The bit in Pointless tonight where the woman failed at understanding the alphabet, her husband lolled at her and then did the exact same thing was quality. Got a proper laugh out of me when I realise he wasn't doing it for the bants.
The bit in Pointless tonight where the woman failed at understanding the alphabet, her husband lolled at her and then did the exact same thing was quality. Got a proper laugh out of me when I realise he wasn't doing it for the bants.
Rosie Jones? She was on WILTY this series and I hadn’t the foggiest idea what she was saying. It was surreal.Originally Posted by Yevrah
I saw one of these comedians live who had to be dragged up to the stage by 2 people to be put up on the chair like a sedated corpse. You could generally make out about 75% of what he was saying so a couple of the punchlines were just met with silence whilst everyone was obviously hyperventilating at any of the shit jokes they did pick up to make themselves feel good. One of the worst experiences around
I can fully understand Rosie Jones, she's just not remotely funny.
It's absolutely painful when she's on stuff like WILTY watching the rest of the cast as she stumbles through some shit joke and then forcing themselves to laugh.
Her humour is often quite cruel and crass, which I'm assuming is played off against her disability. Unfortunately timing is critical with comedy, and her disability hinders the rhythm of panel shows.
This.
She could be the funiest person on earth. I'd have no idea. She may as well be speaking Afrikans.
Started Lost (hello 2005!). Should I bother? I’m 3 episodes in and it seems interesting enough, although the characters seem a little exaggerated.
In other news, I struggled through Manifest. Characters are awful, writing is awful, and the plotholes are larger than Chicxulub. And yet I kept clicking on to see what other ridiculousness they would invent. Is this what prime time television has become?
I loved the shit out of it at the time, but have never rewatched out of trepidation that it will have aged terribly. The characters aren't all that (apart from a handful), the mystery/plot is the more intriguing part of it I think.
Isn't Lost the inspiration for Manifest?
My understanding is that the writing staff changed over constantly, so the show is riddled with subplots disappearing into thin air unresolved while massive inconsistencies continually emerge. I watched the first two seasons when it was originally airing and had to quit entering the third.
I stuck with Lost until the end when it aired, and I enjoyed the ride, but thanks to the horseshit ending I've never gone back.
Lost was unmissable at it's peak.
In retrospect Lost was mostly nonsense. It was entertaining nonsense though, I largely enjoyed the ride. It was definitely "event television". Although the ending was rubbish.
Thinking back, has there ever been a more boring and/or unlikable protagonist in a TV show than Jack in Lost? He was just shit. I think he maybe just wasn't a great actor. Very wooden. I don't think I've seen that guy in a single thing since.
I think he went full looney bin. Is a big God guy. Also seems to enjoy beating women up.
"In May 2012, his Lost co-star Dominic Monaghan tweeted about Fox, "He beats women. Not isolated incidents. Often.""
On the back of this, I'll stick with it for a little bit and see what happens.
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Lost was immense at the time - I'm probably due a rewatch.
Manifest is a good concept that they have no idea how to write. I persevered with it and it does get a bit better, but they often abandon plot lines abruptly
Matthew Fox was great in Bone Tomahawk, he also had a weird role in World War Z which was cut to a tiny role due to unfavourable test screenings meaning they completely reshot the endings. Coincidently he is a twat in both those films (not in the theatrical version of WWZ but the original version his character was a twat).
I hated how Lost ended but the final Seanie B catchup made me soften towards it slightly.
Severance, though.
I honestly found it got worse over time. The use of ridiculous deus ex machina just ratcheted up to 11 by the middle of S2, and the plot holes widened even further.
I agree though - brilliant concept.
The peak was end of Season 3 and then they rallied a bit for Season 5, but my major bugbear (beyond the proper lack of clarity over many things) was that they didn't use the main sad theme in the final scene.
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As if Patrice Evra is in this stupid Wim Hof programme
New Taskmaster tonight at 9. Ardal O’Hanlon and others who I’m not really familiar with.
Other than Ardal O'Hanlon, I vaguely recognise Chris Ramsey and Judi Love. The other two are new on me.
Scraping the barrel a bit these days aren't they.
Tbf, can you think of many people who haven't been on it at this stage?
They shouldn't get that bird with Cerebral Palsy on it.
The line up for the previous season was pretty great.
And for all I know this lot will be hilarious. Certainly me knowing someone hasn’t been a good indicator so far of whether they’ll be funny or not. I knew Aisling Bea and I didn’t know Mike Wozniak or Gus Khan, for example.
David Mitchell is the answer.
Munya Chawawa.
I'm a twit
They should do the right thing and let it die.
That was a brilliant TM episode.
I think all of them brought something to the table too with Ardal being the best contestant by a country mile.
Yeah, I really enjoyed it. Chris Ramsey was probably my fave.
Sophie Duker though.
Indeed.
Not watched it yet, like.
I'm a twit
Enjoyed it a lot, having the proper studio setup again makes the world of difference.
Her in the painting task was very eye opening.
Definitely has the best task outfit ever.Sophie Duker though.
Been watching Dopesick the last few nights. It's pretty well produced, which is adequate enough given it's the story that's the hook.
Probably start Barry next. EDIT: actually just seen Better Call Saul is back.
Dopesick and The Hot Zone are the only things worth watching on there unless you have kids / are a weird nonce, so plough through that next, then you can end your subscription and save yourself some money.
It's free with the wife's O2 contract. For sure we're ending it after the six months.
Slow horses has just turned out to be a real plodder. Dead horses.
I've started The Last Kingdom recently (I think after seeing a few people in here talk about it) and it's pretty good.
Uhtred himself might be my least favourite character in it though. He is always (especially in the first season) making very stupid decisions and then being outraged when his life goes tits up again as a result. Although I suppose maybe that is the point, he's young and impulsive and a bit of a hot headed idiot. I'm getting towards the end of season two now (it's better than season one) and he is improving a bit.
He quite often can't seem to decide where he wants to go with his accent either. He dials the "Dane" up and down quite a lot from episode to episode, sometimes even scene to scene.
Uthred son of Uthred is displeased at your post.
It always raised a smile every time he says this.
His worst choice so far is probably:
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Or:
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Uthred is a fucking idiot, but I love him. He has some great Roy of the Rovers last minute winners and his sword is cool. Also, Finnan
Severance is the best first series of any show I’ve ever seen. Really nice Jordan Peele vibes.
Yeah Finnan is the real don.
Currently on the third episode of Severance and I'm just finding it boring tbh.
pfffffft
Latest disastrous chapter in the ongoing calamitous life of Uhtred (son of Uhtred):
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