Rewatching The Trip for the third or fourth time.  It never gets old.

Finally finished The Terror. Brilliant TV. My soul feels scorched after the final episodes. Excellent acting and some very powerful gut wrenching moments I won't forget soon. It's like a perfect case study on human desperation.

Ya, it's great. S2 should be out soon too.

Finished S1 of Luke Cage. Pretty good. Not as good as Daredevil but defo better than Jessica Jones.

To say I'm looking forward to the final season of Power would be an understatement. 

Just finished season one of Bill Hader's new show "Barry" - one of the best things I've seen in a while.

Also watched the Netflix show "The Last Czars" - it's really fucking annoying that they've used the Americanism for the title. Surely its should be "The Last Tsars"? It's not a great TV show from a historical standpoint - there are some glaring inaccuracies and wilful bending of historical truths. And some things that are just utter laziness i.e. Lenin's tomb is in the centre of a frame when a title-card appears on the screen saying "Moscow 1905".  I've never watched Downton Abbey but from the snippets I've seen, I imagine this to be the same thing but set in Russia. 

What strikes me as odd about the show is that they've got historians (including one from King's College) to appear in this show during cut-away scenes to drive the narrative along.  I wonder how they feel about the final product.

One final thing that gave me a laugh was Boabby The Barman from the Scottish show "Still Game" turning up as Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich.

"Barry" is great. Only watched it recently and must get stuck into the second series.

Quote from: StoutAndAle on July 17, 2019, 11:19:09 AMI wonder how they feel about the final product.

Remunerated.

I watched season 1 of stranger things this week. That's 8 hours I won't get back it was so bad how did this show even make it to a second season?


Anyone watching Perpetual Grace Ltd? Two episodes in and it's fantastic. Ben Kingsley at his quietly psycho best.


Finished  The Terror of the back of reading this thread,great show!

Started Dark last week. Onto the middle of season  2. Very good show. Took about 4 episodes to get I to it but then I was hooked. Mind bending stuff.

Up to episode 7 of season 3 of the Handmaid's Tale. It's gone a bit shit, any kind of care to sustain suspension of disbelief has just been thrown out the window with many of the key dialogue set pieces taking place under some kind of totally unbelievable circumstance. Pity.

Watching Stargate Atlantis on SyFy at the moment, missed it on its first run. It's alright at best, might not go too far with it.

Mostly missed Stargate and Deep Space 9 on their initial runs but a few years ago I went back to them. I couldn't really hack Stargate tbh. Hadn't aged well at all. DS9 however was excellent once it hit its stride.