Television, drug of the nation

Kiera Knightly is a vacuous hole of a being and I will not hear otherwise. She's not a good actor and she is not attractive. She is not "quite pretty actually."

I'll give her a pass, as she gave me the eye once. Or, at least, I'm vain enough to infer that she did.

Simon Callow definitely checked me out the week after, though.

Watched Secret Level - a load of animation based on various video games. Was ok, but no Love, Death & Robots.

Love Actually (many times of course)

How long did the CIA detain you?

Kiera Knightly is a vacuous hole of a being

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martine mccutcheon tho

Are there any Western series, including neo-, revisionary- and other variants, that I should watch if I have already seen:

• Deadwood (nearly finished watching it again)
  
• Godless
  
• Hell on Wheels
  
• The English (might watch it again though)
  
  

I also need to finish Red Dead Redemption 2 that I started in COVID lockdown 1.0.

Are there any Western series, including neo-, revisionary- and other variants,

Out there but,

1. Mandalorian
   
2. Firefly
   

Some are proper old school ones I watched as reruns when I was a kid, but

Bonanza
The High Chapparal
Justified
Gunsmoke
Kung Fu (David Carradine)

Greetings fellow member of the “checked out by Simon Callow” club. Never been on grinny Ki-Ora’s radar, but I did make Katherine Parkinson laugh once.

Skeleton Crew.
It's The Goonies in Space.
Watch it, it's great fun.

Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War on Netflix

Thanks pardners will check some of these out.

Probably the Wyatt Earp one first as he popped up in Deadwood and I was struggling to remember how he fitted into the mythos.

Not sure about the Mandalorian, I did enjoy Andor, but my partner generally has a severe reaction to any sci-fi. I think Diego Luna may have helped.

Fargo.

Later seasons of Fear of the Walking Dead. Be warned there are a fuck-tonne of shit seasons to go through first, but the later ones are great at marrying the western genre.

Young Guns.

Young Guns 2.

Ballard of buster Scruggs?

I wish to be buster but fear I am one of those men he shot in the tavern.

Star trek is cowboys in space.

Tin Star

Is it?

I always understood Star Wars, A New Hope in particular, to be a western, but Star Trek?

The original Battlestar Galactica was the cowboys in space one; spaceships full of fleeing settlers for a wagon train, cylons for "injuns". Even had Lorne Greene from Bonanza.

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Ah yes Tin Star looks to be a great example.

And Fargo, as it seems there is a season I missed.

I wouldn't have considered Star Trek.

However, I posted this question immediately after watching the Star Trek homage Black Mirror episode, which is the closest I have ever been to watching TV Star Trek.

Which goes to show that genre transcends setting (and re-appropriation) I guess.

Pinnacle western is high noon in space imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYc2GQyrAlw

I read somewhere that most zombie films are just retreads of specific Westerns that feature a 'last stand against overwhelming horde' act.

John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 is an (ostensibly police) crossover:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_on_Precinct_13_(1976_film)

inspired by the Howard Hawks Western film Rio Bravo and the George A. Romero horror film Night of the Living Dead.[3]

But then Zulu and some WW2 Pacific films (and probably others that need an 'of their time' caveat) fit into that too.

film thread

+1 for Firefly. Definitely a space western. Not seen it in ages, no clue how it’s aged

I have just remembered I wrote an essay in 1994 as part of a post-modernism* uni module, saying that Terminator is original Yul Brynner Westworld, except he escapes from the future, instead of from the Wild West simulation of the past. And Yul Brynner is just replaying his gunslinger role straight from The Magnificent Seven.

Simulacra within simulacra or something.

*May have been post-structuralism