Do we live in a golden age of television?

[SvN]

Every character is so well written, and each brings something unique to the show. Sarah Snook brings something else on top of her character :drool: Dquincy

[Baz]

Presumed that was the actor who plays Willa so googled for some :alan:age but nope. You must be joking. :sick:

[Panda Bear]

I threw the towel in after the wedding episode. Completely unnecessary.you fucking what

[Panda Bear]

Tom is great. A massive twat but also one of the few with a grip on reality, at least latterly. So well acted.I used to hate Tom due to his sycophantic ways and cruelty to those below him, but he really grew on me.

Tom highlights include:
* bragging about the very urban experience he had with a woman at his bachelor party
* putting a napkin over his head to eat fine food
* celebrating not going to prison by completely trashing Greg's office

[Panda Bear]

Every character is so well written, and each brings something unique to the show. Sarah Snook brings something else on top of her character :drool: DquincyI marvel at the amount of character development in the show. Each character has a tremendous amount of texture and depth, and their arcs all make sense within the world of the show.

I didn't expect to like Kendall so much after hating him at the beginning of the show. He can make moves like Logan, but they always end up failing because he wants people to like him more than he wants to win. Everything gets done halfway, and he ruins everything for himself as a result.

Beyond that, their portrayal of his very likely being bipolar without naming it is very well done.

Nor did I expect to see Shiv reclaim her humanity when she is appalled that Roman has hired men to follow Kendall's family and realizes that things have gone too far between them near the end of season three.

Even Connor's arc is fantastic, going from a likeable pleb to clueless pleb to fucking stupid pleb.

[Manc]

you fucking what

Did I stutter?

[Yevrah]

C'mon Manc, you should know you're not allowed to think Succession is anything other than brilliant.

[Giggles]

I don’t get what this Boba Fett episode is for.

[Panda Bear]

C'mon Manc, you should know you're not allowed to think Succession is anything other than brilliant.Disliking Succession is an indictment against that person's mental acuity.

[Panda Bear]

Presumed that was the actor who plays Willa so googled for some :alan:age but nope. You must be joking. :sick:
Taz would understand.

[Don]

I've googled both and Panda is correct. That Willa bird looks the sort to have sex with the lights off.

[Baz]

I've googled both and Panda is correct. That Willa bird looks the sort to have sex with the lights off.

Whereas pasty ginger pubes is a wanking on the bus home from an abandoned evening.

Neither are particularly great but one is far better than the other.

[Panda Bear]

Whereas pasty ginger pubes is a wanking on the bus home from an abandoned evening.

Neither are particularly great but one is far better than the other.She's thicc, Baz. Thicc.

[Browning]

I don’t get what this Boba Fett episode is for.

It was very strange because it was basically an episode of The Mandalorian. I'm sure they'll tie both of them together next week, but it definitely felt out of place, as much as I enjoyed it.

[Lofty]

Every ginger bird I have ever shagged was pure filth so I reckon that can be rolled out across them all.

[Giggles]

It was very strange because it was basically an episode of The Mandalorian. I'm sure they'll tie both of them together next week, but it definitely felt out of place, as much as I enjoyed it.

Or land back for the end of the series after he goes off visiting. It was a good episode and all, though I found the whole thing a bit odd to go through melting the spear and the fight and the stories and all, only to just randomly ask about the helmet and tell him to piss off.
I actually hadn’t realised this current Fett story was set after he helped the Mandalorian in that series.

[Giggles]

I was also expecting some A-Team music for an overly long stretch in it too.

[Manc]

Every ginger bird I have ever shagged was pure filth so I reckon that can be rolled out across them all.

Phwoar.

[randomlegend]

Mr Inbetween

Christ, the bit where Gary turns up to do his first shoot and it's a gay couple is excruciating :D

[hfswjyr]

I have also hopped on the Succession bandwagon. Just finished Season 1 and can't wait to watch more. My only worry is they might go down the Shameless path, where every character ends up making terrible decision after terrible decision in order to keep the setting of the story the same, rather than let them develop and move into new territory. Hopefully that won't happen.

[SvN]

It hasn't happened so far.

[Spikey M]

Finished "The Responder". The BBC do this stuff very well, don't they? Another lacklustre ending, but I enjoyed it all the same. Freeman was excellent. I didn't know he had it in him.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've never seen him be bad in anything, tbf. When he did 'A Chip in the Sugar' I was fearful as it's about my favourite text ever, but he was class.

[Spikey M]

Other than The Office, I'm not sure I've seen him outside of a duff Rom-Com or Christmas Film. I just thought he existed to play different versions of Tim. I stand very much corrected.

[Ian]

I definitely had a moment there of "Somebody's adapted your favourite text message?"

I've not watched The Responder yet but Freeman is basically always good. The material around him isn't always great but I think he does a good job even when he's ended up with shoddy material, like the later series of Sherlock, say, or the dreadful Hobbit films.

[Spikey M]

Ah, you see there's the problem. I won't watch Cumberbatch, I hate the cunts face, so no Sherlock and I'm afraid The Hobbit falls the wrong side of 'Comic Book Bollocks".

*I appreciate it isn't actually from a comic.

[Ian]

He is in some actual comic book films if you'd rather trot out your moan about those again.

I'm having to remind myself what else he's been in because my brain is failing me. Fargo is the other obvious one I guess, though Wikipedia tells me he's also done an episode of DuckTales. :drool:

[CJay]

He was a fantastic Bilbo in the Hobbit, and probably the only redeeming feature of any of those 3 films.

