wolf359 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 9:21 am
More the platform than the content.
Yep, we took a free week of Paramount+ just so's I could smash out Strange New Worlds, Prodigy and season 4 of Discovery. Couldn't find anything else on what was a terribly thin platform, comparatively.
Same with Apple TV really. Got 3 months free, couldn't find anything but a Beastie Boys movie. We've still got a couple of months to run on that deal but we've cancelled already and, tbh, until I started this post I'd forgotten we even had it.
last.caress wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 10:30 am
Same with Apple TV really. Got 3 months free, couldn't find anything but a Beastie Boys movie. We've still got a couple of months to run on that deal but we've cancelled already and, tbh, until I started this post I'd forgotten we even had it.
Season 1 (two and three are not bad) of For All Mankind is worth a watch if you are desperate to use the AppleTV+ time (I watched it when I had my 3 months free)
Too many platforms competing and not enough talent to go around. Writing is an art and a craft, but it has been turned into a factory-farmed production line where myriad shows inhabit the televisual equivalent of the uncanny valley; they look like a good show, they have good actors, the scripts are professionally written and performed, and yet the audience is left dissatisfied, with a sense that what they watched was an imitation of a good show rather than a good show itself. I've never written for television but I can state with 100% certainty that I could write better telly than much of the tosh that gets commissioned.
Watched The Bear on Hulu last week. A quick 30 mins or so an eight episode season. Volatile restaurant based drama. Really good. Did not think I would enjoy as much as I did. Loved the ending too.
Season five of Cobra Kai over two nights as well. Extremely well done 80's cheese. Real 'page turner' of a season!
Just finished the German series 'Kleo' on Netflix. I really enjoyed it - definitely a level up from many of the other foreign language series on there.
I watched this Taiwanese horror whilst on holiday last week. It is a bit hit and miss but overall it is interesting and different enough from most western horrors to feel engaging. Perhaps it is the unfamiliar foreign tropes or maybe the imagery, but the unknown gives things added creepiness in my view. I would give it points for at least trying not to follow in the same footsteps although unavoidably, it does contain many horror conventions.
I watched this Taiwanese horror whilst on holiday last week. It is a bit hit and miss but overall it is interesting and different enough from most western horrors to feel engaging. Perhaps it is the unfamiliar foreign tropes or maybe the imagery, but the unknown gives things added creepiness in my view. I would give it points for at least trying not to follow in the same footsteps although unavoidably, it does contain many horror conventions.
Yes I watched that and it was alright - certainly a lot more conventional than the last Taiwanese horror movie I watched (The Sadness on Prime). That was an utterly crazy gore-fest.
Binged the whole thing over the weekend. Probably the best series of its type I’ve ever seen and really as much social commentary with all sorts of concurrent themes explored as serial killer dramatization.
Ambitious and utterly compelling on all levels.
Morocco Mole wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 10:30 am
Binged the whole thing over the weekend. Probably the best series of its type I’ve ever seen and really as much social commentary with all sorts of concurrent themes explored as serial killer dramatization.
Ambitious and utterly compelling on all levels.
Dahmer on Dahmer is currently on Sky if you have it.
This appeared on my recommendations from Amazon Prime which helped pass the time during a quiet day working from home this afternoon. Decent enough watch charting the childhood, adolescence and adulthood of a gang member in New Zealand.
