... and bitter and cynical. I loved it too.
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I liked the ending of Line of Duty in the sense it made it's point.
In the context of the ludicrous nature of the show and the escapism it has provided over the years? I wanted guns, bombs, daring escapes and a public flogging.
Not sure if this comment should be on here or on the Pet Peeves thread...
Reading people's comments on Line of Duty and the 'explainer' in the final episode vaguely reminded me of 'Life on Mars'/'Ashes to Ashes' (partly because Adrian Dunbar was in both) and how disappointed I was in the way they explained everything in the last episode.
The explanation, that it was all a kind of purgatory for ex police officers, sounds interesting but totally contradicted large parts of previous episodes and plotlines.
I was honestly a bit disappointed that the writer(s) decided to wrap it up like that and felt it was like 'we need a dramatic and surprising ending but we'll need to really hope the viewers haven't paid too much attention previously, or maybe are going a bit senile and can't remember the earlier stuff'.
It all seemed a bit 'Eastenders Scriptwriting' to me.
The build up to the last episode was fantastic,the last episode was shan,sorry.
Finished Your Honor thought it was very good indeed.
Watched the first three episodes of Mare of Easttown and really enjoying it. It's got a bit of a Sharp Objects feel to it.
Rubbish endings to long running shows is hardly new.
Writers on lots of shows have traditionally struggled.
Did anyone watch Netflix "The I Land"? **** acting, crap dialogue and a weird storyline but somehow I got pulled in and watched the entire limited series in 2 sessions.
Halfway through Carnival Row, it's amazing what goes on in some people's heads.
I watched about 25 minutes of Intergalactic on Sky.
Wow. The biggest pile of rubbish I have seen in a long time! The opening scene was bad enough but by the time it got to the takeover of the space prison I simply could not take anymore.
Binned. Immediately.
It was one of those where I couldn’t help myself but immediately start think wtf?
I mean the opening scene 120 years in the future or whatever has someone actually manually flying a plane. Then they detect the fugitive but have to land and chase them on foot...without being able to track them. Then she has to jump on said fugitive and have a fist fight to detain them.
After getting over that horror and the ridiculous office of the top boy who seems to be a bee keeper on the job we get transported to a prison ship.
Where the prisoners need to ask to go to the toilet like they are in primary school.
Then there is more awful acting before somehow we learn the prison guards are equipped with ballistic guns (on a space ship ffs!) that anyone can just grab and use (nope no biometric triggers here!).
And lo and behold the prisoners can then magically appear in the control room undetected after somehow all escaping their cells.
They then promptly fire off the guns (in a spaceship ffs! [emoji2957]) and kill everyone, including the very people staring at screens which are meant to be monitoring the prison.
Honestly I could go on but you get the idea [emoji23][emoji23]
Awful. Truly awful.
Anyone watched StartUp on Netflix. Watched the first couple of episodes last night and was very impressed. It's got a bit of a Breaking Bad/The Wire/Ozarks feeling about it. Martin Freeman surprisingly good in the bad cop role.
Third series of Motherland (all eps including the full new series on i-player). The first episode is called Nit Pandemic, there's an outbreak at the school and they school organises covid style briefings. A few comparisons made to covid restrictions without actually mentioning the pandemic. Really funny, well written by Sharon Horgan who stars in it alongside Anna Maxwell Martin. It's unusual for a series to get better, but imo the third series is the funniest so far.
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet but Unforgotten on Netflix is very good. British crime drama, great acting and writing.
Which series are you watching? I thought the best one was the first series with Tom Courtenay, that was a really good cast. I'm not a big fan of Nicola Walker, she gets good parts in plenty well written drama's, but she's got the same mannerisms and acting technique in everything I've seen her in.
Just finishing the first series now, it was a random recommendation from Netflix, I’ll be honest I don’t watch many dramas these days so this is the first thing I’ve seen her in, which is maybe lucky since I can’t make that comparison between her different roles :greengrin