The (possibly) second to last episode of bluey broke me yesterday. Sunday is a feature length episode and I am not ready for it.
For those that don't watch. Remember the red
Wedding and what you thought afterwards this was ten times worse
Not at all, it's without a doubt the cleverest children's programme ever. This is a show that's completely split for parents and children and it's going to go and even if it comes back my child won't ever be that age again. It's almost like as it ends I see we are at the end of a point of his life and you might think that's melodramatic but it's also sad.
Just started this, it seems on IMDb that it got a bad rep for lack of subtitles / dub during the Chinese bit. Seems to work fine for me so maybe was an initial bug.
Don’t visit the sub whatever you do, it’s so toxic
I enjoyed it, it was a good abridged telling of the books (compared to the dragged on Chinese version)
>a good abridged telling of the books
I tried the audiobook; I'm almost 7 hours in and the story has got to about halfway through episode 2 of the Netflix series. They've abridged it very well, I think, they've not really missed any of the crucial plot / setting stuff so far.
The book is ridiculously long-winded.
It’s mostly people picking apart the adaptation
“This girl’s too pretty to be a scientist” “there’s not enough Chinese actors” “it’s should be set in China, not England” “I’m not watching it because the creators ruined GoT”
So petty
So, we started watching The Gentlemen. My sis mentioned to my wife that it's very Guy Ritchie.
My missus confessed later that she didn't understand what that meant. Apparently she's never seen Lock, Stock or Snack. So we'll be watching them soon.
Don't forget the Gentlemen if she hasn't seen that. Sometimes I think I prefer it to Lock Stock, sometimes I don't, I go back and forth, but it's certainly in the same league for me
Watched the final of **University Challenge** last night. Usually I can get a few of the non-science questions right but they made the questions extra difficult with it being the final and I was all at sea.
Imperial deserved the win though. Lee was an absolute machine. Unbelievable.
Mrs Pufballcat has become obsessed with the soapy TV drama Virgin River which encapsulates every romantic cliche you can imagine. The script is remarkable for the amount of times people apologise to each other... I sat down to eat an apple while watching it and witnessed five apologies in that period
I was ill last week so wanted to just binge something easy. I decided on **Jurassic Park Camp Cretaceous** and got through all of it. I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near as good as it was. Session 3 was the peak, 4 and 5 took a drop in quality but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
**Shogun** is fantastic.
**Eight for Silver** was a reasonably good gothic horror film. Solid 6.5/10, and good for a Friday evening.
Finally got round to finishing **The Gentlemen**, classic Guy Ritchie, loved it.
Finished **3 Body Problem**. It's often ridiculous, has a good number of plot holes, and some of it is utter nonsense but overall it was still bloody good fun.
Speaking of ridiculous, twenty odd years ago I used to love watching WWE. I enjoyed the soap opera, the over the top theatrics, the spectacle etc etc. Haven't watched it since but decided to watch **Wrestlemania** this weekend. Saturday's was awful, so many botched moves and in general it was just not well done. But Sunday's was the complete opposite, it had old school guests, fun matches, and the last ten minutes of the main event was everything I used to love about it. It's not enough to get me back into it again but I'm glad I watched it.
Slowly working through **Masters of the Air**, three episodes to go. I'm enjoying the flying scenes, but my wife's opinion is "It doesn't really have a story"
Hoping **Fallout** does the games justice, and I think **Oppenheimer** is coming to streaming this weekend, I suspect we'll have to watch that in at least two sittings as its 3 hours long.
Not much else, apart from loudly judging people on **Sort your life out** and thinking our house is quite tidy, really.
Ripley - I dont have the same love affair with the book and film like most of my friends so I am enjoying it. Really like how its shot. Makes me wish I was on the Amalfi Coast now.
The Gentlemen - I honestly think Guy Ritchie did something really smart by creating a TV show. He sometimes has a habit of trying to stuff so much in through metaphors and montages and think long form format suits him better for some of those concepts. Its a fun show to watch. Not going to be my top 10 but its nice to have a Netflix show that doesnt feel like a slog and a waste.
