cheekyboy Posted December 2, 2024 Posted December 2, 2024 1 hour ago, Ian McP said: Anyone else find Apple TV way too dark? Silo is almost impenetratable! Many people asking Apple supprt about it too! I've started to watch S2 of Silo and I'm finding the lighting to be fine. Nearly everything is shot indoors and the Silo is not exactly a colourful place, but I haven't found the scenes difficult to watch or too dark. Cheers, Keith
Ian McP Posted December 2, 2024 Posted December 2, 2024 many comments here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254852311?sortBy=rank
evil c Posted December 2, 2024 Posted December 2, 2024 4 hours ago, Ian McP said: Anyone else find Apple TV way too dark? Silo is almost impenetratable! Many people asking Apple supprt about it too! It isn't the best, and has a misty indistinct background l find annoying with Silo. Great series though!
agisthos Posted December 10, 2024 Posted December 10, 2024 (edited) Edited December 10, 2024 by agisthos
Ian McP Posted January 25 Posted January 25 Prime Target: mystery plot set around prime number research at Cambridge (yes, really!) A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code and few others thrown in for good measure however it’s well made and very entertaining! First two episodes are off to a good start, we’re hooked, screens weekly. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jan/22/prime-target-review-leo-woodall-apple-tv-thriller < Prime Target review – this stylish thriller is like Good Will Hunting meets The Bourne Identity * * * * Utterly preposterous and brilliant fun, Leo Woodall’s turn as a maths genius hunted by shadowy forces is glorious, confident escapism. It’s as enjoyable as it is ludicrousPrime Target is one of those endeavours that gives you the inescapable feeling that someone came up with the title first and worked backwards from there. Edward Brooks (Leo Woodall) is a brilliant young postgrad mathematician at Cambridge. We know he is brilliant because various maths professors keep saying that his is the best mind they have come across in 30 years of teaching. He works into the night, frantically scribbling in real notebooks with real pencils (“Computers aren’t fast enough”), even when there is sex on offer from hot barmen or young women yearning for him to come to their birthday parties and fall in love with them. And we know we’re in Cambridge because everywhere is covered in ivy outside with antique brass instruments and oak panelling inside. Everyone is in layers of brown cord and tweed. They look like very large, very clever sparrows. Ed is obsessed with prime numbers. He thinks they are the answer to everything. He reckons he is on the brink of something, something big! So big that he scribbles all over his supervisor’s tablecloth when inspiration strikes at dinner. You get the vibe now, I’m sure. His supervisor is Robert Mallinder, played by David Morrissey, who I suspect is usefully funding his next passion project. Alas – it seems that some pesky shadowy forces also reckon he’s on the brink of something, something big! But something that they don’t like. And perhaps something Prof Mallinder knows they won’t like because before you know it, he is stealing Ed’s work and burning it in bins along with the tablecloth. Then the professor apparently kills himself, leaving his wife, Andrea (Sidse Babett Knudsen), bereft not just of table linen but of a loving husband. Although was he so loving? Or did he have an emotional affair with a brilliant female postgrad who, years ago, was working on similar stuff to Ed? “I can see why he’s got under your skin,” Andrea says to her husband as they discuss Ed. “That passion. The purity of it. He’s very like her.” We’re not here for the script, people, which is the most by-numbers thing of all. We’re here for the plot, and there’s plenty of it. For the prof was one of a cadre of brilliant older mathematicians being secretly surveilled by the NSA because, as one helpful explainer has it, we live in a computerised world now and computers are all numbers inside and if anyone really understands them they can really set the digital cat among the binary pigeons. Anyway. While Ed is following up clues found in the late professor’s study and discovering that key pieces of research have been removed from the university library’s records, we move to France, where the NSA gang, including brilliant young – uh – surveillancer Taylah (Quintessa Swindell) is beginning to notice something hinky about the job she has been hired to do. A whole new side-plot begins to develop that is sure to tie into the main one soon. As is the discovery of a ninth-century underground chamber in Iraq that may be the site of “the greatest library ever created! Finally! After all your research!” This is said to Andrea, who is a professor of – Arabian libraries, I guess? – before she declines the offer of supervising the gig. She sends an underling instead, because viewers cannot be expected to follow a plotline led by a middle-aged woman who has already had quite enough screen time, including a couple of grieving scenes, to satisfy the woke mob. It’s a little bit Good Will Hunting (though instead of a charming janitor we are asked to root for a young man who appears to have read Applied Morosity for his undergrad degree), a little bit The Bourne Identity, with more than a dash of A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code thrown in. Or, if you prefer to keep your references televisual, it is a little bit The Mentalist, Bones, Monk and many, many more. Which is to say it is derivative, preposterous, utterly unbelievable and great fun. It’s got confidence and style and is here to deliver escapism to the power of pi cubed, or something, and it does. Prime ridiculous entertainment. Prime Target is on Apple TV+ now. > regards Ian
