It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds!
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Mini-Series I've seen.
Rating 1-10 for series seen 2008->:
10 - And Beyond - *****
9 - Outstanding - ****/*
8 - Superb - ****
7 - Very Good - ***/*
6 - Good - ***
5 - Ok - **/*
4 - Nah - **
3 - Meh - */*
2 - Awful - *
1 - Crap - /*
[note to self]
Mini-Series I've seen.
Rating 1-10 for series seen 2008->:
10 - And Beyond - *****
9 - Outstanding - ****/*
8 - Superb - ****
7 - Very Good - ***/*
6 - Good - ***
5 - Ok - **/*
4 - Nah - **
3 - Meh - */*
2 - Awful - *
1 - Crap - /*
[note to self]
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- StarsMary LarkinKerry McGuireJon EnglishEighteen-year-old Mary Mulvane gets convicted for trying to get back her father's cow. She has to endure the travel in a prison ship from Ireland and living the life of a convict in Australia.(***)
[Complete] - StarsScott GrimesDamian LewisRon LivingstonThe story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord to V-J Day.(*****)
- StarsLars MjøenKnut LystadTrond KirkvaagWhile attending the Nobel prize-giving ceremony in Oslo - themselves just having just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace - the Dal brothers all of a sudden find themselves incapable of controlling their own limbs, being sucked out of the building and onto a train by what seems to be an uncontrollable higher force. The train brings them to the icy snows of Lapland, where they come across a mysterious shaman. The shaman explains that he has summoned the brothers to Lapland because Irka, an ancient holy pitcher saved from the Lapplanders' sacred town of Atlant-Is before the town sank and disappeared in the northern ice more than 4000 years ago, has been stolen. The shaman hopes that the Dal brothers can help to retrieve the holy pitcher and the brothers naturally offer their immediate assistance. While attempting to trace the whereabouts of Irka, the Dal brothers are lead deeper and deeper into a tangled web of pottery, snow research, hidden identities, explosives, missing airplanes, ghostly monks, forgery, and ever expanding lies.
- StarsLars MjøenKnut LystadTrond KirkvaagIn 1950 professor Kurt Drøvel vanished while exploring the unchartered river Overfloden outside of Oslo, Norway. All rescue attempts failed. 28 years later, the brothers Dal have started a journey, by canoe, up Overfloden, in order to establish what really happened to professor Drøvel.
- StarsLars MjøenKnut LystadTrond KirkvaagWhile digging for a meteor fragment containing Curium 82, a substance that can cure the common cold, the three brothers Dal finds a shining, diamond-like stone. Later, Roms Dal is visited by an alien in a space ship, and receives a ring containing blueprints to an unknown machine. The brothers decide to build the contraption, hoping to find out what it does. When Roms accidentally triggers its mechanism using the stone, they are off on an exciting time-traveling adventure.
- StarsNeil Patrick HarrisNathan FillionFelicia DayAn aspiring supervillain must balance his career and his pursuit of a beautiful do-gooder.***/*
[Complete] - StarsJan OhlssonLena WisborgAllan EdwallThe series tells stories from the childhood of a sometimes naughty, but very lovable and kindhearted young boy growing up on a farm in southern Sweden in the early 20th century.
- StarsLinus AabergAlexandra RoyalJohan LiljaDaniel Andersson looks forward to yet another exciting summer together with his friend Anders, but this year he'll be spending most of his time with someone else. Anna, who is deaf, has moved in with her parents in the cottage next door. One day, while Daniel is swimming in a nearby lake, Anna shows up unexpectedly, and the two hit it off immediately. Before long, their friendship develops into a romance. Little do they know, local bad boy Jesper has been spying on them swimming, and Anna has caught his eye. When Jesper tries to move in on Anna, trouble ensues.
- StarsHenki KolstadÅsmund HuserTone E. EriksenWe meet shoemaker Jens Petrus Andersen and his pet "Tøflus". We also meet Jens Petrus' neighbours and friends.
- StarsJohn HurtTom FeltonJessica Brown FindlayFollows two women in two different eras both in search of the Holy Grail.**
[Complete] - StarsGiles ThomasEwan McGregorLouise Germaine7 men work in a military intelligence office in 1956 London. Hopper is bored translating Russian and imagines rock'n'roll musicals set in the office. Francis dreams of Berry's wife.
- StarsKen MarshallDenholm ElliottTony VogelThe life and experiences of the thirteenth century explorer, who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.
- StarsTomas von BrömssenKjersti HolmenReidar SørensenA married couple arrives in a fishing community in Northern Norway on a trip that hasn't been a success. They've been quarreling. But the trip is getting all worse when they decide on going down to the village.
