I happened across Blue Ridge on Prime. Hubby and I are both enjoying it. We started watching E1 when I noticed on IMDb that there was a movie that the series is based on. So we watched that first. It’s been picked up for another season.
Yeah, thanks. I can never keep it straight.
I finished watching I’m a Virgo. I really liked it, but the ending (a communist lecture!) was extremely abrupt.
Watched Epi 1 of Countdown on Prime last night. Pretty good action thus far, albeit a lot of shooting and blood. Also an interesting plot line developing.
Talk about grabbing you by the throat…
Binged it over the weekend on the strength of the recommendation here.
Yeah. Very good.
We watched the Grenfell doc and the 7/7 doc on Netflix recently; they were both very good.
I also watched that this weekend and it was very well done. I was surprised at how much I had either forgotten or wasn’t covered in the new sources I followed at the time, and I don’t think I really knew anything about the attempted attacks a few weeks later. I learned a lot and found the series very engrossing, so definitely recommend.
And the story of the poor young man that was killed essentially because he was brown and the police communication was shit - just awful.
Yeah that was very distressing and clearly lasting trauma for the officers involved. 
I guess I was most shocked by the opening interview where one of the victims who survived described seeing the bomber reach into the knapsack… 
…one of those moments where if it was fictional account would not be believable.
I’m also reading The Only Plane in the Sky about 9-11 and it is equally engrossing as it tracks a timeline over the initial day…I’m only part way in but crazy engaging in a very intimate way. Highly recommended.
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759742836/the-only-plane-in-the-sky-offers-a-powerful-graphic-narrative-of-9-11
Engaging - bit of an indictment on US medical system but that’s incidental.
A person finally finding out what is actually wrong with them …in the first case after 9 years…is heart warming. Variety of stories. 
“It’s a mystery. There hasn’t been a single murder anywhere but the White House in six months…”
The Diagnosis column in the New York Times Magazine is always an interesting read, and incidentally, the column inspired the Fox television series House, M.D.
Gotham
The origin series for Batman, Jim Gordon and a host of bad guys.
I started this a few months ago on Prime but had to rush through the final dozen or so episodes as it is leaving the platform. All in all, a decent series and worth watching for sure, but it definitely had a lot of ups and downs.
The good?
Penguin, The Riddler and The Joker were all really well done, both in their characterisation and acting. In the early episodes the Penguin was particularly good but I think by the end The Riddler had the edge.
The general look and feel of the show was great, it was well shot and the production design was terrific.
What wasn’t so good?
I lost count of the endless ‘deus ex machinas’, where at the last second a friendly face came to save the day out of nowhere, be it in a gun fight, a knife fight or a chase. It got quite laughable at times.
Some of the characters were really quite forgettable (ok, I’ve remembered them well enough for this summary but still). I’m not sure for some of them who may have been from the comics or who was original to the show. Tabitha, totally bland. Barbara, not convincing at all as a villain. Bruce? I think the actor did his best but was almost as bland as Tabitha. Some of the supporting police characters were cardboard cutouts.
I’m debating whether to watch Pennyworth, which goes back even further. Anyone recommend it?
I thought Pennyworth was well worth watching. As I recall, it did use an alternate history version of England, with different political parties. Also, while there was a Queen, it was definitely not Elizabeth II.
It’s a good show, but I feel you can stop when ‘The Blood’ story line shows up as you will have seen all the good stuff.
I felt the villain quality of Gotham peaked with Balloonman in episode 3.
I really enjoyed Gotham, though it did sort of limp to the finish line as I recall.
Nobody’s mentioned Camren Bicondova as young Selina Kyle. She was fantastic.
Bosch spin off with good reviews.
Don’t miss the first minutes…
Dare I ask… is it ‘Hollywood England/UK’, gor blimey guvnor, everyone either a cockney or a lord, or does it actually do it properly? I’m not sure if it is the same production company as Gotham? If it is then I assume they have done things right, as Alfred in Gotham was reasonably authentic especially with some of the language (probably helped having a good English actor in the role).
He definitely gave the show a lift