What are we watching on TV?

Carole

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Carole said:
Designated Survivor.

It's brilliant.
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Finished this last night. Watched all 53 episodes over 19 nights. Seasons 1 and 2 were brilliant, season 3 was rubbish.

We’ve watched All Creatures Great and Small which is lovely.

Then tonight


littleme said:
The Fall
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We watched 2 episodes of this and found it extremely slow.
I don’t know if it’s because we’ve just finished Designated Survivor which was incredibly fast paced so it’s affected our perspective a bit.
We’d heard good things about The Fall so we’re wondering if it’s a slow start and it gets better?
Is it worth persevering with?
 
BobClay

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I've started watching Designated Survivor as well. I sort of expected Kiefer Sutherland to pull a gun and shoot some of the wankers he's having to deal with in this series, that's how Jack Bauer would have dealt with it. But he's playing a much more subtle character in this, with a big ... BIG plate of problems.
It is rather good.
 
littleme

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Carole said:
Then tonight




We watched 2 episodes of this and found it extremely slow.
I don’t know if it’s because we’ve just finished Designated Survivor which was incredibly fast paced so it’s affected our perspective a bit.
We’d heard good things about The Fall so we’re wondering if it’s a slow start and it gets better?
Is it worth persevering with?
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Hmmm, I wouldn't know if it's worth persevering with... we got bored after 2 episodes.....
 
proactive

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littleme said:
American Horror story
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BobClay

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According to Facebook .. (yeah I know, pinch of salt and all that) .. Trump hates this picture !! So I feel sort of obliged to put it up ... :P

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BobClay

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Started watching 'Away' on Netflix. This is a drama about the first manned mission to Mars. It's not so much about the science and technology (which is all done very well) but the pressures on the crew, and how they react to their job and their isolation. To add a bit of spice to the story the crew is International. An American commander (Hilary Swank, always very watchable,) a Russian, Chinese, Indian and and an interesting Brit. This seems an unlikely scenario, but it definitely adds an edge to the inter crew relationships. A crew locked into a tin can for three years ... that's got drama seeping out of every crack.
 
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Sad that Mortimer & Whitehouse has finished.

The carer is looking forward to the return of Top Gear tonight, me not so much.

I'm torn between watching Michael Palin, or mor American Horror Story.
 
Lucy

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I shouldn't like it, but Married at First Sight starts again this week and I am very much looking forward to it.
 
BobClay

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A couple of weeks ago I started watching the Australian series 'Mystery Road' on BBC4. Two episodes back to back on Saturday nights. This turned into something of a saga for me. I became intrigued by the central character Detective Jay Swan, an indigenous cop rolling into small town Australia amid vast soul stirring landscapes. He's surly to the point rudeness. He doesn't say much, doesn't appear to like people in general (regardless of colour,) but as a detective, he's like a dog with a bone.

The thing is they kept referring to past events and I realised this was series 2. So between the first Saturday and next I found series 1 on IPlayer and binge-watched it, not that hard, only six episodes. I was looking for the back story of Jay Swan. Guess what ? They kept referring to previous events ... :eek:
So I did a bit or research and sure enough, there were two feature films prior to the TV series. 'Mystery Road' 2013 and 'Goldstone' 2016, both award winners. So I found 'Goldstone' on IPlayer and watched it, and then found the first film 'Mystery Road' on Amazon Prime (rent it for £3.50) So I've completed the back story of Jay Swan backwards ... :|

Last night I watched the last two episodes of the second series. All of it is set in small habitats in what seems a never ending horizon. I found out it was filmed in Queensland and the northern part of Western Australia. I have some small experience of the latter having visited there a few times to load iron ore, (they're digging out a mountain range of it there.) It is a mind boggling vastness that looks more like Mars than Earth.

You do find out why Jay Swan (played by Aaron Pederson) is the way he is. He's been through the mill, professionally and personally. He's tired of the racial undertones he encounters from both sides of the divide.

In short, he's pissed off, but a dedicated cop.
 
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proactive

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BobClay said:
A couple of weeks ago I started watching the Australian series 'Mystery Road' on BBC4. Two episodes back to back on Saturday nights. This turned into something of a saga for me. I became intrigued by the central character Detective Jay Swan, an indigenous cop rolling into small town Australia amid vast soul stirring landscapes. He's surly to the point rudeness. He doesn't say much, doesn't appear to like people in general (regardless of colour,) but as a detective, he's like a dog with a bone.

The thing is they kept referring to past events and I realised this was series 2. So between the first Saturday and next I found series 1 on IPlayer and binge-watched it, not that hard, only six episodes. I was looking for the back story of Jay Swan. Guess what ? They kept referring to previous events ... :eek:
So I did a bit or research and sure enough, there were two feature films prior to the TV series. 'Mystery Road' 2013 and 'Goldstone' 2016, both award winners. So I found 'Goldstone' on IPlayer and watched it, and then found the first film 'Mystery Road' on Amazon Prime (rent it for £3.50) So I've completed the back story of Jay Swan backwards ... :|

Last night I watched the last two episodes of the second series. All of it is set in small habitats in what seems a never ending horizon. I found out it was filmed in Queensland and the northern part of Western Australia. I have some small experience of the latter having visited there a few times to load iron ore, (they're digging out a mountain range of it there.) It is a mind boggling vastness that looks more like Mars than Earth.

You do find out why Jay Swan (played by Aaron Pederson) is they way he is. He's been through the mill, professionally and personally. He's tired of the racial undertones he encounters from both sides of the divide.

In short, he's pissed off, but a dedicated cop.
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Might give this one a look.
 
Lucy

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There's always been some amazing Australian television. Apparently the government has cut the quota of the amount of home grown TV they show, so it's very likely to die out soon.
 
Gramaisc

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BobClay said:
I became intrigued by the central character Detective Jay Swan, an indigenous cop rolling into small town Australia amid vast soul stirring landscapes.
Lucy said:
There's always been some amazing Australian television. Apparently the government has cut the quota of the amount of home grown TV they show, so it's very likely to die out soon.
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In the seventies, there was a sudden surge of cop shows where the central character had some "special feature" - like Ironside, Cannon and even Longstreet.

I remember seeing a few episodes of this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boney_(TV_series) - with an Aboriginal cop as the central character.
 
BobClay

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I do remember Boney and when I saw Mystery Road being advertised on the BEEB a few weeks ago I thought it might be something similar. But it's much more gritty, and Jay Swan to be honest, is not a very likable character. Anything but. One of the reasons I went after the back story.
 
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BobClay said:
I do remember Boney and when I saw Mystery Road being advertised on the BEEB a few weeks ago I thought it might be something similar. But it's much more gritty, and Jay Swan to be honest, is not a very likable character. Anything but. One of the reasons I went after the back story.
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Right, I wasn't sure if Boney had been on here, or if I saw it in Cyprus.

Australia in 1970 had not long allowed Aboriginals to vote...


The sad demise of Frank Windsor the other day had me looking at a few things from that era and I was reminded of Sergeant Cork, which I had completely forgotten about and don't remember it ever being even mentioned in the intervening years. i recall it being quite watchable and it seems, unusually for the time, to have survived intact and been issued on DVD.

'Victorian' stuff had a short period of fashionability then.

Adam Adamant, of course, seems to have retained more of a position in the collective memory - indeed, I had to mention it only the other day when someone revealed that they actually possessed a prohibited weapon - although the actual possession itself is not an offence.
 
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