Originally posted by vinteuil
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Thanks to that advert, whenever I see Ms. James now I think "oh god not her again".....self-satisfaction levels way too high.
Nice dresses though, especially the yellow one worn with white trainers.
No costume dramas for me, especially aristo-costume dramas, not ever, never..(including Jane Austen; make it stop, keep it away, please).
...But I did try the redux of Fargo (C4) with a degree of hope... got terribly bogged down in all this endless back-story. "Is there much more of this?" You keep checking time remaining.
Unpleasantly violent too, so never made it to the end of ep 1. Might skip to ep.2 and give it one more chance....
Oh well. At least I still have The Good Doctor (Sky Witness) which tries ever harder to be some sort of successor to the great House.... without quite matching it. Very engaging though, and it does make me cry quite often. Catharsis is always welcome here.Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 12-05-21, 02:48.
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post...But I did try the redux of Fargo (C4) with a degree of hope... got terribly bogged down in all this endless back-story. "Is there much more of this?" You keep checking time remaining.
Unpleasantly violent too, so never made it to the end of ep 1. Might skip to ep.2 and give it one more chance....
(I did see Pursuit, felt like oneoneout about it, spirited decorative wallpaper but bof... I will probably take a look at the rest of it though)."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostStill available on the iPlayer for the next 9 days, https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...e-of-the-storm
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Pursuit of Lerv....Lily James casting is a bit of a mistake really....she doesn't have the range/depth for this (lets be honest) not very well adapted/directed series, she is rarely convincing....very thin soup. Whereas Emily Beecham (Fanny) was the only plus and indeed kept the thing just about afloat....nuggets of dialogue /statements kept me interested....bong ching
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostPursuit of Lerv....Lily James casting is a bit of a mistake really....she doesn't have the range/depth for this (lets be honest) not very well adapted/directed series, she is rarely convincing....very thin soup. Whereas Emily Beecham (Fanny) was the only plus and indeed kept the thing just about afloat....nuggets of dialogue /statements kept me interested....
As it touches on some areas of current interest at work, I thought I would give it a try.
Well I did try....
On a happier note, just been rewatching the Prisoner, the proper one from 1967. Only my second full run through, and despite a couple of dodgy episodes ( episode 11 in particular) it is still wonderful drama, with startlingly good production values to boot.
Fabulous, and all too prescient .I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
Fabulous, and all too prescient .bong ching
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post....oi oi oi alright, already, what's with this Prisoner obsession....I however have been rewatching Seinfeld....and have alienated the whole damn village as I go around waving my hands in the air, being sarcastic in a NY Jewish accent and asking in the COOP for gefilte fish...."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post....oi oi oi alright, already, what's with this Prisoner obsession....I however have been rewatching Seinfeld....and have alienated the whole damn village as I go around waving my hands in the air, being sarcastic in a NY Jewish accent and asking in the COOP for gefilte fish....
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostPursuit of Lerv....Lily James casting is a bit of a mistake really....she doesn't have the range/depth for this (lets be honest) not very well adapted/directed series, she is rarely convincing....very thin soup. Whereas Emily Beecham (Fanny) was the only plus and indeed kept the thing just about afloat....nuggets of dialogue /statements kept me interested....
Perhaps there wasn't enough hand-wringing angst-laden doom for some forumites.Fewer Smart things. More smart people.
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Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
Perhaps there wasn't enough hand-wringing angst-laden doom for some forumites.bong ching
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Originally posted by Anastasius View PostDid we watch the same programme ? I thought it was stunning. Joyous. Life-affirming. Just watched it again for the second time.
Perhaps there wasn't enough hand-wringing angst-laden doom for some forumites.
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Originally posted by Anastasius View PostDid we watch the same programme ? I thought it was stunning. Joyous. Life-affirming. Just watched it again for the second time.
Perhaps there wasn't enough hand-wringing angst-laden doom for some forumites.
It was something of a visual feast (although as is often the case I found myself being distracted by the unlikely level of clean - surfaces, clothes etc), but for me that seemed at times to be considered more important than the dialogue, so the end result was somewhat unsatisfying. It felt a bit like listening to a concerto performed by an acclaimed soloist where the virtuosity takes over from the music.
It won't be required Sunday viewing for me but I am pleased that many seem to be taken with it - these days the Beeb failing expensively isn't a good thing - and it is something different (and far less unpleasant) from so much of current TV "drama" output.
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