What I have been watching
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scripsiWell, it’s certainly addictive. I have watched the first three seasons already. There are some really great acting here and the world-building is fantastic. I love the costumes, it is obvious that much thought have been put into it. I love how you can spot cultural differences and also detect a person’s personal taste. And it has dragons. I love dragons.
I love Tyrion and I suspect I’m not alone I can imagine he is a viewer favourite. I also like Sansa, and here I imagine I am pretty alone. Conventional female characters who continue to act within their conventional frame often gets a lot of flack. But I find her pretty awesome just because she adapt and resist within the very limited space she has. I like Arya too, she’s rather a force of nature. Loved her interaction with Tywin. And he is played by Charles Dance! I always like Charles Dance. Love her interactions with The Hound too.
Jamie has grown on me. I didn’t like him at all to begin with, but he is a rather nice example of a flawed hero. I don’t like Cersei at all, though. She may love her children, but she strikes me as that kind of mother who sees her children as part of herself, not as individual characters. And Shae, I deeply dislike her- she’s selfish and stupid and I’m sure she’ll cause Tyrion endless trouble eventually.
Joffrey is truly nasty and so is Ramsay Snow. But the scariest character, IMO, is Littlefinger. I think he can, and will, stoop to nothing to get what he want.
Jon Snow bores me something dreadful and I confess to jump most of his scenes. I’m not much for angsty heroic types. Stannis is boring too. I also skip all the Theon-torture.Ick! Skip the sex scenes too, not because they shock me, but because I find them dull. I liked Daenerys to begin with, now I’m a bit more ambivalent.
I have heard a lot about Tom Hiddleston, but this is the first I have actually seen of him acting. This mini-series thriller are an adaption from a book by John Le Carré which I haven’t read, as I don’t care much for that type of books. I did like the series, though. Hiddleston plays a former military who now works as a night manager in a high class hotel in Egypt. More or less by coincidence he gets entangled into the affairs of an arms dealer. Eventually this leads to him being recruited to go undercover into the arms dealers organisation. I found Hiddleston charming, and the intelligencer who recruits him was very nicely acted by Olivia Coleman. But Hugh Laurie as the main antagonist, was the best. I have seen Laurie in serious roles before, but never as a baddie. Somehow he made me forget the fresh-faces nincompoops he made in Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster. I found him genuinely frightening and it was brilliant.
Having seen The Night Manager we felt inspired to watch Crimson Peak. Beautiful movie, I loved both the costumes and the sets and I like the actors too. The plot wasn’t particularly surprising, though. I predicted it within twenty minutes. I didn’t like the look of the ghosts, though- too grotesque. Even the benevolent ghost of the heroine’s mother looked horribly distorted and icky. I found the movie properly creepy apart from that, until the last scenes were everything dissolved in blood, blood and blood. I would have found it scarier if it had been a bit more restrained.
I thoroughly enjoyed the last season and I hope there will be another one. I love the characters and the mysteries are clever. I can usually spot the murdered halfway through an episode, but not in this show.
I think the show has finally started to deliver. Still lightweight, but with some much needed character development and a surprise twist, or two. They have also acknowledge and addressed the unethical issue of a therapist sleeping with her patient and put a stop to it.
I love Tyrion and I suspect I’m not alone I can imagine he is a viewer favourite. I also like Sansa, and here I imagine I am pretty alone. Conventional female characters who continue to act within their conventional frame often gets a lot of flack. But I find her pretty awesome just because she adapt and resist within the very limited space she has. I like Arya too, she’s rather a force of nature. Loved her interaction with Tywin. And he is played by Charles Dance! I always like Charles Dance. Love her interactions with The Hound too.
Jamie has grown on me. I didn’t like him at all to begin with, but he is a rather nice example of a flawed hero. I don’t like Cersei at all, though. She may love her children, but she strikes me as that kind of mother who sees her children as part of herself, not as individual characters. And Shae, I deeply dislike her- she’s selfish and stupid and I’m sure she’ll cause Tyrion endless trouble eventually.
Joffrey is truly nasty and so is Ramsay Snow. But the scariest character, IMO, is Littlefinger. I think he can, and will, stoop to nothing to get what he want.
Jon Snow bores me something dreadful and I confess to jump most of his scenes. I’m not much for angsty heroic types. Stannis is boring too. I also skip all the Theon-torture.Ick! Skip the sex scenes too, not because they shock me, but because I find them dull. I liked Daenerys to begin with, now I’m a bit more ambivalent.
I have heard a lot about Tom Hiddleston, but this is the first I have actually seen of him acting. This mini-series thriller are an adaption from a book by John Le Carré which I haven’t read, as I don’t care much for that type of books. I did like the series, though. Hiddleston plays a former military who now works as a night manager in a high class hotel in Egypt. More or less by coincidence he gets entangled into the affairs of an arms dealer. Eventually this leads to him being recruited to go undercover into the arms dealers organisation. I found Hiddleston charming, and the intelligencer who recruits him was very nicely acted by Olivia Coleman. But Hugh Laurie as the main antagonist, was the best. I have seen Laurie in serious roles before, but never as a baddie. Somehow he made me forget the fresh-faces nincompoops he made in Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster. I found him genuinely frightening and it was brilliant.
Having seen The Night Manager we felt inspired to watch Crimson Peak. Beautiful movie, I loved both the costumes and the sets and I like the actors too. The plot wasn’t particularly surprising, though. I predicted it within twenty minutes. I didn’t like the look of the ghosts, though- too grotesque. Even the benevolent ghost of the heroine’s mother looked horribly distorted and icky. I found the movie properly creepy apart from that, until the last scenes were everything dissolved in blood, blood and blood. I would have found it scarier if it had been a bit more restrained.
I thoroughly enjoyed the last season and I hope there will be another one. I love the characters and the mysteries are clever. I can usually spot the murdered halfway through an episode, but not in this show.
I think the show has finally started to deliver. Still lightweight, but with some much needed character development and a surprise twist, or two. They have also acknowledge and addressed the unethical issue of a therapist sleeping with her patient and put a stop to it.
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Date: 2016-04-04 06:40 pm (UTC)Night Manager was just awesome. I really like all the people in the series. Hiddles next big thing coming up is High Rise which also looks very good.
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Date: 2016-04-04 07:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2016-04-04 07:36 pm (UTC)I need to find the Night Manager. I don't think it's on my TV anywhere but it looks good.
I almost gave up on Lucifer but the episode with the wings really kept me on. I agree it does need a lot more character development.
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Date: 2016-04-04 08:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2016-04-05 03:24 am (UTC)Read Lucifer comic the TV show claims to be based on. Can't watch it cause would be nothing but disappointing for me.
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Date: 2016-04-05 05:25 am (UTC)I agree with you about the plot of Crimson Peak. It was beautifully made, the set design and cinematography and lighting and costuming were all wonderful, and I liked the actors (especially Tom), but the plot was maybe a little thin.
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Date: 2016-04-05 01:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2016-04-05 03:19 pm (UTC)You're the only other person I know that watches The Doctor Blake Mysteries. When I started watching it I assumed it was an old production (probably because it airs at 3 AM here). I had no idea it was contemporary and there was more than once season. I love the costumes and characters.
I couldn't get into Lucifer. Maybe I'll have to give it another try...
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