I didn't think it was boring though. It was a bit slow-paced, yes, but not boring. It was doing decent character work during that period and setting up a load of stuff that is paid off later.

I didn't think it was boring though. It was a bit slow-paced, yes, but not boring. It was doing decent character work during that period and setting up a load of stuff that is paid off later.

Also, I watched that Big Bang Theory spin-off “Young Sheldon”.

It’s a strange beast: no studio audience, no laughter track, a muted performance from the actors, a very good performance by the mother, it’s not even a straight comedy and it already has some underlying tensions bubbling away even if you know just a brief backstory of the character.

I’m strangely drawn to it but it’s only episode 1 so it might get shitter. Here’s hoping it plays it straight throughout however manny episodes they’re doing (I can’t imagine many) and avoids the laughs because I think that’d be rather interesting.

Definitely - it's got far more going on and more interesting characters than a lot of TWD with greater payoffs for the investment of your time.

I got very bogged down about 8 eps into the first season. Should I try and pick it back up?

It suffers from every character being a wanker, to my mind.

Halt And Catch Fire has been absolutely brilliant this season, and 4x07 is one of the better hours of TV I've ever seen. It's graceful and moving and has thoroughly earned every single character beat it packs in. I'm going to be sad to see this show go.

I got very bogged down about 8 eps into the first season. Should I try and pick it back up?

It suffers from every character being a wanker, to my mind.

It suffers from every character being a wanker, to my mind.

Anyway, if you stick with it, look me up when you watch 4x07. You'll know it when you get there.

I've loved it from day 1, but really did think that they should have ended it last season.
It just felt the right place to stop, both for the characters and the story that had caught up with most people's memories of the early internet - go much further and you're struggling to fit them in around what we know happened.

When it returned the first couple of episodes felt a little flat, and I thought I was probably right, but since then it's just been glorious. I'm an episode behind you, and I think I'm deliberately slowing down to savour it for as long as possible.

Wow!

Yup. Radarr > Couchpotato too.

The first two episodes of Star Trek Discovery are ok but it starts to get really interesting in ep 3!

The Confession Tapes is a 2017 true crime television documentary which presents six cases of possible false confessions leading to murder convictions of the featured people. In each case, the documentary presents alternate views of how the crime could have taken place and features experts on false confessions, criminal law, miscarriages of justice and psychology. The series, produced and distributed by Netflix, became available to all Netflix subscribers on 8 September 2017. Critics praised the series, likening it to other Netflix true crime documentaries, such as The Keepers and Making a Murderer.

The American Justice system is a disgrace at times.

We watched the first two of these last night. It's really interesting but I am not sure I can make it through the entire lot because I was just so infuriated at the end of the first case.

The judge dished out the sentences in a rage himself, hardly the dispassionate arbiter acting purely on the basis of law that he should have been.

The American Justice system is a disgrace at times.

There's one where the judge basically says 'I don't think this man is guilty of the crimes he's accused of, and the jury has got it wrong. But I am now going to sentence him for four murders and one attempted murder. Cheers.'

The 'confession' was actually deemed inadmissible in court, but then the media essentially told everyone about it anyway.

That was a headfuck.

Does anyone here watches Bloodline?

I'm currently at half of the 3rd season, and it's even more addictive than before. Amazing acting all the way. It's a shame this show didn't had more success. Also the Floridian setting with the humid weather and all the actors sweating all the time give it a nice vibe.

I started watching the first season because Ben Mendelsohn is a really good actor. It was OK, but felt super predictable, even though all the acting was great.

I got about halfway in and then got distracted by something or other. Should I revisit it?

Kevin is so pathetic and incompetent

I think this is why we gave up part way through series 2. He's a hysterical bell end.

Some of the cases much more than others did seem to be very compelling in terms of showing a miscarriage of justice but really I have no idea. And I don't have any more of a reason to trust these journalists over the ones who influenced the original trials. I can't help wondering if the filmmakers worried that viewers might be insufficiently outraged over the obvious malpractices if they came away thinking that the defendants were probably guilty anyway. I would have no trouble if they wanted to convince me that these were unsafe convictions but I think they wanted to go a bit further than that.

I'm not saying that there wasn't some really, really fucking sketchy police work going on but I also can't help feeling that as in the case of Making A Murderer we might not have seen some fairly important evidence that pointed toward their guilt. The willingness of some of the prosecutors and the police to give interviews about that time they apparently just straight up framed someone made me wonder a bit about whether there was something I was not being told. And the footnotes that all their appeals had been exhausted. So another court heard all the same evidence but came to the same conclusions.

Yeah, I just found it a bit frustrating I suppose. But the takeaway is if you ever get accused of something you either did or didn't do, don't ever talk to the police on your own.

Halt And Catch Fire. Still excellent, funny and heartbreaking all the the same time.