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by Ironhide » Mon Oct 29, 2018 5:47 pm

Preezy wrote:The Bodyguard - 7/10

Was really enjoying it until the last 15 minutes of the final episode. What a gooseberry fool ending :lol:


I felt the same with Battlestar Galactica.

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by BOR » Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:53 pm

The Haunting on Hill House.

It was very good and I enjoyed it a lot. There were a couple of scenes made me jumped. :lol: :oops:

Overall, it was great.

7.5/10

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by Miguel007 » Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:12 pm

The Haunting of Hill House; 8/10.

Really enjoyed this but apart from one jump scare ghost in the car between the two arguing sisters didn't find it scary at all, I found it to be likeable to Lost with time jumps and little mysteries happening.

Thought the mother was damn :datass: there's no way she'd had 5 kids!

I hope there is no more series going forward as I felt everything tied off nicely, where else could they go if it continued, all the family end up together in the Red Room? No I felt it was a great emotional ending.

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by Tafdolphin » Thu Nov 01, 2018 11:03 am

Just hit ep 6 of Haunting of Hill House (the funeral home ep) and it's legit one of the best episodes of TV I've seen in ages. Loved the format they went for, and the whole thing felt like a play.

The series entire continues to be a pleasant surprise: I'm an absolute wimp when it comes to horror but I'm actually not finding it all that scary...which is good because there's a really interesting ensemble piece here. The cast are, to a man, utterly fantastic, even the child actors which is super rare. Itching to get to the finale now.

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by Vermilion » Thu Nov 01, 2018 2:25 pm

SugarDave wrote:Just finished my rewatch of Deadwood and it's quite comfortably my favourite thing ever put on TV. I love everything about it, but the standout star is the camp itself, I don't think I've ever seen a location so fully realised in TV before. It's a richly developed character of its own and you become so familiar with it over the course of the 36 episodes that I could probably draw a map of it from memory alone. The writing is poetry to listen to and the character relationships feel so genuinely sincere or tense depending on the pairing or group, if I had to make a top 10 TV characters list, I'm sure that at least 5 of them would be from Deadwood. Jesus Christ, it's so good! :wub:


I watched Deadwood off the back of a lot of recommendations and hype, and while the first series was pretty decent, the second was dull with very little of note actually happening, and the third gained some momentum, but then ended on a really rubbish note.

Killing that girl to bail out Trixie was just downright nasty and unnecessary (it also went against Swearengen's character, who although ruthless, was not the sort to do that to women), and for the main villain just to up sticks and leave was just a lame cop out.

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by Sandy » Thu Nov 01, 2018 2:52 pm

Miguel007 wrote:The Haunting of Hill House; 8/10.


Going to go with the same rating.

There were a couple of parts in the story developement that stopped it being better for me but over all it was a really good series.

While it's billed as a horror it's definitely more story and character driven. The first half of the series is the scarier half, with the second focusing more on answer all the questions raised by the first half.

There's a lot of your standard horror tropes but not so many you'll lose your engagement rolling your eyes at the envitibility of it. I don't normally recommend horror films or series as they tend to be gore porn or just boring but this is a well written show with enough mystery in the story to keep you engaged and characters you can get into. Defintiely worth checking out.

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by KomandaHeck » Thu Nov 01, 2018 7:17 pm

Vermilion wrote:
SugarDave wrote:Just finished my rewatch of Deadwood and it's quite comfortably my favourite thing ever put on TV. I love everything about it, but the standout star is the camp itself, I don't think I've ever seen a location so fully realised in TV before. It's a richly developed character of its own and you become so familiar with it over the course of the 36 episodes that I could probably draw a map of it from memory alone. The writing is poetry to listen to and the character relationships feel so genuinely sincere or tense depending on the pairing or group, if I had to make a top 10 TV characters list, I'm sure that at least 5 of them would be from Deadwood. Jesus Christ, it's so good! :wub:


I watched Deadwood off the back of a lot of recommendations and hype, and while the first series was pretty decent, the second was dull with very little of note actually happening, and the third gained some momentum, but then ended on a really rubbish note.

