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Message: [QUOTE="storrsroars, post: 4689420, member: 2500"] Currently watching [B]Hijack[/B] and Crowded Room in "real time". The former is (so far) a fairly straightforward thriller about a hijacking in real time. Idris Alba is a passenger who's a business negotiator who takes it upon himself to try to broker a deal with the hijackers. No time spent on character backstories thus far, first 3 episodes are straight up hijacking in motion. It's watchable. As you know going in that it's only a 7 hour flight from Dubai to London, there's not much filler. Whatever's going to happen is going to happen quickly. [B]The Crowded Room[/B] is frustrating. Very slow to develop. E7 was just released and I haven't seen it yet, but the first six seemed to go almost nowhere. There was a threat of a killing. A suspect was apprehended. There's a backstory of the suspect living with two people who have disappeared. And Amanda Seyfried is a psychologist who volunteers to talk to the suspect as she thinks he may have multiple personalities. But pretty much nothing happens in those first six episodes to unmuddle a muddled storyline. Finished [B]Silo[/B] last weekend. Didn't read the books, but as I understand it, while most of S1 was faithful to the first book, it jumped to the third book at the end, so nobody really knows how S2 will be handled. Dystopian future is not usually my cup of tea, but this is somewhat a different take on the overcrowded genre. No zombies, no aliens. There is a lot of good character drama which makes this series more interesting and watchable for me. Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Robbins are great. Common seems to be in over his head at times, but makes a serviceable threatening head of security. The other reason I have for watching is that the storyline has a lot of holes in it. It seems implausible for a society of only 140 years old to have lost all collective memory of what went before, including things like not knowing what stars are. While there was some mention of wiping memories, there's got to be a bigger story there because what's the point of not knowing how nature works? Anyway, it's creative. [/QUOTE]

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