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nomar said:
Just finished Slow Horses season 4. If anything, the show has continued to get better.
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Saving that for tonight. I'm going to be sad having both Slow Horses and Bad Monkey come to an end the same week.

I got into Fight Night last week. It's got too much Kevin Hart for my tastes, but a lot of no-names are pretty good here (especially Sinqua Walls and Myles Bullock), but it's got Samuel L. Jackson as the top bad guy and Don Cheadle as the good guy, both of whom are very good here. Stylistically calls back to a lot of 70s Blaxplotation films but is based on a true story about a robbery at a party during the Ali-Quarry fight in Atlanta that many Black crime syndicate heads were attending. That's also ending on Friday.
 
I really enjoyed Bad Monkey, even though Bill Lawrence left out a ton of stuff from the book (like the monkey actually disfigured Egg) and added a bunch of other stuff. Unlike what happened with the Striptease movie, Lawrence kept the spirit of what Hiaasen is all about with the new material and it worked.

While not official, it appears Lawrence will do Razor Girl, which was Hiaasen's sequel to Bad Monkey, and keep Vaughn as Yancy along with some other minor characters. Can't wait.

Funny thing to me is that I wouldn't consider either of those to be Hiaasen's best novels. His first book, Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Native Tongue, and Squeeze Me are his best, IMHO. He does have another two-book series featuring a retired investigator as the lead, and a series of eight books that feature Skink, the former governor of FL who quit politics and lives in the swamp, but is never the lead character and sometimes is a very minor character. But now that Lawrence has shown he can bring Hiaasen's work to the screen, there's a lot of material to work with. Bad Monkey was a hit for Apple TV, and I'm hoping Lawrence and others will mine that material and produce other series as good as Bad Monkey was.
 
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nomar said:
Just finished Slow Horses season 4. If anything, the show has continued to get better.
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I really loved Hugo Weaving breaking out his Agent Smith voice for his role. It was a superb season.

@storrsroars I've got two more Bad Monkey episodes left. Might finish it tonight. I am enjoying it as well. Didn't know anything about the book.

For anyone who gave up on Rings of Power last season, watch this season. It made a huge leap in quality and tied in to so many familiar characters and events. The guy playing Sauron is really good, should be up for awards.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I really loved Hugo Weaving breaking out his Agent Smith voice for his role. It was a superb season.

@storrsroars I've got two more Bad Monkey episodes left. Might finish it tonight. I am enjoying it as well. Didn't know anything about the book.

For anyone who gave up on Rings of Power last season, watch this season. It made a huge leap in quality and tied in to so many familiar characters and events. The guy playing Sauron is really good, should be up for awards.
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Just watched episode 7 (I think) of Bad Monkey last night. It's a popcorn show. Light and breezy, just like the Keys.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I really loved Hugo Weaving breaking out his Agent Smith voice for his role. It was a superb season.

@storrsroars I've got two more Bad Monkey episodes left. Might finish it tonight. I am enjoying it as well. Didn't know anything about the book.
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My initial reaction to Weaving's voice was, "this is a bit much". I didn't really think of Agent Smith, more like Darth Vader ("Luke, I am your father!"). But as the episode wore on, it grew on me.

I read a great interview with Bill Lawrence (caution: spoilers) last night on how and why he adapted a book that's an easy and brisk one or two day read into a 10 part series. Turns out he's also a huge Hiaasen fan.
 
nomar said:
Just watched episode 7 (I think) of Bad Monkey last night. It's a popcorn show. Light and breezy, just like the Keys.
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Absolutely. Meanwhile, I haven't watched the new season of The Bear precisely because it's not. I will get to it, but it's not always pleasant.
 
storrsroars said:
My initial reaction to Weaving's voice was, "this is a bit much". I didn't really think of Agent Smith, more like Darth Vader ("Luke, I am your father!"). But as the episode wore on, it grew on me.

I read a great interview with Bill Lawrence (caution: spoilers) last night on how and why he adapted a book that's an easy and brisk one or two day read into a 10 part series. Turns out he's also a huge Hiaasen fan.
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SPOILER ALERT!!!
 
nomar said:
SPOILER ALERT!!!
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What, on Weaving? Was just trying to think of a quote and that's the first I thought of. I put spoiler alert on the Bad Monkey interview.
 
storrsroars said:
What, on Weaving? Was just trying to think of a quote and that's the first I thought of. I put spoiler alert on the Bad Monkey interview.
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Yes on Weaving! :)
 
Tried The Fall of the House of Usher. Couldn't make it through 1.5 episodes. Turned it off. I don't know what they were going for with this, but it's awful.

Tried Tulsa King and two episodes in we like it. I don't know if it is still on or has ended, but Stallone is really solid in the role. Lots of good supporting performances too.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Absolutely. Meanwhile, I haven't watched the new season of The Bear precisely because it's not. I will get to it, but it's not always pleasant.
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But always good.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Tried The Fall of the House of Usher. Couldn't make it through 1.5 episodes. Turned it off. I don't know what they were going for with this, but it's awful.

Tried Tulsa King and two episodes in we like it. I don't know if it is still on or has ended, but Stallone is really solid in the role. Lots of good supporting performances too.
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I stopped watching Usher but I sort of intended to pick it back up. Flanagan’s stuff is usually good—Midnight Mass was awesome.

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I made it through 4 episodes of "High Potential," but I think I'm done. It's just too hard to overlook the complete disregard for police procedure by the consultant, among other things. Eps 1-2 were intriguing to me, but 3 was a dud and 4 wasn't much better. Oh well.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I made it through 4 episodes of "High Potential," but I think I'm done. It's just too hard to overlook the complete disregard for police procedure by the consultant, among other things. Eps 1-2 were intriguing to me, but 3 was a dud and 4 wasn't much better. Oh well.
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I was debating watching Ep3 last night but went to another episode of the Aaron Hernandez doc instead. Guess that was a good decision.
 
Just got a trial subscription to Apple TV+. Which show should be tge first to watch ?
 
ZooCougar said:
Disclaimer.

I thought would be another show about super wealthy people on Apple but it's actually really good.
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Yeah, I'm in Episode 2. Good so far.

It's Alfonso Cuaron, Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline! Three Oscar winners! And Borat.
 
nomar said:
Yeah, I'm in Episode 2. Good so far.

It's Alfonso Cuaron, Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline! Three Oscar winners! And Borat.
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Buddy you ain’t seen nothing yet. Get ready lol.
 
The Penguin on HBO Max is absolutely the best show I’ve seen since Yellowstone. Colin Farrell is amazing and the supporting cast is great too.
 
Blueblood79 said:
The Penguin on HBO Max is absolutely the best show I’ve seen since Yellowstone. Colin Farrell is amazing and the supporting cast is great too.
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I'm loving this. And I'm not a big superhero movie guy
 
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