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Watched all 3 series of Das Boot (2018) in one go. As ever in such TV series, I love the action and suspense bits, and the fine lines of military hierarchy, but can't stand soapy love drama. The supense was plenty and it was quiet good, and the love soap was only in one series, so the good bits dominated.

First series kept close to the 1981 movie plot about "U-Boat goes auf Feindfahrt from La Rochelle", but mixed some land base french resistance/french police/gestapo plot into it.
Second series reached out to some USA plots, but some U-Boat stuff was still on the menu, and the land based french plot changed from resistance thrill to refugee drama.
Third series changed the main set to neutral Portugal, and back on the U-Boat this time centring on the fact that german crews got thinned out and younger/greener as the war went on, while the UK and US sonar and ship radar tech got better and better.

All in all I liked it. Some modern political correctness was detected, but hey. - Very much liked the fact that as in real life there are no blank heroes, as everybody has their own grey agenda and there weren't too much TV-plot-dumb characters around.

7/10

- Like that some main characters bought the farm mid-season, like Simone Strasser, quiet realistically that sooner or later she as an amateur spy would get caught by the professionals, especially liked the fact that she was gunned down by some anonymous german soldier and not by the main antagonist.
- Also realistically was the refusal to give most secondary protagonists a happy ending, driving home the terror and randomness of war.
- Should have looked for a better old age actor than the one who played Kapitän Hoffman senior, the father of Kaleun Hoffman junior. Made a very wooden delivery.
 
Just finished Barry. I know some people were down on the last season, but this show has been one of my all-time favorites...maybe even top 5?

But the last episode of TV I watched was the last Master Chef, but I think we're realizing we just don't like anymore. Everything feels WAY WAY too forced. We actually like Crimescene Kitchen more, and it's ridiculous.
 
Watched a few episodes of the new futurama season... and it was entirely forgettable, I don't really remember any of it, except that they should not have brought it back again and just let it be... sad, but entirely expected.
 
eizbaer said:
Watched a few episodes of the new futurama season... and it was entirely forgettable, I don't really remember any of it, except that they should not have brought it back again and just let it be... sad, but entirely expected.
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My guess is that Disney was able to make it work financially.
 
evoWALO said:
My guess is that Disney was able to make it work financially.
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Except Disney is whining about the streaming services not making money.
 
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