The comparisons to LOST had me avoiding this show for a while, but it’s a lot more focused than LOST was.
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Thank you, looks good! I gather you enjoyed it?
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Yes. It is such a nice movie about families.
It’s not that movie about dirty/sexy family secrets, like all the families have scary skeletons in their closets. Their lies are so silly, their desires are so mundane and the expectations so common that you wonder why they decided to act this way. I don’t think they had a choice, changing demands a lot of energy. The ending is very cool and doesn’t sound artificial or moralistic.
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I’ve only watched Wife of a Spy from them before, which is my kind of thing though they do more horror adjacent stuff normally I believe , which isn’t really.
This one also sounds like it should. I have heard good things about it already so I’ll have to get to it.
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I bet you would like it.
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is it, though? watched s1, then with loosing interest s2 and then s3e1 in skipmode to finaly checking out. wasnt worth it imho.
started strong, got bad fast. peter dinklage elevated the material as best as possible but it couldnt save the movie. thats a nope.
a nice addition to the franchise by marina hyde (who apparently wrote for the show and is a producer on it? had no idea). great read.
It’s not jumping backwards and forwards in time or delving too deeply into the backstories of minor characters, so it feels more grounded as a story. It is frustrating how nobody gets together and shares what they know about the place, and people act like you’re crazy if you mention that you saw something weird when everything is weird all the time.
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I wish I could watch it…
Hmmmm… It doesn’t look like the cartoon…
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I have mentioned my appreciation for NCIS before, but I like it because it’s just so damned ridiculous sometimes that I can’t take it seriously, which makes the copaganda (you don’t need a lawyer, e.g.) less infuriating. Anyway, there’s a new spinoff series that recently debuted, NCIS: Origins, so I thought I’d give it a watch. As the name suggests, it’s a prequel series, covering the time when a younger Leroy Jethro Gibbs has just joined NIS, the predecessor organization to NCIS. A different actor plays Gibbs, of course, but Mark Harmon narrates it. And I’ll be damned if it isn’t pretty good so far, and not in the ironic way I like NCIS. This is a much more professional and polished production than the early seasons of NCIS were.
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Ooh, Season 2 is happening and it’s not a continuation of the story from Season 1, but an anthology. Good, good.
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All my 17 yr old son wants to watch is Slow Horses (we’re caught up), old episodes of Top Gear, and Severance (caught up).
What’s something good out we can convince him to watch? He had no interest in Kaos or The Bear…
(ps - sorry for once again disappearing for a long period of time)
Dark Winds.
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The Prisoner 1967 - it’s got the spyjinks, the surreal psychological manipulation, and that sweet-ass Lotus Super Seven in the intro.
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Dark
The Patriot
The Americans
Sacred Games
Mr. Robot
Did I mention Dark?
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Mr. Shyamalan sure knows How to make movies. I watched Trap last Sunday and I felt I was in front of a plate made by a competent chef who was skilled and mastered how to present a meal. But somehow I was still hungry after the end.
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thank you for putting into words how I mostly always feel after his movies.
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mum and i just finished watching Territory on Netflix. it is very much Yellowstone set in Australia’s Northen Territory on a cattle station the size of Belgium. basically a bunch of rival cattle ranchers, screwing each other over and generally being nasty.
Anna Torv is the star the story seems to revolve around and she has a mixed past. Robert Taylor (Longmire) is a dispicable shite as the patriarch of the Lawson clan.
i liked it, but it reaffirms, to me, what I’ve always thought - that Australians are like Texans with a different accent.
(no offense intended to Aussies!)
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