Great as Stick Man too, if you prefer him in grand novel adaptations, Spikey.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He could play anyone I reckon. Gatsby. Hannibal Lecter. Julius Caesar. Sign him up.

[Spikey M]

I didn't know he voiced Stick Man.

What a guy.

[wullie]

I like Rob Brydon, but he surely doesn't need to be in every one of those.

[SvN]

Martin Freeman has surpsied me by being as good as he is.

Perhaps we can rebrand to a Martin Freeman fan forum? It'd assure us of some new blood.

[Pepe]

Took me some time to realize that you are not talking about Morgan Freeman. Needless to say, I was very confused. Who the fuck is Martin Freeman?

[Ian]

He's the guy who was in all that stuff we just said he was in.

[Baz]

Worst thing about Martin Freeman is in his introduction in The Office he seems like a feeble manlet when Tim is like “uhh don’t do that” to Gareth when he messes his hair up. But then he’s actually nothing like that and basically bullied Gareth throughout and/or gave zero fucks about anything other than Dawn. So why is his first impression completely wrong? Always annoyed me.

[randomlegend]

He's the guy who was in all that stuff we just said he was in.

:D

[Pepe]

Having Googled and seen his face, he looks like a twat. Give me Morgan Freeman any day, for any role, instead.

[Spikey M]

He's the guy who was in all that stuff we just said he was in.

:D

[Giggles]

His over acting in Sherlock put me off him.

[Lofty]

Watched Screw, it was wank.

Edit: Just seen Sir Alan moaning about the scouse accent in The Responder :D

[Shindig]

Not to bring this back to After Life but I can't get over how fucked Ricky's neck is in this. And his attitude.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acTeuZD10l4

[Kikó]

Martin Freeman is Mark Noble.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Worst thing about Martin Freeman is in his introduction in The Office he seems like a feeble manlet when Tim is like “uhh don’t do that” to Gareth when he messes his hair up. But then he’s actually nothing like that and basically bullied Gareth throughout and/or gave zero fucks about anything other than Dawn. So why is his first impression completely wrong? Always annoyed me.

Pilots (if that's what it was) often have stuff in them that doesn't get brought forward.

[Ian]

It's also not bad going if the worst thing about him is one scene he didn't write.

[phonics]

New Boba Fett fucks.

[Baz]

Watched some of season two of After Life earlier, after watching the first season when it first came out. Can't be doing with the only thing he ever fucking talks about is his dead wife. Can see why I didn't bother with season two first time round.

If it wasn't for the postman, I wouldn't be continuing.

[Ian]

Just watched Boba Fett
So yeah, best episode of the series but because it was an episode of The Mandalorian. Not a great look when you should be building up to the big battle in the finale next week.

Still, I forgot Mando had the darksaber so that caught me out when he whipped it out and the lads done well to get himself a Naboo starfighter, it's a good looking space ship. Handy of them to get a little of Mando series 3 in now to save time at the start of next series.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just watched Boba Fett.

Great episode but obviously it was basically a Mandalorian episode. I do think it's a cool way to get him involved into what will be the war.

Also, Ian. The final isn't next week. It's the week after.

[Ian]

Forgot it was an odd number of episodes. Not so bad then to have done that this week.

[Giggles]

What’s that social media show called again that was mentioned earlier?

Edit - Baz.

[Manc]

The Social Dilemma.

[Giggles]

:thbup:

Gonna watch it for the craic. If I cancel any of them after it then they’ve won.

[Giggles]

“Injury detail” :moop:. I’ll just keep the Facebook account so.

[Lofty]

Anyone watching The Teacher? Given up on Trigger Point after the second episode, despite it being about bombs it's a snorefest.

The last two episodes of Boba Fett have been something.

[Ian]

Boba Fett:
I didn't mind this week's episode and I obviously get how it's gonna tie into Boba Fett but these last two sure have felt like Mandalorian Series 3 Episodes 1 and 2, haven't they?

I also wonder how many people watching Boba Fett know who the fuck Cad Bane is given I think he's only turned up in Clone Wars. I've seen enough of that that I was into it when I realised who it was walking into town though.

Still, it's pretty lol that the title character has barely been in the two episodes building up to the finale.

[igor_balis]

Trailer park boys is so good

[phonics]

Boba Fett:
I didn't mind this week's episode and I obviously get how it's gonna tie into Boba Fett but these last two sure have felt like Mandalorian Series 3 Episodes 1 and 2, haven't they?

I also wonder how many people watching Boba Fett know who the fuck Cad Bane is given I think he's only turned up in Clone Wars. I've seen enough of that that I was into it when I realised who it was walking into town though.

Still, it's pretty lol that the title character has barely been in the two episodes building up to the finale.

It's almost like it's a small side story to connect seasons.

[Spikey M]

Does anyone else just stop reading after Phonics says "it's almost like" and just shove an extra line in the "unnecessarily patronising cunt" column?

I made an exception this time because the post was so short, but it appears the post : cunt ratio is still 1:1

[Giggles]

The ‘unnecessarily patronising cunt’ and ‘completely wrong’ circles are intersecting heavily yet again.

[Ian]

Over a quarter of the series where the title character is as good as absent a 'small side story', sure.

Also:
It's worth stressing: I don't care. The Mando stuff is better and more interesting than the Fett stuff as it stands.

I just think it's funny that two of the seven episodes have basically been a holiday to The Mandalorian.

[Lofty]

There is some theory Boba was supposed to be 4 episodes long but they have changed this run up because of covid schedules or something.

