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Utterly compelling and well-referenced techno/political thriller featuring Simon Pegg and Mark Rylance in supporting roles. I loved the visual metaphors employed for computer hacking (clear fantasy extensions, as opposed to furious typing & bystander peering), and also that they’d gone to the trouble of having realistic Tech Stuff on the screens (as opposed to the…
Holy crap, having been massive fans of Borgen since day 1 and finding Birgitte Nyborg’s floundering around in latter seasons a bit less satisfying, we were delighted that this instalment was a blistering return to excellence. In Borgen Power & Glory we not only saw the gritty innards of coalition politics (and the uneasy alliances…
This show. My god, this show. I found myself describing in breathlessly to a workmate and realised that I absolutely love it. Flawed characters… flawed SUPERHEROES… and the set pieces – even after 2 eye-popping seasons, they can *still* pull surprises out of the bag. And, of course, there’s the delicious swearing. Proper compelling TV….
I really think Ewan McGregor was giving this all he had, but it’s not possible to overcome the laziness of the Star Wars franchise and its 21st Century architects. A patronising parade of fan-appeasing lip-service stretched over a jeopardy-free plot, punctuated with plenty of “REALLY?” eye-roll moments. The one interesting character avenue that the story…
Lots of the design ideas were interesting and that ALMOST got me to see past the infuriating elements of the show (for example, who the hell refurbishes a shop in 2 days with a budget of £3k?!). Overwhelmingly though I just found myself increasingly grinding my teeth about all the campness. Is it REALLY necessary? …
Season 1 of this really, really grabbed me – so it’s a bit of a shame that this followup instalment seemed to wander a bit. I don’t know if there was an element of plot-padding, or maybe my mind just wasn’t fully on it. Still good, but not 2-thumbs-up good. At least compelling enough to…
So, I find it *really* hard watching things with Toni Collette in (and this is TOTALLY my issue) because I keep getting distracted about whether it was her that I really disliked in that Jurassic Park sequel (spoiler: it isn’t – that was Tea Leoni, and I don’t know why I can’t tell the two…
Seth McFarlane’s love-letter to Star Trek TNG iterated even further into the SciFi while still keeping enough comedy in the mix to sell that as a premise. These stories felt like GENIUNE TNG stories, which while the names and forehead-prosthetics were different, everything else about it smelled like episodes that didn’t quite make it out…
The best way to consume this, I think, is to have it on in the background & dip in and out periodically – otherwise you’d lose your mind. Notionally interesting due to the regional heats/finals nature of the contest, the show promises that everyone’s in with an even chance. But some groups are clearly in…
We started this season in around Feb/March last year. They’re just so damn epic in scale! Season 2 was quite the journey, with LOTS of key character deaths and huge changes in the political setup in 13th Century Turkey. It’s crazy-infuriating sometimes as you wonder WHY THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE LISTENING TO {character}, despite…