Topic: The TV Show Thread

@mookysam Jessica Jones is great! It's the only Marvel Netflix show I've seen (and interests me), but I'd be surprised if any of the others beat it. The villain, as played by David Tennant, is such a great character and I loved every second of his antics. Krysten Ritter is also great with her portrayal of Jessica Jones. You could definitely already see shades of her with the Breaking Bad character. Very good casting. Season 2 is not as good as season 1, but I still enjoyed the first half. Enjoy it while it lasts!

@KratosMD Fair enough! I completely forgot about The Punisher. That's easily the other Marvel Netflix show I find most interesting, but from what I've seen I'm not convinced I'd personally enjoy it as much as I did Jessica Jones S1. Maybe I'll get around to giving it a shot eventually though!

Peaky Blinders does have it's great moments. I'm not sure what I think of it overall, but I sure do like it enough to keep watching it. The 4th season last year was the first I "watched live", and it's probably one of the better seasons. That said, I don't remember all that much from the first 2 so I could be underestimating the competition. What I can say however, is that the season 4 premiere had one of the best openings of any episode of any show I've ever seen. Incredibly well directed that was. Cilian Murphy and Helen McCrory are the highlights of the show (I really need to watch Penny Dreadful already), but it's an all around great ensemble. Glad to hear you're enjoying it! You've definitely got a hell of a ride ahead of you. Season 2/4 are the best seasons from my recollection, and 2 is the one which introduces Tom Hardy. Tom Hardy easily plays one of the best characters in the show, so you've got that to look forward to. Lots of great stuff in that show. Hope you enjoy!

@KratosMD Having been watching Black Butler I'm also in the mood for the setting. So one thing I'm not sure about, what kind of protagonist does it have? Hero, anti-hero, or villain?

@mookysam Luke Cage season 2 is the King of the Marvel Netflix crop - by quite a long way. Punisher is OK, but I really got tired of Jon Bernthall grunting.

@KratosMD @Tjuz I have a love/hate relationship with Peaky Blinders. The vast majority of the cast (aside from the couple of local lads) absolutely butcher the accents. Murphy is probably the best of the bunch in that regard, but he spent months drinking and hanging around in Birmingham as research before the first series.
Most of the non-local actors end up with some odd regional deviations considering they're all meant to be the same family or from the same place - and the production/direction is obviously angled towards being slightly clipped for the national audience.

When the boat guys who are meant to be from Wolverhampton show up (Series 2 I think) I wanted to set my TV on fire!

It's had it's ups and downs, the last series was great though.

I live a couple of miles from The Black Country Living Museum where a chunk of the external stuff is filmed - it's a regular day out actually, so that's quite nice.

@Jaz007 It's a post WWI drama based loosely on a pretty nasty real life crime gang. Lots of damaged, nasty characters with the main protagonist set up in the 'lovable rogue' archetype.

@KALofKRYPTON I'm a West Midlands boy (not Brummie or Black Country though!) and thought the accents were decent enough on the whole. Great casting for everyone though, especially Arthur. Sam Neill is also great and also does a good accent.

Although the latter series didn't hit the peaks of the first two, it's still a top show. The Nick Cave song for the intro is also perfectly chosen.

@Thrillho They're pretty bad really, especially early on where a couple of the younger local lads are clearly from Dudley.

I think Sam Neil is of Northern Irish decent actually.

Yeah, they use the song a lot!

After years of folk trying to get it picked up, the Wheel of Time TV show is slated for Amazon Prime.

I'm currently reading book 11 (of 14) of the series; it's going to be a very difficult thing to adapt, but if they get it right - it'll make Game of Thrones look like that Ewoks film!

@RogerRoger Yeah I saw. It gets slightly better looking every trailer, but still manages to look really cheap and miscast (apart from Jason Todd).

@RogerRoger Half-decent at best is probably right based on the trailers

@RogerRoger There's a review of episode 1 on iO9; well, I say review - it reads like a puff-piece - but mostly seems as expected.

@beemo I watched the first episode, didn't grip me particularly so didn't bother with any others.

Having finished going through Blake's 7 now, I've moved on to Space 1999. Unlike Blake's 7 - I did watch re-runs of Space 1999 as a kid and loved it.
Great watching it again, brilliant sets, model work and ingenious props - and the title theme is fire!

@RogerRoger It's so good! Episode 2: Lovejoy vs Mission Impossible... IN SPAAAAAACE!!!!!
Yet no is the slightest bit concerned that the episode before they were flung out of Earth's orbit :- )

I'm doing UFO after this, the sexiest of Gerry Anderson's productions!

@RogerRoger Captain Scarlet really is brilliant! Even the updated one was actually pretty good.

Joe90 really only only works from a child's point of view I think. UFO is good, I think it came before Space: 1999 - but again, the sets, props and costuming are great.
The full size cars, as I recall, do look a lot like what's seen in the puppet shows.

@RogerRoger Yeah, the model stuff in the new TB is really impressive - the show itself, not so much (and y'know, why would you do THAT to TB2?!).

A car from UFO:

@RogerRoger You'd not want you take a knock to the shins would you?!

@RogerRoger Perhaps - not quite the copper one from FYEO though - that had bonus skis for impaling!

So Lobo for the Krypton show.

Nope.

Nopiddy, nopiddy nope nope nope.

Can someone call Alice Cooper? Rob Zombie's found his way out of his box again...

Doctor Who.

It was fine. It's new Who, it never really changes all that much.

JW was alright, but as I've noted elsewhere with BBC productions that are keen on regional accents - they still direct everyone to be a little bit clipped in their delivery which serves to make people sound like they're working through ellocution exercises; the new Doctor included.

I like her so far, it's a bit 11 via 9 & 10 - but again, new Who comes with being much of a muchness in lots of ways - I'm interested to see how she goes forward - the opening was strong enough and a search for the TARDIS is a nice thread to pull.

The 'monster' of the week was nicely designed, the 'teeth' thing will no doubt strike a suitably uncomfortable cord for many.

I do feel like the supporting cast is already too large though; that does come with the benefit of it being very unlikely that any of the 3 companions is of incredible cosmic importance

I can get on board with that. I think this'll look pretty good on-screen.

I think it was @KALofKRYPTON who mentioned Final Space before. I’m glad they mentioned liking it as I was very indifferent after the first episode but the series was good fun in the end.

I still can’t quite believe David Tennant played the Lord Commander though!