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  1. Deadloch. An Australian murder mystery with a largely female cast. I read about this while reading about True Detective season 4, as they both have similarities – two female lead cops with opposing personalities, a small closed off town, and missing tongues (would you believe it). It's a slog. I found almost nothing in this interesting, and had to space the episodes out to even finish it. All the characters are either a) obtuse or b) dull, with nothing in between. The main mystery doesn't pull you in. It's a wonder this got good reviews.
  2. Indeed. Issa Lopez painted herself into a corner with the grand mystery and intrigue hinted in the first couple episodes, then had no idea on how to conclude, and decided to throw in everything and the kitchen sink. Trying to do BOTH a logical and supernatural explanation, ending up with a bunch of loose threads, with (frankly boring) events that need extreme coincidences to coincide.
  3. Been watching Freaks and Geeks for the last few weeks, having never seen it before. I'm almost at the end now, and what an immaculately written show, with some genuinely sincere-feeling performances from the cast, especially the kids. The format and material may not be binge-worthy, but you really learn to know and love these characters. I don't think Apatow has ever topped this? Also starting True Detective season 4. 2 episodes in and it's clear Carpenter's The Thing played heavily in the minds of the creator here, to excellent effect I must say. The imagery at the end of ep 1...just wow. I'm loving it so far but also wary that the way this has been written so far, either the creators pull off a masterclass of execution and stick the landing, or they have painted themselves into a corner.
  4. First there was jumping the shark. Then came nuking the fridge. We now have fissuring the time.
  5. The opening 40 minutes of action were pretty damn good, save for it being a little dark visually and Ford's de-aging still firmly in uncanny valley. The tuk-tuk chase was really fun, and reminded me of the falcon chase in the Adventures or Tintin. Those are some of the speediest and most manoeuvrable tuk-tuks ever. I liked the music. The rest was very meh. As someone pointed out above, Indy is sad throughout the whole movie and Helena being so chirpy and perky the entire time became irksome. When the twist in the finale happened what came to mind was the end of Evil Dead II...and that crossed over the overtly campy Army of Darkness but I don't think it works here.
  6. Succession S4 EP5 – the first good episode of the season. At long last things of consequence actually happen rather than all the fucking about with much of nothingness in the first four episodes.
  7. Has anyone seen Beef, on Netflix? It's released last week. I saw that Steve Yuen (one of the best actors around currently) is in it and decided to check it out. It's very, very good. The down-trodden vs the one-percenters. It starts off jovial in tone but gets progressively more serious with heightened stakes. Some whiff of Parasite but spread across 10 eps. I'm still unsure about the last episode, but overall I wholeheartedly recommend this. It's not often that gets said about a new Netflix series.
  8. Yes that's probably the best of the series. I also get that the episodes with the travelling troupe may seem to be the weakest, but I think it ties it up quite nicely, particularly with Kirsten in the mix. Without her, yes the troupe would be much more of a slog. Also, David Cross appears in one or two of the eps and he's always just so watchable. Many of the episodes have a standalone-ish quality to it while also tying into the overarching story, and it's done in a very subtle and classy manner. It's a series that deserves to be seen by many more.
  9. Station Eleven. Monumental storytelling and surely one of the best television of all time.
  10. You watch loads of rubbish films just so you can rate them 2/10 on an internet forum so take a stab at a few episodes of this. Ep5 was amazing. I've just googled this show and not very surprisingly the creator (Patrick Somerville) was a writer on The Leftovers.
  11. Has anyone seen Station Eleven? It's a miniseries on HBO, released in 2021 I believe. It was on my list to watch but I've only just gotten around to watching the first 4 eps. The premise is a flu that wipes out most of the world's population and how a bunch of characters are living through it, before and after. Naturally, with the last show I watched being The Last of Us, I couldn't help but compare the two. There's quite a fair of bit thematic overlap with The Last of Us and usage of flashbacks, but in terms of tone it's more The Leftovers meets Villeneuve's Arrival.
