Stuff you've found on TV worth watching

Harry

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mowlas said:
If you were a fan of Black Mirror, then Love Death and Robots on Netflix may be to your liking, offering a myriad of animated shorts spanning sci-fi and horror. Often bloody and visceral but smart explorations of the nature of humanity. The quality of the animation is simply stunning and itself represents a technological portent of the themes explored.
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Funny how all the reviews of this are cut and pasted! So many articles nowadays are just copied from the original press release. You can spot them immediately. As above.
 
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Harry said:
Funny how all the reviews of this are cut and pasted! So many articles nowadays are just copied from the original press release. You can spot them immediately. As above.
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I’ll take that as a compliment as about 10 words of 60 were taken from a review (not press release) because it summed up the nature of series far better than I could express. The rest, 50 of the words, were my own. So I suppose you are about 17% right in your assertion.

But I’m impressed you had the time or inclination to point this out. How does it add to the sharing of worthy TV content that this thread is for?

If your point is that you disagree on the merits of the series, why not just say so instead of a sideswipe? That would surely be a more constructive use of words?
 
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mowlas said:
I’ll take that as a compliment as about 10 words of 60 were taken from a review (not press release) because it summed up the nature of series far better than I could express. The rest, 50 of the words, were my own. So I suppose you are about 17% right in your assertion.

But I’m impressed you had the time or inclination to point this out. How does it add to the sharing of worthy TV content that this thread is for?

If your point is that you disagree on the merits of the series, why not just say so instead of a sideswipe? That would surely be a more constructive use of words?
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Re “constructive use of words”
Mowlas, next time you do a review don’t use big words where a singularly unloquacious and diminutive expression will satisfactorily accomplish the contemporary necessity.

;)
 
Harry

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mowlas said:
I’ll take that as a compliment as about 10 words of 60 were taken from a review (not press release) because it summed up the nature of series far better than I could express. The rest, 50 of the words, were my own. So I suppose you are about 17% right in your assertion.

But I’m impressed you had the time or inclination to point this out. How does it add to the sharing of worthy TV content that this thread is for?

If your point is that you disagree on the merits of the series, why not just say so instead of a sideswipe? That would surely be a more constructive use of words?
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I thought that your wordy review was in stark contrast to the usual “it were great” type comments that get posted when someone finds something worth watching. Sorry if you were offended.
 
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daverichardson said:
Why is there so much bad swearing on many tv progs nowadays. Including White Lotus and quite often by women.
It adds nothing to the plot, is not humerous as it is over done. It seems to me to be lazy script writing
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Totally agree. Lazy and so frequent as to be artificial and very annoying. In general the frequency increases as a series drags on and the writers run out of ideas and dialogue.
 
Hurricane52

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Must see TV both on Netflix so far:

home for Christmas - Norwegian brilliant series - don’t watch with kids or elderly parents

Glass Onion - glorious entertainment - do watch with kids but elderly parents will go to bed early dazed and confused
 
Wack61

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jonny said:
as a series drags on and the writers run out of ideas and dialogue.
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That just makes me think of Lost ( not the swearing)

Started out all supernatural and mysterious then when millions started watching ($$$) they dragged it out, I gave up around season 4 because by then all the references to what happened in season 1 had dried up presumably because they had no idea how to explain what was going on.

To this day I've no idea how it ended
 
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Wack61 said:
That just makes me think of Lost ( not the swearing)

Started out all supernatural and mysterious then when millions started watching ($$$) they dragged it out, I gave up around season 4 because by then all the references to what happened in season 1 had dried up presumably because they had no idea how to explain what was going on.

To this day I've no idea how it ended
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Well this is pretty par for US drama IME. You can almost spot the minute when the series was renewed and the drop all of their narrative arcs because they need to keep it going.

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Happy Valley is back on new year's day

I'm really looking forward to this, the first 2 series are on the BBC iplayer, well worth watching, British TV at its best
 
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Just watched The Duke on Now TV, a true story about the theft of a painting and why it was stolen
 
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Detectorists special on iplayer. Just delightful.

The Banshees of Innisherin on Disney plus. Not really sure what to make of it, but I loved everything about it.
 
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