Entertainment

The Curse (Nathan fielder tv show)

TV

• Slow Horses - easily the best thing that we are watching at the moment. Oldman's Lamb is my role model.
• Doctor Who - Wild Blue Yonder was great. The Giggle was middling at best. RTD's sickly sentimentality dominated the conclusion.
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - the first three episodes have been surprisingly good. This - the fourth - was basically dull.
• Krapopolis - wasn't sure about this to start with, but it has grown on me. Waddingham's Deleria is the obvious inital draw, but the rest of the main characters have been fleshed out to the point where I will be looking forward to season 2.
• Enemy at the Door - from 1978, although I can recall nothing at all of it from back then. Set in the German occupied Channel Isles during WWII, each episode centres around a moral dilemma relating to loyalties, duty, consequences for the bigger picture etc etc from both sides. It holds up remarkably well.

Film

• Krampus (2015) - which has become something of a tradition for us on Krampusnacht, and continues to be enjoyable.
• I Know Where I'm Going (1945) - a Powell and Pressburger that doesn't hit the heights of A Matter of Live and Death or The Red Shoes etc but is still a stylishly told tale. I particularly enjoyed the portrayal of Webster's intended husband only through a staff card, a printed itinerary and a disembodied radio voice.

Just caught up to Young Sheldon, cute premise but the plot is now tiring as its drawn out.

I love the earlier seasons of What We Do In The Shadows but the later ones are inconsistent.

Saw What a Wonderful Knife (2023) on Shudder yesterday.

A girl kills a slasher villain, then a year later wishes she was never born and ends up in an alternate universe where the killer is still alive and continuing to terrorize the town.

Stars Jane Widdop from Yellowjackets. I liked their character quite a bit. Justin Long's in it too, Joel McHale, Cassandra Naud (Influencer)... Really good cast.

Christmas movies generally aren't my thing but I was in the mood for something seasonal. I enjoyed it.

Movies this week and a bit.

• The Holdovers, beautiful Christmas movie with just the right amount of Christmas theme. Not too much.

• The Mole, from Mats Brügger. Impressive real life undercover story to uncover the criminal deals of the north Korean regime.

• Dumb money, absurd to see the story in a movie. I remember the events while it happens the gme 💎 ✋ craze. Nonetheless fun movie.

Tv:

• I finally started watching peaky blinders.

• Law man bass reeves. They spend a good amount on this show it's looks nice. The acting of the main char is good. Sometimes others miss the beat. Unnecessary soundtracks where silence would serve the scenes better.

• Bookie, easy to watch, light, funny. good actors.