Apple TV recommendations?

[Ant Farm Keyboard]

Another great thing about Slow Horses: It's always fun to see one of Laurence Fox's still-employable siblings doing better than him.

Freddie is not a sibling, he's a cousin. And he did a great Edward Fox in Toast of Tinseltown.

[Mobius]

I enjoyed Hijack to be honest. It was daft as shit, but an easy entertaining enough watch.

[Blue Jam]

Freddie is not a sibling, he's a cousin. And he did a great Edward Fox in Toast of Tinseltown.

He did a goddamn great turn in that, aye. Was also good in Cucumber.

Think I was confusing him with Jack Fox, who played "King" Ralph in Fresh Meat. Lozza's relatives appreciate that pretending to be a posh right-wing arsehole on camera is more lucrative than being one in real life. Most other right-wing grifters also appreciate this.

[backdrifter]

I enjoyed Hijack to be honest. It was daft as shit, but an easy entertaining enough watch.

I enjoyed it all except the ending. Nothing wrong with the plot, just the execution.

How has no one said Foundation yet?

[Dex Sawash]

How has no one said Foundation yet?

I thought it was... fine. In the show's thread the book fans seemed to be disappointed with it. I never finished watching it though.

[Blue Jam]

Just finished The Morning Show. Loved Jennifer Aniston going a bit

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Network

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in the S2 finale. Bit meta having it happen on

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the network's streaming service

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too.

[Dex Sawash]

Shrinking isn't terrible but we're not finished yet

[Glyn]

It is! A friend of a friend is a huge fan of the books and won't watch the series as they think there's no way it can be anywhere as good - having read the first book off the back of the show, my impression is 'mmm, it's a big improvement.'

Each to their own but on balance I slightly prefer the books. Lamb is less rounded in them and Rivers is more of an impetuous fool than someone who Lamb seems to already respect. It's also a bit odd seeing them socialising and willingly talking to Ho at times. The feeling of a mind numbing job and awful workmates has been lost a bit but I guess that doesn't make as good TV.

That all said , they have surprised me with how faithfully they have stuck to the main plot lines though (and the trailer for Series 3 suggests the same). Anyone who has seen the first two series could easily pick up book 3 and follow it without a problem.

[Better Midlands]

I liked Drops Of God, seems to have slipped under the radar.

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[Blue Jam]

Just got another month's free trial, there's a voucher in the Xmas Radio Times.

Enjoying The Morning Show season 3. Think having a character as a thinly-veiled pisstake of Elon Musk is becoming a cliché now but as this one is played by John Hamm I don't mind.

New season of Slow Horses up too!

[Dex Sawash]

The thing with Dior and Coco Chanel + nazis is boring as fuck

[Dex Sawash]

The Truman Capote and NY fancy ladies show isn't on Apple but it is also boring as fuck

[Blue Jam]

The thing with Dior and Coco Chanel + nazis is boring as fuck

Yeah, that one didn't appeal.

Criminal Record is pretty great. There's a thread.

[Dex Sawash]

Criminal Record is pretty great. There's a thread.

Video in OP there had me at the 0:00 Capaldi sneer

[Blue Jam]

Finished season 3 of The Morning Show a while back. HAMM was fun as an Elon Musk type. And Jonnifer Hammiston were hot AF.

Also just finished For All Mankind season 4, where it's all the same actors but now with a touch of grey hair mascara. I seem to be enjoying it more the dafter it gets. I did like Ilya's little Martian speakeasy.

Interrupted my viewing of Masters of the Air to get through Band of Brothers first but I enjoyed the first episode and will definitely be revisiting Group Captain Elvis and Co.

[Blue Jam]

Just started on Physical. It's clearly good but a bit upsetting. Think I'll have to get through it in small doses.

[touchingcloth]

I'm halfway through the second season of For All Mankind now, and quite enjoying the hard turn towards the ahistorical it's taken. The first series was roughly what you might expect to have happened had the USSR won the moon race, but they set the stall out quite early in the second series with the intro of all the other elements of history that had been completely reversed by then, and the Proclaimers one driving around in a proto-Tesla.

The actor who plays Ed Baldwin's forehead and eyebrow muscles received an incredible workout during that first series, and I think he spent 90% of it in a permafrown with massive bags under his eyes. Like Gareth Keenan's overachieving and less cucked older brother. Though based on some of the scenes between Karen and SHAAAAAAAAAAAANE's childhood mate/the Cooperses^* Stevenses son in this series, I'm not holding out for him retaining his uncucked status indefinitely.

^*I think I might know more about the space program than is necessary.

