09-26-2016, 09:44 AM
Longmire Season 5 has been released on Netflix. The whole series on one go as seems to be the way. Quite enjoyable whilst never being brilliant.
Fear the Walking Dead has strayed from it's usual boring character based crap to imitating 'The Walking Dead' with it's storylines. Whilst a bit of a cop out it has made a few episodes much more bearable. Season finale approaching fast.
One which slipped under the radar for me but is very good ....
Tyrant.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2568204/
That ^^ type of description put me off watching this. It fails to give you a picture of what the plot is about. Essentailly 'Barry' has turned his back on his right of living life of immeasurable wealth as second son in a dictatorship which runs a country. He would have wanted for nothing, but events in his childhood meant he needed to escape that and live a life where he was an intelligent, unassuming Doctor with a perfect family. Wealthy and comfortable in all respects, but just a 'normal' person with a 'normal' family.
Barry and his family return for his brothers wedding. In a matter of a few days tragedy and villainy strike and Barry gets drawn back into the world he turned his back on. Past secrets (some are mindblowers twisting the plot) show that Barry is not necessarily the man he is perceived to be and as much as he tried to leave - Events make that impossible.
I could go on, but seriously - watch it. I'm upto series 3, midway through and there has just been another brutal hammer blow to the plot. IMDb gives it 7.9 and it's worth at least that imho. The writing and casting is very very good. It's (obviously) very topical at present and events which happen really hammer home how there are no good or bad sides with hostilities in the Middle East. It's such a grey area - and really does have you twisting one way then the other at times when watching.
Fear the Walking Dead has strayed from it's usual boring character based crap to imitating 'The Walking Dead' with it's storylines. Whilst a bit of a cop out it has made a few episodes much more bearable. Season finale approaching fast.
One which slipped under the radar for me but is very good ....
Tyrant.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2568204/
Quote:Barry Al-Fayeed has been living in the United States for twenty years, during which time he got married to Molly Olson, and had two children (Sammy and Emma), with both Molly and he working as physicians, Barry as a pediatrician, in Pasadena. This life belies the fact that at age sixteen, he, under his given name Bassam, escaped his family life in the middle eastern country of Abuddin, where the Al-Fayeeds have been the dictatorial rulers for generations, normally of violent and repressive regimes which he could not morally tolerate. He has not been back to Abuddin since. On the urging of his mother, Barry decides to go back to Abuddin with Molly and family in tow. He may find that leaving Abuddin this second time around is more difficult as he gets ensconced in the troubles the Al-Fayeeds are facing in general in continuing to rule the country as a repressive dictatorship. The longer Barry stays, the more it in turn affects the only life of democratic freedom Molly, Sammy and Emma ...
That ^^ type of description put me off watching this. It fails to give you a picture of what the plot is about. Essentailly 'Barry' has turned his back on his right of living life of immeasurable wealth as second son in a dictatorship which runs a country. He would have wanted for nothing, but events in his childhood meant he needed to escape that and live a life where he was an intelligent, unassuming Doctor with a perfect family. Wealthy and comfortable in all respects, but just a 'normal' person with a 'normal' family.
Barry and his family return for his brothers wedding. In a matter of a few days tragedy and villainy strike and Barry gets drawn back into the world he turned his back on. Past secrets (some are mindblowers twisting the plot) show that Barry is not necessarily the man he is perceived to be and as much as he tried to leave - Events make that impossible.
I could go on, but seriously - watch it. I'm upto series 3, midway through and there has just been another brutal hammer blow to the plot. IMDb gives it 7.9 and it's worth at least that imho. The writing and casting is very very good. It's (obviously) very topical at present and events which happen really hammer home how there are no good or bad sides with hostilities in the Middle East. It's such a grey area - and really does have you twisting one way then the other at times when watching.
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