Do we live in a golden age of television?

[Bob Sacamano]

Anyone bothered with F Is For Family at all? I'm tempted to dive in now.

[Manc]

I've been advised by a LAD at work to start watching Archer. Thoughts?

[Baz]

Do you like cartoons?

[Bernanke]

Best comedy on right now.

[Baz]

Good timing. The best comedy is Workaholics. New series starts today. Soooooo excited.

[Bob Sacamano]

Good timing. The best comedy is Workaholics. New series starts today. Soooooo excited.

Oh shit.

Though I felt Season 5 was weak compared to the others.

Hope we get another Bradley episode

[Ian]

I've been advised by a LAD at work to start watching Archer. Thoughts?

Do it.

[Manc]

This Asian lass on Location.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Watching The Americans season two:

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Brings tears of joy.

Fuck Jesus

Phillip

[Alex]

Phil.

What a fucking man he is. After I had watched that episode the first thing I did was hit Youtube to find that clip.

The daughter is so fucking annoying as well.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Phil.

What a fucking man he is. After I had watched that episode the first thing I did was hit Youtube to find that clip.

The daughter is so fucking annoying as well.

I paused the episode to find the clip so I could watch it again, I needed to relive the glorious moment again straight away.

She was pretty innocuous in the first season but damn have they turned the twat factor up to 11 for her.

[Alex]

It's that initial "....we help you", combined with the "is this little bitch fucking serious" look that makes it. You know he's about to go on one then.

Phil is hands down one of my favourite characters on TV at the moment. Elizabeth not so much, she kind of of annoys me a lot of the time. The Americans is great though. In fact it should be back on soon, I think.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's that initial "....we help you", combined with the "is this little bitch fucking serious" look that makes it. You know he's about to go on one then.

Phil is hands down one of my favourite characters on TV at the moment. Elizabeth not so much, she kind of of annoys me a lot of the time. The Americans is great though. In fact it should be back on soon, I think.

I've warmed to Elizabeth slightly but in the first season I absolutely hated her.

And yeah, it's back in March so I'm hoping to be all caught up by then.

[phonics]

Should I dive into The Americans then? I dropped it at an episode where someone broke into their garage and failed to find a dead body about episode 4. It seemed awful.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It gets better.

Season 1 took a while to really grip me.

[Alex]

Yeah, I would say it;s definitely worth persevering with. Especially now there's quite a lot of it to be getting on with. The premise in general is pretty ridiculous, but once you get past that it's pretty gripping stuff.

[Bernanke]

S3 is up there with the best seasons of TV I've ever seen. S2 drags a bit, but overall it's an amazing show.

And I actually find Paige to be somewhat understandable in her annoyingness (plus she's actually a capable actress). And she has the best scene in the entire show so far.

And Phil, “Which year? Because ’64 to ’72 were pussies, they didn’t even medal.” The intro scenes with Tusk playing are so good. Actually, the music throughout the show is stellar.

[Baz]

Was talking about Making A Murderer to someone I sometimes work with the other day. She couldn't decide whether to watch it cos she didn't really get what it was about. After I'd gone over the basic premise she thought for a bit and then said "you know what it sounds like, only not as good, and you should definitely watch on Catch Up... Silent Witness. It's brill."

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://tvline.com/2016/01/16/the-pun...-jon-bernthal/

Netflix are, apparently, close to ordering a Punisher series after they like Jon Bernthal's portrayal in the upcoming Daredevil season.

[Bernanke]

[Boydy]

Is that any good? I don't think I've seen you mention it before.

[Bernanke]

We discuss it literally 5 posts up.

[Boydy]

Ugh, forget it.

[Yevrah]

You're wasted here Boyd.

[Giggles]

Whoosh and a half.

[Yevrah]

I've just noticed that The Fall is coming back for a third series. Talk about flogging a dead horse.

[Alex]

S3 is up there with the best seasons of TV I've ever seen. S2 drags a bit, but overall it's an amazing show.

And I actually find Paige to be somewhat understandable in her annoyingness (plus she's actually a capable actress). And she has the best scene in the entire show so far.

