OV9

Ascender wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 10:30 am Has anyone watched From? I've heard people say it's kind of like Lost which is obviously not necessarily a slam-dunk depending on your view of that show.

Interview With The Vampire seems to have had some excellent reviews and is now on to S3.

@Beany - I'm looking forward to watching House of the Dragon S3, I've really enjoyed the first two and adjust going to save the 3rd series up.

From is great and I'm not normally a horror fan. It's nothing like Lost though.

ZedLeg wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 10:51 am Been watching a rise of the nazis/ww2 doc on netflix and while this isn’t new information, the tactics Hitler and his gang used to grab power is pretty much a play by play for MAGA.

When you see it laid out step by step, it’s kind of shocking how brazen it is.

Yep, that's an amazing doc, all of them are pretty good, but the rise one obviously seems the most prescient

Just finished Widow's Bay on Apple TV

Really enjoyed it

Supernatural spooky thing set on a fictional island off the coast of New England

So we watched

I Will Find You on NetFlix.

Started off really strong - E1 totally grabbed both mrs mik and I.

Unfortunately it just slid downhill from there, getting increasingly complex/silly/unconvincing. We only watched the final episode so as not to leave it unclosed.

6 facial birthmarks out of 10.

It was a bit daft. Escaped prisoner whose face is all over the news goes to Times Square but it’s ok because he’s got a baseball cap on so nobody can see him so it’s fine.

dinny_g wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:51 pm 14 Peaks - Nothing is Impossible on Netflix

“Nepali mountaineer Nimsdai Purja embarks on a seemingly impossible quest to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks in seven months.”

In the end, he took 6 months and 6 Days

As a feat, this beggars belief. Messner took 14 years ffs. The previous fastest was 7 years 11 months

The climbing nerd in me would liked to have more detail on the actual feat. Which ones were done fast by retaining acclimatisation and how many were slower etc. I’d watch a 14 episode series with one for each mountain.

But the footage is brilliant - well worth checking out

The nearly enviable price for this level of adventure

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cjd42d4jvxkt

Beany wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2026 9:16 pm House of the Dragon S3

Well christ, if they'd finished S2 with that* I think most people would have shut the fuck about the pacing being slow.

Lets see how it goes...

* (S2 of HotD was supposed to be ten episodes, and it was supposed to end with this - but then WB cut it down to eight eps, then almost immediately after, the writers strike happened and so the showrunners couldn't rewrite anything to make the pacing better upon pain of lawsuits from the unions, hence why it felt so weirdly empty as a season - it literally had no ending)

Seasons done now, more satisfying and better paced than S2, but as the first two episodes were basically the end of S2, that means S3 only had six episodes - and before WB fucked about, it was meant to have ten episodes (all seasons got their eps cut down) so there's still pacing issues and some connective tissue issues, as it were - IE one character has a wife who dies, and that feels like it really needed more meat on the bones, but much of it had to be cut due to a lack of time. There's a few secondary plotlines that feel like that.

That said the bulk of the story rattles along at a decent pace, they have a good 'conceptual' episode in there, and the acting and surface level writing (IE the lines and delivery) is, across the board, fucking great. Just feels like some of it is missing a bit. But by god it has some moments. Actually quite a lot of them. Just paced a bit oddly sometimes.

I can cut the season some slack for that, but S4 won't have an excuse, really.

I'd say a solid 7/10 across the series, with some episodes being actually great, and some being a bit less cohesive but still decent modern telly.

If you're a bit dubious about it still, wait till S4 is out in a couple of years, then binge the lot, I maintain that I strongly suspect it'll work a lot better like that.

A House through Time

If you don't know the format, David Olusoga hosts and each series features one house and looks at the lives of the people who lived there over 200 or 300 years.

This series is about a 5 story building on Calton Hill in Edinburgh split into 2 separate houses - the bottom 2 floors and the top 3. It's been really interesting. Over time, it housed a cleric (who helped imprisoned sailors escape) one of Scotland's most famous sculptors, a renowned Bagpipe maker last nights episode, a brothel / love hotel where rooms could be booked by the hour...

