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NATION WAKE UP AFTER 15 YEARS NEW MOZALIERI JUST DROPPED

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THANKS TO @princessofdragonsandwolves FOR THE LAST ONE

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It's worth watching this entire video again, as we await Black Doves s2

[rouyn]

"Oh shit."

Tom Burke as Dennis Rebrov in The Lazarus Project 2.06 (2023)

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Happy Valley's Sarah Lancashire is cuttingly cool in new Black Doves trailer

The Happy Valley star plays an icy spymaster in the upcoming thriller.

Released Dec 5th

Black Doves trailer 2.

[my-film-reel-world]

I Just Watched (28th August): Black Doves – Series 1 (2024)

Wrong time of the year to be watching this, but oh well! I wasn’t aware of that at all going into it! 🤣🤣🤣

Oh, this series! Oh my god, this series! I absolutely adore this thing to pieces!!!!!

First off, the acting: Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw were just incredible from start to finish and worked each other off really well. I love that the two didn’t go into a romantic relationship; it’s a nice little subversion in the action thriller genre. Whishaw was witty and hilarious and had some of the best dialogue I’ve ever heard in any British crime show I’ve seen. The Kent Brockman gag was so unexpected, it actually had me in a fit of giggles! 🤣 And he straight up gifts a child a toy gun at Christmas! I love him so much!!! His relationship with his gay friends was sweet and especially with Ella Lily Hyland’s character. God, I loved their dynamic in this! Whishaw deserved that Best Actor award 100%, in my opinion. Knightley was a badass and had some gripping action sequences and razor sharp comeback lines. Fun fact: This is the first time I’ve seen her in a TV show, and she absolutely killed it! (Figuratively and literally!) It reminded me of her role as Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. 😍🥰

Sarah Lancashire of Happy Valley fame was brilliant too, though I’m not a huge fan of her little white bob. Ella Lily Hyland is quite possibly my personal favourite alongside Whishaw’s. I just loved her acting and wise-cracking attitude in it. She’s amazing! Her gang was so fun to watch too.

Thanks to this show, I’ve now learned what a triggerman means. I never even knew it had a name in the first place. The more you know! 💫

The thing I wasn’t ever so keen on was the abundance of Christmas tunes that kept playing in the background. It was just unnecessary, in my opinion. Like, we hear those same popular tunes every single year; we don’t need them to be played again here! It wouldn’t really change anything if you removed them from the scenes they appeared in. That’s just a personal nitpick though.

Oh, and apparently, there are talks of a 2nd series??? I personally can’t see that happening. I mean, where can you even go from here? There’s no set up to another series at all. It’s fine as it is!

If you haven’t seen this show yet, you definitely should! It’s incredible. One of Netflix’s best!

10/10!

[cantsayidont]

Teevee shows:

BLACK DOVES (2024): Keira Knightley attempts unsuccessfully to renew her action star credentials with this violent, very uneven Netflix miniseries from Joe Barton (creator of THE LAZARUS PROJECT). Knightley stars as 40-ish deep-cover spy Helen Webb, whose two little children and dull husband Wallace (Andrew Buchan), an up-and-coming Tory MP, have no idea of her real past, her real occupation (spying on Wallace for a shadowy espionage organization), or the fact that she's been having an affair with a man called Jason (Andrew Koji of WARRIOR, wasted), who's just been murdered. Ben Whishaw (looking like he's been scraped out of a lint trap) costars as Helen's friend Sam, a sardonic gay hitman who is supposed to be watching her back while coping with problems of his own. Set at Christmastime, BLACK DOVES has a weird streak of holiday sentimentality that sits uneasily with Barton's dry black humor (which is sometimes fun) and mean-spirited ghoulishness (which is not). Worse, Barton leaves Knightley flailing in a badly underwritten part that's completely overshadowed by both Sam and the supporting cast — there's never any reason to care about either of Helen's lives, and the script seems reluctant to take her motivations (protect her children, avenge her dead boyfriend) at all seriously. Unlike THE LAZARUS PROJECT, the more interesting character threads also feel divorced from the murky plot, which is convoluted and far-fetched, but short on imagination and never very interesting. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Several, with snotty assassins Williams (Ella Lily Hyland) and Eleanor (Gabrielle Creevy) the show's principal bright spots. VERDICT: Not so much "Ho Ho Ho" as "Oh ho hum," and I was dismayed by how disinterested it is in its ostensible lead. If you want "married mom is secretly a badass spy," try WHO IS ERIN CARTER, which is less gay, but more fun.

