Series 2 next year…You’ll have to try Fallout next, similar history (i.e. developed from a video game) but post nuclear dystopia as if imagined by Wes Anderson while having night sweats…
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I’m 67 and channel surfing, I have seen a couple of episodes of MASH that I haven’t seen before. Been watching it for 50 years maybe, quite astonished.
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Are they laugh-tack free?
Just finished watching “Masters of the Air”, which is based on the 100th BG of the US 8th Air Force.
Very good series and well portrayed.
From the same team that did “ Band of Brothers” and “Pacific”.
DG…
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Hilarious, embarrassing, cringy and sad. Still enjoyable at times.
Four episodes in and episode 4 quite chilling. I can’t put into words how I feel about it but certainly thought provoking.
It’s brave and the acting is great.
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Just finished Zomboat on ITVX / Britbox. It’s about a Zombie apocalypse in Birmingham. I enjoyed it much more than I expected with quite a few laughs. No indication of a second series since this was from 2019.
Unexpected sighting on Jack Hargreaves ‘Out of Town’, latest episode on TPTV. Fishing with Greg Lake on his private stretch of Dorset river (River Allen, I think).
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Red Eye on ITV.
Gripping if implausible in places. The repetitive Direct Line ads every 15 minutes are irritating.
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Yep, also has a few echoes of Idris Elba’s Hijack from last year. Though that was on one of the streaming services, Apple(?)
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SHOGUN Episode 10: SPOILER ALERT (Don’t look down if you don’t want to know).
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Just watched the last episode.
Absolutely genius! I was expecting it to almost finish on a huge battle (Sekigahara) scene that the series had seemed to be building towards, but all that happened was a brief “pre-battle” gathering of armies and a scene where “Ishido” is handed a letter that ensures his defeat.
The rest of the episode stays pulled in tight to the character-driven exchanges between the various characters and finishes with “Toranaga” viewing the future and us seeing him doing so.
Breathtaking. Unmissable. I haven’t been so impressed with a TV series since “Breaking Bad” and before it, “The Sopranos”.
Thoroughly recommended.
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I enjoyed it as well. Just hate buffering problems I have with ITVX.
OK I won’t look down! Thanks for adding spoiler alert.
Series 2 of the Big Door Prize (Apple). Still intriguing, funny and watchable.
Starting to watch Channel 4’s “Wildlife Rescue” on catch up. Series about a wildlife hospital in Essex.
Powerful and interesting stuff. Relevant to us as my Wife volunteers at our local wildlife hospital.
Watching the first episode of Johnson & Knopler’s Music Legends on Sky Arts in which the two Geordi lads Brian Johnson and Mark Knopler interview a few hand picked music legends starting off with Sir Tom Jones
A new series on Channel 4 of “The Piano” started last night.
Always interesting and moving.
Anyone who missed it at release BBC2 are now showing Dopesick on Sunday evenings which charts the start of the legal opioid crisis in the USA, it centres on the selling of the alleged none addictive pain killing drug OxyContin which surprise surprise actually turned out to be just as addictive as any other opioid resulting in an upsurge in thefts, violence and other drug related criminality in the areas in the USA where it was initially marketed.
Excellent performance by Michael Keaton in the lead role
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I don’t follow series, or most TV, much…
but I’ve been enjoying Fallout on Amazon Prime.
For a series based on a videogame (not a hopeful sign) I’ve been very impressed thus far.
Gone a bit BGT imo, it’s a piano playing competition, not an alternate audition for social meja wannabes.
And why keep cutting back to Lang Lang and Mika during each performance? We’re grown ups, we can make our own minds up about the talent, we don’t need the ‘Oh my gosh I can’t believe they’ve even heard of Friedrich Kuhlau’ moments, just play the choon start to finish.
I’ll still keep watching of course.
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