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poohbear_nc · 08-21-2022, 10:44 AM

Waiting for House of the Dragon premiere!

DiapDealer · 08-21-2022, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by cc_in_oh

Finished the 3 seasons of the original Professor T on PBS. Great show but probably not for everyone. Ready for something lighter, maybe S2 of Queens of Mystery...

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Originally Posted by Hitch

I wonder if I can find that somewhere else? I'm not wild about PBS editing my shows and choosing what I can/can't see.

I'll look into it, thanks.

No one though to mention the words "Ben Miller"

Yes. Please!

cc_in_oh · 08-21-2022, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

No one though to mention the words "Ben Miller"

Yes. Please!

Different show...

DiapDealer · 08-21-2022, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by cc_in_oh

Different show...

Ahhh... I just noticed the word "original" in your post. My mistake. I'm still very much enjoying the Ben Miller version of Professor T I've started.

cc_in_oh · 08-21-2022, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Ahhh... I just noticed the word "original" in your post. My mistake. I'm still very much enjoying the Ben Miller version of Professor T I've started.

I have that on my list but only 3 weeks left on my 99 cent sub - maybe next time around.

Rumpelteazer · 08-22-2022, 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

Bonus episodes are animated. That's a no go for me.

Only the first of the two stories is animated and only lasts about 16 minutes.

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Waiting for House of the Dragon premiere!

My sister and I have decided that we're going to wait until our vacation in three weeks before starting with HotD. I'm not sure if that was wise; we'll be spending the next three weeks avoiding spoilers. We're also saving The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power for our vacation.

Last night I thought I would be starting with the third season of Locke & Key, but it turns out I only watch up until the first episode of season two, and I've mostly forgotten what that was about. So I'm having some catching up to do.

Rumpelteazer · 08-22-2022, 05:46 PM

For the first time in two and a half years I went to the cinema. I went to see Nope and thoroughly enjoyed it. The last movie I saw in the cinema was Richard Jewell, which was just before the shutdown in February 2020.

It was difficult to pick which movie I wanted to see, but I saw that Michael Wincott was in Nope, so that sealed the deal for me. He plays in so many 90s movies I like or love. However, in my mind he also plays one of the Paris vampires in Interview with a Vampire. But he doesn't. I was so certain I watched IwaV tonight to see if he might have been in an uncredited role, but he wasn't. He would have been a great vampire though.

Of course, this also means I have to watch Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Three Musketeers again.

Hitch · 08-22-2022, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

For the first time in two and a half years I went to the cinema. I went to see Nope and thoroughly enjoyed it. The last movie I saw in the cinema was Richard Jewell, which was just before the shutdown in February 2020.

It was difficult to pick which movie I wanted to see, but I saw that Michael Wincott was in Nope, so that sealed the deal for me. He plays in so many 90s movies I like or love. However, in my mind he also plays one of the Paris vampires in Interview with a Vampire. But he doesn't. I was so certain I watched IwaV tonight to see if he might have been in an uncredited role, but he wasn't. He would have been a great vampire though.

Of course, this also means I have to watch Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Three Musketeers again.

I think you may be thinking of Thomas Ian Griffith in Carpenter's Vampires. :-) I can sometimes confuse the two, when I think back on 80's-90's movies. Or his brother, Jeff. Although I don't have immediate recall of him as a vamp. Those are some workin' dudes.

Hitch

Rumpelteazer · 08-23-2022, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Hitch

I think you may be thinking of Thomas Ian Griffith in Carpenter's Vampires. :-) I can sometimes confuse the two, when I think back on 80's-90's movies. Or his brother, Jeff. Although I don't have immediate recall of him as a vamp. Those are some workin' dudes.

Hitch

I don't think I've seen Carpenter's Vampires (though it's now been added to my to watch list).

I also didn't know that Michael Wincott had a brother, though looking at Jeff's credits I must have seen him in a lot of things.

