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The Crowded Room, on Apple TV+
Loving this. Based on a true story. Hard to sum it up without spoilers, but guy shoots at people in Rockefeller Center, cue legal system.
Emmy Rossum is great, despite keeping her clothes on. Tom Holland acts the shit out of his role, and the Israeli dude from Fauda is in it too.
Highly recommended.
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I liked the Crowded Room also, it was solid and I liked that it was a limited series.
We just finished the final season of The Crown. Oh those wacky royals!
The interesting thing about watching this series over the past few years was that I knew nothing about British Royalty. Like other than being able to name the Queen, Charles and Diana, I had no idea who anyone else was before watching the show. I did not even know how Elizabeth came to power, nor did I know she was married to Dr Who.
So now, my whole perception of them is 100% from that show, accurate or not.
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Started watching Blue Eyed Samurai after reading what you said about it. Only the first 10 minutes of episode one, but holy crap…
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One of the best shows of all time, don’t @ me.
Been meaning to rewatch it but haven’t had time. Keep trying to convince the wife to watch, but it’s “too violent.” (Opinion based on her seeing the one scene where they put the tire on the guy and light him on fire)
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TBF I think she’ll find scenes of Keri Russell kicking the shit out of people cathartic.
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She will love the scene where they Tetris a body into a duffle bag…
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I’ll @ you to say that I totally agree!!!
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City on Fire, on Apple TV+. 8 episodes, single season with no need for a second.
Decently done murder mystery with NYC circa 2003 as a starring character. Also has that blonde from Girls and some vaguely recognizable guy I can’t place, as well as the bad guy from the Fifth Element who, in what will not be a surprise at all, is also a bad guy.
Plot was relatively predictable with some minor twists thrown in for good measure; nothing that will make you say whoa.
I think what struck me was that this was perhaps one of the first things I’ve seen where the characters wear their 9/11 traumas openly, and it struck me strangely that it’s in a TV show. I guess we’re at the point where it’s history, but… there’s a scene where one character asks another if she remembers where she was when the towers came down, she answers, and he replies something to the fact of that for him it will always be yesterday. Gut punch, and locked the series in right there for me.
Predictable plot but well acted for most of it, good music, and worth it for scenes of the City twenty years ago.
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True Detective S4. Jodie Foster is an (amazing) known quantity, and playing to her strengths here as a precise cop, but Kali Reis is a great surprise, bringing some real acting and a solid amount of physicality to the role (she’s a boxer?!). Good start, single writer/director hopefully means a tight, coherent series. Looks great.
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Thought the same. Creepy af so far too, def a daytime watch lol.
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Overkill might just be my favourite thing about The Tick, on rewatch. Just fantastic.
Additional note:
Literally regressing. No Fuckin’ Thanks.
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Only one data point, but we watched the first episode of Mr. & Mrs. Smith on Prime last night. One 20-second ad at the beginning of the hour-long episode and that was it.
Not sure if that’s the show itself, just that episode, or what.
But if that’s the norm, I can put up with a 20-second ad at the beginning of an episode rather than pay $2.99/month for it.
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Mysteriously all the streamers seem to be doing this at once. I got an email from the local streamer that has HBO, and now the rest are following suit. No thanks
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I’ll second that. I was ticked when I heard about the shift to ads but so far on Prime they are unobtrusive. Sometimes I don’t even get an ad. Nothing in the middle of the shows. That’s is where I’ll draw the line and really riot.
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I paid the $2.99. I hate ads that much.
(which is ironic as I run an ad team, and spend on programmatic CTV)
Problem is, Amazon Prime dabbled in this model for a time, it is called FreeVee it has an annoying splash and LAST year it was 3 spots ~ 30 seconds, and now its 5/6 interrupts with 2 spots around a minute total for one TV episode.
So they had started a free with ads model, ramped it up, migrated the lesser evil version over the main service to squeeze the 2,99 (or ads), and now they should miraculously stop? No way Joe!
The “unobtrusive” version right now is just the beginning of sniffing out what they can AGAIN get away with (while furiously taking notes on what the competition is doing now as well).
I predict the Hellscape FreeVee Model being migrated over to prime…prime in a couple of months.
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@Private_Prinny is dead-on about this. Amazon already knows this works. They get you used to ads, then up the frequency over time. Their wished-for model is not “let’s make resentful customers pay an extra $3 per month,” it’s “let’s make ad revenue money forever” because that’s a great deal easier and more lucrative. All of them will eventually go this way. In a matter of months or years, it will be back to a pirate’s life for me… It’s remarkable how rapidly streaming has hung itself.
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If anyone needs anything, you should PM me. I have zero tolerance for ads. If you want access to something, I am happy to provide.
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