Maybe she just watches the BBC.
I’ve just started watching Harlots. It is about harlots.
It has been on for 3 seasons/24 episodes, but I didn’t notice it until today.
The funny thing is, the show makes it clear that they would have been better off doing just that. By the end, it’s clear that they’ve made everything exponentially worse, and have to actually reboot the entire universe to fix it. One of the current-time characters who knows about the Travellers actually calls them out on that, specifically.
I did like that they completely failed in their task, though. Not many shows are willing to just let their heros fail like that.
How are you watching this, I can’t even find it on Rotten Tomatoes.
Some parts of the Internet are the Wild West.
If you live in the U.S. it looks like you would need to move to the UK to get Patience on Channel 4 if you want to watch the show legally.
He could just wait for a bit to rent it.
Many viewers consider it simply a rip-off of the French series: Astrid et Raphaelle
Also known as an adaptation. See also Professor T.
I enjoyed Black Doves, though I didn’t love it.
It was very clear to me from the start that it wasn’t meant to be in any way realistic, and that it inhabits the same fictional universe as the works of Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie.
If you want realism, look elsewhere.
I finished watching the Korean comedy/thriller/murder mystery Behind Your Touch (16 episodes, Netflix).
A supercop from Seoul gets transferred to the boonies after he screws up a big case. There he meets a veterinarian with an amazing superpower: when she touches a creature’s bum, she can replay its memories in her mind. They team up to solve a range of crimes, from the trivial to the horrifying.
I really, really liked this show. The tone was pretty unusual, as it ranged from a very silly comedy (like Hot Fuzz) to a serious crime thriller (like The Dead Zone): the ratio was about 90/10 at the beginning to 10/90 at the end, I would say. The main mystery kept me guessing all the way to the final reveal. I would definitely recommend it for fans of goofy comedy or fans of murder mysteries (and not just for fans of Korean TV shows).
I am re-watching the A&E series of Hornblower on DVD. Damn, that was a great series. Too bad they canceled it.
Ioan Gruffudd would really like to do more of the role, up until Admiral, he says. Any Billionaires out there?
True Blood was a really good show for about the first two seasons, the problem is that the third went bad, and it got a lot worse after that. I think it’s the only show we actually just stopped watching, Season 6 was a moment when I asked “Shall we watch more of this” and we both went “No”.
Context and times. September 11th happened between Season 2 and 3 (or maybe when they were being written), so in effect Season 3 is fully and angrily inspired by 911. I was never a “but they changed that Star Trek thing” person, but the series was markedly different in 3 (like a number of other shows like 24, “torture is justified” is a definte theme of the time). Season 4 was another reset and I think the best season.
Mrs. Davis (Peacock, Se 1 2023) You remember Needful Things? The King novel about The Devil himself opening a Curiosity Shop to destroy a Maine town simply by offering valued objects to ordinary people in exchange for a minor almost insignificant action but yet had important negative consequences. That story scared me, forget desperate people, what average people will do for stuff. But even then if you saw this crap you could always get the hell out of that town.
Now, imagine a powerful Artificial Intelligence with a bottomless bank account exists and it controls a ear bud network more popular than TikTok. What would your world be like if it wanted to mess with you personally? How quickly would this real world turn into some Black Mirror-esque Neo-in-The-Matrix.
I watched two episodes so far, but I am already here for this dystopian nightmare fuel…with a dash of comedy.
We just finished watching Season 2. Good-God, what a waste of time.
Thinking about watching Alice in Borderland. Heard the plot is similar to SG, but is much better.
The acting and production values are better but you have to deal with a lot more incoherent supernatural baggage.
That’s what turned me off. Also, I prefer the simple games in Squid Game to elaborate puzzles (although I could be in the minority on that one).
I’ve previously recommended The 8 Show (on Netflix) as a Squid Game-like series I enjoyed.
Differences between Alice in Borderland and Squid Game:
AIB:
Players do not know why they were picked to play
There is no way to end the games other to win
Not everyone has to play every game (though if you don’t play enough – zap!)
More games are player vs GM or player vs environment (at least that is my impression)
Players don’t even know is this a dream, VR, or what
Squid Game:
They know they are playing for money
They can stop the games by vote
More games are player vs player*
(Almost) everyone is in every game
They know (or don’t question) that this is the real world
* Again, my impression - I have not done an exhaustive count partially because I have not seen all of season 1 of SG and none of season 2.
Perfectly fine to prefer one over the other (in general, I find the AIB characters more appealing)
Brian
FWIW, The characters playing the game are a lot more interesting and easier to care about in season 2 than those in the previous season.
My wife and I had read the books, so were interested in the show. S1&2 are reasonable to the books and then it goes on its own after that. We did finish it but it was tough. There were important little details that they changed, to big ones like Lafayette. Those changes meant something but it’s blown off in the show.
I take it I shouldn’t bother?
I’m on s5 of my White Collar rewatch. It’s tough at times. I cringe when, once again, Neal has to lie/trick/deceive Peter. It’s going to give me an entry on the “extremely common in TV or movies but not in real life.” It’s also doing a bit more drama with ongoing plot lines which can take away from the heists, which I like. I will say it is at least simple, or straight forward, in the plans. There isn’t some grand conspiracy that’s complicated.
Mrs. Davis sounds interesting because I enjoyed Needful Things, the movie, as I haven’t read SK much in the past few decades. I think 1963 is the only book of his I have read since the 90s. I did like the Hulu show of that, from what I remember, but that has been a while.
Thanks for the discussion!