Off Topic TV series - good and bad

Started 3 body problem last night seems decent so far.

 

I thought it was excellent. The books are brilliant but very complicated so not an easy story to transfer to the screen. Looking forward to seeing the next instalment as Cixin Liu’s imagination of humanity’s future is incredible.

I am a massive sci-fi fan mind so a bit biased.

 

I've never seen Shameless before but have heard people describe it as brilliant.

I've just watched it and get the premise but thought it was rubbish. The characters, especially the main character, are totally overdone and overact. It's quite depressing, no credible characters and every woman has sex in her bra ...

... perhaps it seemed better when it was made but I gave up after three episodes.

 

Have you seen Love/Hate? I think that’s even better than Kin and has 5 series’

 

Nope, but putting it on now

 

I’ll get Blue Lights finished tomorrow night

Not sure what to watch next, any suggestions?

 

Just started Dan brown's the lost symbol.

Decent.

 

Started watching ‘Time’ on BBC iPlayer, featuring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham.

 

Thought it was much better than the dragon soap opera game of thrones, personally.

Paddy Considine is just a ****ing master.

 

Got around to finishing it. As mentioned, I didn't like the first episode, those that followed it were superb. Bar the last one. Which just absolutely lost me.

 

What do you think so far?

 

Yeah the last one was a curveball to say the least, I didn't dislike it but I can't say I understood it.

If you google it there is a clever explanation (or interpretation) with foreshadowing but it doesn't make it any less bonkers an experience.

 

Just tonally so different to the rest of it.

Like watching a documentary about Bergen-Belsen only for Noel Edmonds and Mr Blobby to turn up.

 

It was yeah, I tend to seek out weird stuff that's off the beaten track but the way it came out of the blue blindsided me completely.

Got to admire the balls on them to end it like that and there are some interesting theories which I'd have never figured out for myself in a thousand years.

 

I think if you attach Emma Stone to anything at this point you can get away with just about anything and everything.

That Greek director is certainly trying to prove me right.

 

Working my way through Valhalla, not a patch on the original Vikings characters not as good.

 

Explain Sean Bean's accent to me? If I remember correctly it is set in Liveprool, his parents both have a scouse accent and it appears he was raised there? So why does he speak with a Yorkshire accent?

 

Kin Series 1 done last night. Brilliant.

 

He's got another film out this month called Kinds of Kindness, also starring Stone. Seems a quick turnaround after Poor Things maybe he's had it in the can for a while.

Seems to be more like his older work than a big budget extravaganza but I've liked all his films to different degrees.

 

They're filming another one as well. Productive pair!

Loved lobster but it gave me a headache.