

[Jakob]

Another very interesting video. Vince Gilligan is much more of a cowboy than I had realized. It makes sense.

I like Better Call Saul as well, I was disappointed however by El Camino, the feature they made as a sequel to BB. It was sad, they even had Walter White come in for a flashback, and apparently the actor had refused to shave his head for such a small part, so they pasted a prosthetic skin on top of his hair as a result of which he looked like an extraterrestrial - worse, half of the screentime went to the least appealing character in the show, Todd.

[Jakob]

The first season of The Crown is not bad.
The second season starts off so pompously predictable and postmodernly "boldly self-depreciating" that I had to turn it off after the third or fourth line.

This is how I judge books, as well - if the writer doesn't clarify to me in a few sentences that s/he is exceedingly intelligent (I dont mean the academic intelligence, rather the dirty psychological, "real life" kind) and willing to put it all out there, I wont bother. Usually.



Shows I didnt like:
Prisonbreak couldnt draw me in.
Sons of Anarchy is too nerdy to really be a biker thing
Fargo is good, but, season 3 gets very difficult to get through with the increasingly fetishistic irony about shitty humans
Peaky Blinders bores my socks off
Lucifer, Suits - interchangeable shows about metrosexuals



Back to whats good

[Jakob]

[perpetualburn]

"Your Honor"... Almost like "Breaking Bad" set in New Orleans to the extent that Bryan Cranston is the same adrenaline-fueled engine holding our attention as the drama around him unfolds. It's like the perfect follow up role everyone has been waiting for from Cranston after "Breaking Bad." Cranston also fulfills a similar father-saving role to his son.

[MagsJ]

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The Da Vinci Code - The Greatest Story Ever Sold:
How the Da Vinci Code forced a counter-attack from the church and the art world.

After Dan Brown's publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code was cleared of plagiarism charges, this documentary explores the climate which has permitted a fictional story to make such an effective challenge to conventional history that it has forced a counter-attack from the Church, the art world and academics. Has Brown cracked the most difficult code of all our 21st-century cultural DNA?

Contributors include Richard Leigh, author of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, art critic Brian Sewell, novelist Sarah Dunant, columnist David Aaronovitch and Opus Dei director Jack Valero.

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Dan Brown asserted much as fact.. says one documentary commentator.

[WendyDarling]

The Rain (2018) In Danish, subtitles available.

[Fixed Cross]

"Your Honor"... Almost like "Breaking Bad" set in New Orleans to the extent that Bryan Cranston is the same adrenaline-fueled engine holding our attention as the drama around him unfolds. It's like the perfect follow up role everyone has been waiting for from Cranston after "Breaking Bad." Cranston also fulfills a similar father-saving role to his son.

Oh that actually looks very good. As in entertaining.

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Im watching the Sopranos, once over, this stuff is like Caravaggio.

[MagsJ]

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Foyles War:

Has been airing since 2002, but this is the first time I’ve watched it.

10 out of 10, for the acting and storyline, and excellent cast.

[MagsJ]

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Agatha Christie’s Poirot.. the David Suchet editions.

Mr Poirot: “Look after the liver, and life will take care of it self”.

Mr Poirot: Do you know the most-taxed thing in Belgium? rice! Belgium is trying to stamp it out!

[Gloominary]

Yea, Rome was a great series, too bad it didn't get more seasons.

One of, if not the most interesting times and places in all of history, the fall of the Roman Republic.

[Meno_]

And don't forget eve garden


https://youtu.be/PLnkL_nqgLU

[Peter Kropotkin]

I admit it was only one episode, but the new show called "Resident Alien" on
sci-fi was truly funny... even my wife who hates sci-fi laughed....

I hope they keep up the good work on this one....

Kropotkin

[perpetualburn]

So I'm on the 8th episode of "Your Honor," continuing to enjoy what has been a pretty damn good show....and then it appears, in all its morbid glory... the ominous, blue face-diaper of death!... up until this episode you just assumed the show was taking place in a universe free of covid-1984... But for whatever reason, they decided to diaper up one of the cast... just the sight of that thing completely killed the feelings of immersion I had going, thrusting me back into the very lame drama of covid-1984, and ruining what was a very enjoyable show... Apparently, there's no low to which they won't stoop...

[perpetualburn]

"Goliath" (2016)... First season is good so far.

[Meno_]

https://youtu.be/ITUazUt8wE4

[Jakob]

The original Twin Peaks.
For its numerous moments of genuine soap, it has as many moments of the gravest, most profound art.
And then those moments where the two combine, which are truly transcendental.
Also, the concept of honor. By the 2000's, it had become possible to convey the idea of honor only in reference to crime. Our culture had fallen by then.
Twin Peaks was made at the peak of the Empire.