Thanks, I’ll check it out. I love a good tv show but I think we all go through a bit of purgatory when we finish a classic and then just meander through bits and pieces of stuff looking for that next gem. I think it’s taken me 6 months to find something good. I can’t remember the last brilliant show I watched. Alien Earth was the last series I finished but tbh it was okay but not great. Watched the last season of Slow Horses, again was good but not great. Think that’s getting a little tired tbh imo. Pretty sure Industry was the last brilliant show I got into. Haven’t watched the latest season.
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I think Slow Horses will be better next series. I read the book after the series is over and that felt the weakest, and online the readers seem to feel the same. That said Rosalind Eleazar’s (sp?) decision to leave obviously hit it hard too. Apparently Book 6 features her strongly, which is shy Series 6 is seven episodes and covers the next two books.
Alien:Earth for me was 7 episodes with barely a fuck-up and then a finalé that just seemed to piss on all of it. Shame 
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The only other truly great shows I have seen recently where I didn’t feel a single ep was a dud are Poker Face and Somebody Somewhere, but both are strongly comedy alongside the drama.
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Stopped watching after the boiling. Too much for me.
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To be fair that was pretty brutal, and actually kept on flashing up in my mind over the next few days. Also the bloodline sacrifice. I won’t say anymore than that. Probably best avoid this show if one is easily upset.
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I’m not even easily upset generally - a bit of Alien Earth dismemberment and disembowelling doesn’t bother me, I just thought this was a step too far. Also the lead bloke seemed pretty wooden to me. Like when Tom Hardy does an accent. Anyway, glad others enjoyed it!
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I think it was kind of good? Genuinely expected the worst but it seems much more self-aware, mature and introspective than I thought it would be and it’s not just trying to copy the exact same formula from the first time it was on.
Yeah I liked it too. Could do with some more interesting younger doctors. I quite liked the one who’s an influencer but the rest seem fairly anonymous. And Vanessa Bayer’s good
Definitely, I’m hoping they develop them a bit more over the course of the season since I always thought you previously had some really interesting characters emerge from the interns/first years.
I guess the first episode was predominantly about JD coming back to Sacred Heart though.
Dave Franco! Maybe he can do a cameo
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Lord of flies, got to the end of episode 2, that’s it for me. Absolute dross.
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I think he’s meant to be wooden because he’s actually speaking Portuguese (but relayed as English) most of the time. Like I don’t know that it fully works but I felt like that was a choice they went with. A few times he speaks to his English shipmates and I feel like his way of speaking is more open?
I had a similar take that as he is essentially the ‘alien’ in this situation his performance marks him out as such.
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Yeah, he’s also deliberately playing it over the top, to give a bigger contrast with the reserved Japanese.
Did not realise that The Walsh Sisters is based on the Marian Keyes books. Have only read Rachel’s Holiday (and loved it).
First episode was very strong (apart from one annoying thing but whatever)
The Lincoln Lawyer season 4, probably the best series yet, however it looked like it was always going to be difficult to follow but then they’ve apparently taken the choice to full on launch themselves over the shark by introducing Cobie Smulders as a secret sister right at the end.
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Then we started on Then You Run, which has been good if a bit tonally all over the shop.
The first episode of DTF St. Louis was pretty great.
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Ooh hopefully it will follow Black Sails in tone
Anybody else watch Common Side Effects? I think it was out last year but I’ve just finished it. 10 episodes of almost perfect TV for my tastes. It’s an animated show about an independent scientist who discovers a mushroom that can essentially cure any disease and even death. Big pharmaceutical companies and the US government are hunting him down while he tries to work out how to make it grow.
There’s lot of cool characters in this, lots of loyalties and relationships being tested, and homages to things like Akira, Mulder and Scully. More importantly, it’s a world I quickly got lost in and wanted to spend as much time exploring its stories as possible.
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