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[personal profile] feurioo2025-04-18 04:15 pm

Taskmaster S19 Trailer

Eureka! It’s a new series of Taskmaster! Your five volatile elements are Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey and Stevie Martin - plus, of course, a compound of Daviesium and Horneium.
 
Thursday 1st May at 9pm on Channel 4 and 2nd May around the world on YouTube.

TV Tuesday: Going the Distance

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It's easy to try out a lot of different shows nowadays, but maybe harder to decide what to stick with. What was the longest you ever watched a show before giving up on it?

Poll #32984 What was the longest you ever watched a show before giving up on it?
This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 37

The longest I watched was...

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Less than 1 episode
1 (2.7%)

1 episode
0 (0.0%)

2-3 episodes
3 (8.1%)

4-6 episodes
2 (5.4%)

7-12 episodes
0 (0.0%)

13-18 episodes
0 (0.0%)

19-24 episodes
1 (2.7%)

25-44 episodes
4 (10.8%)

45-66 episodes
4 (10.8%)

67-88 episodes
1 (2.7%)

89-111 episodes
3 (8.1%)

Over 111 episodes
18 (48.6%)

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[personal profile] feurioo2025-04-12 08:57 am

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Murderbot trailer dropped!!!

And includes snippets of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon!




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In case you needed a new Holmes show in your life: Sherlock & Daughter Trailer


The mystery thriller series SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER puts Sherlock Holmes (David Thewlis) out of his comfort zone, mysteriously unable to investigate a sinister case without risking the lives of his closest friends. Enter: young American Amelia (Blu Hunt). After her mother’s mysterious murder, she learns that her missing father may be the legendary detective. Despite wildly different backgrounds and attitudes, the pair must work together to solve a global conspiracy, crack her mother’s murder, and find out for sure if she really is Sherlock’s daughter.

TV Talk: Hurt/Fix

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Medical shows are creating buzz right now. Do you agree with the article that old style TV genres are what most people want to watch? And if so is it tied to our historical moment, or just that these have always been people's main TV viewing choices?
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[personal profile] feurioo2025-04-04 06:31 pm

K-Drama Update #13: April Releases


A fateful accident intertwines six lives in a thrilling tale of karma and crime, where each must face their own dark truths and connections. Now on Netflix.
Read more... )

TV Talk: Near or Far

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Does your country produce a lot of homegrown TV shows? If not, do you watch content from elsewhere because you enjoy things about that content or because there aren't enough local options of the kinds of things you want to see?
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[personal profile] feurioo2025-03-30 01:23 pm
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The Lady's Companion Trailer


Madrid, 1871. Elena Bianda (Nadia de Santiago) is the most sought-after chaperone in the city. Her job is to find the perfect suitor for her young lady—so long as she doesn’t fall in love with him herself... Streaming now on Netflix.
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[personal profile] feurioo2025-03-27 06:02 pm

Tom Gleeson: Tommy Little Could Be The Worst Taskmaster Contestant

 
The fourth season of Taskmaster Australia will air on Channel 10 from March 27 to May 30. The season features Dave Hughes, Emma Holland, Lisa McCune, Takashi Wakasugi and Tommy Little as contestants.

TV Tuesday: You Love Me, You Love Me Not

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What is a show you thought you wouldn't like, but ended up loving? What is a show you thought you'd love, but ended up disappointing you?
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TV Tuesday: Process

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When you watch a show do you ever find yourself thinking about the writing process that produced that episode or a particular scene? Do you imagine conversations going on in the writer’s room?
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Deli Boys Trailer


When their convenience store-magnate father suddenly dies, a pair of pampered Pakistani American brothers (Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh) lose everything and are forced to reckon with their Baba’s secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld. Stream Deli Boys on Hulu/Disney+. 
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[personal profile] tinny2025-03-14 06:12 pm

HPI - Review + Rec

My newest obsession! \o/


Morgane & Karadec 1x05
Morgane Alvaro and Adam Karadec on HPI
starring Audrey Fleurot and Mehdi Nebbou


HPI (Haut Potentiel Intellectuel) is a very popular French crime procedural in the general vein of the Sherlock Holmes genre. There are 32 episodes over 4 seasons now. Season five (another 8 episodes) will air this year, and it will probably be the last one.

