Amazon Prime Video, what gems have you found? (NO SPOILERS)
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Cotty said:
Any fans of the Taken films? Looks like they have created a series.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taken-Season-1-Trailer/dp...
Taken is one of my favourite films. I'm unsure if I'll watch the series! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taken-Season-1-Trailer/dp...
Struggling to find anything I like on Prime. Did watch Ted last night though.
andy_s said:
The Bureau - a really good 'spook' drama, no gunfights and shouty heroics, just grim moral decisions, good tradecraft, manipulation and ploy. It's subtitled so maybe not for everyone, but some great characters. Miles ahead of most subject matter.
For a moment I thought they'd made this into a series...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQw3PxYpF1Q
E65Ross said:
FUBAR said:
I know Im late to the party but started Goliath last week. Absolutely loving it. Only 6 episodes in but having to force myself to go to bed!
"only" 6 episodes in....there are only 8 episodes, so you're almost done.Agreed - great series, Billy Bob Thornton is mega.
Is it just me, or was the ending a real disappointment? All those twists and turns to make it harder and harder while you're fighting his corner, and in the last episode everything works out just about as good as it could do...
Croutons said:
For those who have watched the whole of the series:
Is it just me, or was the ending a real disappointment? All those twists and turns to make it harder and harder while you're fighting his corner, and in the last episode everything works out just about as good as it could do...
yep Is it just me, or was the ending a real disappointment? All those twists and turns to make it harder and harder while you're fighting his corner, and in the last episode everything works out just about as good as it could do...
peter tdci said:
PH XKR said:
Will have been mentioned but worth it again to late comers to the thread - Man in the high castle. Simply one of the best ever tv based dramas and certainly now looking forwad to the BBC similar version of SS London (or whatever it is called)
SS-GB - it starts on Feb 19th apparently. I'm hoping it's as good as the book.Eye in the Sky - Helen Mirren as a general in charge of counter-terrorism finds herself with the opportunity to 'take out' a number of high-profile terrorists but in doing so there will be collateral damage and casualties.
If you leave aside the technical issues this is a tense thriller based around a tough moral dilemma.
If you leave aside the technical issues this is a tense thriller based around a tough moral dilemma.
The Spruce goose said:
Croutons said:
For those who have watched the whole of the series:
Is it just me, or was the ending a real disappointment? All those twists and turns to make it harder and harder while you're fighting his corner, and in the last episode everything works out just about as good as it could do...
yep Is it just me, or was the ending a real disappointment? All those twists and turns to make it harder and harder while you're fighting his corner, and in the last episode everything works out just about as good as it could do...
I am enjoying Gomorrah at the moment, deep and dark!
ETA: Glad to see Bosch is rated on here, I am reading the books at the moment and really enjoy them, hope the series lives up to them
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 3rd March 13:32
chris watton said:
I quite like Black sails, but I have mentioned before, there is way too much talking and not enough action. These are meant to be pirates, most could not even pronounce the ships they served on, so it is quite astonishing8 that the scriptwriters furnish them all with a vocabulary that would make a university professor blush!
Also, being a researcher and designer of period vessels, to put it into a P/H analogy, the ships would be like having a 2016 AM in a 1960 James Bond film, but also fitted with leaf-spring suspension from a century prior - they are made up from a hotchpotch of periods from 16th to 19th Century!
Having said that, I usually keep such things to myself, as I hate anoraks, and as I said, I still enjoy it, despite the prolonged boring bits.
Totally agreed... please give more info on the ship inaccuracies; we are all geeks on ph so its the kind of detail we love... share the knowledge please Also, being a researcher and designer of period vessels, to put it into a P/H analogy, the ships would be like having a 2016 AM in a 1960 James Bond film, but also fitted with leaf-spring suspension from a century prior - they are made up from a hotchpotch of periods from 16th to 19th Century!
Having said that, I usually keep such things to myself, as I hate anoraks, and as I said, I still enjoy it, despite the prolonged boring bits.
StangGT said:
Totally agreed... please give more info on the ship inaccuracies; we are all geeks on ph so its the kind of detail we love... share the knowledge please
I believe it is set in the very early 1700's. Most ships at this time did not have a ship's wheel, but a 'Tiller and Whipstaff' arrangement. While it is true that the ship's wheel were starting to come into prominence by the 1720's onwards on the newest large ships, most of the ships depicted are not brand new, perhaps 20-30 years' old already, so probably late 17th Century designs.Some show parts that went out of fashion 100 years earlier, making them look more like galleons from the time of the Spanish Armada in 1588, yet the rig and mast arrangements are more akin to a period much later, in some cases as late as the 19th Century. They make little sense from a purely historical perspective. While it is true that some ships, usually the largest and most expensive 3-decked 100 gun ships could be on the Navy lists for a century, they did have quite a few 'rebuilds' in-between, much like the large US nuclear carriers do today, but a 'rebuild' could be making a whole new ship with just the keel and few frames remaining, just so they could keep the ship on the commission lists, if it was famous enough.
None of the ships depicted in the show are prestigious 100 gun vessels, so I don't think that would be the case.
Blackbeard's ship, Queen Anne's Revenge, is thought to have looked like this, given the historical evidence:
It is quite a small '6th Rate', with one main gun deck, and looks very early 18th century.
However, what we have in the show is something like a cross between this:
Revenge of 1577, a typical English Race-Built galleon, note the high sides with multiple steps upwards towards the stern, same as in the show version, and this:
A typical mid to late 17th Century First Rate 100 gun ship, which pirates would never have got their hands on due to its size and the 800+ crew required to man it (plus it would be way too powerful for even a whole pirate fleet to successfully attack, one broadside would have sand the real Queen Anne's Revenge), which is why they preferred smaller, more nimble vessels, and definitely not that cumbersome monstrosity as shown in the series!
Having said all that, I am not one to wear my rivet counting on my sleeve (always hated people like that..), and I still enjoy it (aside from too much dull chatter)
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