[Reg]

Agreed with the spoiler, Ian. I've really enjoyed the last two episodes of Bob after thinking the first few were mostly a bit 'eh'.

[Giggles]

It’s almost like the Mandalorian is far better.

[Ian]

Has anybody said otherwise?

I think even the people who were invested in "the character" (i.e. thought his armour looked cool) would struggle to claim it's some winner of a show.

[Browning]

The Mandalorian is a far better show but I still think there were plenty of times the Mandalorian was too slow as well, which appears to be the main criticism of Boba. I know a few people who couldn't get past the first few episodes of the Mandalorian, and I know a few more that I had to convince it was worth sticking with at various points. I guess the key difference is it has those really great episodes/moments, and Boba hasn't had any of those yet.

[Giggles]

Has anybody said otherwise?

I think even the people who were invested in "the character" (i.e. thought his armour looked cool) would struggle to claim it's some winner of a show.

Muchos sorriness.

[randomlegend]

Series 3 was still great. 3rd last episode of it was boring but aside from that every episode on all the series was top tier

The third last episode is precisely what makes the whole thing good, you absolute pleb.

Such a fucking good programme. Everyone should be on it. Now. Go watch it now. All of you.

[Boydy]

Quite enjoying Archive 81 on Netflix.

[Baz]

Started watching Ted Lasso. Nate The Great is, er, great. :nod:

[Manc]

Genuinely thought I had another one or two episodes left when The Responder came to an end.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Boba Fett:
I didn't mind this week's episode and I obviously get how it's gonna tie into Boba Fett but these last two sure have felt like Mandalorian Series 3 Episodes 1 and 2, haven't they?

I also wonder how many people watching Boba Fett know who the fuck Cad Bane is given I think he's only turned up in Clone Wars. I've seen enough of that that I was into it when I realised who it was walking into town though.

Still, it's pretty lol that the title character has barely been in the two episodes building up to the finale.

I had no idea who Cad Bane is. I still haven't watched Clone Wars although I will change that soon.

He does look cool.

[Giggles]

Apple got their shit together :drool:

[Lofty]

Watching Reacher on prime, decent so far.

[Ian]

Is he the full towering 5'4 the movies so correctly portrayed him as?

[Lofty]

Thankfully he has been recast as a 6'2 body builder.

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/06/neighbours-needs-good-friends-to-survive-after-uk-network-axes-iconic-soap

Lewis

[Spikey M]

I mean, I haven't watched it in years, but this is an outrage. :mad:

[Giggles]

Home and Away was always far superior anyway.

[Baz]

Home and Away was always far superior anyway.

Only for the phwoarfactor, really.

Storywise, and moreso character wise, Neighbours is king.

[Mike]

The old Neighbours thread was great. I've not watched it in years, I assume Dr Karl is still going strong?

[Giggles]

I seen the start of an episode the other day and Karl, Susan, Paul Robinson, and Toadie were the ones I recognised in the opening bit.

[Lofty]

I cant remember if there was an episode involving Joe Mangle and Ghostbusters or if I hallucinated that. Boyd's roids storyline though :D Steph was always fitter than Flick, but Dee was the GOAT.

[Giggles]

I cant remember if there was an episode involving Joe Mangle and Ghostbusters or if I hallucinated that. Boyd's rouds storyline though :D Steph was always fitter than Flick, but Dee was the GOAT.

Sorry, what?

[Lofty]

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

[Giggles]

I seen the start of an episode the other day and Karl, Susan, Paul Robinson, and Toadie were the ones I recognised in the opening bit.

Oh and the one who played Sophie in Home and Away too, but she’s been balls deep in the pies since then.

[Mike]

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
Spot on

[Giggles]

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

Hand in your penis to the authorities at the first available opportunity.

[Spikey M]

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

Mental opinion lad.

[Lewis]

I was surprised to learn that Channel 5 pay most of the production costs. It's pretty terrible now, but I stick it on in the background. Rosetta Cammeniti was the top Neighbours sort. FACT. What a power couple her and Frazer Yeats were. That era was either the peak of the programme or just more appealing to us all as student layabouts.

[Spikey M]

Lou and Mishka are the undefeated power-couple.

[Shindig]

If they're going to end the Aussie soaps, they should go full crossover/invasion.

[Lewis]

Top Neighbours regulars:

1. Paul Robinson (arguably the best soap character ever)
2. Lou Carpenter
3. Steve Parker
4. Max Hoyland
5. Gary Canning

Top side characters:

1. Alan Steiger
2. Kimbo Timmins
3. Angie Rebecchi
4. Big Kev Rebecchi
5. Karl Kennedy's weird sister whose name escapes me

Worst Neighbours characters:

1. Ringo Brown
2. Andrew Robinson
3. Tyler Brennan
4. Mackenzie the whinging tranny
5. That gay aboriginal lad

[Lewis]

They had another aboriginal character recently and it was proper 'Magic Negro' trope stuff. Donned Paul Robinson in business, fixed a load of relationships, nearly stole someone's fella despite her being a good twenty stone, and then just ghosted off on a therapeutic road trip. Oh. Thanks for stopping by.

[Lewis]

Ringo Brown could fill that bottom five on his own. Fuck me what a loser. Managed to get himself cucked by Andrew Robinson.

[Spikey M]

Zeke has been ROBBED of a place on your worst list.

[Lewis]

Zeke got a fake death storyline, was a pirate radio DJ, and got in with them sabotage hippies. He was an absolute lad by the end compared to some of them dweebs.

