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Speak Up Saturday
Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
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The world-building with one inciting incident that led to ghosts pretty much coming to our world all at once 50 years ago is fascinating. Kids and teenagers are really the only ones who can do anything about it. Whole industries are built around it. There also things missing that have been developed during the last 50 years. So no internet for research. However, a lot of that world-building is done via the intro sequence. So you'll have to watch it at least once. I mean, the show also depicts it, but the intro certainly fills gaps and gives a rundown right at the beginning.
In addition to this paranormal/fantasy/horror elements, it is also a classic found family story. Again, I am late to watching this show, but it is a real shame that it was canceled so quickly.
I know it is based on a book series and this season apparently covered two books. So with just three seasons in total, they could have covered all five books. That just reminds me of what they did with Shadow and Bone...
It being based on a book series explains the great world-building. They already have all the lore to pull from.
It is still worth watching the show though. It does end on a cliffhanger, but the main stories are all wrapped up. This cliffhanger is more character-based I suppose which is still super annoying.
The latest episode of Paradise was so intense. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.
Ghosts' episode was pretty funny and I still haven't abandoned Watson!
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And there are images from that first season that still haunt me - things those keys did that are really frightening.
Also the first season is by far the best, I enjoyed the second well enough, but kind of gave up halfway into the Third. It's better when it focuses on the keys and the ghosts, and less on the demons that have escaped into our world.
I think it got cancelled because it kind of goes off the rails a bit in the third season.
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Typically I can deal better with horror shows than movies.
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Finished:
Night Agent s02
Unforgotten s06
Virdee
Dexter Original Sin
On Call s01
An t-Eilean (The Island)
Started
Paradise
Zero Day
Time Bandits
Continued
The Pitt
FBI
Will Trent
Curse of Oak Island
Severance
Mythic Quest
I thought I'd single out Virdee (BBC) for special mention. It's a six-part police thriller that is an adaptation by Amit Dhand of his own book City of Sinners (I'd not read any of the books, or even knew they existed). It's set in the West Yorkshire town of Bradford and centred round Detective Harry Virdee and his conflicted personal and professional loyalties. The vast majority of the cast is south-east Asian, including the star, Staz Nair, who portrays Virdee. The main story is about tracking down a serial killer, and there various complicated side plots, including Virdee's estrangement from his Sikh family because he had the nerve to marry a Pakistani muslim woman, who's brother's supposedly legit business is mostly a cover for some very not-so-legit business. It's action-packed, very entertaining, and I think manages to put a fresh spin on most of the usual cop/serial killer tropes. No, I don't know if it's playing on any streaming service outside of the UK.
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Started...
Dexter: Original Sin - Showtime on Paramount Plus. It stars Christian Slater (Hank Morgan - Dexter's father), Patrick Dempsey (as Captain Spencer - the head of the department) and Dempsey has aged, so has Slater, I feel old. Sarah Michelle Gellar - plays the head of Forensics (she's also aged). It's the cross-over we never asked for - the actors from Buffy, Dexter,Grey's, and Pump up the Volume/Heathers star Slater in the same television series. But it is good - has the same vibe as the original series, does a good job of filling in the gaps and back story, and has Michael C. Hall as the voice of Dexter. Patrick Gibson does a good job of playing a younger version of Dexter.
Dexter - for those who don't know? Is based on a series of mystery novels about a forensic pathologist for the Miami PD who moonlights as a serial killer of well serial killers.
It's kind of cathartic in a way, but it also asks the moral question - should we kill off serial killers, isn't that just as bad? (And yes, it is.)
* Beyond the Gates - also Paramount Plus - and a soap opera, it's a new daytime soap on CBS, that is rather groundbreaking in that 98% of the cast is Black, and so is the show-runner, and many of the writers. Also it has a female black woman as a show-runner - ground-breaking for a daytime soap opera. It's basically Dynasty by way of Young and the Restless - in a fictional gated community in Maryland. The characters for the most part are wealthy and influential.
It's okay. I tend to us it more as background noise than much else. But also just started.
* Faraway Downs - Hulu - it's a mini-series by Baz Lurham, basically what he did was take the extra footage that wasn't included in his three hour film "Australia" which had been brutally cut to air on screen, and turned it into a mini-series. It's about six episodes - apparently the original epic was six hours, but he trimmed it to about 2 and 1/2 hours - which is why the movie felt kind of hollow, I think.
I saw two episodes. It's actually pretty good, and more of a love story between a wealthy British lady, a small aboriginal boy, and an Australian Drover. Everyone in it is Australian - Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, etc. Baz Lurham is also Australian and it was entirely filmed in Australia. [So was Elvis by the way.]
Looking forward to:
* Daredevil Born Again - Disney +
* Wicked - the movie - streaming on Peacock
* September 5 - streaming on Paramount +
* Andor - Disney +
* Murderbot - AppleTV
* Slow Horses S5 - Apple TV (I need to find the book)
* Greys Anatomy starting up again
Also, need to go back to Dragon Prince, Severance, and check out A Thousand Blows - the new series by the creator of Peaky Blinders.
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I remember watching Faraway Downs some time ago. I hadn't realized it had been altered, but I found it an interesting watch.
