TV Series - What Are You Watching?

[Deleted member 1147]

First episode of Zomboat was on last night, it was terrible...but I loved it

 

[Hacker Khan]

Just finished 2nd series of Killing Eve, thought it was really good. Possibly not as good as the 1st series but then again not much is.

Also finished Keeping Faith 2nd series. God that was bad. I quite liked the 1st series but this one was awful. Completely over the top acting from the lead character which would have been 'a bit much' in a soap opera, a different actor playing the same character that was in the 1st series, the same song being played over and over and over again to try and convey emotion but ended up looking like some 1980s pop video. Wooden acting from her husband (act happy, act sad, act scared, act suspicious, act as if you are going to stab yourself in front of the kids but this time try and change your facial expressions between them) too many one dimensional poorly written characters with not much to do (I think her best friend was literally drinking a glass of wine in every scene she was in, that was all she ever did) and one of those plots that was trying to be clever but just ended up being both dull, cliched and made little sense as you needed to remember relatively obscure plot details from series one and the revels just being copy pasted from other shows. Avoid.

 

[AmandaJR]

Just finished 2nd series of Killing Eve, thought it was really good. Possibly not as good as the 1st series but then again not much is.

Also finished Keeping Faith 2nd series. God that was bad. I quite liked the 1st series but this one was awful. Completely over the top acting from the lead character which would have been 'a bit much' in a soap opera, a different actor playing the same character that was in the 1st series, the same song being played over and over and over again to try and convey emotion but ended up looking like some 1980s pop video. Wooden acting from her husband (act happy, act sad, act scared, act suspicious, but this time try and change your facial expressions between them) too many one dimensional poorly written characters with not much to do (I think her best friend was literally drinking a glass of wine in every scene she was in, that was all she ever did) and one of those plots that was trying to be clever but just ended up being both dull, cliched and made little sense as you needed to remember relatively obscure plot details from series one and the revels just being copy pasted from other shows. Avoid.

So you weren't keen on it then I felt much of the same about the first series and in particular the lead actress, whose constant gurning turned me right off, so didn't start Series 2 and glad I didn't.

 

[Hacker Khan]

So you weren't keen on it then I felt much of the same about the first series and in particular the lead actress, whose constant gurning turned me right off, so didn't start Series 2 and glad I didn't.

May be I was mis-remembering the first series. I think at least the 1st series had a plot and narrative, this one was all over the place. And they amped her gurning, crying, screaming in frustration, boxing (there were many many shots of her boxing to indicate that she is frustrated and angry) up to 10.

It was weird as they just kept repeating the same things over and over again as if every episode exited in isolation. Here's the same sad song with someone walking in slo-mo, check, here's her boxing, check, here's her screaming in frustration, check, here's her having a little cry to herself, check, every bloody episode. Kind of angry with myself I watched them all the way through, but the wife wanted to watch them so I thought I may as well watch them with her. Big mistake.

 

[MegaSteve]

First series of Keeping Faith was excellent the second series was less so...

Watch it as we've got to know the area/locations it was filmed in since a friend moved back there on retirement... Beautiful part of the country...

Oh... And, I love the leading lady...

 

[Hacker Khan]

First series of Keeping Faith was excellent the second series was less so...

Watch it as we've got to know the area/locations it was filmed in since a friend moved back there on retirement... Beautiful part of the country...

Oh... And, I love the leading lady...

I would agree the scenery was nice. And I liked Eve Myles in Torchwood so may be she is a good actor and it was more of a direction issue. But don't think I'll be watching series 3 if that ever commission it.

 

[Robin Hood]

BRASSIC

Brilliant

 

[Robin Hood]

My daughter asked if I wanted to watch Ru Paul Drag Race UK last night. She is 17, a chance for some father / daughter bonding time, 'Yes' I said. . Wow, that is bad. Not just bad but bad turned up to 11. I am definitely going to be doing something else same time next week, anything else.

I had a similar experience with "Make up artist of the year"
However it was excellent and I watched the full series 😂🙀

 

[Tongo]

Just finished 2nd series of Killing Eve, thought it was really good. Possibly not as good as the 1st series but then again not much is.

Also finished Keeping Faith 2nd series. God that was bad. I quite liked the 1st series but this one was awful. Completely over the top acting from the lead character which would have been 'a bit much' in a soap opera, a different actor playing the same character that was in the 1st series, the same song being played over and over and over again to try and convey emotion but ended up looking like some 1980s pop video. Wooden acting from her husband (act happy, act sad, act scared, act suspicious, but this time try and change your facial expressions between them) too many one dimensional poorly written characters with not much to do (I think her best friend was literally drinking a glass of wine in every scene she was in, that was all she ever did) and one of those plots that was trying to be clever but just ended up being both dull, cliched and made little sense as you needed to remember relatively obscure plot details from series one and the revels just being copy pasted from other shows. Avoid.

Personally I thought the second series just seemed to go round in circles. The central plot of the first series, the question of where Evan had gone, was solved so everything in the second series just seemed a bit meh.

 

[Piece]

I thought it went a bit downhill after episode 3.

Haven't seen the last episode but agree with PS in that after episode two, my attention wained.

 

[Piece]

Watching Another Life on Netflix. Getting quite into it.

Finished it now. Filed in the not bad category. The final episode set up the second series where hopefully a bit more action happens.

 

[MegaSteve]

Peaky Blinders...

Become a bit of a parody of itself... But, I still enjoy watching it...

 

[Deleted member 15344]

A confession - thought it was very well done , enjoyed the series

The Capture - was excellent until the last 30 mins , shame they manufactured it to ensure a second series, mildly disappointing but the last bit may open up a few twists

 

[Orikoru]

I don't know if anyone can confirm but apparently Soprano's is on Amazon Prime now?? I've been wanting to watch that for years but I didn't know it was on there until now, I don't think it used to be. If so that's going top of my list. Never seen it.

 

[Colonel Bogey]

Superstore. Up to Season 5 now. Takes some getting in to but well worth it.

 

[williamalex1]

3 episodes into Better Than Us on Netflix, a the Russian version of Humans the life like robot series.
Only problem its in Russian with English sub titles, but still enjoyable.

 

[Pin-seeker]

I don't know if anyone can confirm but apparently Soprano's is on Amazon Prime now?? I've been wanting to watch that for years but I didn't know it was on there until now, I don't think it used to be. If so that's going top of my list. Never seen it.

Not sure if it’s on Amazon,but you are in for a treat,best thing that’s EVER been on tv.

 

[chellie]

I don't know if anyone can confirm but apparently Soprano's is on Amazon Prime now?? I've been wanting to watch that for years but I didn't know it was on there until now, I don't think it used to be. If so that's going top of my list. Never seen it.

A fabulous series. Binge watching TV at it's best.

 

[Hacker Khan]

Watched the first episode of Motherland, laughed a lot.

 

[MegaSteve]

I don't know if anyone can confirm but apparently Soprano's is on Amazon Prime now?? I've been wanting to watch that for years but I didn't know it was on there until now, I don't think it used to be. If so that's going top of my list. Never seen it.

Not as part of its 'package'... You can buy episodes/season's from their platform...