Are we watching the same guy? He is the lost insincere thing on TV. His fake laughing and mock surprise, it's truly cringeworthy.Originally Posted by Toby
Are we watching the same guy? He is the lost insincere thing on TV. His fake laughing and mock surprise, it's truly cringeworthy.
I find it weird as well. Jimmy Fallon seems incredibly likeable to me.
Seeing him in other contexts, such as Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars... interviews, he seems to just genuinely enjoy himself. I can definitely see why you'd say he isn't funny but his enthusiasm doesn't seem at all insincere.
Jimmy Fallon is great.
How can you not enjoy this?
The air whizzed out of the Luther hype balloon fairly quickly, didn't it? The second episode finishes in ten minutes and not a single post about it.
I'm going to watch it later on. Not had time.
I enjoyed it - more of the same basically, but it did feel like they were a bit short on time. I assume there's more coming based on the ending, so I guess the only reason for it to be two-part is Elba didn't have time?
After really enjoying The Last Kingdom, I've decided to give Vikings a[nother] go. Previously watched the first episode and decided it wasn't for me, but hopefully my newfound respect for THE DANES will see me through.
I'm a twit
Almost finished season 3 of The Bridge. That's all that's out, isn't it? It's great. Saga was a little annoying at first but I bloody love her now.
Although in season 3
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Yeah, I've only just watched it. No chance earlier in the week. Very much enjoyed it, despite it feeling like a three- or four-episode story crammed into two. It didn't do anything that'd change the mind of people who don't like it but they don't need to try and do that, so while "more of the same" sounds like a criticism it's exactly what I'm after. Random, magical leaps of logic from Luther, catching a laughably perverse wrong-un he's only spending half his time investigating, having a whole load of people on his case for one reason or another.
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Also enjoyed Luther going all WWF Hardcore title on them goons with a bin.And the "Rubbish" pun too.
I've been re-watching Parks again.
Gets me every single time.
I had forgotten just how damn good the whole thing (bar season 1) really is.
Anyone watch Broad City?
It's pretty good.
Jessica Jones is pretty ace.
Also - the badass blind guy from Marco Polo has his own 30-minute origin story, which looks cool.
I don't get why Parks and Rec season 1 gets as much shit as it does on here but it's a belter of a show. I rewatched Ron's trip to Lagavulin recently, just because.
Started watching Suits a couple of weeks ago, well into season 2 now. I think it is trashy TV, but fucking great trashy TV. Anyone else watched it?
I watched it when it first started. I think I lasted till about mid season 3 before I just started getting far too repetitive, regardless of the eye candy.
EDIT: Also, the main guy in it rents an apartment above my mate in Toronto during filming and my mate says he has a different bird every night and is constantly shagging sexy bishes. Fair play.
There was fuck all on yesterday so I watched the 10 series 3 episodes of Brooklyn Nine Nine again. It's so class.
Is Vikings any good? Like writing-wise? It seems like a cool show, but it also seems like a hastily-written one. I usually don't last very long if the show has a shit script so I would love to know thanks
Last time you mentioned this your mate was renting the apartment to the bloke from Suits.
I saw that, I'll definitely be giving it a watch.
Marco Polo seemed to get reviewed pretty poorly but I really liked it. I suppose the thing was that it didn't really need Marco Polo to be there at all. It could have just been a TV show about the Mongol Empire marauding around and doing cool shit.
Yeah - he's the least interesting character in it. But you've got to have Some White Guy as the main protagonist.
I thought it was a cracking show.
Yeah, I thought he used to rent it to him, apparently, he just rents near him. Nice memory, though.
Yep, it was really good. He definitely is more the hook than anything, you're right. Just a name to prop the show up on. Could just bin him off at this point and promote Benedict Wong to top billing though. Kublai Khan.
I look forward to season two. They need a new bad guy who can live up to Minister guy though. He was excellent.
I've also been watching Rome recently, the BBC/HBO thing from a while ago. Not sure why I've never bothered with it before, I'm about half way through the second (and final) season and have loved all of it. Brilliant cast, dialogue, set design and, well, everything really. And the stories (obviously) write themselves. I just hope it's not another "blatantly cancelled too soon" ending a la Deadwood.
Fortitude has got off to a good start. A mismatch cast, but I love a good who dunnit.
2015 Wipe tomorrow at 21:00
Last year was the first time I actually watched 'Wipe' and I was thoroughly disappointed.
Bump for Wipe.
It's started decently.
Up to episode four of Making a Murderer and it has been excellent so far.
Wipes got me in tears.
I binged 8 episodes on this the other night. It's fucking brilliant.
I've just downloaded it and it's next on my list.
Was reading through http://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/7-of-the...om-2015/525283 this morning and decided to watch Master of None and Making a Murderer as I am in bad need of some new TV. Is the latter fiction or documentary?
Are you sure you were reading that link?
Making a Murderer
What's it about?: Filmed over a 10-year period, Netflix's latest smash-hit documentary is a real-life account of the travails of Steven Avery, a man that served 18 years for a crime he didn't commit.
Very much factual. I've been meaning to get into Serial for ages after reading up on it, so now I'll just go with the Netflix series instead.
2015 Wipe was absolutely crap, with about three good lines in the whole thing. The 'Osborne scrapbook' was just an extension of that tedious 'phwoar look at that' shit he's been doing for years, and it's never been funny in the slightest.
He's so one note now it's quite sad.
I gave up on it after about forty minutes but I like that female comedian, rest was a bit nothingy.
The characters are the worst part, though one of the three good lines came from Barry Shitpeas, and 'Moments of Wonder' was actively irritating.
Skimmed, but those two still stood out. I'd be put off a bit if it's true life but I might still give it a go.
Seven episodes into Fortitude and it's going all other worldly. I'm going to be fucking livid by the outcome.
Sherlock tonight
Hopefully they learnt lessons from last years poorer episodes.
The last lot might as well have been a British Tourist Board advert for viewers in the States. This one should be better due to the setting.
I wonder how famous Cumberbatch will have to get before he says "er..., sorry".
Is tonight's a one off or part of a mini-series?
Not even watching due to it being olden time. The whole idea behind this version of it is that it's modern.
Why would that make you not even watch it?
Because it's pointless when they've just taken out the main point of the series, there's very little else left for me after that. Might as well stick on one of the old versions or the films.
And Die Hard 5 is also on.
Die Hard 5 will be worse, I can all but guarantee you that.
I've seen it before and I quite liked it.
The second reason there undermines the first.
I could have set a timer on you wading in. Why would I commit nearly two hours to watching something I don't want to watch?
Four episodes into Making of a Murderer - holy fucking shit.
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