Last television show you watched

"The Haunting of Hill House".

It's not bad. I do think Mike Flanagan's talent lends itself more to a feature-length story than a mini-series, but the qualities that make his horror movies work are all on display here.

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"The Haunting of Hill House" was eight episodes of good TV followed by two jarringly corny episodes to close out the series. Having said that, episode five (the Nell episode) and six (the funeral parlor episode) might be the best thing I have seen on the small screen this year.

Starting to watch Daredevil Season 3 which just rolled out on netflix.

This scene left me teary-eyed, almost unheard of but this one fucking did it. Can't wait to see how it develops now that Rick has left the show.

watching my Ironside first season boxset and in the bevy of guest stars Bond alumni past and future. In one, a young Don Stroud (alongside the legend that is John Saxon) and then in a later episode, Cec Linder three years after Goldfinger. Needless to say Linder can't catch a break, killed in the first few minutes.

The finale of Season 5 of the Beeb's superbly gripping police corruption drama Line Of Duty. I'd be delighted if Jed Mercurio was hired for Bond.

Just did Afterlife.

Just as poignant as it is funny. Not perfect (Sandy's character arc seemed a little undercooked, for example) but still rather good.

Yep, I liked Afterlife and am looking forward to the next series.

Dead to Me
I clearly enjoyed it as I managed to get through a huge pile of ironing without realising it but I couldn’t work out where they could take the idea, so that last scene was very welcome - I won’t spoil it.

watching the new Poliakoff, Summer of Rockets

-classic Poliakoff in terms of how it looks, some of the characters but it's got a nice little cast. Toby Stephens actually acting properly (he has a tendency to ham in certain roles), Keeley Hawes, Julian Holloway briefly, Timothy Spall (looking a shadow of his old self) and nice to see Linus Roache back in a Blighty production.

Personally, I'd like to see Hawes in a Bond film. M at this rate but she could've been a good Bond girl to Brosnan back in the day.

Santa wrote:

Yep, I liked Afterlife and am looking forward to the next series.

Didn't know there will be second season. Wonder how that will work. Seemed pretty self contained those 6 episodes. I suppose there is that romance between the nurse and Ricky's character, and his dad's health.

Hilly wrote:

Toby Stephens actually acting properly (he has a tendency to ham in certain roles),

He was excellent in Black Sails. So much so I wish he'd have been Bond instead of Craig (in an ideal world, Graves probably wouldn't exist and we'd focus on Col. Moon).

A second season of Afterlife has been confirmed.

Hilly wrote:

watching the new Poliakoff, Summer of Rockets

-classic Poliakoff in terms of how it looks, some of the characters but it's got a nice little cast. Toby Stephens actually acting properly (he has a tendency to ham in certain roles), Keeley Hawes, Julian Holloway briefly, Timothy Spall (looking a shadow of his old self) and nice to see Linus Roache back in a Blighty production.

Personally, I'd like to see Hawes in a Bond film. M at this rate but she could've been a good Bond girl to Brosnan back in the day.

Is it worth an iPlayering, Hilly? It sounded quite interesting.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Hilly wrote:

watching the new Poliakoff, Summer of Rockets

-classic Poliakoff in terms of how it looks, some of the characters but it's got a nice little cast. Toby Stephens actually acting properly (he has a tendency to ham in certain roles), Keeley Hawes, Julian Holloway briefly, Timothy Spall (looking a shadow of his old self) and nice to see Linus Roache back in a Blighty production.

Personally, I'd like to see Hawes in a Bond film. M at this rate but she could've been a good Bond girl to Brosnan back in the day.

Is it worth an iPlayering, Hilly? It sounded quite interesting.  

Depends on your tastes but I think so. I like Toby Stephens irrespective of my ham remarks, the cast outside of him seems good enough. All six episodes are up on the player (it's still three in on BBC2), and I'm two in. It's unfolding nicely. Usually Poliakoff only does features or two part stuff. Be interesting to see how it goes.

I may well give it a go :) .

