Partially discharged

Watched 3 of the 6 episodes of 'La Mante' which is a french thriller and is on Netflix. In french with subtitles and very gripping. So far, one of the best things I've seen in ages.

Should be right up the alley of any BE posters who have lived in France.

BristolUK

Especially those of a serial killer disposition.

Partially discharged

Well yes, there is that aspect.

BristolUK

Canada does Scandi

You could have knocked me down with a feather. Even the aerial shots of cars going along a road are like The Bridge and others.

What is it?

Cardinal. It's a CTV show so you get those annoying captions on screen at the parts that the commercial break ends but fortunately the ads are missing from the streams I'm watching.

I've seen the first two parts of season one so far. Surprisingly good.

BristolUK

Still watching Cardinal but I just discovered it's on iPlayer. It'll be nicer there for two reasons. No CTV captions splashed across the bottom of the screen and in a couple of episodes I became aware of bits of the dialogue blanked out. Honestly, mild swearing blanked out. What's the point of putting it in if it's going to be blanked out.

I put the subtitles on to see what that did and it came out as sh*t. I've always wondered about this nonsense. If you're offended is it really any different replacing the i with a *?

bats

BristolUK

Remember we had a brief talk about the captions showing the lyrics of a song and whether it was important or relevant? Well I watched a couple of episodes of Cardinal (on iPlayer) last night with the subtitles on as I was having whisky7up with pringles which were noisy in my head.

Mood was about the only thing of relevance, I thought, and you could pick that up without hearing the words. Funny thing though, the opening titles song..."was that what she was singing?" It didn't sound like those words at all.

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Norwegian series from a few years ago. Mammon. Available on 4OD (but maybe only the second season) or it's on Dailymotion.com where I'm watching.

Only seen first episode so far but I shall watch more.

bats

BristolUK

I wondered about that. I watch some things on different sources and the settings button says captions but it turns the subtitles on or off. Sometimes there's a "door slams" or "car engine" but it's all or nothing.

So, woman in the bathroom...she looks at her reflection in the medicine cabinet mirror. She opens the door, takes out her nail clippers (or whatever) and shuts the door revealing creepy guy standing behind her. What sort of caption announces that?

Teaandtoday5

bats

Duh, well none. Unless there's a scream

For blind and partiqllp sighted peopep there's descriptive audio which gives a commentary on such scenes where there is no audio orbits misleading

BristolUK

Another one.

Deadwind. Finnish cop show. 2 of 12 done so far. New and on Netflix.

Just my impression and I'm sort of generalising, but when I see a strong female role in a UK cop series it seems like someone had to write a strong female character. The male officers often seem to resent her too.

When Scandi does it, it's as if it's always been that way and everyone just gets on with it.

spouse of scouse

....and when it's a female cop in a US series, they're all attractive, slim and under 35, with perfect make-up and hair. Although a few strands of hair might fall fetchingly across their faces after they've tackled and cuffed a serial killer who's 3 times their weight

bats

Im the same

scrubbedexpat091

Ozark on netflix season 2 dropped today, its a decently written and acted show. Jason Batman and others are in it.