What are you watching at the moment

[azabob]

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A few episodes into Why Women Kill on Sbs on Demand. Quiet amusing and quirky. Follows the lives of three married couples in the 1960’s, 1980’s and today. It is cleverly done. If you are after something light it’s not too bad.

Started Mr.Robot on the weekend- only two episodes in and kinda wish I had found it earlier. From memory a couple of woofers may have mentioned it previously. It has Person of Interest vibes which I love.

[1eyedog]

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I'm a couple of episodes in Barbarians. I don't know how historically accurate it is and it's definitely a little cheesy, but I love the German language so I'm enjoying it.

Match made in heaven.

I'll check it out.

[hujsh]

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Finished Watchmen and it was great.

[EasternWest]

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Finished Watchmen and it was great.

It really was.

[SonofScray]

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Ted Lasso was fantastic

[GVGjr]

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Ted Lasso was fantastic

Fully agree, thought it was going to be ultra cheesy and while it was, the story line was strong

[The Underdog]

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Fully agree, thought it was going to be ultra cheesy and while it was, the story line was strong

Not sure I’ll get over how much better that show was than my expectations of it. It was lovely positive joy.

[HOSE B ROMERO]

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Fargo series 4. Not as good as the previous series/movie but still more than worthwhile. Chris Rock and Jason Schwartzman playing opposing gang leaders gives it a quirky edge.

[bulldogtragic]

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Not watching footy this season gave me the opportunity to do something I've wanted to for a while now and that was to watch about a 180 episodes at 45-60 minutes, of David Simon's imagining if the Baltimore Homicide Division across the two series of which his book created.

Firstly, Homicide:Life on the Street (around 1993-1999) then three years later in The Wire (2003-2007). It's the same city, department and detective division only a few years a part. Yet different worlds and shows, although two of the better character driven shows to date. 12 seasons all up of seeing Baltimore, murder, murder police, policing, politics and life from the corners to the morgue through David Simon's eyes.

I forgot how good Homicide is. Just ground breaking in so many ways (the Ep. just the interview in season one is still some of the best ever TV), and even when I knew the big things were coming they stand up as good as ever. Showed the real side of policing, the interpersonal conflict and small things. Watch both series if you want to know what policing is like. Det. John Munch is his best in this series, by far. The casting of extras who Simon clearly had pull with, would be nearly 40-50 characters in The Wire. The last two seasons character after character in Homicide was a future The Wire actor too. It's interesting Homicide from the material has a Homicide Chief who is impeccable and loved by the troops, Lt. Al Gioredello (the real Lt from his book appears in both series). The Wire has the exact opposite arsehole in chief Lt. Bill Rawles. The same with the main lead, both the best 'homicide police', Homicide's Pembleton more tortured yet an individual, to Jimmy McNulty's individual tortured by a many things.

As David Simon got more control of Homicide you see more of the 'corner boy' aspects and more drug crime. Not something that stood out until seeing The Wire. Then reading/seeing interviews with Simon and The Wire actors, I had no idea that NBC had all of his book to work with but couldn't find a way to deliver the story. Example. In Simon's book he recalls a story about police just grunting swear words at each other, and they knew exactly what was being said without the words. Homicide didn't find a way to use it, they didn't have the character to do it any real justice or maybe the balls by the network. Simon has arguably one the best scenes in The Wire, 'The F**k Scene' where Jimmy & Bunk re-canvass a murder scene and uncover the events only simply using variants of the word 'f**k'.

It was a real, real, long haul (and the last season of Homicide when the network sent in the change agent, like Harry Shearer was to Frontline, wasn't great. But forgiving was seeing extras on the screen who would become the future Det Sgt Jay, Bodie Broadus etc was a fun silver lining).

If you're up for a long commitment, and a fan of either show or David Simon, then I can't recommend watching the 12 seasons sequentially highly enough. It helps if its the off season or a season of footy you can't buy into.

[azabob]

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I have read the both books The Corner and Homicide a Year on the killing Streets and loved both.

The Wire is my favourite show by far.

I’ve only seen bits and pieces of Homicide Life on the Street. I reckon I’m gonna give it a crack. Did you watch it on DVD or a streaming service or another format?

[bulldogtragic]

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I have read the both books The Corner and Homicide a Year on the killing Streets and loved both.

The Wire is my favourite show by far.

I’ve only seen bits and pieces of Homicide Life on the Street. I reckon I’m gonna give it a crack. Did you watch it on DVD or a streaming service or another format?

There's apparently no hope that it gets to streaming from what I've read, too many people fighting for royalties to allow it to happen. I bit the bullet after a while and bought a used box set off eBay.

I went into thinking Homicide wouldn't be as good as I remembered, and The Wire would reign supreme. But I've come away with two favourites and Homicide (1-6) with a gun to my head. It was fun then watching The Wire again, with more context around local policing language like 'the box' and 'red ball'. Also realising how many actors took one type of character in one show, and the opposite character in the other. And did brilliantly at both. I thought The Shield & Sons of Anarchy were the first shows to semi-reunite the majority casts. Turns out David Simon did it years earlier than that.