Today's the day I'm going to start pestering my sister for her movie list for our vacation; I don't want to watch something that she wanted us to watch together.

timebug · 08-23-2022, 04:21 AM

Just gave episode one of 'Banshee' a go as my son suggested I may like it.I didn't.

cc_in_oh · 08-23-2022, 10:44 AM

We watched Chelsea Detective which was OK. Now we're halfway through a German show, 23 Cases, which has an interesting premise - a man is convicted after confessing to 23 murders. The detective later accidentally learns that he couldn't possibly have committed one of them. That case is reopened and the convict's aid is sought to solve it. Together they find connections to several other of the 23, casting doubt that the convict committed any of those and possibly others that he confessed to. What makes it interesting is that the convict doesn't want absolution, but can't resist the challenge to match wits with the police and with the other suspects who surface in the investigation.

Hitch · 08-23-2022, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by timebug

Just gave episode one of 'Banshee' a go as my son suggested I may like it.I didn't.

Yeaaaahhhh, it does get "better," (more polished, I guess I'd say) but...it wasn't my fave by far. We tried it and watched it, on/off for a while. There is far better, although increasingly, to my way of thinking, "better" is harder to find. :-)

In re: Chelsea Detective: it was okay. I mean, again, it was the sort of thing that I can watch without paying enormous attention. :-) It didn't annoy me, which is a good thing, lol.

Hitch

cc_in_oh · 08-23-2022, 01:35 PM

I'd have to rate Banshee as one of the better shows I've seen in the Amish-farmer-turned-crime-boss genre...

Hitch · 08-23-2022, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by cc_in_oh

I'd have to rate Banshee as one of the better shows I've seen in the Amish-farmer-turned-crime-boss genre...

Now, THAT is funny.

Hitch

issybird · 08-23-2022, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Hitch

I was reasonably okay with the first few seasons of Grantchester. When Sydney left, though, under what I thought was a laughable pretense (for the show, I mean), I gave up.

I watched about 20 minutes of the first episode last night and got bored, but I shall persevere. That’s not the death knell; I frequently split a Father Brown over two nights and they’re only 45 minutes each.

But what was amazing to me that I’d forgotten was how very much the actor who played Sydney looked like Rupert Brooke. Separated at birth level. And it surely was intentional, as one of Brooke’s most famous poems was The Old Vicarage, Grantchester.

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poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 64,226 Karma: 135242149 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Waiting for House of the Dragon premiere!

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Rumpelteazer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,401 Karma: 27919658 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	For the first time in two and a half years I went to the cinema. I went to see Nope and thoroughly enjoyed it. The last movie I saw in the cinema was Richard Jewell, which was just before the shutdown in February 2020. It was difficult to pick which movie I wanted to see, but I saw that Michael Wincott was in Nope, so that sealed the deal for me. He plays in so many 90s movies I like or love. However, in my mind he also plays one of the Paris vampires in Interview with a Vampire. But he doesn't. I was so certain I watched IwaV tonight to see if he might have been in an uncredited role, but he wasn't. He would have been a great vampire though. Of course, this also means I have to watch Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Three Musketeers again.

08-23-2022, 04:21 AM	#550
timebug Ancient Sage Posts: 14,585 Karma: 15493448 Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Derby U.K. Device: Kobo Reader	Just gave episode one of 'Banshee' a go as my son suggested I may like it.I didn't.

08-23-2022, 10:44 AM	#551
cc_in_oh Bob's my uncle Posts: 990 Karma: 17073086 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: NE OH Device: Kindle	We watched Chelsea Detective which was OK. Now we're halfway through a German show, 23 Cases, which has an interesting premise - a man is convicted after confessing to 23 murders. The detective later accidentally learns that he couldn't possibly have committed one of them. That case is reopened and the convict's aid is sought to solve it. Together they find connections to several other of the 23, casting doubt that the convict committed any of those and possibly others that he confessed to. What makes it interesting is that the convict doesn't want absolution, but can't resist the challenge to match wits with the police and with the other suspects who surface in the investigation.

08-23-2022, 01:35 PM	#553
cc_in_oh Bob's my uncle Posts: 990 Karma: 17073086 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: NE OH Device: Kindle	I'd have to rate Banshee as one of the better shows I've seen in the Amish-farmer-turned-crime-boss genre...