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Coroner (2019)
coyotejoe 0 points 3 years ago.

slow awful show, bad acting, bad writing, unrealistic situations, heavy with its social justice agenda. Thought a coroner worked at the Morgue but this mentally ill Nancy Drew thinks shes a detective going on raids and tracking down suspects.

PonderThis 5 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

I beg to differ with you, if you’ve watched Harrow, he too does some detective work and the late 70’s early 80’s drama Quincy M.E., Quincy did some detective work. And if you watched the tv drama Graceland, Serinda Swan was very, very good in that drama. And Roger Cross has been in many tv shows and not just a one of character. Maybe this type of drama isn’t your cuppa tea but is a very good drama in my opinion.

The Cleaning Lady (2022)
PonderThis 5 points 2 years ago.

Just saw the trailer for this new drama and it looks interesting. And Oliver Hudson is sure easy on the eyes too……going from comedies to serious drama…..will be interesting to see his serious side.

Moonfall (2022)
edzo -2 points 2 years ago*.

Terrible.
Story: 5
Acting: 4
Science: 2
Believability: 0

on a scale of 1 to 10

PonderThis 5 points 2 years ago.

Well, it kind fits in with the theory that there was more to the moon landing than what we were told back in 1969. Yes, it is hard to believe but this is “fiction”. If you want believability, then don’t watch this type of movie.

Made in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of Block 10 (2019)
JadeEnigma 5 points 3 years ago.

I really do want to watch this. I think it’s very important and necessary, but I am scared to death about how it will affect me and how my limbic system will respond to it.

Maybe in shifts?

PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

I know what you mean. I have a strong constitution but knowing that this really happened and if there is footage or photos of the procedures, I don’t think I could stand to watch it. This is not a Hollywood movie showing a lesser ugly side of the human race, it’s not sugar coated. This is things that nightmares are made of.

Battlestar Galactica (2003)
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago*.

One thing I’ve noticed throughout the 4 seasons, those frak’n hatch doors on Galactica always sound like frak’n crickets when they open and close them! Surely someone on Caprica had some WD40 to spray on those hinges! 😁

Honest Thief (2020)
NoelCoyotebleu 2 points 3 years ago.

Oh look! It’s Liam in the same movie again. I KNOW he has more nuanced actor skills, sure wish they would cast him in something that could utilize them. I love him, so I will watch…. just sayin.

PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

I watched it Saturday and was thinking the same thing. But it seems that right after the death of Natasha Richardson, he began to make one movie after the other. It was as if he needed to keep really busy to not possibly go over the deep end or drink a lot. He isn’t young anymore and not sure how he keeps the pace up for action movies.

Calls (2021)
Luka77 2 points 3 years ago.

yes wasn’t that War of the worlds?

PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

Yes, I did a paper for a college history class about the War of the Worlds radio broadcast. It was at the time that Hitler was making his march into Poland and this was before the US entered the war. Many people hearing the radio broadcast thought it was Hitler attacking the east coast. Orson Wells and his genius mind at work but I don’t think he had any idea that he would cause a panic.

The Domestics (2018)
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

Wasn’t a bad little movie! I actually enjoyed it! Now I have this urge to make up a survival list of items I will need if such a thing like this were to happen! Now if there is a zombie apocalypse, I’ve seen enough tv shows and movies to know what to do and would combine the 2 list. 😁😁😁😁😁😁 I’m always thinking ahead and prepared too! 😁😁😁😁😁😁

Harlots (2017)
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

Dang! WE won’t get a 4th season of Harlots! It has been axed and I liked this quirky little drama a lot! Saw a very young Lesley Manville in a 1990’s episode of Silent Witness and I mean young! She is actually a redhead.

A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
PonderThis 3 points 2 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

I predict A Quiet Place Part III since it ended the way it did. I agree with you Kid Kryptonite, we need to know where they came from! Are the alien life forms? Unlike The Silence, we know where those creatures came from. Maybe a part III will answer those questions and wrap it up and be the end of it. No need to drag it out for 2 more sequels!

News of the World (2020)
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

I grew up watching a lot of western movies and television shows in the 1960’s & 1970’s. All were the typical westerns! It is so refreshing to see new westerns go in a different direction and Tom Hanks doesn’t disappoint in this western either. I also love the soundtrack for this movie and might purchase the soundtrack.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

If you love CSI as much as I did/have, then get ready for a limited CSI series! It was suppose to air on October 6, 2020 but due to COVID-19, it has been pushed back. CSI first aired on October 6, 2000 and spawned a couple of spin offs but none were as good as the original CSI. No new release date has been given, but stay tuned!

Cruella (2021)
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

Emma Stone hit it out of the ball park!! I also enjoyed the soundtrack! I was in grade school in the 1960’s I listened to a lot of the music that was played in this movie.

