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After watching midnight mass I decided to go on a little Mike Flanagan sesh. Just finished watching the Haunting of Bly Manor after watching the Haunting of Hill House. I can highly recommend then all. If anything the scale of his ambition isn’t quite realised but only because he tries to take on so much. I found each series engrossing and moving. The only other thing I could compare his stuff to is Dark which I also loved. Hill House is probably the best mainly due to the dodgy accents in Bly Manor. Neither are straight horror so don’t be put off. If you like things that make you think and are emotionally involving then his stuff is for you.

PS brace yourself for the accents in Bly Manor. It’s worth overcoming it and persevering. What he was thinking though I have no idea.
 
random said:
Just watched the first couple of episodes of Squid Game

Seems like a bit of a rip off of the anime Kaiji Ultimate Survivor tbh
Kaiji Itou is a good-for-nothing loiterer who spends his days drinking beer and stealing hubcaps-that is, until he ends up being tricked by his former co-worker. Unable to suddenly repay his friend's huge debt all by himself, Kaiji is offered a shady deal to participate in an illegal underground gamble on a cruise ship. This turns out to be nothing more than the beginning of his new life of hell-thrown headlong into a life-threatening roller coaster of mind games, cheating, and deceit

Will keep at it and see how things progress
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There’s similarities to Battle Royale as well. The Japanese and Koreans obs love this type of thing. At first I really loved Squid Game but on reflection I didn’t think it quite pulled it off. Came close though it’s a great watch. All Korean stuff has a similar fee to it I find and I love it. Kingdom still the greatest though. Watched it all twice and can’t say that about many other series if any.
 
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If there's any aspiring screen writers out there I'd advise you watch this show, in fact study it in some depth.
Its an impressive achievement indeed, its a brilliant example of how to get almost everything wrong and produce a truly dreadful TV series.

Let's start with the good stuff, the CGI and set designs are mostly excellent, its actually quite beautiful at times.

Now the bad - everything else. The basic plot is a paper thin alien invasion story that they try to jazz up with fast talking pop science. Its like Childhoods End written by Ben Shapiro.
The script is incredulous, lurching from one ludicrous idea to another at an insane pace to cover up the fact that none of it makes a lick of sense. Nothing is properly setup, so as a result there's never any payoff.

The characters... my god.... LOOK HOW DIVERSE OUR CAST IS!!! DIVERSITY IN EVERY SCENE!!! AMAZING BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER DIVERSITY IN SCI FI BEFORE WE CAME ALONG....Yeah great, I mean diversity is a good thing of course and right and indeed ripe for exploration, but it should feel organically part of the show, not just thrown at the screen for the sake of it. And whatever the ethnicity, gender, sexuality of your characters 'KIN WRITE THEM!!! Its no good having a diverse cast if they're all barely existent as people, there's no depth to any of them. And what's more I'd buy your intent if the show wasn't led by a straight, married with kid, blonde 'murican heroine with a white hipster science guy husband. Speaking of him, what a weapon. Crap actor, awful character - proper whiny, selfish angry little turd. Oh and actually, you needn't worry about any characters you don't like anyway; chances are they'll get killed off and another irritating little twerp is conveniently woken from stasis to replace them. Its like they were still casting it as they were filming the 'kin thing.


The direction is scattergun with the tone shifting massively from one show to the next, editing is like a strobe light, soundtrack is bog standard space ambient, apart from the end of each show which they close with some toe-curling landfill US indie band or singer.

If you want a taste of how woeful it is, try S1 episode 8, where, as the result of a crew member under alien mind control spiking a salad with psychotropics, the commander orders the ships AI to simulate a rave combining multiple eras of club culture, so they can dance off the high..... yeah, someone wrote that, and someone else filmed it and put it on the telly.

Rips off everything and achieves nothing. Worst show I've ever seen.

