TV shows you most recently finished watching

Nearly through 3 Body Problem and enjoying it. Liam Cunningham is great but it's mainly about the writing and some very good special effects. The scene with the ship especially standing out. Nasty!

and talking of 'nasty' Mirzapur Season 3 has just arrived. Inspired by Peaky Blinders apparently, this is a Hindi language crime drama set you know where. Love it.

^ I enjoyed 3 Body problem, especially for the China parts.  Some of the English-language performances  I found annoying and dialogue risible  There was a Chinese adaptation called Three-Body of the novels that came out not that long before it, which I started on because they made the first episode free.  I did prefer that but then I tend to favour slower-paced fare and commonly gravitate towards non-English language/ non-American productions (that said, Westworld, Fargo, Twin Peaks, The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass,The Twilight Zone, Star Trek TOS, The Invaders etc. are some of my very favourite shows, so never mind).   The US and Brits have made huge amounts of great TV.  That said, on Netflix I often turn to the Scandinavian ones.

I finally finished Copenhagen Cowboy and loved it on the whole.  I watched the first episode when it came out last year, but then returned to it last night.  The second episode totally hooked me.  It does move at something of a glacial pace, it might be thought of as style over substance, but I loved it.  I love the score which brought to my mind some Wendy Carlos (definitely get The Shining Vivbes for the music and show) and of a favourite soundtracdk of mine, Cat People by Giorgio Moroder.  I loved the cinematography, the frames within frames, the lond focus of gazes, the colours, the atmosphere, and it could be quite funny in a very absurdist and dark way sometimes.  Like a father who is having specialists design a certain part of the anatomy, saying it can be bigger and more imaginative, for his son after it gets chewed off by a pig.  the show did bring t5o mind things like Lynch, Kubrick, Argento, John Carpenter and Wim Wenders to me.  Nicolas Winding Refn is the man behind it, and I need to explore his work more.  Like with music, I tend to appreciate the atmosphere that is created, and even as young child I gravitated more to the 2001: A Space Odyssey kind of filmmaking than Star Wars,

I love the soundtrack which does have an 80s feel to it.  I would have liked more resolution, but this got me excited about TV all over as an artform.

Absolute bonkers last episode of Dark Matter. Could have been funny but somehow remained grounded. Overall 8/10

Jennifer Connelly's presence is well felt in the later episodes of Dark Matter. BTW quite suprised to find that she is 57 years old. WOW!

Another Welsh located TV drama, this is even more weird than The Red King and is centred around a very ordinary midddle aged couple who commit a crime, allbeit accidentally, and then find themselves getting in deeper trying to cover it up. Quirky and fun. 8/10

About the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, interesting to learn about Andrew Johnson's presidency as he tries to put the brakes on America's reconstruction post the abolishment of slavery and the end of the civil war. The key character in this drama though is Lincoln's staunch alley Edwin Stanton (played by Tobias Menzies who also played Prince Philip in The Crown) who held the office Secretary Of War and goes up against Johnson as well as leading the manhunt for Lincoln's killer John Wilkes Booth. 7/10