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  1. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    That's good, I hope they make more of the series too. May nip into the local library then this weekend!
  2. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    Shardlake (Disney). I don't know the books, but this was a really good watch, solid, unflashy, with much more nuance than I expected. Think Poirot in the 1500s. And in a first, Sean Bean doesn't die (well, he's playing Cromwell so he does die, but not just yet...presumably).
  3. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    This was great. Season 1 ushered in the new wave of true crime docs - much as Serial did in podcast form - and season 2 wasn't the difficult second album by any stretch. If you've ever been in any doubt as to the terribly grubby and corrupting influence of money, this will dispel those doubts...
  4. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    A heads-up for The Jinx, season 2. Starts with the events of the day after the broadcast of the last episode of season 1, and even though we know in the main what's happened since, it has already unearthed some rather eye-opening goings-on. Can't binge it as it's released weekly but it does feel...
  5. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    I really liked S3, I expect you will too. Introduced me to Scoot McNairy who in turn led led me to Narcos. He's brilliant in everything I've seen him in. Also he's up there with 80s weather forecaster Flip Spiceland as having the Americanest name in telly.
  6. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    It's very very good. Adapted from a book so there's a lovely coda; not your average drama. Gosh I've missed subtitles!
  7. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    I've started "Huset" on iPlayer, with Sofie Gråbøl. I wouldn't normally post about something I hadn't watched all the way through, but after a grimly tense and unsettling first episode I had to tell someone about it. 6 x 1hr episodes. It's gonna be good...
  8. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    It's the real-life aspect of it that makes you ponder doesn't it. Makes me wonder, which cartel gang member somewhere in the world, right now, is, at this moment, eating his last plateful of grilled nachos before being kidnapped and chopped to pieces in a basement. Maybe I've watched too much...
  9. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    Off topic, but Boiling Point with Stephen Graham is a one-take film, set in a restaurant, and is a 90 minute tense-athon.
  10. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    Oh god yes, that made me come on here last night desperately wanting to share it with someone! What makes it better for us Brits I suppose is that I and I suspect most of us have never seen any of the main-main cast before so they are just who they are on screen, and it's utterly absorbing...
  11. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    I'm halfway through season 2 and it's fantastic, isn't it. There's really nothing like it. It reminds me a lot of peak British TV in the late 90s/2000s, what the likes of Jimmy McGovern ushered in, a story told so, so well, with anger and heart.
  12. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    I went to see Phaedra at The National tonight. I spent the first half thinking of one of the cast, "I know that actress, who is she, this is driving me mad..." It was Mackenzie Davis! I haven't been star-struck for twenty years, but this woman - boy is she good. First professional theatre job...
  13. Brightonfan1983

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    ... is good isn't it. Made me want to watch the film again! Which I won't just yet, 'cos I stumbled across Black Bird (Apple TV), Taron Egerton in a Dennis Lehane-true-story-inspired prison thriller, which is so much better than I expected. Taron Egerton for me is always quite slappable in a...
  14. Brightonfan1983

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    I offer you The Bear. Man returns from away to run his brother's restaurant/diner in Chicago. For those of you fortunate enough to have watched Halt and Catch Fire, it's very much in this style; ie. it's not about running a restaurant/start up internet company, much more about the people who run it.
  15. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    This looks good - the trailer at least reminds me of Touching the Void, and Last Breath (which had a similar effect on me to yours). The drama/doc genre is superb isn't it, when done well.
  16. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    Religiously got through this and as cinematically enjoyable as it was, I kinda shrugged at the end. Probably after 5 or six or whatever seasons of it, the "wow there's not been anything this good for ages" factor has worn off for me. Slap bang in the middle of the majestic Sopranos at the mo'...
  17. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    I'm 4 episodes in thanks to you two - it's superb. I didn't realise it's based on a series of books so was expecting an enjoyable sugar-coated, not very challenging crime/drama romp, a bit like Bosch I suppose, but boy is it anything but. Gritty, shocking, and does the whole post-Vietnam thing...
  18. Brightonfan1983

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    It was me! And many others here. Oh, and the £30 you paid to Amazon for Terriers a while back, I matched in a charity donation. I never expected anyone to take my opinions here seriously enough to part with real-life money, especially since some series provoke an emotional reaction akin to...
  19. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    Oh I'm so pleased you liked it. It's certainly "one of those", and spending time in all their companies was a treat, wasn't it. When I'd finished it, in mourning, I was moved enough to *geek alert* send a tweet to one of the creators, who was gracious enough to reply. A superlative story told by...
  20. Brightonfan1983

    'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

    Blimey, never thought someone would actually listen to me! Hope it works out for you, and if you get to the end, can we have a brief "wow, brilliant" exchange? Ta :)
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