'Obscure" US TV choices - recommendations please

[Is it PotG?]

Norwegian series Wisting is returning to Viaplay in the Nordic regions in March.

The new season returns to Larvik on a seemingly idyllic summer evening at the Greenwood family. But the following morning, a hotel employee is found murdered, and a six-year-old British boy, Clifford Greenwood, has disappeared without a trace.

The family receives a ransom demand and cryptic messages from the kidnapper, and when family secrets are revealed, Wisting suspects that there may be a personal motive behind the disappearance. There is also enormous international pressure on Wisting and the team to solve the murder and find the boy before it is too late.

British actor Rupert Evans joins the cast for series four.

The series will premiere on Viaplay on 24th March. There is no news of a British transmission date yet.

Sat 13 April

 

[Weststander]

I binge watched an entire season of Wahl Street on a long flight today. Follows Mark Walhberg in his growing business interests and some personal stuff. I really liked it, probably helped because I rate him as an actor.

On HBO Max unfortunately, is that available in the UK?

 

[Weststander]

True Detective series 4 has balanced the odd good and interesting bit with some dreadful plot and dialogue and one of the leads being quite poor at acting. Along with a general feeling that all police featured bar the young bloke are useless at their jobs. A feature length ending where not a lot happens still manages to rush important bits.

Not gleaned from NSC, but by coincidence I’ve just come across True Detective season one on Sky Showcase.
[Originally made for expensive to watch HBO].

First impressions, it’s really good.

 

[Motogull]

Not gleaned from NSC, but by coincidence I’ve just come across True Detective season one on Sky Showcase.
[Originally made for expensive to watch HBO].

First impressions, it’s really good.

It is brilliant, as you will discover.

 

[Bakero]

I binge watched an entire season of Wahl Street on a long flight today. Follows Mark Walhberg in his growing business interests and some personal stuff. I really liked it, probably helped because I rate him as an actor.

On HBO Max unfortunately, is that available in the UK?

I believe most of the HBO shows are on Sky Atlantic in the UK.

 

[Weststander]

I believe most of the HBO shows are on Sky Atlantic in the UK.

We have VirginTV, Sky have never sold that channel to them … presumably to entice further customers to them.

 

[keaton]

Not gleaned from NSC, but by coincidence I’ve just come across True Detective season one on Sky Showcase.
[Originally made for expensive to watch HBO].

First impressions, it’s really good.

Season 1 is excellent. 3 is decent.

 

[Weststander]

Season 1 is excellent. 3 is decent.

An incredible performance (so far) from Matthew McConaughey. Such a versatile actor.

 

[Bakero]

An incredible performance (so far) from Matthew McConaughey. Such a versatile actor.

He's great, isn't he. As mentioned above, season 1 is the best by far but all 4 are watchable. I didn't even mind S2, which was universally slated, especially by my Vince Vaughan-hating partner.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

A heads-up for The Jinx, season 2. Starts with the events of the day after the broadcast of the last episode of season 1, and even though we know in the main what's happened since, it has already unearthed some rather eye-opening goings-on. Can't binge it as it's released weekly but it does feel like it is holding some aces up its sleeve. I love stuff like this!

 

[Is it PotG?]

The Veil.

Steven Knight created, Elisabeth Moss starring. It follows the relationship between two women playing a deadly game of truth and lies. One woman has a secret, and the other has a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost.

2 eps in, pretty good.

 

[keaton]

Just finished Barry on Sky/Now

Excellent dark comedy about a hitman turned actor with Bill Hader and Henry Winkler. It's never predictable, very funny and sweet in parts, incredibly dark in others and some very good action scenes

 

[RandyWanger]

Manifest was good. But not all is on Netflix which was annoying, just 1 and 4 so had to get 2 and 3 via a sky login.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Luther creator Neil Cross is back with a new series for Sky.

Gorgeous, stunning (well, imho) Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander are set to star in Iris, a sun-drenched chase thriller about a rootless and enigmatic genius.

