Just six.
The documentary about the Trashers on Netflix is brilliant. It's part of the Untold series and is about an ice hockey team owned by a mafia boss who makes his 17 yr old son the general manager.
Worth a watch.
Finished the final season of Goliath last night - glad they've decided to end it there as I think the premise had been worn out (down and out brilliant lawyer takes on and beats The Man despite personal demons of his own creation), but really enjoyed Billy Bob Thornton in that role. Nina Arianda was excellent as well, along with Ben's daughter from Lost.
Second series of Locke & Key has been pretty good. Not quite up there with the first but entertaining.
The second season of The Morning Show is a mess. Maybe even a turd.
Speaking of turds, when does Discovery kick off again?
This says November 18. I don't think I have seen season 3 actually.
Have you been watching Foundation @Alex ?
I’ve enjoyed parts of it (4 episodes in), but so far the show feels like it’s struggling to pull it all together. Not enjoying the cloned emperors.
I'm four episodes in too and I'm mostly enjoying it but I do agree that it still feels a bit disjointed. I guess the source material is really hard to adapt just based on the spread out nature of the story. They've obviously had to change a lot of it too, and add a lot of things in, to make it a film-able television show that will make sense as a series.
I think the main thing it has going for it is the world looks really fantastic. They have definitely spent the budget well. I actually quite like the concept of the cloned emperors they have come up with. I think it was a necessity just to have some sort of continuity in "bad guys" when the timeline jumps around so much. I'm never been the biggest Lee Pace fan though, so that is a bit of a struggle at times.
The Chestnut Man is well worth a watch. Very solid television.
House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths is an appallingly made documentary. Avoid.
Anyone watching this BBC thing about 80's music? "The 80s: Music's Greatest Decade?"
I was browsing the subreddit that uploads various terrestrial TV shows and it caught my eye. Bit of a sucker for 80's music so going to have a look at some point.
Is it taken with proper decorum or is it just some tosh Stuart Marconie rushes to talk on?
Started watching The Blacklist the other night and enjoying it a lot so far. James Spader is great.
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I lasted until the fifth or sixth season.
I really liked it (well I like Spader) but it really shit the bed around then.
I liked the first episode of the 80s music thing but I caught the last part of the second one and it seemed to just be TOTP2 without the branding, here's Madonna and Wham miming while some trivia pops up on screen
Is Stath lets flats any good?
Could you not tell that by the ads?
Looks horse shit, aye.
Also, I'm not sure if my judgement is clouded by it coming off the back of NZ series 2 (the actual best series) but is this series of Taskmaster (Jonathan Creek, David Mitchell's wife, etc.) far and away the absolute worst one yet? Not just because of the lineup either, but the tasks are much lower quality than normal, often giving next to no room for manoeuvre to "do it their way" so you end up just watching 5 people do the same thing (the copy Alex's dance being some of the worst TV of 2021) and it's rubbish.
I'm a twit
I do enjoy Gus' expressions.
Yeah I'm only halfway through the second episode of the most recent Taskmaster series but it's good. The food in the bags task
Food tasks are always great.
Agreed, I'm enjoying this season much more than the last one. I actually like all of the contestents too, which might be a first.
Giving Squid game a go.
Anyone who watches it dubbed is a certified nonce and I’m aghast that that’s Netflix default setting.
I'm a twit
Apparently they are doing a new series of Gamesmaster on E4
They better bring Diamond back.
Sir Trevor McDonald as the Gamesmaster sounds like it'll work.
I watched the first two seasons of Last Chance U over the last week and I thought it was great but the first season is so much better than the second.
They focused on too many boring players in the second (Kam in particular who was dull as fuck and incredibly irritating but they were clearly hoping he'd be a Ronald Ollie) when screen time should have gone to others. In particular I'd have liked to have seen more of DeAndre Johnson and Dakota Allen, both had the more serious troubles resulting in them getting kicked from their colleges and both of them seemed to have done the most to atone for what they did wrong. It's no surprise that Dakota Allen made it to the NFL and is still playing in the league.
Buddy was also so clearly being fake in an attempt to look better on camera which actually made him look even worse, absolute cunt of a man.
I'm liking the third series so far.
The head coach is a prick (there is a theme) and the QB is also a massive twat but a lot of the rest of the players are alright. The English teacher is the star of the show though.
The new Stephen Merchant thing, The Outlaws, is a bit of a mess.
Starts off as a bit of a comedy, but then descends into some low-rent thriller, and the jokes just completely dry up by the 3rd episode.
I guess it doesn't have to be one or the other, but it's not funny enough for comedy, nor is the story good enough to carry it as a thriller or anything else really. Yeah, bit all over the place.
Tiger King season 2 tomorrow.
I got a bit into episode 2 last night and couldn't take much more. There's seemingly nothing to warrant even a follow up episode, let alone a five part series.
Been watching Dopesick, really good and interesting considering it's based on true events about opioid addiction.
When I was at the courts I had a Heroin Addict shout at me because the banning order he had received meant he couldn't go into town to get his Methadone. So now he was going to have to go back to the Heroin. No choice like.
I tried pointing out that pharmacists exist outside of the Town Centre. I also tried to explain that Boots may be a bit more welcoming if he didn't keep shoplifting from them. But no. I may as well have plunged the needle into his arm myself.
A pity you didn't plunge that post into the right thread.
I was responding to Jeets post. Is there a right thread for it anyway? I suppose I could have just PM'd it to all the Scottish lads.
Maybe not Magic. He’s afraid of needles.
Likes tinfoil though.
Turns out I'd only looked at Jeet's post far enough to acknowledge it was Jeet and then gone no further and just assumed Spikey's post was something meant for the Jobs thread or similar.
I apologise unreservedly to Jeet. Not to Spikey though, fucking arsehole making people do heroin.