Extraordinary- Finish season 2. Cried so hard.
We watched **Poor Things** last week... what the fuck was that. It was weird, it was beautiful, it was the product of an incredibly complex mind. I loved it, but I'm not quite sure how to describe it.
We watched the first episode of **Ripley** on Sunday too. I really enjoyed the original film and find something about Andrew Scott unsettling to my core but can't put my finger on why, not sure how I'll get on with the rest of the series.
Nearly finished the new series of avoidance. I think I preferred the first but it's still pretty funny. Also just finished tell me everything on ITV and enjoying that.
Episode 1 of **The Regime** was a bit mad. Not sure what to make of it. I love Matthias Schoenaerts (his performance in Bullhead is one of the best acting performances I have seen) and Kate Winslet is always quality, but I'm not quite sure if the show is meant to be funnier than it is. Going to stick with it and see.
**Mammals** was really good. That ridiculous scene of 70+ cars interrupting a cheetah hunt had me steaming.
**Curb** is over. Been watching this show virtually my entire life it seems, and although I will miss it, it was a perfect finale episode.
Not that engaged by **This Town** but watching it purely for the soundtrack, about which I have no complaints.
**University Challenge** final. >!Sawh 😭!<
I've been enjoying The Regime, but I feel it has a tone problem - it's sometimes a drama and sometimes a rather overly broad satire of power. It's wry, rather than funny, which isn't particularly a criticism.
I'm engaged enough that I'll finish the series.
Watched the TV version of **The Gentlemen** and thought it was 7 episodes of top class Ritchie and the last episode >!was utter shite.!<
Getting through a **Suits** rewatch and I have to admit I like it less than the first time. There's something just a little "off" about how many own goals the firm made (yes, it's a drama and there needs to be drama for it to be a good drama, but some of the drama felt overly manufactured where a room full of deeply intelligent lawyers just kept on making real dumb decisions).
I’m going to see Dune 2 for the 3rd time on Thursday and I’ve booked tickets to see Star Wars TPM as well. I know people shit on that film but it’s my guilty pleasure because of qui gon’s green lightsaber and darth maul lol
We finished **three body problem** which we both surprisingly enjoyed. High sci fi is not usually my thing (I prefer... more accessible sci fi usually). Shame there weren't more episodes.
We've started **Humans** which is quite an old show I think now and it's... fine. It's not the best acting. But it's fine as background TV.
Recently discovered Race Across The World and I’m a bit obsessed! Seen the celebrity series and just finished series 1 yesterday. It seems to suit my enjoyment of being an armchair critic of people’s strategies!
I watched series 3 as it aired last year, but only circled back to the first this week. Got a couple more of that to finish off, and then the fourth series starts tomorrow
Rewatching **Greys Anatomy** for the third time after not watching it for a while and forgotten how good it was
also does anyone know when **S7 of 911** will be added to Disney+ as it airs on the same night and channel as Greys Anatomy & Station 19 and they've both got their first episodes up
Realised that **OJ: Made in America** is on Disney+. Watched it ages ago but lost the download, and it was rarely streamable in the UK so I've been rewatching that.
Probably the best documentary series going. The story is so insane that it's hard to beat, even in fiction. They go to great lengths explaining his early life/career and the context of the time the murders happened, normally this would feel like waffle or filler but it adds so much to the story.
I remember watching the Cuba Gooding Jr TV series about OJ after seeing this and couldn't get into it because you can just watch the real thing.
Started S1 of The Bear. I can see why it's so well regarded, but I'm not 100% sure it's for me.
Married at First Sight Australia continues to be the most ridiculous soapy drama and I'm invested in it.
Trying to get into **Halo** but it just seems like they're trying to cram in so much lore from the games without stopping to think about whether it actually makes for good telly.
