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TV Series Suggestion Please
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Sorry! I'd suggest sticking with it even if it gets flaky in parts. I nearly gave up about 3 times. Lots of fun and plenty of engaging subplots. The Expanse it ain't, but it is excellent entertainment
I have tried twice to watch this show, some of my friends that I trust their judgement highly recommend it, but I don't seem to be able to get even past the first episode. I'll skip on this one, I'd suggest Mad Men if someone is in the same position as me.
Foundation, also on Apple TV, is rather good - and certainly better.
'House of the Dragon' is not cuttin' it with me (=meh yawn!) but the Missus enjoys it.
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Yes, this is a good one. Just had the end of season 2, but easy to catch up on if someone hasn't seen it.
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Yes, I think it's really slow and none of the characters seem particularly interesting or charismatic; I'm finding it rather dull.
If you think back to the first few episodes of Game of Thrones, we were introduced to the Starks, Theon Greyjoy, Robert Baratheon, Tyrion, Jamie and Cerci Lanister all of which went on to have really good character arcs and were interesting, shocking or amusing right from the outset.
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Agreed. Watched this at my university's film society. It's great and at least 40hrs long.
Late to this thread but not too late: (EDIT: extended, added links, in no particular order)
- Game of Thrones
- Vigil (2021, UK)
- Occupied (Norway, 2 seasons)
- Agent Hamilton (2020, Sweden)
- Two Weeks to live (2020, UK)
- Das Boot (the movie from 1981 in the original German TV version, 6 episodes 45 min each)
- Das Boot (new TV series 2018/2020)
- Thin Ice (2020, Denmark/Iceland/France)
- Millenium Trilogy (2010, Sweden)
- The Heavy Water War / The Saboteurs (2015, Norway/Denmark/UK)
- HPI (2021, France/Belgium)
- Blinded (2019, Sweden)
- The Musketeers (2014, UK)
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Jimster480
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I'm still in the process of watching The Chosen. Takes me a while to finish any series.
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The Rings of Power has begun to shape up - I was a little bit skeptical at first, feeling it fell somewhere between the excellent LOTR and the execrable "Hobbit" but it is beginning to find its story with episode 6 - I see it has a separate thread...
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Well I'm up to date to Episode 7 and I'm feeling the opposite, i.e. just not a great series. At IMDB I gave it a 6/10.
I've been a Tolkien for for over 50 years and, for one thing, I fundamentally object to anything that isn't pure, unadulterated Tolkien. Much of the storylines and plots in RoP are pure invention though they don't necessarily contradict Tolkien's telling of the 2nd Age in the LoTR or its Appendices. So for example, RoP's elevation of Galadriel to commander of the Elvish armies on Middle Earth is concoction possible only because the aforementioned sources are sketchy on Galadriel's activities the 2nd Age. (So for the matter is The Silmarillion.)
Other than that, LoTR: RoP is dramatically unimpressive IMHO. Much better, (though less than superb), is the new House of Dragon series based on G.R.R Martin, which I give 7/10, (to Episode 6 that I've seen).
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