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Qwiss

MistaT as the lads said there is on fairly dark thread to it but its not pushing for realism much and I found the tone was light enough for such a story line (trying not to give much away here). I'd liken it a bit to Slow Horses which had heavy elements like murder, terrorists attacks, etc but the tone is still fairly humorous. There is basically imprisonment part which has no light elements but also doesn't hit too hard in terms of misery (I actually just found it a bit tedious after a while) and then the narrative around the team investigating is pretty much the main show and that's always shot through with a bit of humour. Its certainly not the typical pure misery British procedural show like Broadchurch or Happy Valley. My wife watched and liked it and she generally hates anything that's too dour.

Asterix

The new South Park is quite funny. Good to see someone willing to take on the orange maniac. Mind you the South Park guys could afford to take him on, having signed a deal for a couple of billion or so.

RocktheCasbah

Jo and I ripped through the latest series of The Bear over the weekend. A very welcome return to form after the third one. Ayo Edebiri is such a fun actor to watch.

Well, they all are, but especially Ayo.

Klaus

How Are You? It's Alan Partridge is genuinely some of the funniest stuff I've watched in years. "I've forgotten what dill looks like!"

Gazza M

Klaus watched the first episode last night. he's in top form with this one

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Klaus it's frigging excellent.

Burnwinter

Good shout.

We've just gotten around to watching the three seasons of WHITE LOTUS over the past few months.

The character writing of the show is top drawer, the majority of the characters make a loathsome first impression but the arcs take a lot of care to show you their wicked incentives and their forms of innocence as well as their grotesque aspects. It's one of the best I've seen in this respect since SUCCESSION.

MistaT

Burnwinter -- what was your ranking of the seasons?

MistaT

In other news.....

‘Heat 2’ Is On: Michael Mann Crime Drama Moves From Warner Bros. to United Artists; Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber Producing; Leonardo DiCaprio Circling to Star
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/heat-2-is-on-michael-mann-crime-thriller-1236392878/

Dom

Coogan has to go down as one of the all-time great comedians. Comedy ages horribly yet he's been one of the best around in five different decades.

Burnwinter

Shout out to BARRY, the missus and I have been mainlining it in the AC during the humid tropical build-up, and it turns out it's a very smart show.

It's also one of the darker television shows I've ever watched, I think … not just the usual "the modern condition is making us all deranged" scenario with a bunch of relatable characters incrementally going off the deep end.

By season four, the main cast are nearly all straight-up psychotic, including Barry, Sally, Noho Hank and Fuches. Henry Winkler as Fonzy as Gene Cousineau is pretty much the only main character left who's merely a raging narcissist.

Curious to see how it rounds itself out but yeah, I can't fault it at this stage.

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