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    Oh WOW season one of Broadchurch was fucking great. Thrilling, really. Great telly.

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    Why are all your posts taking the form and tone of a clickbait heading these days?

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    I thought this weeks Twin Peaks was a marked improvement over the last couple of episodes. I really enjoyed it. Much more of it happened in Twin Peaks, for starters. I liked the Evil Coop stuff, and even the Dougie bits were pretty good. The more screen time Big Ed gets the better, as well.

    Plus, it gets extra marks for resurrecting the cringeworthy musical exploits of James Hurley.

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    You'll never believe what happens next!

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    That Comrade Detective thing looks mental.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magic View Post
    You'll never believe what happens next!


    The first season of Broadchurch was fantastic, I gave up on 2 after a couple of episodes, there was a particular point that was just an 'oh fuck off' moment.

    If you can get into 3 without it being affected too much then I'll be all over that.

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    On a similar note, I finished the latest season of The Americans yesterday. It was okay.

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    People of Earth is pretty good.

    It's a comedy about a support group for people who have been abducted by aliens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    I thought this weeks Twin Peaks was a marked improvement over the last couple of episodes. I really enjoyed it. Much more of it happened in Twin Peaks, for starters. I liked the Evil Coop stuff, and even the Dougie bits were pretty good. The more screen time Big Ed gets the better, as well.

    Plus, it gets extra marks for resurrecting the cringeworthy musical exploits of James Hurley.
    I'd agree with all that. The previous 4 were pretty bad, but that was a return to form somewhat.

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    A return to form? This new season is an abomination and shouldn't be allowed to carry the Twin Peaks brand.

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    I could go on but I've wasted enough of my time watching thirteen episodes of nonsense that then writing about it is almost as bad.
    I'm a twit

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    Mr Mercedes has me absolutely astonished that we haven't had another round of 'violence on tv causes violence in reality' outrage. It would have been far and away the easiest connection the offence seekers would ever have had to make. On Friday a program is released which centres on the hunt for a man who drove a car into a crowd, on Saturday a man drives a car into a crowd.

    Maybe people have grown up where that's concerned.

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    Seen this floating about Twitter today.

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    I didn't intend to watch all of that but it drew me in. It's pretty good.

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    Me too - just finished it, very good.

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    It's mostly correct but I'm not having season 8 as the decline. It's the last truly great season.

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    Ozark is pretty good. First drama I've got into since season one of Narcos.

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    Anyone watch Ray Donovan?

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    Made a start on the Defenders. Three episodes in and I'm surprised by how patiently they've paced themselves at the start but I'm enjoying it so far.

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    Anyone watch Ray Donovan?
    I watched about half of the first series and keep wondering if I should go back and give it another go. I quite liked the acting and the story was decent but I just sort of lost interest.

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    Yes. Are you up to date with it, or just starting out?

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    Last Chance U series 2 is most definitely not living up to series 1. It's a massive yawn 5 episodes in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    Yes. Are you up to date with it, or just starting out?
    Up to date. You?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adamski View Post
    Up to date. You?
    Same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    Same.

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    Finished The Defenders and I enjoyed it. While it still has the Avengers thing of you needing to have seen the previous stuff being eight episodes there is more to this than "Right, we've spent time shuffling these four into place lets have a load of fight scenes."

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    One thing that was weird was the soundtrack. They were trying to capture the feel of all four shows which were of course different. So one big action scene you've got Daredevil-esque drama music and on another you've got hip hop like in a fight from the Luke Cage series.

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    Finally got into The Man in the High Castle properly recently. Almost through it all now. Couldn't help but laugh when one of the Japanese generals was giving his big talk and they all start shouting 'BANZAI!'.