Tweaky Posted January 31 Posted January 31 The new Byork Concert from Lisbon, first leg of her UTOPIA concert tour has been available to stream since today. Spectacular, and very original visually, musically I would call these set of songs eclectic. The concert is in Dolby Vision and Dolby ATMOS, plus if streaming on a APPLE device, and listening on headphones. Spatial Audio. The concert is pretty Bass Light for the most part, the first Songs were performed with various Flutes and Harp, another song with various Clarinets [Bass/Alto etc] and a all female choir. Try as I might, and I have been doing so for years, to me Byork is basically unintelligible, things haven't changed with this concert. Visually stunning [it sort of reminded me of what I imagine Kate bush would be doing is she was still performing ], although Byork herself wasn't dancing. The music started to bore me half way though TBH, but it's a curiosity worth your time IMHO. https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/apple-music-live-bjork/umc.cmc.5ryf2pmye4efg53kwszlrj5x2 1
Tweaky Posted February 8 Posted February 8 (edited) Those who LOVE Slow Horses [Who doesn't] should be very happy to hear that APPLE have started shooting a new Mike Herron TV drama series, starring Emma Thompson. The story is based on Herron's 2003 Novel 'Down Cemetery Road'. You can read about it in the link below. https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/a63685659/the-new-slow-horses/ With any luck we might get to see it before the next series of Slow Horses. Edited February 8 by Tweaky 2 1
Tweaky Posted February 28 Posted February 28 SEVERENCE - What is it really about ? I've just watch the latest episode of Severance [ season 2 ep 7 ], and yet again I'm changing my thoughts on just what the series is about. At first, I thought it was on PTSD Then I thought it could be thought of as a rebuke of brainwashing, and isolation, brought about by Scientology and it's likes. This last episode has changed my mind again. I won't post spoilers, but I think the long corridor with the door with the red Light over it [as in drawings done by Irving B - John Tufturro, and left behind as a clue] is actually a clue to what Severance "Might" be about. When I watched the latest episode, and saw the corridor with the Red light, it strongly reminded me of HAL, the artificial intelligence from 2001 A Space Odyssey. My thought on the series are now, that its about the acceptance of A.I. by people, and the inability to separate reality from A.I. it would be interesting to hear others thought on what Severance is about.
agisthos Posted February 28 Posted February 28 I have not seen the latest ep7, but my theory is Lumon's ultimate goal is transferring consciousness from one body to another, so rich elites can live forever. They are just experimenting first with severing the mind within the body, so subconscious can take over, but will end up moving towards full transfer to another host. I thought of this only upon seeing the new character, the young Asian girl. She acts like she is an adult in a young child's body. If true this hints to the true goal of Lumon Industries.
Tweaky Posted February 28 Posted February 28 8 minutes ago, agisthos said: I have not seen the latest ep7, but my theory is Lumon's ultimate goal is transferring consciousness from one body to another, so rich elites can live forever. They are just experimenting first with severing the mind within the body, so subconscious can take over, but will end up moving towards full transfer to another host. I thought of this only upon seeing the new character, the young Asian girl. She acts like she is an adult in a young child's body. If true this hints to the true goal of Lumon Industries. Interesting theory. This latest episode mainly concerns Marks wife, and her involvement with Lumon .[TBH I found this the most confusing episode to date] There is a scene where they first meet, that I think might hold a big clue, they are both donating blood and reading, when Mark asks what she is reading, and she likewise. I'll need to re-watch that segment, as I can't remember off the top of my head what the reading topics were, but I think that might be a clue [or a Red herring ?]
agisthos Posted March 4 Posted March 4 (edited) @Tweaky Just watched it. Whoa, the most full on episode to date. Yes its confusing. This episode really has a touch of LOST about it. I like this breakdown. They are splitting her into multiple innies. Traumatic. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/severance-recap-season-2-episode-7-gemma-testing-explained-1236324022/ btw this actress playing Ms Casey I remember from a bunch of other shows. Born in Nepal but grew up in Australia, full aussie accent !! Edited March 4 by agisthos
Tweaky Posted March 4 Posted March 4 2 hours ago, agisthos said: @Tweaky Just watched it. Whoa, the most full on episode to date. Yes its confusing. This episode really has a touch of LOST about it. I like this breakdown. They are splitting her into multiple innies. Traumatic. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/severance-recap-season-2-episode-7-gemma-testing-explained-1236324022/ btw this actress playing Ms Casey I remember from a bunch of other shows. Born in Nepal but grew up in Australia, full aussie accent !! I never watched LOST, but from what I remember about the ending , and after stringing it out over 6 seasons, there was a bit of a outcry by viewers left disappointed, and thought it was a copout of a ending. I hope viewers of Severence don't end up suffering that same disappointment. It's hard to tell what it's fate will be when, after reading that interview in Variety with Dichen Lachman, the actors don't even know where the story is going. Since mark and his team have been very close to finishing "Cold Harbour", I'm wondering will the series end after season 2 ? I suppose even if the original idea was to only have 2 seasons, seeing it's popularity, I could see them wanting to string it out for a 3rd, possibly 4th season.
agisthos Posted March 5 Posted March 5 Apparently they have a 4 season arc planned and written out. Or 5 seasons? Anyway they have stated this in an interview. The problem with LOST was the writers themselves did not know where it was going, so had no idea how to end the show satisfyingly. LOST was brilliant up to end of Season 3, the last episode of that season being one of the best ever. At that point the writers had to make up their mind as to what the island actually was. Was it a govt experiment? CIA? Run by this weird group from the 70's? A magic island? They chose 'Magic Island'. Once that was done there was no way to end the show in any sane way. It was a lazy way out for the writing team.
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