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📺 Hijack (includes a very light ‘spoiler’ alert)

What’s not to love about Idris? Ok well not always, but this surprisingly worked.

Well - at least until the final episode.

Do you remember the old (60 years old!) movie with Spencer Tracy - It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World? I liked the movie - but the images that find their way to the top of my memory is generally large groups of cast members randomly gathered together on a golf green, in a cab, looking in a hole … I mean for that movie - which was a great ensemble cast - total sense, not too mention that I bet that each star was guaranteed a certain amount of screen time … and this is one way to get round that.

Anyway, back to the plot. Watch the final episode of Hijack and tell me those scenes don’t come to your mind.

And yes - all the usual happy ever after, plane saved with seconds to spare, it was all about the money - etc etc

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About that ‘spoiler alert’ - really - did you expect a different ending?

📺 The Lincoln Lawyer

One of those shows that was originally a movie .. so you don’t bother. On this one, I eventually gave in and just finished the second series, so I guess good .. right? Right.

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📺 The Last Thing He Told Me

Not ‘unentertaining’ (is that even a word?).

I did get to the end .. which doesn’t always happen, even though ‘the why’ I got pretty much immediately.

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📺 Kaleidoscope

I remember a news item a few months ago about a series on one of the streaming services that plays the episodes in a random order for each viewer. Clever I thought, a non linear show played on a linear format, moved on and promptly forgot about it.

I just finished it. Really, really good. Arguably made so much better by the lead actor .. Giancarlo Esposito .. but seriously, no duds. Highly recommend it.

(Side note .. I didn’t even clock that the show was the one I had read about until the very end.)

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📺 3 Body Problem

I didn’t dislike it .. I just didn’t care about the people. I mean .. ok and all that, but I think the title is the most interesting thing.

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📺 The Fixer

2015 .. Season One .. doesn’t seem to be a Season Two. Probably says something. Probably would agree with that something.

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🎈178/366 📺 Blackbird

Why it took me so long to watch Blackbird I have no idea. But oh so good.

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📺 Turn Up Charlie

Just like 🖇️ Loot .. not one to dislike … and likely more a passion project for the only reason I watched it ( a while back now) .. Idris.

But I do like to occasionally log some older stuff .. cos we don’t all watch everything at the time do we … so you still need to know.. right? Wrong?

Or do you?

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📺 Loot

There should be a rating between Like and Dislike. In the end I went for like .. because in all honesty I couldn’t really ‘dislike’ … but no .. NOT a recommendation. I wonder if they were trying to go for that Ted Lasso feel good thing? No idea .. but whatever that Ted Lasso feel good thing is … it was not this.

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📺 Sugar

Stunning .. great job from Colin F .. but the homage to ‘noir’ yet modern, the direction, the cinematography, the colors, the lights, the nuance … everything. Just so good.

I have read that people loved the mid season ‘twist’ …if we are talking last scene in episode 6 .. yeah no .. I had that scene in my head for a couple of episodes prior, so no twist for me. In fact, it happened to coincide with when I thought the show had finished .. and I 🖇️ even posted that I was very disappointed with the ending (EEJIT I am).

Anyway .. all this to say … loved it. If you have 🍎 📺, whatever else you are watching stop - and go take a look.

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