[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

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

[worry]

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.

[Primateus]

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!

[Tiste Simeon]

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.

[Abyss]

Y'know what's really confusing.....?


Watching SHOGUN and BLUE-EYED SAMURAI around the same time.

[Tsundoku]

Watched and enjoyed House of Ninjas on Netflix. Very well done all round.

I will say that normally I prefer dubs to subtitles because I prefer not to have to read my TV shows and miss half of what's going on on the screen, but I had to with this one as the English dubbing was fucking horrendous. I had to switch over to subs with original Japanese sound after 10 minutes, it was that bad. Happily it didn't interfere too much with my enjoyment of the show though.

Fun fact: the grandma in the show was the main actor in Tampopo and A Taxing Woman back in the 80s! Some of the earliest Japanese live action stuff I saw on SBS back in the day (early 90s).

An easy eight shinobi (not ninja!) out of ten.