[Ray.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…a bit of a change of topic but I was channel flicking a few evenings ago and settled on a Parkinson interview with Alec Guinness…the bit I saw, he was talking about his early career and being mentored by John Gielgud/how much he admired him and the friendship they came to have etc…the was only around 10 minutes or so left of the interview that I saw but I could have listened to him for hours…such a great story-teller, in his ease of telling a story…

Yes, and a fantastic voice along with a magical, twinkly quality to him. He was in a league of his own.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Ray.

Been rewatching the Alec Guinness version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Vastly superior to the movie version, of course. I love our British understated take on the spy genre, with its emphasis on the increasing mediocrity, decrepitude and rot of relatively early post-Empire Britain.

The best version. And actually, I think Gary Oldman had watched it too because his performance in the remake looked like a big of an homage to Alec Guinness. I am a big fan of old British films and Guinness is just brilliant in everything.

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by Livia

The best version. And actually, I think Gary Oldman had watched it too because his performance in the remake looked like a big of an homage to Alec Guinness. I am a big fan of old British films and Guinness is just brilliant in everything.

Yes, there are many things about the movie version that are laudable. Some aspects (like the performances) simply come down to personal preference. Though I'd personally give it to the series in nearly every respect. And the fact that movie is able to convey most of the story in the two hours it's limited to is commendable.

Great as Guinness is in Star Wars, with such a great body of work behind him, I can see why he was a bit rankled to mainly be remembered for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi.

[Livia]

Re-watched the first season of The Bridge. What a brilliant series. Saga Noren is a brilliant character. I do love a scandi drama....

[Vicky.]

Private practice..spin off of Grey's anatomy

[Nicky91]

Gonna watch new episode 911 nashville tomorrow

As i have Promibacken today, bake off germany celebrity

[Niamh.]

Just myelf and Steve home tonight so I'm going ti binge the 3 episodes of the ANTM doc, scared to see how badly this aged, I loved it when it first aired

[Mystic Mock]

Fallout Season 2.

The Actors are doing their best with some horrible writing this Season.

Honestly the pacing is just typical TV on Streaming, wait until the last 2 episodes for the story to start.

It's tragic to see the TV industry become like this.

[Ammi]

…I’ve just begun to watch The Last Thing He Told Me… ….I'm only one episode in atm but so far I’m liking it and looking forward to seeing how the plot unfolds…that might be more because of Jennifer Garner’s presence though, who’s always a great watch/rather than the storyline so we’ll see how it goes…

[Zizu]

Just finished watching INDUSTRY … all 4 seasons .

Excellent thought provoking series set around the world of finance/ stock exchange

[Nicky91]

David Jonsson!!!!

"Andy" from Alien Romulus

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…I’ve just begun to watch The Last Thing He Told Me… ….I'm only one episode in atm but so far I’m liking it and looking forward to seeing how the plot unfolds…that might be more because of Jennifer Garner’s presence though, who’s always a great watch/rather than the storyline so we’ll see how it goes…

…I’m quite far into season 1 of this now and it’s a decent thriller/mystery, I think there might be another season after this…it’s a sound plot and cast…

@Niamh. …I think that you might enjoy this if you haven’t seen it already…

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…I’m quite far into season 1 of this now and it’s a decent thriller/mystery, I think there might be another season after this…it’s a sound plot and cast…

@Niamh. …I think that you might enjoy this if you haven’t seen it already…

Oh thanks, is it on Netflix?

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Oh thanks, is it on Netflix?

…(…I think it might be Apple, actually…)…but a lot of Apple stuff is on Prime also, so check that, it’s a decent watch and Jennifer Garner is always terrific…

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…(…I think it might be Apple, actually…)…but a lot of Apple stuff is on Prime also, so check that, it’s a decent watch and Jennifer Garner is always terrific…

I may have another way to watch so I'll do a search later

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I may have another way to watch so I'll do a search later

[Mystic Mock]

I tried out 5 episodes of an Anime called Kill La Kill.

I couldn't stand it, I honestly didn't understand the appeal of the Show at all.

And I have tried to be better at sticking with Shows (I even stuck with Brave Bang Bravern and The Traitors Ireland ffs) but Kill La Kill just broke my spirit, I didn't even like the Animation for the Show controversially.

To put some positives in there, I will say that the voice acting was good, some of the action scenes were decent, and I did like that one of the Mascot characters was called Guts (I don't know if they were intentionally referring to Berserk or not) but it gave me a chuckle nonetheless.

If it'd have been 12 episodes I'd have stuck it out, but 24 episodes was very daunting to me.

[millyrose]

I'm watching the summit with Ben Shepard at the moment

[Zizu]

We started watching The Heat a chef reality show last night following on in the Love Island 9pm slot

[Mystic Mock]

I've started a rewatch of Falling Skies.

I've only watched 4 episodes of the first Season so far, but I am enjoying it.

Yeah it is quite cheesy, but I think that I'm appreciating five things about the Show that you just can't really get altogether currently in the 2020's Streaming model.

1. It isn't afraid to be cheesy and have a style that's not "cool” and "hip with the youth” even back when it was out it weren't really seen as a trendy Show. Basically I appreciate that it has it's own style and is comfortable with it.

2. It's paced a lot better than Shows like Fallout Season 2, Severance both Seasons, and complete and utter rubbish like Pluribus imo. Which was funny because I remember thinking that Season 1 of Falling Skies was quite slow paced back when it came out, but compared to Streaming Shows it looks like it's paced at break neck speed in comparison.

3. Pope's dialogue and general writing is really fun to watch, and certainly would not be allowed today unfortunately. The Actor also delivers his lines really well imo.

4. You can actually like the protagonists, that's sadly not as common as it should be on Streaming TV Shows that have come out in the 2020's. American writers need to seriously look at fixing this particular issue imo as it's a huge problem within their current Shows that I don't believe that Falling Skies (or a lot of the US older Shows) suffer from anywhere near as often.

And 5. Attractive women actually exist in the world of Falling Skies. Yes it's a shallow thing to point out and it isn't technically needed to make a Show good per say. But it's honestly refreshing to watch an American Show that doesn't pathologically hate on attractive women existing because it might please men, or should I say "the male gaze.”

It's just nice to see that it's there, but they're so far also being well written without being treated as sex objects, because I do want the attractive women that are cast on TV to be well written too, otherwise it'd be a waste having them on the Show.



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