[Baz]

Dylan Timmins and his brother were pretty tragic.

[Lewis]

Dylan Timmins had a solid run as Paul's apprentice (and another fake death storyline). Stingray was a little melt though yes. He even died like a dweeb.

[Alex]

Surely there is room for Bridget ("Didge" :sick:) in the "worst" list, Lewis? I remember the hate for her being universal in the Neighbours thread back in the day. Didn't Susan hit her with the car into the midst of one of her MS episodes? :D

[Alex]

Dylan Timmins had a solid run as Paul's apprentice (and another fake death storyline). Stingray was a little melt though yes. He even died like a dweeb.

Aye, Stringray was a right little drip. Dylan was a lad though.

[Baz]

I think my disdain for Dylan was I once went on holiday and there was a lad there who looked like him, who was a right loser.

[Lewis]

Surely there is room for Bridget ("Didge" :sick:) in the "worst" list, Lewis? I remember the hate for her being universal in the Neighbours thread back in the day. Didn't Susan hit her with the car into the midst of one of her MS episodes? :D

Yeah. Then she snapped out of her disability to catch a cricket ball and gave Liam Hemsworth and his pretend wheelchair the heave-ho.

That is another Neighbours staple. People get injuries and ailments, and then they just forget them once the writers get sick of having to work around it. Ringo had an eating disorder just to pass out in the pool; Frazer couldn't walk until they said it was all in his head; Toadie couldn't walk or get a lob on after a shooting until it went away for the drama; Susan's MS comes and goes depending on the storyline (usually flares up when some shithead she feels sorry for antagonises it); and so on.

[Spikey M]

Pauls bad leg hasn't gone away, has it? Maybe the effort of changing which side it is twice an episode keeps it bad.

[Lewis]

He limps a bit but nobody ever mentions it.

[Baz]

David Bishop was the best character.

One time he answered the door to Paul in his pyjamas and Paul shouted at him and Harold for a bit then stormed off, leaving them with a snide quip of nice pyjamas, David and David just shrugged and went “it’s night time?” :lol:

[Giggles]

I liked Vinnie. His bird is in H&A now too.

[igor_balis]

The best neighbours adjacent thing was "toadfish" being the main antagonist in that fucking deranged Simpsons parody thing, Bart the general (confusingly the same name as an actual early Simpsons episode). It's probably only people like me who were far too online in the mid-late 00s, but does any other cunt remember that shit?

[Lofty]

I have reviewed the evidence in light of criticism and stand by my opinion, Steph Scully is fitter than Flick and definitely a right sort. Flick looks like Carol Vorderman's deranged regen.

[Giggles]

Even removing flick from the equation entirely, Steph looked like she’d either had an accident or been deprived of oxygen at some stage.

[Alex]

Give over. If you prefer Flick, fine. But let's not get silly. I don't think what Lofty is saying is a particularly controversial opinion at all. I definitely had a thing for Steph Scully too back then.

[Baz]

At least no one picked Michelle (or Lyn).

[Baz]

Also finished Ted Lasso season one.

Contemplating not even bothering with season 2 considering how universally panned it’s been, but will likely give it a go just to see how it went so wrong.

Rebecca would get it.

https://gifs.cackhanded.net/ted-lasso/sag-awards/oooh.gif

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I liked season 2 and I don't think it's as bad as some have made it out to be.

It's definitely a step down though.

[Mike]

I enjoyed season two too. Don’t see why people hated it so much.

[hfswjyr]

I'm shocked at how many people in this thread watch the soaps. I genuinely don't know a single person who does, so I guess that makes sense - their viewership has to come from somewhere. Do you all watch it on the telly?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've barely watched one in my life. I think it depends if you're the sort of person who has the TV on by default (and they just come on), or if you aren't. I'm the latter.

[randomlegend]

I've never watched an episode of any of them ever.

[Shindig]

I only watched them by osmosis. Once I moved out of my parents' I completely lost track. They're only good when they decide to kill a load off. Or if they want to ruin Gail Platt / Ian Beale's life.

[randomlegend]

I'll listen to the Archers if it's on though.

[Spikey M]

I'm shocked at how many people in this thread watch the soaps. I genuinely don't know a single person who does, so I guess that makes sense - their viewership has to come from somewhere. Do you all watch it on the telly?

We're harking back to the glory days of Uni dossing. I don't think any of us (aside from Lewis a little bit) still watch it, and Channel 5 binning it probably means that's a trend across the country too.

[wullie]

I got right back into it once we started working from home so that's proof viewing figures have risen. I don't understand what Channel 5 are putting their money towards otherwise.

[SvN]

I occasionally watched Neighbours when at Uni, mostly because other people I lived with watched it. I reckon the student population probably accounts for a decent proportion of their viewers, with stay at home mums and pensioners being the rest.

[Lofty]

I got right back into it once we started working from home so that's proof viewing figures have risen. I don't understand what Channel 5 are putting their money towards otherwise.

Dogshit Sheridan Smith dramas filmed in Budapest.

[Spikey M]

I knew she was struggling and taking the fall from BBC dramas to ITV dramas hard, but I didn't know she had taken it Channel 5 hard. Poor cow.

[Yevrah]

Watched the first three episodes of Pam and Tommy last night, which was surprisingly good. Annoyingly it is only the first three episodes available (I didn't check so assumed that was the whole thing) with the next 5 following over the coming weeks.

[Baz]

Yeah I’m waiting for the full lot before blasting through. Been looking forward to it for ages.

