Do we live in a golden age of television?

[Shindig]

Looks interesting. The framerate adds to the weirdness.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol did they get the blacklist people to animate it? that looks awful and its running at about 6 frames per second.

The animation is beautiful, cretin.

It's a style where the animators trace over images of the real actors, it's one of the oldest forms of animation but modernised.

[Giggles]

As much as it makes my skin go prickly, Phonics is right. Nobody should watch that badly animated shite.

[phonics]

The animation is beautiful, cretin.

It's a style where the animators trace over images of the real actors, it's one of the oldest forms of animation but modernised.

Yeah thanks I know what rotoscoping is...

Look how much better it was being done 15 years ago.

https://i.imgur.com/ub92BJD.gif
https://i.imgur.com/TAkyyO2.gif
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ForsakenShockingHairstreakbutterfly-small.gif

[Lewis]

Is Sons of Anarchy worth starting?

[Alex]

Is Sons of Anarchy worth starting?

I watched it all as it aired and I would say, from memory, that roughly the first half (of its seven season run) is generally very good but it hits a certain point where it gets increasingly daft and convoluted. I was too far in by that point to give up on it though.

[Kikó]

It's worth sticking with. It definitely drops but worth watching for the realistic depiction of Northern Ireland.

Currently watching Bosch, generally enjoyable cop drama.

[Lewis]

Forget that then I'll watch that fishing programme.

[Bernanke]

Apparently Archer has kinda returned to form?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Taskmaster is back on October 15th, 9pm.

[Giggles]

It’s on channel 4 now isn’t it? Good knows how they’re going to fill their quotas with only 5 contestants.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yes.

The contestants are: Daisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan and Richard Herring.

[Giggles]

How many are physically disabled or on the spectrum?

[Shindig]

Richard Herring probably qualifies.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The exactly two women, exactly one ethnic formula is more or less a hard and fast regulation with panel games now.

[Giggles]

That seems more BBC than channel 4.

[Lewis]

This fishing programme is amazing.

[randomlegend]

This fishing programme is amazing.

Which one?

[Raoul Duke]

Finished watching Glitch on Netflix. Cracking little Australian show about some people who come back to life in a small town. Well acted and a great cast (of relative unknowns, as far as I can tell).

[Baz]

Which one?

The Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse one, surely.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mortimer/Whitehouse is barely even a fishing programme, though it is class.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just seen that Star Trek: Discovery is back on the 16th.

[Giggles]

Didn’t think it was so soon. Class.

[Foe]

Just started watching schitts creek and the fall.

Late to the party, but are they worth my while continuing?

[Ian]

Just pretend The Fall ended after series 1.

[Alex]

Finished watching Glitch on Netflix. Cracking little Australian show about some people who come back to life in a small town. Well acted and a great cast (of relative unknowns, as far as I can tell).

I've mooted that a few times but never actually taken the plunge. I might bump it up "the list" now.

I'm in the midst of an X-files run-through at the moment. I got as far as the film years ago and stopped, and forgot what was going on completely so had to re-start. I'm about to finish season three. So only about ten thousand episodes left to go.

[phonics]

This fishing programme is amazing.

Started this today and on the fourth episode already, it's the happiest I've been in time.

[Baz]

I want to hear your ongoing opinion on Agent Doggett, Alex.

[Alex]

I want to hear your ongoing opinion on Agent Doggett, Alex.

When does he come in? I'm a while off yet, right?

It's reached that point at that moment where Scully's ongoing scepticism is getting a bit daft. She's seen more unexplainable phenomenon than you could shake a stick at now (not to mention actually being fucking abducted by aliens herself :D) and her default setting is still "oh, I don't know Mulder, there's a perfectly logical explanation.....". :D

It's also reached that point where it's increasingly becoming all about what an absolute lad Skinner is. :cool:

[Baz]

Season 8. And then it’s uphill from there. :cool:

Skinner is indeed an absolute lad. I proper love it. It does become a bit of a slog in parts though.

I only started rewatching it cos the new series was coming out and channel 5 was showing like ‘the 24 xfiles episodes you must watch’ so I watched the first two and then it suggested skipping a load, but I was enjoying it so just carried on through them all.

Episode 7 of season 9 is one of the best standalone episodes of any tv show ever, whether you’ve watched any others or even know who any of the characters are. I’ve rewatched it twice since I finished the whole lot.

[Kikó]

Just started watching schitts creek and the fall.

Late to the party, but are they worth my while continuing?

I'm going for schitts as well. Let's go for it.

Discovery returning also is 🍆

[Alex]

Schitt's Creek is brilliant. It starts off a bit iffy and the characters all seem like unlikeable arseholes, but it's honestly fantastic once it gets into its groove.

[Alex]

Season 8. And then it’s uphill from there. :cool:

Skinner is indeed an absolute lad. I proper love it. It does become a bit of a slog in parts though.

I only started rewatching it cos the new series was coming out and channel 5 was showing like ‘the 24 xfiles episodes you must watch’ so I watched the first two and then it suggested skipping a load, but I was enjoying it so just carried on through them all.

Episode 7 of season 9 is one of the best standalone episodes of any tv show ever, whether you’ve watched any others or even know who any of the characters are. I’ve rewatched it twice since I finished the whole lot.

Yeah, some of the "monster of the week" episodes are the best things about it. One of the better features of it as it's gone on too is they've started doing the occasional, flat-out comedy episode. Which led me to this absolute gem the other night:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdiY0It6TTw

:D

[phonics]

Why is Bob Mortimer getting too excited and falling over so funny.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Watched the first 3 episodes of Derry Girls today and I think it's absolutely brilliant.

