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6so
post Aug 24 2019, 08:52 AM

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A little late into HBO's Succession, dug the high calibre casting. It's an analogue to the Murdoch media empire. Love Brian Cox take as the foul-mouthed patriarch figurehead who loves to pit his own children against each other. Ultra rich douchebags playing high stake mind games. Since this is an Adam McKay show, critiquing right wing politics is unavoidable.
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post Aug 27 2019, 01:10 PM

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This looks like a decent noir thriller.
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post Sep 3 2019, 08:57 AM

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This Way Up (2019-UK)
Creator & Writer- Aisling Bea
Stars- Aisling Bea, Sharon Horgan.
Release Date- 8 August-12 Sept-6 episodes
(24 mins per episode-All 6 available-internet)

Aine(Aisling Bea) an Irish woman who lives in
England and teaches English to immigrants.

She just checked-out from a mental health rehab
facility after a four-month stint for a nervous breakdown.
The older sister, Shona (Sharon Horgan) who picks her up,
asks one of the receptionists at the facility, “Is she fixed?

She has a tight bond with her Shona so much so that she
often feels adrift whenever Shona’s busy with her own life.
But Shona is also always checking on Aine, caring but slightly
controlling. Her boyfriend Vish (Aasif Mandvi) tries to persuade
her to let Aine take care of herself.

Loneliness is at the heart of it...
Aine is more open and portraying someone too vulnerable
for this modern life.

Bea’s comedy, charisma, and presence keep us engaged.

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post Sep 4 2019, 05:19 PM

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So it's your zero to hero rise of a smut peddler. It has that excessive Wolf of Wall Street energy to it where you follow a deadbeat salesman who carve out his porno empire. Crazy and funny situations of one after another. HBO's The Duece is more gritty and grounded while this has more comedic touches and easier to follow. Goes without saying that it's a "cuci mata" excess show, make sure no children around when watching it.
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post Sep 4 2019, 11:56 PM

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Nice fiction. I like it. for /k I think more interested with episode 3 smile.gif


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post Sep 5 2019, 08:44 AM

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The Capture (2019-UK)
Writer & Director- Ben Chanan
Release Date- 3 September. 6 episode-Weekly-1 Episode Available.
Stars-Holliday Grainger(Strike), Callum Turner.

The opening episode begins with a court of appeal,
watching a head-cam footage that shows a traumatized young soldier
Shaun Emery (Callum Turner) murdering a terrorist insurgent in
cold blood in Afghanistan.

He had his conviction for a murder overturned.
when a video expert reveals that the images
and the sound captured by the camera is out of sync.
By a few seconds.

With his name cleared, Shaun celebrate with friends, family and
his legal team in a pub.

Recently been transferred from the Counter-Terrorist Command (SO15)
to the murder squad, DI Rachael Carey (Holliday Grainger) received
a call of an abduction taken place in the time Shaun leaving the pub
and getting home. All spotted on CCTV footage.

Rachel goes in heavy-handed him, under suspicion for assault
and kidnapping his beautiful barrister.

Shaun tells the officers that it’s not him on camera.....
and did not actually happen.

So should we believe him?
In the era of the deepfake, can intelligence surveillance be
meddle with or .....?

A riveting start and a good cast.
I think this could turn out to be a very clever drama.

Should be another good one from British TV.

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post Sep 9 2019, 03:19 PM

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The Spy (2019-US, UK)
Release Date-6 September.
6 Episodes-Limited series(All available)
Writer & Director- Gideon Raff (Homeland)
Cast - Sacha Baron Cohen(Borat), Hadar Ratzon Rotem(Homeland),
Noah Emmerich, Alexander Siddig.

Based on the book by Uri Dan and Yeshayahu Ben Porat's
"The Spy Who Came From Israel"

Eli Cohen(Sacha Baron Cohen)an Egyptian Jew,
happily-married man is working in a lowly desk
clerk at a Tel Aviv department store.

His wife, Nadia (Hadar Ratzon Rotem ), works as a
seamstress for a rich Israeli couple.

Eli Cohen finds himself recruited by the Israeli
government, he applied twice to be a Mossad
(Israel’s intelligence agency) agent in the past
but was rejected.

Taken under the wing of handler Dan Peleg (Noah Emmerich),
he finds himself that sees a man losing his family,
his life and identity.
Eli Cohen has transformed and operating as Kamel Amin Thaabeth,
a successful importer and exporter of textiles in Damascus.
He tells his wife Nadia that he’s taken a job as a buyer for
Israel’s Ministry of Defense.

And we watch Cohen builds relationships with high-ranking
Syrian officials. In 1962, Cohen cultivated a friendship with
Colonel Amin-Hafez.He staged a successful coup and unknowingly
let Cohen into his inner circle and his access to a wealth of
national secrets.

