You didn’t miss much, it was pretty puffy. Seven episodes and I think every team in the conference got shown at least a little bit – except for the one that won it.
(Hope my memory is right about that)
HBO Max, for some reason, has some Britbox programs available. So today I’ve been watching Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, a three part adaptation of an Agatha Christie story. It was directed by Hugh Laurie and stars Will Poulter and Lucy Boynton. I first saw it a couple of years ago when I had a Britbox subscription. I think it’s really good.
I had small hopes that they’d make a new story with Will And Lucy as they had great chemistry in it.
Yes, they had excellent chemistry. That’s part of the appeal.
Completely concur, as I discussed in detail in this post a year ago.
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? 2: Follow-up Questions.
I think Bobby Jones and Lady Frances Derwent in Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934) would have made a more interesting team of recurring characters, as one of those wisecracking sleuth couples, than Christie’s “Young Adventurers” Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.
But Tommy and Tuppence had already been added to the roster of Christie characters in 1922’s The Secret Adversary and 1929’s Partners in Crime, so I suppose Christie in 1934 might have felt that making Frankie and Bobby a similar team would seem too derivative. So off they went to farm coffee or something in Africa, and AFAIK we never hear from them again.
But if Hugh Laurie wants to bring them back for another Christie-esque detective romp with Poulter and Boynton, I sure won’t object.
Finished watching The Hunting Wives on Netflix. That series took several dark turns in the last two episodes. I thought I had figured who the killer was, but I was completely wrong. And the ending was certainly not what I expected.
Recommended, if you don’t mind nudity and cold-blooded murders.
We tried out Countdown on Prime. It has pretty good reviews, but it was just so-so. We watched the first episode. I might have been too tired at the time I watched it, but I don’t think we’re going back.
I dropped out of the Alienverse around the third or fourth movie but I’m really enjoying Alien: Earth on FX. The actors playing kids in synthetic adult bodies are really good and the corporate Earth setting is quite believable (or, rather, relatable).
Finished The Sandman. It was okay. Most of Season 2 was trying to cram in as much of the remaining story as possible left after Season 1. Tom Sturridge’s Morpheus managed to get even more annoying and drippy. The episode involving his parents was completely unnecessary, and I still don’t really understand the point of getting Nuala to behead Lyta. And Daniel/Dream telling Lyta she can come visit him anytime kind of threw out the whole “not Daniel” thing from moments before.
That said, it was probably as good an abridgement as we could have expected under the circumstances, the Puck/Loki and Johanna/Corinthian relationships were kind of fun, and of course Kirby Howell-Baptiste remains lovely.
From what I’ve read about the series the showrunner (who is not Gaiman) is a tad miffed that viewership is down due to “allegations that are just allegations”. Keep telling yourself that, bub.
I’ve also finally finished Ironheart, in which an extremely smart person acts extremely dumb. I ended up sympathizing with “Joe” rather than Riri, although the “magic nerd version of Darcy” was also fun up until the post-credits scene when she too was about to do something blatantly stupid.
I’ve begged us off of Hope Street, at least temporarily. I actively hate these people and despite it’s police trappings, it’s just a soap opera, and not even that interesting.
Entitled (netflix, 1 se.) 4 episodes into this and I love it so far. Brett Gelman’s wife dies and he goes to her estranged family home she grew up in to read the will. The family there is crazy for a good reason. It’s dark, it looks like The Gentleman in the trailer but is closer to American Horror Story in feel.
No real idea where it’s going but I am along for the ride. Brett Gelman typically plays that sarcastic misanthrope contacted in the second act when the lead is in trouble and needs a shady Conspiracy Theorist living in an abandoned trailer to make a pipe bomb. That type of character is in his wheelhouse with this plot.
He’s very upfront about wanting to do more seasons if the numbers are good, so he is sort of begging at this point. Come on guys, don’t cheat me out of a satisfying job because you hate Neil Gaiman. I sorta sympathize - he didn’t make this situation. But I overall don’t, because the situation is what it is. He should just rest on an attitude of they did the best we could under the circumstances, assume it’s dead and be pleasantly surprised if it isn’t. The whole ‘just allegations’ comment is very distasteful.
But anything further should probably be left to the dedicated Gaiman thread.
“inexplicably” wearing … real Polynesian cultural items…
Those are whale teeth.
We just finished it too. Yeah, the ending was unexpectedly unresolved-- I guess I’m used to watching the many ‘one season and done’ limited series that streaming channels seem to do so often these days, and for some reason I had assumed this was one of them. But that’s right, Netflix sometimes does order more than one season of a show, and this might be one of them, presumably.
As far as I understand the Lucifer part at the start was in effect the origin story for the Lucifer TV series which was based on the characters, and perhaps the offshoot comics (I read Sandman but skipped the Lucifer offshoot because it wasn’t Gaimen). Seems, looking at now, it was Mike Carey who’d didn’t know at the time, but would read now.
It strikes me as if that there is at least two DC-Universes at this point (I’m not a superhero comic reader and this is post Marvel/DC movies). Marvel always seemed to kind of be multi universe, the likes of Fantasic Four never seemed to cross paths with the likes of the Punisher, or Iron Man, unless one of the team ups, and they all seemed to not really mention the multitudes of other heroes around. Mostly. As far as I can tell.
But the Sandman (probably Vertigo) universe has Constantine/Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, Harry Potter, sorry Books of Magic, but rarely overlaps with Batman/Superman/Justice League which is virtually another universe, and other vertigo, the likes of Preacher stand outside these worlds too.
Yeah, it’s very loosely based on that version of Lucifer. In the book Lucifer does run a nightclub in LA called “Lux” after quitting Hell (and plays piano there) and has a demon follower named Mazikeen, but that’s about where the resemblance to the television show ends.
I’ve started rewatching Dexter from the beginning thanks to the spectacular (so far) first season of Dexter: Resurrection.
Heh, I was wondering if anybody else here watched this. Found it on Netflix with a blurb saying “We think you’ll love this!” Thanks, Netflix!
One ep in, yeah, weird as hell. Not sure quite what to make of it yet, but the first episode has me hooked. We’ll see where it goes. It appears to be a horror comedy, which is, IMO, a very difficult hybrid to pull off, but when it works, it can work really well.