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Cassie (47 KP) rated The Missing - Season 1 in TV

Jul 31, 2017

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can be slow at times (0 more)

I started watching this show (on Starz in the US) because I like limited series. Limited series are awesome because they're kind of like long movies, long enough to know the characters, but without having to worry about show runners milking old story lines. The first episode of this series feels both fast and slow. You learn a lot, but it doesn't come screaming at you. The suspense builds the further in you get and the intrigue increases along with it. I think I enjoyed the characters and their development more than the actual overall plot. However, it was still a good story all in all. A good mystery/crime drama to satiate your needs.

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Ross (3284 KP) rated Marvel's Iron Fist - Season 1 in TV

Aug 7, 2018

This series is by far the weakest of the first batch of Defenders components on Netflix, and I really didn't like Jessica Jones. It really feels like a poorly executed version of DC's Arrow - the characters and storylines are so very similar (rich boy goes missing, comes back with new talents, friends' father is an evil mastermind, corruption). There was nowhere near enough action for what should have been a very heavily kung-fu based series. The series was padded out to make the necessary 13 episodes, and there was a lot of nothing in between. Good to have some of the Iron Fist background but this was badly carried out (compared to the excellent equivalent in Luke Cage!).
Glad I got through it at last.

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Vegas (725 KP) rated Jigsaw (2017) in Movies

Sep 16, 2018

Jigsaw (2017)

2017 | Crime, Horror

6.4

(53 Ratings)

Movie Rating

It’s a Saw film (1 more)

Gore fest

Much of the same as before (0 more)

Not bad

I was a fan of the saw films such as the franchise is.
You know that the series is about, you know what to expect and what is likely to happen and this is no different..
It is well thought out and possibly better than some of the later films in the series but you do tend to wonder why the have revived the series... obviously the film companies coffers are running low and an established film franchise is a money maker...

All in all it is watchable and enjoyable, IF you don’t expect anything different or too unexpected from the originals and like gory films.

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Caffeinated Zombie (3374 KP) rated Patient Zero (Joe Ledger, #1) in Books

Jan 8, 2019

Character development (2 more)

Plot

Brilliant writing

One of the best zombie books I've read and the start on an epic series

Contains spoilers, click to show

Patient Zero is the first book in Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series. Jonathan Maberry is a phenomenal writer, in this series he introduces us to the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) a shadow government agency formed to respond to advanced terrorist threats such as bioterrorism, alien technology etc..

In this book we meet an array of characters such as Mr Church, Aunt Sally, Top and Bunny when Joe is recruited by Mr Church to help deal with the potential release of a zombie virus. This book is thrilling, funny, and keeps the reader itching for more.

I give this book 10/10.

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David McK (3372 KP) rated The Young Hornblower Omnibus in Books

Jan 30, 2019

Released to tie in with the ITV series of the same name a few years back (hence the cover photo), this omnibus edition consists of the following:

Mr Midshipman Hornblower
Lieutenant Hornblower
Hornblower and the Hotspur

While the second two are novels in their own right (with an over-reaching plot structure), it has to be said that the first (also the one the TV series seems to be based on) reads more like a series of short stories, a sense heightened by the fact that each chapter has its own distinct heading. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if that was originally the case, and they have all just been collected here under that umbrella heading of Mr Midshipman Hornblower!

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Eleanor (1463 KP) rated The Handmaid's Tale in Books

Feb 12, 2020

It’s rare that I prefer a film or TV series to the book it is based on but I think this may be the exception. Having only seen the 1st series on TV I thought I’d give the book a go and although the world-building lives up to what I’d expect the story itself is slow and not as tense.

It’s scary and an all believable world that Atwood creates but the telling seemed bogged down in details over the mundane.

I probably spoiled myself seeing the TV series first but I’d recommend that to all. I feel the theme has been gone over plenty so won't rehash but it's a worthwhile story however you decide to consume it.