I had passed it on Netflix so many times and finally decided to give it a go as I couldn't find anything else.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Yeah, some of the "monster of the week" episodes are the best things about it. One of the better features of it as it's gone on too is they've started doing the occasional, flat-out comedy episode. Which led me to this absolute gem the other night:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdiY0It6TTw

:D


https://youtu.be/pAt_nnE-9Ps?t=27

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/02/mortimer-and-whitehouse-gone-fishing-mens-health-male-friendship

:)

[Raoul Duke]

Just watched the latest episode of The Boys:


Not a bad episode but again not much really moved on plot-wise, aside from the good guys getting shat on. I guess it's set up for a Maeve and Starlight vs Homelander and Stormfront end battle unless someone else pops up who's got some skillz.

The two key unanswered questions are:
- 1 who is doing the head exploding?
- 2 who is the miniature flying guy (may be the answer to the first question)?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just watched the latest episode of The Boys:


Not a bad episode but again not much really moved on plot-wise, aside from the good guys getting shat on. I guess it's set up for a Maeve and Starlight vs Homelander and Stormfront end battle unless someone else pops up who's got some skillz.

The two key unanswered questions are:
- 1 who is doing the head exploding?
- 2 who is the miniature flying guy (may be the answer to the first question)?

The head exploding is surely that Cindy for the psych ward. I'm guessing she also killed Rayner on Stormfront's orders at the start of the season.

Although I didn't think Cindy was doing it that quickly in the ward.

I also did not see a mini flying guy.

[Alex]

https://youtu.be/pAt_nnE-9Ps?t=27

The "Jersey Devil" episode! That initial drawing he gets really tickled me the first time I saw it. It's just hilarious how he instantly takes that as definitive proof of its existence. In a similar vein, the episode where he goes to South America (to an abandoned observatory or something) and the bloke draws him this excellent artists impression of the UFO's he has seen on the wall:

https://m0vie.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/xfiles-littlegreenmen17.jpg

:D

[Adamski]

The second series of Umbrella isn't living up to the first.

Did you change your mind? I loved season two. I reckon it’s a better show than The Boys.

[Ian]

The Boys:
I also did not notice a small flying person.

I've enjoyed this season because the characters / actors are good but it has felt like it has a bit of a Game of Thrones season structure to it where they have points A and B but what's in between isn't really a season's worth of episodes so they just pad it out a bit.

Also hadn't spotted that Butcher's dad was Denethor in Lord of the Rings to Urban's Eomer so that was a nice touch. Or would've been had I recognised him.

[mo]

Finished Humans, which ended in a good place I think. Definitely scope that they could've gone on with it and taken it further but equally it felt like a tied-up ending. Working my way through Ghosts now, which is excellent. Although Mary bothers me because witches weren't burned in this country and I feel like the entire cast of Horrible Histories should probably have picked up on that.

[Raoul Duke]

Fly thing in the Boys: https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/07/the-boys-amazon-fly/

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

GLOW has been cancelled.

Netflix has changed their decision to give it a fourth season due to Covid.

[Ian]

That's a bit of a shame but it had been increasingly a bit meandering. Or may just focusing on the stuff I was less interested in. Though I didn't realise this was planned to be the final season until I saw a headline so that's a bit of a pisser.

[Raoul Duke]

Boys finale:


Great final episode there, I thought. Tied everything up pretty nicely and set-up the next season. The reveal was pretty twisty and I didn't see it coming.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Boys finale:


Great final episode there, I thought. Tied everything up pretty nicely and set-up the next season. The reveal was pretty twisty and I didn't see it coming.


I thought it was strange that Cindy played no part in the finale though and I'd have liked more Church of the Collective but yeah.

When they started panning out for the reveal I thought it was going to be Kimiko for a second.

[Lofty]

The Boys S2 finale was excellent.

Line of Duty series 6 being filmed at the moment apparently :drool:

[Manc]

Line of Duty series 6 being filmed at the moment apparently :drool:

Pumped.

[Alex]

Season four of the X-Files done. All round, a very strong season of television. Probably the best one so far. It was largely firing on all cylinders.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Watched Fleabag recently and thought it was excellent. Really liked the addition of Andrew Scott in the second season too.

I've also finished the US remake of Utopia (I haven't seen the UK original but I will do so) and it was pretty crap yet I couldn't stop watching it. I think because I like the core concept so hopefully the UK one (which has good reviews) will nail it.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

I mind the UK one being very good but being cut short didn't help it obviously.

[niko_cee]

They remade Utopia? As in the C4 comic-based genetic engineering apocalypse series? Bet that was fairly lol. Not sure that thing really translates.

On the quasi-dystopian sci-fi front I've been watching this Brave New World thing Sky have rolled out. Was there this much shagging in the book (assuming it's based on that)? Huxley putting Lady Chatterley to shame if so. It's quite watchable but doesn't really have the feel of a classic. Too much nudity really.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The actors were shit. Especially the one who played Jessica Hyde.


https://youtu.be/dFSKBllxRIw

Wilson, Becky and Grant were the only decent ones.

[phonics]

Watching Bake Off. The young black haired lady is fit in that way where you’re not sure going up to her flat would end with the best sex of your life or you being murdered and cut into small pieces.

[Baz]

The patois-geordie from week 1 was top top tier [for a channel 4 cookery show].

[Giggles]

I was trying to place who the big blonde one reminded me of and when looking up who or what Baz meant there, it’s the bear off the Cleveland Show.

[niko_cee]

Watching Bake Off. The young black haired lady is fit in that way where you’re not sure going up to her flat would end with the best sex of your life or you being murdered and cut into small pieces.

The one that looks a bit like Sarah Alexander and Paul clearly fancies?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lottie <3

She's no Ruby or Manon from last year though.

[Giggles]

The one that looks a bit like Sarah Alexander and Paul clearly fancies?

In fairness I’d say Paul Hollywood would get up on the crack of dawn.

[Bob Sacamano]

I gave SWAT a go after finding out it's from the creator of 'The Shield', it's absolutely terrible. The main goal seems to be an attempt to normalise a polyamorous relationship :sick:

[phonics]

I was similar on The Bodyguard. It seemed like it could be interesting and then within half an episode he’s shagging the Home Secretary.

