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A Spy Among Friends (2022)
Dark, confusing, revisionist.
As others have said, it's too dark. I was hitting my monitors brightness button, but it was already at max.
Constantly swapping eras never makes for easy following in a complex, dense spy thriller plot, and because of this it was difficult to feel any sense of trepidation or intrigue.
Olivia Coleman's apparent understudy, Anna Maxwell Martin, played an anachronistic and historically revisionist character that is an insult to those who suffered the class, race and gender discrimination of the times.
Everything else, including Damien Lewis, Guy Pearce, and the costumes and sets, kept me watching.
Treadstone (2019)
Threadbare is what I call it.
The first episode looked promising, but it deltas out into shallow characters and a threadbare story, punctuated by precision violence scenes which are delivered with the same regularity as car chases on the ATeam.
Znaki (2018)
Police police police police
I stopped watching because Netflix insult my intelligence by reminding me that the POLICE car is still a POLICE car and the POLICE officer is still a POLICE officer every few seconds. Why not remind viewers about the HOUSE or TREE just incase they need the help? The story looked interesting but someone at netflix has ruined it.
The Midnight Sky (2020)
My algorithm says boring.
A list actors on-board? Big budget? Cute kid? Bit of sci-fi action? Feed that into the algorithm and you've got a hit movie.... or in this case a very boring one that makes no sense. Such a shame that script - you know, story - that thing humans are bound by their nature to attend to, doesn't feed into the algorithm of so many big movies these days.
Inside No. 9: Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room (2018)
Ten out of nine
Rod Hull and Emu; Bob Carolgees and Spit the dog; The Crankees. It wasn't so long ago that these acts drew large audiences. Bernie Cliftons Dressing room works so well because the sketches performed both mock that era while bringing genuine laughs. We are treated to the clowning and comedy skills of Pemberton, as well as the pair's writing skills. This episode has everything and is stands up to repeated viewing better than the other great number 9s.