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Originally Posted by Hitch
Did you watch...hhhmmmmmm....Altered Carbon? I liked that rather a lot.
I watched The Black Spot, which is actually supposed to be The White Spot (or the other way around; not sure why that was changed for we English speakers); that started off interesting-ish, but sort of declined into a mishmash; I tried to like Ragnarok, but it too devolved into teenagey-angsty-soap, more than anything else. (And the "obstacles" that the show kept throwing in the protagonist's way seemed trite and dumb as hell. It was like, "he leaves XXX in this place, which is the proof he needs to get the bad guy" and you know, before that scene's over, EXACTLY what's going to happen. In some ways, it was like watching the school play at High School, written by 16-y.o.'s you know? ) BTW, that also happened throughout the Locke & Key thing; you could see the plot "twists" coming from 20 miles away.
I've had a deliciousy guilty-pleasure time with that damn dumb show about the Mexican demon hunter. Can't think of the ...oh, right, Diableros. it is hard to think of a show being dumber than that, but for some reason, there's something naive and sincere about it that makes me like it. I freely admit that in many ways, it's TSTL (Too Stupid to Live).
I liked that one show about the Japanese cop who gets deputed to the UK, to find and track down and bring back his now-not-dead criminal brother. It had some nice parts, but the ending was...odd. The last episode had some beeezar moments.
I'd have to head-scratch and think of what we've tried, what we liked (a pretty short list) and what we didn't. We found a few gems along the way, oddball things that aren't at the top of anyone's charts, but we liked them. Some of the more popular shows have left me pretty cold, but I'm not really huge on the soapy aspects of many of them. Nothing against soap; some folks love that, but it's not really my taste, given my druthers.
Hitch
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I watched the first season of Altered Carbon (your recommendation), the second season is newly released so I'll get to that in the near future. I did enjoy The Black Spot.
Diablero (in the Netherlands) is added and Ragnarok is removed from my list. The Japanese cop I recorded when it was on the BBC, so I need to get to that soon, too.
Have you watched Marianne yet, very freaky and dark.
To be honest what I really want is for Netflix to release the third season of Wynona Earp. I wouldn't call it a guilty pleasure but it's fun in the way I liked Buffy.
I think I might do a film week next week. Those have been piling up for a while now. I still have one film left on my cinema card, so if I feel okay on Monday I might go to Fantasy Island in the morning (my favorite time of the week to go).
Both my TBR and my TBW are hopelessly out of control.
I also want to watch the new Dracula series