[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

worry, on 01 May 2025 - 01:56 PM, said:

Every contestant can bring props (seemingly whatever fits in one carrier, but a few people get creative about what constitutes a carrier), and there's also a stocked prop room.

"My props are laughing gas and a gas mask"

[Tiste Simeon]

So I finished Ted Lasso. Probably in my top 3 of all time. The heart and the emotions mixed with the brilliant humour is classic Bill Lawrence. What a show and I loved that nearly everyone got some kind of redemption!

Started watching Slow Horses. Had no thoughts going in and I am really hooked now!

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 07 May 2025 - 05:51 AM

[Tsundoku]

Tiste Simeon, on 06 May 2025 - 10:51 PM, said:

So I finished Ted Lasso. Privacy in my top 3 of all time. The heart and the emotions mixed with the brilliant humour is classic Bill Lawrence. What a show and I loved that nearly everyone got some kind of redemption!

Started watching Slow Horses. Had no thoughts going in and I am really hooked now!

Yeah, I really enjoyed Ted Lasso. Was definitely what we needed during those fun Covid years.

The Mrs watches Slow Horses avidly and rates it very highly.

[Tiste Simeon]

I can see myself keeping Apple TV a bit longer if the shows continue to be this good!

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 06 May 2025 - 10:51 PM, said:

Started watching Slow Horses. Had no thoughts going in and I am really hooked now!

First season is extra grimy and a bit hard to watch overall, but from S2 onwards it's just as gripping but not quite as dark and grim. This was due to the director of all of S1 (James Hawes)...his style is just too dark and grimy...every other season are by other people.


Plus you haven't even been introduced to the best character ever (beyond Lamb that is) yet, Shirley (Aimee Ffion Edwards)....seriously, I would watch a whole ass show JUST about her....but I was primed to enjoy her character since I loved her in THE DETECTORISTS and LUTHER.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 07 May 2025 - 11:33 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

QuickTidal, on 07 May 2025 - 11:31 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 06 May 2025 - 10:51 PM, said:

Started watching Slow Horses. Had no thoughts going in and I am really hooked now!

First season is extra grimy and a bit hard to watch overall, but from S2 onwards it's just as gripping but not quite as dark and grim. This was due to the director of all of S1 (James Hawes)...his style is just too dark and grimy...every other season are by other people.


Plus you haven't even been introduced to the best character ever (beyond Lamb that is) yet, Shirley (Aimee Ffion Edwards)....seriously, I would watch a whole ass show JUST about her....but I was primed to enjoy her character since I loved her in THE DETECTORISTS and LUTHER.

I've only seen two episodes so far which means something has just happened to my current favourite character and I'm annoyed at being at work so I can't keep watching to find out what actually did happen!

[QuickTidal]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

For anyone who missed this:

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For some years now, putting "Phoebe Waller-Bridge" and "Amazon" together in a sentence would only provoke feelings of sadness and disappointment. After all, in 2019 Waller-Bridge signed (and re-signed, and re-signed again) a $20m-a-year deal to develop shows for the platform, without a single project ever making it to screen. But that ends now.

On Thursday, Amazon Prime Video will release Octopus!, a two-part documentary about some octopuses, narrated by none other than Phoebe Waller-Bridge. And while it does in fact look like a very good documentary about some octopuses – it's part-animated and seems to heavily feature Tracy Morgan as a talking head – it arguably isn't what Amazon had in mind when it paid Waller-Bridge $100m for content ideas.

https://www.theguard...-career-u-turns

lol

From April:

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Her first big project was a new version of "married spies" thriller Mr & Mrs Smith, in which she would write with and act opposite Donald Glover, but that soon foundered amid reports that the two stars did not see eye-to-eye. [...] she did not even get a writing credit, suggesting none of her material had made the cut.

[...] Amazon later announced that Waller-Bridge would create a series based on the Tomb Raider video games.

It should have been the perfect combination: Waller-Bridge was a keen gamer growing up and idolised the no-nonsense protagonist Lara Croft [...]

[... Tomb Raider has] "gone through two writers' rooms and tens of millions of dollars in development costs", but still has no script.

[...] "She's become very rich out of it but I feel sorry for Phoebe," says one senior TV executive. "She's a once-in-a-generation British talent. She was clearly developing stuff and Amazon was knocking it back. The viewer isn't gaining out of it, are they?"

