Topic: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?

[6pairsofshoes]

Rufus Sewell was a truly hissable baddie in A Knight's Tale (you might not have seen it - it is a docudrama about the Middle Ages in England)

(It was also a high point in Heath Ledger's career)

I haven't seen A Knight's Tale, but perhaps I can put it in the queue as I'm always looking for other stuff to watch.  He's got the kind of face that could be either the dream date or the guy who is going to stab you in your sleep when you aren't looking.  In The Diplomat, he's got his own agenda and is very ambitious.  There's a great deal of ambiguity in his character and he's good at conveying nuance, which sadly, Keri Russell fails to do.

[smokester]

We just finished watching the first series of Sweetpea. Damn! that show is dark.

[smokester]

I'm told that the books are much better.

To be honest, considering someone is shanked by the day round here, I'm a little nervous watching a show where the go-to solution for the main character is to stab someone.

[smokester]

... especially when the main character is the heroine.

Yeah, I kinda had a row with my missus about that. She was saying: "she did that because he was rude her father", and I was like "you can't stab people for being rude or I'd be dead 40 years ago, madam"..

OK, I lied about the madam bit. But you get my point.

[6pairsofshoes]

Having finished a 3rd reading of the novel, I'm watching the Colombian series, One Hundred Years of Solitude.  I just finished episode 2.  It's hard to imagine anyone doing this book justice, but the film is ok.  It's set in Colombia, like the novel and the characters/actors are Colombian, so that does kind of bring it down to earth.  It's on Netflix with English subtitles.

[goldshirt*9]

Watching Silo 2

[6pairsofshoes]

Thanks for alerting me to this, goldie.  It's good to have some variety and I've only seen the first season.  I started watching the Swedish detective series, "The Killing"  The first episode was decent.  But it certainly left us hanging.  Tune in to episode 2...

[6pairsofshoes]

So I started trying to watch Silo season 2 and realized I'd forgotten most of Season 1, so I guess that's some thing I have to rewatch so it makes sense.  For some shows, like Wheel of Time, it's so convoluted and I'm so obsessed with the cleanliness of the costumes, that I don't even care that I no longer have a clue as to what's going on.  What I do know is the pretty people are good and the less pretty people are evil.

I just watched the Swindle with Isabelle Huppert.   She's drop dead beautiful.  Kind of a funny story about a pair of small time hustlers.  Not properly tv but viewable via the public library streaming service.  Do they have such resources in the UK?  Aside from the BBC, I mean.  Here in Trump world, the whackos in Congress are trying to pull the plug on public media like National Public Radio and educational television (PBS) as the GOP is allergic to education.

[6pairsofshoes]

I had to watch the second half of season 1 of The Silo before I could figure out what was going on with season 2.  Now it makes more sense but we'll see if it gets better.  The music is particularly oppressive.

They should have "Filmed in Bleak O Vision" in the opening credits.

[6pairsofshoes]

So far. Morals of story:
1)  It pays to be an engineer.
2)  Never trust politicians.
3)   The future is not bright.

[6pairsofshoes]

In his "How to write good," Michael O'Donoghue includes advice on endings.  This season of Silo contains both this and other advice offered regarding "The Grabber." to help lure us into viewing yet another season.  If someone could do something about that awful oppressive soundtrack, I'd appreciate it.
https://workableweb.com/_pages/tips_how_to_write_good.htm

[8ullfrog]

I very much enjoy invincible but the gaps between seasons are massive.

[6pairsofshoes]

I'm watching Walking on Sunshine, an Austrian comedy about a tv weather program, the people who produce it and their antics.  It seemed like it was kind of lame at first but it gets funnier.  There's some really quirky characters on there.

[6pairsofshoes]

2nd season of Walking on Sunshine not as fun.
I started watching White Lotus, mostly because I saw Walton Goggins talking about the 3rd season.  It's kind of like popcorn, sort of addictive light fare.  I've seen 2 episodes and they are ok so far, but not exactly compelling.  It probably grows on you or gets better.  Critics seem to like it, but then again, they liked 30 Rock, which you couldn't get me to watch unless I was well paid.

And, oddly, the cast seems impregnated with former SNL actors. That's not a good sign where I'm concerned, given the general lack of talent there.