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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.253.221.53
Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2014 - 02:31 am:   

Thought I'd start a new thread for this...

I've just watched the second episode of True Detective which seems very promising so far. I thought I'd mention it because it referenced The King in Yellow tonight, in a way that's sure to become more relevant as the story goes on. Matthew McConaughey stars as a nihilistic detective investigating an occult ritual murder.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 85.255.234.244
Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2014 - 08:28 pm:   

We'll keep this thread for new TV shows airing this year and the 'What Are You Watching?' thread for stuff from the past i.e. anything from 2013 back. Sound like a plan, people?
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 85.255.234.244
Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2014 - 08:31 pm:   

Has anyone any idea when the next series of 'The Fall' with Gillian Anderson and the continuation, if there is to be one, of 'Utopia' are due to air? Or have I already missed them?
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.253.221.53
Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2014 - 09:39 pm:   

Sounds like a plan :-)

I know Utopia series two is filming at the moment, but they have released a date yet. No idea about The Fall I'm afraid.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2014 - 11:17 pm:   

I really must make time to see "True Detective"—it is getting all sorts of people I know (not readers, just your average everyday viewer type) telling me it's the thing to watch right now. As to the "King in Yellow," The New Yorker had this in the course of its piece on "True Detective":

... There are hints of the supernatural, with endless references to the "Yellow King" and the "Lost City of Carcosa": maybe the show will reveal that it was Cthulhu all along, in the library, with the candlestick....

When The New Yorker is mentioning Cthulhu (!), yeah, it's something I gotta see (even if they kinda panned it, ultimately).
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Monday, March 03, 2014 - 04:56 am:   

Oh yeah, I'm liking "True Detective." If I said it starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as dour, gritty Southern detectives investigating ritual serial murders in Louisiana backwater—picturing it in your mind? Welll, it's exactly like that. The creator (screenwriter & producer), Nic Pizzolatto, is a novelist and former professor of literature: little previous to his credit, little that is to land a big show like this on HBO, except that the script must have won over a lot of people. So far, so good. Only 7 episodes total, basically a 7-hour long movie. Let's see if it holds up....
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2014 - 04:20 pm:   

For those in America (?—maybe elsewhere, too), and those with Showtime, this Sunday May 11, 10 pm, begins the new horror series "Penny Dreadful": http://www.npr.org/2014/05/08/310706522/lurid-meets-literary-in-penny-dreadful-a n-all-star-gothic-revue Clearly cashing in on the phenomenal "American Horror Story" success, still, it looks to be something indeed... if they can pull it off. The trailers are great (e.g., http://youtu.be/PjyXOnFxc2c ); just hope it lives up to the hype (it's being heavily advertised out here in the L.A. area, with billboards, bus benches, etc.).
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 94.3.250.184
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2014 - 09:16 pm:   

I've been looking forward to that one. It is coming on Sky Atlantic in the UK but the advert don't have a date yet, so I'm guess it may not be this month.
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 94.3.250.184
Posted on Monday, May 12, 2014 - 01:39 pm:   

The first trailer for the Constantine TV series is out. Blond hair - check. Tan trenchcoat - check. Scouse accent - check. I do like the Keanu Reeves movie, but this looks like it's going to be a truly faithful adaptation of the character.

http://youtu.be/uPE2oBnzROY
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 03:37 pm:   

Well, gosh. I wasn't overly impressed by "Penny Dreadful." It felt like a 99˘ Store League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, less horror—as we know it here on this board—than comic-book action. It also felt like a knock-off "American Horror Story": the sheer wild, imaginative genius of that show vaults in your mind, after viewing this one (that show knows its genre!). If you took out actress Eva Green (Casino Royale), the sole riveting factor here (she's marvelous!), you're left with tepidly little. Maybe I'll give it a second episode shot, but... I dunno, it's gonna have to do a lot to improve. One man's humble o.
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.27.85.101
Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 04:22 pm:   

That's a shame. Maybe it'll pick up as it goes along. I was wrong about the UK dates, it's starting on the 20th May here.

I also heard Dracula has been cancelled (the Jonathon Rhys-Meyer show) which is a shame, because it was pretty barmy but I ended up enjoying it quite a lot.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 07:22 am:   

It is, David, a shame. And yes, I had heard that other show was cancelled, which I wanted to try out....

However, I can happily report, that the premiere of "Salem" was pretty damn good! It started back on April 20th, I dvr-ed all the episodes so far, and finally got around to the first episode; there's no UK date set yet, I hear, but it'll get there. Set in 1692 Salem, it mixes (highly dramatized) history and historical figures, with the imagining of real witches actually running loose in colonial America. The characters are richer, their stakes higher, than in the Showtime series; the writing's better, the plot-threads developing proving much more fascinating; also some finely surprising reveals along the way—it actually went in directions I wasn't expecting (not so "Penny Dreadful," which took not one surprising or imaginative turn). And, not only is the horror subtle and knowing, but when it's there, it's also lurid and grotesque. Really wasn't expecting much, but wow, I was impressed! Who knows, though, that could just be low-expectations syndrome mixed with a previous disappointment....

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