Extremely bleak, watched 3 episodes but it’s a one ep per night job. Charlie Hunnam sounding like Ernie from Sesame Street takes some getting past mind you. Even 3 episodes in I’m still sniggering as soon as he opens his gob.
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Exactly. We were the same with the Dahmer miniseries (lasted 5 minutes maybe).
Who needs to have that in their heads?
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Did 3 episodes on the trot of Ed Gein - loving it. The side stories about Alfred Hitchcock and Anthony Perkins are great. The real star for me are Ed’s clothes. In fact, in some ways the whole thing feels a bit Mad Men in so far as it often seems a show about clothes.
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Just watched first ep. Thought the lol’s were high. Accidentally dressed as Rupert The Bear while shopping for balaclavas completely buckled me
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This looks interesting
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Started watching Platonic on Apple TV. Comedy thing with Rose Byrne and Seth Rogan. Wanted to like it, but I don’t think we’ll be sticking with it. Same story with Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue. Blue Lights has been great though, and Wayward will be next up for us.
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My tolerance for bleak is almost zero these days. And not just these serial killer dramas (or the documentaries/true crime) but even stuff like Black Mirror that I loved, I have no interest in. Time is a precious commodity and I no longer want to waste it on bleakness.
I’m drawn more and more towards documentaries, which I already loved, but now I’m in love with a documentary filmmaker,
Human (and non human) stories, told well, that are life affirming, please 
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You seen Tinker Taylor soldier spy with Oldman ?
And bridge of Spies? Hanks
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Absolutely same here. I had to turn the Netflix Jeffery Dahmer thing off after about five minutes, and I still cant bring myself to watch Adolescence. I used to watch all kinds of bleak grimness up until the last few years.
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Yep, it’s weird with being such a big fan of horror since I was a wee kid.
A couple of recent recommendations are Fire in Babylon and Songs of Earth (Storyville).
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The Windies cricket doc? Love that.
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I’m not sure if it’s just getting older or having children that’s done it, but I’m like this with anything too violent these days too, I loved Top Boy a few years ago for example, but really struggled to watch the last series.
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Yeah I managed 5 minutes of Peaky Blinders and the same with the new House of Guinness
Just gratuitous (but also terrible acting and dialogue so that helps)
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House of Guinness, god, what a shit show. Looked like it was made with a three figure CGI budget and 15 extras for the crowd scenes.
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Bridge Of Spies is massively underrated imo. Rylance is brilliant in it too.
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Did you see the Irish take on it?!
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On a spy tip I enjoyed this from a couple of years back. Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce are both top, top actors playing British stiff upper lip spies in a twisty tale of 1960s espionage. Pour a stiff Whiskey and absorb the atmosphere
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I lasted twenty minutes of the Ed Gein. Couldn’t get past the voice.
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Enjoyed Black Rabbit in the end. Not without its flaws but a good watch I thought.
Likewise Blue Lights 3.
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Just started Film Club. First episode in and I’m cautiously optimistic.