On Netflix.
 

ste d' indica said:
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If there's any aspiring screen writers out there I'd advise you watch this show, in fact study it in some depth.
Its an impressive achievement indeed, its a brilliant example of how to get almost everything wrong and produce a truly dreadful TV series.

Let's start with the good stuff, the CGI and set designs are mostly excellent, its actually quite beautiful at times.

Now the bad - everything else. The basic plot is a paper thin alien invasion story that they try to jazz up with fast talking pop science. Its like Childhoods End written by Ben Shapiro.
The script is incredulous, lurching from one ludicrous idea to another at an insane pace to cover up the fact that none of it makes a lick of sense. Nothing is properly setup, so as a result there's never any payoff.

The characters... my god.... LOOK HOW DIVERSE OUR CAST IS!!! DIVERSITY IN EVERY SCENE!!! AMAZING BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER DIVERSITY IN SCI FI BEFORE WE CAME ALONG....Yeah great, I mean diversity is a good thing of course and right and indeed ripe for exploration, but it should feel organically part of the show, not just thrown at the screen for the sake of it. And whatever the ethnicity, gender, sexuality of your characters 'KIN WRITE THEM!!! Its no good having a diverse cast if they're all barely existent as people, there's no depth to any of them. And what's more I'd buy your intent if the show wasn't led by a straight, married with kid, blonde 'murican heroine with a white hipster science guy husband. Speaking of him, what a weapon. Crap actor, awful character - proper whiny, selfish angry little turd. Oh and actually, you needn't worry about any characters you don't like anyway; chances are they'll get killed off and another irritating little twerp is conveniently woken from stasis to replace them. Its like they were still casting it as they were filming the 'kin thing.


The direction is scattergun with the tone shifting massively from one show to the next, editing is like a strobe light, soundtrack is bog standard space ambient, apart from the end of each show which they close with some toe-curling landfill US indie band or singer.

If you want a taste of how woeful it is, try S1 episode 8, where, as the result of a crew member under alien mind control spiking a salad with psychotropics, the commander orders the ships AI to simulate a rave combining multiple eras of club culture, so they can dance off the high..... yeah, someone wrote that, and someone else filmed it and put it on the telly.

Rips off everything and achieves nothing. Worst show I've ever seen.

On Netflix.
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Oh look, Katee Sackhoff in a sci-fi series, how original.
 
ste d' indica said:
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If there's any aspiring screen writers out there I'd advise you watch this show, in fact study it in some depth.
Its an impressive achievement indeed, its a brilliant example of how to get almost everything wrong and produce a truly dreadful TV series.

Let's start with the good stuff, the CGI and set designs are mostly excellent, its actually quite beautiful at times.

Now the bad - everything else. The basic plot is a paper thin alien invasion story that they try to jazz up with fast talking pop science. Its like Childhoods End written by Ben Shapiro.
The script is incredulous, lurching from one ludicrous idea to another at an insane pace to cover up the fact that none of it makes a lick of sense. Nothing is properly setup, so as a result there's never any payoff.

The characters... my god.... LOOK HOW DIVERSE OUR CAST IS!!! DIVERSITY IN EVERY SCENE!!! AMAZING BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER DIVERSITY IN SCI FI BEFORE WE CAME ALONG....Yeah great, I mean diversity is a good thing of course and right and indeed ripe for exploration, but it should feel organically part of the show, not just thrown at the screen for the sake of it. And whatever the ethnicity, gender, sexuality of your characters 'KIN WRITE THEM!!! Its no good having a diverse cast if they're all barely existent as people, there's no depth to any of them. And what's more I'd buy your intent if the show wasn't led by a straight, married with kid, blonde 'murican heroine with a white hipster science guy husband. Speaking of him, what a weapon. Crap actor, awful character - proper whiny, selfish angry little turd. Oh and actually, you needn't worry about any characters you don't like anyway; chances are they'll get killed off and another irritating little twerp is conveniently woken from stasis to replace them. Its like they were still casting it as they were filming the 'kin thing.