Killing that girl to bail out Trixie was just downright nasty and unnecessary (it also went against Swearengen's character, who although ruthless, was not the sort to do that to women), and for the main villain just to up sticks and leave was just a lame cop out.


Can't agree with the dull comment for season 2. Season 1 certainly has more of that typical lawlessness western vibe which lends itself well to more immediate excitement, but the story of the show overall is very much about the encroachment of civilisation on the camp and its development as a community. While on paper, the gist of season 2 being about "negotiating annexation to this territory or that one" may sound boring, the dialogue turns it into something that rivals even more obviously thrilling plots in other shows (I also happen to enjoy all the politicking but that's just me).

I've heard criticism about the final episode before, and you're absolutely right it's nasty, but I don't know why you found it out of character for Swearengen. If you'd said Bullock, that would be more understandable, but even though Al shows a lot more of his softer side from season 2 onwards, he's still a vicious bastard in a lot of ways. Bear in mind, he orders a little girl to be killed in the first few episodes of the show. :lol:

As for Hearst, him leaving with minimal repercussions was totally fitting for the show, ignoring the fact that the real Hearst went on and lived. From the start, he wielded more power than anyone in camp and was always going to get his way, Al knew that him getting his comeuppance would spell more disaster for the town, or he'd have killed him when they first met. "You can't cut the throat of every cocksucker whose character it would improve".

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by Tafdolphin » Thu Nov 01, 2018 9:36 pm

Finished Haunting of Hill House. A great series with one of the most bizarrely illogical, counterintuitive, just plain bad endings ever. I mean, a complete clusterfuck. This unfortunately took it from an 9 to an 8/10.

More thoughts later because...Jesus that was woeful.

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by The Last Ginja » Fri Nov 02, 2018 1:09 am

The Purge on Amazon Prime. Based off the films. Not as gory but enjoyable enough.

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by Tafdolphin » Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:48 am

Right. Had a bit of time to digest. Here follows my thoughts on the final ep of Haunting of Hill House.

It's not a reach to state this wasn't a programme about ghosts so much as it was about personal trauma and the mental health issues that can be caused by them. This was specifically the aim of the author when she wrote the book back in 1959, after all. It's so obvious in fact that Steve straight up lists the condition each character represents around halfway through episode 9. This is the show's raison d'etre.

It is disappointing then that this premise is forgotten completely in its final episode. What was a slow burning exploration into a family wracked by a communal tragedy becomes a ghost train where all the strings and joints and robotics are visible through a flimsy veneer of plastic.

The ep is initially broken up into vignettes alighting on each character. Rather than focusing on preestablished traits for each, we instead get wildly irrelevant stories whose sole aim is to elicit a 'wham' moment. Instead what we get is a bunch of predictable cliches which, tellingly, rely on gore and revulsion far more than anything else in the show. They add nothing to the overarching plot, nor do they scare, nor do they educate. They are simply there to fill time.

It's once we've moved on from these however that the show really begins to collapse under the weigh of its own established norms. The previous episode rammed into our heads, over and over, a mantra that largely sums up the arcs for each and every character: "Fear... you submit to it or fight it but you cannot ignore it.") If we take the house itself as an analogue of fear and trauma this would, going into the episode, lead the viewer to believe the final ep would be about the family confronting and overcoming their fear in the form of the house and its ghosts.

Instead the episode transforms the house from a well woven analogy of trauma into a magical fairyland where you can walk forever with your loved ones. I mean, let's hope Elon Musk never finds out about the place as he'll slap a Tesla EvaLife banner on the thing and sell tickets for $100 000. The family neither confronts nor evades their fear, instead they explicitly ignore it, leaving the house standing so their memories of their fears, ie the dead sister, the schizophrenic mother, can continue to exist in their collective consciousness and haunt them forever. It directly contradicts the mantra the entire show up until that point had gone to pains to establish as the defining aspect of the narrative.

