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Gangs of London on AMC. My goodness but this was an awesome episode. Absurdly graphic violence and a great advancement in the internecine conflict. Great stuff.
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Big highlights this weekend were the finales of the current series of both Line of Duty and Pennyworth. Both outstanding in different ways, and plenty of road to run yet for, respectively, a seventh and a third series.
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Currently watching the deconstruction of the Superhero mythos. "Invincible" is an animated offering on Amazon Prime, the same network that has already given us similar fare with "The Boys". Like the latter it's based on a graphic novel/comic books series from a non Marvel or DC universe. The "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" on Disney+ comes from several runs of comic books where Captain America's shield is given (temporarily) to someone else while he goes on walkabout. I found both thoughtful, challenging and worth watching living in a world saturated with capes and cowls.
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It seems almost inevitable in a world where superheroes are mainstream, no longer genre, in cinema and entertainment that a few good satires should come along. I watched the first episode of Invincible last night, looks like it will be interesting going forward. I'm hoping too it means we might see more of something along the lines of the Watchmen show set in the same universe as the original book. In a related, if not quite 'superhero' genre, I'm also very much looking forward to the Judge Dredd based show which is still in the works with, I believe, Netflix.
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I haven't watched Invincible yet, but I did watch The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.
Despite being a pretty hardcore MCU fan, I didn't like it. Oh, it kept my interest, but it didn't particularly engage me emotionally. The acting and production were typically well done, but I dunno... Sam could have just taken on the Captain America mantle when Steve chose to give him the shield and I would have been totally okay, I didn't feel the necessity of his character journey. Or pretty much anything else that happened in this series.
And, no doubt like Worf, I was reading the comics in the seventies, the first time an unworthy clown took up the mantle of Captain America - when, disgusted with post-Watergate corruption, Steve gave it up and became Nomad, The Man Without A Country for a while:
Despite being a pretty hardcore MCU fan, I didn't like it. Oh, it kept my interest, but it didn't particularly engage me emotionally. The acting and production were typically well done, but I dunno... Sam could have just taken on the Captain America mantle when Steve chose to give him the shield and I would have been totally okay, I didn't feel the necessity of his character journey. Or pretty much anything else that happened in this series.
And, no doubt like Worf, I was reading the comics in the seventies, the first time an unworthy clown took up the mantle of Captain America - when, disgusted with post-Watergate corruption, Steve gave it up and became Nomad, The Man Without A Country for a while:
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This week's Mayans. Fantastic episode, a sad surprise and threads are being weaved for some huge developments. Wife and I loving it...
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Watching the Israeli production..."Valley of Tears". Written by the same team that wrote the recent "No Man's Land". "Valley" is about the Yom Kippur war of '73. It is brilliant, gripping and according to those who know very period accurate.
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Gangs of London. An episode focusing on one of the original plot elements rather than the main story thread. It was quite violent, but the production values, pacing, plot and action was film quality. Reminiscent of Skyfall in fact.
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I got rid of my television in 2008. The only things I watched just before getting rid of it, were House MD and the BBC's rolling news channel.
Since getting rid of it, I haven't missed it. The gogglebox has been turned on at other people's homes when I've visited friends and family, but I didn't pay much attention to it. Anything I did see, just reassured me I did the right thing in getting rid.
Since getting rid of it, I haven't missed it. The gogglebox has been turned on at other people's homes when I've visited friends and family, but I didn't pay much attention to it. Anything I did see, just reassured me I did the right thing in getting rid.
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We love movies and with Netflix/Prime we now have the world of movies at our fingertips without leaving the house.
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My family bought all five seasons of The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) a few months ago, and I'm still on season one, but I'm loving it!
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My cable company offers a rotating number of them on demand. I'll watch a random one when I just want a quick twenty minutes of entertainment. They have held up very well especially if you respect how envelope pushing they were in their day.
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I don't use any streaming services, but will occasionally buy a DVD or box set.
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We own a motorhome and will buy DVD's (boxed sets) to watch when on the road as a break from playing Scrabble in the evenings. We have watched "Wolf Hall" 3 times now and will likely watch it again.
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There was nothing like coming home from a late shift of work with a hot-ham-and-cheese sandwich and flopping down in front of back-to-back late-night reruns of "Twilight Zone" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." If you like the former, you're sure to like the latter as well!
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Gangs of London. AMC. I believe they pitched this as the most violent hour of TV ever aired? I'm not sure about that, but it was very violent. I appreciate and love episodes like this. Main characters barely seen. An entire episode to deepen the story, to develop characters, and to give greater insight into things to come. An overall development episode. And how often do you see bodies evaporate?
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I love all the Alfred Hitchcock movies I've seen, so I'm sure I'll like the episodes, too. I just have to get ahold of them. I actually just watched The Trouble With Harry last night. It was very good, but I think Shadow of a Doubt is still my favorite.
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Seconded, I enjoy both series.
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Every time I think I have a favorite Hitchcock movie, I see a different one again (I've seen most of them, at least, a few times) and my opinion shifts. Now, I think about favorite Hitchcock movies more in terms of periods - his early films, the '40s, the "big" '50s movies, etc.
Another angle I've found I've been enjoying is rewatching his "lesser" efforts as, once you get past thinking they aren't as good as his "best," you really appreciate them for how good they still are. "I Confess" is one of my favorites in this latter category (comments here: #27745).
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I haven't seen I Confess. It isn't part of the collection I have, but now I've got to see it. I'm crossing my fingers that the library has it!
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