📽️ Show Refs on John PHI⑊PIN

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:21:03 +1200

🔗📽️ Pluribus becomes Apple TV’s most watched show ever.

Me … 🤯

(Though to be honest - still have a few episodes to go - though that in itself is telling )

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:47:46 +1200

🔗📽️ Just extended my review of ‘Night Agent’ - based on Series 2.

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:43:23 +1200

.. 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?)

📽️ Not a bad show - but like Bob says;

“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.

One correction to Bob’s review - it is not set in Scotland - it is in Liverpool. But yes … gritty.

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 13:55:47 +1200

🎈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.

I 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.

Suddenly viewing the plot through very different eyes.

📽️ Is ‘Episode 6’ the new black?

Sat, 04 May 2024 18:25:49 +1200

📽️ 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.

Today I go an alert that Episode 7 was coming May 10th

🤦‍♂️ … of course the bloody thing hadn’t finished - they are doing the one a week drop thing!

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:16:57 +1200

Watched first episode of 📽️ The Brothers Sun last night. I am worried - surely it can only get worse at this point?

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:42:35 +1200

📽️ 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 …

🔗 🎵 One Way Glass by Innerspace Orchestra

Gorgeous. So of course I had to look it up …

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:32:39 +1200

📽️ Billy Crudup is so good.

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 08:23:18 +1200

📽️ Serpico is 50 years old? How did that happen?

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:00:06 +1200

It started out as a stroll and then before you knew it ….

Meanwhile - if you know the 📽️ TV show ‘My Life Is Murder’ - with Lucy Lawless - this is the little café that is often featured.

The view in the direction that they often show.

The view with a 180 degree shift.

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 04:06:17 +1200

📽️ I’m not saying Charlie Brooker always gets things right … but he does get some of his stuff so very right.

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:47:46 +1200

📽️ Beef

Anyone tried it?

Half 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.

📽️ Better Call Saul

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 06:33:05 +1200

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”.

Then @GramrgednAngel@zirk.us talked about The Atlantic who …

published 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.

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.

I love the back story of Breaking Bad and the various characters emerging that eventually appeared in Breaking Bad.

Superb series.

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:05:21 +1200

📽️ 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.

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 07:46:11 +1200

📽️ Cunk on Earth - I watched the first ten minutes on Netflix.

Added to the top of the watch list.

Sun, 12 Jun 2022 10:12:48 +1200

Oooooh … Peaky 6

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 15:00:14 +1200

‘Peaky Blinders’ Production Company Working With Bushmills On A Themed Whiskey

No discussion of what it actually tastes like!

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:53:15 +1200

📽️ Ozark IV

Now that opening I did not expect.

Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:56:42 +1200

I watched the first two seasons of Peaky Blinders a while back, Finally got round to Seasons 3 to 5 - not disappointed.

After such a binge - time to switch to something completely different.

Jack Irish!

“I thought you finished watching Peaky came the voice from the kitchen.”

I had - the two shows happened to choose the same Nick Cave song as it’s theme.

Sat, 07 Aug 2021 18:35:36 +1200

🎵 In my mind - not surprising, but Apple is doing a great job with music;

1971
McCartney 3, 2, 1
Mark Ronson’s ‘Watch The Sound’

All really excellent.

Sun, 11 Jul 2021 14:37:14 +1200

If you have seen 📺 ‘Ted Lasso’ and liked (who didn’t?) … you might Enjoy 🎬 ’The Merger’ … it’s on Netflix.

Oz rules football rather than ‘just football’ … but the underlying sentiments are equally powerful.

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 03:39:49 +1200

There has been dialogue in the micro.blog network about Black Mirror … did not know that Sigur Ros was the music behind Series 4.