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🔗📽️ Pluribus becomes Apple TV’s most watched show ever.
\nMe … 🤯
\n(Though to be honest - still have a few episodes to go - though that in itself is telling )
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-23T10:21:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/23/pluribus-becomes-apple-tvs-most.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/30/just-extended-my-review-of.html", "content_html": "🔗📽️ Just extended my review of ‘Night Agent’ - based on Series 2.
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-31T07:47:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/30/just-extended-my-review-of.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/28/bob-on-the.html", "content_html": "
.. reminding me that I somehow watched the first two episodes ( I think on Prime) .. and never went further, since we are in the Acorn camp - not Britbox. (Should I swap?)
\n📽️ Not a bad show - but like Bob says;
\n\n\n“The Responder” is dark. There are no characters you can identify with, root for. If you want an uplifting show, “The Responder” is not for you.
\n
One correction to Bob’s review - it is not set in Scotland - it is in Liverpool. But yes … gritty.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-28T14:43:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/28/bob-on-the.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/02/remember-a-while.html", "content_html": "🎈154/366 Remember a while back there was this series called Sugar and there was a bit of a debate around - ‘well I did not see that coming’ at the end of Episode 6.
\nI have been in and out of another show that is absolutely nowhere near as good. Nowhere near. BUT … at the end of Episode 6 there is a 🤯 that I definitely did NOT see coming.
\nSuddenly viewing the plot through very different eyes.
\n📽️ Is ‘Episode 6’ the new black?
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-02T13:55:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/02/remember-a-while.html", "tags": ["? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/04/i-have-been.html", "content_html": "📽️ I have been watching ‘Sugar’ - and impressed throughout. Great job. Until last night - the final episode - and I was so upset. LIKE - DUH - we all knew that - but what about everything else? It was all so up in the air. VERY disappointed.
\nToday I go an alert that Episode 7 was coming May 10th
\n🤦♂️ … of course the bloody thing hadn’t finished - they are doing the one a week drop thing!
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-04T18:25:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/04/i-have-been.html", "tags": ["? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/07/watched-first-episode.html", "content_html": "Watched first episode of 📽️ The Brothers Sun last night. I am worried - surely it can only get worse at this point?
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-07T11:16:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/07/watched-first-episode.html", "tags": ["? Show Refs","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/11/finally-steadily-working.html", "content_html": "📽️ Finally steadily working my way through ‘The Morning Show’ .. review forthcoming at some point in the future - but meanwhile - a track that got played on last night’s episode …
\n🔗 🎵 One Way Glass by Innerspace Orchestra
\nGorgeous. So of course I had to look it up …
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-11T09:42:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/11/finally-steadily-working.html", "tags": ["? Music","? WWW","? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/07/billy-crudup-is.html", "content_html": "📽️ Billy Crudup is so good.
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-07T17:32:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/07/billy-crudup-is.html", "tags": ["? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/06/serpico-is-years.html", "content_html": "📽️ Serpico is 50 years old? How did that happen?
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-06T08:23:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/06/serpico-is-years.html", "tags": ["? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/30/it-started-out.html", "content_html": "It started out as a stroll and then before you knew it ….
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-0015.png\")
\nMeanwhile - if you know the 📽️ TV show ‘My Life Is Murder’ - with Lucy Lawless - this is the little café that is often featured.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-7771.jpeg\")
\nThe view in the direction that they often show.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-7773.jpeg\")
\nThe view with a 180 degree shift.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-7772.jpeg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-11-30T12:00:06+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/30/it-started-out.html",
"tags": ["? Show Refs"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/30/im-not-saying.html",
"content_html": "📽️ I’m not saying Charlie Brooker always gets things right … but he does get some of his stuff so very right.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-01T04:06:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/30/im-not-saying.html", "tags": ["? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/31/anyone-tried-beef.html", "content_html": "📽️ Beef
\nAnyone tried it?
\nHalf way through first episode … already not feeling good about it and after the last two EPIC fails I am seeking to preempt a hat trick.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-01T16:47:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/31/anyone-tried-beef.html", "tags": ["? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/02/better-call-saul.html", "title": "📽️ Better Call Saul", "content_html": "Back when I posted about how great Breaking Bad was … let me paraphrase @pratik … “if you though that was good - wait till you try Better Call Saul”.
\nThen @GramrgednAngel@zirk.us talked about The Atlantic who …
\n\n\npublished a series examining it through a Shakespearean tragedy lens and making the argument that the ultimate main character wasn’t Walter, or Jesse, but Skyler.
\n
I just started series 3 of ‘Saul’. Oh my. Tragedy? I don’t know my Shakespeare as well as I could, but Saul has to be a contender. The character is heartbreaking. The relationship with his brother makes me tear up.
\nI love the back story of Breaking Bad and the various characters emerging that eventually appeared in Breaking Bad.
\nSuperb series.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-03T06:33:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/02/better-call-saul.html", "tags": ["? LongForm","? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/05/cunk-was-so.html", "content_html": "📽️ Cunk was so good, that I had to go remind myself of this short piece from Charlie Brooker. It was done years ago, was my first exposure to him and has to be a timeless classic.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-06T17:05:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/05/cunk-was-so.html", "tags": ["? Videos","? Humour","? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/03/i-watched-the.html", "content_html": "📽️ Cunk on Earth - I watched the first ten minutes on Netflix.
\nAdded to the top of the watch list.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-04T07:46:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/03/i-watched-the.html", "tags": ["? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/12/oooooh-peaky.html", "content_html": "Oooooh … Peaky 6
\n", "date_published": "2022-06-12T10:12:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/12/oooooh-peaky.html", "tags": ["? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/03/01/peaky-blinders-production.html", "content_html": "‘Peaky Blinders’ Production Company Working With Bushmills On A Themed Whiskey
\nNo discussion of what it actually tastes like!
\n", "date_published": "2022-03-01T15:00:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/03/01/peaky-blinders-production.html", "tags": ["? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/26/now-that-opening.html", "content_html": "📽️ Ozark IV
\nNow that opening I did not expect.
\n", "date_published": "2022-01-26T20:53:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/26/now-that-opening.html", "tags": ["? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/21/i-watched-the.html", "content_html": "I watched the first two seasons of Peaky Blinders a while back, Finally got round to Seasons 3 to 5 - not disappointed.
\nAfter such a binge - time to switch to something completely different.
\nJack Irish!
\n\n\n“I thought you finished watching Peaky came the voice from the kitchen.”
\n
I had - the two shows happened to choose the same Nick Cave song as it’s theme.
\n", "date_published": "2021-08-21T17:56:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/21/i-watched-the.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/07/in-my-mind.html", "content_html": "🎵 In my mind - not surprising, but Apple is doing a great job with music;
\nAll really excellent.
\n", "date_published": "2021-08-07T18:35:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/07/in-my-mind.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/11/if-you-have.html", "content_html": "If you have seen 📺 ‘Ted Lasso’ and liked (who didn’t?) … you might Enjoy 🎬 ’The Merger’ … it’s on Netflix.
\nOz rules football rather than ‘just football’ … but the underlying sentiments are equally powerful.
\n", "date_published": "2021-07-11T14:37:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/11/if-you-have.html", "tags": ["? Shows","? Film Refs","? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/14/meets-there-has.html", "content_html": "There has been dialogue in the micro.blog network about Black Mirror … did not know that Sigur Ros was the music behind Series 4.
\n