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Treadstone
Had it on the list for a while, but after binging some other series and smashing Civ 6 until I won, I never got around to it.
Fairly solid. Some decent fight scenes though I could do without some of the backstory rubbish about the journalist's childhood car accident. The CIA people are acting waaaaaaay over the top for people who are supposed to be psychologically tough.
War Of The Worlds
This has just started showing on SBS here - the series based (I guess) on the classic HG Wells novel. 2 eps in so far and pretty good - Gabriel Byrne and American Duchess from Downton are good and the French stuff is pretty good as well. Some interesting dynamics which I'll be watching from here on in on a Thursday night - old school!
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@NTA said in TV Serieseseses:
Treadstone
Had it on the list for a while, but after binging some other series and smashing Civ 6 until I won, I never got around to it.
Fairly solid. Some decent fight scenes though I could do without some of the backstory rubbish about the journalist's childhood car accident. The CIA people are acting waaaaaaay over the top for people who are supposed to be psychologically tough.
War Of The Worlds
This has just started showing on SBS here - the series based (I guess) on the classic HG Wells novel. 2 eps in so far and pretty good - Gabriel Byrne and American Duchess from Downton are good and the French stuff is pretty good as well. Some interesting dynamics which I'll be watching from here on in on a Thursday night - old school!
Better than the Tom Cruise version I hope ?
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@NTA said in TV Serieseseses:
War Of The Worlds
I might need to give that one a look, I watched the 2019 BBC one last year which was a bit average
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@taniwharugby snap
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@Bovidae I couldnt get into See.
Finally got around to watching The Last Dance.
I am not a BB fan, never been, barely watched any of it, yet, the number of players, names (inc coaches) events (Rodman going AWOL) and even many of the actual games I remembered, showed what MJ did to the sport, all time sporting great.
Top notch doco, just goes to show what that extra bit of desire can do to some people, and what they can then bring out of others around them.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
I might need to give that one a look, I watched the 2019 BBC one last year which was a bit average.
Me too.
Last year's BBC version was worse than average - trendy, right-on rubbish with crap CGI. Ruined what has always been my favourite book.
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@Bovidae said in TV Serieseseses:
Finished See on Apple TV+.
I enjoy these types of TV shows/movies and I thought I'd continue on with the freebies.
Is For All Mankind worth watching? Anything else?
I thought For All Mankind was great.
The news show with Steve Carell, Jennifer Aniston and Reece Witherspoon was Decent too, also had the lovely Gugu Mbatha-Raw as well.
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@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
I thought For All Mankind was great.
Two episodes in - really enjoying it.
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about halfway through latest season of The Last Kingdom.
Not enough T & A, could almost be a stand alone story now, enough action going on to keep me interested, but certainly drop in quality since S1.
I know it has probably happened through history, but annoying how the king (in this and other series/movies) almost always has a 'poisonous' wormtongue type person advising them.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
about halfway through latest season of The Last Kingdom.
Not enough T & A, could almost be a stand alone story now, enough action going on to keep me interested**, but certainly drop in quality since S1.
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I know it has probably happened through history, but annoying how the king (in this and other series/movies) almost always has a 'poisonous' wormtongue type person advising them.I think the show went the other way and improved in quality after S1. I did a lot of complaining about it (found it Vikings light) and now I quite like it.
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Practising my high school German. Now onto season three and the first two have been very good:
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@Bovidae I stuck with the subtitles, first few eps was hard going, but after that was good, I have only wacthed S1 so far.
Finished The Last Kingdom, series got better as it went on, as I mentioned earlier, could almost be a separate series from previous ones.
They have continued with the theme of English rulers being emotional twats able to be swayed by poisonous aides.
The War of the Worlds (TV Mini Series 2019) ⭐ 5.2 | Drama, History, Sci-Fi
