merman wrote:Motherland series 3 was superb, but COVID meant it was only five episodes this time. Packed in so many laughs and recognisable situations though.
Only discovered Motherland recently, Julia is just a little different to Pass Agg Pat from Line of Duty!
Love it, just got to a couple of episodes into S3 so far. I do think they've made Julia a little bit too unlikeable through the tail end of S2/start of S3 and Liz is perhaps the best character because of it.
The nits pandemic scenes at the start of S3 were just genius though.
Julia’s character arc in this series is incredible. She’s always been the “yummy mummy with everything going for her” but things take a very difficult turn.
merman wrote:Julia’s character arc in this series is incredible. She’s always been the “yummy mummy with everything going for her” but things take a very difficult turn.
merman wrote:Julia’s character arc in this series is incredible. She’s always been the “yummy mummy with everything going for her” but things take a very difficult turn.
Yes it's zombies, again. But it's handled so flipping well it's crazy. First season looks at the first few days immediately following the outbreak, tracking various people as they try to get to safety. Second season takes a different angle but they're both superbly done.
One of the defining things is how it's filmed & cut. Loads of ultra-long single-cut scenes, following characters as they traverse the environment, hiding from Zs and other enemies, making mistakes. A fair bit of timeline jiggery-pokery as you run into characters then get a vignette explaining how they got there. The whole thing feels massively grounded/plausible compared to most zombie stuff. And fucking hell it has tension in spades
I'm enjoying Star Trek Lower Decks - an animated Star Trek adult comedy based on the lives of the support crew on one of the Starfleet's least important ships. Set after Next Generation, Riker makes the odd appearance, and references plenty of past Trek. It's fun in a light meaningless way and if you like Trek you'll get something out of it.
It's on Amazon Prime and they've just started the weekly drip of season 2.
i know I am late to the party but was waiting for the HDR files - SQUID GAME ! Watch it now, just great.
Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
Deckard wrote:i know I am late to the party but was waiting for the HDR files - SQUID GAME ! Watch it now, just great.
Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
Late? It's only been out 11 days!
Caught my son watching it, seemed very inappropriate! He thought it was great and we now know he can cope with subtitles...
