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What's Your Favourite Series Or New Series
I binged Shining Girls on appletv this weekend. One of the few times an adaptation outshone (pun intended!) the source, and the book was good! The show was such a mind screw and just well done in every way. Elisabeth Moss is my hero.
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Nearly finished The Good Doctor
Watching The Staircase
To watch latest SWAT and Blue Bloods and Blacklist
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watching now SWAT, Blue Bloods and FBI
Liked Capture, very good, very clever.
Ridley was okay
Suspect, Quite good
The Inside Man, Very good.
Still have
The Flight Attendant, Killing Eve, The Resort, Peaky Blinders, This England
I finished The Terminal List. Very good. Some great action scenes. (Why would anyone try and piss of a Navy SEAL?) Can't wait for the second season of it and Reacher.
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New Terminal List
New Reacher series.
New White Locust
Yes
A couple to mention from the Brits: Broadchurch, now I guess on season 2. First season was an emotional roller coaster, especially the last episode. And The Fall, with Gilian Anderson as a sexy inspector jousting with a serial killer (Jamie Dornan) in Northern Ireland. Both series are from the 2013-14 time frame.Also worth mentioning is The Cleaning Lady, with novel plotlines and great acting from relative unknowns. Head cleaning lady Thony came to Las Vegas from the Philippines, where she had been a doctor - now she's a cleaning lady mopping up after the mob. Thony (Elodie Young) is a force of nature, fierce and unflinchingly protective of her young son, Luca, who needs medical care available only in the US.
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Still on my sky box
The Flight Attendant
Killing Eve
Bloodlands
One more Ridley
Watching FBI, Blue Bloods and finished latest SWAT
to watch
FBI International and FBI Most Wanted.
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Celebrity . SAS Who Dares Wins
Next week second series of The White Locust
Blue Heron series by Kristen Higgins,Wedding Date series by Mira Lynn Kelly,
Immortal series by Lynsay Sands.
There's so many great books/series out there, sometimes it's hard to pick. But these are a few of my favorites.
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Chateau DIY
Sunday last series 9th series With Dick Strawbridge and his wife, At The Chateau
Just finished watching 'Capture' Season 1 and 2 on BBC I think. Very Good.
I've just started watching The Serpent Queen. So glad to see the great Samantha Morton with a meaty role. (Though not too sure about an Irishman playing a French King.)
Kirsten wrote: "I've just started watching The Serpent Queen. So glad to see the great Samantha Morton with a meaty role. (Though not too sure about an Irishman playing a French King.)"Great actress. If they can have Mel Gibson play a 6' 5" Scottish brute....? Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story, or vehicle for a actor?
I know, right? Though I draw the line at Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher, my imagination is just not that good.
LOVE the Reacher books. Supposed to be a colossus of a man so naturally they pick a dwarf. lol No, really, I think the series has it right now, though i have not seen more than a trailer. He looks the part?
OMG! You have got to watch the show!! The man is huge! Perfect.
It's on my list but i think it's on Prime here and I do not have that :-( I'm reading
at present, have read about 8 and have four TBR's on my bookcase. Thanks.
Yes. It's on Prime. So's Terminal List and it's pretty good. I also liked Gray Man on Netflix.
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Capture was great
Reacher was great.
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Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here
Love Strictly
Taped SAS Rogue Heroes
Did not like and Deleted This England, the Flight Attendant(2nd series)
Loved ! Karen Pirie
Watched on Sky Crime John Wayne Gacy documentary.
Watching FBI International and FBI and taped FBI Most Wanted
Love Death in Paradise - nearly done with Season 4. (Though I think Ben Miller is my favorite detective so far.)
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Started The Crown This afternoon
The Flintstones. Hey, I'm a kid at heart. I also like Three's Company
Designing Women (with Suzanne & Charlene)
Facts of Life
Family Ties
Gowning Pains
Bewitched
Newlywed Game (with Bob Eubanks)
Match Game
I like all the old shows. I don't like reality shows
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The Pact (2nd series)
Enjoying
Bloodlands
Enjoying
Chucky
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Granite Harbour
Nearly finished
FBI
and FBI International
last week of Master chef The Profesionals
The traitors - absolutely genius.Strike - i know, but, it is so good.
Firefly lane - binged last weekend.
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Not watched Strike yet. Didn't know whether to go there or not and I've yet to start season two of Firefly Lane. :)
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Tried first series Strike, gave up so slow
Tried second series, even slower, given up.
Bloodlands was great
The Pact was great
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Hi! New here...Currently watching "Tulsa King" with Sylvester Stallone. Enjoying it.
Also finishing up "The Good Fight" with Christine Baransky. Sort of a spin-off of "The Good Wife."
All-time contemporary favorite is probably "Squid Game."
Not sure if these are all Netflix or Amazon Prime, as I jump back and forth and easily forget.
I've been watching Bad Sisters on Apple TV and I love it! It's the perfect mix of drama, comedy, and thriller!
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The Apprentice
and Dragons Den
Love both of these
Just finished FBI Most Wanted, FBI and FBI International, loved The White Locust.
Tulsa King which I think is good
lynne wrote: "Tulsa King which I think is good"I've also been watching Tulsa King, it is very good
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So watched first episode of Yellowstone
Added a few to my list including Tulsa King.
Love the documentary on BBC 2
Mayfair Hotel Megabuild.... Unbelievable !!
The Apprentice and Dragons Den
The Good Doctor.
I attempted to watch The Expanse when I read the first book in the series, but kept forgetting to come back to it. I restarted over the weekend and am loving it this time! It's different from the book, and I think the death of character in particular was what kept me from watching to begin with. They last a little longer in the show, but I am invested enough in other characters to not mind. I miss them, but that's ok!
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Breakpoint on Netflix
Tennis documentary
"The Cleaning Lady" - tense, great characters, fierce and breakout performance by Elody Young as a Fillipino doctor who has to become a cleaning lady in Las Vegas. Her relationship with a mobster and drug smuggling - all designed to help save her terribly ill son - is a great story of a mother's sacrifice. Woman in jeopardy? You betcha!
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The Light in the Hall (was very good)
and
The Catch and SAS Who dares wins
Watching The Blacklist, from last years
New Chicago Fire. The Apprentice, Dragons Den and Yellowstone
New series of The Rookie, SWAT and Chicago Fire just started
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Enjoy The Pet Hospital on BBC 1 in the morning, tape it.
And The Dog House on Channel 4, in the evening.
Still catching up with The Blacklist, season 9, season 10 will be the last
I watched Kaleidoscope on Netflix over the last week. You're supposed to be able to watch the episodes in any order and still understand the entire story, but I took the easy way out and watched chronologically. I enjoyed it, but there was something odd about the format. There was violence, in some cases almost extreme, but it was also oddly sentimental. It had to be on purpose, and I wonder if I had watched in a different order if the juxtaposition would have been less obvious.
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On Channel Five, last week Desperate Measures, 4 parts, very good.
Gold, on BBC1 , based on a true story, 6 parts, very good.
Better on Channel 4, I think, 6 parts, very good.
Slowly going through Yellowstone and Blacklist
Recently watched "Better" on BBC. If you like crime series, worth a watch. Based on corruption, organised crime operation, drug supply. A pretty good watch!
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of The Blacklist
Now just waiting for the new series to start shortly in the UK
Started in America, the last series.
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Books mentioned in this topic
Bad Luck and Trouble (other topics)Us Against You (other topics)
Completely different, strong story, and a good concept.
Action packed, powerful story, gripping.
Watched all 6 episodes of Sherwood, good story based on fact, fictional story, true base history. Good