HELSTROM (2020): Muddled, dreary Hulu horror-drama based on D-list Marvel Comics characters Satana and Damian Hellstrom, Son of Satan, here known strictly as Daimon (Tom Austen) and Ana Helstrom (Sydney Lemmon). In the show, the adult siblings' now-institutionalized mother Victoria (Elizabeth Marvel) is possessed and their father is/was a demonic serial killer, so Daimon and Ana both have powers; Daimon, a college professor in Portland, has a sideline as a demon hunter and exorcist, while mean lesbian Ana is a trader in rare artifacts with a hobby of supernaturally assassinating rich assholes. A late holdover from the era before Marvel Studios TV projects became completely Mouseified, HELSTROM doesn't have the clammy deracinated theme-park blandness of the Disney+ shows, but it's still a wearisome slog. Daimon is boring, and I loathed his self-righteous noviate sidekick Gabriella (Ariana Guerra), but Ana's dead-eyed bitchiness, killer outfits, and silly haircut are kind of fun, at least in the early episodes. It might have worked better with an X-FILES/KOLCHAK-style monster-of-the-week format, but it fails to generate the atmosphere needed for a PG-13/TV-MA horror story, and the indecipherable plot bogs down in reactionary "redemptive power of family" horseshit. CONTAINS LESBIANS? The sole reason for watching, but while the show tells us that Ana is an inveterate womanizer, we never once see her kiss a girl! VERDICT: Ana Helstrom is great, but everything else is tedious and unappetizing. CWs apply for quasi-incest themes, medical torture, parental abuse, and an icky supernatural forced-pregnancy plot.

THE LINCOLN LAWYER (2022– ): Agreeable but very ordinary legal drama, based on the Michael Connelly novels, about L.A. defense attorney Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), trying to get back in the game after a stint in rehab and unexpectedly inheriting the clients of a colleague who's just been murdered. Becki Newton and Neve Campbell costar as Mickey's ex-wives, with Jazz Raycole as his client-turned driver Izzy, who chauffeurs Mickey around in a Lincoln SUV and acts as his sounding board, and occasional guest appearances by Elliott Gould. Created by David E. Kelley and Ted Humphrey, this is an utterly conventional lawyer show, with the usual contrivances and limitations (like recurring bouts of smug whorephobia), and even at his lowest moments, Mickey is much too affluent to really sell the "feisty underdog" shtick. Nonetheless, it's a well-polished formula, buoyed by Garcia-Rulfo's likeable lead performance, and it works better than the disappointing 2011 movie with Matthew McConaughey, although I wish that the show would allow more time for Mickey's smaller cases, which are more satisfying than the big case plots. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Izzy is gay, but it only comes up once or twice a season. VERDICT: Nothing special, but it goes down easily.

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The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself (aka Half Bad) was cancelled by Netflix after one season, but there is still a chance that fans could lobby for a revival.

Why Was The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself Cancelled and Can It Be Revived? - Cancelled Sci Fi

Netflix cancelled The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself (aka Half Bad) after one season, but there is still a chance it could be revived.

Can It Be Revived?

At this point, it may seem like The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself is dead in the water, but an important milestone is coming up which may present an opportunity to revive the series. Netflix generally owns the streaming rights to a property for a minimum of two years. So unless it has an extended hold on the show, the rights should revert back to The Imaginarium by the end of 2024. If fans were to get this one trending on social media again, perhaps that could interest another venue in picking it up for a second season. This show is likely not one of the more expensive streaming productions, so it may be attractive as an affordable scripted property that already has a built-in audience.

The Roku Channel recently enjoyed some success after picking up the cancelled Spiderwick Chronicles from Disney+. And AMC’s horror-focused streaming service Shudder might also be a good landing spot for the show. I don’t know if they have the budget for a property like this, but it is worth trying or possibly targeting some of the bigger services as a budget addition to their scripted lineup. It has been less than two years since the show was cancelled, so picking up where the first season left off is still a very real possibility. And if the rights do indeed go back to The Imaginarium by the end of the year, now is a good time for fans to start building some momentum to interest another streamer in taking a flyer on the show when it is available.