The Tube.

[101_North]

Blasted through a lot of Brockmire on Prime. Season 1 is entertaining enough. Got 2 episodes into Season 2 and gave up.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Finished The Night Of yesterday. So good. Definitely something I'll revisit a third, fourth, fifth time over the years.

[Carnage]

Has anyone seen the original version? I'd be curious as to how they compare, a lot of times the original version's better than the Hollywood remake. State Of Play being a prime example, Cracker and Prime Suspect too.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I've not yet, though I've been meaning to. I'd imagine they're sufficiently different to both be at the very least interesting in their own right anyway. The original doesn't have the whole Muslim in the US post 9/11 thing, which is quite a rich dimension of the US one. Ben Whishaw is a solid actor anyway, though he's no Riz Ahmed, who's not exactly Hollywood either.

[Blackout]

Currently re-watching Fraiser for about the 50th time. Jesus this show is so entertaining.

[Emphyrio]

Gonna do a rewatch of Frasier myself. Probably in my top 3 comedies.

Watched a few bits lately.

Dr. Death - based on true events. Christopher Duntsch, a doctor accused of Killing/maiming his patients. Alec Baldwin, Christian Slater, Joshua Jackson and Kelsey Grammer in a non-Frasier type role. A bit too much hopping between timelines but enjoyable nonetheless.

Someone mentioned Who Killed Sara, Mexican yoke. The acting is poor enough, the dialogue is dreadful at times. It appears to be what I imagine is a telenovella, yet despite all that, very bingeworthy.

On the more serious side, El Marginal, an Argentian prison-based one. Like a gritty Prison Break meets Oz. Excellent. Coming towards the end of Season 1. Highly recommended.

Maybe it's the sense of being trapped coming up to my first wedding anniversary but also started another prison-based one, Time, with Stephen Graham and Sean Bean. I've watched 2 of the 3 eps. Again, excellent. Gritty and dark, not as bleak as the excellent The Virtues but grim enough in places. Well worth a go.

[Born of Fire]

I'd say I probably mentioned Who Killed Sara and El Marginal! El Marginal is miles ahead of Sara but again not without its own nonsense acting and dialogue, it's great craic though. I enjoyed season 2 way more than season 1 too, the main lad in season 1 is a bit of a dose whereas season 2 focuses on the Borges brothers who are much better characters.

[Caomhaoin]

El Marginal is class, yer mans wife, Doris, was so funny.

The Spanish they speak is so dialectical, Spaniards couldn't understand everything that's going on.

[Eoin McLove]

Looking at 60 Minutes tonight and it's a special about the James Bulger case.  Chilling stuff.

[Caomhaoin]

Can't bear to watch anything about that case. And the less said about that piece of shit Venables, the less homicidal rage you'll experience.

[Emphyrio]

Ya, horrendous stuff.

[Eoin McLove]

I can't say I know much about them but I remember one of them was later done for child porn or something like that. Listening to their confessional tapes, they were so young at the time. It's unimaginable to think that kids that young could be so utterly warped and broken to carry out those acts, and on a two year old. A fucking two year old! So completely helpless and clueless. It's grim.

[Emphyrio]

Very different buzz to the kinda morbid fascination one may have learning about Gacy or Manson etc.

[StoutAndAle]

With fuck all to watch - (i.e. shit that my wife will also watch  ) - I started watching "Animal Kingdom" on Amazon. Apparently it's based on an Aussie movie or TV show that I've never seen.

It's brain candy and not very taxing - some of the action scenes are great but the acting (particularly Ellen Barkin) is fairly poor for the most part. Think "Sons Of Anarchy" meets "Point Break".

I re-watched "Frasier" during the first lockdown whilst living on a building site last year. During our home renovations I had nothing but an old iMac and a hard drive. The Crane boys got me through a lot of shit in 2020.

It's absolutely perfect as far as American 20 minute network sitcoms go. Pretty much every episode is tightly constructed and packed with gags. The concept is simple farce but it's so good in both the writing and the acting that the whole thing looks effortless - which I'm pretty sure is the exact opposite of it was like.

[Emphyrio]

With fuck all to watch - (i.e. shit that my wife will also watch  ) - I started watching "Animal Kingdom" on Amazon. Apparently it's based on an Aussie movie or TV show that I've never seen.

It's brain candy and not very taxing - some of the action scenes are great but the acting (particularly Ellen Barkin) is fairly poor for the most part. Think "Sons Of Anarchy" meets "Point Break".

Snap. "Sons Of Anarchy" meets "Point Break" is pretty accurate, as is your summation of it in general. It's fast paced and light viewing. Blitzed through it in the last few weeks.