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    From Fascist Flea@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 27 16:43:41 2023
    Two heavily hyped new TV shows are absolute crap.
    Winter King is a grubby, stilted rendering of Arthur as a lad.
    Ahsoka is an acting-free collection of CGI and stunts.

    Blech! Puke! String 'em up!

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to Fascist Flea on Mon Aug 28 09:23:30 2023
    On 8/27/23 6:43 PM, Fascist Flea wrote:
    Two heavily hyped new TV shows are absolute crap.
    Winter King is a grubby, stilted rendering of Arthur as a lad.

    Too soon for a return to the Merlin subject matter? but dark, like
    Riverdale, etc?

    Ahsoka is an acting-free collection of CGI and stunts.

    Blech! Puke! String 'em up!

    I've stumbled upon a couple of series set in Tasmania; Deadloch and The Kettering Incident. Good news is little or no CGI and "lingua amputo."
    Bad news is self-evident from watching the first ten minutes or so. Will
    watch anyway.

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  • From Fascist Flea@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 28 07:58:33 2023
    mINE109 wrote:

    Two heavily hyped new TV shows are absolute crap.
    Winter King is a grubby, stilted rendering of Arthur as a lad.
    Too soon for a return to the Merlin subject matter? but dark, like
    Riverdale, etc?

    Didn't like Merlin, never saw Riverdale.

    Ahsoka is an acting-free collection of CGI and stunts.

    Blech! Puke! String 'em up!
    I've stumbled upon a couple of series set in Tasmania; Deadloch and The Kettering Incident. Good news is little or no CGI and "lingua amputo."

    Deadloch is worth it for the comedy.
    Re Tasmania, look for Bay of Fires, a crime mystery.

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to Fascist Flea on Mon Aug 28 15:48:51 2023
    On 8/28/23 9:58 AM, Fascist Flea wrote:
    mINE109 wrote:

    I've stumbled upon a couple of series set in Tasmania; Deadloch and The
    Kettering Incident. Good news is little or no CGI and "lingua amputo."

    Deadloch is worth it for the comedy.

    The mystery plot is carrying me along and I'm warming up to the comedy.
    The visiting cop actor gives it her all.

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  • From Fascist Flea@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 30 14:27:26 2023
    mINE109 wrote:

    Deadloch is worth it for the comedy.
    The mystery plot is carrying me along and I'm warming up to the comedy.
    The visiting cop actor gives it her all.

    My first-ever (and only) Swiss show! "The Undertaker" (Der Bestatter).
    An detective-turned-undertaker helps testy detectives solve murders.
    If you can't find it, I can email season 1 (4 eps, subtitled).

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to Fascist Flea on Thu Aug 31 09:03:50 2023
    On 8/30/23 4:27 PM, Fascist Flea wrote:
    mINE109 wrote:

    Deadloch is worth it for the comedy.
    The mystery plot is carrying me along and I'm warming up to the comedy.
    The visiting cop actor gives it her all.

    My first-ever (and only) Swiss show! "The Undertaker" (Der Bestatter).
    An detective-turned-undertaker helps testy detectives solve murders.
    If you can't find it, I can email season 1 (4 eps, subtitled).

    I see can get it on Amazon with a free trial of "MHz Choice." Will check
    it out.

    An oldish series I'd never heard of is the "Lost Room" a fantasy about seemingly ordinary objects with special powers. The first of these is a
    key which immediately calls to mind "Locke and Key" "The Portable Door"
    etc, but the production style is more 2000s network than those. Cast
    includes a child Elle Fanning, whose "The Great" just got cancelled.

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  • From Fascist Flea@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 31 09:19:25 2023
    mINE109 wrote:

    An oldish series I'd never heard of is the "Lost Room" a fantasy about seemingly ordinary objects with special powers. The first of these is a
    key which immediately calls to mind "Locke and Key" "The Portable Door"
    etc, but the production style is more 2000s network than those. Cast
    includes a child Elle Fanning, whose "The Great" just got cancelled.

    I liked Lost Room. Later on, Kevin Pollak disparaged it in standup performances.
    The same theme was used in Warehouse ## (maybe 22 or 33, don't recall).

    Farewell to The Great. Not for everyone, but it had a lot of good moments.

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to Fascist Flea on Thu Aug 31 15:03:05 2023
    On 8/31/23 11:19 AM, Fascist Flea wrote:
    mINE109 wrote:

    An oldish series I'd never heard of is the "Lost Room" a fantasy about
    seemingly ordinary objects with special powers. The first of these is a
    key which immediately calls to mind "Locke and Key" "The Portable Door"
    etc, but the production style is more 2000s network than those. Cast
    includes a child Elle Fanning, whose "The Great" just got cancelled.

    I liked Lost Room. Later on, Kevin Pollak disparaged it in standup performances.
    The same theme was used in Warehouse ## (maybe 22 or 33, don't recall).

    Yes, another special objects show.

    Farewell to The Great. Not for everyone, but it had a lot of good moments.

    Huzzah! Nice ending, in its way.

    I wondered if and if so how they would take on the Potemkin Village but historical accuracy wasn't the point although a little research made
    some of it funnier.

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 7 11:08:19 2023
    On 8/31/23 9:03 AM, mINE109 wrote:
    On 8/30/23 4:27 PM, Fascist Flea wrote:
    mINE109 wrote:

    Deadloch is worth it for the comedy.
    The mystery plot is carrying me along and I'm warming up to the comedy.
    The visiting cop actor gives it her all.

    My first-ever (and only) Swiss show! "The Undertaker" (Der Bestatter).
    An detective-turned-undertaker helps testy detectives solve murders.
    If you can't find it, I can email season 1 (4 eps, subtitled).

    I see can get it on Amazon with a free trial of "MHz Choice." Will check
    it out.

    First episode: not bad. Local flavor and of course a goth would choose
    Queen of the Night for an opera singer's final costume.

    MHZ has some classical music themed shows. Probably awful but something
    we don't get much around here, Mozart in the Jungle aside.

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  • From Fascist Flea@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 7 10:23:21 2023
    mINE109 wrote:

    My first-ever (and only) Swiss show! "The Undertaker" (Der Bestatter).

    First episode: not bad. Local flavor and of course a goth would choose
    Queen of the Night for an opera singer's final costume.

    I like the characters, or at least the way the actors portray them.
    The second season introduces an uber-dick from the Feds.

    Sleeper I missed originally: Mad Dogs (UK). 4 series, 18 eps. Twisty crime drama, overly soapy at times, but keeps your interest.

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to Fascist Flea on Thu Sep 7 14:44:33 2023
    On 9/7/23 12:23 PM, Fascist Flea wrote:
    mINE109 wrote:

    My first-ever (and only) Swiss show! "The Undertaker" (Der Bestatter).

    First episode: not bad. Local flavor and of course a goth would choose
    Queen of the Night for an opera singer's final costume.

    I like the characters, or at least the way the actors portray them.
    The second season introduces an uber-dick from the Feds.

    Sleeper I missed originally: Mad Dogs (UK). 4 series, 18 eps. Twisty crime drama, overly soapy at times, but keeps your interest.

    Philarmonia is as cliche-ridden as I hoped with some insight into what
    European audiences think classical music is: The Four Seasons and
    Beethoven symphonies mostly.

    Speaking of police dogs, Kommissar Rex reminds me of that Eastern
    European police show parody from a few years back.

    I think I recognize some titles, but it looks like "choose your setting"
    might be as good a way to pick as any.

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