Jump to content

Netflix


Biscuits

Recommended Posts

Just finished watching A Secret Love. Beautiful piece of documentary making.

Would have been nice to hear about their early years together but leaving that out didn't take away from the story. No surprise whatsoever that Ryan Murphy was involved.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 29/04/2020 at 07:51, Steve_Wilkos said:

I hated the first series of After Life and was quite impressed how much worse the new one was.

Dropping c-bombs left right and centre (an old woman did it this time!) does not replace actual writing.

The talent show that lasted half an episode was terrible.

The 'sad' scenes may as well have a siren ringing and red text flashing "cry now".

His wife is not even slightly endearing.

Everything being filmed for no reason.

I usually like Gervais and think both The Office and Extras are superb. I usually do like his style of humour and writing. The first season of After Life was pretty good I thought, but we are just a few episodes into this second one and I agree with most of your points. Gervais has turned everything up to 11 and not in a good way. It veers between these incredibly sad, sad moments (much worse than in season one), to extremes of the therapist who's character is now this caricature version of what he was before.

It feels forced so far, whereas the first season did have value and worked well as a stand alone mini-series. A bit like Killing Eve, a great original season and then a bit forced thereafter (and a rehashing of things they have already done).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Started watching season 2 of Kingdom but got halfway through the first episode and couldn't remember who anyone was or the storyline from the first series.
Think I'll need to rewatch season 1 again first.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

16 hours ago, The Naitch said:

Just finished watching A Secret Love. Beautiful piece of documentary making.

Would have been nice to hear about their early years together but leaving that out didn't take away from the story. No surprise whatsoever that Ryan Murphy was involved.

Decent documentary but agree it felt as if a large section of their life together was missed out. I thought it ended up more about the ageing process, mobility/health problems and housing issues although it was great to see them finally getting married with all their friends and family there.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I just finished the first series of After Life, a good year behind everyone else. I can't say I was a massive fan. Much of it lacks subtlety, which is typical of a lot of Gervais sans Merchant. Some of the scenes, especially with the postman and with the staff in the restaurant when he is with his nephew, just didn't really work for me at all - like, I didn't get what I was supposed to be learning or taking from them.

Still, at least Tony appeared to have some genuine character development by the end. Whilst I haven't started the second series yet, my initial feeling at the end of the last episode of the first series was that it should have been left alone at that point. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites



Wormwood and Unacknowledged are just dreadful. The Werner Herzog one sound terrific though.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Not happy with Netflix drip feeding The Last dance (Chicago Bulls & jordan, not stricly come dancing). Thought their whole business model was droping entire series'??

I can't stand Basketball but this has been facinating and thoroghly entertaining. Never realised that Rodman was a good as he was.

maybe wait another 2 weeks until the last 4 are released.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Not happy with Netflix drip feeding The Last dance (Chicago Bulls & jordan, not stricly come dancing). Thought their whole business model was droping entire series'??
I can't stand Basketball but this has been facinating and thoroghly entertaining. Never realised that Rodman was a good as he was.
maybe wait another 2 weeks until the last 4 are released.

It gets released on ESPN in the states on the Sunday then Netflix Monday morning. There doing 2 episodes a week over there as well
Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 minutes ago, lichtie23 said:


It gets released on ESPN in the states on the Sunday then Netflix Monday morning. There doing 2 episodes a week over there as well

that explains it. its annoying, wish i had waited now until it was all released.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...