Just watched Episode 6 of Skeleton Crew. Wow. 
It’s just simple, good storytelling.
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Oooh. The Traitors is getting good.
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Finished the first season of The Sandbaggers. That season finale was great. You’d think a spy show that’s more about the people in the office and dealing with the bureaucracy than seeing the agents in the field wouldn’t be all that exciting or intense, but this show does it somehow. Not one to get too attached to the characters, that’s for sure.
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Re-watched the second ‘Puss in Boots’ movie, ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’. The first one was a nice, little Shrek-adjacent movie. The second is—after a bit of a slow start—just brilliant. Highly recommended. 
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They clearly listened to my complaints about the format of the show and implemented changes 
I’ve always said that the missions are too co-operative, they need reasons for the traitors to try and sabotage the missions.
Looks like that is going to be happening a lot 
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The Last Wish was brilliant. One of those films not enough people talked about.
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Need to catch up on episode 3. Yin on Uncloaked was…interesting.
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I haven’t watched Uncloaked but yeah Yin seemed a bit strange.
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She’s lovely but literally talked for 15 minutes straight and none of the other guests could get a word in edgeways. She would have been fascinating if she’d lasted on the show. Pretty sure she is on the spectrum (aren’t we all…).
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We watched the last episodes of Vera this week. I’ll miss it.
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Oh my word episode 3 of The Traitors!
(Bye bye Armani. That’s what you get for being way too sure of yourself. I think Minah could go all the way. Linda won’t be long for this world though).
Also finished our annual rewatch of dinnerladies which never fails to make me laugh and cry every, single year. I realised this year that the series is over 25 years old!!
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Currently watching Harlan Coben’s Missing You miniseries on Netflix. I’ve spotted several Doctor Who actors already - Richard Armitage, Marc Warren, Lenny Henry and Jo Martin!
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Just finished Devil’s Hour season 2 and the ending is crazy and I want more but it’ll be a year or so before the next season drops. I’m a bit surprised at how the final episode played out but it works. The cast are great as they were back in the first season.
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Finally got around to continuing Return to Paradise. I quite like the dynamic of this one where the detective knows lots of people in the community but isn’t particularly welcome there because of what she did before leaving for the UK. It’s a different angle to the ‘fish out of water’ element of Death in Paradise.
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been rewatching some benidom, such a good comedy (one of the last good uk comedies imo) was such a fave of mine when i was a kid/teen
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After finishing the series, I think Mackenzie is my favourite of all the Paradise detectives. It’s the only one my partner was sucked into and a large part of it was Mackenzie’s character.
I did also really like Don Gilet’s debut as the new lead in the main show as well, he shows promise. For such a formulaic series of shows (really not a dig, it’s part of the charm for me), Mackenzie and Mervin feel like they’re shaking it up a bit in terms of the leads.
Also, nice to see Mooney again as Mackenzie’s superior officer in Britain. Not hugely necessary but lovely connective tissue.
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Got sucked into and blitzed through Culinary Class War on Netflix, a Korean cooking show.
Quite a ride after immediately finishing the new season of Squid Game too, with a palpable sense of genuine relief when eliminated contestants aren’t in fact shot.
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I’ve been rewatching V ahead of the Big Finish releases.
I’ve watched the two 80s mini-series and I’m now onto the 80s series.
The series is just as I remembered: V meets Dynasty with a lot of drops in continuity with what came before.
Next will be the 2009 reboot.
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Finished Return to Paradise - enjoyable although some of the mysteries seemed to have fairly obvious solutions (the ‘they were already dead’ one has been done many a time in Death in Paradise). But the lead detective Mackenzie is excellent and the supporting characters were entertaining. Probably not as good as Beyond Paradise because that one tried to do something a bit different by not always being about murder, and this one feels possibly a bit too similar to Death because of the coastal setting but overall not a bad way to spend 6 hours.
Did I miss the bit where they commented on her sergeant being English? It seemed something that would come up but he seemed like he was written as a ‘proper’ Aussie just being played by a Brit.
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