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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791205/
Robots go mental and investigators try to figure it out.
Great world building, but everything is monotone and it goes totally crazy most of the way through. It would have been better if it stayed grounded in its initial location as the world-building was great there. Ultimately disappointing.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4450826/
was https://www.fox.com/minority-report
A precog teams up with a police officer to solve crimes before they happen.
Fair.
Continues from Minority Report - (2002 movie)
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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/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/tt8332130/
A buddy cop show, where people appear from the past into contemporary-day Denmark.
Kinda neat.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5651844/
was showcase.ca/travelers
Hundreds of years from now, surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back through time, into people of the 21st century, while attempting to change the path of humanity.
Kinda not bad.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/
was showcase.ca/continuum
A cop from an authoritarian future is caught up in a daring time-travel jail-break, to become stranded in present-day Vancouver Canada.
Overall this is adequate, but with several plot points and character traits which are difficult to believe. The biggest problem I have is the various brushes against citizen-terrorism apologetics. My takeaway is that this show is "safe", with some edginess fabricated for the kids.
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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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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.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4075386/
Driven by De Beers' manufactured value of diamonds, the story follows a robbery being investigated by police and an ugly insurance woman of some sort.
Maybe it gets better, but it's slow and boring. Maybe I needed to see an extended-length pilot episode. This has John Hurt, but that's not good enough for me. Maybe I should have given this more of a chance, but .. I'm not going to.
Has scenes spoken in the Serbian language, with English subtitles.
