TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

They're great, but it's the same kind of show. If you didn't like 1, you won't like the others either.

1 was one of the best TV series ever.
2 though just... Meh. Didnt have the same hook.

Can't really pick a favorite between 1-3. 4 I actually found a bit weaker.

[Habbaku]

2, 1, 3, 4 here. Four was...very weak in comparison to what came before, despite spots of the usual brilliance. Three was the beginning of the dip. I'm not sure the break between 3/4 helped Hawley figure things out. Maybe season 5, if there is one, will be a return to form, but I have serious doubts.

[Syt]

I've finished Norsemen on Netflix. I'm a bit torn on it. The story, if played straight and not as comedy could well be a medieval saga with its silly plots, twists, turns, intrigue and gruesome murder. Accuracy seems ok for a comedy series.

The comedy is very hit and miss and falls sometimes a bit flat for me, esp. the portrayal of one of the main antagonists in "LOL look at the effeminate homo" tropes.

[Threviel]

Vikinga were seen as effeminate dandys by the Anglo-Saxons at least, perhaps he was the most historical correct?

[Josephus]

Yeah, thought season four of Fargo was pretty dull. I think for me it's 1, 3,2 4; although 2 and 3 are pretty close.

[celedhring]

Started watching Mare of Easttown (waited until it was finished so I could binge it).

It's really good, Winslet is fantastic in it. It also reminds me a lot of the British "everybody is miserable!" whodunit subgenre. 

[Sheilbh]

It's really good, Winslet is fantastic in it. It also reminds me a lot of the British "everybody is miserable!" whodunit subgenre. 

I loved it - but by the end it did occur to me that in many ways it's an adaptation of Happy Valley

[celedhring]

It's really good, Winslet is fantastic in it. It also reminds me a lot of the British "everybody is miserable!" whodunit subgenre. 

I loved it - but by the end it did occur to me that in many ways it's an adaptation of Happy Valley

Yeah, that's exactly the show that jumped to my mind when watching it. Little bit of Marcella too 

[celedhring]

Anyway, Mare binge is over. Started with DS9. HD is really unkind to these 1990s shows.

[Savonarola]

The Blue Bird (1918)

A fairy tale about two children who are unhappy with their lives and go out searching for the blue bird of happiness with the andromorphic spirits of fire, water, bread, sugar and their pets.  In the end they discover that happiness was in their home all along.   

While the film is a little stagey at points (it derived from a stage play), the sets and costuming are so elaborate that they would become an influence on... German Expressionism  . 

[HVC]

Been watching the Almighty Johnsons. Second Run through. Nordic Gods were depowered and escaped to new zeeland several generations ago. they get re-incarnated into human vessels every generation with the shadow of their former powers. youngest brother Odin and his three god brothers must find his Frig so that their union returns everyone's full god powers. Much hilarity ensues.

its actually a fun little show.

[Eddie Teach]

Kiwi Gods.

[Sheilbh]

St Maud. On UK Amazon Prime.

Amazing Catholic psycho-religious horror

The ending/last shot stays with you. And a debut film which is thrilling.

[Josquius]

Fantastic Mr Fox.
It delivers what it says on the tin even despite the horrid americanisation.
It looks like a video game. But in a good way.

[viper37]

Hostiles (2017).

In 1892, a famous army Captain is asked to escort a dying Cheyenne chief and his family to Montana.  This particular chief has killed/tortured some friends of his, and he consider him an enemy, and he's not happy at all with executing his orders. 

It's a nice western, one where there's a lot more talking than shooting, so it's a nice change of pace.  I highly recommend it, but I do not know how to provide a more thoughtful description without spoiling the movie.

Stars Christian Bale as the army captain and Wes Studi as the Cheyenne chief.