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    Don't fear that Big Ben is going mute for four years, lads, This Morning have found the replacement:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Weaver View Post
    Don't fear that Big Ben is going mute for four years, lads, This Morning have found the replacement:

    I mean, the inevitable bullies really want to be targeting her fucking parents because they're the ones who've encouraged her to go on TV with that shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    The third was really good. I didn't bother with the second at all after the adverts made it look like a courtroom drama, and what little I missed with impact on the third could be easily worked out from context as it went on.
    I've just finished it and it is excellent. You can just read a quick synopsis of season 2 then skip it without losing out.

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    I've been watching Riverdale and it's actually really good. It's about a bunch of highschoolers, so ok, not exactly a MatureMan!'s show, but it's very well written. It's based of the comic book series Archie but it's pretty much a modern Twin Peaks, and they're doing (so far as I am in the series) a very very good job of developing characters, making them all relevant and multifaceted, as well as obscuring who the murderer is.

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    Bottled Broadchurch because I enjoyed S01 so much didn't want to ruin it.

    Started on Fargo now, it's so badass.

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    I still need to watch the first season of Fargo. The third took a while to get going but was really good, once you get used to Ewan McGregor just being Ewan McGregor.

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    I'm still getting used to Martin Freeman being Martin Freeman.

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    The first season of Fargo is really great.

    Lorne Malvo.

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    Ugh, they're bringing back League of Gentleman. The first series was incredible, two tailed off and three was fucking awful. I can't imagine this being an improvement.

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    LoG series 2 was great.

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    The first couple of episodes were good but the plot became too prominent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wullie View Post
    I still need to watch the first season of Fargo. The third took a while to get going but was really good, once you get used to Ewan McGregor just being Ewan McGregor.
    You'll love the first two then, three was definitely weaker.

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    I loved the second and the characters were a lot better, but I think I preferred the third series as a whole.

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    New four-episode run (each episode is two hours) of Inspector Montalbano has started on BBC4 for those who like utterly magical Sicilian comic crime drama.

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    Started watching The X Files today. Don't know why I didn't before. Although I do remember being a bit scared of it as a kid. That theme tune still kinda creeps me out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Started watching The X Files today. Don't know why I didn't before. Although I do remember being a bit scared of it as a kid. That theme tune still kinda creeps me out.


    Gonna watch it all? Seen many of them before?
    I'm a twit

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    Yes and no. Starting right from the start.

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    I forget where I gave up on The X-files but the early stuff is great. The best episodes were always the 'monster of the week' ones, not so much the UFO backstory.

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    Finished Ozark, liked it a lot although the 'Breaking Bad meets Fargo' tag that Netflix were going with didn't really come to mind, if anything the sweaty setting reminded me of Bloodline more than anything. I'm ok with violence normally but I couldn't watch
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    Jason Bateman plays a great dickhead

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    16th episode of the new Twin Peaks watched it it was very good, with a couple of very moving scenes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wullie View Post
    Finished Ozark, liked it a lot although the 'Breaking Bad meets Fargo' tag that Netflix were going with didn't really come to mind, if anything the sweaty setting reminded me of Bloodline more than anything. I'm ok with violence normally but I couldn't watch
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    Jason Bateman plays a great dickhead
    I would agree with the Bloodline comparison. I probably enjoyed it a little more than Bloodline, if anything. It didn't take itself quite as seriously. There's always enough Michael Bluth in everything Bateman does to give it this sarcastic, darkly comic undertone, which I really like about it.
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    I agree absolutely with what you say in your spoiler tag, by the way. Fuck that. I turned away from the screen until I was absolutely sure it was over. No thank you.

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    That scene is indeed incredible.

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    Finn Jones is an impressively shit actor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    People of Earth is pretty good.

    It's a comedy about a support group for people who have been abducted by aliens.
    I've been enjoying this. The tone of it reminds me a little of Braindead, which is worth checking out just for the sung 'previously on' bits. It's much better written than that though.

    The Norwegian bloke playing the 'White' has terrific comic timing.

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    Watched the Twin Peaks finale last night, that probably should be that now.

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