The last series, Series 5 is well worth a look - it features 2 apartment buildings, one in London and one in Berlin and focuses on the residents in the years leading up to, during and after World War 2.

Great show...

The Gentlemen S2

I thought the first series of good, not great but enjoyable so i didn’t rush to watch this one, but holy shit it was good. It’s like they had a limitless budget and a director who knew how to spend it to tell whatever story they wanted - the locations and sets (and cars) are all perfect and the plot is strong throughout. The only real criticism would be there are a few GoT style “time skips”, but it’s all in aid of keeping the story going.

Rich B wrote: Sun Sep 20, 2026 2:32 pm The Gentlemen S2

I thought the first series of good, not great but enjoyable so i didn’t rush to watch this one, but holy shit it was good. It’s like they had a limitless budget and a director who knew how to spend it to tell whatever story they wanted - the locations and sets (and cars) are all perfect and the plot is strong throughout. The only real criticism would be there are a few GoT style “time skips”, but it’s all in aid of keeping the story going.

Yep, the first one was good but it meandered a bit, the second is great and benefits from being darker.

Zonda_ wrote: Sun Sep 20, 2026 4:48 pm

Rich B wrote: Sun Sep 20, 2026 2:32 pm The Gentlemen S2

I thought the first series of good, not great but enjoyable so i didn’t rush to watch this one, but holy shit it was good. It’s like they had a limitless budget and a director who knew how to spend it to tell whatever story they wanted - the locations and sets (and cars) are all perfect and the plot is strong throughout. The only real criticism would be there are a few GoT style “time skips”, but it’s all in aid of keeping the story going.

Yep, the first one was good but it meandered a bit, the second is great and benefits from being darker.

Will now watch this - had similar feeling wrt series1

I've watched S2E1, and agree with all of the above. See if we can start it tonight (watching Ludwig S2 with the eldest).

I’ve just finished the first episode too. They packed a lot in!

240PP wrote: Sun Sep 20, 2026 5:26 pm I’ve just finished the first episode too. They packed a lot in!

I'd say the first episode is about the weakest if you can call it that!

Added to my Arr stack for watching!

240PP wrote: Sun Sep 20, 2026 5:26 pm I’ve just finished the first episode too. They packed a lot in!

Just finished the series, it is very good, and exceptionally violent

It seems to ramp up the tension with each episode, with the craziness increasing as it follows Eddie’s character arc. The last two episodes in particular are gruesome, double-crossing, mercenary, barbaric stuff.

I need some brain soap now, that ending was something else.

Hopefully season 3 is being commissioned, it’s definitely set up for that.

The reboot of Carrie on amzon.

I read quite a bit of Stephen King as a youngling, and Carrie the movie really struggled to convey the power of the book.

Started this new series with some trepidation - but it’s actually pretty good! I guess a TV series gives them far longer to build the characters.

7.5 dirty pillows out of ten (with irony, as “dirty pillows” doesn’t make a mention in this version).

Slow Horses (Apple TV, series 4? 5?)

Has lost some of the sparkle of the first series, still good, but not quite as good.

The Diplomat (Netflix, series... 4?)
Completely different ball game. This only gets better, and the latest series is an emotional rollercoaster (and apt given the current political situation).

mik wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2026 11:35 am The reboot of Carrie on amzon.

I read quite a bit of Stephen King as a youngling, and Carrie the movie really struggled to convey the power of the book.

Started this new series with some trepidation - but it’s actually pretty good! I guess a TV series gives them far longer to build the characters.

7.5 dirty pillows out of ten (with irony, as “dirty pillows” doesn’t make a mention in this version).

I still have all the Stephen Kings on my bookshelf, everything up until about 5 years ago. I have vague memories of the original Carrie film so thanks for the reminder to check out the new one.

Billy Summers is well worth a read...

2021 so not sure if you have it...