Now onto Slow Horses. Utterly sublime.
Now onto Slow Horses. Utterly sublime.
We powered through it in about a week. Gary Oldman is absolutely tremendous, obviously.
Started Kin last night as we're down to the bare bones on the watchlist (only Lupin remains, but the wife wasn't in a "concentratey" mood).
I think slow horses gets progressively worse but obviously still enjoyable.
Masters of the Air is as epic as expected
Phonics, son of Phonics is back. Second rewatch of Last Kingdom. What a stupid show, I love it.
It's no Band of Brothers (nothing ever comes close but I can't help the comparison), but it is still exceptionally well made. Looking forward to watching the remaining episodes as they come out.Originally Posted by Lofty
Masters of the Air is as epic as expected
Are there still only two out?
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Episode 3 out yesterday. It was brilliant.
The top of the pops archive is so good that the BBC really ought to have a channel entirely dedicated to it 24/7.
I'm not sold on the two leads. And I think 3 felt kind of rushed despite the hour runtime.
It's still good mind.
Fourth episode is the first really great one to me.Masters of the Air is as epic as expected
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Giving Masters of the Air a go (1 ep down). Hadn't previously appreciated how absolutely insufferable it must have been having all these yank servicemen in the country. Nearly makes you yearn for the Reich's sweet embrace.
In a desperate attempt to fill my time I've decided to rewatch (never finished) TWD. S1 already has me regretting my choice. Does the pace pick up in S2?
That Jimmy post has me feeling like the dead-behind-the-eyes coupled-up guy on the department store escalator meme holding an electrical kitchen gadget whilst longingly looking at the single guy on the opposite escalator holding a PS5.
Unfortunately, I can't locate the meme but just replace the air fryer with One Day. About 6 episodes in and yet to have one worthwhile line of dialogue or character of any redeeming value. Fucking tragic waste of time. Stylish on the eye, two up-and-coming leads and looks to hit every possible life event in sub-30 minute episodes in a desperate attempt to strike a bond with the modern thicko viewer.
Deep into series 2 of Kin now (on iPlayer). It's pretty gripping despite being fairly basic in terms of storylines. Some great acting too, I don't watch DC/Marvel/whatever so this is my introduction to Charlie Cox.
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Last season of Discovery on the way @Giggles
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I haven't watched it from maybe Season 3. Got lost in the storyline to pick it back up.
It's so bad. I did get around to catching up on it eventually but wouldn't be an 'as soon as I get home' weekly watch like SNW.
I wonder how much emotional whispering there will be in the big finale.
Anyone watching the Mr and Mrs Smith series with Donald Glover on Prime?
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I've seen the first few episodes and quite liked it so far.
Didn't know anyone else picked that up. I didn't see a big pile of it but what I did see I preferred to Love Hate, which is a fairly similar show RTE did as well.
Like I said it was my first exposure to Charlie Cox so I was quite surprised to learn hes not Irish. Seemed a good accent to me, which is very rare.
The on this season of Mafs Australia bit before episode one started already has me hooked!!!
Did anyone else get into Tim Heidecker and Greg Turkingtons on cinema at the cinema? It's a truly remarkable thing, although I mostly admire it more than enjoy watching it. Except for the oscar specials.
Question for all of you that has been bugging me for years.
Can anyone remember the name of a British 90s, maybe early-2000s, gameshow that – I think – featured three players, one red, one blue and one green. The set up was, I think, on the floor and there were sort of coloured nodes joined by coloured lines. I can't for the life of me remember the premise of it, what the objectives were, whether there were questions, or anything. I just remember the visual aesthetic – definitely three core colours with laser-precise lines and nodes doing something or other.
Vague af, but any solutions would really scratch an itch. Would have been BBC or ITV, probs ITV I suspect. And def a daytime one.
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Doesn't completely match the description and maybe a bit early.
Shogun is good so far, never read the book or saw the original series.
Over the last few weeks I've watched Schitt's Creek, absolutely brilliant.
David is a quality character.
Hmm, I suspect that's it, but it doesn't quite fit the image in my head. It has been like 25 years though so...
