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Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 10 Sep 2014, 13:24
by HairySpotter
"Just finished The Killing liked it a lot but not really the last season as much. Breaking Bad, Homeland done Was going to do Luther or The Wire next - can you tell me which one is best of the two?"
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 15:58
by New Jersey
"southbankbornbred - Agree it has spoilt it a little bit, couldn't see why Emery decided to go 'sky-diving' with his body double? Still give it an 8/10 and I'm looking forward to the final episode. Agree on Netflix, Mindhunter is very good and looking forward to S2, which I think involves Charles Manson."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 13:52
by southbankbornnbred
"Northern - that BBC4 series on the Troubles is excellent, isn't it? Great insight into what was going on behind the scenes. Can't believe it is tucked away on BBC4."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 13:52
by southbankbornnbred
"Northern - that BBC4 series on the Troubles is excellent, isn't it? Great insight into what was going on behind the scenes. Can't believe it is tucked away on BBC4."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 13:42
by southbankbornnbred
"""Unbelievable"" on Netflix is very good. Based on a true story, decent actors throughout, tight script and the ""drama"" is not over-the-top. If anything it is under-stated and reflective. Proper use of an eight-part drama. Also recommend Chimerica, which was on Channel Four a little while ago. Imagined history of ""Tank Man"" from Tiananmen Square. But the best series that has been recently available is Mindhunter. Excellent script, well acted, great storyline (about the FBI's behavioural science unit, which developed the concept of the serial killer) and all based on real cases."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 13:36
by southbankbornnbred
"The Capture started out well, but this week's episode went beyond that all-too-common tipping point of complete incredulity. Without giving too much away (spoiler alert!) the plot by the world's most unlikely underground movement (full of highly paid radical lawyers who seem to have an inordinate amount of spare time on their hands and poverty-stricken relatives of victims of crime), plotted from their bunker inside a post-apocalyptic nightclub from Mad Max (which is definitely where you would find highly-paid barristers), seemed, shall we say, a little ""needless"" given what they were trying to achieve. If you can readily prove that video can be doctored, which they could, then who the fuck would put their entire lives at risk by taking on the CIA/MI6/MI5 and others by plotting an elaborate disappearing act - not to mention a potential perversion of the course of justice - just to make the point? Nope. It went from decent conspiracy thriller to over-the-top fagash from the Marvel Comic generation. I'm out."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 12:55
by New Jersey
"I'd recommend 'The Capture' on BBC, last episode next week, if you can hang on, then watch them all on I-player. Same sort of thing for 'The Confession' on ITV, last one next week, Martin Freeman and Imelda Staunton are excellent in that."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 12:29
by Northern Sold
Really enjoying `spotlight on the Troubles' that's currently being shown on BBC4... 7 parter up to episode 4... superbly put together series with some serious what the fuck moments...
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 12:09
by Gavros
"I've just got through the first season of Breaking Bad. It's good, can recommend."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 12:00
by Nagel
They're not related at all. All 4 versions are just 3 episodes set in a police interrogation room with completely different stories. I imagine it was only done like that for marketing purposes. Netflix try to make original content for most of their markets anyway and doing it this way might encourage viewers to watch more of the foreign stuff.
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 11:42
by collyrob
Watched the first 2 myself. What’s the story with the different version of it being released. When I first seen it I thought they might have been tied in or something
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 11:17
by Dan M
"I recommend Criminal on Netflix. Basically one or two act plays set in a police interrogation room, with a semblance of story outside regarding the detectives' personal lives. Watched the first two so far. David Tennant and Hayley Attwell respectively playing the suspects. Both very good (though Agent Carter can't quite hold a chav accent). Interestingly (or not depending on what you find interesting) other countries' versions have been released at the same time on the platform."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 11:04
by Takashi Miike
"Power is a good watch, great theme tune and some decent birds in it"
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 11:02
by crystal falace
"Not watched either show but from what i can gather Power is very close to an american version of Top Boy Finished the first season of succession last night, absolutely incredible Tele"
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 10:58
by diehardhammer
Niblets 10:56 Wed Oct 2 Power Queen of the south Narcos
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 10:56
by Niblets
"Just binge watched Top Boy all the way through from the start, superb stuff. Anything else to be recommended along the same lines?"
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 09:52
by Eddie B
"Manifest seems good. only two episodes in, but enjoying so far."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 27 Sep 2019, 23:15
by Kidders
"Watched it mate, absolutely superb. Loved the way they touched into each individuals character as well."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 27 Sep 2019, 20:43
by only1billybonds
kidders. You'll like 7 seconds on Netflix.
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 27 Sep 2019, 20:06
by FruityBoots.
"“Comedians in cars getting coffee” If you don’t like Seinfeld’s style of observation comedy it probably not your thing. They’re only 15-20 long except the one with Eddie Murphy but very funny. Some great classic cars, close ups of coffee machines and coffee being made and some of the biggest names in (mostly American) stand up comedy."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 27 Sep 2019, 11:33
by ironsofcanada
"Don Ravioli 10:40 Fri Sep 27 Cheers on the Deuce recommendation, I have not got there yet but love most everything David Simon does going back to Homicide:Life on the Street."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 27 Sep 2019, 11:32
by Takashi Miike
loved the film Serenity
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 27 Sep 2019, 11:23
by ironsofcanada
"Watching Firefly again, still enjoy it. As short as it was."
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 27 Sep 2019, 11:21
by crystal falace
Shame Sneaky Pete got cancelled i did like it
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 27 Sep 2019, 11:21
by crystal falace
Shame Sneaky Pete got cancelled i did like it
Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls
Posted: 27 Sep 2019, 11:21
by w4hammer
sneaky pete series 3 gets better and better however i have no fucking idea who's conning who or why or how any more...