And the ending itself... initially I was utterly agape at the saccharine sweetness of the thing, Sheeran-esque licenced music and all, but it was made even worse when I read up on the matter and discovered the ending as shot was completely different:

"The series director Mike Flanagan revealed that the story was originally planned to have a much darker ending. It would have played out basically the same, except during the shot of the entire family celebrating together, the window of the Red Room would have been in the background, implying that they never managed to actually escape the house. He realized that he had become too attached to the characters and wanted to give them a proper happy ending, so rewrote the story so they actually did escape."


Changing this ending, which ties in to the show's themes, was an act of supreme selfishness on the director's part. He turned a dark and fitting conclusion into a sickly sweet, thematically contradictory one for his own purposes. Which, as an artist, is a cardinal sin. You work towards completion of the work and towards the consistency of that work, not to give yourself the warm and fuzzies on a last minute impulse.

The ending was terrible. It didn't alter my appreciation of the series as a whole, which is probably the best thing I've seen on TV this year (beating even Better Call Saul) but it did leave a sour taste in my mouth.

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by RichardUK » Fri Nov 09, 2018 2:00 am

Wolf Creek series 1 and 2

I really enjoyed it but after watching it I now never ever want to visit Australia - 8/10

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by Oblomov Boblomov » Fri Nov 09, 2018 4:31 pm

Better Call Saul - series 4

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by Rapidly-Greying » Sat Nov 10, 2018 12:51 pm

Tin Star series 1. strawberry floating fabulous.

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by Moggy » Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:20 am

Line of Duty Series 1 - 6.5/10

I’ve heard people raving about LoD and noticed it was on Netflix. I assume the later series get better because I didn’t think this was great. Good but not great.

I enjoyed Morgan playing What’s the time Mr Wolf though. :lol:

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by abcd » Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:51 pm

Finished Haunting of Hill House and the ending left me feeling a bit underwhelmed.

The first 8 episodes are great. Fantastic stuff. The ending left me wanting more but everything was wrapped up in a pretty little bow and was very sickly.

It was like eating cookie dough. The first taste is great, and then the sugar kicks in and it's far too sweet and nice. You simple can't stomach it.

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by Tafdolphin » Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:55 pm

abcd wrote:Finished Haunting of Hill House and the ending left me feeling a bit underwhelmed.

The first 8 episodes are great. Fantastic stuff. The ending left me wanting more but everything was wrapped up in a pretty little bow and was very sickly.

It was like eating cookie dough. The first taste is great, and then the sugar kicks in and it's far too sweet and nice. You simple can't stomach it.



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by Jenuall » Mon Nov 12, 2018 1:04 pm

Moggy wrote:Line of Duty Series 1 - 6.5/10

I’ve heard people raving about LoD and noticed it was on Netflix. I assume the later series get better because I didn’t think this was great. Good but not great.

I enjoyed Morgan playing What’s the time Mr Wolf though. :lol:


I've not actually watched S1 of this but 2-4 are belters with 3 probably being the peak for me.

Some of it gets a bit unbelievable at times but the writing is just fantastic for the most part. For example the finale to one series is largely based around two interviews and so a big chunk of the episode is just a few people in a small room talking to each other and yet it is one of the most gripping things I've watched in recent years.

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by Moggy » Mon Nov 12, 2018 1:09 pm

Jenuall wrote:
Moggy wrote:Line of Duty Series 1 - 6.5/10

I’ve heard people raving about LoD and noticed it was on Netflix. I assume the later series get better because I didn’t think this was great. Good but not great.

I enjoyed Morgan playing What’s the time Mr Wolf though. :lol:


I've not actually watched S1 of this but 2-4 are belters with 3 probably being the peak for me.

Some of it gets a bit unbelievable at times but the writing is just fantastic for the most part. For example the finale to one series is largely based around two interviews and so a big chunk of the episode is just a few people in a small room talking to each other and yet it is one of the most gripping things I've watched in recent years.


That’s good to hear, S1 was decent enough so I’ll look forward to it getting even better.

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by Miguel007 » Mon Nov 12, 2018 2:35 pm

The Sinner S2 - 6/10 - while the show goes on to tell an entertaining yarn; every actor except Bill Pullman and Julian, I found to be poor.

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by Ecno » Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:16 pm

Community Series 1- 8/10- Really enjoyable sitcom. Not really much more to say.

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