Daz I don't have kids!
One More on the Telly
Burnwinter Sorry Quincy, but I really despised that film.
Oh, I remember that clearly. 
QuincyAbeyie Means a lot to feel so seen
QuincyAbeyie Womanizer Bond doesn't work anymore.
Are we slut shaming men now? Be more sex positive Quincy.
JazzG He also hated the idea of Henry Cavill becoming Bond and when Jeff Bezos asked who the next Bond should be many put forward Henry Cavill.
I like Cavill but he'd be a terrible Bond.
Burnwinter You guys are late to the party accusing me of being a human who sounds like an LLM, I get that all the time. I accept it. It's a bit of a shame the bottom's really fallen out of the market for talking absolute shit lately.
Grow up, grow, grow, grow.
Qwiss Oh, good shout. I related to him, as a matter of fact ... I've been accused by others of using too many long words since I was a pretty small kid.
22 days later
My God, how embarrassingly shit was the SEVERANCE finale.
Burnwinter
Really? I quite enjoyed it myself.
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I think around two or three episodes into this season, I was finding the main arc pretty padded, contrived and grating. The loss of conceptual momentum is felt in the decreased verisimilitude and increasing number of non sequitur and surreal moments. I don't find the Keir cult of Lumon compelling as a block of the overall rote world-building, and the majority of the antagonists are entirely uninteresting pantomime villains.
The show can't decide if it's a Kafka short or a self-consistent dystopia exploring salient social questions. But it certainly knows it's a big hit, so the resolution of a few seemingly very urgent plot developments, such as it turning out that Cobell invented the severance technology, is already held back for future padded seasons.
Innie Mark choosing Hellie R over restoring his outie self to Gemma should've been a good season ender, even if I think it's a misuse of the show's entire premise to narrow focus onto the main character's schizo romances. But the closing "Windmills of Your Mind" montage struck me as the showrunners admitting they'd cornered themselves with material they don't know how to land dramatically.
The sequence critics are all fawning over where Mark spoke to himself via camcorder was also poorly written and executed, for mine. And the Mervyn Peake stylings of the giants' battle between Drummond and goat lady was visually striking, but only contributed to the incrementally self-weakening preposterousness of the whole.
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Just putting this there because the spoilers dont work when seeing the preview of the last post on the main page
I watched all of Severance S2 but won't go back for S3. It was pretty boring for the most part. I asked my wife if Ben Stiller was laughing at us, maybe that's the joke? The finale finally did something interesting with the camcorder and Innie V Outtie situations, but otherwise, a really interesting premise has been milked enough.
The gratuitous blood was fun though.
Big Willie Ah thanks, sorry mate.
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Asterix The gratuitous blood was fun though.
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I was thinking the stature of the actor who plays Mr Drummond was pretty wild, but it turns out he is only about 6'3", so now I'm wondering if the "side elevation" shot of Drummond next to Mark S in the corridor was digitally altered—there's only about six inches difference between the actors in real life. Or maybe I just got fooled … hmm … 
I felt there was huge potential in this show after the first season, really loved it, but I'm disappointed with pretty much every single creative choice made in the second season.
Big Willie This is quite an annoying bug given the damn post summary collapses all HTML whitespace so even the three dummy paragraphs above don't stop the spoiler getting rendered on the discussions list.
9 days later
Any of you watched Adolescence? I thought it was great - one of the best shows I've seen recently. The one take concept could have been gimmicky but it worked really well. Episodes 1 and 3 were the strongest, and the final scene had me in tears.
No, but it seems as if every single person is telling me to watch it. I've had friends, family, colleagues, other friends, the folks I co-program the cinema with, and now OMITT banging on about it.
An amateur filmmaker friend was also raving about the "Ronin" gimbal camera that's used. I didn't realise until then that this show was a Stephen Graham joint done in single takes. The BOILING POINT film is quite fun if you are looking for more of that.
Doing a "one take" in a high school with a cast that includes about 100 school kids is rather ambitious. Props to the kids and teachers who were there to act as AD's for making it work. Quite incredible when you think about it.
Asterix it's not even one of those things where it looks like a one-take but is just really cleverly stitched together. All the episodes are actual one-takes.
I’ve only watched the first fifteen minutes so far, and that was impressive. Both the camera work and the acting by all involved. There is also a cool continuity.
Amazed by how much work they had to do for ea CG episode. I’m sure they were all tired of each other by the end