10k TV Club: The Capture
Added 2022-10-04 09:17:49 +0000 UTCThis week, it's Just The Fellas and we've watched another TV show about how scary technology is: The Capture on 4OD!
When a British soldier (Who may or may not have killed a civilian in Afghanistan, don't worry about it) is charged with a crime, the tenacious young detective handling his case begins to uncover a multi-layered conspiracy.
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Hi, this is Phoebe! Having watched the rest of it, I agree with what you're saying. I actually think how the soldier plotline was concluded was quite provocatively done, and avoided over-simplification. It's certainly silly in places, although less so in others (I think the silliness is in the vastly uneven acting and pretty terrible script, but the themes they start to grapple with make for a much more interesting show than first appears off the first two eps). I also absolutely didn't predict the twist, because I never do, but it was still a fun one. Unfortunately the second series veers back into just daft (is this technology monstrous state and tech overreach, or is it magic, please pick one). It still runs the few bad apple argument, which really becomes less convincing with every minute of the show, but I guess it's hard to find a mainstream drama that is outright critical of institutions. Anyway yes, it's worth forging on past the troublesome questions raised by the first two episodes.
Ten Thousand Posts
2022-10-17 09:17:27 +0000 UTCI am exactly the same as Phoebe when it comes to YouTube. I will not subscribe, I will not live in the pod, I will never pay for YouTube no matter how annoying you make it. however mostly i've only noticed ads on my tablet and not on my desktop PC, and i never browse youtube anyway, so for now it's a non-issue I'm really curious to know if you guys continued watching, and what you thought of the rest of S1. I ended up watching all 6 episodes before listening to this and I think a lot of the assumptions you make are fair based on the 2 episodes you've seen, but those first 2 eps - which suggest a very conventional cop drama - are kind of a smokescreen for a show that goes somewhere more interesting. In particular a lot of the elements you picked up that make us doubt the two leads' heroic status (detective lady being a careerist who sleeps with her boss, lack of closure on what actually happened in Afghanistan) are deliberate choices that do come into play later. Some of the criticisms you made remain true throughout (and it remains quite a silly, twisty kind of show), but it's a lot closer to Giri/Haji than, say, Bodyguard.
Nemo
2022-10-16 19:20:09 +0000 UTCRegarding Ron Perlman: I always think of him as “le radiateur” in “The City of Lost Children”, which is to say that I always think of him speaking in broken French. But yeah Ron Perlman has done extensive work in Europe, and even his first feature film role was in a French film.
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-05 16:45:47 +0000 UTCThis show reminds me of both “Damages” and “Marcella”, which is to say that it’ll seem like Anna Friel did it, but then after like fifteen hours of incomprehensible Agatha Christie plotting it’ll turn out that it was Glenn Close all along.
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-05 16:39:25 +0000 UTCI noticed Hussein mentioned the Self-publish Audible Books ads in both the latest TF and the latest 10k posts episode, I recommend the new Folding Ideas video about the grift of "learning how to get rich by publishing ghostwritten books on amazon" for a deep dive into the case of the Mikkelsen Twins, one of such scams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw
V. Shubnyi
2022-10-04 15:37:51 +0000 UTCRemember when the war criminals used to be ‘ard?
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-04 15:21:02 +0000 UTCAnyway, speaking of paid subscriptions, I cancelled my NYT subscription at the beginning of the pandemic, but they never cut me off, so, here, have my login info for free (so you, too, can get dubious American politics and NYC restaurant reviews): nytimes@elsiehupp.com didfow-4joxtA-wujwev Though realistically the most useful NYT thing for most people will be Wirecutter, their in-depth product-review vertical (that they bought out and then put behind a paywall): https://wirecutter.com I’ve shared my NYT login multiple times on both the TRASHFUTURE and WTYP Discord servers, so please do save it and share it widely! (If you have any second thoughts, FYI the reason they didn’t cut me off is that it was a Kindle subscription, so I assume Jeff Bezos is still footing the bill.)
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-04 15:10:47 +0000 UTCYouTube Red got me like five years ago, because I just hate ads that much. I got the family plan, though, because for 1.8x the price of an individual plan you can get it for five people, so four of my closest friends get YouTube without ads, too. If no ads doesn’t do it for you, YouTube Premium also comes with (1) mobile background audio, (2) offline downloads (for mobile dead zones), and (3) the YouTube Music app (which is probably marginally less evil than Spotify). Honestly the only extra feature I use is the fact that YouTube Premium makes the YouTube app not break background audio and picture-in-picture on iOS, but that’s less noticeable because it’s just the app not being broken lol. Twitch has a similar thing called Twitch Turbo, which they don’t promote but which removes almost all ads from Twitch (since Twitch Prime doesn’t do that anymore). I used to have it, but I cancelled my subscription when I largely stopped watching Twitch. https://www.twitch.tv/turbo
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-04 15:04:15 +0000 UTC
