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I think the first two episodes were fantastic. I think its gone quite fast in fairness even though they are still introducing and opening the show.

Spoilers below.

  • Galadriel has had a clip of childhood, become an adult and been on an expedition to find Sauron/Morgoth, returned after a mutiny to be ā€˜rewarded’, convinced to go home ā€˜as a reward’, sailed almost home, escaped, got shipwrecked from a shipwreck and almost died and been found.
  • Elrond has read a book, convinced Galadrial to go home, become an engineer apprentice, lost a stone competition and then made up with his dwarf friend.
  • The Elf soldier Arondir has been on patrol, been given orders to return home at wars end, gone AWOL to tell Bronwyn he has a crush on her, found out evil nearby and then that ground-shakes destroyed a town and then has been kidnapped/killed? Among with that, Bronwyn has warned her village and she and her son have been attacked by an orc, defeated it and the set out for help - with other villagers - from the elves.
  • The Brandyfoots have shown their village, seen predators, had an meteor crash with a friendlyish ā€˜giant’. They looked after him, had a family emergency and lots of dead fireflies.

The rings of power have not even been shown yet or the start of the second age. Feels like a lot of build up and lots of adventures to come.

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Handmaid’s Tale is back!

Blessed day :pray:t3:

BBC4 is repeating Our Friends in the North. I missed seeing this in 1996, so I’m really looking forwards to catching up with it.

I didn’t realise Mark Strong was in it. He has so much hair!

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Drag Race UK started today on BBC Three.

The runway was brilliant.

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If you know…

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Fed up of watching it now, nothing unique to it anymore, it’s just all over done tat

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I get so lost in it all as there are far too many, but the UK one I enjoy because of the many British jokes and banter which the American, Canadian and Down Under don’t really have.

Id say down under was probably closest :joy:

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In my innocence I looked this up, expecting motor sport…

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Really enjoying Andor on Disney+ - a much more mature Star Wars show that takes its time rather than rush around like a headless, screaming chicken. She-Hulk is good too - good sense of humour which makes a change from standard superhero guff.

Start your engines

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Haven’t read up this thread yet, but The Capture on BBC has got to be one of the most well written pieces of TV I have seen in a very long time.

@betalogic Totally agree - the second season was fantastic! I found it extremely gripping and surprising.

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Yeah I loved how they had tied the Cambridge Analytica scandal into it cause I don’t think many people realise how data can be used to influence politics and the second season was the most exaggerated example of it, incredible writing!

I’m watching GoT again, ready to disappoint myself at that :poop: ending :joy: just 69 more hours to go until I get to that point. So probably next Friday at this rate.

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Why would you do that to yourself :joy:

HotD is good though

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I must be in the mood to suffer :joy: I’m also thinking about watching Lost again after this, that’s certainly punishment.

I’ve watched the 1st episode of HotD, just leaving it for now as I want to watch the series in one go.

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Has anyone started Dahmer yet? Netflix.

I’m just on ep2 now :exploding_head:

Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story).

Anybody else watching Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared on Channel 4? Bloody weird, but extremely well done.

Is that the puppets? No thanks. Spent 5 mins watching it and had to turn it off :joy:

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That was my reaction at first to be fair, but then I started watching the original YouTube films and got caught up in it. Definitely not for everyone. A very Marmite-y show for sure.

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I’ve just tried watching this new season, well say tried I did. However for the 72 minutes it was on for, I was literally just browsing stuff on my phone and barely even looked at what was going on.

So yeah… Confirmed, I’m deffo done and over Drag Race

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