Thursday Movie Picks #454: TMP Television Edition - TV Score and/or Theme Song

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is TMP Television Edition - TV Score and/or Theme Song

 

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We did the same TMP two years ago and I thought enough time has passed for you to have seen newer shows with great score or theme song. Here are four of my favourites.

 

Succession (2018-2023)

I haven't seen the latest season but have always liked the opening theme song...lots of tension and spiralling keys.

 

WeCrashed (2022)

The opening theme song is catchy and the lyrics fit quite well with the show and I love the opening sequence too with the unicorn walking around the office

 

Moon Knight (2022)

I love the Moon Knight theme, which gets played at the end credits of the first episode and variations of it is also usually played when the character transforms. While I only enjoyed the first half of the series, the second half is a mess reminding me so much of Legion another series about a Marvel character, the score for this series is great. It sounds truly cinematic...and also the visuals...do watch the end credits sequence because it is stunning and has different tracks playing for each episode. 

 

 

Slow Horses (2022 - )

I love this series. It's a fun spy drama that has sharp dark humor and when I first heard the theme song sung by Mick Jagger I thought it was soo perfect for the series. It was only later that I found out that it's perfect because it was written specifically by Jagger for the series. Unlike the other series I've picked, I'm not posting the credit scene where the theme song is played, instead I'm attaching the official lyric video Jagger released. Look at the lyrics...it reflects so much of the story and humour of the show.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #453: Period Drama

Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share your movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple: based on the theme of the week pick three to five movies and tell us why you picked them. For further details and the schedule visit the series main page here.

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Period Drama

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I’m simply selecting the last three movies I saw the first half of the year.

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

I read Macbeth as a teen, not for school but on my own so I wasn’t able to fully understand; Shakespeare’s language is a challenge for me. A few years ago I saw the movie with Fassbender in the title role, I got the gist of it but not all of it and still didn’t quite get why it is such a popular play. I was apprehensive watching this new one but decided to just give it a go and it finally clicked…I finally understand it. I do like the movie as a whole, the story the way it was presented here made someone like me who doesn’t understand Shakespeare’s language understand it easily. The visuals: it was shot in black and white with great use of light and shadows and the set was stunning…I love the minimalism and the whole gothic expressionist architecture…it was, looking at IMDB, all filmed in the studio. Performance was generally so-so for everyone…Denzel was great in some parts and moderate in others. I think both leads are older than the age the characters are suppose to be so that made some of the lines not quite work when uttered by older actors.

 

The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
The mystery is a bit thin though still a decent enough gothic horror movie. I do highly recommend to watch the movie for the visuals. The wintry landscape was just beautiful and filmed in such an atmospheric, melancholic and eerie manner.

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
This brought back McDonagh as writer/director and costars Gleason and Ferrell together again who all worked on In Bruges. I love In Bruges, so I wanted this to be great, unfortunately this was quite disappointing for me, it was just so-so, others though seem to love it as this is a well reviewed movie. 

 

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