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Netflix, decent but nothing special. 6.7/10

 

Watched the 2nd episode of The North Water it's very good.

 

Iv'e seen plenty of Arseholes at night coming out of pubs.

 

Saw this on AMC a while back. It’s a good show but if you’ve read the book it feels a bit redundant, well that’s how I felt. It doesn’t really add much and become something of a piece of art in its own right like really great adaptations, just gives a straight but very good retelling of the story in tv format. But I agree it’s good quality stuff and worth watching.

 

Succession review — Blockbuster third series succeeds on every level
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Carol Midgley
Monday October 18 2021, 4.15am, The Times
United States

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Succession works best when the family are in one place
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★★★★★
For Succession fans the fast is finally over and we can tuck into the glorious nine-part feast that is season three. Yes, the starter scenes for this series are plainer fare than the exquisite delicacy served at the end of series two, when Kendall committed regicide (metaphorically speaking), knifing his father Logan Roy, the king of Waystar Royco, and setting the FBI on him on live television.

Now (warning: spoilers ahead) we pick up in the messy aftermath, Kendall sitting fully clothed in an empty bath making post-traumatic animal noises, the family still reeling from the punch. A wounded, roaring Logan is sussing out who he can trust among Shiv and Roman to take temporary charge (obviously the clown-narcissist Connor won’t get a look-in) then he flies to Sarajevo where there is no extradition treaty. Logan is weakened but, like many a ferocious beast, even more dangerous when bleeding. “It’s war,” he screams, having told Kendall’s PA that he will “grind his bones to make my bread”.



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Once the foundations are laid, though, and Kendall pulls himself together and snaps into action nursing a Messiah complex in his “righteous vehicle” (a people carrier), Succession, which aired in the US yesterday, is back in top gear. “Do you want me to ride with you, Dad?” Roman asks his father. “Do you wanna suck my d***?” comes fond pater’s reply. Ah, it’s good to have them back.

As I wrote in a preview recently, although the first half of episode one is of a lower octane there is no drop in quality; it is as much a toxic joy as ever and is still better when firing on four cylinders than most dramas are on six. I recommend watching episode one twice as it’s so rich that you might miss little tics and asides the first time. And be assured: by episodes two and three the show is on fire, Roman dialling up the funniness and still lusting after Gerri, his bespectacled Oedipal mum crush.

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The jostling forpower in the Roy family continues in the latest series after Kendall, played by Jeremy Strong, called in the FBI
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Succession works best when the family are in one place (and before long they are). Its brilliance depends more on scalpel-sharp dialogue than plot and the writer Jesse Armstrong has not rested on any laurels. Jeremy Strong is superb as Kendall, Brian Cox is grizzled pitch-perfect as Logan — but then they are all excellent performances: Sarah Snook as Shiv, Kieran Culkin as Roman, Nicholas Braun as Greg, and Matthew Macfadyen as the superbly oleaginous Tom, fretting about going to prison while warning Greg that Logan is going to “fire a million poisonous spiders down your dickie”.

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Succession’s strength is in having no weak links, with even the snakey old “yes men” at Logan’s side perfectly drawn. The tension comes from wondering when this family might implode. Might a peeved Shiv join Kendall’s “revolution”? Who will steer the company through its crisis? Will the US president — a chum of Logan’s whom he calls “the Raisin”, so I assume it’s Donald Trump — help him fend off a criminal investigation into the sexual exploitation of staff? Plus, it is all eked out one episode a week so you can’t gorge it all at once.

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Breathless in anticipation.

 

Sucession, watched about 4 episodes of Season 1 and just couldn't get into it.

Not saying it's bad, but i just didn't get what all the hype was about. I find these big US drama series to all be very samey, not so much in the stories, just the way they're produced. They feel the same.

 

Was thinking about watching this.

 

Need to watch the first two series. And catch up with the ongoing Private Eye skit of Murdoch on it.

 

Dune 2021,watched for an hour and half,.....boring crap,never get that time back.

 

I was looking forward to that. The reviews are very good.

 

yeah reviews are good but I couldn't get into it and gave up in the end.

 

Well I thought it was bloody good, so there

 

Each to their own,not a mssive fan of Sci Fi futuristic films,normally set in dull dirty concrete jungles.

 

I am still watching ridiculousness on MTV.

Did you know the hosts are older than me.

It is astonishing they are still on the channel but I assume it means the audience all got old and teens not longer view mtv.

The 3 have got so freaking up themsevles it is untrue

 

Free Guy - enjoyable, frivolous nonsense, don't think about it too much otherwise it ruins it

Nobody - brilliant no frills action film that is what it is and doesn't make any apologies

 

Currently watching The Expanse on Prime up to episode 4 ,so far so good and I'm not a massive fan of sci-fi.

 

I've tried watching twice and I like sci fi, I don't get the good ratings, it's slow and very dull.

 

The North Water 8.8/10 really good show with a superb cast.

 

Watched the first two episodes last night. Brilliantly acted, but incredibly dark themes, including the seal culling and obviously the whaling. Found myself turning away from the telly

 

Watched the first series of Treadstone on Prime, Bourne type CIA conspiracy series. The series ended on a cliffhanger, then I find out they cancelled the second series, that's ten hours of my life wasted!!