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hawkdon said:
I've been watching a lot of detective type shows, mostly in
the UK and over that-a-way.....one repetitive thing is that
the female detectives almost always are phsycotic as hell!!!
I mean they are flat out crazy, course thats the way that the
thing is written up....they just act out the director/producer
wants......
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What shows are you watching? I'm a fan of British shows as well and I can't say I've noticed that. Maybe we're watching different shows?
 

seadoug said:
We just wrapped up Adolescence on Netflix, which follows the case of a 13 year-old boy who stabs and kills a female classmate. It is not so much a crime drama as it is a commentary on raising children in this day and age. The way his parents were affected had me in tears at the end
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I just finished Adolescence and have the same thoughts as you. The acting was amazing and the one shot direction for each episode kept me engaged at all times.

Before watching Adolescence I watched Dept. Q. I'm going to need to find something light and nonsensical to watch next.
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
I watched a few seasons of that; now I can't remember why I stopped. Sometimes I just get tired of shows.
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That almost happened with me. The first 3 seasons were great, really funny. Season 4 they must have changed writers and it was nowhere near as good. A lot of people bailed out there. I soldiered through and Season 5 got better but still did not compare to the first 3 seasons.
 
MoBeans said:
That almost happened with me. The first 3 seasons were great, really funny. Season 4 they must have changed writers and it was nowhere near as good. A lot of people bailed out there. I soldiered through and Season 5 got better but still did not compare to the first 3 seasons.
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I agree. The first three seasons originally appeared on Fox and ended around 2006 due to poor ratings. Netflix decided to bring back the series 7 years later and it didn't click with me. I have rewatched the first three seasons a few times and still laugh at all the puns and gags.
 
JeeperDon said:
I just finished 'Life' (2007) with Damien Lewis and Sarah Shahi, 32 eps. I was happy to see it end cleanly, no major cliffhanger. Research says it was only canceled because of the Writers Strike back then.
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I really liked Life and was disappointed when it was canceled. It made me really like Damien Lewis and I did like their pairing. At some point, I wouldn't mind watching it again.
@ChiroDoc
 
In preparation and anticipation of the new season of the Bear, coming this month, I'm re-watching the entire 4 seasons. What a great show. They won all kinds of Emmys in the category "Comedy," which I never understood, didn't think it was a comedy. Well, I must've missed lot on the first go-round, bc now I'm LMAO.
 
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MobLand (2025)

Have you ever felt compelled to continue watching a series because you liked the actors, but were relieved when the series ended?

MobLand has no plot, and not much of a story, but it does have a premise: a British crime family clashes with another crime family to eventually determine who will prevail. That’s about it. The one element that holds the entire series together is the existence of the main crime family’s “fixer”, named Harry, perfectly played by Tom Hardy. Most of the scenes feature how this fixer cools hotheads, proposes negotiations, or resorts to violence himself. And there is violence aplenty in every episode, firmly applying the two Gs: gore and gutter language.

The cast is chock full of A-list actors. In addition to Hardy, Pierce Brosnan plays Conrad Harrigan, the family patriarch, Helen Mirren shines as his complicit wife, Paddy Considine as the older son, and Joanne Frogatt (recognizable from her Downton Abbey role) as Harry’s wife.

Outside of the use of the fixer, we vaguely feel that we’ve seen this mob family before. Since 1972’s The Godfather we’ve had a fairly steady supply of crime family movies and series. But usually we have some idea of how that crime family made its money, and how it became dominant. MobLand barely mentions this topic, so we’re left to wonder how Conrad and Maeve Harrigan & family got so powerful. We suspect the drug trade, but was that enough to afford them an enormous estate and mansion outside of London?

However, along with the great cast, the cinematography was first rate. The production used four DPs, the chief of whom was Si Bell, filming four episodes. Guy Ritchie was an executive producer, directing two episodes, although his trademark reputation for film violence seemed to permeate the entire production.

There’s been a lot of chatter about the Irish accents of its two veteran stars, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren. Brosnan did in fact grow up in Ireland, so we’d assume that he’d know which accent to use. Being an American I wouldn’t know one Irish accent from another, but both actor’s accents at time seemed a little off.

But if you like mob stories well acted with plenty of violence and language, this series should touch all the bases.

Doc’s rating: 6/10
 

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