Wot I am watching now

[Duffers]

Duffers - there's an Aaron Rodgers documentary on Netflix. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on it!

It’s just after “Drink bleach” on my list of things to do.

[MrBater]

Watched some of those Next Level episodes on Prime, found them all rather dull and uninspired, maybe The Outer Worlds one stands on it's own at a push.

[chasetownbaggie]

Wow, spent an hour reading this entire thread. Amazing how much TV I've missed in 4 years. I've probably seen about half a dozen of the shows mentioned. At least I have a source for recommendations now...

I'm slowly getting through Shetland (just finished series 5). Seen first 2 series of Brassic too. Enjoying both.

[rsbaggy2]

Without trawling through the 58 pages a mention for Landman. Based on the Texan oil industry its a good watch. Ali Larter helps with the scenery.

Apologies if already mentioned.

[MrBater]

Without trawling through the 58 pages a mention for Landman. Based on the Texan oil industry its a good watch. Ali Larter helps with the scenery.

Apologies if already mentioned.

She given up acting now then??

[SausEggBaton]

Without trawling through the 58 pages a mention for Landman. Based on the Texan oil industry its a good watch. Ali Larter helps with the scenery.

Apologies if already mentioned.

She given up acting now then??

I seriously had to check how old she was (48), and I can confirm the scenery is quite picturesque.

Landman is very good also BTW.

[SausEggBaton]

Finished Black Doves, in all enjoyable and recommend if you are alright with the scene previously mentionned, for some mindless entertainment. I would not be surprised if it has another series given the ending.

[SausEggBaton]

I can recommend The Agency (CIA type, double agent premise) on Prime via Paramount with Fassbender, Gere, Jeffrey Wright - new episodes weekly and very good up to now.

[ChamonixBaggie]

Black Doves was very silly, veering into a bit too silly for me. A bit "if Guy Ritchie did Line of Duty". I did enjoy the performances though.

[Brentbaggie]

Any drama that needs a principal character to spend five minutes of the final episode explaining who was who and what half the plot was about is trash.

Exposition should always principally occur through action or discovery - otherwise what's the point? If you have to be told verbally by a character in a monologue, even with a litany of flashbacks, it is a failure on behalf of the writer (and/or Producer) to develop a satisfactory story arc. Be told.

(p.s. I enjoyed a fair bit of it in an escapist way, but then to suddenly have Tracy Ullman revealed in the final episode as the criminal mastermind now capable of clandestinely influencing half the free world without our ever having seen her before (save for a 10 second silhouette) is frankly shite. And then to have this brilliant impenetrable malefactor matriarch, her son and chief heavy killed in the space of a few minutes by our heroes tells me the word "mastermind" might have been somewhat wide of the mark.)