Hey, I’ve been watching that all day! Episode 5 is playing right now.
A solid portrayal of a depressing topic.
I’d say the emotional growth of the main character, with a lot of vicarious dreaming of wealth and schadenfreude for the viewer (à la White Lotus).
Re: the Breaking Bad chain of posts… I’m still waiting for the part where the highs exceed even the mid-tier episodes of Better Call Saul, let alone BCS at its best. Ditto with Jesse being the moral compass?
I guess these are all things that come in seasons 4 and 5?
I wouldn’t say that. They’re both excellent, but in very different ways.
If you didn’t like Season 1, I can’t imagine you liking Season 2 much, if at all. As said above, the first few episodes aren’t all that amazing, and while it picks up at the end, it’s not so much better than Season 1 as to overcome a “completely forgettable” reaction.
The early episodes of BB… Well, I enjoyed them, but they were kind of gut wrenching, dealing with the basement person problem. But it did kind of demonstrate the basic problem of getting involved with drugs: you have no choice but to embrace a whole lot more crimes than just dealing drugs. It puts it in your face early in the first season, and like a lot of US shows, it has to hook you early and be quite brutal (in order to not be cancelled). But it goes a different direction a few episodes in as it finds its breathing room.
I could never get into Breaking Bad
This looks good
Love Nordic mysteries
We finished Department Q too and really enjoyed it. I’d say go back and watch the last couple of episodes again - I think they did a really good job of fitting all the pieces together. And maybe it was just me, but the pacing and editing was perfect so that I was figuring things out right as they were. My only complaint: they never solve Morck and Hardy’s shooting.
That’s a great point, especially since there were robust implications of some kind of deep conspiracy. The final episode hinted at a second season, however, so maybe the shooting will be addressed then.
As I previously noted, I’m a fan of this show, too.
Aha -
that’s what I thought I might have missed, having expected that it was tied up somehow.
Now I’m looking forward to season 2 even more.
it was a uk weekend.
dept. q, then until i kill you, then grace Grace (TV series) - Wikipedia, which pulled me in, and then next thing i knew it was 5 am on sunday! yep, 18ish hours later… streaming is dangerous.
i am now on lewis. i quite enjoy hathaway.(Lewis (TV series) - Wikipedia)
Watched Rogue One after finishing Andor.
It now serves as a rather odd, but somewhat satisfying finale to Andor. I had mistakenly thought he and Jin Erso fell in love(which seems to contradict Andor), but I remembered wrong. They just sort of embrace as the Death Star goes off.
Good movie, rough first hour, terrific final hour. This is only relevant here because of the TV show Andor.
Hathaway is a great character. It is too bad the actor’s real-life politics keep me from enjoying his performance now.
i found out about that yest.. whoa! it does colour the character.
after reading about the actor a bit, it does have a cross over.
i ended sunday night with “life born of fire” and did not like hathaway in that one. monday morning i went to a tv forum and found out a bit about mr fox. last night watching “allegory of love” and “quality of mercy”, i saw the cross over.
my brit box marathon also included “wild bill”. that was interesting, rob lowe going to uk boston to downsize the police department. it is just the one series.
Started Department Q last night with my wife. Hope we enjoy it. Detective shows, not including Sherlock, area almost never our thing. Sherlock is one of our absolute favorites.
At one point, they were going to continue the franchise with a program centered on the Hathaway character. No idea why they decided not to proceed though that could have extended something that started in 1987 with Inspector Morse and finally ended in 2023 with Endeavour.
BTW, something I noticed about the original Inspector Morse program versus the Lewis sequel was that the character of Morse was kind of a sad, depressed guy. At one point, Lewis even said to Morse, “Cheer up.” But then watching Lewis in his own program, he was also a sad, depressed guy, though perhaps because his wife was killed by a hit-and-run driver. And that seems to be a pattern in British mystery series; the lead character is rarely a well-adjusted happy person.
I rewatched it after finishing Andor, too. Big fan of both, almost certainly my favorite Star Wars ever. I don’t know if I’m alone, but I’m pretty sick and tired of magic space wizards. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy In Space is far more my speed.
I loved The Force Awakens. It’s a shame there was no plan and the followups suffered.
Solo is underrated. Pretty fun.
Andor is probably the best thing Disney has made with Star Wars. The Narkina-5 prison episodes are probably my favorite.
We gave up on Andor after the first episode when Season 1 first came out. We heard good things after season 2 came out and tried again almost giving up after watching episode 2. Luckily we grudgingly started episode 3. Why didn’t they start the show with that episode? It was great! As was episode 4. I hope it keeps up the momentum and leaves boring Ferrex and Kenari behind.