Topic: TV WTF

[6pairsofshoes]

I just finished Season 2 of der Pass (Pagan Peak).  It's a decent german/austrian detective drama.  Kind of nuanced but suspenseful.  Good actors.  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6905756/

[goldshirt*9]

detective drama

ATM that is almost all the TV stations show in the UK (and Antique, selling houses, Hospital doc's ), wife watches all of them

[smokester]

I have just started watching The Lincoln Lawyer for no other reason than to pass time while I am laid up with the flu. It ain't great in my humble opinion, but it's better than a host of other poo on Netflix.

So far.

[6pairsofshoes]

SECRET SMILE. 
Utterly dreadful, like a bad Lifetime network miniseries.  It's god's own mystery how they ended up with such a talented cast for this train wreck.  It was one of those movies where people's behaviors defied common sense.  The one redeeming aspect of it was the relief provided by multiple efforts of the pharmaceutical industry to sell drugs or at least to "ask your doctor if --------- is right for you!" thanks to amazon primes relentless efforts to monetize every single thing they show you in video.  They broke this 2 parter into 3 parts, probably so they could squeeze in more commercials.  Tennant continues to impress me with his abilities as an actor.  Here, he was utterly creepy and manipulative.  We kept remembering him as the beleaguered English teacher opposite Catherine Tate.  "Am I bovered?..."

Secret Smile, with David Tennant, Rory Kinnear, et al.  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462520/

[goldshirt*9]

It's that time of the year again 

[8ullfrog]

I want more unhinged Tennant.

I think my favorite scene of his was when Trish fakes out Kevin in Jessica Jones. "Aww, IT'S PATSY" was so disappointed.

[6pairsofshoes]

Like Patsy from Ab Fab Patsy?

[8ullfrog]

In Jessica Jones Season 1, the past is a bit of an onion.

We know that Jessica's family died in a car wreck, and she was taken in by her friend, Patrica Walker's mother.
Dorothy Walker was a stage mom and pushed her daughter into acting, resulting in a show called "It's Patsy".

Kilgrave doesn't want her, he wants Jessica. So, he pouts like the worlds most dangerous child.

I actually ruined the series for myself because of the streaming site I was using. It played the LAST episode of Season 2 instead of the FIRST episode.

I thought they were doing in media res because I'm stupid.

I really didn't like where season 2 went with the show, so it was completely ruined for me.

[6pairsofshoes]

I really didn't like where season 2 went with the show, so it was completely ruined for me.

Just think of the valuable hours you saved by not having to watch the rest of it!

I'm completely unfamiliar with that show.  I watched some stupid French detective show last night:
Alice Nevers.  She's pretty and not very compelling as an actress.  She was hauling her newborn around with her and all the men she works with acted like:
a) she's the only beautiful woman in Paris
b) they'd just love to babysit and play with the kid instead of working
c) the child's godfather didn't mind that he peed all over his suit and face

I know it's France and all, but this beggared belief and as for the writing, those guys really need a refresher course.  There's plenty of irreverent French police shows that combine wacky good humor with solving criminal cases but at least they manage to be entertaining.  This was a fail.  At least it was free with the library streaming service.