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Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls

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"Just finished The Killing liked it a lot but not really the last season as much. Breaking Bad, Homeland done Was going to do Luther or The Wire next - can you tell me which one is best of the two?"
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"Can't find anything to float my boat at the moment. Gave Nine Perfect Strangers a go but wasn't for me, neither was The English. Started Season 2 of the Handmaid's tale but it seems a bit like season 1, cruelty heaped upon cruelty. Hanging on for Happy Valley 3, thought the first two were some of the best TV I've seen."
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Agreed Jim… thought it was magnificent… and a 100 times better than that joke fabricated series the BBC have done about the start of the SAS
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I know its not a box set but the recent addition of All Quiet on the Western Front is really something. Wow what a harrowing but incredible film. You just cannot begin to understand how wars like that and WWII happened and how they were relatively not long ago. Its like something from a different universe these days. Effected me in the same way as Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers. I watched it with the English dubbing on and it was really good esp as i could focus on the action rather than reading subtitles. Dubbing appears to have come a long way from the days of Bruce Lee movies.
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"Yes, the hotel manager is well off, I find the two hookers irritating too. The other characters ar fine. You wouldn't kick Aubrey Plaza out of bed!"
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"Agree with you, Manuel, re The White Lotus. Though it would have been difficult to surpass the performance of the gay Aussie drug/alcohol addict. Still enjoying season 2 though. Yellowstone 5 is no where near as good as the earlier seasons, but I'll stick with it."
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I'm glad that Egg from This Life has made a good living from The Walking Dead.
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"Cheers, bell."
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"He was yeah. She never forgave him, but he saved her kids life, so she let him live."
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"Mortph - Yea shocking violence. Wasn't Negan in it to the end, if so how did he last so long, did Maggie forgive him etc? Bell?"
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"Last straw for me with Walking Dead was Negan knocking out Glens eye with a baseball bat, gross and very unnecessary"
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"I felt an obligation out of stubbornness I guess. Had some decent moments in the final few series, but nowhere near as good as series 1-5"
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"Bell - Blimey, you stuck with it all the way! I gave up circa season 7 it just become plain shit. I will find the last ever episode though and might view it."
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"Final episode of The Walking Dead, in its current guise aired last night. Had its ups and downs, but I stuck with it, and enjoyed the finale."
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"Sam - No mate, heard them mentioned though, might read up on them. Will likely watch The Engish next."
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Agree Manuel 100% with all that but did you try Severance or The Devil's Hour?
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"Nags - Yea, as I have said a few times now I haven't seen anything really top draw for a long time now, probably the last season of Gomorrah, I thought The Offer was decent, as was Dahmer, and the new The White Lotus is a good yarn, although not as good as the first one."
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"Yeah, it's 6. Personally thought it trailed off a bit in the last 2 episodes but overall it was very good. Great acting and cinematography."
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Going to give The English a go. Is it 6 episodes?
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"jfk. Me too, I'm on episode 3, very good so far."
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"jfk. Me too, I'm on episode 3, very good so far."
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Five Days at Memorial is a really good miniseries worth watching. It's about the events at a New Orleans hospital during hurricane Katrina.
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Getting right into The English (all episodes via the iplayer) great watch four episodes in.for fans of the Wild West it’s the bollocks.
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"Pentonville 3:56 Wed Nov 16 I watched the first episode of that and gave up on it. If he had stuck to, 'there were probably reasonably advanced civilisations around a bit earlier than we thought', then it would have been OK. But that wouldn't have been very controversial or exciting or easy to sell to a TV company or book publisher. So he's claiming these societies were VERY advanced, to the extent of being world-wide civilisations. So we get lots of the usual conspiracy theory arguments like, 'nobody can explain, so it must mean this', 'scientists have been unable to prove', 'archaeologists can't agree' - that sort of Chariot of the Gods stuff. He's a plausible little scamp, though."
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Cheers Ted
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"bell 3:00 Tue Nov 15 Re: Tv Box sets thread again - recommendation pls Cheers billy. Whomail won't let me reply for some reason, but much appreciated mate. Bell hover your curser over the send you'll see what I mean when you try it. Poor old WHO it seems to be a bit knackered."
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