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The_Real_Chris wrote:

https://www.duffelblog.com/p/captain-america-moved-to-staff-position

I know for a fact that Private Steven Rogers never went to OTS.

#stolenvalor

I have found myself reading this...
https://screenrant.com/captain-america-steve-rogers-rank-real/

Masters of Horror: S2

So, remember when I said they turned down the sex and nudity. Well, S2 just made a liar out of me. The episode titled Pelts.... well.... they cranked it up to 11. Actually, a pretty effective little episode and one of my favorites so far BUT it still suffers from the predictability of the previous episodes.

The Screwfly Experiment is also a decent episode as well. Much better than Dante's original entry in S1 which was basically hitting me over the head with a political hammer. This one still has plenty of sub-text about polotical (This time about Sexism) but is just a tad less hammer-y. However, it is hovering right there above me, just beyond my reach.

I am about half-way through S2 now.

Inside No.9

A show I inexplicably always manage to forget is a thing. I put it down to me not having terrestrial TV, so I often miss out on BBC stuff being released.

I really enjoy this show. Every series you get a mix of outright macabre, black comedy and even fairly experimental fare. Absolutely cracking stuff.

The Cleaner

British remake of a German comedy. Greg Davies (one of my favourite comedians) stars as a crime scene cleaner. The comedy arises from his interactions with friends and neighbours of the deceased.

Dialogue heavy with the odd pratfall. Very human overall.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The Cleaner

British remake of a German comedy. Greg Davies (one of my favourite comedians) stars as a crime scene cleaner. The comedy arises from his interactions with friends and neighbours of the deceased.

Dialogue heavy with the odd pratfall. Very human overall.

I watched the german original, imaginatively named 'Der Tatortreiniger', i.e. 'The crime scene cleaner' - much like other german fan-favourites like Stromberg etc., it works mostly by cringe humour and situational awkwardness instead of flat-out jokes. Does the remake keep that up, or is a bit more mainstreamed?

I think that’s a fair description. Not forced cringe, just social awkwardness cringe.

The Cleaner is kind of the straight man. I think.

I dunno, this is really hard to describe. But it is enjoyable.

Black list season three.
Thoughts shortly. Roller coaster so far. Not sure how killing off a main character before the end of a season works as previews are a thing. So well see how it goes.

Just finished the season yesterday evening. A predictable twist I suppose. Enjoyable over all and another fun twist for Tom Keen's character which will be fun to see followed up on.

OK, got more of a feel for this.]

On first impression, The Cleaner really just wants to be left alone to get on with his job. But, as (somewhat inexplicably) the home owner is present, he can’t help but get caught up in their life.

In a sense, he’s helping them clean themselves by being a sounding board. And in the mix he learns a little about himself. Despite being quite antagonistic at first, it’s revealed he at least tried to to be a Good Man.

It’s a pretty gentle comedy, and I’m really enjoying it.

This weekend, TV broadcast the latest in the handing over of power of a dysfunctional dynasty of undeservedly over-privileged, rich, obnoxious people.

But I chose to watch Succession instead.

 Henry wrote:
But I chose to watch Succession instead.

Might’ve been a top 3 episode, for me!

Tom and Shiv finally battling it out was great. As was the usual scheming, mockery and corporate lingo.

Jonthan Creek

For me, the televisual equivalent of a bowl of homemade soup on a chill autumn’s afternoon, a Labrador snoozing in the corner.

It’s just…satisfying.

Lovecraft County

I finished the 10 episode series, and it ends. The ending is fine and works, but I am sure many people will have wanted a whole lot more from it.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The Cleaner

British remake of a German comedy. Greg Davies (one of my favourite comedians) stars as a crime scene cleaner. The comedy arises from his interactions with friends and neighbours of the deceased.

Dialogue heavy with the odd pratfall. Very human overall.

Good series, not his best work but entertaining.

Fun fact, one episode (with the lady in the wheelchair) was filmed in my home town of Windsor. I was walking back home and saw they were filming for a few weeks then watched the series later on and realised it was that


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The Darling Buds of May

Great series set in beautiful rural Kent. It tells the story of the Larkin family and their life on Home Farm. Genuinely feel good family viewing with David Jason and Pam Ferris as Ma and Pa Larkin. Comedy, hi-jinks and genuinely warm moments as the family are visited by a tax inspector whose life is about to change.

One of my favourite series from 1991 that I revisit every so often. Perfick

Fun fact in return!

Darling Buds of May was filmed not terribly far from me, in and around the village of Pluckley. Which is reputed to be England’s most haunted village.

Been there a few times for Halloween shenanigans. Had a couple of happenings I can’t fully explain (which as ever is not to say they’re therefore inexplicable or supernatural)

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Fun fact in return!

Darling Buds of May was filmed not terribly far from me, in and around the village of Pluckley. Which is reputed to be England’s most haunted village.

Been there a few times for Halloween shenanigans. Had a couple of happenings I can’t fully explain (which as ever is not to say they’re therefore inexplicable or supernatural)

Wonderful, i've always wanted to go there at some point. Home Farm was available for holiday stays for a while but sadly no longer.

It is a really picturesque part of the county.

 Easy E wrote:
Lovecraft County

I finished the 10 episode series, and it ends. The ending is fine and works, but I am sure many people will have wanted a whole lot more from it.

This was true of the book too imo. It's not bad, far from it. But it's very much a 'I think this could have been more than it was' thing.

Viz Top Tips

A show for idiots of a certain vintage and comedic persuasion. Now on Amazon Prime - though originally released on VHS decades ago.

