A couple of new TV shows
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thewayneThe first is on Apple TV+, called Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudeikis.
This is an amazing show. About half an hour long, and I guess you'd call it a dramady. It's a fish out of water story - sort of - about a Kansas college football coach who is hired by a UK premiere league football (soccer) club to take over as team manager. The couple who owned the club just divorced, the woman who now owns it hates the misogynistic manager and sacks him, and brings over Ted and his head coach, Coach Beard. Ted has a very unique style in coaching, having taken a team from literally the bottom of their conference to winning their first championship - in one year. And sadly there's not much I can say about the show except that it's quite amazing. There's ten eps in the first season, wife and I finished number seven last night and will probably polish it off tonight. I believe the second season has been committed.
The great thing about this show is that it is truly a feel good show, and well worth watching in these wretched times. It also benefits from a rewatch, and amusingly redeems the word 'wanker'. But you have to have Apple TV+.
The second show is a bit more easily accessed, it's a crime drama on HBO called Deforeigners. It's a Norski show with subtitles, perhaps dubbed? I haven't watched it yet but the concept is very interesting.
It's based in Oslo. A portal opens up outside of Oslo Harbor (in the water? Huh?!) and people from the Edwardian era, Vikings, and stone age people come through! No one has any idea how they got here. Time passes, the vikings and stone agers settle in the woods, I guess the Edwardians are assimilated, and a year later one of the Edwardians is murdered. Thus the series starts.
I'll be watching the first ep in the next couple of days.
Having just now watched the trailer, looks like there's some pretty intense content there!
This is an amazing show. About half an hour long, and I guess you'd call it a dramady. It's a fish out of water story - sort of - about a Kansas college football coach who is hired by a UK premiere league football (soccer) club to take over as team manager. The couple who owned the club just divorced, the woman who now owns it hates the misogynistic manager and sacks him, and brings over Ted and his head coach, Coach Beard. Ted has a very unique style in coaching, having taken a team from literally the bottom of their conference to winning their first championship - in one year. And sadly there's not much I can say about the show except that it's quite amazing. There's ten eps in the first season, wife and I finished number seven last night and will probably polish it off tonight. I believe the second season has been committed.
The great thing about this show is that it is truly a feel good show, and well worth watching in these wretched times. It also benefits from a rewatch, and amusingly redeems the word 'wanker'. But you have to have Apple TV+.
The second show is a bit more easily accessed, it's a crime drama on HBO called Deforeigners. It's a Norski show with subtitles, perhaps dubbed? I haven't watched it yet but the concept is very interesting.
It's based in Oslo. A portal opens up outside of Oslo Harbor (in the water? Huh?!) and people from the Edwardian era, Vikings, and stone age people come through! No one has any idea how they got here. Time passes, the vikings and stone agers settle in the woods, I guess the Edwardians are assimilated, and a year later one of the Edwardians is murdered. Thus the series starts.
I'll be watching the first ep in the next couple of days.
Having just now watched the trailer, looks like there's some pretty intense content there!
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Date: 2021-02-01 07:37 pm (UTC)And after watching the trailer, apparently the people from the past started appearing all over the world: you could run an RPG campaign from that quite easily! I sometimes think in game design terms, and you create an Edwardian character who takes a limitation of unable to swim, all of a sudden he's in Oslo Harbor, drowning, and a man saves him. Turns out he's a charismatic preacher who moonlights as an occasional murder, along the lines of Jack the Ripper.