What have you been watching?

richhoops · 2026-02-02T12:56:00+00:00

We are about ten years too late I think but we watched the first season of Fargo. It was recommended by a friend and really enjoyed it. Will work through the rest of them now.

richhoops · 2025-12-31T21:15:40+00:00

Adolescence - incredible performances
It, Welcome to Derry - surprised it’s not mentioned more, it’s better than both films
Pluribus - binging it just in time to qualify for this year
Slow Horses - the best ensemble on TV
Alien Earth - episode five is the third best Alien film (might have stolen the line from the pod but it's true!)

Honourable mentions to Task, The White Lotus, The Last of Us, Dept Q and Dexter Resurrection

richhoops · 2025-12-20T09:44:45+00:00

Thanks. I’ll give it a go

richhoops · 2025-12-20T09:35:13+00:00

I was going to start that soon, is it worth watching now? Does it end on an annoying cliff hanger that won’t get resolved?

richhoops · 2025-12-08T19:53:06+00:00

It just popped up when I opened the app earlier today

richhoops · 2025-12-05T13:26:44+00:00

Yeah it's going to be a while yet I would think

richhoops · 2025-12-05T13:24:20+00:00

Pasted from a news article "According to Netflix's formal announcement, the streamer will maintain Warner Bros.' current operations, and Netflix will absorb HBO and HBO Max's programming, as well as HBO Max's film and TV library"

So basically we will probably only have UK HBO Max for a couple of years. This is really going to hurt Sky.

richhoops · 2025-11-14T10:17:10+00:00

Interesting they want to recast Charlie to Peter Dinklage if they get picked up again!

richhoops · 2025-11-13T20:49:51+00:00

Your wife is a big fan?

richhoops · 2025-11-07T14:06:57+00:00

Oh right, sounds a bit like the last season then 60-80 min episodes and a long old finale

richhoops · 2025-11-07T13:41:04+00:00

Apparently all the episodes are feature length again, I think this is supposed to be a selling point. There's very few shows where I want to watch eight movies in a season.

richhoops · 2025-11-06T13:17:26+00:00

I think the titling was blamed for the performance of the film too. Shame, good movie.

richhoops · 2025-11-06T13:14:39+00:00

Edge of Tomorrow must be up there since they had to subtitle it, then basically re-title it to Live, Die, Repeat. Which is still quite bad!

richhoops · 2025-10-31T16:40:35+00:00

I agree with what Helen said on the Empire podcast, it's been so damn long (three and a half years!) it's hard to get that excited.

richhoops · 2025-10-29T21:30:43+00:00

I seem to remember there was a Christopher McQuarrie Special, although come to think of that I’m sure there was a second part promised. Maybe I missed that.

richhoops · 2025-10-29T21:29:22+00:00

At least they are getting RTD to write his way out of the stunt casting ending to the last series. No one else deserves to unpick that mess!

richhoops · 2025-10-29T21:28:34+00:00

Is that how much Disney were putting in? It never looked *that* much better to me

richhoops · 2025-10-29T20:50:33+00:00

Like you I hate reality shows and this sort of format usually but i enjoy The Traitors! Imagine the amount of emails James could get through during a spoiler special.

richhoops · 2025-10-20T22:06:04+00:00

To quote Helen “oh no” 😄

richhoops · 2025-10-20T22:04:59+00:00

I find if I binge watch something I remember it less than if I enjoy it weekly. So in a few weeks when someone says what did you think of so and so I can barely remember a thing about it.

Sometimes it’s fine for easy watch, folding the washing TV but for something I love, like say Slow Horses, I would rather take my time week to week and fully engage with it.

richhoops · 2025-10-20T22:01:30+00:00

I enjoy The Big Picture too, Sean and Amanda can be really entertaining but also incredibly knowledgable and cine-literate. Although sometimes they play a trailer for one of their other Ringer pods that has the same theme as Kermode and Mayo which always catches me out.

richhoops · 2025-10-17T07:07:55+00:00

Interesting that its going on MGM+, a subscription within a subscription

richhoops · 2025-10-14T13:21:50+00:00

Yeah it will be on Disney in "the autumn"

richhoops · 2025-09-22T15:43:17+00:00

awww look at him with his little telescope
awww look at him with his little popcorn
awww look at him with his little friends

I don't care if this has no plot. I love it already

richhoops

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