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Tom-the-eagle  Croydon 10 Mar 21 9.10pm |
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Originally posted by Casual
If you are bored of watching box sets about serial killing/vikings and want something to watch with your mrs. Give ‘this is us’ a watch. It’s on the prime app, massive in America. Me and my mrs have been watching a few a night. Right into it. Edited by Casual (25 Feb 2021 9.28pm)
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 Tyke Exile  Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia 10 Mar 21 9.27pm |
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I've watched this since the beginning and we are now halfway through Season 5. The first season was good but its gradually gone downhill since then. There's still the occasional good episode but generally its all very smugly done and I'm feeling like I want to reach through the TV screen and give them all a good slap. The writers are squeezing every last drop out of the story lines and the flashbacks and increasing flashforwards are becoming annoying. It'll probably get a 6th season in which I hope they'll wrap it all up rather than it get cancelled due to it's self inflicting sickening smarminess.
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| Casual Orpington 10 Mar 21 9.29pm |
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Originally posted by Tyke Exile
I've watched this since the beginning and we are now halfway through Season 5. The first season was good but its gradually gone downhill since then. There's still the occasional good episode but generally its all very smugly done and I'm feeling like I want to reach through the TV screen and give them all a good slap. The writers are squeezing every last drop out of the story lines and the flashbacks and increasing flashforwards are becoming annoying. It'll probably get a 6th season in which I hope they'll wrap it all up rather than it get cancelled due to it's self inflicting sickening smarminess. You sound like you hate it mate. But it’s taken you 80 odd hours to work that out, but you are still watching it.
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| Casual Orpington 10 Mar 21 9.30pm |
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Originally posted by Tom-the-eagle
On season 4 mate. Still watching it. Well worth a look in lockdown.
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| Tyke Exile Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia 10 Mar 21 9.44pm |
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Originally posted by Casual
You sound like you hate it mate. But it’s taken you 80 odd hours to work that out, but you are still watching it. I assume you are not familiar with the majority of US TV. Compared to most of it, This Is Us, stands out like a shining beacon but sadly US TV programmes tend to get picked up on an idea with no idea how they are going and with no end planned. They eventually get cancelled due to poor ratings and then maybe are picked up by streaming channels. I don't "hate" This Is Us but just wish I wasn't being taken for a ride by writers.
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| Casual Orpington 10 Mar 21 9.55pm |
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Originally posted by Tyke Exile
I assume you are not familiar with the majority of US TV. Compared to most of it, This Is Us, stands out like a shining beacon but sadly US TV programmes tend to get picked up on an idea with no idea how they are going and with no end planned. They eventually get cancelled due to poor ratings and then maybe are picked up by streaming channels. I don't "hate" This Is Us but just wish I wasn't being taken for a ride by writers. Why not just stop watching it?
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| Tyke Exile Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia 10 Mar 21 10.09pm |
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Originally posted by Casual
Why not just stop watching it? OK I'll take your advice. There's reruns of NCIS on another channel.
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| Tom-the-eagle Croydon 10 Mar 21 10.40pm |
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Ok, just finished first episode. Well I never saw that coming! Going to be hard to watch the next one as I think I may have something in my eye..
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sprites  Auckland 10 Mar 21 10.48pm |
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Yep we're about half way through season 3.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 12 Mar 21 9.30am |
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Watch ‘Safe’ on Netflix. Crime murder drama about a missing late teenage lad who we know dies at a big house party, and a missing teenage female, set in a suburb in England. It’s in a gated community, which is relevant to the story. Story develops into a lot more. 8 x 47 minute episodes. I think it was made in 2018. Where do these British dramas hide on Netflix?
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| Tom-the-eagle Croydon 12 Mar 21 9.47am |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
Watch ‘Safe’ on Netflix. Crime murder drama about a missing late teenage lad who we know dies at a big house party, and a missing teenage female, set in a suburb in England. It’s in a gated community, which is relevant to the story. Story develops into a lot more. 8 x 47 minute episodes. I think it was made in 2018. Where do these British dramas hide on Netflix? Nice one Rudi
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| silvertop Portishead 12 Mar 21 10.27am |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
Watch ‘Safe’ on Netflix. Crime murder drama about a missing late teenage lad who we know dies at a big house party, and a missing teenage female, set in a suburb in England. It’s in a gated community, which is relevant to the story. Story develops into a lot more. 8 x 47 minute episodes. I think it was made in 2018. Where do these British dramas hide on Netflix? I kind of prefer the way we do it, to be honest. Leaving out the odd masterpiece TV that needed the 6/7 seasons (I could have sat through a couple more seasons of The Wire), generally you wish the show had been limited to two seasons of 8 episodes each and the job is done. The economic reasons for continuing it are obvious. However, when you watch shows like the Handmaid's Tale and see how it is padded out with pointlessly lengthy flashbacks and a plotline that takes a whole season to grind out, you wish the resources that were invested in all those seasons had been invested into just one or two to produce a memorable, claustrophobic, dystopian a thriller that properly reflects the source. If you haven't seen it, have a look at "The End of the Fu****g World" for a show that is done on a low budget and does all it needed in one season, but leaving enough for maybe a second.
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