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Old 02-05-2018, 11:56 AM   #5967 (permalink)
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I'd recommend The Hollow Crown if you didn't catch it the
first time around. Cumberbatch is an engaging Richard III.
Seconded most highly. The four plays - King Henry IV part one and two, King Henry V and Richard II - absolutely enthralling television.
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Been wanting to see Detectorists.

I know that there's lots of very good shows about royals of yore these days (I do want to watch Borgias and also Reign), but I am still bitter over the fact that none of them are about Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Or Ludwig. Why??


There's one about Catherine II if that helps.

Also, Borgias is pretty sweet, though not as violent/sexual as you may have been led to believe. Jeremy Irons is of course flawless but a real shout-out to Francois Arnaud as Cesare and Colm Feore as the Borgias' sworn enemy, Cardinal della Rovere.
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Give us Frederick the Great!
Meh, he wasn't so great.
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Altered Carbon.
I'm only 4 episodes in, but so far it's amazing. Good writing, great characters, a very dark world. Really well done action scenes, full frontal nudity.
What more can a boy want, eh ?
Seriously though, this is great tv.
Without spoiling anything, we follow Takeshi Kovacs (most cyberpunk name ever), a recently released and "resleeved" terrorist/freedomfighter that spent the last 250 years locked away, without a body, sentenced to rot in "jail" forever.
You see, this is a world where people don't die - they simply replace their bodies, or sleeves as they're called, and they keep on going.
Takeshi is offered a chance at freedom, if he finds a killer. Soon things turn out to be more complicated than he anticipated. I know this cryptic bs is.. well, bs, but I really don't want to spoil anything.
Give it a try. If you're into dark, intelligent sf and don't mind extreme violence, you'll love it.
Sounds excellent. I'll add it to my ever-growing list.
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