Finished up Westworld - whew! What a ride! Fantastic acting, and an interesting story with many twists and turns. Typical HBO quality entertainment.
I'm also four episodes into Bosch, which is also very good. Titus Welliver is excellent in the lead role.
A common thread between both of these is that they both have great tone. Great feel and atmosphere.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Yeah, I thought Bosch was pretty ordinary.
Homeland picked up some speed on its second ep. Thank goodness.
"That gum you like is going to come back in style."
I've got Colony queued up. Is it any good?
"Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."
-Cozy 3:16-
Its not too bad.
Binged the first series last weekend now I'm waiting on the second.
DtB
Tried to get into Colony. Couldn't hang. Too much really good shit out there to mess with the mediocre shit. Speaking of the really good shit, really looking forward to season 3 of Fargo this April. This one's taking place in 2010, 4 years after season 1 takes place. A peek at the cast (Ewan McGregor [playing twin brothers], Carrie Coon, Jim Gaffigan [!], David Thewlis, Michael Stuhlbarg to name a few) has me chomping at the bit. Love Carrie Coon (The Leftovers).
"That gum you like is going to come back in style."
Season premiere of The Magicians' season two tonight on Syfy. Come for the magic, stay for the snark, sex, and substance abuse.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
I don't have HBO so things like Fargo and Westworld are not available to me....
"Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."
-Cozy 3:16-
Do you get Fx channel in Canuckistan? That's where Fargo runs. Amazon has seasons one and two but they're not free to stream
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
RIP Mary Tyler Moore
Her eponymous show was ground-breaking US television.
Has BBC's "Taboo" reached over the pond yet? We are only three episodes in, but I'm really enjoying this dark and intricate tale. Some very powerful and brooding performances, especially from Tom Hardy, but the whole cast is excellent.
I have seen the first two episodes. I'm a sucker for films/TV/books set in the same general time period of Olde England, the grittier the better, and this one's plenty gritty. The only problem I'm having is the same as I had with the Netflix series "Peaky Blinders": the accents are so thick that my tinnitus-ravaged American ears can barely discern half of the dialog without turning the volume up to 11. And even then I'm tempted to turn on the closed captioning.
Yves - do you have a "smart TV," or Amazon Fire Stick, or Roku stick or anything that allows you to access apps on your TV?
If so, you might be able to use the HBOGo app. I don't have HBO, either, but can use that app, for some reason. And it has every episode of every HBO TV series ever created.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
So far, season 3 of Black Mirror is much better than seasons 1 and 2, with the exception of an episode here or there. This show is worth seeking out.
Well, there was certainly a lot for me to like but I've read nearly all the Bosch novels and while I think Titus Welliver is a very good actor, he just didn't quite cut it for me as Harry Bosch... altho I think he's very close. I know Michael Connelly (the author of the books) thinks he's perfect (so he says) so I guess my take on it is of value to no one. lol
I also think what I would have preferred to see is a series based on Mickey Haller (the Lincoln Lawyer). To date, Connelly has written 19 Bosch novels and only 5 Haller novels. As good as I thought the Bosch novels were, I enjoyed the Haller novels considerably more. I wish he would write more of those.
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
Just finished the last episode of season 1 of Westworld. No spoilers from me, but it was a wild ride. I think it's safe to say season 2 will be quite different.
Looking forward to "24-Legacy" after tonight's Super Bowl.
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
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