NWR TV Thread

The ‘mafia only kills in summer’ is fantastic, set in Sicily In the 70s, aa coming of age story against a backdrop of mafia corruption, with real life events written in... on c4

industry - a bit ridiculous, but a few bits I def recognise from the trading floor - getting clapped in post 9am, old school sales guys, slightly sociopathic traders who are never less very good at their job..

queens gambit - just watched episode 1, looks v promising.

also - ‘what we do in the shadows’ a fly on the wall doc following 300 Year
Old vampires in staten island, written by jermaine Clement (flight of conchords) Hilarious, Daughter 2 and I are in bits, however my wife doesn’t get it at all. On BBC.
 
Dan Baillie said:
If vast amounts of gratuitous and extremely graphic sex (of every conceivable variety) and drugs, no plot lines, humour or suspense and a treatment of it’s subject that plays not the slightest resemblance to reality is your thing then I can heartily recommend the HBO/BBC show Industry.
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Thanks for the recommendation, Dan. It's atrocious, and grotesquely over-resourced in the way of nearly all modern audio-visual entertainment, but I am quite hopelessly enthralled by Marisa Abela.
 
Tom Cannavan said:
Yep, Queen's Gambit excellent, and thoroughly recommend Unorthodox on Netflix. We finally caught up with Schitt's Creek (about 5 years too late), but a night would not be the same without a 25-minute slice of its sheer magic. Sad that we are already half way through season 5!
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Unorthodox is good entertainment but strays far from the actual events that took place (it is based on real events described in a book of the same name by Deborah Feldman) and contains some scenes that are extraordinarily contrived. It is also shows a less than accurate description of life in the Satmar Chassidic community.
 
Just finished Raised by Wolves. Utterly batshit crazy and the craziness just kept on increasing right up to the end! Clearly set up for a second series but god knows what the plot would be for that given the insanity of S1.
 
I'm quite enjoying Alice in Borderland on Netflix. It's a Japanese series based on a popular Manga - high concept and rather silly in a lot of ways (I almost didn't make it past the first episode), but also quite intriguing and compelling. And it shows an admirable Games of Thrones-like willingness to kill off central charatcers with abandon. I'm only three episodes in but I'm moderately hooked.
 
Did anyone watch "Industry"? I did following a recommendation from my Mum (I was shocked, I tell you!). Kind of "This Life" meets "Capital City". Not sure that I was really that impressed, but certainly surprised by the explicit nature of it. Fun seeing some landmarks around the old office, though.
 
Just binged on "The Serpent" - 8 episodes on iPlayer, then Netflix overseas from Feb. A BBC J-V with Netflix, slick production, well acted.

The story of a 70s Bangkok-based French serial killer, nicknamed the serpent, aka the bikini killer, who, with the help of his girlfriend and a male accomplice, murdered between twelve and twenty Western hippie backpackers, and the story of the Dutch junior consular official based in Bangkok who tracked him down.

It's slow moving at times as it covers several decades in time, and there is far too much use of flashbacks, but it captures the 70s very well - what makes this absolutely compelling is the hook at the end of each episode and the knowledge that it's all true...
 
Alex Lake said:
Did anyone watch "Industry"? I did following a recommendation from my Mum (I was shocked, I tell you!). Kind of "This Life" meets "Capital City". Not sure that I was really that impressed, but certainly surprised by the explicit nature of it. Fun seeing some landmarks around the old office, though.
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Already debated heavily in this thread!
 
Dan Baillie said:
Already debated heavily in this thread!
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Oh, thanks! I must have been sleeping ;-)

OK, the previous "heavy debate" mostly seems to be about you feeling that you missed out by working in the wrong banks and Tom lusting after Yasmin. I wish I could say I got there first.

I had assumed that the kind of lifestyle depicted was mostly a thing of the past.
 
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Johnny Richardson said:
Just binged on "The Serpent" - 8 episodes on iPlayer, then Netflix overseas from Feb. A BBC J-V with Netflix, slick production, well acted.

The story of a 70s Bangkok-based French serial killer, nicknamed the serpent, aka the bikini killer, who, with the help of his girlfriend and a male accomplice, murdered between twelve and twenty Western hippie backpackers, and the story of the Dutch junior consular official based in Bangkok who tracked him down.

It's slow moving at times as it covers several decades in time, and there is far too much use of flashbacks, but it captures the 70s very well - what makes this absolutely compelling is the hook at the end of each episode and the knowledge that it's all true...
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I'm still working my way through this on broadcast TV - got too many other things to do to jump ahead on player...
 
Johnny Richardson said:
ust binged on "The Serpent" - 8 episodes on iPlayer, then Netflix overseas from Feb. A BBC J-V with Netflix, slick production, well acted.
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I've seen 5 episodes, 2 on one evening, 3 on next.

I think binge watching is the only way to watch it, once a week would be too confusing. Some times the same events are retold from a different view. Gets very gripping..
I had to Google to find out what happened to Sobraj.. amazing...
 
I wasn't a fan at first - seriously considered jumping ship after the first episode - but it built slowly and became increasingly interesting as the characters became fleshed out and the whole web of murder and deceit became apparent.
 
Currently five episodes into The Queen’s Gambit and unsurprisingly, after initial cynicism made us not approach it, recommendations from two friends and our son made us bite. It really is very good I deed. Really like the lead actress as well. She really makes the character of Beth very real. But she also reminds me ever so slightly of Amélie Poulain in a funny sort of way (and also someone I knew at University, oddly enough).

We also watched the second series of Staged. I can see that it would not be everyone’s bag but we love it. Series one just read as if you were watching reality tv of a kind. Bits of series two seem less so, but it’s equally entertaining.
 
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