Recent good TV

Finally finished Catch 22 which I enjoyed although it has a very different feel to the film.

Gentleman Jack is about a mid-C19th landowner and coalmining lesbian. Good ensemble cast but Suranne Jones is brilliant in the lead role and the Sally Wainwright script is typically top-notch.

I have enjoyed Picard a lot. About to download episode 10 now and that's it for this series. A second series in the pipelines I believe.

The final series of Homeland (series 8) is a stonker so far.

I struggled with episode 1 of series 5 of Peaky Blinders. I may have burned out on the stylized/glamourized violence and slow-motion tough-guy family, the either-shouty or not-shouty tone, and with the anachronistic music schtick it purveys. Just might have run its course for me.

I struggled with episode 1 of series 2 of Patriot. But I think it has simply shifted its tone and texture to something different from series 1 so perhaps I'll get into that when the mood is right. I loved series 1.

Series 5 of Inside No.9 has finished. Usual high quality and eclectic stuff. Six separate stories with superb twists.

Not looking forward to Westworld series 3. Frankly, I found series 2 pretentious, difficult to follow and therefore tedious. That was in the wake of a tremendous series 1. I will have a look at series 3 but it feels like I ought to go back and watch series 2 again in order to get to grips with it, and that is a very tall - and postponable - order.

Just wondering if you are having fun chatting with yourself? 😉

-VR

My wife and me are watching the Outlander series. We enjoyed reading the books a while back (well the first three). The series is very explicit in both sex and gore, sometimes they overdo it.

@ponderable said
My wife and me are watching the Outlander series. We enjoyed reading the books a while back (well the first three). The series is very explicit in both sex and gore, sometimes they overdo it.

Set in Scotland? Time travel?

@fmf said
Set in Scotland? Time travel?

Time travel set in Scotland at least the most part of the first two seasons.

@ponderable said
Time travel set in Scotland at least the most part of the first two seasons.

I quite enjoyed that. The English were incorrigible badies. And the 'present day' in the time travel aspect was like 1950s UK... right?

@fmf said
I quite enjoyed that. The English were incorrigible badies. And the 'present day' in the time travel aspect was like 1950s UK... right?

Season 1 it was 1945 Scotland (the English couple was traveling there)
In Season 3 it was Scotland 1968 (The heroine coming back from Boston, Mass.)

@ponderable said
Season 1 it was 1945 Scotland (the English couple was traveling there)
In Season 3 it was Scotland 1968 (The heroine coming back from Boston, Mass.)

I've got some catching up to do then. I must have watched series 1 only.

We now did a binge watching of the Netflix Anne of Green Gables series. It was quite well done.

Westworld S03 is OK. Less pretentious and less epic and less confusing than S02. It's a bit dumbed-down compared to the previous two series. But I am enjoying it nevertheless.

"Borgen is a Danish political drama television series created by Adam Price. It tells how Birgitte Nyborg, a minor centrist politician, becomes the first female Prime Minister of Denmark against all the odds."

Just starting to watch this. Seems really good. The Danish language sounds very interesting.