[Lofty]

They remade Utopia? As in the C4 comic-based genetic engineering apocalypse series? Bet that was fairly lol. Not sure that thing really translates.

On the quasi-dystopian sci-fi front I've been watching this Brave New World thing Sky have rolled out. Was there this much shagging in the book (assuming it's based on that)? Huxley putting Lady Chatterley to shame if so. It's quite watchable but doesn't really have the feel of a classic. Too much nudity really.

As I recall promiscuity and drug addled orgies were the order of the day in the book as methods of control. So yeah about right.

Wife is watching this Bly Manor thing on Netflix and it is dog shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54551913

Dexter is coming back for a 10 episode season.

Hopefully they give it a decent ending this time.

[Browning]

Taskmaster tonight as well. It feels like forever since the last one.

[Baz]

Cannot wait!

I wonder if there will still be group tasks.

[Alex]

Baz

I've just watched "Bad Blood" from season five, and it's now one of my favourite X-Files episodes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWcfgRtD2Dw

:D

[Baz]

Hahahahaha an alltime classic episode. Luke Wilson's teeth steal the show, but I've always loved it cos it features Ham from The Sandlot. :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Cannot wait!

I wonder if there will still be group tasks.

Should be. It was mostly filmed pre-Covid.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That egg task is brilliant.

[Giggles]

Forgot all about tawwskmawwstah. Is this the first episode since the move?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yes.

[Giggles]

It was fairly cut off at the end there.

[Lofty]

Mulder's delirious Shaft rendition is classic :D

I rewatched the series a while ago but only got up to the one where there was a film between and gave up.

[Alex]

Hahahahaha an alltime classic episode. Luke Wilson's teeth steal the show, but I've always loved it cos it features Ham from The Sandlot. :cool:

They really do.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Schry3iPU

:lol:

Mulder's face when he opens his mouth and starts talking is absolutely amazing. :D

I love his over-exaggerated version of Scully as just leering too. And how he generally paints her as a miserable sceptic who bullies him a bit a bit, while he's all wide-eyed and earnest. Then in her version she is very level headed and accommodating and Mulder is total dick who just runs through the whole situation like a bull in a chain shop with his conspiracy theories. It's just a genuinely really funny piece of television.

[Alex]

Mulder's delirious Shaft rendition is classic :D

I rewatched the series a while ago but only got up to the one where there was a film between and gave up.

I got somewhere around the film years ago and just tailed off for whatever reason. That isn't happening this time though, i'm really enjoying it. It's been so long that I've genuinely forgotten 90% of it too, so none of it is boring.

I watched a mythology one last night that was maybe one of the more disturbing/sinister episodes I've seen so far.

Krycheck (the bastard) tortures a poor Russian kid, infects him with the black oil and then stitches all his facial orifices shut. :|

[mugbull]

This new Bake Off presenter is the least funny person I've ever listened to

[The Merse]

Watched Fleabag recently and thought it was excellent. Really liked the addition of Andrew Scott in the second season too.

I've also finished the US remake of Utopia (I haven't seen the UK original but I will do so) and it was pretty crap yet I couldn't stop watching it. I think because I like the core concept so hopefully the UK one (which has good reviews) will nail it.

You started the UK one yet? Interested to hear back from someone that has done it 'in reverse' - I loved the original and watched through a couple of times. The Amazon one (3 eps in) lacks everything that made the original special.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You started the UK one yet? Interested to hear back from someone that has done it 'in reverse' - I loved the original and watched through a couple of times. The Amazon one (3 eps in) lacks everything that made the original special.

I finished the first season the other day.

I think I struggled to get into it at first because there were a hell of a lot of changes and I was constantly comparing them. However, around episode 3 I think it really started to shine.

One thing I loved was that it was so British. In the American one you have the "bad guys" operating quite openly (albeit with their shadiness hidden to the public) whereas in the British version "The Network" are incredibly secretive and hidden behind many companies with their fingers in many pies.

Not sure I like the actress who plays Jessica Hyde but she's still a hell of a lot better than the American one.

Edit: Oh and I think it looks stunning. The use of colour is amazing.

[Boydy]

I thought I had posted in here before about watching Designated Survivor but seemingly not. Enjoyed season 1 a lot but less sure about season 2 now.

It'sgetting a bit too politicsy and West Wing-y which I found tonbe the dullest parts of season 1, I want more of the conspiracy stuff but it sort of seems like that's mostly been wrapped up now? Does it just become a kinda dull political drama?

[The Merse]

I finished the first season the other day.

I think I struggled to get into it at first because there were a hell of a lot of changes and I was constantly comparing them. However, around episode 3 I think it really started to shine.

One thing I loved was that it was so British. In the American one you have the "bad guys" operating quite openly (albeit with their shadiness hidden to the public) whereas in the British version "The Network" are incredibly secretive and hidden behind many companies with their fingers in many pies.

Not sure I like the actress who plays Jessica Hyde but she's still a hell of a lot better than the American one.

Edit: Oh and I think it looks stunning. The use of colour is amazing.

The colour is bloody incredible.

I'm almost through the Amazon one, and yeh... it's very meh. I think what's most disappointing is the characters feeling more hackneyed - Wilson (increasingly, having started fine) and Hyde are fucking interminable and it doesn't engender any kind of empathy, as flawed as the characters always were.

[Kikó]

I've been flirting with Vikings for a while and it's finally picked up enough to hold my interest (season 402 ep 5). I've got a nice balance between that, Better Call Saul and Bosch for serious stuff and Schitt's Creek and Parks and Recreation for light relief.

[Manc]

Everyone raves about Better Caul Saul. I just can't envisage investing in his character based on Breaking Bad.

[Pepe]

Season 402? You are a very patient man.

[Kikó]

It's taken over a year. The wife likes it so we go back in at random intervals.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Season 402 is the start of it turning to shit for me.

