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Just finished the 3rd season of The Orville. If the first two were a take on TNG, this was DS9. The final episode also gave us a better explanation for the Prime Directive than we ever got from Star Trek.

   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
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.

It's also already been canceled...

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Don’t care. Got to see Ginger Gonzaga in her undies being athletic.

I can now die a happy man.

Well. In due course. Just in case anyone was worried/hopeful.


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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Just finished the 3rd season of The Orville. If the first two were a take on TNG, this was DS9. The final episode also gave us a better explanation for the Prime Directive than we ever got from Star Trek.


I couldn’t stomach the first two episodes. The knob behind it is just…….so bloody smug. The sort to sniff his own farts and declare every blast on the Bum Trumpet a glorious overture.

Also, he’s a lazy arsed hack who’s only done “This Other Show…..BUT WITH SWEARING! All me own work, guv”.

Sorry. It’s a largely irrational hatred.

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Been house sitting for Sis so no PC so binged D+ like a madman

Rebels

Watching it back to back our heroes come off as galaxy class murder hobo's, still solid and sets up a lot of the telly shows, also Mandorlions have been moved to the stupid bracket of antagonists along with Daleks and Klingons, and suspect Dave may have watched the end of 2001 on a mix of herbs for the World between, 8/10

Only Murders in the Building

Even re-watching the twisty turny tale is a fun ride and sweary Ms Gomez is the best version 8/10

Xmen cartoon

Have seen bits and bots of it as a result of in the way back when we still had Saturday Cartoons, but never in order, its really quite good 7/10




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Still quote this all the time....


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On YouTube, Pete Holmes has a series called Ex-Men about Professor X firing the more useless X-Men that is a delight to watch. (But let me warn you that the Jean Grey episode is not safe for work.)

   
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And don’t forget, we get X-Men 97, a “picking up where we left off” treat this year!

   
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Kingdom

Stephen Fry plays…well…Stephen Fry, in a gentle British comedy about a Solicitor in a quiet, picturesque East Anglian village.

This is most definitely Easy Watching. Stephen Fry displays his easy charm in a non-too-challenging-role.

Decent TV to have in the background.

   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Kingdom

Stephen Fry plays…well…Stephen Fry, in a gentle British comedy about a Solicitor in a quiet, picturesque East Anglian village.

This is most definitely Easy Watching. Stephen Fry displays his easy charm in a non-too-challenging-role.

Decent TV to have in the background.


That sounds like something i would check out to put on in the background while doing handywork, is it available for (legal) streaming somewhere?

Edit: i had a look and it's apparently available for free, and legally, on Youtube. I'll give it a watch soon.

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FROM

A very Stephen King-esque TV show. A town that lures people in and doesn’t let them out. Scary enough in its own right, but there are also nocturnal monsters that stalk the town. The monsters appear as regular, smiling humans who (so far) walk at a leisurely pace towards their prey. They are also intelligent enough to verbally mess with the heads of their chosen prey, calling from outside to let them in. Once they get up close, they go full monster.

On the 3rd episode and I’m intrigued.

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 nels1031 wrote:
FROM

A very Stephen King-esque TV show. A town that lures people in and doesn’t let them out. Scary enough in its own right, but there are also nocturnal monsters that stalk the town. The monsters appear as regular, smiling humans who (so far) walk at a leisurely pace towards their prey. They are also intelligent enough to verbally mess with the heads of their chosen prey, calling from outside to let them in. Once they get up close, they go full monster.

On the 3rd episode and I’m intrigued.

I'm patiently waiting to see if this one gets a second season, the final episode dropped a ton of questions but not much in the way of answers.
   
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Oooh. Where might one watch that?

   
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 aku-chan wrote:
I'm patiently waiting to see if this one gets a second season, the final episode dropped a ton of questions but not much in the way of answers.


2nd season dropped in April 2023, according to wikipedia.

Apparently a 3rd season in development, but probably delayed due to writers strike.

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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Oooh. Where might one watch that?


MGM+, formerly known as Epix.

Not sure what the UK equivalent to that is, if there is one.

I’m using a firestick to watch it, myself.

Back to the show :

For me, its another one of those shows where I don’t skip the title theme song/credits (much like Sopranos, True Detective, Narcos and a few others where it never gets old)

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At episode 5, and I’m really digging it.