It’s definitely dodgy territory in terms of Pamela Anderson’s wellbeing though.

[Pepe]

Motley Crue. :drool:

[Giggles]

Now that Apple TV has continue and seek functions I started watching that thing with the Indian lad from BBT in it. Wasn’t too bad and I presume the story only really kicks off now 3 episodes in.

[Panda Bear]

Now that Apple TV has continue and seek functions I started watching that thing with the Indian lad from BBT in it. Wasn’t too bad and I presume the story only really kicks off now 3 episodes in.You gonna pick up that Ferrell and Rudd show again?

[Giggles]

I nearly did at the weekend but I don’t think I will.

[randomlegend]

I'm only 10 minutes into the first episode, but This Is Going To Hurt is really good. I'm not sure it'll hit quite the same for people without experience of working in healthcare, but I'd strongly recommend giving it a go (after you've all finished Mr Inbetween).

[Lofty]

Boba finale was gash.

[Giggles]

Was Boba Fett in it at all?

[Ian]

I haven't watched it yet so I'm just going to assume until I do that:
Mando wins with his mates, they spend twenty minutes with him and Grogu reuniting then setting off on their next adventure then as they're flying off with Grogu in the droid-hole in the ship it just pans down to Tatooine where you see Fett giving it one of these:
https://c.tenor.com/J5A9wZzn3ZYAAAAM/robert-redford-jeremiah-johnson.gif

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I thought it was pretty good.

[Ian]

Boba Fett:
I thought it was.... okay? My main gripes are:
- It was largely pretty predictable. I didn't feel much of the "how's ol' Boba gonna get out of this one??" tension because we knew he had all these reinforcements coming. I am, inevitably, thinking back to the bar siege in Mandolorian series 1 where they hadn't found a way out the back of it and we didn't know what IG-11 was going to do.
- The rancor bit would have really benefitted from some more build up with him trying (and probably with mixed success) to do the rancor. As with so much else this series it needed more time, not just a five minute scene where he says he's gonna ride the rancor one day and then that's the end of it. It wasn't the OH FUCK YEAH fist-pump moment I'd have liked it to be.
- I get that it's meant to be about Fett building up this crew but I felt like he didn't get enough moments and, once again, just didn't feel like the star of his own show at the back end of the season.

Also a bit sad Cad Bane is dead (presumably) before he'd even really started in the live action stuff. I thought they'd have him get out of it and maybe set him up as more of a primary antagonist later. Fett suddenly donning him with the gaffi stick was a good moment though.

All worth it for Grogu leaping into Mando's arms though. :wub:

[Lofty]

Billy bionic eye with the 360 spin shot though :D laughed out loud at that. There was a lot of bollocks wasted on side characters, Cad Bane was done dirty. Amy Sedaris' characters talks way too much. It was just the most foregone of foregone conclusions.

[Baz]

Ted Lasso annoyances:
Always saying tie instead of draw
Similarly parking lot instead of car park
Calling it the Premiership and not Premier League
Roy Kent

[Jimmy Floyd]

They're probably not allowed to say Premier League without a licence. The rest can be explained by everything on all streaming platforms being for an American audience.

[Ian]

And the top two presumably by the American character being an American who speaks like an American.

[Giggles]

Yeah don't all Americans call those things that?

[niko_cee]

They're probably not allowed to say Premier League without a licence. The rest can be explained by everything on all streaming platforms being for an American audience.

I thought Premiership was completely omerta [in the same way you have to say 'the football club'] but I guess that probably just applies to proper football men talking about proper football matters.

[Spikey M]

I use Premiership and Premier League. :dc:

[niko_cee]

FA Carling Premiership.

[Manc]

First Division.

[Jimmy Floyd]

90s football terminology needs to come back into vogue. Footy. Goalie. 'Soccer' in a non-US context. Striker (I swear you don't hear that as much these days). Linesman. Up for the cup. Kick and rush.

While researching this post on wikipedia, I came across this. What the fuck? I have never heard this in my life.


Jew goal: a goal scored when a player "passes the ball when two-on-one with the keeper in order to provide the receiver with an open goal".[193] The term is antisemitic, indicates a goal scored unfairly and plays on the stereotype of Jews as cheap.

[randomlegend]

Jew goal is a FIFA (as in the video game) term in my experience.

[Browning]

That’s every goal I ever scored on FIFA and not once did the commentator mention it....

[Spikey M]

I thought the kids called that a "sweaty goal"

[Adramelch]

That’s every goal I ever scored on FIFA and not once did the commentator mention it....

I would assume he means a community thing rather than an actual game thing.

[Yevrah]

They do indeed, never heard it referred to as what's in Jim's post.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It was jarring to see that included in the official wikipedia football glossary alongside 'back of the net', 'game of two halves' and so on.

[randomlegend]

Clearly Norfolk is winning at anti-Semitism.

[Browning]

I would assume he means a community thing rather than an actual game thing.

Yea, I made my post at the same time so didn't see the one above, I was just joking about it, without realising it was really a FIFA thing.

My FIFA experience is basically 98-04 anyway, so for all I know that could be in the game these days.

[Baz]

And the top two presumably by the American character being an American who speaks like an American.
It’s the English people who say it. Not once has any character used the word draw, despite lots mentioning ties.

[Ian]

Oh, in which case then yeah it's just what Jimmy said.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sex Education was the same, less so with terminology than with the fact they turned the school into an American high school with the full range of tropes, inexplicably located in Wales, with no American or Welsh people present.

