The 'Recommend me a TV series' thread

[Mayor of Simpleton]

I have just finished Black Doves. I really enjoyed the absurdity of it.

 

[Druss]

Anyone watching American Primeval, how do you rate it?

Just finished watching it last night, I thought it was very good, very much in the same gritty and gripping vein of the excellent 'Yellowstone' prequel series 1883.

Hopefully there'll be a second series, it would certainly be interesting to explore some of the unresolved threads (although the ending was pretty satisfying).

 

[Sprocker]

American Primeval.

Started 9 January is anyone here watching, how do you rate it?

Yes, watched the full series. First episode I wasn't too sure about it, but persevered it really is a very good series. Based on true historical events and very hard hitting.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Thanks Druss and Sprocket, we have watched the first one and so far so good

 

[Twostage]

Patience, remake of the French Astrid murders in Paris on C4. TBH I preferred the French version as the new girl isn’t as far on the spectrum and the detective adapts very quick so there is less tension/build up to a working relationship . Makes it more accessible though I suppose. The stories are the same which is a shame. On the plus side it’s set in York where I used to live so I can play spot the location.

 

[Twostage]

Also 100 years of solitude on Netflix. Spanish/Mexican. Very difficult to categorise, started off as an adventure/ghost story but has settled into a story about settlers.

I’m trying to work out Netflix’s classification system as it is rated 18 for suicide (which there hasn’t been yet) even though there is sex and full frontal nudity every episode. Maybe sex makes it 16 and they just state what pushes it to the highest category?

 

[Stu]

The wife and I are still doing various things like Day of the Jackal.

We don't really watch much TV, so it takes us ages.

I have however, on my own just completed "The Gentlemen" (loosely based around the film).

It's hilarious in parts too. Great fun. Vinnie Jones character is just brilliant.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

We don't really watch much TV, so it takes us ages.

Same here, we don't have the same taste in films or series so its not often we find something like American Primeval that we both enjoy, the last thing we watched was Wednesday looking forward to season two.

As of January 2025, the production of the second season of the series has officially wrapped up. The series was filmed in Ireland. In 2023, the writer's union and the actor's union both experienced significant labor strikes in Hollywood.6 Jan 2025

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Bit of a long shot (sorry couldn't resist)

Does anyone know the name of this Netflix series the person didn't name it in the video.

 

[stubrewworx]

Maybe already said. Presumed Innocent on Apple+

 

[Leon103]

Bit of a long shot (sorry couldn't resist)

Does anyone know the name of this Netflix series the person didn't name it in the video.


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It's a film called Sniper - white raven

 

[old dog new tricks]

The wife and I are still doing various things like Day of the Jackal.

We don't really watch much TV, so it takes us ages.

I have however, on my own just completed "The Gentlemen" (loosely based around the film).

It's hilarious in parts too. Great fun. Vinnie Jones character is just brilliant.

The gentleman was really good I thought good dark humour and good plots if a little out there I enjoyed it

 

[Stu]

The gentleman was really good I thought good dark humour and good plots if a little out there I enjoyed it

Oh absolutely. But that's typical Guy Ritchie.

As an aside, unlike some of the ridiculous gangster stuff where they kill as many people as possible (John Wick, for instance), it was made clear from at least one of the main characters that killing people is messy and they'd avoid it unless absolutely necessary.

I'd say that Death In Paradise had more deaths than this series!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

It's a film called Sniper - white raven

It says series in both pics has the OP got it wrong?

 

[Leon103]

I did a reverse image search and it came up with that film

It says series in both pics has the OP got it wrong?

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[YeastFace]

All the Google Lens searches I got came up with suspicious Facebook pages or YouTube videos, with similar sounding hyperobolic taglines. Either no comments, or no answers to people asking for the film name.

Weird. Seems to be some kind of engagment farming exercise. I guess it's worked on me

 

[Leon103]

This is how I got the name.

 

[fluketamer]

Yes, watched the full series. First episode I wasn't too sure about it, but persevered it really is a very good series. Based on true historical events and very hard hitting.

i had problems with this film. it has a ton of potential but i feel it falls short in some areas or overdoes is more appropriate.

the pros:
great choreography and filming. amazing nature scenes
some decent dialgoue but its few and far in between
a LOT of action barely a chance to take a breath

cons:
too unbeleivable.,
a couple of scenes where one person takes out several singlehandedly. - too unbeleivable,
too much luck - the characters find themselves in terrible predicaments but always seem to escape them.
i also think there was unnecessary violence and rape.

i am not a fan of the mormons. the origin story is just the biggest bit of nonsnense i think i have ever heard. it blows away other religious origins.
most prolly havent read of joseph smith receiving and translating the book of Mormon in the mid 1800's from a set of tomes that was in an alien language that only he could translate by viewing it through a big hunk of clear quartz. that was then reburied in the spot he found it only to magically disappear a few days later. much worse than this is the splinter flds groups that practice open pedophilia and marry girls as young as 9.

but this show paints them in the absoulte worst possible way imaginable. they are the enemies of the US, the native americans, the frontiersman, and they are traitors. they tried to secede from the US. (i was unaware of this last part) .mind you they were religiously persecuted, but what religion wasnt?

in addition it paints the US army as the saviors and they were notorious indian murderers around this time period. responsible for numerous massacres of women and children.

i also didnt like the ending i thought it left a lot to be desired.

much better westerns to watch:

unforgiven - possibly the best western and that says a lot
true grit - the remake
310 to yuma (remake ) is watchable
appaloosa (remake) with ed harris is a real gem - excellent dialogue - vigo mortonsen shines
the proposition (australian) - a must watch very violent tho
the last confession of alexander pierce is another must see based on a true story
django is great. the dialogue is as good as it gets cause thats what tarantino was after. he a traditionalist and lovs the wetserns for the dialogue and the karate films for the action. django too is very unbeleivable in parts but its worth it for the action and plot and lines.





these are ones that come to mind but there are so many great others