[Disco]

Vikings was a bit hit and miss, anything with Ragnar in was good but the rest could be a bit crap. Until the very obvious point where it nosedives never to return.

[Alex]

Ivar is pretty good too, to be fair. Although a lot of the shit he manages to get up to as a crippled man in, like, 850AD or whatever is a bit ridiculous. But the Ragnar years were definitely the peak. I sort of tailed off with it somewhere in season five, I think.

Floki discovering his new "land of the Gods" and it being a bit shit is the last thing i can properly remember happening. The last full season I watched definitely ended with Ivar nailing one of the shit brothers with the axe for making fun of him and killing him. I think that was the end of season four?

The ageing of them all got a bit daft too. I appreciate it was necessary to move the story on and maintain some vague degree of historical accuracy but it got to the point where Lagertha just looked the same age as Bjorn despite being his mother, and whatnot.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ivar is pretty good too, to be fair. Although a lot of the shit he manages to get up to as a crippled man in, like, 850AD or whatever is a bit ridiculous. But the Ragnar years were definitely the peak. I sort of tailed off with it somewhere in season five, I think.

Floki discovering his new "land of the Gods" and it being a bit shit is the last thing i can properly remember happening. The last full season I watched definitely ended with Ivar nailing one of the shit brothers with the axe for making fun of him and killing him. I think that was the end of season four?

The ageing of them all got a bit daft too. I appreciate it was necessary to move the story on and maintain some vague degree of historical accuracy but it got to the point where Lagertha just looked the same age as Bjorn despite being his mother, and whatnot.

Floki did that in season 5.

And yeah, him killing Sigurd was right at the end of 4.

Season 5 and 6 (only half of that has been released thus far) are seriously shit.

I'm also not a fan of Ivar, I think he's a bit too panto. He's also portrayed as some sort of genius when he's not, he constantly underestimates people.

[Disco]

Going by that I watched up to the end of four but it had definitely turned part way through that series.

[Alex]

Floki did that in season 5.

And yeah, him killing Sigurd was right at the end of 4.

Season 5 and 6 (only half of that has been released thus far) are seriously shit.

I'm also not a fan of Ivar, I think he's a bit too panto. He's also portrayed as some sort of genius when he's not, he constantly underestimates people.

My favourite "ridiculous Ivar moment" is when:

He's just sat on the floor during a battle (he's fallen out of his little chariot I think) and faces down at entire army by screaming about how they can't kill him because he's "Ivar the Boneless". And the entire army just stops in fear and listens to the screaming crippled man on the floor for about a minute, just long enough for a load of Vikins to to conveniently turn up and dick them. :D

[Pepe]

Season 402 is the start of it turning to shit for me.

I stopped at 398.

[phonics]

Is Vikings the one about Alfred The Great? Or is that Kingdom? A friend of mine recommended one and I know Alfred was involved.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's The Last Kingdom.

I've been meaning to watch it.

[Raoul Duke]

That's The Last Kingdom.

I've been meaning to watch it.

It's fucking awesome. Highly recommended

[Baz]

+1 for The Last Kingdom

[The Merse]

+2. Couldn’t get on with Vikings but enjoyed Last Kingdom. It’s predictable guff, but it’s good guff.

[Raoul Duke]

+2. Couldn’t get on with Vikings but enjoyed Last Kingdom. It’s predictable guff, but it’s good guff.

The first season follows historical events (aside from the half-viking mad lad roaming about)...so that's to be expected.

DESTINY IS ALL

[Spikey M]

I'd exhausted pretty much every option on Netflix so I decided to give The Staircase a go earlier this week. I had not bothered with it as it always gets chucked in with Making A Murderer which I didn't get on with, owing to the geezer clearly being a fucking scumbag.

Well I finished it last night and fuck me, I was wrong to leave it this long. I haven't been that invested in a show for a long time. Genuine butterflies in my stomach waiting for the verdict(s) to come in. I know it's an incredibly poorly kept secret but the US Justice Department is fucked. Watching him turn from a normal guy to an old man, missing all those family milestones, and still having to fight on was tough.

I'm going to give Making A Murderer another go now.

[mo]

Watched the UK version of 'Criminal', which I really enjoyed. Tense and twisty yet a really simple formula. Love the lack of an outside world beyond the interview room.

[Kikó]

Giggles are you back onto Discovery?

[Giggles]

Giggles are you back onto Discovery?

I am indeed. Watched the second one this morning in work.

[Giggles]

Anyone hear tell of John lately?

[John Arne]

.

Well I finished it last night and fuck me, I was wrong to leave it this long. I haven't been that invested in a show for a long time. Genuine butterflies in my stomach waiting for the verdict(s) to come in.

Hearing the verdict was the last time I genuinely gasped out loud.

Also the revelation that his first wife died the same way made me kinda go "fuuuuuck".

Great TV.

[Disco]

Anyone hear tell of John lately?

I'm sure he posted fairly recently, Interesting Things thread maybe.

[Giggles]

Taskmaster is real good this week.

[Queenslander]

Love on the Spectrum on Netflix is a combination of funny and heartwarming.

I can definitely relate to this bloke.


https://youtu.be/hLhAtcB8MgU

[Don]

That looks fucking tempting to watch, as cruel and horrific that clip was.

[Queenslander]

Most of it is really sweet. Definitely got me tearing and the missus crying but yeah a couple of laugh out loud moments with their families.

[Shindig]

"Yes." :D

[mugbull]

That show got me laughing harder than any comedy special ever produced. At some point i felt bad that I was just laughing at disabled people for an hour each time I watched an episode, but then i got over it. It helps that it is pretty heartwarming too

[Spikey M]

Is this basically the Aussie Version of The Undateables? Of it is you should give that a watch Queenslander.


https://youtu.be/wFlKIQiARRE

[Queenslander]

That show got me laughing harder than any comedy special ever produced. At some point i felt bad that I was just laughing at disabled people for an hour each time I watched an episode, but then i got over it. It helps that it is pretty heartwarming too

I had the same experience.

