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    Series 3 of Tin Star is the mutts.

    Series 1 was even better.

    Series 2 only OK.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grasshopper View Post
    Series 3 of Tin Star is the mutts.

    Series 1 was even better.

    Series 2 only OK.
    Series 1 easily the best.
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    Currently bingeing Peaky Blinders after a friend recommended. Am absolutely obsessed!
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    The Night Manager , again, and yet again...why have they not sussed him way before episode 2? It just doesn't work, wondering if the book is better? Usually don't mind Olivia Colman either but think she was massively miscast in this. This is how bad TV is that I am actually watching it again, the plus it's on late and better than watching Spin21 casino when I can't sleep.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grasshopper View Post
    Series 3 of Tin Star is the mutts.

    Series 1 was even better.

    Series 2 only OK.
    I'll now consider it
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    for the umpteenth time, I'm watching Seabiscuit (Sky Movies channel).

    Never fails to delight. Beautifully made film.
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    Actually got to see Raging Bull for the first time ever. It was on ITV last night. Missed the beginning so switched to +1. Nodded off part way through but got to see most of it. DeNiro put on stones to film the later scenes. So that and The Seventh Seal are off my tick list of films to see now (saw that last year). Annoyingly couldn’t get subtitles to work so had no idea what they were saying though. Agree about Seabiscuit. One of the rare occasions when the film adaptation was as good as the book.

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    I switched over and Raging Bull was on but just too late for me to stay awake.

    Currently enjoying The Serpent.
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    It was a struggle to keep awake as I’d just had a cup of my Pukka nighttime tea (realised it has the same ingredients as the dogs Lily’s Kitchen nighttime biscuits: which she doesn’t have any more as they’re far too expensive). Can’t get ITV catchup so knew it was a now or never situation. Haven’t started on The Serpent yet.....

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    Just watched Le Mans 66. Really enjoyed it. Had no idea that Sutton Coldfield had thrown up a world class racing driver. Only trouble is no actor ever seems capable of doing a convincing Brummie accent. Then again, neither can I and I’m from Birmingham.

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    The Investigation: another Nordic drama, which follows the investigation into the death of journalist Kim Wall aboard a 'home made' submarine in 2017. A couple of times spends too long on atmospheric shots in car rearview mirrors, but well told and amazing the lengths the Police and various diving units had to use in desperate search for evidence to have enough to charge the main subject with murder. Some familiar faces from The Killing ( original Danish version - series one is brilliant), and Borgen ( Danish series about the workings of the Danish Parliament ( nowhere near as dull as that sounds and well worth a watch).
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    Great. It’s on BBC. I can get catchup for BBC. I’ll watch that one. I loved TWIN. Recently watched Rick Steins Cornwall. Never liked Rick Stein much but I used to live in Cornwall and his love for the place really shone through (even though he has ruined Padstow). Also watching the latest David Attenborough but have found that, in my old age I struggle with the brutality of some of it.

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    The Serpent just gets better and better. Definitely worth a look, Moe!
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    I don’t know where to start! Currently watching a programme about Cameron Mackintosh!

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    Quote Originally Posted by moe View Post
    Great. It’s on BBC. I can get catchup for BBC. I’ll watch that one. I loved TWIN. Recently watched Rick Steins Cornwall. Never liked Rick Stein much but I used to live in Cornwall and his love for the place really shone through (even though he has ruined Padstow). Also watching the latest David Attenborough but have found that, in my old age I struggle with the brutality of some of it.
    I think they said the other night that The Bridge is also on the iplayer- definitely worth watching if not seen, and if have, to watch again for its' sheer brilliance and Saga.
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    I love Saga!

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    She's magnificent isn't she? Bought someone series one after raving about it/her, he was saying ' don't do sub titles'...yes, yes I said but you've GOT to watch this, he ended up watching the whole of series one in one sitting.
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    Started watching The Investigation last night. I like series with subtitles because I actually have to sit and concentrate: with other programmes I tend to fidget about. There really is a limited gene pool acting wise in Scandi dramas isn’t there. And I really struggle with series (of which there are many) in which people have dogs or children and then disappear for hours/days/weeks on end. I spent most of episode one thinking that, if both he and his partner were out at work all day who was letting the Labrador’s out.

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    The Serpent was very good. Liked the way it was shot in 'soft focus' - for want of a more technical phrase - which seemed more apt for the 70s than UHD would

    As ever with 50s 60s 70s period pieces produced today, the smoking was over-emphasised and failed to recreate the nonchalent, slick manner we devotees of the sotweed mastered back then: it was obvious the cast were non-smokers pretending to be 60-a-dayers

    Still, good stuff and it was nice to be reminded of fly-away collars and hip-hugging flares

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    Quote Originally Posted by moe View Post
    Started watching The Investigation last night. I like series with subtitles because I actually have to sit and concentrate: with other programmes I tend to fidget about. There really is a limited gene pool acting wise in Scandi dramas isn’t there. And I really struggle with series (of which there are many) in which people have dogs or children and then disappear for hours/days/weeks on end. I spent most of episode one thinking that, if both he and his partner were out at work all day who was letting the Labrador’s out.
    That's the kind of thoughts I have! Poor Wallander's ( Branagh) dog! Wallander doesn't go home for days but the dog's always in the house when he does. In The Departed, WHY did they go back to the deserted warehouse? And dont get me started on HUGE hole in plot in Heat, which I love, but every time that hole annoys the .........
    I have subtitles on all the time as struggle a little to hear dialogue if a lot of back ground noise/loud sound track etc., so I don't find them a pain at all. Recent Dunkirk film at the cinema, I missed most of it because of intrusive sound track. On the television recently, I actually found out what they had been saying. Still don't get the Styles casting - 1000 young actors could have done it as well at least.
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