TV

[Matt]

@neph93 Katie and I loved it. We were sad when it was over.

[popvulture]

I thought Night Country was great. Wasn’t super in love with the finale, but I still enjoyed it. As a series overall, fantastic.

Been meaning to check out Fargo, heard nothing but good things.

[Matt]

I’m frequently disappointed by finales. I’m sure it’s hard to wrap up really involved storylines.

[DeeDee85]

My wife and I finished Fargo season 5 last night, absolutely brilliant, so thank you to anyone who recommended it above. Season 2 was my favourite TV for a long time and after a relatively slow season 4 we were a bit reluctant to start season 5 but so glad we did. As has been previously mentioned, Juno Temple and Jon Hamm both fantastic and Jennifer Jason Leigh stealing every scene she’s in, spat my beer out a couple of times at some of her lines highly recommmended.

[Giles]

Paula and I tried and Deadloch, could not get on with it. If you want something pretty gritty, watch Save Me (Sky), my brother-in-law directed it, (well, the first 6 eps were) and I may be biased, but I thought it was amazing. Paula will not watch it after I told her the premise.

@jett , one of my favourite uses of the word fuck was by Phillip my Bahamian bonefishing friend (who sadly died of Covid, stuck on one of the Bahamian out-islands with zero care). He saw an absolute monster of a Bonefish cruise onto the flat we were fishing, and all he could mutter was ,"Fock me to tears, look at the size of dat"

[Jett129]

@Giles I love it,and can’t believe I’ve never heard it before. Thanks!

[Tago Mago]

@Matt Sopranos, greatest final episode I've ever seen. Brilliant end to a brilliant show

[Matt]

Agreed.

[neph93]

Agreed with @Matt that finales are hard. Agreed with @Tago-Mago also. That show got the ending its brilliance deserved.

They’re all modern classics, but Breaking Bad and Mad Men both had good finale’s. I also love the last episode of The Wire, despite the final season not quite maintaining the standard.

[Tago Mago]

@neph93 on the opposite end of the spectrum: game of thrones. The less said about it the better

[neph93]

Thing is… after season four I didn’t think GoT was good anymore anyway. I know everyone hates on the end and the last season but imho it had gotten bad way before then, so I didn’t have much invested in it anyway. I was happy to see it finished for good

[Tago Mago]

You’re not alone in thinking that. IMO you can clearly tell when they ran out of source material and had to make it up themselves along the overarching story arcs they apparently got from George Martin. The show was on a downward trajectory and crashed and burned with the final episode

[GraemeE]

@Nik we just finished 3 body.

I really enjoyed it.

Probably give it slightly higher marks than you but I'm also fairly easily entertained these days

[Matt]

I’m a couple eps in and I’m enjoying it so far.

[steelworker]

The sheepskin inMasters of the Air is straight up porn

[jiminstitches]

Just started Ripley on Netflix last night. so far its really good! Its beautifully shot tooanyone else started it?

[Crispy Heron]

@jiminstitches - I have. Loved it. Slow, brooding but full of tension. Yes, Andrew Scott is far too old to be Ripley but that aside, he is great in the role. Watched all eight parts in one day.

[jiminstitches]

@Crispy-Heron That's it! There was something that was bugging me, he is too old! Oh wow I need to catch up then!

[EdH]

Can't remember who recommended The Bear, but thank you, Mrs H and I have been enjoying it a lot in the last week, and shorter episode length definitely makes it easy to get through.

[mclaincausey]

@EdH love that show. Only thing I miss about Hulu.

It took me a while to get into it. I think all the yelling and freneticism was hard at first but after disengaging I picked it back up weeks later and found it to be such an emotionally impactful show and no longer just in terms of anxiety.

I think the turning point might have been the episode where Richie stages at an elite restaurant (“Forks”).