I don’t have a lot to add to, still watching the same TV shows:

  • Fringe is still good
  • What We Do in the Shadows is okay, got me some chuckles, but no laugh out loud moments yet
  • Amazing Stories (1985) is still boring
  • JoJo’s Stone Ocean arc is still great
  • Love, Death, & Robots’ tones are still all over the place

The only other thing that I watched is David Fincher’s The Killer. While I don’t dislike it, I am just not feeling it, unlike other Fincher’s works.

Edit: I forgot that I did watch 2 other movies, Predators (2010) and Bad Boys II, I barely remembered anything happened in Predators, on the other hand, I find Bad Boys II ok, it suffers from Michael Bay’s excessive cuts without breathing moment.

So, what have you been watching last week?

  • GreyShuckEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    TV

    • Slow Horses - easily the best thing that we are watching at the moment. Oldman’s Lamb is my role model.
    • Doctor Who - Wild Blue Yonder was great. The Giggle was middling at best. RTD’s sickly sentimentality dominated the conclusion.
    • Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - the first three episodes have been surprisingly good. This - the fourth - was basically dull.
    • Krapopolis - wasn’t sure about this to start with, but it has grown on me. Waddingham’s Deleria is the obvious inital draw, but the rest of the main characters have been fleshed out to the point where I will be looking forward to season 2.
    • Enemy at the Door - from 1978, although I can recall nothing at all of it from back then. Set in the German occupied Channel Isles during WWII, each episode centres around a moral dilemma relating to loyalties, duty, consequences for the bigger picture etc etc from both sides. It holds up remarkably well.

    Film

    • Krampus (2015) - which has become something of a tradition for us on Krampusnacht, and continues to be enjoyable.
    • I Know Where I’m Going (1945) - a Powell and Pressburger that doesn’t hit the heights of A Matter of Live and Death or The Red Shoes etc but is still a stylishly told tale. I particularly enjoyed the portrayal of Webster’s intended husband only through a staff card, a printed itinerary and a disembodied radio voice.
    • sub_o@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I need to watch Slow Horses and Monarch. And probably start Dr. Who next year.

      Also, I was expecting Krampus to be a German film, but apparently it’s American?

      • GreyShuckEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yes, Krampus is American - with a few subtitles for a German speaking character in one early scene.

        The character of Krampus seems to have captured a much wider, more international, imagination in recent years. I would like to see a German film version - or appearance in some media - that sticks to the root of the story from that perspective. However, the US version does a pretty good job.