📺 Shows
📺 I saw this promoted, checked out the trailer and realised I had watched it.
That is how memorable this show is … ★
Yes - yes - I did watch 📺🔗 Pluribus Season 1 .. finally - I mean it’s not a loser, but truly have a hard time understanding what everybody was raving about.
★★★
Watched - all 8 Homelands. Not in a binge I hasten to add and actually not too shabby - although Claire Danes does seem to act with 4 or 5 expressions to cover all eventualities. Suspension of belief is - as always with such shows - necessary. For all of that ★★★
📺 Hijack ★★
Originally Published: August 7th, 2024
Updated: April 3rd, 2026
In 2024 I originally wrote:
What’s not to love about Idris? Ok well not always, but this surprisingly worked.
Well - at least until the final episode.
Just finished the second series - and the fact it took us so many months to work through it speaks volumes. And when I say work … I mean work.
Series 1 ★★★ – that is old star rating - but still holds …
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
Series 2 ★★
And that rating is getting applied to the whole show. VERY disappointing - they took that final episode from Series 1 - and doubled down on it!
I was tempted to 1 star it - but that wouldn’t be fair to series 1.
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📺 Godless ★★★
Can’t recall why I started to watch it .. but glad I did .. very good .. and it was a while back (well last year) - despite it being from 2017 - and yet for all of that it took @mitchwagner to remind me - when he referenced it - I couldn’t even recall the name - don’t make the same mistake.
📺 The Last Frontier ★★★
First couple of episodes and - meh. Even so much as parked it for a looong while - until the other day …
… and thought to try Episode 3 and it got me. I thought it was only 6 episodes - so binged the next 3 and - I after the rollercoaster - a truly disappointing end. Or so I thought.
The ‘next episode’ invite came up - and the next night - followed through - assuming just another episode - have you noticed how odd numbers are appearing in episodes?
Long story short - TEN episodes - and the roller coaster of episodes 4 to 6 were nothing compare to 7 to 10.
It blurs - but I seem to recall that 8 and 9 were both more than satisfactory endings - but then ….
End of ten = END.
Except of course series 2 is definitely set up.
🔗 The Last Frontier on Reelgood
📺 The Big Door Prize ★★★
I started Series 1 when it first came out - and yeah no. Recently at a lose end - and it got beeter - so moved into Series 2, The star count is right.
📺 Your Friends and Neighbours (Series 1) ★★★★
Yeah. Good. Never saw Mad Men - but I like how he can be ‘smooth, suave and sophisticated’ one minute and so ‘quickly’ switch to down and out. It started slow - for me - and towards the end was waiting for the next episode.
Good life lessons thoughts to boot.
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