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    Has anyone seen 'Back' the new Mitchell and Webb vehicle? I've seen rave reviews but I don't know if it's worth plumbing the depths of C4 on demand to watch it.

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    I caught some of the first episode and it is Mark and Jez from Peep Show placed into different circumstances. Perhaps worth trying if you're a fan of that; I didn't find it as funny myself.

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    I've watched the first 2 and thought they were both shite, haven't laughed once. I loved Peep Show and I agree the characters are very similar, but it's just not funny. It needs Super Hans.

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    I can't think of a programme and it's doing my head in.

    UK, maybe 2008-2012-ish... mainly piss take street reporting, some political stuff, a little bit dennis pennis-esq.... I remember accidently stumbling upon it on YouTube a few years ago, and it wasn't too bad, but I think it only ran for 3 series....

    Any ideas?

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    I watched the first episode of 'Back' but I won't watch another. It isn't funny and it's not far off being cringeworthy.

    This, though, is funny:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Anyone seen Loaded that was on Channel 4 a while back?

    I remembered seeing the ads at the time and thought it looked like it might be alright. Watched it recently in All4 or whatever they call it these days and was really pleasantly surprised. I thought it was very good.
    Jimmy rudely knocked this back onto the last page so I'm quoting myself.

    Sounds like it's a better post-Peep Show vehicle than 'Back'.

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    Channel 4 have done some decent stuff of late. I caught up with a thing called Flowers recently and really enjoyed it.

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    Started Tin Star, it's really fucking weird. Tim Roth appears to be in a completely different show to everyone around him.

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    @John, you probably already know but just in case you don't, The Good Place is back tonight.

    Also, how are you getting on with People of Earth?

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    Yeah, double episode tonight, then it goes to Thursdays as of next week. No idea what that's about.

    I think I'm two episodes off being up to date. It's good fun, but the voice they have Peter Serafinowicz doing for The Cube makes it quite obvious they wanted Jemaine Clement and couldn't get him. I just hear Fart from Rick and Morty every time he pops up.

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    Been watching the second series of The Expanse. Not all the way through it yet. Still awesome. Can't understand the Indian (?) UN woman for shit though.

    Miller

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    Binged on American Vandal over the last 2 days and I thought it was great.

    It's really smart and funny with some great performances, especially by the guy who plays Dylan Maxwell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wullie View Post
    Started Tin Star, it's really fucking weird. Tim Roth appears to be in a completely different show to everyone around him.
    Yeah I’m only one in so will give it more chance but not feeling it so far.

    I asked my dad about it (he watches everything) and he just kept telling me to watch Mr Mercedes instead. Anyone watching that?
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    I've read the Mr Mercedes books and they're decent, but pretty much every series Based on a Stephen King book has been a disappointment. What channel is it on, anyway?

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    None on Sky (yet) but from his explanation I’d guess it’s on Hulu, like Handmaid’s Tale so may well end up channel 4.
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    I don't know what I missed with that Top of the Lake series which was on recently - since it got rave reviews - but I watched a couple of episodes when my mum had it on and thought it was total shite.

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    Only Fools and Horses is still so fucking good

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    Watched the new episode of The Good Place. It's on Netflix now which is handy. Not sure how well this season is going to work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    Binged on American Vandal over the last 2 days and I thought it was great.

    It's really smart and funny with some great performances, especially by the guy who plays Dylan Maxwell.
    I've done exactly the same. After making the missus watch Jinx during a month of incessantly watching true crime documentaries and all of the C4 fly on the wall police stuff, it was a perfectly timed spoof and well pitched on the gently humorous vs farcical scale.

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    I saw an episode of Tin Star. I'm not sure if it was the first or second but it was absolute rot and I can't take Tim Roth seriously after that FIFA bullshit.

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    I gave it one more episode but I don't think I can justify a fourth to myself. The oil boss and the buffoon assassins led by the fella from Coronation Street are all too hammy.

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    Discovery was promising.

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    Indeed.

    It's also made me start downloading the entire back catalogue as I never watched anything of the old stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    Indeed.