The terrific Killing Eve returns to Beeb 1 tonight. And whilst the David Tennant and Michael Sheen-starring adap of Pratchett and Gaiman's Good Omens looks like tremendous fun, I refuse to pay for Amazon Prime so I'm glad it was a co-production with the Beeb. Means it'll be on there at some stage.

I'll have to check out Killing Eve. Heard that it's good, if a little overrated. More curious to see it because of the Bond 25 connection in Waller-Bridge than anything else.

Quite enjoying WARRIOR on Cinemax

bitchcraft wrote:

Quite enjoying WARRIOR on Cinemax

It's great. It's like the poor man's Deadwood with added martial arts.

BTW, what did you make of Joanna Vanderham as a potential Bond girl? She plays Penny Blake on "Warrior".

Salomé wrote:

BTW, what did you make of Joanna Vanderham as a potential Bond girl? She plays Penny Blake on "Warrior".

I didn't know that! I wouldn't mind at all, her sex scenes with Ah Sahm are exciting to watch.

Dug into my prized Batman DVD boxset.

Adam West my-man. And who but who is in this first episode, Jill St. John. Yes, five years before DAF but a knockout. Around the same time as Tony Rome. She remains the distinction as far as Batman '66 went, in that she dies in the second part of the first episode. Outside of a henchman dying off screen, the only fatality in the West series. It's pure silly fun, Gorshin is just a riot as the Riddler (the original aim was to have the Joker but something about Romero not being available). There's also, in this episode alone, a 'darker' edge if such a thing is possible with Batman boogieing in a nightclub. JSJ's death into the Bat-reactor and certain other elements. In this episode alone you believe that the Riddler is quite capable of going on a serial murder spree.

It's interesting to note how Batman has been presented down the years ... apparently at first on the page he was armed and gunned down the opposition, then they decided that made him no better than the crims and stopped it. The 60s show and movie are of course camper than Christmas, then we had the Burton flicks with Michael Keaton ... darker, but still with a fantasy element. And then back to camp with the Kilmer and Clooney efforts before returning to darkly down-to-Earth with the Nolan/Bale trilogy (and arguably with Affleck, although I can't speak from experience as I haven't watched any of the movies with him).

The just-ended prequel show 'Gotham' had a tone akin to a mixture of the Keaton and Bale movies. Personally, I'm happy with 'dark' when it comes to Bats ... it seems to fit. But not with Superman ... if 'truth, justice and the American Way' is too corny/cheesy an idea nowadays, fair enough. But spare me replacing it with 'darkness' with a character who is an virtually indestructible alien who can fly, shoot lasers from his eyes etc for God's sake.

Not to mention the whole Superman/love life/ Lois Lane foolishness that we're always beat over the head, with. Come on, how's that supposed to work? If he tried to doink her, he'd kill the hell out of her, she'd be ground into the bed sheets.
Yet, I've heard the argument, that he could just lay there and she'd get on top and ride him at a full gallop......
Yeah well ok, I guess, but when he orgasms he'd still kill her because he'd go off like a pressure washer tearing through a loaf of bread....

Funny you should say that ... there was an 'explosive ejaculation' scene in the original cut of the Will Smith 'alcoholic superhero' flick Hancock, but it was amongst scenes that got cut to get the rating down from R to PG-13.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

It's interesting to note how Batman has been presented down the years ... apparently at first on the page he was armed and gunned down the opposition, then they decided that made him no better than the crims and stopped it. The 60s show and movie are of course camper than Christmas, then we had the Burton flicks with Michael Keaton ... darker, but still with a fantasy element. And then back to camp with the Kilmer and Clooney efforts before returning to darkly down-to-Earth with the Nolan/Bale trilogy (and arguably with Affleck, although I can't speak from experience as I haven't watched any of the movies with him).

The just-ended prequel show 'Gotham' had a tone akin to a mixture of the Keaton and Bale movies. Personally, I'm happy with 'dark' when it comes to Bats ... it seems to fit. But not with Superman ... if 'truth, justice and the American Way' is too corny/cheesy an idea nowadays, fair enough. But spare me replacing it with 'darkness' with a character who is an virtually indestructible alien who can fly, shoot lasers from his eyes etc for God's sake.                  

did you watch the animated series by Bruce Timm?