Itās a bit of a cliche, the sensitive but bright FBI profiler who getās too close to the subject. Itās a battle of minds ugh.! His marriage suffers etc ā¦ Paul Bettany was great, the lead actor bloke was as wooden as a coffee table.
Mindhunter was based on a biography of the original dude who invented psychological profiling. Thomas Harris used his book as an inspiration for Silence of the Lambs. Mindhunter isnāt a procedural drama, more a history of how psychological profiling developed.
The point i was trying to make b-saint, is that the plot summary i posted works just as well for both shows, cos the story & tropes or whatever is v.similar. I mean, I think it is. I may well be off base, and canāt really comment on cinematographies or whatever cos I watch most Netflix shows on my phone, with headphones in, while Iām walking round the house doing my dusting & vacuuming.
Iāve been rewatching the 1990s House of Cards. Almost done, which is easy when all three series weigh in at around the same length as one season of the ponderous US version. Iād forgotten how good it was. Itās either near prescient, or politics doesnāt change very much.
Perhaps one of the scariest things about the plot is the author, and that old maxim, āyou write what you knowā. Michael Dobbs was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, and also served under Thatcher.
His politicians are schemers, murderers and not above inflicting serious harm on the British public. In an episode during āTo Play The Kingā, a tower block is destroyed in a gas explosion. Immediately, Urquartās chief of security says the explosion is ānot one of oursā.
Shitloads better than the US version, short, sweet and so very very sour. One of my all-time favourites.
I watched that on dvd (remember them!) like i.e. 10 yrs ago. I think there was 3 series. The first series was brilliant! I was so pumped by the first series! Then I was watched the second series and i donāt think i liked it so much, and then the third series I donāt think i even made it all the way through. Least they had the sense to finish it there though, unlike the yanks who kept churning the shit out irrespective of quality, right up until the lead actor raped someone, or patted someoneās butt, or whatever it was Kevin Spacey done.
I think this is a classic case of people getting boners over different things. The first two seasons have hot young women in them that like to bone the PM. I think that is what gives Bear the bone.
The third series features a less young, less hot woman, and I think this is where the Bear goes limp.
However, the third series has a Crossing The Floor of The House, which has political geeks like me breaking out the Kleenex, poppers, asphyxiation kit and Swarfega. Itās like, the sexiest thing in politics.
Finished The Handmaidās Tale. 10 Episodes done in 4 days we were that hooked. Neither of us have read the book.Elisabeth Moss is fabulous in it. Written in 1985 but thinking itās a little too close to what some would like the world to be.
Just watched the first of the new Black Mirror series on Netflix.
Excellent - recommend it.
Wonāt do a spoiler but the Netflix cash does wonders to the quality, but it still retains the feel of a British made programme - helped by a great mix of UK and US actors.