    It's also made me start downloading the entire back catalogue as I never watched anything of the old stuff.
    DS9

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    I'm going to be doing it in 'The Correct Order' as listed here:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/wi...should_i_start

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    I enjoyed discovery. I've missed a good Star Trek series. Enterprise was naff sadly.

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    Only copped after that there was a second episode too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    I'm going to be doing it in 'The Correct Order' as listed here:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/wi...should_i_start
    I sort of started this undertaking myself a couple of months ago, but it's been a very half-hearted effort so far. I must be less than fifteen episodes into the original series. I'm not saying it's bad (because it isn't) but it's just very......of it's time.

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    I started today.

    Charlie

    I like it a lot but I do get the 'of it's time' thing.

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    Just skip Deep Space 9.
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    I've been getting into my random pap on Sky Atlantic of late. 'I'm Dying Up Here' is quite fun and on a weightier note, the first episode of 'The Deuce' was pretty good as long as you don't mind baps and cocks.

    Both feature a lot of 70s haircuts which somehow works on those filters they use.

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    You wouldn't skip DS9, it's the only one with a proper arc. If you're going to skip anything then make it Voyager, the good bits are not worth the investment of time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    You wouldn't skip DS9, it's the only one with a proper arc. If you're going to skip anything then make it Voyager, the good bits are not worth the investment of time.
    Yeah but Janeway!
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    Exactly.

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    I'm a twit

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    Janeway is great and the relationships in the series are one of the best reasons to watch. Being helpless in another part of space adds a cool twist.

    Deep space 9 is cool for how un Picard like Sisco is.

    Ps, why do Klingons always look different?

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    Quote Originally Posted by wullie View Post
    I gave it one more episode but I don't think I can justify a fourth to myself. The oil boss and the buffoon assassins led by the fella from Coronation Street are all too hammy.
    Give it one more episode and you can see the bloke from Corrie licking a womans armpit during sex.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    Janeway is great and the relationships in the series are one of the best reasons to watch. Being helpless in another part of space adds a cool twist.

    Deep space 9 is cool for how un Picard like Sisco is.

    Ps, why do Klingons always look different?
    Yeah the new series is the biggest re-design I've seen of them. They're a bit more menacing looking than before though.

    DS9 and Voyager would be my favourite ones but I'd like to see both back to see if they aged as badly as TNG. Sisko > Picard > Janeway though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    Give it one more episode and you can see the bloke from Corrie licking a womans armpit during sex.

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    The new Klingons look like Idris Elba baddie from the last film.

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    Been watching the new season of Narcos, at a slow pace. It is what it is, but kind of nice to just sit and watch it as you aren't really fussed about the characters in it and don't care who kills who etc. Except Pena who is a boss

    In parallel, watching Series 2 of Hannibal, which started off quite enticing but very quickly has become a little mundane. All these incessant flashbacks and visions etc that are going on are really tiring. But it's better than the first series, so I'll stick it out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Yeah the new series is the biggest re-design I've seen of them. They're a bit more menacing looking than before though.

    DS9 and Voyager would be my favourite ones but I'd like to see both back to see if they aged as badly as TNG. Sisko > Picard > Janeway though.
    I watched them back not too long ago and I think they still stand up. The story lines are still relevant and I think the CGI isn't too shabby (relatively)

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    The CGI is good enough, just about. If you can look past that and the unimaginative costume design (oh look, a 34th alien species that look like us bit with a little doobry on the nose/forehead/ear) then most of them stand up pretty well.

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    Nice to see Giggles' Granddad on the show.

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    He's too well spoken.

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    I think my favourite, "old school television" moment I've seen on it so far is the first or second episode, where that salt monster thing is posing as McCoy's ex-griflriend or something, and Spock is the only one who's figured it out so he just starts absolutely decking her.



    Just repeated, double axe-handles to the face.

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    Spock in general is brilliant with 'violence', his nerve grip/pinch is fucking outstanding.



    The lightest of touches.

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    Look at him, he’s definitely maxed out stealth.

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    I know I go on about Taskmaster, but the latest episode was a cracker. The Marmite task

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