  12. If you have really truly, deeply loved a person, you'd come to understand what Joel did.
  13. As someone who's never played the game, the series comes across as extremely episodic, with many episodes having settings and characters that never appear again beyond that episode. There is character development and progression, to be sure. Joel and Ellie's bonding does feel earned and real, so props to that. But narratively speaking this hasn't been going anywhere for ages. It takes a certain dare and panache to even consider having this many episodes of a zombie series with nary a zombie in sight, but after awhile it does get to a point where I begin to wonder "where is all this going?". Ep 3 is the best episode by far, so far.
  14. It wasn't kinda distracting. It was extremely distracting. And I'm very surprised James Cameron was ok with this. It should have all been in either 24 or 48fps. None of this alternating stuff.
  15. Yeah all three of the original POTC movies are fantastic in their own rights. I thought so when I first watched it and was perplexed as to how bad the reception was to the sequels. Fantastic special effects to this day, great performances, tonally fun and irreverent, and with some of the best action staging in recent memory (Verbinski is excellent in this – even the Lone Ranger has terrific action). Anything after At World's End is forgettable.
  16. I watched this today. It's more or less the same as the first Avatar, which is to say it's not as fresh and does not come across as good. For one thing, I was underwhelmed by the action in the last act. That was one thing that the first movie was bang on. Cameron is usually so good with action. And yet again, 3D is cool for 5 minutes and then becomes a distraction. I'm convinced the best way to see this is in 2D in the largest screen possible. The transition from 48fps to 24fps is extremely jarring, particularly in the last act when the action and editing is rapid. It is so bad that your eyes are clearly seeing the juddering vividly whenever there is a transition.
  17. Yeah, I very much enjoyed season 1 and 2, and also to an extent season 3 but at the end it's exactly as you've said – it's the same plot repeating itself again and again.
  18. I don't think season 2 is necessarily less funny, but perhaps it's less fresh given the template established in season 1. Perhaps it's also missing characters like the hotel manager and Steve Zahn's character who were generally likeable. I noticed that all episodes this season end with Lucia having sex with someone. Has to be a running theme...I wonder whether something similar was present in season 1.
  19. Yes! I watched this a few years back and I was just thinking the other day about this movie but I couldn't for the life of me figure out what it's called. I've never seen anything like it and it's not just clever, but also utterly hilarious.
  20. I don't think the battle with the crabfeeder was meant as anymore than a footnote, at least visually. Anyway the finale was great and this entire season has been, despite not having quite the shock and awe as GoT, a truly polished prologue to what I expect to the real war in subsequent seasons. But there is one monumentally stupid moment in this episode that I find incredulous – why in any hell would Rhaneyra allow her sons to go, individually and alone, to other houses of which she's unsure of their fealty? How stupid is that...? The moment that was decided I knew something bad was going to happen to one of the boys. And that incident was a sight to behold, but I just can't feel it's a consequence of something so utterly naive.
  21. Damn Targaryens and their very limited pool of names to choose from! Fantastic episode. It is a testament to the writing that even though the series has not settled down on the timeline with the time jumps, the pacing and storytelling are still extremely measured and precise. It's not as flashy as GoT, but it's decidedly more mature and refined.
  22. I'm up to ep 6 of season 3 of Barry, and this is quite the gem. It's surreal in parts, which fits in with the satirical aspects of the show, but the writing in general is extremely good. Like this very episode, . And the action sequences in this series are glorious. The whole Ronny/lily ep and the dirt bike chase are brilliantly staged.
  23. How long is the book? I read a comment somewhere that whatever that's transpired so far in the series is barely a couple of pages from the book...
  24. It's really good so far without having to lean too much into GoT lore, in the sense that I think anyone can enjoy this without having seen GoT. The wedding scene was great, and it was obviously hinting at something explosively sinister happening, but the eventual bloodshed felt a little anti-climatic to me – it was between two bit characters that personally did not evoke from care from me at this point (one was a boring Jon Snow-ish character, the other just a new character that wasn't developed yet). And with the next episode probably taking from years from now it will be jarring. I wanted to see more of the current bunch of actors.
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