Didn't realise Workaholics is back.
Threee episodes into season seven to catch up on.
Didn't realise Workaholics is back.
Threee episodes into season seven to catch up on.
I'm a twit
Watching QI, my first episode hosted by Toksvig and she's surprisingly good at it.
Yeah, I've enjoyed the season a lot. I've been pleasantly surprised.
Started The Walking Dead this weekend...bit good, innit? Just coming to the end of Season 2.
I think GoT has immunised me to caring about characters too deeply nowadays as they all seem to fucking die. Also, as ever with these types of shows: the kids are the worst part.
Latest ACI is the Germanwings/Lubitz crash. Weird actually vividly remembering these ones.
I've watched a few things lately, enjoying all of them:
The Missing Series 2 - Cracking stuff. Did it in a day so it naturally dragged a bit in the middle, but quality production all round and might even be better than the first one.
The Night Manager - Lovely to look at, but lacked a bit of substance and was quite fantastical at times. Still, Hugh Laurie saying "Corky" will stay with me forever.
American Crime Story - Properly good. Bit of a slow burner at times, but the key players were fantastically realised and had me gripped even though I remembered much of the source material vividly.
Started watching "Bron" (= The Bridge). The original Swedish/Danish version. This is about 4 years after the rest of Sweden watched it.
Pretty good so far.
I watched The Night Manager in one sitting on a plane which is probably what it's best for. As you say Yev, it's rather empty once you get past the basic plotline. Looks lovely though.
Was 'Corky' not Tom Hollander's character?Originally Posted by Yevrah
Yes.
Agreed on The Missing too, as good as the first season was.
Season two of The Good Place ordered.
It was. The the way Hugh Laurie said his name was awesome.
Yeah, I really haven't felt myself missing Fry. Which isn't to say I didn't think he was great on it, just that they've replaced him very well.
But then I was quite confident about that because I always liked her as a guest.
The best thing has been the exclusion of Sue Perkins thus far.
The Alan Davies pretending to be stupid shtick has been stale for about 10 years, he made the show unwatchable for me ages before the National Treasure flounced off. Davies at least had the integrity to offer to resign if they wanted to make a fresh start, and the BBC said no. Fuck sake.
I mean everything is subjective, but if you've regularly watched QI since it started, and still find Alan Davies shouting bollocks like a naughty school boy funny I reckon you must have learning difficulties.
It always seemed to me more like everyone else pretending he was stupid while he was actually obviously very bright.
It's both. He's certainly not been unwilling to play up to it at least.
Did that post of yours always read 'Hugh Laurie saying'? I could have sworn it said 'Hugh Laurie's Corky' earlier.
QI is probably one of my least favourite TV shows of all time.
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Dennis Quaid has ruined Fortitude.
Finished season two of The Walking Dead yesterday. Dat end scene
Was it you that whizzed through The Expanse recently? Second series starts tomorrow night.
"This isn't a democracy anymore!"Finished season two of The Walking Dead yesterday. Dat end scene
I think I'm getting that right? Or not. It's all blurred into one.
I blitzed through The Expanse recently John, I don't know if Raoul did too. I didn't realise it was back so soon. I enjoyed it quite a bit, so that's good news. The Path is back as well, I've noticed.
Yeah I went through it pretty rapidly. It's a cracking show - looking forward to the next season. Love the aesthetic, in particular the UI design of things like the phones felt real, and more generally how it was pretty grounded in actual science.
That's the right episode, but I'm specifically talking about:
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It's based on a network of novels and novellas so if the viewers stay it'll end up running for years. I think the authors have knocked out about ten books in a few years.
My favourite touch was the 'belters' having lived in zero gravity for so long that they can't live on earth any more. There are plenty of clever little details like that which make the world building spot on, but the plot was hit or miss for me for a lot of it.
Yeah, agreed. There was an AMA on Reddit with them that was pretty good.
Ah, yes. That was a pretty mental way to end it, a big "what the fuck" moment at the time.That's the right episode, but I'm specifically talking about:
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I agree about the little touches in The Expanse too. It makes it all seem a bit more real, as a posed to people just tearing around in spaceships without a care in the world. I really like the scene in one of the earlier episodes where they perform the "flip and burn" manoeuvre to turn the ship around quickly and it's a huge deal, everyone has to strap in and inject some sort of fluid that helps them hold up to the extreme G-force.
It's not a particularly novel thought but I just started watching The Thick Of It for the first time in years and it's still amazing.
It's so re-watchable.
I watched episode one of The Expanse but I'm not really sold. Will give two a go though.
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I started The Night Of. Two episodes in. It was the first episode that everyone raved about, wasn't it? I can see why.
The Noah Hawley X-Men thing 'Legion' is getting incredible reviews. The word 'masterpiece' is being used liberally.
Yeah, I'd say the first episode is one if the best introductions to a show I've ever seen. It never comes close to reaching those heights again, unfortunately.
I decided the re-watch The Office (US).... the difference in quality from season 7 to season 8 really is huge. How on earth anyone thought that Catherine Tate would be a decent character should be shot. Also the writing took a massive, massive dip, too - so shit. '
The Office went downhill over the course of either season four or five, I forget which, and was nigh unwatchable by the point you're talking about.
Add Training Day to the list of films with crap spinoff series attached to them. Bill Paxton plays the Denzel role in this one, which is just about the most lol bit of casting I can think of.
Fuck me, Training Day? They really will stop at nothing.
See how far into that you can get without cringing yourself to death. I managed thirty seven seconds, but the cringe started forming at about twenty.
Literally thirty seconds into the new 24 reboot (Jack Bauer out, Dr. Dre in) and an ex-miliary man has already been executed by (presumably) muslim terrorists, while the blood splattered corpse of his already dead wife lies adjacent. We even got a close up of his Army Rangers tattoo and a camera pan across his conveniently laid out medals of valour, just to drive home the point of what a set of evil bastards they really are. It never occurred to me until just now, but I bet The Donald is a HUGE 24 fan.
Without it being the Bauer Power Hour there really isn't much point to it is there?
I very much doubt it. I think I'm just watching for nostalgias sake, if I'm honest.
Well, they certainly don't seem too interested in straying from the old formula. In just over forty minutes of television they've already managed to introduce the following 24 cliches:
- New, charasmatic presidential candidate
- Plucky, confrontational, non-conformist computer nerd working at CTU
- Possible mole inside CTU
- Straight laced, massively unhelpful, possibly not to be trusted dickhead in charge of CTU
- CTU being a fucking shambles in general
- The vague feeling your watching an extended car commercial for this season's manufacturer of choice
- Some sort of suburban terrorist sleeper cell
- Bauer mark II having a man bag every bit as spacious as his predecessor
- A regular old USB stick on the loose with loads of very important data about exactly what the terrorists plan to do on it
- Shady member of the main guys family popping up in a seemingly unrelated but probably somehow relevant sub-plot
No torture or "dammit!" yet though, but it's early days.
Fuck it, I'm going to watch the second episode.
Watch out for the villain being captured/foiled only for (yet) another layer of bad guys to be revealed and the process starts again until you get to Dennis Hopper.
I didn't watch 24 after the first season, but it feels like the sort of show where the bad guy being captured only for that to be part of his plan would have a fairly strong presence.
They must have done that at least once, most of them either got fed to a Bauer set piece or just contracted fatal irrelevancy and you never heard from them again.
What? Why?
With this and the 24-reboot I'm getting serious 2005-vibes right now.
This though.
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