Stuff you've found on TV worth watching

Rwc13

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Unbelievable on Netflix - US based series about the search for a serial rapist. Starts slow with Episode 1, which is deliberate, but worth persisting with as the story then evolves quite quickly
 

Hurricane52

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Mafia only kills in summer - c4 box set. We should have been going on holiday to Sicily this year, but this will have to do instead. It’s ace. Great story, funny acting in a Scandi meets over the top Italian way and brilliant cars - Fiats, Lancias and Alfas galore. Even a glimpse of an Opel GT (beloved of one of our brethren). There’s even an Indy.
 

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Staged on iPlayer (pay the fee) - David Tennant and Michael Sheen rehearing a play sort of on lockdown of webcam, I liked it, not a classic but better than a lot of the crrap about.

Also on iPlayer (pay the fee) The F1rst Team written by the Inbetweeners guys, not quite is good but good enough and the good thing going for it is it's not Mrs Brown's Boys.
 

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Watched two episodes of Snowpiercer, typical US trash. Usual armageddon scenario but on a train that is constantly going around the frozen Earth. The basic plot I can understand but why it's on a train I don't know. If you liked Lost, you'll like this otherwise AVOID.
 

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Just watched an amazing documentary about Marianne Faithful done by arte.
What a character and what a life with some great archive film footage.
Apparently Mars were not too chuffed with her and Jagger when busted for drugs many years ago with the novel way of eating a chocolate bar after taking acid.
 

P5Nij

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Just watched an amazing documentary about Marianne Faithful done by arte.
What a character and what a life with some great archive film footage.
Apparently Mars were not too chuffed with her and Jagger when busted for drugs many years ago with the novel way of eating a chocolate bar after taking acid.

The Mars bar thing was made up by a journo from The News Of The World and dogged Marianne for years afterwards. The Redlands (Keith's country cottage) drug bust in '67 almost split the Stones up, with Mick and Keith both spending a night or two in jail, Keith was picked up from the Scrubs in his dark blue Bentley Continental Flying Spur which was caught on film by a local news crew. What's often forgotten about the bust is that as the Chichester rozzers were hiding in the bushes waiting to pounce, George and Patti Harrison were just leaving the party, the old Bill didn't realise that they could have busted one of the Beatles because the Radford Cooper S he was driving had blacked out windows all round....

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Bosch - Amazon Prime (and certain 'other places')
Apologies if this has been mentioned already.
I haven't enjoyed much TV since The Wire.
However, Bosch definitely scratches that itch.
Below is the trailer for the latest season (6)
 

Manc5

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Started watching Giri/Haji on Netflix last night (watched first 2 episodes of 8) and it is decent. Story is about a Japanese chap, related to 1 Yakuza family, murdered in London by another Yakuza family. So to avert a Yakuza internal war in Tokyo a Japanese detective goes to London to investigate.. involves UK gangs.. etc etc.. It is a BBC programme that aired on BBC late 2019.. so i am late to the game.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8001106/
 

Andyk

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Started watching Giri/Haji on Netflix last night (watched first 2 episodes of 8) and it is decent. Story is about a Japanese chap, related to 1 Yakuza family, murdered in London by another Yakuza family. So to avert a Yakuza internal war in Tokyo a Japanese detective goes to London to investigate.. involves UK gangs.. etc etc.. It is a BBC programme that aired on BBC late 2019.. so i am late to the game.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8001106/

Yep, agree this is good. Enjoyed when it as first on.