@Bernanke I'm actually watching the Americans now and not just taking the piss out of you. It's great.
@Bernanke I'm actually watching the Americans now and not just taking the piss out of you. It's great.
S4 in three weeks.Originally Posted by Boydy
How far in are you?
I'm really enjoying it, although Mickey is such a complete arsehole that the storyline feels a bit shaky. It's hard to accept he would still put up with her just because they spent one nice day together, especially when various other attractive women appear in the story.
But, it's funny enough that it doesn't need to be taken seriously. Renewed for a second season already too. If only the previously mentioned Freaks and Geeks had been made in the age of Netflix.
In the middle of season 2. I thought it was the fifth season that was coming out soon. Quite disappointed I'll have to watch it weekly sooner than I thought.S4 in three weeks.
Mrs Ari Gold popping up in season 2 of the X-Files couldn't save what is potentially the worst episode of anything I've ever seen.
I'm a twit
I don't think I'll ever tire of Impractical Jokers.
It's great isn't it? The new season is just as good.
I've just watched the one where they're in the library and I was actually in tears. So simple but so good.
The new series of Gotham is definitely an improvement but the Nygma storyline is boooooooooooooooring. Which is a shame because I think the actor is decent enough.
Sal doing the dentist is the best ever.
I'm a twit
The first 15 minutes of an episode of The Good Wife just came on and we all went silent and got suddenly engrossed in it. I'm definitely copping the first season.
Hell yes, one of my favourite programmes.
Watching A League of Their Own. Nicole Scherzinger is so hot. Admittedly, there's a lot of make up.
Just watched the first episode of the Night Manager. I renewed my license fee on Wednesday. I regret both of these decisions.
1. Don't treat Le Carre's work like its Fleming. He does not have a Bond.
2. You're lucky if you get a sentence in the books to imply two characters have fucked. Here you get a full-blown sex scene and some dodgy flashbacks. No need. Especially as Pine comes off in the book as a pervy tit who got his end away with a woman twice his age.
3. You don't need to zoom in on something several times to convey IMPORTANCE.
4. Neither do you need captions for locations when well-known landmarks are in shot. "Where are these Pyramids? CAIRO!? FANKS!"
I'm seeing it through to see how they handle some shit. Namely the thing that made me put the book down in shock. Plus I like Hugh Laurie.
She really is the worst, isn't she? I've just watched episode eight and I want to fucking kill her. I think they try and justify her behaviour by giving her these "issues" and trying to make her all complex and troubled, but even then she still comes across as a complete cunt.
It's not a bad little show though, I'm enjoying it. Very watchable.
It's pretty good, and at times, it's excellent. The first 4 seasons or so in particular.
It's currently on season 7, and the last few episodes that have come out have been total tripe though. It's really losing its way.
I finished "Love" last night.
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"Going somewhere" is overrated.
Watch Master of None next if you haven't already. It's similar but far better.
Yeah I liked Master of None, that was very good. The obsession with using their phones was a bit weird.
I watched the first two episodes of Love last night. I hope that they're just going to end up having adventures as friends as I buy them as a couple less than Britta and the big fat cult guy who lives with his mum.
Is it? The whole premise is as a humourous commentary on the lives of modern late twenties-mid thirties people. Queue forced quirkiness, awkward sex, awkward dates, lack of appreciation, sense of entitlement and the redemption of both failings... Why wouldn't being chained to a mobile device be a part of that?
Ah fuck. As a massive le Carre fan I want this to be great, but have had a foreboding feeling that they'd fuck it up in exactly the kind of ways you outline.
Ah fuck. As a massive le Carre fan I want this to be great, but have had a foreboding feeling that they'd fuck it up in exactly the kind of ways you outline.
My biggest problem in episode 2 is Olivia Coleman's flat delivery. She's concentrating too hard to be Yorkshire. Tom's getting a bit too Hugh Grant. Overall, they're trying to make this like a film.
That's a fair interpretation but I didn't take the series as deliberate a plan as that. I think he just wanted to represent what his own life was like and have some laughs.
Neil fucking Morrissey is in this!? Source material's getting me through this. Its okay but they did this spy stuff so much better 30 years ago.
Yeah, that was some terrible casting. Paul Rust just looks like a Bo Selecta version of Sean Penn as well, which keeps putting me off. I liked what I've seen so far though.
This looks pretty good as well. Very Arrested Development:
Paul Rust, eh? I took one glance and thought it was Andy Dick. There's your silver lining.
What's wrong with Neil Morrissey?He was boss in Men Behaving Badly, although admittedly Martin Clunes carried some episodes, and I saw him as Fagan in Oliver Twist at the theatre and he made it worthwhile.
I'm a twit
He's not the man you want in Whitehall deciding government funding. That's what. Martin Clunes, perhaps.
Sadly, I'm now all caught up with The Americans
It's going to suck watching it weekly.
I'm on season three now and I'm dreading getting to that point.
I slowed down a lot in the hopes of, at the very least, episode one of the new season being out.
I failed miserably though.
Started Making a Murderer though...
How did no-one mention that a new season of House of Cards is out?
I've watched 2 episodes. Can't say I'm that excited really. I was kinda sick of Spaceys southern drawl by the end of S2 already.
I was sick of it within the first minute of the very first episode.
I also hated the constant fourth wall breaking so never made it past episode 1, which is a shame as it's so highly rated.
Fourth wall breaking?
Master of None got pretty heavy towards the end, which kind of blind-sided me.
I liked it, but I don't think I absolutely loved it.
Spacey constantly talks directly to the viewer.
Ah right. Fuck that.
Don't knock it.
SO GOOD!
I was away to say the original did it too. It suits the nature of the show although it worked better for the first 2 seasons when there was more cunning and manipulation involved.
I'm the opposite - I love 4th-wall breaking stuff (but I'd agree it worked better in the first couple of seasons).
I wasn't that into last season so hopefully it'll pick itself up. I can see the story arc a mile off though: it'll be Frank vs. Claire, they'll reconcile towards the end and then she'll do a Hillary.
Watched the first of the new episodes of Happy Valley last night. I'm a bit concerned that the main story from last year and the main story from this one are linked because coincidence but otherwise a good start.
Done with War and Peace.
Decent as far as these things go. Obviously not an experience that compares in any way with reading the book.
Anyone seen the clown show with Zach Galifinakis? The trailer is kind of promising:
I am a cloun!
Louis CK involved, might get on it.
It's really good. I think it is, anyway. It's got a really nice mixture of straight up comedy, weirdness and genuine ,often quite touching, little moments.
The casting of a bloke (Louie Anderson) as his mother on it is legitimately brilliant. Not in a "haha, it's a man in a dress" way either, he's actually fantastic in it.
I'm loving season four so far. I'm half way through and it's already better than season three. I don't know how far people are so I'll spoiler this, but I've just watched episode seven and it ends so brilliantly.
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Watching Sunday's Night Manager at the minute. That surveillance sequence was fucking awful. Makes Burr look like a fucking shambles of a spy. Also, she got pregnant quick. Okay, Pine's perving on women again.
At least the office stuff was well done. Dunno why they've given Burr a workplace extra-marital relationship. Presumably to give the bloke out the Fast Show some more lines.
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