Fool Me Once/Netflix - January 1st…

[Ammi]

nhC8AG8cwcc

[Niamh.]

I read the book ages ago, I'll definitely give it a watch

[Ammi]

…I watched the first few episodes of this yesterday….I found it a bit slow at times but still an intriguing story and a good cast…

[Ammi]

…I binged watched the series and enjoyed it, a good New Year watch….

[Strictly Jake]

Yeah finished this last night. The ending felt a little unfinished with some of the side characters. But a couple of twists

didn't expect the policeman's friend to have been a hallucination

I thought Mya was pretending to be dead

But I loved it. And it's made me want to read more Harlen coban. If anyone can recommend any of his books please do. I'm a total bookworm since I joined the library last year I get through 4 books a week. :joker:

[GoldHeart]

…I binged watched the series and enjoyed it, a good New Year watch….

I might give it a try ,was also going to watch the Sheridan Smith one .

[Ammi]

I might give it a try ,was also going to watch the Sheridan Smith one .

…yeah, I also would like to watch The Castaways/Sheridan Smith, GH…but I don’t think that it’s streaming on any of the channels/sites that I have….

[GoldHeart]

…yeah, I also would like to watch The Castaways/Sheridan Smith, GH…but I don’t think that it’s streaming on any of the channels/sites that I have….

I don't have any of those streaming services either , but I'll find it online somewhere to watch . Plus paramount has actually uploaded the first episode on YouTube for free , to get people interested . It's only the first episode,but I'll find another website to watch the whole thing.

[jones89]

It was a good show with an amazing cast tbh but damn was it confusing

[Ammi]

I don't have any of those streaming services either , but I'll find it online somewhere to watch . Plus paramount has actually uploaded the first episode on YouTube for free , to get people interested . It's only the first episode,but I'll find another website to watch the whole thing.

…thank you for that…:love:…I’ll catch the first episode when I get the time, maybe after Traitors, though …and then hopefully I’ll find a way of watching the rest of the series as Sheridan is always a great watch…

[Ammi]

It was a good show with an amazing cast tbh but damn was it confusing

…:laugh:…it’s funny because at the beginning, I felt it was a bit slow in places and maybe not as gripping as I’d hoped…but I ended up rewinding a few bits because I thought…excuse me, did I miss something….….that first time when Sami blacked out and drove into the fence was one that I had to rewind because it came from nowhere…

[GoldHeart]

…thank you for that…:love:…I’ll catch the first episode when I get the time, maybe after Traitors, though …and then hopefully I’ll find a way of watching the rest of the series as Sheridan is always a great watch…

I won't spoil The castaways for you , but i was honestly underwhelmed . It kept me interested in parts... and i wanted to see what would happen in the end. But was cheesy and anti climatic .

[bots]

just finished it, it was totally screwed up :laugh:

[Josy]

This was good but not the best out of all his series' imo

[Ammi]

…I saw on Netflix, I think it was …that Safe, another Harlan Coben series was streaming so I might check that one out also…I wasn’t actually familiar with him until Fool Me Once…

[Niamh.]

Bit late to the party on this one, I'm on episode 4 now. I'm preoccupied by the fact that the Police guys shirts don't fit him, the buttons look like they're going to pop they're under so much pressure and the guy isn't even over weight, bad wardrobe people :nono:

[bots]

:laugh:

[Ammi]

Bit late to the party on this one, I'm on episode 4 now. I'm preoccupied by the fact that the Police guys shirts don't fit him, the buttons look like they're going to pop they're under so much pressure and the guy isn't even over weight, bad wardrobe people :nono:

…I’m the same…(…bit late to the party, not my buttons popping…)…but with Safe, another Harlan Coben story because I enjoyed Fooled Me Once and wasn’t familiar with any of his stories…I think that I’m on episode 5 so it’s all starting to come together a bit more now and I’m enjoying it…they’re good midweek mysteries….

[Niamh.]

…I’m the same…(…bit late to the party, not my buttons popping…)…but with Safe, another Harlan Coben story because I enjoyed Fooled Me Once and wasn’t familiar with any of his stories…I think that I’m on episode 5 so it’s all starting to come together a bit more now and I’m enjoying it…they’re good midweek mysteries….

Yeah I like him every now and again, his stories are always very twisty (although sometimes can border on ridiculous :laugh: ) but they're good for light watches when you don't think too hard about why they make no sense :p Good holiday books I find

[rusticgal]

On episode 4.... finding it hard to watch without laughing...and I just know its going to have a crappy end with so many unanswered questions..:laugh:

[Ammi]

Yeah I like him every now and again, his stories are always very twisty (although sometimes can border on ridiculous :laugh: ) but they're good for light watches when you don't think too hard about why they make no sense :p Good holiday books I find

…yeah, in Safe in particular there feels as though there are quite a lot of characters who have some significance in the story so it can feel a bit ‘messy’ until that’s all pulled together…and then once it does start to, it’s fairly quick after that and it all makes sense…but there are many, many threads …I can see why they have to be series’ rather than movies…it might be about a 7 hour movie to fit it all in…:laugh:….

[Niamh.]

On episode 4.... finding it hard to watch without laughing...and I just know its going to have a crappy end with so many unanswered questions..:laugh:

tbf in his books he does normally answer the questions even if the endings are far fetched

[Ammi]

On episode 4.... finding it hard to watch without laughing...and I just know its going to have a crappy end with so many unanswered questions..:laugh:

…I kept expecting Joanna Lumley to go full Ab Fab Patsy…

[Ammi]

tbf in his books he does normally answer the questions even if the endings are far fetched

…yeah, I enjoyed the bits were it all pulled together …all of those threads and you realised how much was there to have seen but I just missed it completely….

[Niamh.]

Yeah finished this last night. The ending felt a little unfinished with some of the side characters. But a couple of twists

didn't expect the policeman's friend to have been a hallucination

I thought Mya was pretending to be dead

But I loved it. And it's made me want to read more Harlen coban. If anyone can recommend any of his books please do. I'm a total bookworm since I joined the library last year I get through 4 books a week. :joker:

The Woods is good

[Niamh.]

Just finished this, I had read the book but it was ages ago and I couldn't remember much about it tbh

Like jake I also thought

That Mya was pretending to be dead first but her wanting to die makes sense considering her back story and she'd only end up in jail anyway

Sami's friend being his dead fiancee was the biggest twist of the whole show, did not see that one coming at all, I thought she was his AA sponsor which would explain why he called her all the time when he was struggling :laugh:

Final thoughts, what is up with the really short pants legs too on Sami? And they get even shorter in the future

[Cherie]

Is this worth sticking with? on ep 2 but struggling with Michelle Keegans acting skills

[Ammi]

….hmmmm…(for me…)…I would say that it’s a very easy to binge series and zips along quickly…but it also feels quite ‘forgettable’ quite quickly also if that makes sense…I didn’t feel any connection or attachment with characters …it was good, though, it was a very watchable but not a wow series…

[Cherie]

Thanks Ammi, I will probably stick with it

[bots]

there are quite a lot of series that just annoy me almost instantly, but i quite enjoyed this one, it was a bit different