- StarsRaimund HarmstorfLorenza GuerrieriPierre VernierCaptain Michael Strogoff is chosen in Moscow to be the courier of the Tsar, 5,523 km far to Irkutsk, to warn the governor about the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a former colonel, who was once demoted and exiled and now seeks revenge.
- StarsKate WinsletGuy PearceEvan Rachel WoodDivorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her ambitious elder daughter, Veda.**/*
- StarsEspen EckboTrond FausaEivind SanderNorwegian mock-reality-TV-game-show where a group of people are dressed up as Christmas gnomes, moved into a small barn loft and filmed at all hours. Forced to survive on a diet of marzipan and nuts, one contestant is voted out of the show in each episode.***/*
- StarsVera HolteHelge JordalFrode RasmussenThe body of a 14 year old girl is washed ashore on the island Senja. This is the mini-series version of the movie Nattseilere (1986)
- CreatorDouglas HeyesStarsKirstie AlleyGeorg Stanford BrownDavid CarradineTwo friends, one northern and one southern, struggle to maintain their friendship as events build towards the American Civil War.
- CreatorDouglas HeyesStarsKirstie AlleyDavid CarradinePhilip CasnoffThe story of two friends and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War.
- StarsInger NilssonPär SundbergMaria PerssonThe adventures of Pippi Longstocking, an eccentric, super-strong, redheaded moppet and her best friends Tommy and Annika.
- The slighter confused and rather clumsy repair-men Pompel and Pilt are looking for something to fix and, but they are scared by Moffedilten, and their opportunities are always ruined by the scary Gorgon Caretaker and his deranged family.
- StarsColin FirthJennifer EhleSusannah HarkerWhile the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy.****
- StarsLeVar BurtonRobert ReedJohn AmosA dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
- StarsKjersti HolmenTomas von BrömssenIngvor WennbergNovember 1942. Young Norwegian Anne Eriksen returns to a small boarding-house in Dalsland, Sweden near the Norwegian border, where she has spent the summers during her childhood. The boardinghouse is run by Ruth Lind and her helpful but unfortunate son Evert. It is very close to German occupied Norway and the surroundings are far from peaceful and quiet. Whom should you trust, who should you distrust?
- StarsChrister BoustedtSven LindbergHelge SkoogSkrotnisse and his son Kalle work in a junk yard, situated in the middle of a small town. Skrotnisse has a childhood friend, the inventor and hermit Bertil Enstöring. He has written down all his fabulous inventions in a small book. A lot of people would like to get their hands on this book. One of them is engineer Björkman, who also wants to get rid of the junk yard from the town.
- StarsRichard ChamberlainToshirô MifuneYôko ShimadaAn English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan.
- StarsJohn SimmDavid MorrisseyKelly MacdonaldJournalists uncover a government conspiracy when a young politician's assistant and mistress is killed.***/*
[Complete] - StarsGemma ArtertonEddie RedmayneRuth JonesThe story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.***
[Complete] - DirectorArvid SkaugeStarsSverre PorsangerRasmus SombyNils UtsiA year in the Sami boy Ante's life. His dream is to become a reindeer owner like his dad, but in the autumn he has to attend school, where he struggles to adapt.
- StarsArve OpsahlLasse KolstadErling Mylius"The Julekalender" is a Christmas story about three "nisser" who have to go from the North Pole and back to the "hule" (cave) in the Norwegian province of Trondelag to find the life melody of the head nisse "Good old gammel nok" who is about to die. However they have to watch out for the evil "Nåså", who during the series comes to live with a potato farmer nearby. The series is based on funny lines containing dialect (the potato farmer) or a mix between Norwegian and English (the nisses). The lines are repeated in episode after episode, and if a good line occurs, one of the nisses will say "Hey, that's a good vending (phrase). Maybe we can use that in another episode!" The show is a copy from the danish "The Julekalender" (1991). The danish show was made of the band "De Nattergale".
- StarsRichard ChamberlainRachel WardChristopher PlummerIn the arid 1920s Australian Outback, a Catholic priest and the beautiful niece of a vast sheep station owner stand powerless before God's will, tormented by desire. How far are they willing to go in the name of love?
- StarsTorsten LilliecronaLouise EdlindBjörn SöderbäckThe Melkersson family decides to leave the city for the summer to rent a house in the Stockholm archipelago. They come to enjoy the simple life there and all adventures that come their way together with resident family, the Grankvists.
- StarsBenny HaagJoakim BörjlindThomas RoosSwedish TV series of Six episodes from