Where?

The show has been exported to many countries, and you should be able to find it in your country, I hope? Prime has it, hulu has it..., it's everywhere! (There are remakes in different countries, too. The US one is called High Potential. Please watch the French original instead. <3)

Is it a rec?

OMG so much yes. By the end of season 2, I was hopelessly in love. Mostly with the love story between her and the detective (which is a lot of will-they-wont-they, but the writing supports the romance every step of the way, it's brilliant), and with Mehdi Nebbou's acting. The more I'm rewatching, the more I appreciate Audrey Fleurot's acting as well - she really put everything into this role.

What's it about?

Morgane (Audrey Fleurot) is a woman with an IQ of 160+, a single mother of three who struggles to hold a job or maintain any relationship because her brain is always running a mile a minute. She gets hired as a consultant to the police in Lille, much to the chagrin of commandant Karadec (Mehdi Nebbou). It has a bit of a Sherlock vibe, and a bit of a Monk vibe, and if you like other "consultant to the police" procedural shows, I think you'll like this one, too.

There are four seasons (and they keep getting better and better), and a fifth and final one will air this year. The only non-spoilery thing I could find in terms of reccable video is this hulu trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWRCpVZWNw8

The setup in the first season is very 'standard': he's rigid and all about the rules and a good police officer, and she's chaotic and draws all the attention and doesn't respect any rules at all. So, predictably, they clash a lot. But they're also attracted to each other, and it's a lot of fun to watch.

Morgane is definitely neuro-atypical, both highly intelligent and with some adhd traits, she is hyperfocusing on one side but easily distracted on the other, and never manages to follow the big picture. Its often sad to watch how she is her own greatest enemy in that sense. But I very much identify with her on the joy of solving puzzles! While her life is chaotic, she is generally shown as capable of juggling the challenges life throws at her. Of course she gets herself and the police into dangerous situations because of her disregard of the rules and her lack of patience, and I realize that if someone had told me that up front out of context, I would have said I'd hate her - but I don't. Not at all! I can't put my finger on what exactly they did right, but I think the character is very well constructed and I empathize with her very much.

Karadec is soft-spoken and very empathetic, and I for one loved that in the portrayal of a police detective. There's no arrogance, no better-than-thou attitude, no matter who he's dealing with. He is kind and caring with the suspects and the witnesses, and he takes his job seriously. What can I say, I love him.

From the start, the show doesn't get into a rut. The characters develop, nothing is easy, and they both make mistakes, hurting themselves and others. The writing never forgets about their romance, though. There are obstacles - a lot of them - but as a shipper, I always felt very loved by the writing. From the small things, like each scene taking the time to show the leads' reactions to everything, to the big things, like them actively trying to have a relationship, the show always delivered what I wanted.

As for the tone of the show, it gets both funnier and bolder as time goes on. Some of the secondary characters have comical storylines, and the show takes itself less seriously as time goes on. I very much liked that, too. If you take all of it seriously, it can get pretty tragic, but the humor balances it out nicely.

a few caps and my thoughts on the first two seasons

If you've seen HPI and want to discuss with me, click through to my journal (link above). I wrote down my thoughts on seasons 1 and 2 and would love to talk about them with you!

TV Tuesday: Home Theater

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Quite a few movies each year are made for the TV market/go direct to streaming. At this year's Oscars there were various references to the importance of seeing movies in theaters. Is it important to you to see movies in theaters or do you prefer to watch them on TV? What about movies that continue TV shows -- do you want those to be in theaters?

EDITED TO ADD: Wikia (I will never call them Fandom) did a survey on streaming services in 2022 which has some interesting details seen in the PDF link.

a) The main things people like about viewing movies at home: the pause button (82%), Subtitles (61%), lower cost (59%) and safer than theaters (38%). Read more... )
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