OV9

Simon_P wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:56 pm Just finished Boiling Point, it’s very good however doesn’t have the intensity of the film from last year and certainly not as good as the Bear.

Gavster wrote: Tue Oct 17, 2023 1:23 pm Started watching The Reckoning at the weekend. Coogan's Savile is quite creepy, there's a quality to the character which feels disconnected, and I can't decide if that's the acting or whether he's supposed to seem inauthentic.

duncs500 wrote: Tue Oct 17, 2023 1:50 pm

Gavster wrote: Tue Oct 17, 2023 1:23 pm Started watching The Reckoning at the weekend. Coogan's Savile is quite creepy, there's a quality to the character which feels disconnected, and I can't decide if that's the acting or whether he's supposed to seem inauthentic.

Was chatting to my sister about this show at the weekend. She watched the Louis Theroux one with Saville before watching the Reckoning and said she's glad she did that as otherwise she'd have just thought Coogan was over-acting and it was too ridiculous to be real. As it was, she was very impressed with the accuracy of Coogan's portrayal.

Beany wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 10:08 pm Fringe

The X-files meets, I dunno, NCIS or something. Although rather than aliens it's mad scientists.

Beany wrote: Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:12 pm Fucking hell, you should be ashamed and proud of that in equal measure @Rich B.

Beany wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 10:08 pm Fringe

The X-files meets, I dunno, NCIS or something. Although rather than aliens it's mad scientists.

Surprisingly watchable, although a large amount of that is down to the cast, a large part of which is John Noble as a mentally ill mad scientist himself with a penchant for heroic, comedic levels of self medication, mostly played for laughs. That man loves his LSD.

It ballet dances along the line of taking itself just seriously/just not seriously enough for the most part. Saying much more would be spoilery, but suffice to say it gets a bit complex from the third season onwards, even more so in the fourth and fifth season.

S5 is a bit underwhelming but wraps things up well enough.

Overall, a solid 6/10 - one to watch when you're waiting for you normal three or four regular series to go between seasons, etc. Definitely worth a look if you like a bit of absurdist scifi with a decent bit of wit about it.

Jobbo wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 8:35 am I thought it got more and more uncomfortable with each episode.

[Edit] removed the second sentence out of respect for Matty - even if it was not libellous I don't want him to be dragged through the courts proving it.

DaveE wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2023 12:55 pm Succession

We've just recently started watching this

I'm not sure how I feel about it

Everyone is so hateful, I'm struggling to find something that makes me want to watch more of it

Other than the sheer car-crashness of it all, which isn't all that entertaining...

Rich B wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2023 1:11 pm

DaveE wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2023 12:55 pm Succession

We've just recently started watching this

I'm not sure how I feel about it

Everyone is so hateful, I'm struggling to find something that makes me want to watch more of it

Other than the sheer car-crashness of it all, which isn't all that entertaining...

yeah, I thought the same. I didn't care enough about any of the (not particularly well acted imo) characters to make it beyond S1. They way they established Macaulay Culkins brother as bad with the baseball game was particularly clumsy.