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The second episode of Preacher on AMC.
We have them recorded, really looking forward to seeing this!The second episode of Preacher on AMC.
Peaky Blinders Series 3 is tremendous; the writing gets better and better. The Beeb have just announced two more series; I'm hoping they can keep it going until WW2 breaks out. That would feel like a logical time for them to round off Tommy's story. Shades of Michael Corleone and Jackson Teller in the character, in that it's a criminal attempting to take his organisation 'straight'. At this point I genuinely don't know if he'll succeed.
I watched the first episode because I'll give anything on AMC a chance. I didn't really care for the cadence or the story. It feels and looks like an NBC drama, and in my opinion, each major network has a look and feel to its programming that is distinct. It didn't come off as movie-like, like Into the Badlands or Preacher, and it didn't come off as upper echelon TV like Mad Men or something on HBO. The premise is weak and feels like I've been there before. Cashing in on the fanfare of cooking reality TV shows in a lazy way. I'll give it a couple more episodes, but it did not impress.Question - is anyone watching/going to watch Feed the Beast? It is being recorded for me while I'm away on duty.
Are the ratings terrible? I guess that makes some sense. It's story and character driven, especially the further we get into it. There's not a lot of bombastic ceremony or sensationalism within it. A tiny bit of traditional TV audience manipulation, but far below the normal amount. I can see why your common viewer wouldn't know what to do with it. They aren't having their senses constantly tickled. Good story and quality acting isn't enough these days, though they remain an anomaly. As for the Emmy thing, that's common. John Hamm is a more recent example. Don't give a great job of acting an award, and then throw them a bone on their way out. These award associations think that saves face, but it just makes them look like jerks, and lost jerks at that.The season finale of The Americans. Wow. Just wow. TV drama at its best.
And despite its terrible ratings and distressing lack of Emmy nominations, it has been renewed for two final seasons, so there's plenty more to come!
I tuned in to that in early '06 out of curiosity about Gillian Anderson, and discovered 6 hours of what TV can do at its best. I've never read the novel, but this seemed to be a faithful adaptation with marvelous casting and characterization. And it reminded me that Inspector Bucket, as a fictional detective, followed Poe's creation of the detective story as we know it by only a few years. Dickens and Poe were (partially) contemporaries, and Dickens was fascinated by the new genre Poe had created.I was watching Bleak House over the last couple of evenings while on duty in Kingston, Ontario. Gillian Anderson, Anna Maxwell Martin, Dennis Lawson and Charles Dance at their best.