[Queenslander]

Is this basically the Aussie Version of The Undateables? Of it is you should give that a watch Queenslander.


https://youtu.be/wFlKIQiARRE

:D

Yep.

[Don]

Is this basically the Aussie Version of The Undateables? Of it is you should give that a watch Queenslander.


https://youtu.be/wFlKIQiARRE

Right, I'm dipping in to both :happycry:

[Queenslander]

:lol:

[Spikey M]

Well that's tonight viewing sorted (assuming it's on our Netflix too)

[Queenslander]

Well that's tonight viewing sorted (assuming it's on our Netflix too)

It would be.

[Spikey M]

Right, I'm dipping in to both :happycry:

It does mean using 4OD, for which I apologise in the most sincerest of ways.

[Ian]

It does mean using 4OD

You're history's greatest monster.

[-james-]

Taskmaster is real good this week.

It's back to its best this time after a couple of dud seasons. Four excellent contestants, and Richard Herring.

[Giggles]

I was mistaken, it was the one on E4 I was watching which is an old one.

[wullie]

I thought the first episode of the new series was great but the lack of a studio audience was a lot more apparent with last week, plus the end task was rubbish. No properly shit contestants this time out by the looks of it though so still promising.

[Giggles]

There being an audience should have made me twig it was an old one. It was one with Jon Richardson and Joe thingy off Countdown. Even Katherine Ryan wasn't her usual repulsive self.

[Spikey M]

You're history's greatest monster.

I offer you this in the hope of forgiveness.


https://youtu.be/PbxJePgCsWQ

[Baz]

People actually find that Undateables [style] stuff funny/entertaining? I thought it was just Mumsnet and Facebook fodder. :sick:

Bring back John, man. Save us!

[Spikey M]

You lost the right to judge anyone on anything when you started a football sticker swapshop for adults on the Internet.

[Baz]

That’s completely made up. :cab:

It was Foe and Sincere who swapped them.

[Spikey M]

You have definitely been involved. I want to say a Torres sticker.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think Foe just sent him a Torres sticker to get into his pants.

[Foe]

Didn’t work. :(

[Manc]

Love on the Spectrum is top tier tele.

[Ian]

New episode of Mandalorian is pretty decent. Bit surprised it didn't do a bit more main story arc for the first episode of a new season but I still enjoyed it well enough.

[Don]

Episode 1 of Love on the Spectrum done. It's clearly quality entertainment (Michael :D) but fuck me it's a difficult watch I'm not sure I can endure. I didn't put in 3 decades worth of graft to fool myself into thinking I'm a normie only to let it all go to shit for this. Fuck COVID, autism is the real invisible enemy.

[Alex]

Baz

I'm into season six of the X-Files now. The film was ace, I loved it. Season six has been great so far too. It was a bit weird going from the blockbuster big-budget-ness of the film back to the television show format though, and the story just continuing on. It's also is a bit annoying that:

In the film Scully is just conveniently unconscious when a fucking alien spaceship takes off and flies right over them. :D

I've slowed down a bit because I'm now watching something made by the same guy called Millennium along side it, which is not really a spin-off but aired at the same time in the nineties and apparently one the episodes in season seven of the X-Files is a crossover with it. It's also really good.

[Queenslander]

Episode 1 of Love on the Spectrum done. It's clearly quality entertainment (Michael :D) but fuck me it's a difficult watch I'm not sure I can endure. I didn't put in 3 decades worth of graft to fool myself into thinking I'm a normie only to let it all go to shit for this. Fuck COVID, autism is the real invisible enemy.

:console:

Micheal did the rounds of morning TV for a bit.

[Don]

Has his sister done a topless shoot yet? Fuck it, who we kidding, the mum too :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Finished the UK Utopia today and I thought season 2 really stepped it up.

Such a shame they didn't make a third season, would have loved to have seen a full go of Wilson as Mr Rabbit.

[Mike]

I’m two episodes into The Queens Gambit and absolutely loving it.

[The Merse]

Finished the UK Utopia today and I thought season 2 really stepped it up.

Such a shame they didn't make a third season, would have loved to have seen a full go of Wilson as Mr Rabbit.

It's a bloody travesty.

[Yevrah]

Think I may have finally got back into enjoying TV again. Signed up for a NOWTV free pass and have been watching The Undoing, a Kidman/Grant vehicle, which from the two episodes so far is pretty intriguing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I wanted a take your mind off things silly sitcom the other day, and 'Toast of London' properly hits the spot (the first series about 6/7 years old). Also has a weirdly good theme tune for the sort of show it is.

[Alex]

I wanted a take your mind off things silly sitcom the other day, and 'Toast of London' properly hits the spot (the first series about 6/7 years old). Also has a weirdly good theme tune for the sort of show it is.

The one where he's doing the submarine voiceover for the Royal Navy (if you've got that far yet, I think it's one of the very first ones) is absolutely superb. :D

[Shindig]

I didn't realise that had more than one series. Made by the Father Ted bloke that isn't Graham Linehan.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The one where he's doing the submarine voiceover for the Royal Navy (if you've got that far yet, I think it's one of the very first ones) is absolutely superb. :D

That was the last one I watched. It's just amazing in the way it makes you lol out loud from nowhere about 10 times an episode.

[Baz]

Caught up on Taskmaster earlier, with episodes 2 and 3. Johnny Vegas is killing it. :D

Alex Horne’s been very amusing too, actually. His “previous level shit?” one-liner was completely brushed over but it slayed me.

[Alex]

That was the last one I watched. It's just amazing in the way it makes you lol out loud from nowhere about 10 times an episode.

I know what you mean, it's quite off-beat but genuinely very laugh out loud funny humour.

"Up! Periscope!"

"Down! Periscope!"

"FIRE....The nuclear weapons!"

