Last TV series you watched and your rating

When They See Us.

Another incedible tv series. I thought i would be spoilt after watchng Chernobyl but this was also top quality tv. Would reccomend to anybody.

Not sure we will ever know the complete truth of what happened that night, but this 4 part show is just an incredible and harrowing watch

Corazon de Leon

Year of the Rabbit - can't really put a rating on it. Thoroughly enjoyed though, along with the blink and you'll miss it Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi cameos.

What we do in the Shadows - 8/10

I enjoyed the movie and wasn’t convinced a TV series would work, but I thought it was great.

The Walking Dead: Season 3 - 8/10

A vast improvement on season 2 (in which little of note happened), the governor was a fantastic villain, and the return of Michael Rooker was a welcome bonus.

Chernobyl

Moggy can take the piss all he likes, but it shouldn't be British. It just shouldn't. Aside from that I agree with most other people here, it was excellent and deeply harrowing.

8/10

more heat than light wrote:Chernobyl

Moggy can take the piss all he likes, but it shouldn't be British. It just shouldn't. Aside from that I agree with most other people here, it was excellent and deeply harrowing.

8/10

I only took the piss out of the smug gits wanting it to be in Russian when Chernobyl is actually in Ukraine.

I neither agree or disagree on the language used in the show, it doesn’t bother me either way.

But I am writing to Ridley Scott to demand that he remakes Gladiator in Latin.

Moggy wrote:I only took the piss out of the smug gits wanting it to be in Russian when Chernobyl is actually in Ukraine.

Valery Legasov was Russian, as would have been most of the scientists and government officials. I don't think it's unrealistic to think that's how they would have been communicating.

Anyway, it is what it is. I personally found it a bit jarring and knocked a mark off for it. I totally understand it doesn't bother some people, and that's fine with me.

more heat than light wrote:
Moggy wrote:I only took the piss out of the smug gits wanting it to be in Russian when Chernobyl is actually in Ukraine.

Valery Legasov was Russian, as would have been most of the scientists and government officials. I don't think it's unrealistic to think that's how they would have been communicating.

Anyway, it is what it is. I personally found it a bit jarring and knocked a mark off for it. I totally understand it doesn't bother some people, and that's fine with me.

It would have had to have been in Russian for some characters and Ukrainian for others, with English used in some cases where people didn't speak one of the languages. I totally get why they just made the whole thing in English.

Killing Eve, Series 2 - 6/10 :dread:

They really dropped the ball with this one didn't they? Villanelle is still the best thing about it, but even she isn't given anywhere near enough to do here to help salvage things.

The first series was a really fresh take on the genre - answering the question of what kind of thriller you would get if people not normally involved in that genre got to make one, and the answer was something different and compelling. Here they just don't seem to know how to either recapture that same freedom or know how to push it forward to some next step.

Doesn't help that the whole thing takes so many liberties that the ability to suspend your disbelief is completely shot. Oh yeah just call the spooks up on your personal mobile, sure that makes sense. What's that, you need some special files - I'll just send them over email to you at home! "We're doing this by Moscow rules - no breaking cover, no contact"... but you'll keep tabs on her from across the strawberry floating road and meet each other regularly in public, speaking in your normal voices... :fp:

The plot doesn't give any indication that they know where they are going with it. Fiona Shaw's character was intriguingly vague and suspect in the first series, now it just seems like their taking the piss. And the whole "ghost" assassin stuff was pointless and nobody learned anything from it that we or the characters didn't already know.

It's not dead in the water by any means, but I've not experienced a drop off between series 1 and 2 like this since Heroes. :dread:

Heroes went from 9/10 to 2/10 by the end it was -9001/10.

Pedz wrote:Heroes went from 9/10 to 2/10 by the end it was -9001/10.

I didn't even make it to the end, I bailed a few EPs into S3 I think - it was clear there was now at back!

Jessica Jones S3. 7/10

Better than S2 but not as good as S1. It was OK, a bit more "detectivey" that others. Antagonist underused. 13 episodes could have been 10. I think Tennant was so good in S1 that cast a shadow on everything else. Better than LC2 and IF1, probably on a par with P2, not as good as DD or IF2.

Killing Eve - Season 1 - 8/10

There was so much hype around this that I think it suffered as I was expecting the best thing ever. It’s good, really good, but not the best thing I’ve seen this year.

Killing Eve - Season 2 - 7/10

The opposite of above, I’d heard it wasn’t as good as Season 1 and so my hype levels were low. Maybe watching straight after the first season helped, but I didn’t think it dropped very much in quality. It wasn’t as good, but was still good.

I'm only half way through S2 of Killing Eve but the dialogue is noticeably worse than the first season, with some absolute clangers of lines cropping up.

Completely agree that Chernobyl is peerless television. One aspect really irks for me though.
The scene in the bridge where they are watching the fire. Unaware that the Ash falling on them is radioactive was one that I found particularly stark and really beautifully done. At the end we are told that everyone on that bridge died subsequently. Obviously over time and from different conditions. Ie cancer, radiation poisoning etc.
This made that scene even more harrowing and poignant for me. Turns out this isn't true.

I know speculation on how many deaths have occurred (and from what source) have gone on since and clearly obfuscation by the authorities is a key theme of the show and of the event itself.
However, for them to make that claim falsely ruins it a tiny bit for me because I'd enjoyed that scene so much and thought it was brilliantly done.

I know artistic license and all that but for a show that didn't look to sensationalise things and didn't need to exaggerate anything. A show that appears to have attempted a high degree of historical accuracy. That's a sticking point for me.
9.5/10 because of it.

The Planets

I'm a sucker for anything space related, but this was absolutely exceptional. The CG is excellent and interspersed throughout with some incredible real footage, but the real draw here is Brian Cox, who excels in this kind of role. Fantastically and enthusiastically narrated and explained in a straightforward (but never condescending) manner, he manages to weave interesting stories and themes into the scientific material. It's utterly fascinating stuff, and if you have a few hours to spare I can highly recommend you stick the iPlayer on and give this a spin.

9/10

If anything I think MHTL scored The Planets too low. It was a wonderful show, but I am a sucker for anything with Professor Cox, even D:Ream.

Moggy wrote:even D:Ream.

Shame their biggest hit was spoiled by politics though.

But yeah, anyways, The Planets was excellent, though sadly i didn't see all the episodes and so might well see if i can pick it up on blu ray at some point.

Vermilion wrote:
Moggy wrote:even D:Ream.

Shame their biggest hit was spoiled by politics though.

But yeah, anyways, The Planets was excellent, though sadly i didn't see all the episodes and so might well see if i can pick it up on blu ray at some point.

How was U R The Best Thing ruined?

Why don't you just use iPlayer? :lol:

Moggy wrote:Why don't you just use iPlayer?

I don't have a smart TV and so i'd have to watch it on the computer, which means the picture quality is vastly inferior (which, for a series like The Planets, is a big deal).

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