I’m really happy for Harold Perrineau as a main lead. He had such charisma in Hbo’s Oz and I always wanted to see more of him. Now, years later he’s heading up a fairly unique show that I’m enjoying.

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 nels1031 wrote:
 aku-chan wrote:
I'm patiently waiting to see if this one gets a second season, the final episode dropped a ton of questions but not much in the way of answers.


2nd season dropped in April 2023, according to wikipedia.

Apparently a 3rd season in development, but probably delayed due to writers strike.



WOOT! I know what I'm watching tonight.
   
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Found it on Prime.

£2.49 per episode.

That’s a nope for now.

   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Found it on Prime.

£2.49 per episode.

That’s a nope for now.


Available on Sky sci-fi catch-up. I put FROM in the search and it's right at the bottom. Will also give it a shot later.
   
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I don’t have Sky. Much too expensive.

   
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FUBAR

It's ironic that around the same time that True Lies gets a barely tepid serial reboot that Netflix should release a show that captures the spirit of the film almost perfectly and in place of one of the worst acting performances I've seen in recent years from whoever plays the new Harry Tasker, has the actual Arnie in his first ever series.

The twist this time around is that rather than the husband keeping the family in the dark about his real job, both he and his daughter are working for the CIA, but neither of them knows the other is an agent. Shortly after his retirement (of course) Schwarzenegger's Luke Brunner is called into action one last time, his history uniquely qualifying him to revisit an old cover and infiltrate a terrorist organisation to extract a compromised agent. Little does he know that he's heading off to rescue his daughter Emma (Monica Barbaro,Top Gun: Maverick .)

It's difficult to believe they didn't know what they what they were making, up to and including a Tom Arnold cameo. We're a few tweaks and a Jamie Lee Curtis away from it really being a legacy sequel, but it doesn't matter when it largely hits the mark. It does end on a bit of a cliffhanger though, which with Netflix's current track record is brave, but if the possibility of a slightly unresolved ending doesn't unduly phase you, there's plenty to enjoy.

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The Blacklist season 4.

Yikes.
The first several episodes felt like the writing had gone down hill quite a bit but true to form there was a two part episode and it was solid every episode after than was solid till the end.

The story arch was resolved and a new story set into motion. I enjoyed the twists along the way.
I didn't care for the idea that the plot was built on but it was done well.
seeing Red hit some really hard time was actually very fun. When the story knows what it is actually about and gets down to business it's quite fun.

ah, almost forgot, what I didn't like this season.
The "culture war" junk in the story.
One dumb bit of story was that was agent Navabi is getting paid less than another agent (agent Mojtabai) and she was butt hurt about that. He mad like 16% more than her. I don't believe this works because they both work for the FBI and I cannot imagine that being correct based on Military or government pay scales. I can only imagine the FBI would be very similar. If she was actually paid less that would be because she isn't actually FBI but a foreign agent who was invited to work for the FBI task force. And agent Mojtabai goes to accounting and decided they should give a percentage of his pay the the other agent Navabi because he feels she should be paid more. First, Accounting? Paper pay checks? Not direct deposit? super weird and could he even legally give his pay over like that? Again super weird. for as much as I enjoy this show some of the things writers rooms put in seem like they literally didn't even try to figure out if that was even a thing because reasons?
I know the show is fiction but it calls on lots of real world stuff like no knock warrants and stuff that falls under homeland security and the patriot act.
The next bit jumped out t me when it was said. Agent Mojtabai said he was something like half Muslim. Muslim is not a ethnicity, the character is clearly of middle eastern decent and that should have been said in stead or just removed.
There was probably more that I am not remembering but it does seem like they just felt they had to stick it in and try to make it important when it was just filler and filler dialog.
As far as gender roles this show is for the most part strong female leads doing a good job. every character, most of the time, (Cooper is more like a Dad than a boss) even has character traits that the show plays up how they run down bad guys and all that stuff. So did they really need to stich this silliness in or was it just the current buzz, so they stuck it in. We may never know.
I feel like it detracts from the characters who I do enjoy playing their parts in the story.
That's it rant over. Worth a watch I look forward to season 5 when ever I have the time.

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Battle Kitty

Netflix semi-interactive animation. It’s glorious if you like zany wackiness and superhero/computer game/fantasy role play tropes. There was plenty in this to keep me entertained while my daughter was kept amused by the base level flashy action and cute characters. The viewer basically gets to choose the order in which the string of quite short mini episodes play out by choosing points on a map.