I’ve only ever seen Pointless at my parents house (I hardly watch TV at home) but someone on Reddit has removed all the fluffy stuff and trimmed a 45 minute episode down to 11 minutes and I’m not sure how to feel about it. What a waste of time.
My mum and dad also watch The Chase a lot and that feels much faster, the odd bit of banter from Bradley Walsh but nothing too grating. I imagine you’d only shave a few minutes off that if you did the same. Maybe? Kind of annoying how much of my life has probably been purposely wasted to fill airtime by producers and presenters. Twats. I want it all back.
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I listened to a few eps of that podcast Richard Osman does with Marina Hyde (think of it as research) and in one of them I swear he was going on full guns about how viewers don't want the fluff around the edges of programmes and want to go straight into the content. I thought hang on, Richard, your quiz show, which is a really good format incidentally, is literally just fluff for hours.
When you listen to him talk across various subjects what you realise is that he has today's manifestation of the evil genius mind, i.e. doesn't give a single fuck about the artistic merit of anything, just in whether or not it will 'do numbers'. He then reverse-engineers his brain to decide that anything that has 'done numbers' must therefore be good and have artistic merit. It's amazing really.
I don't know if it was only meant to be on for a few weeks or was dropped swiftly but Stephen Fry hosted another UK go at Jeopardy recently. Incredibly dry but I enjoyed that as it felt like what quiz shows used to be with incredibly awkward contestants who have no place being on TV other than answering trivia, rather than bubbly or camera-friendly thickos you get as a rule on Tipping Point and nearly everything else.
I loved Jeopardy and hope it comes back, I'll definitely be applying. The available prize fund for that time slot of tv quiz show was great, even though compared to the US it was miserly - I think some teacher managed 5 day champion with 30k and someone worked it out he'd have had 120k on the US equivalent. I'd definitely apply if they do a second series.
Osman seems to have repeated the trick with his novels, I've only heard people slate them yet he keeps churning out best sellers.
The fluff thing is amusing, saw it on The Wheel the other week and the thicko girl missed the memo and interrupted the 'expert' with the right answer. Adam Kay alluded it to it on the latest episode where he turned to McIntyre and essentially said 'do you want me to go through them all or just say the correct answer?' But it everyone did that it would be a 15 minute show.
The goat of course:
Look at how hard the questions are as well. People used to know stuff.
I tried his first one a few years ago, absolute guff. I think I lasted 2 chapters.
What a format, you barely hear their name and it's into the questions in about a minute.
100% was good for that until that one bloke won it for a year straight or whatever.
I’m rewatching Friday Night Dinner. Some of it is extremely funny.
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Shogun is mint.
It really is, Cosmo Jarvis giving me Toby Stephens from Black Sails vibes.
Enjoyed the first 7 eps of Masters of the Air, but 8 was, quite suddenly, one of the worst episodes of TV I've ever seen. The pacing, the going from one place to another, the rushing, all completely pathetic. Clearly what happened is that somebody decided they needed black faces in the show at literally any cost, so they decided to torpedo the narrative arc completely and do a rubbish, rushed insertion of a completely separate story that deserves far better, while in the process skipping through Normandy of all things. Our (well, their) culture is diseased.
Yes! It's one of the best starts I've seen in a series in ages.
Agree, and that seems to be most of the sentiment online also.
Let's hope they save it with the season finale episode 9.
I should have said black faces and a woman, because unless it's going to come off in the last episode somehow, the SOE person's storyline is both fictitious and completely pointless.
I've been watching that Gentlemen which is based off the Guy Ritchie flick. It's good fun. Proper actors doing proper acting in something that's not really that serious.
I had fun watching the first episode yesterday yeah, there's plenty of acting talent in it.
The Dick Turpin thing isn't bad. There's a small amount of Fielding wackery, keeping it watchable, and there's a good cast of central/one-off/recurring (? maybe, who knows, only been three episodes) characters.
6 new episodes of How to with John Wilson on iPlayer. Just caught two on BBC2 now, peak TV.
Tapping out of The Gentlemen four episodes in. Loved the film but the series is crap.
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