And Phil, “Which year? Because ’64 to ’72 were pussies, they didn’t even medal.” The intro scenes with Tusk playing are so good. Actually, the music throughout the show is stellar.

That was the exact moment I knew I was going to stick with it, such a cool scene.

The music is really good on it. The other stand out example being Fleetwood Mac again actually.

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In season three, where they kidnap the South African bloke whilst "The Chain" is playing.

[Bernanke]

That was the exact moment I knew I was going to stick with it, such a cool scene.

The music is really good on it. The other stand out example being Fleetwood Mac again actually.

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In season three, where they kidnap the South African bloke whilst "The Chain" is playing.

I looked through all of the seasons, and the most memorable music moments for me were (all seasons spoilers):

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S1E13 ending with Games Without Frontiers.
S2E3 when Elizabeth burns the letter and they play Here Comes the Flood.
The two Yazoo-songs in S3E4, especially when Stan searches the diner bathroom.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Should I dive into The Americans then? I dropped it at an episode where someone broke into their garage and failed to find a dead body about episode 4. It seemed awful.

I watched 2 or 3 and didn't take to it either.

[Bernanke]

I'm three episodes in to Making A Murderer and my blood is fucking boiling.

[Toby]

Brace yourself, we've just got to the fourth and it's comfortably the most infuriating yet. Almost everybody involved is a cunt of previously unimagined extremes.

[Yevrah]

"A cunt of previously unimagined extremes."

[Pepe]

Quite accurate.

[Toby]

While we're on the subject, since I'm watching too slowly to dare open the dedicated thread, minor spoiler up to episode four of Making a Murderer:

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I struggled to sympathise with Steven as much as I maybe should have, but it's surely impossible not to feel awful for his nephew.

[Ian]

All caught up with Endeavour and it's still really good. It's a pity that

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the cases have been a bit far-fetched in this series

because everything else about it is bang-on. Setting up stuff that ties in to Inspector Morse, the cast are great (Allam ) and it's just nice to watch a good detective in a different sort of setting.

[Kikó]

Okay just starting episode two of making a murderer. Looking forward to understanding the hype.

[John]

Less than a minute into the first episode of Angie Tribeca and I've lolled four times. This is going to be Naked Gun with Rashida Jones in it.

[John]

I reckon this might top 30 Rock in terms of punchlines per minute. Every single line is either a setup or a punchline, and less than ten minutes in it's already gone deep into surrealist territory.

[igor_balis]

I've been watching lots of Six Feet Under recently after my brother got me the box set for Christmas. I'm almost up to the end of the second season and I'm enjoying it a lot. Michael C. Hall particularly is great in it.

Yeah I thought it was a brilliant show, binged all of it in about a fortnight a couple of years ago.

[Pepe]

Rashida Jones can't act.

[John]

She can. She's not a great actress and she won't elevate material, but she has a very good deadpan delivery and makes an excellent straight woman, both of which play perfectly into what's going on in that show.

I loved Naked Gun and have great affection for Rashida Jones thanks to Parks, so the was more for the intersection of two things I like than the effect they might have on eachother, but I've watched two episodes and it's justified on that basis too. It's really funny, and a lot of that is down to her ability to play ridiculous things completely straight.

[Vim]

Is it just created by Steve and Nancy Carell or is it also fully written by them?

[Mazuuurk]

Aren't most female actors usually straight? Just seems a little weird to note as a skill playing "straight" when almost every single role is a straight person. In fact, most gay people in TV series and films seem to be token gay dudes, for some reason.

[Boydy]

He's not talking about sexuality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra...ock_character)

[John Arne]

Lost in translation

[phonics]

Rashida Jones is not funny and a terrible actor to boot.

[wullie]

I still believe Karen was royally screwed over by Jim.

[Mazuuurk]

Err guys whether Rashida Jones is funny or can act is kind of irrelevant.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What's relevant is her sexuality.

Boydy, Bob's Burgers was back this week. Guess when the next episode is? 14th of fucking February.

27th September
11th October
18th October
8th November
15th November
17th January
14th February.

What shit scheduling that is.

[John Arne]

Aye, Brooklyn Nine Nine just had a random 3 week break, having had a two week break a couple of weeks earlier.