:D

[Manc]

Ray bloody Purchase.

[Shindig]

I really, really liked the Michael Ball episode.

[mo]

Watching the West Wing for the first time - just onto the start of season 2 and did not appreciate my emotional investment!

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

The one where he's doing the submarine voiceover for the Royal Navy (if you've got that far yet, I think it's one of the very first ones) is absolutely superb. :D

Might give this a go.

Wondered where I recognised the guy's voice from but haven't seen any of his previous stuff. Then a I clocked it, Absolute Radio voice overs.

[Manc]

https://youtu.be/k75pxxQd_ZE

Absolute gold.

[Giggles]

Finally seeing a new taskmaster now (they’re spread out). At first look it’s very very bad compared to the old ones I’ve been watching, though I suppose that happens all tv shows. Maybe bad timing on channel 4’s part.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The first episode (assuming that's the one you're watching) was pretty crap bar 1 task. It was a lot better in the next episode.

[Giggles]

The “look in my wheelie bag” thing is all I’ve seen. Maybe it’s a low point but if it’s any sort of sample then it’s lost it. For a show that’s normally very good, it’s fucking terrible.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's the newest episode and a brilliant task so if you're not feeling that...

[Giggles]

It’s ‘ran out of ideas’ territory.

[Raoul Duke]

Started watching Marvellous Mrs Maisel on Amazon - great stuff so far and Rachel Brosnahan :wub:

[Queenslander]

Started watching Marvellous Mrs Maisel on Amazon - great stuff so far and Rachel Brosnahan :wub:

All 3 seasons are brilliant.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think it looks shit from the trailers I've seen but I keep hearing good things about it. Same with Ted Lasso too.

[Queenslander]

Jason Sudeikis has his moments so that is my binge for the weekend.

[Raoul Duke]

I think it looks shit from the trailers I've seen but I keep hearing good things about it. Same with Ted Lasso too.

If it helps sway you, she gets her tits out in the first episode

[Ian]

Wait, is Ted Lasso actually good then?

Because the trailer I saw made it look about as entertaining as a flesh wound.

[Shindig]

That trailer was a war crime. I'm not going near it because I can write the jokes in my head. All the shit jokes.

[mugbull]

I’ve also heard it’s good but I still won’t go near it

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If it helps sway you, she gets her tits out in the first episode

Sold.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Latest episode of The Mandalorian was a bit crap, nothing really happened.

[Ian]

Yeah I suspect it's building to something but while it was entertaining enough it was a nothing episode. Decent but filler.

[Mike]

I’m two episodes into The Queens Gambit and absolutely loving it.

Finished this tonight. Outstanding stuff. Best thing I’ve seen in a long time.

[SvN]

Season 4 of The Crown is out next week. Reviews are out, and the first two I've read have got completely opposite views on Gillian Anderson as Thatcher.

The Independant say she's "magnificant", while the BBC is pretty scathing.


But she flounders badly as the Iron Lady, a role in which she appears to have been directed to mimic the head movements of a turtle. She's forever craning her neck from side-to-side as if scanning for a tasty lettuce leaf, while over-egging her Thatcher impression to such an extent she is close to unwatchable at times.

I wonder which side I'll fall on.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I heard it said that her performance was vocally amazing and otherwise crap.

[-james-]

Giri/Haji on Netflix is pretty good. 4 episodes in:

Somewhat hard to suspend disbelief at Kenzo joining in with the Albanian mafia storming a restaurant guns blazing though.

[Manc]

Giri/Haji on Netflix is pretty good. 4 episodes in:

Somewhat hard to suspend disbelief at Kenzo joining in with the Albanian mafia storming a restaurant guns blazing though.

I'm an episode ahead and enjoying it greatly. Rodney is brilliant.

[The Merse]

Whoever recommended Marvelous Mrs Maisel... fuck me, it’s a revelation, cheers.

I recall doing an Amazon Preview survey thingy, the ones where they Chuck you a voucher, on the series marketing and basically saying the tile, poster, trailer etc all made me extremely unlikely to watch it, looking as it did like a Mad Men for women in the worst possible way, but the first 5 episodes have been excellent.

Edit - aha, it was Raoul on this very page...

And yes Rachel Brosnahan and those boobs. Jesus.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I just watched the first episode and it's seriously good.

The boobs too :drool:

[Queenslander]

I want to be Lenny Bruce for a day.

[The Merse]

I’ve managed entire first season in one night, and added the spectacular first ten minutes of season 2 before realising I’m well past bedtime.

[Raoul Duke]

Nice one - yeah, it's a cracking show

[John Arne]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Ted Lasso is alright. Nothing like the trailer. It's quite a heart-warming number, with a few proper lols. Crucially, easy to digest in one super sitting.

The only downside is the main "baddy" - he's a cunt, a crap actor, and a bit of a silly stereotype.

[Kikó]

He's a proper manc villain. (do agree with everything you said)

[Don]

New BBC/HBO ting called Industry on iPlayer. Load of shite.

[SvN]

This page has resulted in Marvelous Mrs Maisel being added to the list of shows we're watching. We'll probably start it over the weekend.

Don't let me down, dickheads.

[Mazuuurk]

+1 on The Queens Gambit being the best show in a long while.

But it also came as my (complete amateur) faschinaion for chess has come back from out of nowhere (started Youtubing shit).

[Giggles]

I’m two episodes into that chess thing and failing to see the real appeal. Like, it’s not bad or anything but I don’t see what’s extraordinary about it. Maybe it kicks on after.

[Spikey M]

I did 20 minutes of it before deciding I was right not to trust the judgement of a load of Superhero loving adults any further.

[phonics]

I'm onto the second season of Last Kingdom and a mix of the main characters allegiance swapping sides so many times and the timeline jumping forward I've got no idea who any of his mates/woman he's shagging that he's very sad about dying are because there's 3 of them a week.

[randomlegend]

Queen's Gambit is great. Pair of mongs.