The direction is scattergun with the tone shifting massively from one show to the next, editing is like a strobe light, soundtrack is bog standard space ambient, apart from the end of each show which they close with some toe-curling landfill US indie band or singer.

If you want a taste of how woeful it is, try S1 episode 8, where, as the result of a crew member under alien mind control spiking a salad with psychotropics, the commander orders the ships AI to simulate a rave combining multiple eras of club culture, so they can dance off the high..... yeah, someone wrote that, and someone else filmed it and put it on the telly.

Rips off everything and achieves nothing. Worst show I've ever seen.

On Netflix.
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Tempted to watch it to see if it beats 'Ringer' (my worst show I have ever seen)
 
ste d' indica said:
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If there's any aspiring screen writers out there I'd advise you watch this show, in fact study it in some depth.
Its an impressive achievement indeed, its a brilliant example of how to get almost everything wrong and produce a truly dreadful TV series.

Let's start with the good stuff, the CGI and set designs are mostly excellent, its actually quite beautiful at times.

Now the bad - everything else. The basic plot is a paper thin alien invasion story that they try to jazz up with fast talking pop science. Its like Childhoods End written by Ben Shapiro.
The script is incredulous, lurching from one ludicrous idea to another at an insane pace to cover up the fact that none of it makes a lick of sense. Nothing is properly setup, so as a result there's never any payoff.

The characters... my god.... LOOK HOW DIVERSE OUR CAST IS!!! DIVERSITY IN EVERY SCENE!!! AMAZING BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER DIVERSITY IN SCI FI BEFORE WE CAME ALONG....Yeah great, I mean diversity is a good thing of course and right and indeed ripe for exploration, but it should feel organically part of the show, not just thrown at the screen for the sake of it. And whatever the ethnicity, gender, sexuality of your characters 'KIN WRITE THEM!!! Its no good having a diverse cast if they're all barely existent as people, there's no depth to any of them. And what's more I'd buy your intent if the show wasn't led by a straight, married with kid, blonde 'murican heroine with a white hipster science guy husband. Speaking of him, what a weapon. Crap actor, awful character - proper whiny, selfish angry little turd. Oh and actually, you needn't worry about any characters you don't like anyway; chances are they'll get killed off and another irritating little twerp is conveniently woken from stasis to replace them. Its like they were still casting it as they were filming the 'kin thing.


The direction is scattergun with the tone shifting massively from one show to the next, editing is like a strobe light, soundtrack is bog standard space ambient, apart from the end of each show which they close with some toe-curling landfill US indie band or singer.

If you want a taste of how woeful it is, try S1 episode 8, where, as the result of a crew member under alien mind control spiking a salad with psychotropics, the commander orders the ships AI to simulate a rave combining multiple eras of club culture, so they can dance off the high..... yeah, someone wrote that, and someone else filmed it and put it on the telly.

Rips off everything and achieves nothing. Worst show I've ever seen.

On Netflix.
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As a bit of light entertainment I thought it was ok. Agree about a lot of what you say though but i didn't take it too seriously.
 
ste d' indica said:
View attachment 143614


If there's any aspiring screen writers out there I'd advise you watch this show, in fact study it in some depth.
Its an impressive achievement indeed, its a brilliant example of how to get almost everything wrong and produce a truly dreadful TV series.

Let's start with the good stuff, the CGI and set designs are mostly excellent, its actually quite beautiful at times.

Now the bad - everything else. The basic plot is a paper thin alien invasion story that they try to jazz up with fast talking pop science. Its like Childhoods End written by Ben Shapiro.
The script is incredulous, lurching from one ludicrous idea to another at an insane pace to cover up the fact that none of it makes a lick of sense. Nothing is properly setup, so as a result there's never any payoff.

