Posts Tagged TV
Archive
May 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Daniel Pemberton: Slow Horses – Season 1 (ATV+ Original Series Soundtrack)
Daniel Pemberton Slow Horses: Season 1 (ATV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Apple Video Programming LLC/Jackson River Films Limited, Polydor/Universal I’m a big fan of the show Slow Horses – genius writing, casting, excellent source material, the look and feel of it is perfect too; a winner. And Daniel Pemberton’s score is instantly part of that magical, […]Archive
April 29, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Nicholas Britell: Succession – Season 3 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack)
Nicholas Britell Succession: Season 3 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack) Home Box Office, Inc, under exclusive license to Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Succession has stayed in my mind across the last four years – there was a long wait for season three (due to the pandemic halting filming) and as well as […]Archive
April 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Those Days Were Ours: Part-Remembering Happy Days
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days! These days are ours… Happy Days was filmed in front of a live studio audience. I spent a huge amount of my childhood watching re-runs of Happy Days. I started watching it when the original series was winding up. But I didn’t know that. The timeline was all out of whack for […]Archive
April 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Christopher Nicholas Bangs: WeCrashed (Original Series Soundtrack)
Christopher Nicholas Bangs WeCrashed (Original Series Soundtrack) Apple Video Programming LLC, under exclusive license to Platoon Ltd WeCrashed is equal parts exhilarating and infuriating. As the WeWork company plummets to its inevitable crash WeWatch. WeSit. WeLoveIt. WeKnow that WeAre inherently better people. They are hideous on every level and it’s a unique strain of Stuff […]Archive
April 2, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
What A Good Score! – #11: The Young & The Restless by Various
The music haunted me somewhat. In a way. I remember it so deeply from childhood. I wasn’t a fan of the show. But my mum was – it had started a few years before I was born, probably in perfect time for my older brother to start pre-school, I guess. And also, it was scheduled […]Archive
March 17, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Odenkirk: Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama Bob Odenkirk Penguin Random House I love Bob Odenkirk. Have done since before I knew his name. He just kept popping up on things. That same face in everything. A mild smirk. A guy who had some sadness, some trauma etched onto him and laced all through his comedy. A guy […]Archive
February 28, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Joshua Moshier: The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)
Joshua Moshier The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Lakeshore Records I’m really enjoying the TV series The Shrink Next Door which tells the stranger-than-fiction true tale of a psychiatrist who manipulates his patient into friendship and hoodwinks him out of dollars and pads his own status. Everything about it is enjoyable – […]Archive
February 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
“Sounds Good” Turns 1: My Substack Newsletter Has Been Going For One Year
“Sounds Good!” on Substack is one. A year of writing and sending out newsletters. If you’re signed up and following you might remember that as recently as two weeks ago I shared all the Friday playlists in one go – 50 weeks of A Little Something For The Weekend playlists. I called that that anniversary […]Archive
January 27, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
In Praise of ‘Succession’
Succession debuted in 2018, created by British screenwriter and producer Jesse Armstrong. He was best known for the brilliant Peep Show – and his largely British writing team (you may remember I recommended Georgia Pritchard’s “anxiety memoir”) have, over three seasons, done the most amazing job of pitching black-as-the-inside-of-a-coffin-on-a-moonless-night comedy that satirises the Trump/Murdoch-level arrogance, […]Archive
January 26, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
The Crude Farce of After Life Season Three
I haven’t always had a problem with Ricky Gervais. I was a big fan of The Office – who wasn’t? I think Extras was possibly better, smarter. And, at the time, I was even into his stand-up comedy specials. Each one arriving with special-club buzz. They haven’t aged well. They weren’t really great at the […]Archive
January 3, 2022 by Simon Sweetman