TV catchup
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lovingbothCatching up on TV
Modus
BBC4 has just finished series 2, and series 1 is on iPlayer until about the 20th. I recorded that when first broadcast in 2016 and have just got around to watching it.
It needs a huge CW for homophobic violence, but also has some other problems - I'm not entirely convinced about its treatment of at least one character on the spectrum.
For a series about a series of homophobic murders in and around Stockholm, why has no-one in the police even mentioned involving or alerting RFSL, the Swedish LGBT pressure group? Why are so many of the characters seemingly so eager to add themselves to the body count?
What's almost got me stopping watching was something in ep5. It's a couple of days after Christmas. One of the characters gets up about dawn. Hmm, they'll be late for work, I think. Then the main killer is driving in daylight, gets an alert on his mobile* and the time is extremely clearly shown as 7:15am...
WTF? I would have thought that this would get laughed off the screen in Sweden given Stockholm is about the same latitude as the Orkneys and the sun doesn't rise until about 8:45 in midwinter.
Stunning mobile data coverage in the middle of a forest too. No lag or compression artefacts on a full screen video from the US.
(Now up to ep7: finally some glitch in the video streaming, but the plotting is still pants. Unless I'm told s2 is much better it will probably be erased unseen. Interesting how little of the city I recognise - one aerial shot and the metro station - even if it has been seven years since I was there last.)
Handmaid's Tale
Finally finished s1. I think I've complained about the cinematography before, but can anyone tell me the point of ep7?
I would love to have been in the room when it was pitched: 'We've had rather a lot concentrating on the leading woman, so it's time to devote an entire episode to the man she tried to run off with, because what about the menz?'
You could literally cut from the end of ep6 (when she's told he's alive) to the start of ep8 (off to the brothel) and not lose anything. I do not care how Luke got out and it's more dramatically interesting if its unclear whether he did or if she's being lied to.
Requiem
Only a few weeks after most viewers for this :)
Some nice chills, especially around mirrors, but this could have been more than a cross between The Wicker Man and The Prince of Darkness.
Spiral s5
A welcome return to this French detective drama. CW for CSA, racism and more.
* Sweden or the US, everyone uses mobiles while driving in this series.
Modus
BBC4 has just finished series 2, and series 1 is on iPlayer until about the 20th. I recorded that when first broadcast in 2016 and have just got around to watching it.
It needs a huge CW for homophobic violence, but also has some other problems - I'm not entirely convinced about its treatment of at least one character on the spectrum.
For a series about a series of homophobic murders in and around Stockholm, why has no-one in the police even mentioned involving or alerting RFSL, the Swedish LGBT pressure group? Why are so many of the characters seemingly so eager to add themselves to the body count?
What's almost got me stopping watching was something in ep5. It's a couple of days after Christmas. One of the characters gets up about dawn. Hmm, they'll be late for work, I think. Then the main killer is driving in daylight, gets an alert on his mobile* and the time is extremely clearly shown as 7:15am...
WTF? I would have thought that this would get laughed off the screen in Sweden given Stockholm is about the same latitude as the Orkneys and the sun doesn't rise until about 8:45 in midwinter.
Stunning mobile data coverage in the middle of a forest too. No lag or compression artefacts on a full screen video from the US.
(Now up to ep7: finally some glitch in the video streaming, but the plotting is still pants. Unless I'm told s2 is much better it will probably be erased unseen. Interesting how little of the city I recognise - one aerial shot and the metro station - even if it has been seven years since I was there last.)
Handmaid's Tale
Finally finished s1. I think I've complained about the cinematography before, but can anyone tell me the point of ep7?
I would love to have been in the room when it was pitched: 'We've had rather a lot concentrating on the leading woman, so it's time to devote an entire episode to the man she tried to run off with, because what about the menz?'
You could literally cut from the end of ep6 (when she's told he's alive) to the start of ep8 (off to the brothel) and not lose anything. I do not care how Luke got out and it's more dramatically interesting if its unclear whether he did or if she's being lied to.
Requiem
Only a few weeks after most viewers for this :)
Some nice chills, especially around mirrors, but this could have been more than a cross between The Wicker Man and The Prince of Darkness.
Spiral s5
A welcome return to this French detective drama. CW for CSA, racism and more.
* Sweden or the US, everyone uses mobiles while driving in this series.