The characters... my god.... LOOK HOW DIVERSE OUR CAST IS!!! DIVERSITY IN EVERY SCENE!!! AMAZING BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER DIVERSITY IN SCI FI BEFORE WE CAME ALONG....Yeah great, I mean diversity is a good thing of course and right and indeed ripe for exploration, but it should feel organically part of the show, not just thrown at the screen for the sake of it. And whatever the ethnicity, gender, sexuality of your characters 'KIN WRITE THEM!!! Its no good having a diverse cast if they're all barely existent as people, there's no depth to any of them. And what's more I'd buy your intent if the show wasn't led by a straight, married with kid, blonde 'murican heroine with a white hipster science guy husband. Speaking of him, what a weapon. Crap actor, awful character - proper whiny, selfish angry little turd. Oh and actually, you needn't worry about any characters you don't like anyway; chances are they'll get killed off and another irritating little twerp is conveniently woken from stasis to replace them. Its like they were still casting it as they were filming the 'kin thing.


The direction is scattergun with the tone shifting massively from one show to the next, editing is like a strobe light, soundtrack is bog standard space ambient, apart from the end of each show which they close with some toe-curling landfill US indie band or singer.

If you want a taste of how woeful it is, try S1 episode 8, where, as the result of a crew member under alien mind control spiking a salad with psychotropics, the commander orders the ships AI to simulate a rave combining multiple eras of club culture, so they can dance off the high..... yeah, someone wrote that, and someone else filmed it and put it on the telly.

Rips off everything and achieves nothing. Worst show I've ever seen.

On Netflix.
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OMG I need to watch this.
 

ste d' indica said:
View attachment 143614


If there's any aspiring screen writers out there I'd advise you watch this show, in fact study it in some depth.
Its an impressive achievement indeed, its a brilliant example of how to get almost everything wrong and produce a truly dreadful TV series.

Let's start with the good stuff, the CGI and set designs are mostly excellent, its actually quite beautiful at times.

Now the bad - everything else. The basic plot is a paper thin alien invasion story that they try to jazz up with fast talking pop science. Its like Childhoods End written by Ben Shapiro.
The script is incredulous, lurching from one ludicrous idea to another at an insane pace to cover up the fact that none of it makes a lick of sense. Nothing is properly setup, so as a result there's never any payoff.

The characters... my god.... LOOK HOW DIVERSE OUR CAST IS!!! DIVERSITY IN EVERY SCENE!!! AMAZING BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER DIVERSITY IN SCI FI BEFORE WE CAME ALONG....Yeah great, I mean diversity is a good thing of course and right and indeed ripe for exploration, but it should feel organically part of the show, not just thrown at the screen for the sake of it. And whatever the ethnicity, gender, sexuality of your characters 'KIN WRITE THEM!!! Its no good having a diverse cast if they're all barely existent as people, there's no depth to any of them. And what's more I'd buy your intent if the show wasn't led by a straight, married with kid, blonde 'murican heroine with a white hipster science guy husband. Speaking of him, what a weapon. Crap actor, awful character - proper whiny, selfish angry little turd. Oh and actually, you needn't worry about any characters you don't like anyway; chances are they'll get killed off and another irritating little twerp is conveniently woken from stasis to replace them. Its like they were still casting it as they were filming the 'kin thing.


The direction is scattergun with the tone shifting massively from one show to the next, editing is like a strobe light, soundtrack is bog standard space ambient, apart from the end of each show which they close with some toe-curling landfill US indie band or singer.

If you want a taste of how woeful it is, try S1 episode 8, where, as the result of a crew member under alien mind control spiking a salad with psychotropics, the commander orders the ships AI to simulate a rave combining multiple eras of club culture, so they can dance off the high..... yeah, someone wrote that, and someone else filmed it and put it on the telly.

Rips off everything and achieves nothing. Worst show I've ever seen.

On Netflix.
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I was recently recommended this as the person "could not recommend it highly enough". I guess if you're the kind of person who can switch off and just consume, rather than critique or judge, it might be a fun watch?
That said, the reviews elsewhere are so bad that I'm wary of wasting my time on it.
 

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