[...] "It feels like it's part of an old world: where global streamers pay stupid money to take people off the table," he adds.

https://www.yahoo.co...-172401005.html

[Slow Ben]

QuickTidal, on 07 May 2025 - 03:11 PM, said:

I haven’t got around to this one yet. Is it good?

[Cause]

Slow Ben, on 07 May 2025 - 11:13 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 07 May 2025 - 03:11 PM, said:

I haven’t got around to this one yet. Is it good?

It’s not foundation but it’s high budget sci-fi. The best parts of the show is an entirely original made for the tv show focus on Lee pace as the emperor of the galaxy.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Cause, on 08 May 2025 - 04:11 AM, said:

It's not foundation but it's high budget sci-fi. The best parts of the show is an entirely original made for the tv show focus on Lee pace as the emperor of the galaxy.

... but he's not very good in it.

It was so memorable that I had to use the search function to remember what I thought of it... and wrote in this thread. Memory jogged now, I could sum it up: some good scifi visuals, subpar to mediocre acting, mediocre writing (not up to prestige TV standards, though the worldbuilding does include some decently weird stuff that I can almost remember clearly...).

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 08 May 2025 - 09:08 AM

[QuickTidal]

Cause, on 08 May 2025 - 04:11 AM, said:

Slow Ben, on 07 May 2025 - 11:13 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 07 May 2025 - 03:11 PM, said:

I haven’t got around to this one yet. Is it good?

It’s not foundation but it’s high budget sci-fi. The best parts of the show is an entirely original made for the tv show focus on Lee pace as the emperor of the galaxy.

This. If you ignore the fact that it claims to be a FOUNDATION adaptation, you'll be fine as it's VERY good sci-fi disconnected to that...and yeah Lee Pace AND Jared Harris are in it, so you're covered for excellent actors.

[QuickTidal]

The YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES has FINALLY shown up in Canada digitally. $40 for the whole shebang on iTunes. It was never on Disney+ here like it was in the States (also be aware that D+ has removed all the Indy movies except DIAL and they were shunted back over to Paramount+; I guess the deal was only for a year?)

And TECHNICALLY it's THE ADVENTURES OF YOUNG INDIANA JONES; which was when Lucas (in 1999) had the show re-edited into 22 Feature Length "films", removed the bookends that featured George Hall as an eye-patched 93 year old Indy "telling the stories"...also could that have been a stronger homage to Spielberg's fanboy director John Ford? Anyways, I recall MUCH preferring the re-edited movie cuts of the show as they flowed so much better and made it more digestible...but I don't care as much for removing Hall's bookends as they felt fun....but IIRC it was in service to the final made for TV movie they made where a bearded 50-year old Harrison Ford played Indy for the Bookends...which I accept the loss of Hall if it meant we got a single outing where Ford played Indy in the 50's.

I feel like I should clearly explain what Indiana Jones meant to me as a kid. I saw RAIDERS on TV when I was probably 7-ish? and I was spellbound, and then I wanted my parents to take me to see TEMPLE in theatres, but they felt it was a bit too much for me that age...but that didn't stop me from watching it in 1986 when it came out on VHS, and then my dad and I went to see THE LAST CRUSADE in theatres in 1989...it's probably the most bonded we ever were about anything. He was sporty and I was bookish, so he wanted me to play baseball and soccer and I wanted to read, or watch movies...Indy gave us common ground. That common ground was so strong that around the release of CRUSADE they did limited firings of decorative plates (one with Indy and his whip in the Grail temple, and the other with Indy and his dad) and my dad ordered us both, he kept the one with Connery and I have the one with just Indy. It's still on my shelf, and so is his at his house 36 years later.

Indy kickstarted my love of history that continued throughout my schooling and into my adult years...in fact if you asked me in my teens what I wanted to be in a career, I alway said archeologist. I had a few obsessions in my youth, but Indy was in the top 3. When they did the first special boxed set of the original trilogy of films on VHS at Blockbuster, there was a deal where if you pre-ordered it, you got a costume fedora with it. I made my mom preorder it for me, and then when we went to the store to get it on release day, I got the set but they didn't have the fedora and they tried to tell me that they would not be getting them...so I kept coming back every few days until they finally go them. I wore the SHIT out of that hat....and I was a 13 year old kid in the 90's. Crazy talk.