[Raoul Duke]

I'm onto the second season of Last Kingdom and a mix of the main characters allegiance swapping sides so many times and the timeline jumping forward I've got no idea who any of his mates/woman he's shagging that he's very sad about dying are because there's 3 of them a week.

If you just remember that Uhtred always wins and is kinda BFFs with Wessex it's fine. Everyone else is (entertaining) background - except Beocca, who is a leg-end

[phonics]

If you just remember that Uhtred always wins and is kinda BFFs with Wessex it's fine. Everyone else is (entertaining) background - except Beocca, who is a leg-end

I was taking it all a bit too seriously and then he defeated that Warlord by jumping over the enemy shield wall on his own vs 800 men and none of them bothered to attack him and I just started to treat it for the good airport book trash it is.

[Baz]

I don't normally like stuff like that - Vikings and GoT can get lost - but The Last Kingdom was really really enjoyable.

[Giggles]

Queen's Gambit is great. Pair of mongs.

At least explain why and don’t be a complete twat.

[Giggles]

I'm sure he posted fairly recently, Interesting Things thread maybe.

Heading on a month ago now.

[Spikey M]

Last active 22/10. Considering his previous posts about the potential of an aneurysm at a young age this is a bit worrying. Does anyone have a non-TTH way of contacting him?

[Disco]

Last active 22/10. Considering his previous posts about the potential of an aneurysm at a young age this is a bit worrying. Does anyone have a non-TTH way of contacting him?
Baz ??

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sadly with lockdown there's no murdering happening outside his place to document for us.

[Baz]

Baz ??I only know his name. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Finished the first season of Mrs Maisel earlier tonight and I loved it, however I do feel it dipped slightly in a couple of the middle episodes.

Whilst I thought "Midge" bombing was good to further the story I just found the scenes of her at parties doing those bits with the crap comic a bit shit and a real let-down. Luckily when Susie verbally slapped some sense into her it really got going again.

Really liked the ending when Joel realised that she's so much better than him too.

[The Merse]

That’s very much the pace of each season, I’d say having made it to the last couple of eps of S3. Start strong, finish strong, entertaining but a little insignificant in the middle.

[Raoul Duke]

Learned a good fact about MM last night: Suzy is the voice of Lois Griffin :D

[Bernanke]

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You learn so much watching The Crown.

[The Merse]

Learned a good fact about MM last night: Suzy is the voice of Lois Griffin :D

That makes so much sense.

[Manc]

Has anyone watched Catch-22?

[Baz]

Taskmaster. Daisy in the final task (3, 4, 5 letter words) was amazing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Her 4 word list was also my list.

[Lofty]

Daisy has grown on me a lot this season, previously only saw her on Gogglebox and wasn't particularly fussed.

The Crown season 4 is excellent, I can see what the criticisms of Stupid Sexy Thatcher are but still enjoying it. The strength of the series is how it plays off historical events and weaves them into the family narrative.

The Andrew bit was just :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Daisy has grown on me a lot this season, previously only saw her on Gogglebox and wasn't particularly fussed.

The Crown season 4 is excellent, I can see what the criticisms of Stupid Sexy Thatcher are but still enjoying it. The strength of the series is how it plays off historical events and weaves them into the family narrative.

The Andrew bit was just :D

She's excellent in This Country.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-11-19/taskmaster-festive-special-confirmed/

Festive Taskmaster special coming.

I'm hoping for a Losers special but I'd imagine it will be another Champion of Champions.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

About halfway through season 2 of Mrs. Maisel:

The set she performed with her Dad watching was incredible.

One of the best comedy TV show episodes for me.

[Giggles]

Gina Carano got large.

[Queenslander]

Super Chunky

[Lofty]

Regardless of the furore around her political views her acting is piss poor and they need to Poochy her character ASAP.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I still would.

[phonics]

We know, Mahow.

[The Merse]

Couldn't get into Mandalorian when it was first out, but bingeing with a month free via Xbox, it's hooked me in this time around, definitely a grower.

The beginning of Ep 8, I think... Where the two stormtroopers are sat gassing for 5 minutes is excellent. Felt like the point where I realised I was really enjoying it, and it was genuinely a very, very decent show as opposed to just some additional canon for a franchise I'm very nostalgic about.

[Ian]

I'm still enjoying it a lot.

Today's episode:
While I assume she'll be back (otherwise you wouldn't cast Rosario Dawson) I'm glad it doesn't look to just be turning into a show about Ahsoka just because she's turned up and she's a Jedi. Also didn't expect to hear Thrawn's name. I've not actually read/seen any EU stuff with him in it but I'm aware of who he is so that feels like a big deal too. Maybe a sort of over-arching baddie for if/when Moff Gideon eventually meets his demise.

Decent episode though, I liked the sort of mix of Western and Japanese influence they had for the fights and the setting. I also did not recognise Michael Biehn.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Good episode, however:

It's slightly lacking for me as I've never seen Clone Wars (is it good?) so Ahsoka means little to me although it was cool to see a Jedi fighting again and Thrawn means even less.

[Ian]

I've watched about a season and a half of the Clone Wars, 'How. It's not amazing (though I've been told it improves as it goes along) but it's moderately entertaining Star Wars fluff to stick on and the episodes are pretty short.

I would say that for people unaware of either Thrawn or Ahsoka that the Ahsoka stuff works way better in this because you seen her in action immediately so you don't need to rely on any backstory but I felt like the Thrawn namedrop would be a bit "....who?" if you were oblivious. if you haven't subsequently googled he was originally a character in a very popular series of the books, he's a blue alien lad who still manages to make it high up in the Imperial fleet despite them being a big ol' bunch of space racists and I think in the books after the Empire collapsed he was one trying to hold it all together, etc.