[Blue Jam]

The trailer for brand new series Constellation just popped up and

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MIKE EHRMANTRAUT!!!!

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is in it. Might have to give it a go:

[majava]

The trailer for brand new series Constellation just popped up and

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MIKE EHRMANTRAUT!!!!

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is in it. Might have to give it a go:

I've read more about how the production company racked up a few hundred thousand euros of unpaid debt to local businesses than I have about the actual series. Hopefully it's ok.

[Blue Jam]

Ten minutes in and this is a bit like watching an iPad advert.

[Dex Sawash]

Constellation on e2 now. Not sure if it is good yet

[shiftwork2]

Ten minutes in and this is a bit like watching an iPad advert.

This streaming service is ridiculous when it comes to iProduct placement.

Please let us know how Constellation goes as the trailer looks like textbook Apple TV 3/5.

[Blue Jam]

I haven't found the product placement too intrusive overall but that's probably down to my choice of viewing. There weren't so many Apple products around during the 80's aerobics boom in which Physical is set. Ditto for the height of the space race and Soviet Russia in For All Mankind. No computers allowed in Silo.

Didn't Slow Horses have non-Apple PCs? A British government department full of expensive Macs would have looked very unrealistic.

Constellation had "Mummy! I want the iPad!" and a load of beautifully framed shots of iPads floating in space, it was indeed ridiculous.

[touchingcloth]

Not quoting the post itself because I'll see the spoilered text, but when @Blue Jam wrote...

turning out to be a proper supervillain, 'kin 'ell.

...I thought to myself that it was probably going to be

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Thomas Paine

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because they seemed the type, then about ten minutes after reading the post they

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got blown to bits with his martini

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So if it's someone I've come across by this point in S2, my best guess would be ... Aleida. Based on her being the least likely to be a supervillain up to this point.

I made the mistake early on in S1 of looking at the filmography of the actor who plays

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Gordo

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and saw that they are in 20 episodes of the show. Based on their arc this series and how the first one ended, I can kind of see what's coming.

[Ant Farm Keyboard]

Michael Dorman, who plays Gordo, was also the lead in Amazon's Patriot, aka American Patriot.

[touchingcloth]

He's also a Kiwi and his Wikipedia page has a picture of him playing guitar, yet he wasn't in Flight of the Conchords, meaning he is surely the only acting musician in the country who wasn't. That must reflect badly on him, but I like his little nose and his prosthetic gunt in the early part of S2.

[Ant Farm Keyboard]

Tim Finn never guested on Flight of the Conchords, so your statement is null and void.

[touchingcloth]

NULL and blank values are not the same, so while I accept that my statement may be either NULL or void, it cannot be both. Please clarify.

[touchingcloth]

As a lefty liberal wokeflake, seeing the representation of women and people of colour in For All Mankind is really nice, and I can see why lefty liberal screenwriters would do that. But as a left liberal space nerd, it also makes me feel a bit sad at just how ahistorical it all is.

It wasn't until Shuttle that the Americans put a woman in space in the 80s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride) or a person of colour in the 90s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_A._Harris_Jr.). As a left liberal space nerd, I've read Fighting for Space which was about the Mercury 13 women, who sounded every bit as competent as their male counterparts, and yet none of them flew in space on the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, or any other NASA program. The only one of them who flew in space at all was Wally Funk when she went suborbital on Bezos's chode.

Jerrie Cobb is one of the aviators that book focuses on primarily, who's obviously the namesake of the series's Molly, but I suspect her biography and that of Jackie Cochran inspired the character of Tracey as well - Jerrie flew from a very young age, Jackie was glamorous and married a wealthy industrialist.

Margaret Hamilton is ace, so it's nice to see her represented somewhat via Margo. But NASA have been bad at putting women in positions as high as Margo's, and it wasn't until 2005 - post-Columbia, post the announcement of the shitcanning of Shuttle - that they had a female Flight Director - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Ridings.

I'd hope the program does a good of promoting those sort of careers to girls and people of colour, but to me it's a reminder of some of the worst parts of NASA's history. I'm only halfway through S2, but while the screenwriters are doing good social justice stuff in rewriting those bits of history, I bet they're not going to touch on the fact that the space and moon races were really just proxy wars with the USSR, and essentially just space-based dick swinging.

[Blue Jam]

On episode 2 of Constellation now. My ears prick up every time I hear Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut But He's An Astronaut* but apart from that it's struggling to hold my attention.

No iPads yet... because this one's all about the Apple Watch.

^{*"Commander Caldera" hehehe, nice shout-out for the BCS fans}