Enjoying Criminal Record.
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Just watched the third episode- fucking hell. I’ve read about the first Schweinfurt raid; fuck, I’ve even had a university lecture from a man who flew on it, but that was brutal viewing.
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The Greatest Night in Pop.
Celebs staying up all night to save the world. Some clearly wanted an early night.
Not a bad insight into how tracks are laid down and put together.
Made me sad one of them went so wrong, as by God he could sing…
Just finished S2 of Reacher, ludicrous enjoyable action thingy. Think I enjoyed the books more.
Loved that the yanks kept to casting stereotype and made the foreign villain British.
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I’ve started watching it recently, definitely good for brain off material. The start feels kind of similar to Banshee, just with a lot less nudity.
I am glad they cast someone closer to the books for this. I think he’s supposed to be 6’6" and 300lbs of muscle in the books, so when they cast Tom Cruise in the films it did feel rather silly. In fact, apart from Warick Davis, I cannot think of anyone less physically close.
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Visually it did but Cruise captured the intensity of the character pretty well. In the first season Richson was just too laid back. He improved in the second season but he’s still a bit chilled.
Robert Patrick is having a fucking whale of a time though and I loved the Terminator reference in there.
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Can’t remember the name of the lump who plays Reacher in the series? He played the role fully on the spectrum - Is Reacher autistic in the books?
Not specifically, but he certainly has a lot of the mannerisms. Lee Childs has often said that he doesn’t like Reacher that much, which means he is not protective of the character and leaves him out on a limb emotionally.
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Despite the incongruous casting of Tom Cruise in the films, at least they had some substance and decent acting.
The mini series are pretty much just a John Wick look alike - mostly shooting/killing. 
I have read the Reacher books but have never seen John Wick, are you saying I shouldn’t bother?
If you like the Reacher mini series, you’ll probably like the Wick films (except the third one, which is even shiterer than the first two)
Me too, every one. (charity shop favourites 
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I much prefer Michael Connolly’s novels though. The mini series (Bosch, Lincoln Lawyer) are far better also.
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Sam and I are about halfway into True Detective: Night Country right now.
There’s evidently some benefit to my eternal Slowpokery, because I’ve not seen the first three seasons and am therefore thoroughly enjoying this chilling, spooked-out, jump-scary police procedural set in Alaska’s long midwinter night (Albeit inexplicably filmed in Iceland… Yay! State subsidies!).
Jodie Foster is fucking excellent, as is recently retired boxing champ Kali Reis; Christopher Ecclestone is - sadly - excruciating… Well, chiefly Ecclestone’s accent is excruciating, as it wanders around perpetually adrift between Montreal-ish, Lancashire and Brooklyn, like the lost souls this series is so redolent with.
It seems that Sam and I are the sole two people on the face of planet Earth that like this season: the acute detestation it has attracted from pre-existing fans of the series goes all the way to the top: even series-creator, Nic Pizzolatto, has strenuously disowned it, describing it as ‘Stupid’, having had no involvement beyond getting his name in the credits.
This season leans very heavily on the supernatural, and nearly as heavily on the estrangement of native Alaskan peoples, as well as the corrosive effects on lives being messily-lived bottled up (in so many ways) in the almost-closed communities existing on the margins of habitability in places like Alaska.
Everyone in this is a bad guy in some sense, but the supervillain is clearly the plundering of Alaska’s fragile ecosystem.
I think the critics are wrong on this one, but then I didn’t have pre-existing expectations to cast a ray of sleet over it all. I just hope the end isn’t too disappointing…
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Sums up his entire career. He is totally unable to convince me he is anything other than an over actor projecting his lines.
Looking forward to watching this when I can see it on a streaming service I’ve got a subscription for.
He made an excellent Dr. Who, but I tend towards agreement - too much time on-stage. He doesn’t get enough screen time (so far) to spoil this though.
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