Had mixed reviews mainly on how it adhered to the book not the cinematography.
Iām still plodding through Love Death & Robots.
It IS groundbreaking TV. Up there with Black Mirror. Each episode is about 10 minutes long every genre imaginable as well as filming style. Real actors animation & cartoons.
Some work some flop.
The robot tourists & cats. The Vampires, the spaceship overshoot all stick.
Ramona from Scott Pilgrim in Ice Age is memorable. Alternative Histories is clever. Putin as 1st man on moon.
Itās a late night, couple of episodes before bed after a Rum or flavoured vodka.
Netflix obviously.
Get on it.
Itās back!
As good as ever.
See you in a day or two.
Stranger Things S3
1 episode in.
Oh yes, worth the wait. 1985 music ā¦
Review no spoilers.
The kids are back, they are teenagers. It starts in 1984 moves to ā85 pretty quick.
S2 was pretty conclusive but the Duffer Brothers dont rest on their laurels.
We noticed, it isnāt a comedy but bits of humanity/culture from that era are now funny enough to laugh. There is a happiness to the episodes that hits a nerve if you lived through it yet a very indistinct almost early Stephen King menace at every turn.
We know it is giving millenials their first true experience of that era for us it is a nostalgia heaven, again and perhaps now even more so.
There are cracking "unremembered tracks from 1985 and the banging classics are all in āclassicā situations some made us laugh some made us cringe, some made us just say fuck yeah.
Whatever āgenreā we would have called this if it had been made in 1985, it is today, just perfect.
A homage to John Carpenter, Stephensā King & Spielberg.
Itās so good we decided to NOT binge it.
2 episodes a night to simply savour, wonder at, have our stomachs churned and jump out of our seats.
Marvellous television.
Iāve pretty much binged on āMy Brilliant Friendā a HBO / RAI production. Possibly not everyoneās cup of tea. Itās an adaption of the books by pseudonymous author Elena Ferrante. It is based on a story of two girls growing up in a poor part of town on the very outskirts of Napoli. So poor they donāt even know what the sea looks like. Theyāre both very bright girls and the first series shows them as young girls then teenagers. I think itās beautifully filmed. It has subtitles but Iāve read that as itās using Neapolitan dialect from the 50s even the Italians needed sottotitoli.
I watched it on Now TV but think it may be on Amazon? Series 2 is due later this year.
Just started on Stranger Things series 3. Loving all the 80s fashion!
Plus apparently Charlie Heaton who plays Jonathan has been seen twice at a local bar and coffee shop. I was here on Tuesday chatting away to one of the guys working there. Next time!
My son says thereās an end credit scene after the final episodeā¦Iām only halfway through episode 3 so wouldnāt know but I can say it has got dark rather quickly
I started Gomorra again yesterday. I really like Inspector Montalbano and the Young Montalbano. I will have to check out Romanzo Criminale. I can find loads of Spanish stuff in Netflix but not so much Italian stuff (need to brush up rusty Italian).
Another Life.
Imho someone went to Netflix with a concept, copy the split in The Expanse between stuff in Space & on Earth. Have an FTL Starship with innards of the Titanic.
Then got a Interns to film & direct it.
Oh and make sure none of the characters have ever watched any SciFi so are the most naive idiots in space.
It is real real shame. Because taking out the formulaic shit, there was a good hook buried deep down in the mess that should have become a very good story over several seasons and the plot only got started in the last episode.
Cant see it being renewed but it filled some time waiting to start watching the cricketā¦
Close but Fail.
Spoiler alert!
But IF youāve already watched it, time to nod your head when you remember you spotted it in the show and couldnāt quite say what it was.
On the final season of Orange is the New Black.
Now into issues around ICE and people being picked up and put in detention with no way of contacting anyone. Plus how to make it out on your own once released.
Edit: think this was my favourite season. Excellent acting by all and quite emotional in places. Some feel good bits.
Uzo Aduba was stunning as Suzanne.
Whitehouse & Mortimer āGone Fishingā back for a second series.
Episode 1: An absolute dream of a programme, full of love , whimsy, breath taking photography, one pant-wetting throwaway line and a poignant ending
On Season 1, episode 5 of this Amazon Series: āThe Marvelous Mrs. Maiselā
Brilliant script, casting, performances, musicā¦a very funny showā¦well worth watching.