[Twodogs]

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Not watching footy this season gave me the opportunity to do something I've wanted to for a while now and that was to watch about a 180 episodes at 45-60 minutes, of David Simon's imagining if the Baltimore Homicide Division across the two series of which his book created.

Firstly, Homicide:Life on the Street (around 1993-1999) then three years later in The Wire (2003-2007). It's the same city, department and detective division only a few years a part. Yet different worlds and shows, although two of the better character driven shows to date. 12 seasons all up of seeing Baltimore, murder, murder police, policing, politics and life from the corners to the morgue through David Simon's eyes.

I forgot how good Homicide is. Just ground breaking in so many ways (the Ep. just the interview in season one is still some of the best ever TV), and even when I knew the big things were coming they stand up as good as ever. Showed the real side of policing, the interpersonal conflict and small things. Watch both series if you want to know what policing is like. Det. John Munch is his best in this series, by far. The casting of extras who Simon clearly had pull with, would be nearly 40-50 characters in The Wire. The last two seasons character after character in Homicide was a future The Wire actor too. It's interesting Homicide from the material has a Homicide Chief who is impeccable and loved by the troops, Lt. Al Gioredello (the real Lt from his book appears in both series). The Wire has the exact opposite arsehole in chief Lt. Bill Rawles. The same with the main lead, both the best 'homicide police', Homicide's Pembleton more tortured yet an individual, to Jimmy McNulty's individual tortured by a many things.

As David Simon got more control of Homicide you see more of the 'corner boy' aspects and more drug crime. Not something that stood out until seeing The Wire. Then reading/seeing interviews with Simon and The Wire actors, I had no idea that NBC had all of his book to work with but couldn't find a way to deliver the story. Example. In Simon's book he recalls a story about police just grunting swear words at each other, and they knew exactly what was being said without the words. Homicide didn't find a way to use it, they didn't have the character to do it any real justice or maybe the balls by the network. Simon has arguably one the best scenes in The Wire, 'The F**k Scene' where Jimmy & Bunk re-canvass a murder scene and uncover the events only simply using variants of the word 'f**k'.

It was a real, real, long haul (and the last season of Homicide when the network sent in the change agent, like Harry Shearer was to Frontline, wasn't great. But forgiving was seeing extras on the screen who would become the future Det Sgt Jay, Bodie Broadus etc was a fun silver lining).

If you're up for a long commitment, and a fan of either show or David Simon, then I can't recommend watching the 12 seasons sequentially highly enough. It helps if its the off season or a season of footy you can't buy into.

He's walkin'

One of my favourite characters of all time.

[Twodogs]

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There's apparently no hope that it gets to streaming from what I've read, too many people fighting for royalties to allow it to happen. I bit the bullet after a while and bought a used box set off eBay.

I went into thinking Homicide wouldn't be as good as I remembered, and The Wire would reign supreme. But I've come away with two favourites and Homicide (1-6) with a gun to my head. It was fun then watching The Wire again, with more context around local policing language like 'the box' and 'red ball'. Also realising how many actors took one type of character in one show, and the opposite character in the other. And did brilliantly at both. I thought The Shield & Sons of Anarchy were the first shows to semi-reunite the majority casts. Turns out David Simon did it years earlier than that.

I was watching a cop show the other day and the guy who played Lemonhead in the Shield was in it. He looked about 80 and had to chase a suspect in one scene. On one hand I admire him for not using a stand-in but on the other hand it was faintly ridiculous.

[Twodogs]

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I have read the both books The Corner and Homicide a Year on the killing Streets and loved both.

The Wire is my favourite show by far.

I’ve only seen bits and pieces of Homicide Life on the Street. I reckon I’m gonna give it a crack. Did you watch it on DVD or a streaming service or another format?

There's apparently no hope that it gets to streaming from what I've read, too many people fighting for royalties to allow it to happen. I bit the bullet after a while and bought a used box set off eBay.

I went into thinking Homicide wouldn't be as good as I remembered, and The Wire would reign supreme. But I've come away with two favourites and Homicide (1-6) with a gun to my head. It was fun then watching The Wire again, with more context around local policing language like 'the box' and 'red ball'. Also realising how many actors took one type of character in one show, and the opposite character in the other. And did brilliantly at both. I thought The Shield & Sons of Anarchy were the first shows to semi-reunite the majority casts. Turns out David Simon did it years earlier than that.

There are a shedload of episodes of Homicide Life on the Streets available on YouTube.

[jeemak]

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I was watching a cop show the other day and the guy who played Lemonhead in the Shield was in it. He looked about 80 and had to chase a suspect in one scene. On one hand I admire him for not using a stand-in but on the other hand it was faintly ridiculous.

As ridiculous as watching DeNiro bashing someone in The Irishman?