[randomlegend]

I don't think Sex Education was really trying to maintain any pretence that it existed in the real world.

[Jimmy Floyd]

No, but the reason they created that dreamscape setting was to be 'accessible' to American viewers, which is the way everything from outside the US will go now that streaming is king.

[randomlegend]

Prolly true.

[Giggles]

EPL or Premier League. Mostly the former.

[Baz]

Oh, in which case then yeah it's just what Jimmy said.

I guess but have you seen it? They make a point of differentiating between American and “British” terms, ie out of bounds = into touch, trunk = boot, cleats = boots, etc. so I don’t understand why they insist on getting the English characters to use the word ‘tie.’

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I watched The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman tonight and I thought it was pretty good. The story was compelling and told pretty well.

Some of the lies told seemed completely far fetched though and it was a little too long.

Sarah Smith's Dad came across as a don.

[Boydy]

Yellowjackets is very good.

[Giggles]

In From the Cold is so bad it’s excellent and I want a second series.

[Shindig]

Catching up on Louis Theroux's new series. I can't believe there's a 'No Money Down' moment inside the first three minutes. :D And I can't take any of these right-wing wankers seriously.

EDIT: Okay, this is basically a carousel of internet retards. "I'm losing this argument? Well, erm ... YOU'RE PRETENTIOUS!"

[Giggles]

BelAir looks so fucking weird.

[Manc]

Chloe is a solid millennial effort.

[niko_cee]

Catching up on Louis Theroux's new series. I can't believe there's a 'No Money Down' moment inside the first three minutes. :D And I can't take any of these right-wing wankers seriously.

EDIT: Okay, this is basically a carousel of internet retards. "I'm losing this argument? Well, erm ... YOU'RE PRETENTIOUS!"

It was all a bit bizarre.

The real scoop he needed was to get the sort of off the record comment where 'Nick Fuentes' and that gamer girl the retard said he was going to rape confess it's all just a money grab and they're just fleecing idiots without believing any of it.

[Shindig]

Yeah, some of the internet reaction has been moaning about how Louis didn't dig into the grift. Or his hispanic parents. Or his sexuality. Still, we got Baked Alaska showing Louis his shite song. And Beardson trying to throw him out of a house he wasn't in.

It's also interesting to note Alaska was really, really uncomfortable with the chat messages coming through. He's in prison at the minute. :D

[Baz]

BelAir looks so fucking weird.I’ve just watched episode one and not really feeling it.

Hilary and Aunt Viv are fit though.

[hfswjyr]

BelAir looks so fucking weird.

Come to think of it, most of our generation probably watched the original only because it 'just happened to be on TV' after school. And I'd hazard a guess most of us enjoyed it.
But in this day and age, how do you hook an audience to a new show about:


The theme song and opening sequence set the premise of the show. Will Smith is a street-smart teenager, West Philadelphia - "born and raised". While playing street basketball, Will misses a shot and the ball hits a group of gang members, causing a confrontation that frightens his mother, who sends him to live with his wealthy aunt and uncle in the opulent neighborhood of Bel Air, Los Angeles.
Will's working class background ends up clashing in various humorous ways with the upper class world of the Banks family – Will's uncle Phil and aunt Vivian and their children, Will's cousins: spoiled Hilary, pompous Carlton, impressionable Ashley and baby Nicky

It would never get the same kind of audience now.

[Boydy]

You'd get an audience by being funny.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You'd never get that premise past modern day LA types, or at least Uncle Phil would have to be white and a cunt.

[Shindig]

He'd be going door to door for signatures to stop the council putting up a basketball court.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Peacemaker is really fucking good.

[mo]

Haven't watched Band of Brothers since it was on VHS, so started that again tonight. Eerie how familiar it feels.

[Manc]

What are people on with? I'm considering The North Water.

[Ben]

I’m just about the start The Fear Index.

Flash crashes are always controversial so I hope they portray it properly rather than dramatising characters like they’re prone to do.

[Jimmy Floyd]

What are people on with? I'm considering The North Water.

Enjoy. A show in which a 20 minute detailed depiction of seal clubbing isn't even in the top three most graphic sequences.

[Baz]

I actually don't mind this Bel-Air.

Uncle Phil's cool and Will Smith sounds like Will Smith it's uncanny sometimes.

[randomlegend]

Watch Mr Inbetween you bunch of mongs.

[phonics]

My mum has been watching this French show called 'Call My Agent' which is like Extras but less comedic with French stars and I'm watching the whole time thinking I recognise this one woman and I couldn't place it and it was from the first movie I ever saw in French. She didn't have a single line but I still think about it all the time.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Yamakasi2001.jpg

[hfswjyr]

Haven't watched Band of Brothers since it was on VHS, so started that again tonight. Eerie how familiar it feels.

Still waiting for Masters of the Air. It's been decades in the making, but they're finally filming!

[Ian]

I've watched the first episode of The Responder and that is indeed a remarkably good Scouse accent from Freeman.

[Baz]

Pam and Tommy is so good.

[Lofty]

Is she wearing fake tits for this?

[Yevrah]

However they've done it is incredible, genuinely couldn't tell the actress doesn't look like that in real life. Episode 5 was a bit of a nothing one though.

[Raoul Duke]

Started watching Reacher on Amazon. They've made him an absolute unit like he's meant to be, rather than a manlet like Tom Cruise. Enjoyed it a lot so far from the first couple of episodes.

[Baz]

However they've done it is incredible, genuinely couldn't tell the actress doesn't look like that in real life. Episode 5 was a bit of a nothing one though.
I liked it.

