I just read the Wikipedia article on the yogurt shop murders rather than watching that four-part documentary. Much quicker.
Kleo (Netflix, 2se.) My wife and I just finished what is available of this and we enjoyed it. It’s quirky and lighter fare, even if the plot gets a bit dull.
We now are show refugees looking for a new home. Heard good things about Kin here and elsewere so that may be next.
We’re enjoying it after three episodes, though we’ve skipped a few scenes. That said, it’s definitely in the genre of interesting characters, interesting plot, and people doing really stupid things.
attack of the clones has less jar-jar, although the bit of jar-jar had him installing the emperor.
i find the stilted anakin/padme relationship is even worse this rewatch.
naboo is soooooo very pretty. living in a maxfield parrish world. i also like the deco naboo apartments in corusant.
Yeah, we liked that show. It’s goofy and fun.
As Kleo might say, “Gut!”
We finally finished Untamed. Final verdict: not terrible; some halfway decent character development, and the scenery alone is worth the time spent watching. I have got to visit the National Parks out west before they all get clear-cut, turned into oil-drilling fields, or high-priced condo developments.
That said, I did NOT like this final “big reveal”:
Yep, you called it, @Elmer_J.Fudd 
I was really hoping they didn’t resort to that hoary old cliché-- the entire rest of the show as I watched I was thinking “don’t let the bad guy reveal be them, please…”. The show really needs writers with an original thought or two.
Some of my earliest memories are from Eliz coming to Canada.
Really think the cast is excellent especially Matt Smith as Philip but the cast overall is top notch…Lithgow a good Churchill.
Quite soft production …perhaps suitable to the content/period.
Waiting out my riding prohibition and it’s rainy.
Just finished Say Nothing, a 9-ep miniseries about the troubles in Northern Ireland. Specifically it’s about Dolours and Marian Price, and uses the ‘disappearance’ (i.e. murder) of Jean McConville as a framing story. It’s really well done, with bleak subject matter and no one coming off well.In particular Gerry Adams does not come off well at all, though the show does make a point of the difficult balancing act he had to do to make the peace process happen. It’s worth watching and does have moments of levity and humanity amidst the violence. The acting is great, particularly the various actors playing the Price sisters across the decades.
Inside Man, Stanley Tucci, David Tennant, Dolly Wells, Lydia West, Lyndsey Marshall.
Kind of odd, this one. A disjointed thriller of sorts about the worlds dumbest (English) vicar and his equally idiotic wife who put themselves in a criminal bind they cannot get out of, but somehow some ‘smart’ murderer in Nevada is needed to solve the case… but he really doesn’t given that the son of the vicar was about to blow his parents cover anyway.
I got the feeling that sometime during production the show-runners realized that the only interesting character was scheduled to be killed (Tucci was on death row for killing his wife) and they had to scramble to prevent that from happening if they wanted a 2nd season, so a ‘get this guy off of death row’ subplot was introduced.
(I’m assuming Tucci wasn’t interested in continuing since there isn’t an Inside Man: Inside and Insider sequel.)
Inna liked this one more than I, and at four episodes it isn’t really that much of a commitment, so I recommend it… with reservations… for fans of the actors or crime dramas, but if you’re looking for smart writing/plotting, this one might not do it for you.
Sorry… Inside Man is on Netflix.
This one was pretty good (Netflix), but my God did they have an issue keeping up with time. A couple of sequences come to mind: (a) They were told that the investigation was being closed in 2 weeks, weeks of stuff happen, then the main character mentions that their deadline is 2 weeks away. (B) At the end, there’s this letter which, when opened, means that the investigation is closed ASAP. The police chief then mentions that he is going to a conference in Stockholm, meaning that he doesn’t have to open the letter until the next Monday, giving the team a few more days. Again, weeks of stuff happens, then the commissioner comes back (wearing the same shirt he had on when he left, Inna noted), and the letter is never mentioned again even as the investigation continues far past the ‘Monday’ deadline which caused so much consternation earlier.
Otherwise, not all that bad.
Please avoid including spoilers unless you blur or hide them. (and no, I don’t know where the links to those options disappeared to).
I think nobody’s mentioned this one yet. Revival. There is an event where all the freshly dead people in a certain small area (a county or so) come back to life. They seem to be their normal (pre-death) selves other than now having a Wolverine/Deadpool level healing ability.
It is an okay but unremarkable show if you want to kill some time with it. Based off a comic series, I read the first few issues and it is also okay but unremarkable. (The TV series and the comic diverge significantly from the beginning.)
Also, this has its own thread, but the new ongoing season of Dexter is top-notch.
Don’t get too used to them…
I know…this is a rewatch and I may forgo the season with the horror from Harry Potter series.
We started S2 of Hope Street last night. As dumb as S1 was, S2 surpasses it. Stupid plot, stupid resolution and annoying characters. I’m not sure I can keep on with this.
Last night I watched the first 3 episodes of The Hunting Wives on Netflix. It’s not quite what I had expected, but it’s fast-moving with a bunch of intertangled story lines.