So there was me thinking it was a noir’ish detective thing. Mrs likes it, me not so much. More twists than twisty thing. Best not talk about the accent either 
Quite liked High Desert on AppleTV, quirky Patricia Arquette channeling Jennifer Coolidge and arguable doing it better.
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Tom Wolfe Man in Full on Netflix looks promising… that is to say I like Tom Wolfe’s book
We started it last week, really enjoying it so far!
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I loved the idiot British pilots with their twirly moustaches, monocles and Eton accents, totally relatable and not at all cliched
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Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution - somehow missed this when it came out in December, superb three parter. BBC iPlayer - Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution
Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution review – an absolute feast of a music documentary | Television & radio | The Guardian
(apologies for inevitable repost)
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Bullitt Train on Netflix, gave me a headache, knocked it off less than an hour in, sub Guy Ritchie bollox.
Brad Pitt is one of my favourite actors but even he couldn’t save it
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Started watching The Tattooist Of Auschwitz on Netflix but couldn’t get past the fact that they’d created this entire show with a massive budget, yet all the actors playing Polish and Hungarian characters had plummy British accents!! Turned me off after 10 minutes. Commit to the craft ffs!
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How did you handle all the portuguese segments of shogun being spoken in english? 
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I didn’t watch that innit
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On that tip I’m constantly baffled by showrunners/casting directors getting actors* to do non native accents when there has to be a 1000 native speakers who could do the job, no idea why Florence Pugh is ‘American’ in Dune 2, baffling, please explain…
*With the exception of Idris Elba in The Wire and Jacob Elordi in everything, he’s Australian and was awesome in Saltburn (and Euphoria) and Barry Keoghan gets all the plaudits for that dodgy scouse accent.
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Why were the Fremen a mix of a whole bunch of incongruous accents? That and being painted as arabic, then the line (to paraphrase) “Once Arrakis was known by it’s Fremen name: Dune…”
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Just saw Jacob Elordi as Elvis in Sofia Copolla’s “Priscilla” - so convincing, at times I forgot it was an actor. I can’t imagine the guy from Baz Luhrman’s Elvis film was as good (I can’t “do” Baz films, too OTT) - he was Australian as well from memory.
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The Korean series really bug me, they always seem to dub over some horrible Korean/American mix cartoon voice on all the characters, just watched Parasyte; The Grey on netflix and only watched it half arsed because the voices irritated me.
The 100, the Squid Games, cash in/rip off was the worst, laughably bad, all these Koreans dubbed saying ‘FRICKIN’ AWESOME!!’ every 30 seconds.
See also Dominic West on The Wire. I think it’s something to do with Brit actors being cheaper than Americans in America or maybe I’ve made that up?
Bad Sisters
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Paired with Underland which is also about caves & prehistory, strange dreams last night.
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Maybe watch in the original language with subtitles. That way you get the real vocal inflections and acting nuances that were intended. I understand that some people are dyslexic/have reading issues, but if you don’t it’s usually a better option.
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Anyone watching series 2 of the Responder? Stretching believability quite a bit and pretty similar story arc to the first one. Some superb stuff from Bernard Hill (RIP) and Sue Johnston though - showing how it’s done.
Yes, we are two episodes in. To be honest it hasn’t gripped me yet. We’ve decided we are going to re-watch series 1 again before we continue with series 2 to see if that helps.
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