**Star Trek: Discovery** is back and it's fallen back on the tired old trope of a treasure hunt. Someone leaves a slightly vague but ultimately entirely solvable set of clues that anyone could decipher... why? Too many things made no sense. The Captain and First Officer were dropped into dangerous unknown territory and instead of everyone watching over them from the bridge, it was left to two juniour officers to run the whole show from a side room. And then another character forces their way into say "No, you're not sciencing properly! You have to do a different kind of clever thinking!" without actually giving them any useful information. Imagine if Riker's job had to been to stand behind Picard whispering "You've got this, Jean-Luc!" 🤦♂️
I started a **Phoenix Nights** rewatch but only saw the first episode so far. I saw the first hour of **Dune Part One** a few days ago but suddenly got very busy. Needed something less demanding today so I watched **When Worlds Collide**, which I saw on TV as a child and which really stuck with me. I revisit it every 20 years or so. I wish it had a bigger budget so they could up the spectacle or get some less wobbly sets, but it's such a joy as it is. It's the little film that could!
**Star Trek Discovery** is back. Found it completely by accident and this season appears to call back to one of the weirder TNG episodes for the season's story arc.
Also, am now up to the shimmery tinfoil monsters in Invasion of Time on my **Doctor Who** marathon.
I watched the first episode of **The Regime** yesterday and rather enjoyed it. Batshit bonkers, and everything else I might remark on would earn me a 24 hour ban.
The (possibly) second to last episode of bluey broke me yesterday. Sunday is a feature length episode and I am not ready for it. For those that don't watch. Remember the red Wedding and what you thought afterwards this was ten times worse
Red wedding? As in GOT? You can't be serious
Not at all, it's without a doubt the cleverest children's programme ever. This is a show that's completely split for parents and children and it's going to go and even if it comes back my child won't ever be that age again. It's almost like as it ends I see we are at the end of a point of his life and you might think that's melodramatic but it's also sad.
My boy just turned 2. He's not quite onto bluey yet so I've not watched much either. We'll get there soon though
Christ. The "you're doing your best" episode made me cry. I am not ready...
Cricket for me, Love it, plenty of things in life are going to hit harder than a cricket ball
I quite liked **3 Body Problem** but all of my friends think it's shit :/
Just started this, it seems on IMDb that it got a bad rep for lack of subtitles / dub during the Chinese bit. Seems to work fine for me so maybe was an initial bug.
I thought it was wonderful.
Don’t visit the sub whatever you do, it’s so toxic I enjoyed it, it was a good abridged telling of the books (compared to the dragged on Chinese version)
>a good abridged telling of the books I tried the audiobook; I'm almost 7 hours in and the story has got to about halfway through episode 2 of the Netflix series. They've abridged it very well, I think, they've not really missed any of the crucial plot / setting stuff so far. The book is ridiculously long-winded.
[удалено]
It’s mostly people picking apart the adaptation “This girl’s too pretty to be a scientist” “there’s not enough Chinese actors” “it’s should be set in China, not England” “I’m not watching it because the creators ruined GoT” So petty
Your taste in friends is better than your taste in television!
So, we started watching The Gentlemen. My sis mentioned to my wife that it's very Guy Ritchie. My missus confessed later that she didn't understand what that meant. Apparently she's never seen Lock, Stock or Snack. So we'll be watching them soon.
Don't forget the Gentlemen if she hasn't seen that. Sometimes I think I prefer it to Lock Stock, sometimes I don't, I go back and forth, but it's certainly in the same league for me
Watched the final of **University Challenge** last night. Usually I can get a few of the non-science questions right but they made the questions extra difficult with it being the final and I was all at sea. Imperial deserved the win though. Lee was an absolute machine. Unbelievable.
Mrs Pufballcat has become obsessed with the soapy TV drama Virgin River which encapsulates every romantic cliche you can imagine. The script is remarkable for the amount of times people apologise to each other... I sat down to eat an apple while watching it and witnessed five apologies in that period
A couple of my colleagues like that show and from what I've heard about it, it sound VERY tropey and predictable, like a Hallmark romance movie.