His intelligence was an instrumental part of Israel’s dominance
in the 1967 Six-Day War. In Israel, he is considered a national hero.

Regardless of your politics, The Spy is best as history,
the story is good and a really tragic one.
And will stick with you after you finish watching it.

Worth watching. The right length at 6 episodes.

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post Sep 9 2019, 09:58 PM

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Parking for some reviews.
Thanks for the recommendation.
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post Sep 11 2019, 11:38 AM

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Someone laying the gauntlet at streaming war.
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post Sep 11 2019, 02:14 PM

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QUOTE(6so @ Sep 11 2019, 11:38 AM)

Someone laying the gauntlet at streaming war.
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when the beginning of the trailer is full of credits like from the director of XXXX, and producer of YYYY, and maker of ZZZZ
and 90% of the trailer is focusing on Jason Momoa, I've got a bad feeling about it already tongue.gif

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post Sep 15 2019, 10:53 AM

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Peaky Blinders has been on my Netflix queue like forever. Last night finally decide to give it a go. Eff me, I have no idea why I kept avoiding it all this time. This is a much better Steven Knight show than Taboo which he also did with Tom Hardy, exceptional writing with great performance. Loving the short episode count which means plot lines always moving forward.
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post Sep 15 2019, 01:07 PM

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Unbelievable(2019-US)
Release Date: 13 September
Limited Series.8 Episodes (Internet-All available)
Creators- Susannah Grant
Stars- Toni Collette, Merritt Wever(2018-Godless),
Kaitlyn Dever(Booksmart)

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning article, "The Marshall Project"
and ProPublica, ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape,’
by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong.

The story involved a series of rapes in Washington and Colorado
from 2008 to 2011.

Begins in the aftermath of an 18-year-old Marie Adler (Kaitlyn Dever)
after being assault early that morning. The police who are supposed
to serve as her support system painted her as a liar. Pressure her
to withdraw her report of being raped and accused her that she
make up a story here for attention. On the word of two of her foster moms.
Later they charged her with filing a false report.

She lost much, her job, her housing and support network.

Three years later in 2011, Colorado. A pair of female detectives
from neighboring Colorado precincts, we meet soft-spoken Detective
Karen Duvall (Merritt Wever) and abrasive Detective Grace
Rasmussen (Toni Collette). Both work in different districts but are
brought together by the similarities in the cases they’re investigating.
Later realize they have a serial rapist in their sights.
But they don’t have much in common.

Both detectives who are working with evidence that could
prove Marie is telling the truth.

Superb performances by the three lead, especially Kaitlyn Dever
who shows us the ordeal of Marie Adler.

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post Sep 16 2019, 12:14 AM

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QUOTE(lleihuan @ Sep 15 2019, 01:07 PM)
Unbelievable(2019-US)
Release Date: 13 September
Limited Series.8 Episodes (Internet-All available)
Creators- Susannah Grant
Stars- Toni Collette, Merritt Wever(2018-Godless),
Kaitlyn Dever(Booksmart)

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The jumping forth and back between 2008 and 2011 kept me in suspense ... wondering what will happened to Marie Adler. Great casting and detailed script.
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post Sep 20 2019, 12:25 AM

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QUOTE(lleihuan @ Sep 9 2019, 03:19 PM)
The Spy (2019-US, UK)
Release Date-6 September.
6 Episodes-Limited series(All available)
Writer & Director- Gideon Raff (Homeland)
Cast - Sacha Baron Cohen(Borat), Hadar Ratzon Rotem(Homeland),
Noah Emmerich, Alexander Siddig.

Based on the book by Uri Dan and Yeshayahu Ben Porat's
"The Spy Who Came From Israel"

Eli Cohen(Sacha Baron Cohen)an Egyptian Jew,
happily-married man is working in a lowly desk
clerk at a Tel Aviv department store.

His wife, Nadia (Hadar Ratzon Rotem ), works as a
seamstress for a rich Israeli couple.

Eli Cohen finds himself recruited by the Israeli
government, he applied twice to be a Mossad
(Israel’s intelligence agency) agent in the past
but was rejected.

Taken under the wing of handler Dan Peleg (Noah Emmerich),
he finds himself that sees a man losing his family,
his life and identity.
Eli Cohen has transformed and operating as Kamel Amin Thaabeth,
a successful importer and exporter of textiles in Damascus.
He tells his wife Nadia that he’s taken a job as a buyer for
Israel’s Ministry of Defense.

And we watch Cohen builds relationships with high-ranking
Syrian officials. In 1962, Cohen cultivated a friendship with
Colonel Amin-Hafez.He staged a successful coup and unknowingly
let Cohen into his inner circle and his access to a wealth of
national secrets.

