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  • Anastasius
    Full Member
    • Mar 2015
    • 1842

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Summer of Rockets




    Well, two episodes in and I’m much closer to the edashtav opinion... Yes, there were a couple of creaky plot moments in the first episode, but I must say I’m pretty engrossed by the story, the performances and the look of the thing.
    It gets better and better. Last episode was excellent.
    Fewer Smart things. More smart people.

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    • Anastasius
      Full Member
      • Mar 2015
      • 1842

      And for very very funny non-PC comedy ...Year of the Rabbit..is excellent.
      Fewer Smart things. More smart people.

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      • edashtav
        Full Member
        • Jul 2012
        • 3667

        Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
        It gets better and better. Last episode was excellent.
        Yes, it was!

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        • Richard Barrett
          Guest
          • Jan 2016
          • 6259

          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
          the second series is not so far up to much. The main reason to watch is the delicious comedy performance of Jodie Comer
          Exactly - in the second series the Eve character ceases to have much agency of her own and is constantly flailing around in Villanelle's wake, and all the other characters seem to be moving more or less randomly over the chessboard, including the new ones who have all the depth of cardboard. (I say this having watched the whole of series 2.)

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          • eighthobstruction
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 6425

            Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
            It gets better and better. Last episode was excellent.
            ....NO...........................................n o
            bong ching

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            • vinteuil
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 12765

              Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
              Exactly - in the second series the Eve character ceases to have much agency of her own and is constantly flailing around in Villanelle's wake, and all the other characters seem to be moving more or less randomly over the chessboard, including the new ones who have all the depth of cardboard. (I say this having watched the whole of series 2.)
              ... we've done five episodes, and will probably hang on to the end - but it's getting pretty boring, and not a patch on series one.

              The whole thing seems to be predicated on the relationship between Eve and Villanelle - but there is zero on-screen chemistry between Oh and Comer, leaving a gaping whole at the centre. Sandra Oh seems terribly limited - a continuing expression of frown and distress is not enuff to inhabit a role. The series springs to life whenever Comer is on screen - the camera loves her, and we watch entranced her every facial expression: and the chemistry between her and the lovely Constantin (Kim Bodnia) is a delight. As you say, the other characters are two-dimensional - the irritating Oxford graduate, Eve's tiresome husband, - even Fiona Shaw is beginning to pall...

              They shd have stopped at the end of the first series (and even then the last episode fell flat). Fleabag was excellent in knowing to wrap up when it did.

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              Last edited by vinteuil; 14-06-19, 13:21.

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              • Stanfordian
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 9308

                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                I really cannot understand Killing Eve's alleged popularity - how can it be classed as satire? Gave up at the end of Episode 1 of Series 1.
                I'm in full accord. The prog did nothing for me at all, apart from making me reach for the off switch.

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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12765

                  Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
                  I'm in full accord. The prog did nothing for me at all, apart from making me reach for the off switch.
                  ... you have to appreciate the wit and artistry of psychopathic assassinations to fully enjoy this programme. Or at least admire the lovely frocks worn by Jodie Comer.

                  We loved the first series...


                  As a footnote : de Quincey wrote well on this subject :



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                  Last edited by vinteuil; 14-06-19, 14:03.

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                  • jayne lee wilson
                    Banned
                    • Jul 2011
                    • 10711

                    Yes, the clothes are.....wonderful... the way Villanelle matches each outfit to the occasion (loved the Oxford sweater (tied round the shoulders, natch, darling) & trousers...)...

                    Anyway, finished Eve S2 last night...... but... can't say anything about it can I? (there's a psychopathic assassination in Amsterdam that's just....)....

                    No spoilers now.....!

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                    • Conchis
                      Banned
                      • Jun 2014
                      • 2396

                      Enough of the over-discussed Killing Eve.

                      What do we all think of Years & Years?

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12765

                        Originally posted by Conchis View Post
                        Enough of the over-discussed Killing Eve.

                        What do we all think of Years & Years?
                        ... I thought Yrs & Yrs pretentious self-indulgent tosh.


                        Whereas Rockets was pretentious self-indulgent tosh of a different kind.


                        Next....







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                        Last edited by vinteuil; 14-06-19, 15:30.

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                        • Stanfordian
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 9308

                          'Berlin Station' - Now that's more up my street.

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                          • Conchis
                            Banned
                            • Jun 2014
                            • 2396

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            ... I thought Yrs & Yrs pretentious self-indulgent tosh.


                            Whereas Rockets was pretentious self-indulgent tosh of a different kind.


                            Next....







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                            I could level many charges at Y&Y, but I don’t think that of ‘pretentiousness’ is one of them.

                            I find all the characters basically dislikeable which I don’t think was the author’s intention.

                            The first episode’s camp humour and ‘sex robot’ really put me off, too.

                            I’ts been a bit of a ratings disaster, by the looks of things. Possibly a bit too close to home for the times we live in.

                            One thing I do like about it: the right-wing populist is a convincing melange of Marine Le Pen, Nadine Dorries, Boris Johnson and Donald Trump.

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37560

                              Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
                              Now, why am I surprised ?
                              I haven't the foggiest idea.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37560

                                Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
                                Yes, the clothes are.....wonderful... the way Villanelle matches each outfit to the occasion (loved the Oxford sweater (tied round the shoulders, natch, darling) & trousers...)...

                                Anyway, finished Eve S2 last night...... but... can't say anything about it can I? (there's a psychopathic assassination in Amsterdam that's just....)....

                                No spoilers now.....!
                                But, how do they get the blood stains out?

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