Iris Nixon (Agar) is equal parts rootless genius and puzzle addict. By day, she works a mundane job flagging harmful content for a social media platform; by night she ploughs internet forums solving complex riddles. When a mysterious thread is posted online seeking highly intelligent individuals to crack a secretive code, Iris’s curiosity and compulsion to win get the better of her, and it leads her to a charming philanthropist, Cameron McIntyre (Hollander).

Having outsmarted every code-breaker around the world, Iris realises she has unwittingly unlocked a dangerously powerful, world-changing piece of technology. Suspicious of Cameron’s motives, she steals the code and then… vanishes. Ever resourceful and intending to lay low, Iris reinvents herself as Ms Brooks, a tutor to Joy, the daughter of a wealthy family on the Sardinian coast. As the cyber-speculation as to Iris’ whereabouts intensifies and Cameron’s net closes in, her lethal intelligence and chameleonic charm may for once not be enough to stop her from being drawn into an increasingly deadly game of hide and seek.

Meréana Tomlinson, Sacha Dhawan, Maya Sansa, Peter Sullivan and Debi Mazar also star.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

A heads-up for The Jinx, season 2. Starts with the events of the day after the broadcast of the last episode of season 1, and even though we know in the main what's happened since, it has already unearthed some rather eye-opening goings-on. Can't binge it as it's released weekly but it does feel like it is holding some aces up its sleeve. I love stuff like this!

This was great. Season 1 ushered in the new wave of true crime docs - much as Serial did in podcast form - and season 2 wasn't the difficult second album by any stretch. If you've ever been in any doubt as to the terribly grubby and corrupting influence of money, this will dispel those doubts. Very satisfying, and yet at the same time, oddly not.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Shardlake (Disney). I don't know the books, but this was a really good watch, solid, unflashy, with much more nuance than I expected. Think Poirot in the 1500s. And in a first, Sean Bean doesn't die (well, he's playing Cromwell so he does die, but not just yet...presumably).

 

[One Love]

Shardlake (Disney). I don't know the books, but this was a really good watch, solid, unflashy, with much more nuance than I expected. Think Poirot in the 1500s. And in a first, Sean Bean doesn't die (well, he's playing Cromwell so he does die, but not just yet...presumably).

The books are really good.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

The books are really good.

That's good, I hope they make more of the series too.

May nip into the local library then this weekend!

 

[Is it PotG?]

Luther creator Neil Cross is back with a new series for Sky.

Gorgeous, stunning (well, imho) Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander are set to star in Iris, a sun-drenched chase thriller about a rootless and enigmatic genius.

Iris Nixon (Agar) is equal parts rootless genius and puzzle addict. By day, she works a mundane job flagging harmful content for a social media platform; by night she ploughs internet forums solving complex riddles. When a mysterious thread is posted online seeking highly intelligent individuals to crack a secretive code, Iris’s curiosity and compulsion to win get the better of her, and it leads her to a charming philanthropist, Cameron McIntyre (Hollander).

Having outsmarted every code-breaker around the world, Iris realises she has unwittingly unlocked a dangerously powerful, world-changing piece of technology. Suspicious of Cameron’s motives, she steals the code and then… vanishes. Ever resourceful and intending to lay low, Iris reinvents herself as Ms Brooks, a tutor to Joy, the daughter of a wealthy family on the Sardinian coast. As the cyber-speculation as to Iris’ whereabouts intensifies and Cameron’s net closes in, her lethal intelligence and chameleonic charm may for once not be enough to stop her from being drawn into an increasingly deadly game of hide and seek.

Meréana Tomlinson, Sacha Dhawan, Maya Sansa, Peter Sullivan and Debi Mazar also star.

Iris will be available on Sky and streaming service NOW in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Fremantle will handle international sales of the series.

Coming soon.

 

[Weststander]

The DT have ranked the top 50 TV dramas, The Wire topped the list.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/best-tv-dramas-all-time/