Malazan Empire: Ye Big TV Thread - Malazan Empire

Is anyone else familiar with the Shardlake series by C J Sansom? They're murder mysteries set in Tudor England.

The TV adaption starts on 1st May on Hulu/Disney+ and I'm really excited after this first look!

Trailer

Sean Bean as Thomas Cromwell (fully expect that to be just be an extended cameo) and Arthur Hughes as Matthew Shardlake. It's nice to see they've gone for a disabled actor to play Matthew - Hughes was the first disabled actor to play Richard III for the RSC the other year too.

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 23 April 2024 - 01:18 PM

Not familiar, but that does look good. Cool setting for a whodunnit.


Baby Reindeer -- finished this tonight. At least in the US, it's on Netflix. This series hits a lot of notes -- tense, funny, scary, pathetic, sad, vulnerable -- and does them all really well. And at least in my opinion, got better with each episode, up to and including the finale. A lot more nuanced and varied than its thriller-ish tagline lets on.

I've been watching Resident Alien. This is funny stuff.

I tried getting into it before, but couldn't, for some reason.

Now I regret giving up on it, because this is amazing!

I finished Shogun. It was a beautiful, pondering masterpiece of an adaptation and despite feeling like it spent far too long building to something that never really came to pass, I was satisfied by the ending. Some people are saying they should do a season 2 about the establishing of the Shogunate and Blackthorne settling there but I think they're probably done with it.