Wow! That was an intense penultimate episode of Task with some shocking deaths.
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It’s one of the best shows RN.
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On a PBS kick at the moment after a run through Apple TV the past couple of months.
Maigret is interesting, different format and style. I was trying to place the lead, and finally realized he was in the second season of Belgravia.
The cast of Gold is excellent. Show was a bit slow to start but hard to stop once I got into it.
Marlow Murder Club seems a bit weaker in its second season but I’m still watching.
Miss Austen is just lovely.
On the Apple TV front, I rewatched the past seasons of Slow Horses before the new one started, they only get better. I’m going to wait till all the episodes of this season are IIT, though I did watch the first two because u couldn’t resist!
Foundation was and is good, also Silo, especially if you like sci fi or read it as a kid. I wasn’t expecting to like Stick but it was a lot of fun!
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Love Lies Bleeding also portrays one of the best (perhaps the only?) artistic depictions of ‘roid rage’.
Agree that both Stewart and Pattinson have crafted some of the most striking favourable about-turns in movie star career trajectory.
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He was really great in Mickey 17. I never watched any of the Twilight flicks cuz I’m old 
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We watched first two episodes of the Gold and enjoyed. Great actors and two of them from Slow Horses. Watched another episode of House of Guinness last night and although soap opera ish it’s an interesting story line about the neverending troubles in Ireland that went on for far too long. Some good scenery chewing especially by James Norton. Haven’t tried Maigret yet, seen very mixed reviews. Marlowe Murder Club is okay but I’m not sure if we will even finish up second season. New season of elsbeth starts tonight and it looks like Stephen Colbert is in it. And for some laugh out loud funny stuff I’ve really enjoyed the English Teacher-both seasons.
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I couldn’t get through the second season of Elsbeth — feels like they really dumbed it down from the original character. Might give it another shot sometime.
Feeling the same about S2 of Marlow, not as interesting as S1 in stories or the main protagonists.
Maigret was good & bad in different parts, but I thought what I had trouble with was more format & style — French police & rules, shot entirely in English with British actors, etc.
Will check out English Teacher.
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we are enjoying Task, too.
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Yeah. Excellent. The performances are so good. Unexpected twists, excellent balance of the family drama and the work. Relentlessly heartbreaking.
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We watched the John Candy documentary. He seems to have been one of the kindest, most generous, friendly human beings out there, despite — or perhaps because of — a childhood trauma he never quite could get over.
The world could use a few more people like him.
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Yeah, my husband felt the same way about season 2 of elsbeth so indeed up watching the last half on my own. Had some interesting stuff and later episodes got better. Her ongoing quirkiness is a bit annoying but I’ll soldier through this season. Good show to watch on my iPad when I’m making dinner. First new epsiode has a mini Strangers with Candy reunion with Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris.
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We have all the seasons on DVD. Of course, one can stream them now. I really need to watch those again.
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Only on Slow Horses would you see an accidental murder like that (on the latest episode) 
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It is so clever, and disastrous, and hilarious in the pathos of almost every character. Clever is unfortunately underrated these days.
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We watched Eddington last night. Wow. I coulda sworn @Lectroid did a write-up on this already, but apparently not.
Ari Aster takes us back to the “good old days” of early Covid, in a small town in NM. There was a LOT going on in 2020, some of which I’d forgotten & honestly didn’t care to remember.
Tensions run high, and things get very much out of hand. The film is long, but it doesn’t feel that way. I found a lot of the characters to be extremely exaggerated — the whole movie reads as satire, but it might’ve been more effective if it had been just a tad more subtle.
Then again, 2020 was everything but subtle, so perhaps he’s not too far off.
Bonus treat for those who are into that stuff: a very unexpected full frontal of Joaquin Phoenix. And a somewhat satisfying ending, which certainly can’t be said about reality.
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I tried watching Monster: The Ed Gein story but gave up about halfway through. It’s absolute trash, which is a shame because I like Charlie Hunnam as an actor.
All was not lost tho, season three of The Diplomat started last night on Netflix, and I’m enjoying it very much.
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Halfway through the first episode 
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I started watching this out of curiosity because my boss is now modelling herself on sergeant McNally from this series (!)…
I’m quite enjoying it. It’s set in Belfast - I worked as a very junior trainee in Northern Ireland back in 2002 and I have a soft spot for NI accents.
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We loved that one. Really great.
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