If subtitles don’t bother you I highly recommend Dicte, a Danish show about a journalist who returns home after getting divorced. I hope the second season becomes available soon!
(I hadn’t realized how often I use my phone while watching TV – usually to look up something that gets mentioned during the show – until I kept having to replay scenes because I hadn’t read the dialogue and was lost! It was also the first time I’d heard Danish, and boy is that a tough language to try to wrap my brain around: I couldn’t get a handle on even the basic grammar, and repeatedly had to stop trying to “listen.”)
Period pieces generally aren’t my thing, but something tells me to check this out!
Thank you! This has been in my queue forever, but for some reason I keep not watching it. Now I’ll skip it entirely.
Suits - a lawyer drama full of very intense, beautiful people having all kinds of drama and saying, “Goddamn” all the time. I love it.
Misfits - A bunch of UK juvenile delinquents get struck by lightning and get super powers. That doesn’t make them into heroes, though (although in their defense, they always have a good reason for killing their probation officers). Once I was able to figure out what they were saying, I really, really fell in love with this show.
The Returned - a French drama about some dead people who return to their French community. It’s creepy and weird and compelling.
Skins - the first couple seasons are fascinating. The later ones - less so. It’s about a group of high school kids who have lots of drama and smoke a lot of weed.
Drop Dead Diva - a piece of complete fluff has no business being as entertaining as it is.
Happy Endings - It’s known as the best comedy no one ever watched for a reason - it’s really freaking funny.
ETA: Thought of another one - Doc Martin. A lovely little fish-out-of-water story about a great surgeon from London who gets phobic of blood and ends up being a family doctor in a backwaters town.
I just finished watching Get Low. I hadn’t ever heard of it before stumbling upon it in the Independent movie list. Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek star.
Blue Ruin was sort of under the radar. It’s worth a look.
Definitely see the music documentaries Muscle Shoals and Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me if you haven’t
both great movies and Muscle Shoals is unintentionally hilarious, when the founder tells stories that all end up with some member of his family dying a horrible death
I was about to watch Blue Ruin. Hopefully it’s good. The one I saw, which was pretty good was the movie with Matthew Broderick, where he plays a high school teacher. I’m kinda surprised this movie wasn’t more popular.
There was a Sam Rockfell film that came out recently that was great too. Sorry about not remembering the names of these movies. You can look up the actors and find the movies if you want to check em out though.
And when they’re not saying GD, they’re saying “bullshit”. My how cable standards have let up (or should I say Litt up? No, let up was right) in recent years. Doesn’t bother me, don’t get me wrong.