His intelligence was an instrumental part of Israel’s dominance
in the 1967 Six-Day War. In Israel, he is considered a national hero.

Regardless of your politics, The Spy is best as history,
the story is good and a really tragic one.
And will stick with you after you finish watching it.

Worth watching. The right length at 6 episodes.

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Planning to watch this on netflix. Looks interesting
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post Sep 27 2019, 09:16 AM

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Emergence (2019-US)
Release Date-24 September. 4 Episodes-Weekly. 1 episode-available)
Creators- Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas
Stars Allison Tolman ( Castle Rock), Alexa Swinton.

Chief Jo Evans (Allison Tolman) small-town police chief,
a single mother with a teenage daughter, Mia (Ashley Aufderheide).
Recently separated from her husband Alex (Donald Faison).

A sudden blackout and was called to the scene of a plane crash.
She finds a young girl (Alexa Swinton) near the site,
and finds herself mysterious pursued by people who want her back.
They pretend to be from the (NTSB) National Transportation
Safety Board.
She takes the young girl into her home.

One episode in, a fantastical mystery start. I’m hopeful.


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post Oct 1 2019, 09:01 AM

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World On Fire(2019-UK)
7 Episodes-Release Date-29 September.Weekly.1st episode available.
Creator- Peter Bowker
Stars-Jonah Hauer-King, Julia Brown, Zofia Wichlacz,
Sean Bean, Helen Hunt.

Set in 1938 Manchester, Harry Chase (Jonah Hauer-King) and
his girlfriend Lois Bennett (Julia Brown) joins in a singing
protest at a Blackshirt rally before being arrested.

Harry is set to Warsaw as a translator for the British embassy.

Lois is a factory worker and singer running the motherless
Bennett household.
His father Douglas Bennett(Sean Bean) a bus conductor still
suffering from the shellshock (before PTSD was termed).
Now a pacifist campaigning for peace.

Nancy Campbell(Helen Hunt) a Berlin-based US journalist, reporting
on Hitler’s advances on the Polish border are ignored.

Lois hasn’t heard from Harry for a while even though he promises
to write. He finds a new interest with a beautiful Polish waitress
Kasia (Zofia Wichlacz)

Nancy advises Harry and her new girlfriend to flee the coming
invasion. To do the ‘right thing’ and prevent her from being
raped by enemy soldiers. Harry likes Kasia so much that he married her.
That was the only way he could get her out of Poland.

But at the rail station.....

A melodramatic story about human tragedies, the complexity
of war and its effect on ordinary people.

The series is fast-paced and entertaining.
Beautiful production.



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post Oct 7 2019, 02:48 PM

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Woot...woot, one more month to go.
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post Oct 14 2019, 12:56 PM

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Implore anyone can sit through family drama. Don't miss out s2 of Succession. The finale mind blown.
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post Oct 14 2019, 01:57 PM

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QUOTE(6so @ Oct 14 2019, 12:56 PM)
Implore anyone can sit through family drama. Don't miss out s2 of Succession. The finale mind blown.
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Izzit worth watching and sitting thru the sh1tsh0w at the fcuk factory in that fcuk3d-up family?

Tried to watch 2 episodes; while I like the business dealings side of it, I can't stand any of the @$$h0l3s family members and their in-fightings ... the father Roy, the sons, the daughter, the daughter's 'husband', the cousin, the stepmother, etc. ... none, except maybe Ken's ex-wife(?)

I do like Adam McKay's previous works, but I guess he's not the showrunner in this series.

(or maybe that's why it's that good?, to be able to get on my nerve while watching the show ... I didn't fast forward or skip, I'll try to give a show a fair 2 or 3 episodes full trial before deciding to give up or continue).
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post Oct 14 2019, 02:11 PM

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QUOTE(r2t2 @ Oct 14 2019, 02:57 PM)
Izzit worth watching and sitting thru the sh1tsh0w at the fcuk factory in that fcuk3d-up family?

Tried to watch 2 episodes; while I like the business dealings side of it, I can't stand any of the @$$h0l3s family members and their in-fightings ... the father Roy, the sons, the daughter, the daughter's 'husband', the cousin, the stepmother, etc. ... none, except maybe Ken's ex-wife(?)

I do like Adam McKay's previous works, but I guess he's not the showrunner in this series.

(or maybe that's why it's that good?, to be able to get on my nerve while watching the show ...  I didn't fast forward or skip, I'll try to give a show a fair 2 or 3 episodes full trial before deciding to give up or continue).
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Season 2 miles better than season 1. Each character has a fulfilling crescendo arc. Shiv, Roman and Kendall are much better flesh out as Roy hanging by a thread amidst internal and external fighting. Going through the assholeries is worth it when finale drop nuclear bomb comeuppance.


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