Need more talking penis though.

[Giggles]

Succession is hard watching.

[Ben]

Finally got around to starting Succession today and squeezed in the first episode before the Leeds-Man Utd match kicked off. It's right up my street and I think I'm going to really enjoy it. Wolves-Leicester might get fucked off.

[Foe]

Anyone watching love is blind series 2?

It’s the absolute worst, filled with some truly horrible people. But it’s class.

The bird shaina has absolutely massive tits but I’m not convinced they don’t drop down to her hips if unsupported. Hopefully we will get a bikini shot at some point.

[Lofty]

I am by osmosis (wife watching it), they need more rules in the opening phase. After the more genuine seeming first series now it seems like people are desperate to get through to boost their profile so will do and say anything. It should be a case of you get one proposal and then you can't propose again, only be proposed to.

Edit: also, Shaina's tits are definitely fake and should be perky, that's why she looks 15 years older than she is: all the surgery.

[Foe]

Yeah, being able to propose more than once seems a bit wild. Having someone say yes to that, that your fiancé proposed to someone the day before, screams of red flag.

Series 1 was great, all be it, there’s similar themes and I imagine that will always be the case.

[Bernanke]

Severance is off to a fantastic start.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEQP4VVuyrY&feature=emb_title

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I watched Catching Killers and The Confession Killer over the last few days.

Catching Killers was fairly good but the first season was so much better than the first. The second season in particular was let down by the episode "Thrill Kills: The Phoenix Serial Shooter" which was pretty dull.

The Confession Killer was really good. The most striking thing was just how shit the Texas Rangers were because it was clear that Henry Lee Lucas hadn't done any of the murders he was confessing to. I also found this (https://www.npr.org/2012/04/28/150996459/free-after-25-years-a-tale-of-murder-and-injustice?t=1645398018902) so clearly they were completely inept and were more interested in just closing cases rather than solving them.

[Ben]

I’d assumed BBC and ITV would have some kind of agreement where they don’t have their marquee dramas head-to-head. Series finale of Trigger Point opposite series premiere of Peaky Blinders is a strange one. ITV will bleed viewers tonight.

[Boydy]

Did Trigger Point get any better? I think I missed it after the third episode and never went back. It was a bit shit, I thought.

[Ben]

Nah still pretty average but I’m one of those that’s unable to bin anything off (within reason) after starting it.

[Lofty]

I liked the fact that they had to ram home the fact Vicky McClure's character was am absolute maverick by having her put shades on twice in the opening minute.

[Spikey M]

That Sheridan Smith ITV effort (No Return) is offensively bad. Genuinely terrible. All involved should be ashamed.

[Adramelch]

Watched the second season of Space Force, after seeing that it got quite good reviews, and while it was better than the first one, it generally still felt mediocre, especially given the talent on screen.

[Giggles]

Once I seen the VR signature bit that Netflix show as the preview, I vowed never.

[Manc]

You fucking what?

[Giggles]

bit that, not but they. I was autocorrected.

[Boydy]

What, you can watch Space Force in VR?

I didn't know Netflix were doing any VR stuff.

[phonics]

Top Boy is back :drool:

[Manc]

Top Boy has tempted me on many occasion.

[phonics]

It's fantastic. I never watched the summerhouse stuff but the Netflix series was top top top boy.

[Spikey M]

It's decent enough, but it's not fantastic. I would pay to watch a live stream of Giggles watching it though.

[Raoul Duke]

Watched the second season of Space Force, after seeing that it got quite good reviews, and while it was better than the first one, it generally still felt mediocre, especially given the talent on screen.

I watched it recently too and thought it was ok, but not as good as the first season. To me it lacked an overarching narrative which the previous one had. I'm kinda hopeful after the teaser at the end though, and as you say the cast is pretty top notch and I like a lot about it.

Reacher was great by the way - highly recommend that. Also, The Marvellous Mrs Maisel current series has been great.

[Adramelch]

I watched it recently too and thought it was ok, but not as good as the first season. To me it lacked an overarching narrative which the previous one had. I'm kinda hopeful after the teaser at the end though, and as you say the cast is pretty top notch and I like a lot about it.

The first season was a bit too gimmicky I thought. It had its moments, but it took a lot of patience to watch something like the "paintball" episode. Also the "wife in prison" plot felt a bit off for the most part.

[Spikey M]

The retardation on display in "The Tinder Swindler" is breathtaking. I don't know why I'm wasting my time working when it's that easy.

[Giggles]

Lost interest about halfway through Picard.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also, The Marvellous Mrs Maisel current series has been great.

:nodd:

Just finished watching the latest two episodes.

[Don]

This is Going to Hurt was superb but that fucking massive spoiler on the content warning for episode 6 has me absolutely fucking seething. Soft shites ruining a fine fine thing yet again.

[Ben]

Spoilers?

[Don]

Fair.

[Ben]

:D

No I meant what do you mean by them ruining it? I've watched it and don't know what you're talking about.

[randomlegend]

:D

No I meant what do you mean by them ruining it? I've watched it and don't know what you're talking about.

Presumably there was a suicide TRIGGER WARNING at the start of the 6th episode, spoiling what was going to happen. I watched it on iPlayer and I don't think it was on there

[Don]

You're told "Deals with Suicide" before starting the episode. I'm left wondering how much more impactful the episode would have been had I not been expecting it. Tbf her fucking moping face throughout could have been a spoiler.

https://www.stylist.co.uk/images/app/uploads/2022/02/22114550/bbc-thisisgoingtohurt-shruti-1.jpg?w=1200&h=1&fit=max&auto=format%2Ccompress



It's on iPlayer. Wait for the Netflix release or just watch episode 6 when it's shown on TV.

