Decent Recent TV

[RobYob]

I'm really enjoying Alien Earth although that eyeball mini-octopus thing is absolute nightmare fuel.

I binge watched Dexter Resurrection this weekend... I was a big fan of the original (until it went shit) and the New Blood one was done surprisingly well if you just ignore how we get there.

Anyway, the whole reboot/let's all forget how the original series ended sees Dexter in New York and while its absolute bobbins, its fantastic fun. The visuals and soundtrack are great and there's a surprisingly stacked cast all playing along and hamming it up. Well worth a watch.

I like that that creature is getting a lot of screentime - you can tell they're enjoying finding things for it to do. I think Alien Earth is considered non-canon so they can get away with it.

It's also good to see Michael Smiley keeping busy (aka Tyres from Spaced, among many, many other things)

We wait 27 years for decent Alienverse TV/Film and now there's two in two years. Continuity and logic errors forgiven coz rogue synths, monstrous bugs and mad men made for excellent entertainment. (And some ace closing credits tracks)

Can't wait for S2.

[Zonda_]

I'm really enjoying Alien Earth although that eyeball mini-octopus thing is absolute nightmare fuel.

I binge watched Dexter Resurrection this weekend... I was a big fan of the original (until it went shit) and the New Blood one was done surprisingly well if you just ignore how we get there.

Anyway, the whole reboot/let's all forget how the original series ended sees Dexter in New York and while its absolute bobbins, its fantastic fun. The visuals and soundtrack are great and there's a surprisingly stacked cast all playing along and hamming it up. Well worth a watch.

I like that that creature is getting a lot of screentime - you can tell they're enjoying finding things for it to do. I think Alien Earth is considered non-canon so they can get away with it.

It's also good to see Michael Smiley keeping busy (aka Tyres from Spaced, among many, many other things)

We wait 27 years for decent Alienverse TV/Film and now there's two in two years. Continuity and logic errors forgiven coz rogue synths, monstrous bugs and mad men made for excellent entertainment. (And some ace closing credits tracks)

Can't wait for S2.

Sorry for being thick but what is the second one? I might even start Alien Earth again tonight!

[RobYob]

We wait 27 years for decent Alienverse TV/Film and now there's two in two years. Continuity and logic errors forgiven coz rogue synths, monstrous bugs and mad men made for excellent entertainment. (And some ace closing credits tracks)

Can't wait for S2.

Sorry for being thick but what is the second one? I might even start Alien Earth again tonight!

Alien Romulus last year was pretty good.

[duncs500]

The Capture on the beeb is quite good. All about CCTV and deep fakes, six episodes, one left to air. And Ron Perlman is in it.

Holy post resurrection batman, only recently discovered this on Netflix. You must have been commenting on season 1, but season 2 is even better. Really enjoyed both seasons.

Apparently season 3 is coming next year too.

[mik]

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Not quite as many belly laughs or visual gags as some of the earlier films, but still enough.

More mind-blowing animation - the narrow boats moving at speed for example

8 evil gnomes out of tent.

Just realised this is now viewable on Netflix.

[speedingfine]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hyt5 some amazing people interviewed on this (obvs, they're rocket scientists and astronauts). Assume it's the same team that did the Iraq and Northern Ireland ones (also great)

[dinny_g]

It's absolutely brilliant Speedingfine... I've seen the Northern Ireland one but Iraq is next on the list

[dinny_g]

A couple of others...

Kevin Costner's The West - I may have mentioned my love of a Western ( ) and liked to think I was pretty knowledgeable about this period of history but I learned so much about the transition of the US after the War of Independence.

New Shetland is off to a strong start

Starting IT Welcome to Derry tonight...

[RobYob]

Deleting a post about Predator badlands coz I'm not awake yet.

I've been watching the very silly Miracle Workers with Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi. It's very hit and miss but just weird and silly enough and doesn't outstay its welcome at 20 minutes an episode. Peaks in episodes where Radcliffe lets his inner deviancy really run wild (Wild west drag show and boning a boulder in VR)

A nice little wind down after an episode of The Expanse which I'm halfway through rewatching and is still awesome.

[Zonda_]

Alien Earth getting season 2!

[dinny_g]

Starting IT Welcome to Derry tonight...

Not bad - obviously spent a bit of cash on it - look and feel identical to the two recent movies. Story's a little weak and there are some unnecessary, forced references (*) but I think overall, it'll be worth a watch.

(*)

Spoiler

You'd imagine Stanley Uris might have mentioned his uncle / cousin went missing as a child, along with several others in 1962, when they started looking for Georgie in 1988

[DeskJockey]

Finished watching Halo (Netflix). Had no expectations at all, so very low bar. It was surprisingly decent! Good pace, reasonable story, and not entirely a hamfest, although there were a few scenes that felt weak.

2/4 Spartans.

[unzippy]

Robin Hood.

It's no Costner/Rickman but there are boobs

[Matty]

Witcher Season 4 is pretty poor. Liam Hemsworth is actually a decent replacement for Henry, but the writing is just dire. None of the conversation feels real, the acting is largely wooden...Sharlto Copley absolutely nails it though. His brief scenes are carrying the whole cast.

[JonMad]

The Capture on the beeb is quite good. All about CCTV and deep fakes, six episodes, one left to air. And Ron Perlman is in it.

Holy post resurrection batman, only recently discovered this on Netflix. You must have been commenting on season 1, but season 2 is even better. Really enjoyed both seasons.

Apparently season 3 is coming next year too.

Thanks for the recommendation - just started watching this - two episodes into Season 1, good so far.

[dinny_g]

Summerwater on Channel 4

6 parter (3 episodes last week, 3 this week) about 4 groups of people staying at a holiday lodge site in Scotland. There's a fire and a fatality but you don't find our who or how until the very end. Each episode focuses on a different group of people in the same 24 hours before the fire leading to the climax in episode 6 .

It's got a great cast including Dougray Scott, Shirley Henderson and Anna Próchniak (who was recently in The Tattooist of Auschwitz) and the construction of the narrative makes for a very interesting watch

Solid 7 or 8 out of 10