Days 516 and 517

This was a weekend of two halves, on Saturday I felt fine and had my morning walk, watched some crows, spent time on the garden doing the G2 crossword, catching up on the papers and other reading.

Later I watched The Limehouse Golem, which I really liked. Bill Nighy is investigating a series of ghastly murders in Victorian London, which are being blamed on a golem.  There may also be a connection with another case, where a wife is accused of murdering her husband. The five main casts members, Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth, Daniel Mays and Sam Reid are great, and the story is like a big puzzle piece and I didn’t guess the twist until the very last second, defo want to watch it again to see if I could have worked out the twist earlier.

And I got three numbers in the Lotto draw, but on Sunday I felt all ill, a dicky tummy and a little nauseated. So, I spent much of the day in bed recovering, I think all the hot weather had just gotten to me, reading comics, drawing some sheep for my nephew and watching the first two episodes of season three of Shooter and The Ritual.  

The film Shooter wasn’t bad, but it fitted in a lot of plot detail and didn’t have too much room left for character detail, which is where the tv series comes into its own, as it has plenty of room to explore the characters and for us to get to know them. This combined with the ultimate soldierness of lead character Bob Lee Swager and the overarching conspiracy (aka Atlas) behind the scenes, makes, for me, a great TV show.

Season three picks up straight from season two (because Ryan Phillippe broke his leg while filming season two and they couldn’t complete filming the last two episodes of season two!) as the Solotov storyline is concluded and it looks like Bob Lee’s life is back to normal, until he finds out that there may be a link between his father’s death and Atlas.

Originally, I thought The Ritual would be a cross between The Descent, Stag, The Blair Witch and The Blair Witch Project and I was kinda right, as it’s about a group of friends who go on a trip to a remote location to commemorate their recently decreased friend and get into otherworldly trouble. Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier and Sam Troughton play the friends and do a great job of showing the friendships and the strain caused by the recent death and the film slowly ratchets the tension until the supernatural is fully in your face. A great horror flick.