I am of that persuasion. And I bloody love this. Two of my favourite slapstick surrealists presenting idiocy from Britain’s Favourite, Most Five Weekliest, Sweariest Grin Mag.


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1,000 Ways To Die

Ropey, probably wildly factually inaccurate, but fun.

However, could be made infinitely better by having it narrated by Death from Horrible Histories, and not Ron Perlman.

No disrespect to Mr Perlman.

Eurovision in a bit.

I’m soon to have beer and snacks. Maybe I’ll expose myself to the idiocy.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Eurovision in a bit.

I’m soon to have beer and snacks. Maybe I’ll expose myself to the idiocy.

2nd to last, darn it I had it down as 3rd from last, still of the mind we should just send whatevers left of the Worzels each year

Part way through watching a spooky French detective show called The Black Spot on Netflix. Lots of good mind bending twists and weird cult stuff.

Just finished watching Goblin Slayer again and the Goblin Crown "movie".
I recall it got a lot of hate for the so called graphic nature but having grown up on anime from the 80's and so on this was really tame.
I very much enjoyed the ride. Look forward to a second season maybe late this year or next year I can't remember which.

I enjoy that they do a lot of things players in a DnD game might do including weaponizing mundane things of spells one might first overlook as a solid tool.
I'm really hoping they get into some of the other material at some point there's a lot of neat stuff in there to pull from.

 Turnip Jedi wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Eurovision in a bit.

I’m soon to have beer and snacks. Maybe I’ll expose myself to the idiocy.

2nd to last, darn it I had it down as 3rd from last, still of the mind we should just send whatevers left of the Worzels each year

Mate. We should just send Iron Maiden. Or Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Or literally any of the hundreds of really decent bands the U.K. had produced.

We can totes put Simon Cowell in a Wickerman too. For authenticity. And just on general principle. Video killed the Radio Star, but Mr Cowell defiled the corpse.

Succession

I get that watching a group of unpleasant people is not a draw for many viewers, but for me this was a magnificent piece of writing. Season 3 was a low, but looking back I can see that it was building family acrimony in a natural way rather than a "oh, she's a crazy queen who is now going to slaughter a whole city's population without us building up to it" that some other program's last season fall victim to. Season 4 is absolutely perfect for me, with the last two episodes both being exquisite. The season long pay off with the daughter's pregnancy is a screen writing jewel.

Some great shows present a last episode that leaves the viewer underwhelmed. In Succession we aren't given anything fantastical to send us off but the resolution is about as perfect as can be written. For me it is the only conclusion that was plausible and they played it well.

Treason

Five-part British series on Netflix starring none other than Daredevil himself: Charlie Cox. Plus also Oona Chaplain, Olga Kurylenko and Ciaran Hinds.

Starts with the head of MI6 (Hinds) being poisoned, leading to his deputy (Cox) being elevated to the position, after which the Russian ex-spy (Kurylenko) comes to collect for all the help she's given him with his career. Chaplain plays Cox's ex-military wife, and the stepmother to his kids (which is a major plot point). There's a lot of twists and turns, double-crosses, politics, blackmail, the CIA sticking their noses in where they don't belong, a few deaths and, surprisingly, not a lot of action. It doesn't end with your typical Jack Bauer/24 massive shootout with explosions. There's like one gunfight in the whole thing. It's more subdued, less warfare and more spycraft. Honestly the weirdest thing about it was that it was a British series with 5 episodes rather than the customary 6, but it doesn't feel like it drags or crams too much into its run time. The pacing is on point, and the use of real places in London is very good.

Overall, I recommend it.

 Henry wrote:
In Succession we aren't given anything fantastical to send us off but the resolution is about as perfect as can be written. For me it is the only conclusion that was plausible and they played it well.

It was a pretty fun ride.

This show should be a textbook case of how to properly use secondary characters without them becoming distractions. All of the OG higherups (Jerri, Frank, Karl) were great and I always wanted more from them.

But I appreciated how it kept it focused on the 3 main siblings for the overwhelming majority of the series.

Prehistoric Planet S2

It's 4K landscapes overlaid with frequently "squint and they could be real" dinosaurs, voiced over by Lord Attenborough himself. What more could you want?

Well, personally I'd like a little more information on how some of the decisions about behaviour etc were reached, and a little more clarity on what is conjecture or extrapolation and what is solidly supported by fossil evidence, but that would take the program into an area it isn't intending to go.

As it stands, it's just an amazing technical effort, full of interesting insights and brilliantly entertaining.

 Azreal13 wrote:
Prehistoric Planet S2

It's 4K landscapes overlaid with frequently "squint and they could be real" dinosaurs, voiced over by Lord Attenborough himself. What more could you want?

A Warhammer 40k lore channel voiced by a very good AI imitation of David Attenborough!

https://www.youtube.com/@AttenboroughLore/videos

Hmmm….

True Lies

Just found it on Star, a sub-channel of Disney+

The original film is of course a masterpiece of silly nonsense with a steel rod of genuine wit supporting the whole thing.

This show isn’t allowed to suck….but so far it’s seeming rather fun. Plus, Ginger Gonzaga stars, and we just had a scene of her being rather athletic in her undies. Not quite Jamie Lee Curtis in the hotel room, but it’s only the first episode and I will absolutely take it.


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It’s….perfectly alright! Kind of reminds me of Bones, even though the shows have very different themes. Maybe with a dash of Santa Clarita Diet

I say give it a whirl. At the very least, it’s completely inoffensive Easy Viewing. Something you can binge or enjoy an episode of here and there.