Raymondspeaks TV Recommendations

We're back on schedule. I did my folm recommendations last week at this time but we had planned for TV today and film on Friday, so it's back to schedule.

I'll be trying to think out of the box and not pick something everyone and their dog is watching at the moment. For example Breaking bad is probably a terrible series to pick because everyone's that's everyone has seen it. So with that said let's see if I can go and pick up some hidden gems and spotlight them for your general perusal.

First on the spot is Cobra Kai

If anyone remembers young Daniel Larusso; a new kid to LA who gets beat on by the local trouble-youths, only to be taken in by Mr Myagi, the caretaker of his house-block who is actually a marshall arts master. He trains Daniel in the arts and he wins the all valley state championship and some respect from his peers.

Fast forward thirty years and we have a future that most of us expect. Daniel Larusso is a successful business owner that has marketed the crap out of his Karate wins, and Johnny Lawrence, Daniel's nemesis is a bum living off beer and crap stuck in a time that the world forgot. He's always remembering the 80's as if they were the golden years, and perhaps for him, they were.

This time though perspectives have shifted and Johnny is the underdog and Daniel is the bully. When we were once rooting for a young bullied boy Daniel, we now find ourselves cheering on a battered and bruised Johnny Lawrence.

Johnny is just trying to make up for his past misdeeds and make a Karate dojo fit for a helpless youth. He befriends his neighbour and he becomes his first student. We laugh and cry with him as he makes small wins and losses throughout the season.

This is by far one of the best continuation series' of an old movie franchise. One that I would thoroughly recommend.

Silo

"We do not know why we are here."

This is the general sentiment in the world of Silo.

The story starts in what looks like an abnadoned old nuclear missle solo which has been gouged out and turned into a place of living for thousands and thousands of people. Your initial thoughts when you start this series is that there has been a nuclear war and people have had to go into hiding. So much time has passed that people have forgotten why they are in where they are, or what the silo even represents. They are at least 4-5 generations of people away from the war that forced them into hiding.

There is one massive caveat to this film though, and that even although we, the audience, understand what everything represents even when the inhabitants do not, we are also in the dark too as to what happened. If there was a war, if anything happened, or by some unfortunate happenstance that they are all down there and there is a rich vibrant world outside.

The entire first season is about unravelling mysteries as to why they are there and why people so desperately want to keep them inside. It definitely feels that there is something amiss, and you, the watcher, find yourself eagerly following through every clue and mystery unlocked to get ever-so closer to the truth.

Of course there is a shadowy organisation trying to thwart your efforts at every cost. Much like the Stazi in Eastern Germany of the 1960's, people are afraid to walk on the same level or even make eye contact with them. They are known for their shady dealings and backhanders. They exist as the secret service of the silo, and they try to stop you, the watcher from uncovering the truth at every step of the way.

An absolute blast of a watch.

Outlander

Here we take the story of a young nurse on her late honeymoon with her husband. They pick Scotland as a destination. The story is set just after world war II has ended and both are super eager to rekindle their relationship that was set aside for serving their country.

Professor Frank Randall and Claire Fraser set off their journey to a quaint town in Scotland to blow off the cobwebs of a quite brutal six years.

Unbeknows to both of them, this town also harbours the Callanish Stones which are home to Pagan rituals and spooky witchery stuff. Curious about them, Claire wanted to check them out as part of her "things to see" on her holiday. One thing led to another and she was transported back 200 years in the arms of what seemed to be her husband, but actually was a distant ancestor "Black Jack" Randall, and all was not what it seemed.

Outlander, from start to finish is one of those emotional rollercoasters of a series that will take your heart through the ringer if you aren't careful. This is a deeply thought out, and well written series. I had to stop watching it after the third season because it just got too much for me emotionally. It was so well acted, and so well written that you'll be hard pressed not to feel every knock and bruise the characters experience on the way.

If you are a fan of period drama's, and balancing morals of old with the morals of the new then this series is a definite watch for you.

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