Streamed TV

[Rebel Pebble]

I’m not sure where it’s streaming in the UK, but I’m watching The Franchise which is made by HBO and I love it. It’s based on the set of a Marvel-esque movie.

We've been watching that and really enjoying it.

I asked Mr R how exaggerated it was* and he said really not that much. The only two things he thought were slightly OTT/hard to believe were how insecure the lead is and the attitude/career pushiness level of the 3rd AD.

*as in the dynamics on a major studio film set in general - he hasn't done Marvel. :))

[sally maclennane]

I’m not sure where it’s streaming in the UK, but I’m watching The Franchise which is made by HBO and I love it. It’s based on the set of a Marvel-esque movie.

This is on Sky here. Marina Hyde was one of the writers on it, she talked about it on the Rest is Entertainment podcast.

[Pippedydeadeye]

I’m not sure where it’s streaming in the UK, but I’m watching The Franchise which is made by HBO and I love it. It’s based on the set of a Marvel-esque movie.

It’s on Sky. I’ve watched the first few with Chunk and we need to finish it. Marina Hyde is on the writing team and has talked about it a lot on her podcast with Richard Osman.

[sally maclennane]

Pip has me on ignore :cry:

[Estrella]

I’m not sure where it’s streaming in the UK, but I’m watching The Franchise which is made by HBO and I love it. It’s based on the set of a Marvel-esque movie.

We've been watching that and really enjoying it.

I asked Mr R how exaggerated it was* and he said really not that much. The only two things he thought were slightly OTT/hard to believe were how insecure the lead is and the attitude/career pushiness level of the 3rd AD.

*as in the dynamics on a major studio film set in general - he hasn't done Marvel. :))

This is super interesting insider validation!

I haven’t listened to that podcast, but I will now, thanks Pip and Sal.

[Luna]

We’ve started watching Skeleton Crew - the new StarWars series. It’s ok.

[Estrella]

I’ve not watched that, Luna but MrE is loving it.

Thanks to the podcast rec up there I’ve been listening to it and have now watched the first ep of Game of Throws which is good.

[sally maclennane]

I’ve not watched that, Luna but MrE is loving it.

Thanks to the podcast rec up there I’ve been listening to it and have now watched the first ep of Game of Throws which is good.

I love that podcast, it makes me laugh out loud at times. I keep meaning to start Game of Throws so i might do that over the weekend.

[Estrella]

It’s such a good podcast!

[sally maclennane]

It is, although I thought I'd love MH more than I do, I find her a bit too snarky at times.

[Pippedydeadeye]

She can be weirdly clipped sounding and they both ~splain at each other.

[sally maclennane]

She's uber posh, isn't she? She's got the kind of voice that's perfect for barking orders at servants :lol:

[Pippedydeadeye]

I usually listen to podcasts at 1.25x but I can’t with her.

[Luna]

Virgin River is back next week. Feels longer than a year since the last episode.

New episode of Skeleton crew tonight.

[Estrella]

I’m almost done with Black Doves. If you suspend any belief it’s pretty watchable. They obviously threw a lot of money at it.

[Pippedydeadeye]

I really enjoyed Black Doves. I liked Williams.

[Rebel Pebble]

We're mid-way through Black Doves and it's fun, I'm enjoying it. Complete nonsense but in a good way. It laid its daftness stall out with the very first sequence - all that wandering around a pre-Christmas central London at supposedly about 12.30 am and it's as deserted as it was in 28 Days Later. :lol:

Also part way through Day of the Jackal. I'm on the fence about it. I really enjoyed the first few episodes and I love the shout outs to the original but now The Jackal is emoting way too much for a stone cold assassin and Eddie Redmayne does this weird squinty thing when he not-quite-cries. It's on pause while we finish Doves. :))

[Turtle Bean]

I enjoyed The Pembrokeshire Murders. I thought it was well done, not flashy, and respectful to the victims. And I love Luke Evans. He is so handsome.

[Lily]

I’ve watched one episode of Rivals & I’m not sure if it’s worth carrying on with. It’s fun, obviously, and there are lots of famous people in it. But there’s not much else to it really. And RCB is so ugly that it’s distracting :lol:

I spoke to Donna Quixote the other day who said that everyone has their own idea of Rupert in their head and nobody on TV could ever come close, hence they made him dark rather than blond. I'm trying to binge it but my accommodation doesn't have Disney. So I can't.

[Lola]

Well I do prefer blondes so that might have helped but it was more that his face looked like it had been kicked in :))

I realised I don’t remember reading the book anyway so that might have helped me enjoy the show more. I stuck it out to the end as I don’t like to give up on things and it was ok in places but the pace was really slow. Then I found out that the whole book wasn’t covered so that explained a lot :))