Yellowstone (2018) S3 E1
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

Damn, this season is gonna be intense! Surprised to see Josh Holloway in season 3 which will bring another level of greatness to this 21st century western! This is a modern day western and looks like it will succeed as Blood & Oil didn’t.

Night Gallery (1969)
Kyben 6 points 3 years ago.

And, we only had 3 TV channels: ABC, NBC, and CBS.

PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

That’s right and how spoiled have we become! We now have 24/7 channels unlike in the past when the networks signed off at midnight and all you saw was the test screen!

Snowpiercer (2020) S2 E10
Researcher 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

I vote hotspot and continued rat a la carte.

PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

In the letter she wrote to Alex, she said she had eaten all of the rats and she marked on the calendar 3 days that she was finally without food.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) S4 E1
PonderThis 3 points 2 years ago.

She’s back! Can’t wait to see the 2 new episodes that dropped last night!

Halifax f.p (1994) S1 E4
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago*.

As I was watching this episode I kept thinking the 25 year old young man reminds me of someone. I kept watching wondering who is this guy playing Peter Donaldson? Then I noticed the slight lisp! I googled Ben Mendelsohn and SURE ENOUGH I was right! You may know Mendelsohn from The Outsiders, he played the detective Ralph Anderson and he was also in Bloodline and played the character Danny Rayburn.And he’s been in numerous movies usually playing the heavy. Even at age 25 his acting is spot on! I love watching tv shows from the 90’s because you never know who is going to pop up in one of them when they were just starting out in the business.

The Gilded Age (2022) S1 E1
Alien 0 points 2 years ago.

It definitely doesn’t have the style and elegance of Downton Abbey and the acting from Carrie Coon leaves a lot to be desired. The snobbishness is very in your face, not subtle and well practiced like the Crawley family. It’s all about one-upmanship. I don’t see how family members can stand each other.
I will not be watching again.

PonderThis 3 points 2 years ago.

I agree about Carrie Coon! 23 minutes in and I dislike her character a lot and she is so stiff with her delivery! She’s a better actor than this! So why does it appear she’s struggling with this character? It is a distraction. I remember her vaguely in the HBO series The Leftovers. I think I only made it through 2 episodes and stopped watching.

Britannia (2018) S2 E7
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

I have begun to wonder if several seconds of the episode(s) has been edited out somehow or not recorded at all. There seems to be something amiss! While watching “previous” clip, I see things that I didn’t see in the previous episode. Sometimes it is something vital to the story line. I’ve checked the length of each episode on a couple of other sites I use and sometimes there is a difference in length of the episode. Of course you wouldn’t notice this if there weren’t a clip of “previously seen” before the start of the episode. Does anyone else notice this? Just wondering and no need to submit an issue with links, because it’s not a link issue I guess or maybe it is…..

Mortal (2020)
etim 5 points 3 years ago*.

yes. do you know how to use the subs here yet?

On second thought, I guess if you need to ask if there are any, then you don’t know. Here’s how to get and use subs on PW—

Go to the show you want, then
Click ‘version’, then click ‘subtitles’, choose a sub, click ‘retrieve’, then click ‘download’.
Download to your PC.
Now, with a player that has a ‘cc’ button, click the cc button, pick and click ‘upload…’. Pick the sub file you just downloaded (the file name ends in .srt)
You’re ready to go.

PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

Thank you etim! Finally someone has explained how to get English subtitles in very simple terms that I actually understand! Now the question is, will I remember the next time I need to add subtitles? We need some smiley face emoji’s to add to our comments. Thank you again!

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

I was in high school when the movie was released in the summer of 1977. There was a lot hype about this movie and I think every teenager HAD to see it. The nearest theater (who showed currently released movie) was a 30 minute drive. In the car I got with my best friend and got to the theater. We looked at each other and said, “D**N, look at the line, it’s almost out to the street!” But we decided we had to see it on the first night so we stood in line for 30 minutes and it was worth the wait. We were blown away by the special affects and for 1977, they were spectacular!

Batman (1989)
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago*.

I was in my 20’s when this movie was released. Before the movie was made, it was reported that Michael Keaton would be Batman. We all were like, wait, Keaton as Batman who was Betelgeuse in the movie Beetlejuice the year before and who was on the Mary Tyler Moore sitcom! But, he pulled it off and proved he is a very talented actor. I’ve not watched Batman since I saw it in the theater and thought it was a good time to watch it again.

The Nevers (2021) S1 E2
CranLem08 2 points 3 years ago.

right and its been eating at me for quite some time.. why she looked so familiar to me… thank you so much..

PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

Very welcome and it’s about time they gave her a lead role too! She really is a very remarkable actress.

Night and Fog (Short 1956)
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

It was one of two documentaries that I was required to watch for a Film Lecture course while in college. Of course we learned about WWII in American History class in public school and we knew about the Holocaust. But I never knew the conditions in the camps nor what really happened. I left class that afternoon feeling very sick and shaken by what I had seen in that documentary. I had a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that this happened; I couldn’t understand how a human race could do such things. And a recent study found that the millennials and the GenZ really don’t know about the Holocaust or they think it was fake. Again, I try to wrap my head around that! My dad was in the Army during WWII and it was not a fake war to him!

Perry Mason (2020) S1 E7
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago*.

Someone made the comment that this version of the character Perry Mason is weak. In the beginning I would say he was weak. He really had no purpose, he was just an investigator looking for evidence to help the client. I see Perry growing more and more assertive in each episode and this ONE case makes the Perry/dogged lawyer he later becomes. I watched Perry Mason as a kid and we didn’t know how he became to be the type of lawyer he was. Now we know and how and what planted the seeds that would take root and transform the man into a top notch lawyer.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

Well, I thought in the first Star Wars movie there were Mandalorian’s and now I know for sure. They’re not the good guys either!

Des (2020)
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

It is truly creepy how much David Tennant looks like the actual killer! I often wonder how actors feel after portraying such dark characters? Does it affect them in any way, are they able to shake it off? Tennant is truly a gifted actor and the Brits really know how to do crime dramas! They didn’t go wrong by casting Tennant to portray such a despicable person!

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)
UGuess 2 points 3 years ago.

I literally cried after seeing this trailer… I can’t wait. Thanks!

PonderThis 4 points 3 years ago.

Very welcome!

Greyhound (2020)
PonderThis 4 points 3 years ago*.

I am an avid WWII movie fan and have watched many over the years. I do believe this movie is more realistic than any WWII movie made prior to the 21st century! Very intense to say the least and at times hard to watch. U-Boats were the bane of the Atlantic and many merchant Marines were lost to them. It was so crucial that an enigma machine be taken off of a sub to help combat the U-Boats.

Halifax: Retribution (2020)
PonderThis 4 points 3 years ago*.

So far so good and it looks like Anthony LaPaglia has found tv fame again by going back to Australia and doing some decent tv dramas. Always liked his acting and is the perfect cop/FBI agent.

28 Days Later (2003)
PonderThis 4 points 3 years ago.

Attention all Peaky Blinder fans, Cillian Murphy is in this movie from 2002! I’ll have to put this on my list to watch too.

Made in Italy (2020)
PonderThis 4 points 3 years ago.

Micheal Richardson is the son of Liam Neeson & Natasha Richardson. Will put this movie on my list to watch. It will be interesting to see how well father and son work together in this movie.

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
CodeBlack 6 points 3 years ago.

Ben is one of the best Batman’s in my opinion but hey I still love Michael Keaton version.

PonderThis 4 points 3 years ago.

I agree and the best Joker was Heath Ledger! The worst batman was George Clooney! Val Kilmer was okay but he wasn’t edgy enough and I couldn’t get past Christian Bales weird voice he used when in his costume. When it was announce that Michael Keaton was to play batman, we all went, “Say what? You’ve got to be kidding me?” But he made it work.

Made in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of Block 10 (2019)
w0lfie 4 points 3 years ago*.

General Eisenhower on seeing the camps immediately ordered that they be fully documented and filmed in detail as sooner or later some Son of a Bitch(I quote) will start to deny it happened - read the news lately??
Also, my great uncle Ted was the soldier who stood guard over “The Beast of Belsen” who was camp commandant. His photo is in the Holocaust Museum in New York and I have a copy

PonderThis 4 points 3 years ago.

I know what you mean w0lfie, I hear it and see it all the time about the Holocaust being a “hoax” just as many in the US believe that COVID-19 is a hoax. And don’t get me started on how many people think the moon landing was done in Hollywood!

Coroner (2019) S3 E9
PonderThis 4 points 3 years ago*.

Is there a reason why we can’t hear the dialogue? All I hear is Christmas music and I see the actors talking but I’m not hearing them as they speak.
I haven’t checked all links but streamplay and streamtape and I’ve reported the problem.

Invasion (2021)
PonderThis 4 points 2 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

I, for one, like this new drama so far and yes, it can be slow at times. But we need the back story so we can see how they were before the arrival. Now we will see how they take this new journey and see who and who won’t survive. Why did some children have bloody noses and some didn’t? Are they “the chosen ones” by the aliens and what is their purpose for choosing certain humans? Doesn’t sound good in my opinion.

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)
PonderThis 5 points 3 years ago.

