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Showing posts with label Season 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Season 2. Show all posts
Friday, 22 March 2019

"Kingdom" 2019 Best series on Netflix at the moment?

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Think an Oriental "Game of Thrones" meets "The Walking Dead". With sumptuous production design, sweeping cinematogra...
Saturday, 29 July 2017

"Top of the Lake: China Girl" Review

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The first season back in 2013 was a muddled masterpiece - great cast and atmospheric New Zealand locales. Jane Campion's Sydney-based op...
Friday, 2 September 2016

Amazing cinematography in "Mr Robot" Season 2, Episode 9

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 Sam Esmail's series has always been visually stunning with inventive framing and compositions. This week was no exception. The shot wi...
Thursday, 25 August 2016

Five things I learned from "Mr Robot" Season 2, Episode 8

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The show is still great without Malek and Slater (but I am missing B D Wong as White Rose and that cute Scandi couple, the wacky Wellicks)...
Friday, 19 August 2016

"Mr Robot" Season 2, Episode 7 highlights

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Joanna's colour motif is definitely stark white and scarlet. Sam Esmail playing with the audience (Elliot's prison switcheroo) ...
Thursday, 11 August 2016

"Mr Robot" Season 2, Episode 6, review

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Despite "The Guardian" TV critic's theory about the demise of second seasons of critically acclaimed shows*, this episode prov...
Friday, 5 August 2016

5 Things I liked about "Mr Robot" Season 2, Episode 5

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Elliot's recount of his hacking of the public library at 11 years old. B.D. Wong (TV's go-to actor for Asian supervillains, see H...
Friday, 29 July 2016

5 things I liked about "Mr Robot" Season 2, Episode 4.

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"The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeois" low budget slasher flick. The masterful use of Gustav Holst's "The Planets...
Friday, 22 July 2016

5 things I liked about "Mr Robot" Season 2, Episode 3

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Jerome's Coney Island back story Eclectic music choice - Dusty Springfield, Willie Nelson Phillip Price's occasional channelling...
Friday, 15 July 2016

5 things I liked about "Mr Robot" Season 2, Episode 2

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Ray's basketball court philosophizing. What does this dude want? Danish actor Stephanie Corneliussen (Joanna-Lady Macbeth-Wellick) re...
Tuesday, 12 July 2016

5 things I liked about "Mr Robot" Season 2, Episode 1

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The cleverly edited Obama TV speech. Elliot's Seinfeld-spouting buddy, Leon (Joey Bada$$ - great name for a rapper) The elegant fram...
Friday, 15 May 2015

The best bits of "Penny Dreadful" Season 2

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So pleased that the second series has maintained the standard of the first. Just as beautifully produced, acted and scripted. It's witty...
Monday, 29 September 2014

"Plebs" Season 2, ITV2, review

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The boys are back. It's puerile but irresistible. It's "The Inbetweeners" meets "Up Pompeii". The Roman sets are...
Wednesday, 16 July 2014

"Ray Donovan" Season 2 Better than ever? F**k yeah.

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You think you had a bad day? Spare a thought for our hero (anti-hero): In the first episode: a buried-alive nightmare, angry early morning...

"Masters of Sex" Season 2, Showtime

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It is reassuring to see that this show is just as engrossing as the first season. Complex 'grey' characters (e.g. the selfish, hardl...
Monday, 30 June 2014

"Penny Dreadful" Season 1, Episode 8, "Grand Guignol", Season 2, Episode 1, "Fresh Hell"

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"Do you really want to be normal?" the man of God asks Vanessa in the final scene. She then thinks long and hard about it. Roll cr...
Sunday, 1 June 2014

Has "Da Vinci's Demons" run out of puff? Season 2 finale, Episode 10

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Season 2 of "Da Vinci's Demons" has been all over the shop. Running half way around the world in search of The Book of Leaves,...
Monday, 7 April 2014

Things I like about "Da Vinci's Demons" Season 2

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Leonardo doing a credible Risario impersonation in Episode 3, complete with his signature camp sunglasses (though the wrong shape) The Po...
Monday, 24 March 2014

"Da Vinci's Demons" Season 2 Episode 1

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I've missed this rollicking silliness. The over the top flash forward in South America (complete with Las Vegas showgirl costumes and go...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014

"Bates Motel" Season 2, Episode 10, Episode 3, A&E, spoilers Episode 4, Episode 5

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I swore I wasn't going to watch this soapy stuff anymore... but the Faye Dunaway-style "Chinatown" revelation was a ripper (he...