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    Webly Ian's Avatar
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    I'll maybe give it a go at some point. Having finished Mr and Mrs Smith (who was it asked about that in here? @Baz ? Whoever it was I really liked it overall) I've now gone onto Shogun so Three Body Problem will have to wait until at least after that.

    First episode of Shogun was really good and yer man Cosmo Jarvis has a cracking voice.

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    I liked Mr and Mrs Smith too. The actually plot/story wasn't always the best (I mean it's a fake married couple who are spies, what do you want I guess) but I feel like it was secondary to how good Glover and the leading lady were just interacting together. The chemistry and dialogue was great. They had some cracking guest stars too.

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    Mr & Mrs Smith was a weird watch because the entire time I was watching it I couldn't tell if I was enjoying it or it was complete shit.

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    Also:


    Now you're talking. Might need to rewatch the first series.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    I liked Mr and Mrs Smith too. The actually plot/story wasn't always the best (I mean it's a fake married couple who are spies, what do you want I guess) but I feel like it was secondary to how good Glover and the leading lady were just interacting together. The chemistry and dialogue was great. They had some cracking guest stars too.
    I did enjoy them together but I did say to a friend that Bezos should have put his money to work and kept continually reshooting the show with new couples until they stumbled upon a pairing that actually got off in real life. I rewatched the original movie after finishing the show and every scene has an aura of 'these two just had an absolutely depraved shag in the makeup room 5 minutes before the cameras were rolling'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
    The main problem with weekly cliffhangers now is the content farms that are social media outlets reveal/spoil/generally milk them to death.
    The other problem of course being you eventually became aware of the cliff hangers, so you would watch 35 minutes knowing that there would be a plot twist in the last 5. The cliff hanger paradox.

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    New series of Invincible has been great so far

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    Watched the first two episodes of 3 Body Problem and really enjoyed them. The stuff with young Ye Wenjie could easily be its own show.

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    I was forced to watch that 1% quiz show at my in laws and realised my brain is built for it (unless it was a particular easy episode) so someone please @ me when they open applications so I can go and win it.
    I'm a twit

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    I rarely fail to get to the bit where they can take the £1000 and scarper, but I've only got the last question right once.

    The first few, as with Who Wants To Be A Millionaire are always piss easy and it's a damning indictment of the national IQ that a third of our population are taken out by them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    I rarely fail to get to the bit where they can take the £1000 and scarper, but I've only got the last question right once.

    The first few, as with Who Wants To Be A Millionaire are always piss easy and it's a damning indictment of the national IQ that a third of our population are taken out by them.
    My Mum was telling me about this today:

    He came unstuck on the £1,000 question: "Which of these is a thick omelette made with fried onion and potatoes, popular in Spain? A: Tortilla B: Churros C: Croquetas and D: Gazpacho."

    He apparently asked the audience and then went for Croquetas.

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    The anti-intellectual streak that runs through our culture is quite bizarre when you think about it. Anyone who tried genuinely hard at school was at best considered a bit odd, and at worst, mercilessly bullied. Absolutely no general desire for standards. Most of us, including me, are falling back on pure natural gifts / the fruits of what we were forced to do in adult life, because there was no social incentive to lift a finger at school.

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    Not knowing what a poncey Spanish omelette is called does not remotely diminish a man's worth.

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    Calling tortilla "poncey" is pretty lol.

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    I bet you even do the gay "torteeya" thing too.

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    To most people a tortilla is a wrap. That's actually quite difficult by £1000 question standards. In fact, the only reason I knew the answer was because I had been confused by it previously.

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    It wouldn't take much to know it's not the other 3 though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    It wouldn't take much to know it's not the other 3 though.
    I imagine the audience went for Gazpacho, which isn't exactly everyday British fare. There's a reason Spain is full of British pub chains and it isn't our adventurous palate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    I bet you even do the gay "torteeya" thing too.
    You're not pronouncing it "tor-till-uh" like some dribbling moron, right?

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    Even I say tor-tee-ah and I grew up in an Essex council flat.

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    Spanish omelette. Or omelette if already in Spain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    You're not pronouncing it "tor-till-uh" like some dribbling moron, right?
    This is England mate they're ells.

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    It's fine to not know what a tortilla is but at least know SOMETHING and take pride in it.

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    I can see how you would answer crocketters for that boring question. I doubt the average Spaniard could answer an equivalent question about our food, and trivial knowledge seems like a matter of perspective.

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    Since it isn't 1975, our shops are absolutely rammed full of foreign food and my old man has to look hard for his pilchards and luncheon meat.

    Tell you what, though. How much fucking shit ham is there in our supermarkets? Blows my mind that people eat that stuff, yet there are rows and rows of it in every shop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    I can see how you would answer crocketters for that boring question. I doubt the average Spaniard could answer an equivalent question about our food, and trivial knowledge seems like a matter of perspective.
    What's a Barm Cake?

    Like I said before, some poor Eastern European sounding sod got three questions about raining cats and dogs or other such idomatic language and got downed by the third.

    I suppose in fairness to the tortilla person that word has other meanings in English.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    I imagine the audience went for Gazpacho, which isn't exactly everyday British fare. There's a reason Spain is full of British pub chains and it isn't our adventurous palate.
    They went for croquetas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    I can see how you would answer crocketters for that boring question. I doubt the average Spaniard could answer an equivalent question about our food, and trivial knowledge seems like a matter of perspective.
    "My ignorance is fine because I've made up a fake person in my head who's equally ignorant"

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    Taz has lived here his whole life and only know Sheperd's Pie tbf.

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    That's not true, I tried some jellied eels the other month too, what a fucking disgrace they are. And there's the countless other dishes based around lazy useless council estate women sticking disgusting meat on a plate like frog in the hole, etc.

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    I'm only one Episode in, but "3 Body Problem" on Netflix is looking promising.

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    Watched the first two over the weekend. It's good so far but I've been in physics departments and the female lead is way too hot to be some sort of nanotechnology genius.

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    Also the scene in the bar where the two Very Smart Women coat off some bloke for trying to talk to them made me cringe deeply.

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    The scene where they introduce Samwell Tarley and immediately made it clear that his mate is gay, despite it being completely irrelevant to anything, had me cringing similarly. You just have to see past it these days.

    Crowbaring minorities and identity politics into your story, even when it's irrelevant, is the only way to get past the Netflix exec's.

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    I watched one episode after seeing the hype on here. Certainly not for me.
    I'm a twit

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    Also the scene in the bar where the two Very Smart Women coat off some bloke for trying to talk to them made me cringe deeply.
    I basically stopped watching at this point. It just ended the immersion in the show and the whole scene just seemed pointless.

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    Finnish Who Wants to be a Millionaire with the really tough questions.

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    I love the "hmmm" at the end.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20...d-eastern-asia

    Eastern Asia and little in the way of useless crowbarred diversity quota couples judging from the picture. We're cooking

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    5 episodes in and I am enjoying 3 Body Problem, though I could see why someone might find it terrible. If you can turn off your inner critic then it's a fun watch with some interesting ideas.

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    Finished Loudermilk, bit gutted it's ended there as I've read about the plans for a fourth season that I can see working. Might still happen.

    Picked Invincible up again as well - fucked off with shows who do massive mid season breaks. I've forgotten what's happened with a lot of the characters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mo View Post
    Finished Loudermilk, bit gutted it's ended there as I've read about the plans for a fourth season that I can see working. Might still happen.

    Picked Invincible up again as well - fucked off with shows who do massive mid season breaks. I've forgotten what's happened with a lot of the characters.
    I think the Invincible one was because of the writer's strike

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