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Chicken Run 2 - Dawn of the Nugget - It wasn't as good as the Feathers movie, but it was also not bad. Rocky and Ginger have a child, named Molly, and she wants to see the world - and of course, due to stupidly avoidable lack of parental communication, she runs away and straight into the arms of the next chicken farmer, where the chickens are mind-controlled into being happy and brainless. All of that made zero sense. That said, the rescue operation was hilarious and fast-paced, and basically reconciled me with the nonsensical setup. I enjoyed the second half of the movie a lot.
Since I watched all of Saint-Pierre last week, I checked out Allan Hawco's other show, the ten-year-old Republic of Doyle. I didn't get through the pilot, Doyle was way too cocky for me. I much prefer the older and broken Fitz on Saint-Pierre. Three more eps of that to go, and I'm looking forward to it.
Then I (finally) started Under the Skin 2 with Tan Jianci - I'm sure everyone already knows what this is. It's the second season of one of the (imho) best procedural police cdramas. I've so far watched two eps, and very much enjoy the dynamic between Shen Yi and Du Cheng, which is front and center and feels very much like (deserved) fan service. Very good in that respect. The case was very ott, the production felt a bit less awesome than season 1, and I am again reminded how little I like it when police officers shout at witnesses during their interrogations. I will continue this, though, because I have friends who like it and who I can talk to about it.
I also started Tan Jianci's actual new show, Filter, since i need to help sub it and need to know what it's about. It's about an average girl (Landy Li) who meets her nerdy high school crush (Tan Jianci) again at a reunion. She comes into the possession of a magical artefact that makes her wishes come true, and there are lots of wacky hijinx with her taking on the form of an alpaka, for example. I have no idea how wacky it's going to get, I only watched one ep so far, but it's a romance, so I expect a happy ending for the leads.
I'm very much looking forward to Doctor Odyssey, which is supposed to continue this week. \o/
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I'm sure m/m kisses don't pass censorship, no matter how magical or imaginary they are... :/
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Btw: How long have you been making subs, and are you doing it as a part of a fan team or on a site (like Viki, for example)? I owe Fansubbers a lot, so all my respect for people like you!
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If I knew how censors' brains work...
Btw: How long have you been making subs, and are you doing it as a part of a fan team or on a site (like Viki, for example)?
I'm doing it on Viki, it's all organized there, the editor is really convenient, and I get a free viki account out of it, so I keep doing it. I started it when I watched When A Snail Falls in Love, and realized that the official US streaming version of that had stolen the viki subs made by volunteers (they hadnt even bothered removing the team segments). I hadn't known viki existed before that. That was... in 2018, I think? It was still nicer back then, the community support has degraded over the years, and the learn mode hasn't been working for ages (I loved learn mode!). But for the little effort I put into it, I'm not bothered by any of that.
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Yellowjackets S3E4: The people who find it soapy and ridiculous compared to the first season are absolutely right. But I still love it! I am also still here for Shauna Shipman rights and Shauna Shipman wrongs.
The Potato Lab E1: A cute first episode. The comedy is wacky and meta, and I think there is a good foundation for a workplace comedy with colorful characters and a dash of rivals-to-lovers rom-com.
Crash Landing on You E1-2: Couldn't care less about the NK conspiracy or Se-ri's family dynamics, but the E2 cliffhanger finally intrigued me. Currently watching E3, and I think this is the most I have liked any Hyun Bin character.
The Witch E3-4: While I, so far, liked the slow pace, episode 4 seemed weirdly meandering with plots that had no apparent connection to our main mystery. I hope this will be explained in the next few episodes.
My Beloved Nemesis E3-4: The chaebol childhood trauma is as devastating as it is stupid. I like the second lead couple for their quick foray between the sheets and am looking forward to how things will develop between them. As for the main couple, hopefully one of them will finally figure out the other's online identity.
Grosse Point Garden Society S1E1: Underwhelming. Don't get me wrong, I feel as if I have seen and liked practically any soapy drama with a central murder mystery (even Devious Maids until its cancellation!), but this one simply didn't hit the spot. Didn't care about the victim or any of the characters. Will give it one or two more episodes for the great female cast, but I'm not particularly hopeful.
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I actually hadn't ever seen any of their shows before, so can't compare performances. But fwiw, I did like CLOY. I found it particularly interesting to compare to German media with the same theme, and how the West German bias shows there exactly like the SK bias shows on CLOY.
My rec post is here, in case you hadn't seen it: https://tinny.dreamwidth.org/682931.html
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I'm Dying Up Here, a 2 season drama series about the beginnings of the stand up scene in L.A. I found some parts hard to watch as comedians aren't the cheeriest bunch of people to hand out with. However it was well plotted and I ended up seeing the whole thing. It had some good season endings and I'm assuming there will be another season.
The Agency had one season and I found it much less engaging. It finished well and clearly seems to expect a further season as there's a subplot that never really goes anywhere this season. But the start was rather slow and it's all filmed in a dreary palette. I don't know how interested I am in another season.
Along those lines I've begun S1 of Lionness. Also not easy watching, but I'll give it a season.
Otherwise continuing some other shows and watched the first episode of the latest season of Call the Midwife.
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Also watching The Pitt every week, and continuing to love it.
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