Anyways, Young Indy hit right at the right time for me as it gave me that "expanded universe" thing and though the eps with child Indy (Corey Carrier; who has since given up acting) are less solid for me (the guy who plays the dad is PERFECT though), the Sean Patrick Flannery ones were Chefs Kiss. I think my other fave thing is the money they spent on this show. They shot on location for EVERYTHING...Like if the are in Egypt, the actors were in Egypt, china? They were in China. Brazil? They were in Brazil. Lucasiflm's momentary commitment to a show that was essentially the campy TV version of Indy was immense.

Anyways, I'm jazzed as hell to finally be able to re-watch all these. Last re-watch of them was about 2010, so a long time ago now.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 08 May 2025 - 04:13 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

QuickTidal, on 07 May 2025 - 11:31 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 06 May 2025 - 10:51 PM, said:

Started watching Slow Horses. Had no thoughts going in and I am really hooked now!

First season is extra grimy and a bit hard to watch overall, but from S2 onwards it's just as gripping but not quite as dark and grim. This was due to the director of all of S1 (James Hawes)...his style is just too dark and grimy...every other season are by other people.


Plus you haven't even been introduced to the best character ever (beyond Lamb that is) yet, Shirley (Aimee Ffion Edwards)....seriously, I would watch a whole ass show JUST about her....but I was primed to enjoy her character since I loved her in THE DETECTORISTS and LUTHER.

Just finished season 1 of Slow Horses and WOW it's amazing, I'm definitely in for all 4 seasons. It's not a comedy but there's quite a few moments that made me laugh too, usually let's face it when Gary Oldman said something snarky haha

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Just started a show about singers who can reach the highest vocal pitch. It's called The Sopranos.

Has anyone seen it?

[QuickTidal]

QuickTidal, on 04 February 2025 - 02:29 PM, said:

This may be the BEST entertainment news so far this year. BUFFY reboot with SMG in the works with Chloe Zhao!

OH MY GODS YES. And Whedon nowhere to be found on the crew. Good.

You guys have no idea, BUFFY was my JAM in my late teens early 20's. I'm so excited.


And in case we wanted something more? Here's SMG in the 'Yummy Sushi' pyjamas from S4 on Instagram today already buzzing about it!!!!

bufff.jpeg

And they found their new young Slayer! Ryan Kiera Armstrong (who played Fern on SKELETON CREW). She's a good actress and I liked her in SKELETON CREW, so I'm happy with this news.

EDIT: The Insta video of SMG telling her is sweet and wholesome as well...so is her dad.

https://www.instagra...zhpd281NGJmMmR2

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 15 May 2025 - 06:25 PM

[Primateus]

Tiste Simeon, on 21 April 2025 - 07:48 PM, said:

Apple TV was offered to me for £2.99 a month for 3 months so I now have it for a bit! Got some definitely to check out - Severance, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Silo... I'm also interested in Slow Horses, Mythic Quest and Roar.

Any other "must watch" shows while I have it?

I found I quite enjoyed "Lessons in Chemistry"

[Tiste Simeon]

Primateus, on 15 May 2025 - 09:52 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 21 April 2025 - 07:48 PM, said:

Apple TV was offered to me for £2.99 a month for 3 months so I now have it for a bit! Got some definitely to check out - Severance, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Silo... I'm also interested in Slow Horses, Mythic Quest and Roar.

Any other "must watch" shows while I have it?

I found I quite enjoyed "Lessons in Chemistry"

Oh yeah that one is on the list!

[Tsundoku]

We just started Murderbot and so far it's quite good. Definitely hits the same tone as the first book.

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 15 May 2025 - 11:48 PM, said:

Primateus, on 15 May 2025 - 09:52 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 21 April 2025 - 07:48 PM, said:

Apple TV was offered to me for £2.99 a month for 3 months so I now have it for a bit! Got some definitely to check out - Severance, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Silo... I'm also interested in Slow Horses, Mythic Quest and Roar.

Any other "must watch" shows while I have it?

I found I quite enjoyed "Lessons in Chemistry"

Oh yeah that one is on the list!

Seconded. Lewis Pullman is wonderful and I think it's Brie Larsen's best role. Just a solid show all round.