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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017109/
http://www.cinemax.com/banshee/
A criminal takes the opportunity to impersonate a sheriff and continues to be a criminal.
It fundamentally makes no sense how the character can fragrantly break the law.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20242042/
https://weibo.com/u/7470196136
A drama about a secret society of nerds? I don't know.
Fuck man, this show is utterly alien. It's Chinese, and this storytelling is just fucking terrible. I guess I'll wait for the American version.
Inspired by The Three-Body Problem - (2008 book), by Ken Liu
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4378376/
https://www.babylon-berlin.com/en/
Intrigue about pre-WWII Germany.
Slow, tense, and boring.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5052460/
A military guy is recruited as a rescuer.
It's okay I guess, but it's not my thing.
A prequel to Taken - (2008 movie)
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.nbc.com/the-blacklist-redemption
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5592230/
A spinoff of The Blacklist - (2013 show) (season 4)
Properly titled The Blacklist: Redemption
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4378456/
was https://www.fox.com/second-chance/
An old retired cop is reborn into a younger, stronger, version of himself, and fights crime.
Seems fairly good, though I'd bet it would be bland without the pretty girl.
Cancelled 2016-05-12
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399664/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210721174231/www.amc.com/shows/the-night-manager--108
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g13rt
A dude begins his career as a night manager for some place somewhere but gets used by British intelligence to act against an arms dealer.
Fairly decent, but I suspect it's only because this is another show with a British accent being thrown around carelessly.
Based on The Night Manager (1993 book), by John le Carré
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3032476/
https://www.amc.com/shows/better-call-saul--1002228
A down-and-out semi-lawyer bumbles around his life, trying to make ends meet.
After an entire season I still don't feel anything for this show.
This show is a spinoff for a character from Breaking Bad - (2008 show)
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2741602/
https://www.nbc.com/the-blacklist
A bad guy blackmails the good guys because he likes this one good girl.
My impression from the first few episodes was:
Seems "ok". Unless this has a more interesting story-arc, I won't consider this particularly good. The predictable and episodic nature of television bores the shit out of me. It makes a series only valuable only the course of multiple episodes and individual episodes become the shit I have to slog through.
My later impression, from the end of the second season:
Characters were slow and stiff until they were developed more fully. When they were, a broader story arc took hold, making this show quite a bit more interesting.
My final impression:
It gets repetitive and annoying.
Avoid cliffhangers: Watch more when it's part way into the next season.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4206804/
After a stitched-together corpse is found, it is determined that children have been going missing.
Featuring a Sean Bean who is restrained from acting, this plodding may as well-be documentary features people with an English accent doing stuff and caring about things. It is neither captivating nor even interesting.
Inspired by Frankenstein - (1818 book), by Mary Shelley
