Saturday, May 12, 2018
Happy Valley
Trooper was right, Happy Valley is an excellent show. Centered around hard ass cop Catherine Cawood, each of the two seasons follow the story arc of a different crime. But the heart of the show is the personal life of Catherine and her sweet sis and her sweet but difficult grandson. The theme of the show is the love and responsibility we feel for our children.
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A third and final season is planned for release this year, per Wiki.
We started watching “The Frankenstein Chronicles.”
Thanks Deb. Since I have been laid up we have been binge watching a lot of stuff.
Some more recommendations on Net-flicks.
The Five.
Stranger Things.
Paranoid.
Death in Paradise
The Magicians
Safe. (a new one that just started with the guy from Dexter)
All of these are well worth your time.
The first season of the Frankenstein Chronicles is excellent. Sean Bean does a great job.
I didn't care for the second season that much.
Thanks, chick. I did give the first ep a try, but it didn't grab me...maybe I'll try again one day.
Thanks for the suggestions, Trooper. I saw the trailer for Safe today, will def watch it, but not for a while. It looks powerful.
Is Sean Bean pronounced "Shawn Bhawn"? "Seen Bean"? "See-ann Be-ann"? Asking for a friend.
I will put “Happy Valley” on a watch list after Frankenstein peters out.
Sixty, I'd tell you how to pronounce Siobhan, but your brain might spring a leak.
Sho Bomb!
Er, I mean "Jean". No, that pronunciation would Seamus.
How about Iōanna, derived from Yəhôḥānān, and now living on as cognates throughout the land.
Just don't call me late to supper :)
cool. I will take it upon advisements.
I have to say tho, crimes shows. ... Everything is a crime show. So tired of the crime show.
I know I've mentioned it a bunch before, but one reason I love Detectorists is because it's not a crime show.
But a good crime show is still good.
I'm on season 5 of breaking bad. It's a good series but I am seriously needing it to end. the whack-job twins in season 3 nearly gave me a heart attack.
Sean Bean - prrrrrrrr
death in paradise is fun. but oh wow - it's another crime show.
Dexter is unwatchable. I like revenge, but that was too much.
Are you referring to the Salamanca cousins with the nice boots, DB@H? One of my favorite episodes is when Hank has to battle them with little more than his wits. Hank is a tough guy.
I really liked that series, other than Skylar and her sister - they added nothing. Lydia is my kind of gal.
There were touches during the course of that series that I really liked - like the flashback of Tio Hector in a vernacular Mexican folk chair with wheel-like sides. Tuco seemed nice. The cousins were creepy because they are actual ex-cons - one of them had his eyelids tattooed in prison. Think about that.
The special effects in the last episodes are great - I don't want to give away too much, but they did great work with Brian "The Commie" Cranston.
But the main selling point for that series was of course providing steady work for Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman. I am caught up on that series, too.
On Amazon Prime, they gave a series about Catherine the Great. I recommend it. It sticks to the actual facts of Catherine's life, and she certainly had a strange, weird trip. It's nowhere near as good as Game of Thrones, but it happened for real. The woman who plays Catherine is witchy and intriguing to watch. I like historical dramas. There are less plot holes and credibility gaps when the writers can't make crap up as they go along.
Yes, the Salamanca twins. I almost had to stop watching because it reminded me that the creator of the series if one messed up mental.
I never watched X-files. So one night years back I thought, I should watch an episode of the X-files. I happened to watch the most twisted episode he made. The one where the mom without arms and legs moved around on a skate board under the house and her own grown sons had sex with her? Too much. I don't find any of that remotely entertaining. It's just messed up. Breaking bad is messed up but you cannot stop watching it.
I like Jesse Pinkman's character. "Tell your douche bag brother in law to follow the lights."
LOL
Saul is awesome.
I forgot about game of thrones. It scares me to imagine myself watching it and liking it. I just don't see it.
Slippin' Jimmy is in deep dark doo-doo right now.
I kinda liked Hector's enemy, can't remember his name off the bat. I appreciated the father-son dynamic between Walter and Jesse.
Dexter is so awful. I only watched one and a half eps. So effing wrong.
William, thanks for the reco :)
Yes- Dexter is so effing wrong.
I watched a couple of the Dexter episodes. I like revenge as much as the next Scots-Irish, but that show was a bit over the top.
Hector had a number of enemies, but primarily Gus Fring, the Chicken Brother. I like how they used a filter every time they were supposed to be in Mexico. Funny stuff.
Another thing I noticed was that every character had a color. I have no idea which color went with which character, but they all had their very own color. Go to the White residence, color. Jesse, different color. Hank - forget it.
Looking through the cast I now remember how much I disliked Walt Jr. What a bad word.
I had a friend who had a dog named Dexter. Great dog, great friend, I miss her. Anyway, I started watching Twin Peaks and she mentioned that she had watched that show back when it was first broadcast. Her take on it was "It's weird just for the sake of being weird". I don't disagree, and I only got part way through it.
Having seen both seasons (following a recommendation here or elsewhere, I can't recall), I would use the word "troubled" rather than "difficult" to describe the grandson, who was born into a difficult situation. He's the child of a rapist and a mother who committed suicide shortly after his birth, and is identified as the prompt that led to his grandparents divorce.
I rarely use a "sweet" as a character descriptor as I experience sweet as a cover behavior, a coping mechanism, which fits with the sister's profile as an alcoholic and a drug addict who is working through her recovery in the show, which includes finding a voice and the ability to live in truth and grace.
I started watching "Safe" made it up to the point where the guy said "be-ah" when he meant to say "beer". No baby talk, click.
Yes, Gus Fring.
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