[Giggles]

Discovery had such a clean slate it could have been great this series, but it’s absolute dog shit. Any more teary whispering and it can get to fuck.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I haven't watched the last couple (yet) but it looks like they've run out of ideas. They seem to just be content on treading water.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Taskmaster festive one off special will be with John Hannah, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Nicola Coughlan, Rylan Clark-Neal and Shirley Ballas.

Shirley Ballas :moop:

[Baz]

I only know two of them (news man and Rylan) pre Googling.

[Don]

That's a prime cut of meat, completely wasted on virgin Taskmaster fanboys.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

John Hannah has been in everything, Nicola is in Derry Girls (absolutely brilliant comedy), Rylan is a bit of a twat who found fame by singing badly in X Factor and now he's a presenter and Shirley Ballas is a judge on Strictly who is a predator trying to lure young men, she also appears a lot on Loose Women to say how much she loves her 20 year old man or something.

[wullie]

Having become reacquainted with daytime TV this year, Rylan's a real natural as a presenter. Also Alison Hammond off This Morning, whereas Holly Willoughby seems dead behind the eyes

[Lofty]

Having become reacquainted with daytime TV this year, Rylan's a real natural as a presenter. Also Alison Hammond off This Morning, whereas Holly Willoughby seems dead behind the eyes

Probably fondly remembering the time her tit came out on kids tv, as am I.

[Jimmy Floyd]

"Rake" on Netflix. Australian comedy-drama about a dickhead barrister with basically no redeeming features. Most fun I've had for ages watching an overtly at least semi-serious show.

[Giggles]

Boba Fett :cool:


*Mandalorian Spoiler*

[Ian]

I should really have wondered what was coming out today before just mindlessly clicking on the spoiler but at least it's a vague / minor spoiler given I'm only today's episode behind.

Giggles is referring to the Mandalorian in case anybody's scrolled past it more cautiously than I did.

[Ian]

Mandalorian:
Good episode again this week. As Giggles said: Boba Fett. :cool: Nice to see him actually being good on-screen and not just in EU books/comics and fanboy dreams.

I was surprised they got to Tython that quick, I thought that was gonna be the point they were working toward for the next half a season or more so after a slow start to the season this felt like quite a lot of progress.

Random aside but does anybody here who watches the show give a fuck about the kid being called Grogu? I know the internet will have a cry about anything but that seems a weird one.

[Baz]

Taskmaster:

Katherine getting any points in the acting task is beyond a joke, nevermind two. Especially when Mawaan and his epic accents only got 2, and Daisy got 3.

Obviously it doesn’t really matter.

Very funny episode and a good series.

[SvN]

Yeah I think Greg just pities Katherine because she's so shit.

Mawaan has had a rough deal the entire series. He should be winning.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mawaan grassing up on Daisy (especially as she almost ripped Richard to shreds a week or two ago) was brilliant.

[Boydy]

Mawaan's great. I'd never heard of him before this but I love him.

Does Greg Davies hate Richard Herring? Feels like he's pushing the 'Herring is a sex pest' (which he apparently is a bit) line quite a lot.

[Queenslander]

Mandalorian:
Good episode again this week. As Giggles said: Boba Fett. :cool: Nice to see him actually being good on-screen and not just in EU books/comics and fanboy dreams.

I was surprised they got to Tython that quick, I thought that was gonna be the point they were working toward for the next half a season or more so after a slow start to the season this felt like quite a lot of progress.

Random aside but does anybody here who watches the show give a fuck about the kid being called Grogu? I know the internet will have a cry about anything but that seems a weird one.

I like the name Grogu.

I can easily see 100 French bulldogs with that name in the new year

[Alex]

I'm closing in on the end of season seven of the X-Files and it's definitely been the weirdest season so far. It's like they've totally run out of stuff to do with the mythology arc (I feel like it's almost been non-existent this season) and instead filled it out with a series of increasingly bizarre, standalone episodes. Which isn't to say I'm not still enjoying it.

[Baz]

Get ready for the big Dog[gett]. :cool:

[Alex]

Get ready for the big Dog[gett]. :cool:

I finished it off and watched the first episode of season eight last night, so he's here. :cool:

[Baz]

At first you’ll probably hate him and

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bh2G2YfIgAACSlm.jpg

But you’ll quickly realise he’s the best thing since Henry Weems.

[Alex]

:D

Henry Weems was great! That episode was a belter.

I've no idea whether this is the actual case or not, but it feels a bit like they planned to end it in season seven then just carried on? The season seven finale just felt like they were wrapping it up. They even went full circle and it tied back in to the very first episode.

The best bit about that finale was Smoking Man having throat cancer or something, and having a nurse who just holds the cigarettes to a hole in his neck and he smokes through that instead now. :D

Then Krycek shoved him down the stairs in his wheelchair and left him for dead. But I bet he's not, because he never is!

It's also funny how Krycek always returns in some ridiculous way too and makes a sinister entrance. He's ridiculous but I love him. And Mulder is always like "Krycek! You son of a bitch!" :D

[randomlegend]

The James May cooking thing is innocuous, vaguely entertaining rubbish.

[Giggles]

The James May cooking thing is innocuous, vaguely entertaining rubbish.

I love it. Watched every video he’s done on cooking so far. Has absolutely zero except him but that’s enough.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The James May cooking thing is innocuous, vaguely entertaining rubbish.

I've watched a few and I can't tell if I like it or not.

It shouldn't work but in a weird way it does purely because of James May.

They really should make more of his Reassembler show though. That was incredible.

[Boydy]

:D

Jesus christ.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I like Alice a lot but I'm not sure I like her that much.

[Pepe]

Giggles, ffs. :D

[Shindig]

Did he have that custom title before that post or after?

[Spikey M]

Moving on from Scat, it's a shame he doesn't make the BBC programs where he makes giant versions of kids toys anymore. They were great. But, on balance, having Richard Hammond nowhere near my TV has been worth it.

[phonics]

Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

For anyone who is a Taskmaster fan I'd highly recommend No More Jockeys on Youtube.