What are you watching & why? (splain)

Mobland- crime drama. Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren
I, Jack Wright- family drama/mystery involving a murder and a will. Don't know how I got sucked into it.
Both series are ongoing

The Closer needed more of Lt Provenza and Flynn(somehow Major Crimes doesn't seem that appealing)
 
Couldn't be worse than the K-car...

I'll have to hear more from you guys on "Duster". My first impression was to blow it off. (Pun only partially intended.)
 
Finished watching "The Last of Us" last night. (Not our usual show genre.)

Like many, thought the first season good...and second season was decent right up to a particular moment, following which it was cobbled together in a less satisfying fashion, with too much filler.

Oh, well. Fortunately, our Max subscription ran out last night, so I got that going for me. (As there's nothing else that grabs me on there at the moment.)
 
Apparently Bella Ramsey (Ellie) gets lotsa online "hate" for being casted in that role (The Last of Us). I don't wish to get into the politics of it but from the very beginning I had thought that casting a young English actress in Ellie's role was quite odd! As a child actress Bella really excelled in the role of Lady Lyanna Mormont in GoT specially with her sure cocked delivery of her lines and her famous oath of allegiance speech to Jon Snow but still IMO, a miscast. The S2 episodes which had Joel (Pedro Pascal) in them were by far the best ones and then the quality fell off the clip when he was not in it.

Reportedly this show has been renewed for an S3 which may be very Abby centric till her story arc stitches up with the ending of S2 episode 7, but I do not see how any present characters, art from Jeffery Wright, can carry that show. At the beginning, I had not known that this show was based on a video game but apparently for a Season 3, the writers will have to freewheel it just like GoT and we all know as to how that one turned out!

Now onto The Brutalist, which was just very brutal (story and subject matter, not the quality of the film!). If you are a fan of film noir genre which depress the fudge outta you, I would highly recommend! Oh, it is also almost 3 and half hours long 🤭
 
Casinostocks said:
Now onto The Brutalist, which was just very brutal (story and subject matter, not the quality of the film!). If you are a fan of film noir genre which depress the fudge outta you, I would highly recommend! Oh, it is also almost 3 and half hours long 🤭
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I have to say I didn't even notice how long it was while watching it. It was one of those movies where you get sucked into every scene. It has an interesting structure that is simultaneously an interesting story and a potent metaphor for the immigrant experience in America.
 
jlauffer said:
Haven't seen it yet but like the concept. But could they have picked a worse car? Coming soon...Granada!
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I got your back. Just watch any UK crime show.

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The Eternaut. Because too much post apocalypse is never too much. Based on a comic. Interesting backstory to the comic, written as an anti-fascist tale in Argentina. The writer and his family was disappeared by the Military Junta there.

Sidebar: The director would have been able to bring Starship Troopers to the screen accurate to the novel instead of a "satire".
 
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