Edward
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Ashes to Ashes. first episode to this sequel show to Life on Mars (the real one, with Phillip Glennister, not the....version... they did with Harvey Keitel).
No idea. It speaks to you or it does not. It speaks to me, clearly not to you. You gave it a chance at least! Different strokes...Tried this... watched 3 episodes but did NOT feel compelled to keep going... What'd I miss?
Worf
I think this sums it up pretty well. There have been quite a few semi-recent television series--Deadwood, Peaky Blinders, Penny Dreadful, The Walking Dead, etc.--that gained loyal audiences rather quickly, but every one of those shows bored me to death and, as much as I wanted to like them, I gave up on them before too long. Even Longmire took a while for me to like it, somewhere near the end of the first season if I remember correctly. There was just something about the show that kept me coming back, and I eventually realized I was looking forward to seeing the next episode rather than just tuning in to keep up.No idea. It speaks to you or it does not. It speaks to me, clearly not to you. You gave it a chance at least! Different strokes...
I think this sums it up pretty well. There have been quite a few semi-recent television series--Deadwood, Peaky Blinders, Penny Dreadful, The Walking Dead, etc.--that gained loyal audiences rather quickly, but every one of those shows bored me to death and, as much as I wanted to like them, I gave up on them before too long. Even Longmire took a while for me to like it, somewhere near the end of the first season if I remember correctly. There was just something about the show that kept me coming back, and I eventually realized I was looking forward to seeing the next episode rather than just tuning in to keep up.
Oh, definitely. I could understand why people enjoyed such shows, I just wasn't one of them.I was the same way with The Sopranos, Black Sails, Narcos and Breaking Bad. Could not call them bad, just not of interest to me. To the fans - enjoy!
The new seasons started last weekend. You probably already knew that, but in case anyone else missed it. The opening sequence was fantastic. This show, for being on lowly TNT network, has costumes and scene design like you'd see on HBO or FX. The number of dresses and hats Sara Howard has per episode is astounding. Their wardrobe department must work like dogs. I'm getting a little nervous about the show becoming all the same tricks, but I still think it is a great production.The last network TV was the Alienist.
I would think (and hope) that with today's technology the dubbing would be so much better but it ain't. Watched "Snowman" with Val Kilmer in a minor role....(terrible, terrible movie) The movie was in English but for some weird reason Kilmer was dubbed....badly....with what sounded like his own voice. He has had so much facial work that he resembles a cadaver and it is hard to discern if he is totally present or partially in LaLa land. Perhaps he kept screwing up lines and they had to bring in somebody to fix it."Into The Night" - This Belgian made Netflix offering was entertaining enough for Puddin' and I to binge watch it in 2 nights. Only 6 episodes in length the series starts off with a bang... literally and figuratively. An Italian NATO officer slides into a Belgian Airport, desperately tries to find anything heading West but when T.V. reports start filtering in of mass deaths wherever dawn has risen he punches out an airport Security Guard, steals his weapon and hijacks a plane that was headed East to Moscow and points it West into the lingering night.
Of course the plane has a motley collection of passengers unlucky enough to have been on board when it's commandeered and through conversation and flashbacks we learn of their motivations and some of their backstories. The need to stay ahead of the dawn and the short time frame of the episodes make this one taut and desperate ride. The only thing that kept me from rating this thing higher was the atrocious dubbing and the feeble attempt to make shoddy accents match the origins of the speakers. When I mean bad dubbing I'm talking Shaw Brother's 70's Kung Fu movie bad! Still if you can accept some of the "dodgy Science" and the fact that none of the dialog is in the same hemisphere of the lips moving on the screen you can have a rollicking good time.
Worf
I think this sums it up pretty well. There have been quite a few semi-recent television series--Deadwood, Peaky Blinders, Penny Dreadful, The Walking Dead, etc.--that gained loyal audiences rather quickly, but every one of those shows bored me to death and, as much as I wanted to like them, I gave up on them before too long. Even Longmire took a while for me to like it, somewhere near the end of the first season if I remember correctly. There was just something about the show that kept me coming back, and I eventually realized I was looking forward to seeing the next episode rather than just tuning in to keep up.