I may just make what I’ve been watching on TV lately a regular post, this was my last post. This month I’ve watched The Night Agent and Sweet Tooth 2 and Transatlantic on Netflix, I’ve also watched Magpie Murders and the new series of Taskmaster and The Cleaner on television. And I even watched a film with The Little Man, Free Guy, which is a great, but daft movie with Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer.
The Night Agent
I’ll start with the Night Agent. I saw the preview on Netflix and decided to watch the series. It’s an American action thriller based on the books by Matthew Quirk. Gabriel Basso played the FBI agent, Peter Sutherland, whose job was to man a phone overnight which never rang. Until one night, when Rose Larkin was at home while her Aunt and Uncle were killed and her aunt had slipped her the number.
Then begins a massive conspiracy and no-one trusts anyone else. Rose and Peter end up being thrown together and end up going rogue. While they are being hunted, they are desperately trying to find out the truth and who the mole in the White House really is.
The series is action packed and emotional, keeping you on the edge of your seat. I really enjoyed watching and will be waiting for another series.
Sweet Tooth 2
It’s not actually called Sweet Tooth 2, but it is the second series. I wouldn’t recommend watching unless you watch the first series or you will be majorly confused as to what on earth is going on. Despite the flashbacks.
Sweet Tooth is the nickname given to a hybrid child from a post apocalyptic future. In the first series we see him living with his ‘Pubba; in Yellowstone park, we know that he was part of an experiment and that his Scientist ‘mother’ saved his life, sending him off with a janitor ‘Pubba’ to safety.
Then the world was struck by a pandemic which wiped out most of the population. (I think they said approximately 90%) Those remaining are doing their best to keep safe. We see some of this in the first series, but in the second we are mostly focused on the hybrid children who have been kept safe in a zoo for many years.
As babies born were ‘infected’ and half human half animal, they were taken away from their families and mostly culled. It was unsure if the hybrids were the cause of the sickness or a result of it. Some survived, most were hunted. But Aimee looked after a selection of rescued hybrids in the zoo. At the end of the first series we see the zoo attacked by a group called ‘The Last Men’ and the children are kept prisoners. A scientist, Adi, believes he can make a cure for the sickness from cutting up the hybrid children. He was mostly trying to save his wife, Rani who has the sickness.
Other groups in the series are The Last Men who are hunting the hybrid children, and the Animal Army, a bunch of teens who fight to protect the hybrids.
When Pubba dies, Sweet Tooth, or Gus decides to go and find his mother, believing her to be in Colorado, this is when he meets ‘Big Man’ or Jeppard.
In the second series, Gus is trapped with the other children in the zoo with the Last Men and the scientist Adi.
Aimee has teamed up with Jeppard and they are on a mission to get the kids back safely.
One of the Animal Army, Bear, has left the group and is also looking for Gus and Jeppard.
It’s all action from beginning to end and there is a lot to keep you on the edge of your seat and watching. The series is based on a comic book written by Jeff Lemire and published by DC Comics. There is one more series to go and I can’t wait!
Transatlantic
This is probably not the type of thing I’d choose to watch but scrolling through I saw the preview and gave it a go. It was incredibly addictive. Based on the novel, The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer, this is an historical series set in Marseilles in 1940. An American journalist, Mary Jane Gold was determined to help rescue those that would be persecuted by Hitler’s army during the French invasion.
The series was full of danger, intrigue and based on some historical facts. I found it really fascinating and watched it all quickly.
Magpie Murders
When I watched the first episode on BBC on a Saturday evening I thought this was more of an afternoon detective thriller rather than Saturday night television. I was surprised at it’s slot, but it still delivered a great show. Lesley Manville was great cast as the main character, book editor Susan Ryland. She was handed the manuscript of the author Alan Conway to edit, only to find the last chapter missing. Then Alan Conway dies, but is he murdered?
The program is based on the book of the same name by Anthony Horowitz. It is a story within a story, with two mysteries to be solved.
It was a little confusing at first being switched from the real life character to the characters in the book. Even more confusing when Susan began seeing the characters, but I guess when you are reading that’s exactly what you are doing.
There were plenty of twists and turns in both plots and some amusing moments which lightened the load. I’m tempted to read some of Anthony Horowitz books now.
Taskmaster
I’m loving the latest series of Taskmaster Hosted by Greg Davies and Alex Horne. We are currently on Series 15 and if you’ve never seen it then you are missing out on a whole host of crazy tasks imposed on celebrities of the season. The tasks are filmed separately and shown in the studio, where Greg Davies gives scores depending on how good they are.
The celebrities this series are Frankie Boyle, Ivo Graham, Jenny Eclair, Kiel Smith-Bynoe and Mae Martin. There are many laugh out loud moments during the show. And plenty of cringeworthy moments too.
The Cleaner
Now on it’s second series and also starring Greg James. If I’m honest, I enjoyed the first series more, although this series did have it’s moments. I loved the last episode.
The cleaner, or Wicky as he is known, has the job of cleaning up crime scenes. You don’t see the crime but you do see Wicky getting to grips cleaning up lots of blood while he’s faced with dealing with the public around the scene. It’s funny and full of hidden messages. My favourite episode of all time, though, had to be the Christmas Special.
Free Guy
If you are not into computer games or even watched children play, then you probably wouldn’t have much interest in the film Free Guy. The film is all about Guy, Ryan Reynolds, who is a bank teller and lives a mundane and ordinary life, until one day he meets a girl walking down the street and something happens to way he feels. He follows her but gets run over by a train.
It’s okay though, because he wakes up as usual the next morning and continues his routine. Some of the people in his world wear sunglasses and this seems to give them special powers to do as they please. The girl he saw also wears sunglasses so he decides to try and get a pair for himself. Suddenly, he sees his world very differently.
He is part of a game, a NPC, or none playable character. He’s there basically as part of the scenery, he’s not supposed to think for himself.
If you are a fan of games like Fortnite or Grand Theft Auto or even Sims, you would probably enjoy this film more. We follow poor guy as he finds out he’s not real, but he does find his girl, Molotov Girl (or Millie) played by Jodie Comer.
The film is action packed and often funny. Can NPCs really think for themselves or is there a hidden program that gives Guy some kind of Artificial Intelligence?
I enjoyed this film with my Little man.
What have you been watching on tv lately? I’d love to hear about it in the comments. I may even find some new programs to my watch list.
I love Freeguy I’ve watched it twice and we’ve just finished Magpie murders. hanks for sharing with #pocolo