[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.

[Tsundoku]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Tsundoku, on 27 April 2024 - 01:49 PM, said:

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

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

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Ninja is the on'yomi (Early Middle Chinese–influenced) reading of the two kanji "忍者". In the native kun'yomi reading, it is pronounced shinobi, a shortened form of shinobi-no-mono (忍びの者).[8]

The word shinobi appears in the written record as far back as the late 8th century in poems in the Man'yōshū.[9][10] [...]

Historically, the word ninja was not in common use, and a variety of regional colloquialisms evolved [...] Along with shinobi, these include monomi ("one who sees"), nokizaru ("macaque on the roof"), rappa ("ruffian"), kusa ("grass") and Iga-mono ("one from Iga").[6] In historical documents, shinobi is almost always used.

Ninja - Wikipedia

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Compound phrase comprised of 忍び (shinobi, "sneaking", the [...] "continuative or stem form") of verb 忍ぶ (shinobu, "to endure, to bear; to hide, to conceal oneself; to sneak into or out of a place")) +‎ の ([pronounced] no, possessive particle) +‎ 者 (mono, "person"). Literally a "sneaking person, person of sneaking".

忍びの者 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Shinobi | no | mono
Sneaking | 's | person

(no no mo' no!)

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 04 May 2024 - 12:02 PM

[Slow Ben]

 Tiste Simeon, on 26 April 2024 - 06:14 PM, said:

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.

This is all accurate. I don’t know how a show spends 10 episodes building to something and having such an anticlimactic ending still be so satisfying.

Really really freaking good. Hiroyuki Sanada is awesome in everything. And Anna Sawai (Mariko) was absolutely phenomenal.

[Tiste Simeon]

 Slow Ben, on 04 May 2024 - 07:07 PM, said:

 Tiste Simeon, on 26 April 2024 - 06:14 PM, said:

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.

This is all accurate. I don’t know how a show spends 10 episodes building to something and having such an anticlimactic ending still be so satisfying.

Really really freaking good. Hiroyuki Sanada is awesome in everything. And Anna Sawai (Mariko) was absolutely phenomenal.

Agree with you about the actors. Just brilliant.

Started watching Justified, what a great show! Thought it was a Western but it's kind of a modern cop show with a real Western vibe throughout, I guess in a similar way to the first season of True Detective. Timothy Olyphaunt is great.