Finally got started on season 3 of Twin Peaks. One ep down, so far so good, only 17 to go!

Quote from: StoutAndAle on March 01, 2023, 03:36:21 PMJust finished "Black Bird" - Egerton and Hauser are both great in the lead roles as is Ray Liotta.

I know Liotta is playing a character who is ill in this show but he did not look well at all. Hindsight and all that.

Quality show. As u said egerton and Hauser were great in it but Hauser for me stole the series. Such a performance.

Another great episode of The Last Of Us this week. Really is absolutely mental that earlier in his career Craig Mazin wrote or directed things like Scary Movie 3 and 4, The Hangover 2 and 3, Superhero Movie, etc. What kind of fucking grim road to Damascus moment did he have a few years back??  :laugh:  :abbath:

Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 08, 2023, 10:24:36 AMAnother great episode of The Last Of Us this week. Really is absolutely mental that earlier in his career Craig Mazin wrote or directed things like Scary Movie 3 and 4, The Hangover 2 and 3, Superhero Movie, etc. What kind of fucking grim road to Damascus moment did he have a few years back??  :laugh:  :abbath:

I dont know but thankfully he did. Chernobyl was fantastic. A lot of the same type of dread in that as there is in The Last of Us.

I thought The Last Of Us really dropped in quality after the third episode TBH. I haven't watched the most recent one yet but I've been struggling with it the last few weeks.

On the other hand, I watched the new episode of The Mandalorian earlier, good stuff. For all the bitching and moaning about Disney Star Wars, I haven't had much cause for complaint.

Quote from: Carnage on March 08, 2023, 02:59:02 PMI thought The Last Of Us really dropped in quality after the third episode TBH. I haven't watched the most recent one yet but I've been struggling with it the last few weeks.

On the other hand, I watched the new episode of The Mandalorian earlier, good stuff. For all the bitching and moaning about Disney Star Wars, I haven't had much cause for complaint.

I gave up on the last of us after 3 or 4 episodes. Just found it boring.

On the other hand I started off the mandalorian with the young lads the other evening and thoroughly enjoyed it despite the fact I went in thinking it was a vehicle for baby yoda merch, which to an extent it is but it's much better than that

The Mandalorian is well good and really hits its stride in season 2. Andor is better though.

Finished The Last Of Us anyway, found the last episode a bit anticlimactic. First few episodes were great, then meh.

The Mandalorian was a bit so-so this week. Not sure if there's more to the Coruscant subplot but it fairly took the wind out of it.

I'm only on the first one of the second season of the mandalorian and so far it's one of my favourite things I've watched in years. It probably helps that I'm watching it along with the young lads but they're long since gone to bed and I'm still here watching on ahead knowing I'll have to go back to where I was but still anyway it's a great fun watch

#2169 March 27, 2023, 04:04:52 PM Last Edit: March 27, 2023, 04:07:00 PM by StoutAndAle
Watched "The Offer" set around Al Ruddy's attempt to get "The Godfather" made into a film.

It's a bit glossy, pure fluff in parts and plays fast & loose with the facts (I read everything that I could get my hands on about the making of the "Godfather" trilogy) but still it's a good bit of fun.

Matthew Goode is brilliant as Robert Evans - right down to the cocaine-blasted, septum-obliterated voice. Miles Teller & Burn Gorman are really good as Ruddy and Charlie Bluhdorn respectively.


Watched "Waco: American Apocalypse" on Netflix - newly released in time for the 30th anniversary of the siege at David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. It's a fairly measured documentary series.

Also watched "Murdaugh Murders" and "The Texas Killing Fields" on Netflix. Yet another two examples of stories that could be completed in an 80 minute film or a maximum of two episodes. Netflix drag these out for far too long.

Against my better judgment I stuck on Blue Lights on the BBC, the new Belfast cop thing. Jesus Christ but it's been a while since I saw anything as piss poor.

#2171 March 29, 2023, 02:31:34 PM Last Edit: March 30, 2023, 06:05:08 PM by Carnage
Trailer was enough for me.

I'm two episodes into We Own This City, the recent David Simon thing. Fairly dull so far, all over the place chronologically and just throwing names and events at you constantly so it's hard to keep track of. Hopefully it comes together well, only 6 episodes so not a huge undertaking.

We're 5 eps into season 3 of Twin Peaks. Have liked to loved every ep so far, but we're getting through it really slowly nonetheless. There's still a level of not knowing ahead of starting an episode how much of a mental labour it may turn out to be which means that, by the time work day is over, and spawn is fed and bed, you don't necessarily feel like committing  :laugh:

Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 29, 2023, 03:10:37 PMWe're 5 eps into season 3 of Twin Peaks. Have liked to loved every ep so far, but we're getting through it really slowly nonetheless. There's still a level of not knowing ahead of starting an episode how much of a mental labour it may turn out to be which means that, by the time work day is over, and spawn is fed and bed, you don't necessarily feel like committing  :laugh:

Wait till you get to episode 8. I can only describe it as watching an art house installation. A truly spellbinding episode of tv.

#2174 March 31, 2023, 11:10:54 PM Last Edit: March 31, 2023, 11:17:07 PM by Black Shepherd Carnage
New Netflix erotic thriller miniseries, Obsession, coming out in April with Siobhán from Love/Hate and Thorin from The Hobbit. In character, with any luck.

"I've got a bone to pick with you Thorin!"