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Highly enjoyable horror comedy set on board a Cruise ship. Lower deck 'menial' workers seem to be going missing, victims of a psychopath it appears. Well thought out and particularly brutal at times and strong possibility of a season 2 hopefully. 9/10

From Steven Moffat (Sherlock) comes this psychological drama that blurs lines between what is real and not real. Hardly original and it's so dark I couldn't watch more an episode at a time. Too heavy to binge. Jessica Raines is superb as a single Mum coping with an autistic child who speaks to people who are not there (or are they). She also wakes up in the night (3.33 to be precise) with strange visions of people she knows which seem to suggest alternative events may be happening. Are they warnings? The key appears to be a psychopathic character played by Peter Capaldi.

 I found it very frustrating at times and almost unwatchable. Even and after the big reveal in the final episode I kind of switched off. All too 'hokey' even for me! 6/10

Now watching Wreck on the BBC (in Ultra HD on iPlayer). A comedy horror set aboard a massive cruise liner, follows a young man's search for his sister who went missing from the ship on a previous voyage. Funny and jumpy, a decent watch. 8/10 so far (2 eps in, of 6).

I'm 6 episodes in and I know what you mean about that 10 year jump. Suddenly lots of kids with blonde hair running about; who is who though lol? Matt Smith too is tremendous and plays that part so well. Paddy Considine is good as well, but some of the others are somewhat lacking and a few even miscast. I still don't like the constant darkness, why does it have to be like this - very off-putting. I'd agree with your 7/10

Just started The House of the Dragon. Set 200 years before Game of Thrones. It's a good story, but the scale is nowhere near that of GoT. It's dark a lot of the time too and the odd daytime shot is a relief.

Been watching House of Dragons and Rings of Power lately.

I don't dislike these much, although I think that they are too damn stuck on looking and sounding like the previous incarnation of the whole thing. Right from the start it is difficult to not see Gandalf in the character that he is shown as a destitute and downtrodden person. In the House of Dragons, things are a bit different but the one thing that is there is the complete copy of the original GoT show. The directors in this series did not know how to add/change/create characters that differed from the original. All the elders, sound the same and are a total carbon copy of the original to the point of being boring! And the tale of the women, in this series is ridiculous, considering how history has given us a story that was vastly different, and women were secondary and subservient for the most part. Here, it is like they control the works, and while I am OK with most of it, I found the method it was done a total reversal of the original GoT where the women were not as important as they became later.

I'm reserving the "review" for both of these a couple of weeks. I thought that HoD would end the first season on the King's Death and start the new Lear'ing version of the story in the next season, but there was a 9th episode that is likely going to be a serious problem and is hinting a change, that will likely not be able to be sustained, is my thought!

If I have a choice/comment, it would be that these folks working these characters stopped watching the previous shows and do their own thing. I'm not a great fan of carbon copies.