About 6.5/10 and that’s for Ivana Baquero.
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Oh hell - is that all it’s worth ? I’m halfway through, and was going to watch the second half tonight. I was enjoying Carmen Machi’s performance, but she disappeared about halfway through the first half. Maybe I won’t bother going on with it…
Carmen Machi probably is in it more than Ivana for the second half.
I’m up in Melbourne for 4 days of the Festival at the end of the month. Should give me time for 7 or 8 Carmen Machi movies. I only ran across her in The Spanish Affair (Ocho Apellidos Vascos - 8 Basque Surnames) and he’s been in lots since.
I just thought the whole story has been told many times.
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Apple TV has a series about a cook in the year shortly before Napoleon became emperor. The cook was Antonin Carême, working for eternal conniver, Talleyrand.
Josephine and the minister of police Fouché figure strongly.
Series is just called Carême.
That period was the beginning of restaurants where so many chefs lost their aristocratic bosses as the aristocratic bosses lost their aristocratic heads at the request of M Fouché.
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I have only just stumbled across this thread. Good value.
The Dark, German series involving alternate realities and time loops and such.
It’s heavy, but the payoff is worth it.
I don’t think it’s been mentioned in here, although it may have been mainstream enough to make it to the non-non-English thread.
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Did you see this one through?
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Moustache man in particular gave quite a good turn I thought
Had never watched , then last night watched the Luther movie. It was gothic in its horror and full on in its violence.
Thought we then might see what the Luther series was like, and the first episode had even more blood and horror.
probably gets acclaim, but not really an after dinner viewing.
Definitely got mentioned here a while back, really enjoyable show. There was a follow up called 1899 by the same people, got dropped but I liked it just as much. Probably still on Netflix
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Two eps. Got so many on the go. Started one of those classic Mexican telenovelas on Netflix last night…Unspeakable Sins. By classic, I mean a bit of everything. Gorgeous lead actress who’s not always fully dressed. 18-parter.
The lead man was in one of those Maite Perroni series which meets my criterion of classic. Erik Hayser was in Preso No. 1 and Dark Desire. The Mexican and Colombian series seem to share actors.
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Carême is a strange name for a cook: it’s the French word for Lent !
Just finished two French series on Prime.
Les Disparus de la Forêt Noire (The Disappeared of the Black Forest), a coproduction with the Germans, set in Strasburg.
11 men are found dead in the Black Forest. All seem to have been a naughty boy.
And
Rivière-Perdue(Lost River) set in the Pyrenees and touching into Spain.
A young girl, Anna, is found 5 years after she was kidnapped with her friend, Lucie. 2 police officers, Balthus and the rather glamorous Alix, together with the local gendarme, Victor, struggle through previous deaths across the border and immense family issues, to the somewhat confusing solution.
It’s written by a Spanish writer and it seems that 4 Spanish series have been made, all headed La Caza (The Hunt).
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I have started watching My Mother’s Killer. A Colombian telenovela. I love them. Hahaha
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Funny how there seems to be a fair overlap between Mexican and Colombian series. Some fair sorts there.
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Yep. Hotties galore. Both the men and women.
Mrs 10 and I have just finished watching Fatal Crossing on SBS On Demand. It’s a Danish series, 8 episodes, commencing with the disappearance of a girl in a remote village and broadening into the investigation of about a dozen disappearances and murders of young girls. As these things tend to do. The main character is an investigative journalist who’s been working on some big paper in London but quit after she slept with the wrong man and there was a scandal. We don’t get beyond about the 10-minute mark of the first episode of most serial killer things, so I suppose it gets a tick for keeping us going for three nights. But it was very frustrating. The main problem was that the pace was glacial. Or slower. A conversation usually consisted of about one three-word sentence every 30 seconds and nobody ever walked. They crept. The end was, as we expected, a big twist, accompanied by a load of philosophising about life and love and all that. 6/10.
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I’m in the middle of Fatal Crossing now - just finished Episode 4, where the killer who’s in jail in England wants Ms Sand to come and talk to him. So far it’s worth watching…
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Second time I’ve noticed.
We’re occasionally getting European series dubbed into a different language.
Braquo on Amazon is a French series, but the dialogue is in Spanish.
And yesterday I saw Escort Boys, a French series set on the Camargue, but dialogue was dubbed into Portuguese. The second series dropped yesterday, and the dialogue appears to be dubbed into German. All the synopses are in German, anyway.
I finished this one the other day. The slow pace didn’t bother me at all. In fact I really liked how the various pieces of the jigsaw were slowly and methodically put in place.
A very solid example of the serial killer/cold case genre. 8/10 for mine.
Second episode…Ana Lucia should have won over-actor of the year…it’s really making it hard to watch.
Spectacular 80s do on Pablo’s mum.
This is 3 shows.
i watched all 3 series of Machos Alfas on Netflix.
Then they made an Italian version of that Spanish series, and now there’s a German remake of the series.
So it’s not just the septics remaking British series.
in the original, Pedro is a creative director who’s let go to be replaced by a woman. His 3 mates, Luis, Raúl and Santiago, sense they need to get more feminist. But don’t worry…their wives aren’t upset with them, but the guys, particularly Santi go over the top. Some good scenes, it never gets woke.