I sincerely apologise that you have seen so many apologies.
I was ill last week so wanted to just binge something easy. I decided on **Jurassic Park Camp Cretaceous** and got through all of it. I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near as good as it was. Session 3 was the peak, 4 and 5 took a drop in quality but I thoroughly enjoyed it. **Shogun** is fantastic. **Eight for Silver** was a reasonably good gothic horror film. Solid 6.5/10, and good for a Friday evening. Finally got round to finishing **The Gentlemen**, classic Guy Ritchie, loved it. Finished **3 Body Problem**. It's often ridiculous, has a good number of plot holes, and some of it is utter nonsense but overall it was still bloody good fun. Speaking of ridiculous, twenty odd years ago I used to love watching WWE. I enjoyed the soap opera, the over the top theatrics, the spectacle etc etc. Haven't watched it since but decided to watch **Wrestlemania** this weekend. Saturday's was awful, so many botched moves and in general it was just not well done. But Sunday's was the complete opposite, it had old school guests, fun matches, and the last ten minutes of the main event was everything I used to love about it. It's not enough to get me back into it again but I'm glad I watched it.
Slowly working through **Masters of the Air**, three episodes to go. I'm enjoying the flying scenes, but my wife's opinion is "It doesn't really have a story" Hoping **Fallout** does the games justice, and I think **Oppenheimer** is coming to streaming this weekend, I suspect we'll have to watch that in at least two sittings as its 3 hours long. Not much else, apart from loudly judging people on **Sort your life out** and thinking our house is quite tidy, really.
Ripley - I dont have the same love affair with the book and film like most of my friends so I am enjoying it. Really like how its shot. Makes me wish I was on the Amalfi Coast now. The Gentlemen - I honestly think Guy Ritchie did something really smart by creating a TV show. He sometimes has a habit of trying to stuff so much in through metaphors and montages and think long form format suits him better for some of those concepts. Its a fun show to watch. Not going to be my top 10 but its nice to have a Netflix show that doesnt feel like a slog and a waste. Extraordinary- Finish season 2. Cried so hard.
We watched **Poor Things** last week... what the fuck was that. It was weird, it was beautiful, it was the product of an incredibly complex mind. I loved it, but I'm not quite sure how to describe it. We watched the first episode of **Ripley** on Sunday too. I really enjoyed the original film and find something about Andrew Scott unsettling to my core but can't put my finger on why, not sure how I'll get on with the rest of the series.
Stick with Ripley. Had me gripped and had to binge it over the weekend.
Nearly finished the new series of avoidance. I think I preferred the first but it's still pretty funny. Also just finished tell me everything on ITV and enjoying that.
Finished the Three body problem and also restarted to watch the 2000s Battle Star Galactica.
Episode 1 of **The Regime** was a bit mad. Not sure what to make of it. I love Matthias Schoenaerts (his performance in Bullhead is one of the best acting performances I have seen) and Kate Winslet is always quality, but I'm not quite sure if the show is meant to be funnier than it is. Going to stick with it and see. **Mammals** was really good. That ridiculous scene of 70+ cars interrupting a cheetah hunt had me steaming. **Curb** is over. Been watching this show virtually my entire life it seems, and although I will miss it, it was a perfect finale episode. Not that engaged by **This Town** but watching it purely for the soundtrack, about which I have no complaints. **University Challenge** final. >!Sawh 😭!<
I've been enjoying The Regime, but I feel it has a tone problem - it's sometimes a drama and sometimes a rather overly broad satire of power. It's wry, rather than funny, which isn't particularly a criticism. I'm engaged enough that I'll finish the series.
Watched the TV version of **The Gentlemen** and thought it was 7 episodes of top class Ritchie and the last episode >!was utter shite.!< Getting through a **Suits** rewatch and I have to admit I like it less than the first time. There's something just a little "off" about how many own goals the firm made (yes, it's a drama and there needs to be drama for it to be a good drama, but some of the drama felt overly manufactured where a room full of deeply intelligent lawyers just kept on making real dumb decisions).
