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The 'What are you watching' Thread

Lysrin said:
We wanted a break from crime, murder, corrupt cops, doctor and lawyers, etc. :)

Found a show called Trying on AppleTV. We're on the latest season, 4, and have really enjoyed it. British show so some clever and quirky humour (imo). Been watching it as a family.

Also watched the movie CODA, again AppleTV. Very good if you want a feel-good movie. Some of you may class it as a chick-flick but if you do... GROW UP!! :D
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Okay Season 4 of Trying lost some of its charm, but still had some good moments.
 
I think which I go through fallout I may go to a very old TV series that I loved as a teen child mid late 1970s Kolchak the night stalker I used to love that show if I remember correctly it was on Friday nights around 10 and right after that at 11pm was Nightmare theatre which just showed the old horror movies Dracula and mummy werewolf type movies or Doctor Phibes type stuff Vincent Price movies
 
Shadowmeph said:
I think which I go through fallout I may go to a very old TV series that I loved as a teen child mid late 1970s Kolchak the night stalker I used to love that show if I remember correctly it was on Friday nights around 10 and right after that at 11pm was Nightmare theatre which just showed the old horror movies Dracula and mummy werewolf type movies or Doctor Phibes type stuff Vincent Price movies
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I can still vividly remember the look on his face when the eyes of the zombie/vampire/whatever it was opened up while he was attempting to sew the lips closed with some form of garlic concoction stuffed into the mouth. :) (Pretty sure it was during the intro that played at the beginning of every show).
 
Been watching Amazon's 'Wheel of Time' series. I read all the books years ago and have a mixed review of them. Some were great with great world-building and events, but the middle books suffer massive character bloat, pointless plot threads and seemingly go nowhere. That being said, it's a series that could make some great TV, though with so much content it's hard to prune it down to a TV friendly size without each book being 15 episodes.

The show is.... okay. It's reasonably high production, and the CGI magic isn't offensively bad, but they made some weird choices in what to adapt and what they pruned. The main character of the books seems to be reduced to a side-character, and while it's going to be tough to fit all the characters in substantially, it feels like they really just decided to have him as a 'deus ex' when necessary and focus on the others. S2 seems a touch better in that regard, tough it's trying to cover a lot of material in 8 episodes. Some major characters have become footnotes, other 'new characters' such as Perrin's wife seem like pointless additions.

Casting is a bit mixed. No one is awful, but the guy who plays Matt (and is replaced in S2) was definitely a bit weak, though they reduced that character so much he's barely present. Perrin's actor is good, but they've made him a bit too quiet and brooding. The actress that does Morraine is probably one of the best in the show. Nynaeve and Egwene are good, though not particularly memorable. Rand's actor looks the part, but they've pruned so much of his content from the books and made him basically flip from scared teen, to rebellious angry teen, to stoic man in all of 4 episodes.

There's a lot of race-swapping, which I usually don't care much about particularly in a world where magic and teleportation gates exist, but the books were clearly basing some of the groups off existing world cultures, so it feels a bit heavy handed, or at least makes the groups feel less monolithic and every city is a modern multi-cultural urban mix a la Toronto, LA or New York. Not looking to start a political discussion about it, but it feels like it doesn't add to the show.

I'm mid season 2 and will likely finish it, but won't really care one way or another if it gets renewed. Have a suspicion the season is going to end on a weak note with how quickly they're covering ground.

It does feel like it's kind of a lull period for big name shows at the moment, but maybe I just don't follow TV enough.
 
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