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Kingdom

Stephen Fry plays…well…Stephen Fry, in a gentle British comedy about a Solicitor in a quiet, picturesque East Anglian village.

This is most definitely Easy Watching. Stephen Fry displays his easy charm in a non-too-challenging-role.

Decent TV to have in the background.


I'll see your Kingdom and raise you a Father Brown, proper Sunday evening telly stuck with odd mid-week mid afternoon slots despite being way better than the Hendy Bucksmatch Sherlock shirt show

An Honest Liar

James Randi is most likely one of the best doer's of the thinking of modern times, kind of lucky he used his "powers" for good to expose lying, cheats and barstewards, sadly folks seem willing to forgot as butt bags like Uri Geller and Popoff seemed to thrive despite being utterly debunked.

Tis documentry looks like it was made towards the end of his outstanding lifetime as he was looking rather frail but as sharp as ever, and the tinfoil bit of my head still thinks the hassle with his other half was influenced by donks without the brains or balls to come at the man himself

If you haven't got Prime there are numerous Youtubes of the man, if you aren't familiar with him give it a whirl


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Worth noting James Randi was himself a stage magician - he just never pretended it wasn’t all tricks and sleight of hand type stuff.

I think my favourite exposure is the guy who suddenly couldn’t “psychically turn a page” because the packing foam Randi used was “interfering with his powers which are totally real”

   
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Indeed, it was somewhat worrying that supposedly learned types could be fooled by tricks straight out of a kids magic book, the page moving chap possessing the awesome superpower of blowing, I mean really....

Once Upon A Time

Avoided it at the time as it seemed somewhat errr influenced by the Fables comic book, but giving it a whirl on the has purty ladies basis with Snow and Red being highly distracting, the show is schlock of the highest order but an easy watch with little thinking needed


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Finished the first season of "FROM", the show I mentioned previously.

If you love mystery boxes, this is the show for you. The mystery boxes have mystery boxes it seems.

The concept is super cool, I just think there are too many characters. A tighter narrative focus could've made this excellent. Acting is cringey/corny at times, but I'm still interested.

I'll give the second season a shot, but I'll need some mysteries solved before I get too deep.




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 nels1031 wrote:
Finished the first season of "FROM", the show I mentioned previously.

If you love mystery boxes, this is the show for you. The mystery boxes have mystery boxes it seems.

The concept is super cool, I just think there are too many characters. A tighter narrative focus could've made this excellent. Acting is cringey/corny at times, but I'm still interested.

I'll give the second season a shot, but I'll need some mysteries solved before I get too deep.




Yeah, I'm about 5 episodes into season 2 and while I'm still enjoying it, I'm starting to get suspicious that the writers may not actually know where they're going with this one.
Hopefully, I'll be proved wrong soon.
   
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The Full Monty

A tv series latter day sequel to probably the last VHS I ever ordered from Britannia Music Club.

In an unusual but not unwelcome move, Disney+ have put all 8 episodes up at the same time.

Now….8 51 minute episodes as a sequel to a 91 minute low budget Brit Flick is worrying me as….excessive. And time will tell.

First episode however isn’t mucking about. Straight in reuniting us with our protagonists. And it’s already demonstrating the same warmth as its preceding movie.

Will it outstay its welcome? Entirely possible, but I hope not.

   
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Getting back into Banshee (2013-2016).

Had briefly watched the first few episodes years ago and it was pretty good, but life got in the way and I forgot about it.

It features Anthony Star (currently doing an excellent job portraying Homelander in Amazon's The Boys) as a thief who was recently released from prison. He's on the run from whoever he ripped off, and trying to reunite with his former girlfriend and accomplice. Problem is, his girlfriend has remade her life seemingly, and a "job opportunity" falls on the lap of Anthony Star's character which would put the pair back in close proximity.

Show received pretty good reviews upon its release, so I'm looking forward to diving in.


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just avoid the last season

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 Turnip Jedi wrote:
just avoid the last season



Hmm...

Thanks for the heads up! If it sucks, I'll have more evidence that most shows(particularly dark/heavy dramas) start to suck after 3 seasons.

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its not like bad bad its just the show felt pretty much wrapped up after 3 seasons with a tease for a spin off but Hood and Co's story was told

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