[CJay]

I had the very odd feeling this week, as I read Bob Mortimer's autobiography 'And Away...' (decent read, quite funny, 4/5), that I was reading about all these shows he did which are apparently national treasures / cult comedies, yet I only know him from his Would I Lie To You appearances and his fishing programme. I've always had the vague knowledge of '(Reeves and) Mortimer' as a thing, but never had any clue what he was really famous for. I guess the bulk of his work was in the 90s, which was just before my time in terms of watching comedy shows on tv, but it seems odd that I've never encountered any of the shows on late night re-runs.

Any of his sketch shows worth going back to or are they all a bit of a time?

[wullie]

I think they're more of a very particular style than of a time (blackface aside). Picking five minutes of any of Big Night Out/Smell of/Bang Bang will tell you if it's for you or not, Shooting Stars otherwise is probably the most accessible thing they've done as a pair.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shooting Stars was brilliant, no idea if it still holds up though.

[Manc]

Unscripted Mortimer is levels above scripted Mortimer.

[Baz]

Well worth a watch on Taskmaster, in more modern times.

[Spikey M]

Has Mr Beans cuck fucked off yet?

[Magic]

Ted Lasso is good, but it's not that good and certainly doesn't warrant it's 8.9(!) rating on IMDB.

Is it something the Yanks are finding hilarious as an INSIGHT in to the great British culture?

[Panda Bear]

Ted Lasso is good, but it's not that good and certainly doesn't warrant it's 8.9(!) rating on IMDB.

Is it something the Yanks are finding hilarious as an INSIGHT in to the great British culture?Just made me think of Catastrophe with Delaney and Horgan.

What a show.

[Lofty]

Life and Death in the Warehouse on BBC3 was good.

[Mike]

Shooting Stars was brilliant, no idea if it still holds up though.
It does

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I watched The Boys Presents: Diabolical today and the episodes seem to veer from shit to a bit better than alright. The last episode is the best but it seems to stop just short of being something good, hopefully what they covered in that episode is developed in the actual show.

[Lofty]

Gave Top Boy a go based on the praise here, enjoyed 'series 1' only to find out that is actually series 3 and Netflix labelled it wrong :moop:

[Boydy]

Yeah, the original channel 4 ones are "Top Boy:
Summerhouse", I think. I've not seen it but heard good things elsewhere too. Might give it a go.

Been watching ITV's The Ipcress File (it's all available on ITV Hub) and enjoying it. Think I've got two more left.

[SvN]

Yeah, the original channel 4 ones are "Top Boy:
Summerhouse", I think. I've not seen it but heard good things elsewhere too. Might give it a go.

Been watching ITV's The Ipcress File (it's all available on ITV Hub) and enjoying it. Think I've got two more left.


Have you seen the original film?

[Boydy]

I haven't, no.

[Manc]

Gave Top Boy a go based on the praise here, enjoyed 'series 1' only to find out that is actually series 3 and Netflix labelled it wrong :moop:

Brutal.

[Raoul Duke]

Final season of The Last Kingdom out tonight. Cracking show if you like GoT-type stuff

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Final season of The Last Kingdom out tonight. Cracking show if you like GoT-type stuff

I'm 6 episodes in already. It's quality stuff.

[phonics]

Gave Top Boy a go based on the praise here, enjoyed 'series 1' only to find out that is actually series 3 and Netflix labelled it wrong :moop:

So me too but I went back and watched these and the sheer lack of budget makes Summerhouse feel like something completely seperate. I dont think it matters tbh.

[mo]

Watched Our House (ITV drama) the initial intrigue was promising and the story was quite nicely built, however...

They never make clear how or why the blackmailers targeted Bram - was it really just opportunity? What's the relationship between Mike/Toby and the blackmailing woman (not sure her name ever gets mentioned??) and I can handle a 'negative' ending but this was so shit. Having him commit suicide and simultaneously inadvertently stitch up his wife felt OTT. You'd hope for a little redemption, a slight glimmer at the end. But no. Dad dead, mum in prison, kids in care.

[Raoul Duke]

:nodd:

Just finished watching the latest two episodes.

Watched them now - that last episode was genuinely one of the best of any show I've ever watched. Amazing work

[Baz]

I had to ditch Last Kingdom when
that dead Northern bloke who called Uhtred “Arseling” died cos it just wasn’t the same.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Watched them now - that last episode was genuinely one of the best of any show I've ever watched. Amazing work

I thought there was still another two coming next week. I had no idea the ones this week were the final 2 of the series :(

[Raoul Duke]

I think it got curtailed a bit due to COVID

[Bernanke]

I realized starting the first episoode of the new season that I hadn't seen season 4, and I don't know if I can be bothered. I hate the main guys accent, the intro thing they do with "I am Uhtred son of Uhtred" just gets me annoyed every episode.

[Manc]

Romesh v Sierra Leone is well worth a watch.

[Don]

Ya, those Romesh shows are good.

Anyone watch Chloe? Aesthetically it looked nice and started off well but my God was it a pain to finish after about 2 episodes in. Too many of these modern shows think just filling them with ethnics, nice locations/properties and sex/drugs/socials is job done. Will give Mood a go next.

[Lofty]

The Jeremy Kyle documentary was pretty wild.