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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4258440/
A detective is haunted with hallucinations that include his dead partner, who was killed under mysterious circumstances.
I think some would find this movie slow and boring, and I did at first, but it very quickly revealed a depth and character that I haven't seen in any television show before and I doubt I will again.
This isn't a classic cop-and-mystery show. All I can say is give this a good chance, at least until the end of the second episode.
I recognize Stellan Skarsgård not just from Thor - (2011 movie) but from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - (2011 movie), the terrible remake of the disturbingly-awesome The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - (2009 movie).
s01e01 - 2015-10-13 - Episode 1 ∞
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- 0:00 -- The song is Mambo No. 5, by Pérez Prado, covered by Lou Bega.
- 0:25 -- I already dislike the main characters.
- 1:00 -- "19 points"? What is she talking about? Some sort of diet thing.
- 1:30 -- Sweden, ABBA, Roxette, A-ha, Norway
- 2:00 -- Nice controlled traffic there.
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2:20 -- The song is I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance), by Tina Charles.
- I like looking this stuff up.
- 3:10 -- I like the female character plenty now. I wish she were half her age.
- 3:30 -- Calling an accident.
- 4:15 -- Ok, I didn't call it. It appears like he's got some sort of PTSD or has experienced something bad about this car.
- 5:20 -- A strapping young bloke like that could easily take the old man down. He may have initially thought he was a cop, but since he didn't shout it out, he's just some tired civilian anyone could take.
- 6:10 -- Okay, you can stop chasing him now.. you have his car, right?
- 6:50 -- Hauling a stroller up and down those stairs must be horrible.
- 7:40 -- Holy shit, the kid must have been wanted for kicking puppies to risk that.
- 8:45 -- Holy shit, he really was wanted. Except running would have left him homeless.. so it was still a pretty shitty plan.
- 9:00 -- Psychiatrist
- 9:25 -- Well now.
- 11:15 -- I think I recognize that guy.
- 11:30 -- "Compassionate leave"
- 12:00 -- That moment was brought to you by ViewSonic.
- 12:40 -- Is that a novel by Mark Twain?
- 13:10 -- George Washington wore hippopotamus teeth?
- 13:15 -- Shreddies
- 13:50 -- Facebook
- 14:30 -- There's is psych exam. As thorough as 12 yes or no answers can get.
- 15:10 -- The second question assumes the first was a yes.
- Wow, this show gets right into it.
- 19:00 -- DAC
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The Trial of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, B. McDonald
- I found references to a 1923 print. (worldcat) but I don't know who B. McDonald is.
- Cream is not Jack the Ripper unless there were copycat kills while he was in jail.
- 20:05 -- I recognize that guy.
- 20:30 -- Is he not smart enough to know what's going on with himself?
- 21:40 -- He's always talked to himself.
- 21:45 -- Mr. Magoo
- 22:40 -- The guy on the loudspeakers is awfully nice.
- 27:35 -- The Smiths
- 33:00 -- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- 33:35 -- Linda(?) or Yoko Ono
- This is starting to drag on.
- 34:20 -- Her Facebook page. Is she imaginary too?
- 34:45 -- Videocassette recorder
- 47:00 -- Wow, great writing.
- 52:00 -- Why would they kill themselves together? That makes no sense at all.
- 52:35 -- I initially wondered why he was fiddling with the fence, and thought he would make a shiv with it. Now I wonder about wire-suicide.
- 53:30 -- Called it. Sortof.
- 55:30 -- I didn't know they made screens like that.
- 55:45 -- Whitney Houston, Beyoncé
- 55:55 -- Again, the song is I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance), by Tina Charles.
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57:00 -- Oh, so this show is about him being mad and having visions about his detective adventures?
Decent impression so far.
s01e02 - 2015-10-20 - Episode 2 ∞
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This show reminds me a lot of a movie, whose name I forget, which was a mostly-biography about a man who learned to cope with his visions.
- 2:30 -- Maybe he'd kill a cop in self-defense? Or to proactively protect someone?
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3:15 --
Do not go where the path may lead.
Go where there is no path and leave a trail. - 3:30 -- I get the impression with this show that I'd be looking up a lot of the music.
- 6:45 -- I keep looking at that van more than the car. As though the van is blocking the view of the pedestrian.
- 16:30 -- Nelly Furtado
- 17:15 -- That's assault, with witnesses.
- 24:30 -- Dr Pepper
- 29:00 -- The Tide Is High, by The Paragons, covered by Blondie
I like that the show immediately gets into a larger story arc. Perhaps this is a quality of British television.
s01e03 - 2015-10-27 - Episode 3 ∞
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- 18:00 -- A Ukranian? So?
- 25:30 -- He's 59.
- 30:00 -- Adam Sandler
- 36:45 -- Wotsits
- 51:15 -- Stalker.
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54:30 -- Parts of what that dude says feel quotable. For example..
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. -- William Shakespeare
- 57:15 -- Razors don't have that kind of hair arranged in them in that way.
s01e04 - 2015-11-03 - Episode 4 ∞
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- 3:15 -- I'm definitely not going to make a "breeding like rats" comment.
- 7:15 -- Somalia
- 11:00 -- Yes, he doesn't rinse it properly. Called it.
- 23:00 -- Right from the start, I wondered if the crazy old man saw things.
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24:00 -- Mogadishu
- 25:50 -- That's Hadar's wife.
- 28:45 -- Wow, she's cute.
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30:30 --
There was a time when you had some cojones my friend.
Life neuters us all. - 33:00 -- Menopause
- 42:45 -- You can't exactly overdose on Ibuprofen. It so upsets one's stomach that anyone would stop taking it.
- 44:30 -- Yep, the crazy old man. Called it.
- 49:45 -- Breeding. Called it.
s01e05 - 2015-11-10 - Episode 5 ∞
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- 10:30 -- She went to cork(?)
- 16:00 -- "Arabic" is a language, not a race.
- 21:30 -- Oh I don't know, perhaps she had an attraction to wealth and power.
- 27:30 -- Wow, that was a really fucking good play.
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28:45 --
In a completely sane world, is madness not the only freedom.
Why would one not take ones self to the boundless edge when there is darkness all around.
Give into it.
Give into it as a child does to his mother.
Until woeful, he defies her. - 33:30 -- Wow, harsh truths.
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33:45 --
I refuse to join a club that would have me as a member. -- Groucho Marx
- 34:45 -- Oh my gods, the patronizing air is oppressive.
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37:30 -- Sunny (1966), by Bobby Hebb.
- 38:45 -- Oh god this is all manner of awkward.
- 39:30 -- She's half-serious and half-humouring him.
- 47:15 -- Well now I know who wears the pants in that marriage.
- 48:45 -- Moldavia
- 54:00 -- If that's a judge, and one of their members is his wife, then this has to be taken out of her hands because it's a conflict of interest.
s01e06 - 2015-11-17 - Episode 6 ∞
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- 3:30 -- Mr. Magoo
- 17:30 -- Is that her son?
- 19:30 -- Zumba
- 45:00 -- There are witnesses to that argument. He was just talking with someone.
- 50:00 -- Whoa, you should not be wearing a red tie.
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54:30 -- The song is I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance), by Tina Charles.
A good resolution.
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