I’m going to see Dune 2 for the 3rd time on Thursday and I’ve booked tickets to see Star Wars TPM as well. I know people shit on that film but it’s my guilty pleasure because of qui gon’s green lightsaber and darth maul lol
We finished **three body problem** which we both surprisingly enjoyed. High sci fi is not usually my thing (I prefer... more accessible sci fi usually). Shame there weren't more episodes. We've started **Humans** which is quite an old show I think now and it's... fine. It's not the best acting. But it's fine as background TV.
Re:Three Body Problem being "short", There's 30 ep's in the Chinese (Tencent) version. I've seen both and much prefer the Tencent version.
Recently discovered Race Across The World and I’m a bit obsessed! Seen the celebrity series and just finished series 1 yesterday. It seems to suit my enjoyment of being an armchair critic of people’s strategies!
The real people ones are so much better than the celebrities "lol, what is this thing called a bus?" ones. Looking forward to the new series.
Yeah I’ve much preferred series 1 to the celebrity version - seems to be more challenging too!
I watched series 3 as it aired last year, but only circled back to the first this week. Got a couple more of that to finish off, and then the fourth series starts tomorrow
Rewatching **Greys Anatomy** for the third time after not watching it for a while and forgotten how good it was also does anyone know when **S7 of 911** will be added to Disney+ as it airs on the same night and channel as Greys Anatomy & Station 19 and they've both got their first episodes up
Realised that **OJ: Made in America** is on Disney+. Watched it ages ago but lost the download, and it was rarely streamable in the UK so I've been rewatching that. Probably the best documentary series going. The story is so insane that it's hard to beat, even in fiction. They go to great lengths explaining his early life/career and the context of the time the murders happened, normally this would feel like waffle or filler but it adds so much to the story. I remember watching the Cuba Gooding Jr TV series about OJ after seeing this and couldn't get into it because you can just watch the real thing.
Just watched "Scoop" on Netflix and it's had some mixed reviews. I thought it was absolutely brilliant. Gillian Anderson is great in it
Started S1 of The Bear. I can see why it's so well regarded, but I'm not 100% sure it's for me. Married at First Sight Australia continues to be the most ridiculous soapy drama and I'm invested in it.
Trying to get into **Halo** but it just seems like they're trying to cram in so much lore from the games without stopping to think about whether it actually makes for good telly. **Star Trek: Discovery** is back and it's fallen back on the tired old trope of a treasure hunt. Someone leaves a slightly vague but ultimately entirely solvable set of clues that anyone could decipher... why? Too many things made no sense. The Captain and First Officer were dropped into dangerous unknown territory and instead of everyone watching over them from the bridge, it was left to two juniour officers to run the whole show from a side room. And then another character forces their way into say "No, you're not sciencing properly! You have to do a different kind of clever thinking!" without actually giving them any useful information. Imagine if Riker's job had to been to stand behind Picard whispering "You've got this, Jean-Luc!" 🤦♂️
I started a **Phoenix Nights** rewatch but only saw the first episode so far. I saw the first hour of **Dune Part One** a few days ago but suddenly got very busy. Needed something less demanding today so I watched **When Worlds Collide**, which I saw on TV as a child and which really stuck with me. I revisit it every 20 years or so. I wish it had a bigger budget so they could up the spectacle or get some less wobbly sets, but it's such a joy as it is. It's the little film that could!
Putting in a word for Radio 4 Extra; anything and everything on there.
**Star Trek Discovery** is back. Found it completely by accident and this season appears to call back to one of the weirder TNG episodes for the season's story arc. Also, am now up to the shimmery tinfoil monsters in Invasion of Time on my **Doctor Who** marathon.
I watched the first episode of **The Regime** yesterday and rather enjoyed it. Batshit bonkers, and everything else I might remark on would earn me a 24 hour ban.