Ryan Reynolds plays every character he is given to the hilt! https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1254211609?ref_=pe_43914690_582980840_tt

Watchmen (2019) S1 E1
starshineontop 2 points 4 years ago.

This looks like it’s going to be good. That realy happenen in Tulsa on Greenwood street & I used to own one of those old colonial houses in Tulsa.

PonderThis 5 points 4 years ago.

I lived in western Oklahoma for 15 years and took Oklahoma history and there was never any mention of these killings in the text book! I learned about it a few years ago here in Arkansas. I was shocked to say the least and many Tulsans don’t want to talk about it or they actually don’t know about it. I’d say those that have moved to Tulsa. I would say every state in this nation of ours has some bloody past that is not mentioned in state history books.

Taboo (2017)
PonderThis 4 points 4 years ago.

I sure wish season 2 would hurry up and get here! Tom and his dad Chip wrote this series. The BBC & FX did renew it for a 2nd season in November 2018. But with Tom’s busy schedule, they’ve not been able to shoot the 2nd season. I hate to say this, but it might never return…..deep sad sigh goes here!

Big Sky (2020) S1 E1
PonderThis 4 points 3 years ago.

HOLY S**T! That’s all I’m gonna say!

The Little Things (2021)
PonderThis 4 points 3 years ago.

A new movie for Denzel Washington, Jared Leto, and Rami Malek. And watch three Oscar winners tangle.

Servant (2019)
PonderThis 4 points 3 years ago.

I love just about everything that M. Night Shyamalan creates, but after 20 minutes I had to stop watching this drama. Maybe I’ll give it another chance months from now. I did the same thing with Game of Thrones, couldn’t finish the first episode and then a year later I decided to give it another go and fell in love with GOT. Maybe the same thing will happen with Servant. I’ve seen trailer of the 2nd season and recognize a couple of British actors (I watch a lot of stuff from the UK). So at some point I’ll try watching it again.

Outlander (2014) S6 E1
PonderThis 4 points 2 years ago.

I’m looking forward to season 6 needless to say! But, I’m also looking forward to the movie “Belfast” starring Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, and Jude Hill (is the young boy in the movie). Takes place in 1969 and this movie is in black and white which gives it a lot of depth of field. Comes out on November 12th of this year. Caitriona is such a good actress and makes any character come to life with passion!

Watchmen (2019) S1 E1
PonderThis 4 points 4 years ago.

Well, this is different and Don Johnson still has the acting chops.

Dexter: New Blood (2021)
PonderThis 3 points 2 years ago.

I stopped watching Dexter before the series ended. Should I go back and watch the seasons I didn’t see before watching his new series? Would I be totally lost if I didn’t watch the last season of Dexter before watching this new series?

Ratched (2020)
AriadneN -1 points 3 years ago.

Well, as another poster said, this is certainly “different”. The whole choice of colour scheme is bewildering and over-saturated. Much like the music. Holy hell, I had hoped it would be toned down after the pilot, but nope. This is not boding well for my continued watching.

Costuming and music should enhance not overwhelm or distract from the story. The fact that I am here commenting on them more than the plot speaks for itself.

I think they are pushing too hard to create an atmospheric mood through the scenery inorder to distract from their inability to do so through story and plot and the shortcomings of the dialog. The heavy handedness of it is quite off-putting. It’s like I’m watching a Hitchcock/Lynch/Kubrick wannabe turned up to 11.

I am going to let the 1st two episodes digest a bit before consuming any more. Perhaps some time and distance will bring a different, more favorable perspective.

PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

I may or may not watch episode 2. When GOT was so popular, I watched the 1st epi and couldn’t understand why everyone was so hooked on it. I decided to give it another go about 3 years later and really got into it. I have a feeling this might be the way I go with Ratched. Maybe I’m not really ready to spend a lot of time watching Sarah Paulson portray a complex crazy character and she seems to shine when portraying complex women who drift over the edge. It’s rather draining to watch the crazy do despicable things, I see enough crazy going on right now in the year 2020.

Coroner (2019) S3 E9
jamowawa 3 points 3 years ago.

There Is no voices talking on the latest Coroner series

PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

I reported the problem an hour ago and I see you don’t have lip reading skills either……😁😉

1883 (2021) S1 E1
PonderThis 3 points 2 years ago.

Sam Elliott is finally looking his age (77) but his looks or age have not diminished is acting ability. No matter what character he takes on, he does it 100% and I do think westerns are his best genre.

Black Narcissus (2020)
PonderThis 3 points 3 years ago.

This arrives in late November and Diana Rigg is in this series. This is her last tv appearance and she had a part in a movie; Last Night in Soho which will be released in April of 2021. When this series start, I shall be watching.