Fleabag (on iPlayer) is brilliant.
Reminds me a bit of Catastrophe at times.
Fleabag (on iPlayer) is brilliant.
Reminds me a bit of Catastrophe at times.
Agreed.Originally Posted by SvN
Season 2 of Narcos is on Netflix tomorrow. Really looking forward to it.
So after the spectacular opening of The Night Of, I've actually come to quite dislike it. A jumbled boring mess of shit for the majority.
My missus watched episode one and episode eight, and knew what was going on. The rest is totally unnecessary. Still rate it, purely for the opener, though.
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Yeah I'll always rate the opening episode as one of the best pieces of TV I've ever seen.
Agreed. The opening episode was fantastic. It never came close to reaching that level again.
By the way DS, I notice you've stopped recommending stuff in the Film Thread. What gives? I'm struggling for stuff to download just lately and you quite often throw out obscure suggestions.
How do you download stuff these days, have you one of those invite subscriptions? I can't find any way to get anything any more. Some apps are OK for streaming but if you're travelling you're fucked.
Yong Feng Auto dot com, use magnet link.
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Is that a child porn URL?
I've just started watching Mad Men. I'm hoping at some point it will stop being mind-numbingly boring. I'd have given up by now but the wife wants to persist.
Its slow to start but it builds.
I use warez-bb.org and a filesharing account such as uploaded.net or rapidgator, have done for years.
Yes. Yes of course it is.
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I don't know why I asked as I don't trust any of you.
Its a torrent site that you don't need to sign up to.
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Started on Preacher last night and I've just finished the sixth episode. I think it's absolutely mental but brilliant.
Gilgun is excellent.
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Gets better and then it gets much worse. Mind-numbingly boring describes it perfectly.
I really liked Outnumbered, and the kids were fantastic.
Stranger Things ended well. Possibly slightly abruptly/predictably, but still decent, and with enough open questions that a second season won't just feel like a cash-in.
Did anyone watch Ex-wife?
Joey Badass is really, really, good in Mr. Robot. I'm not sure if it's the fact that he seems so old compared to the 16 year old rap kid but he's really convincing.
I've been watching Star Trek: Voyager again recently. Cracking show.
Seven and her catsuits
Pointy tiddiesI've been watching Star Trek: Voyager again recently. Cracking show.
Seven and her catsuits
Still my favourite of the ST series.
It's a close-run thing between Voyager and Next Gen. Both awesome in different ways though. I think we can all agree that DS:9 is bobbins.
It's a shame they're tied-up making the shitty films, as a new series with kinda GoT-level production would be immense.
That would be brilliant. I'm not all that excited about Discovery from what I've heard/read on it.
DS:9 had its moments, but overall it's rather forgettable. Wouldn't mind going back over it again some time though as it's the only one I never repeat watched.
There is a series on the way.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&so...Y0kms_uyZgkGVA
Ace. Hopefully it'll be on Netflix, rather than Sky
That's the one I mentioned. By all accounts it's going to be pretty low budget like Enterprise, though I'll still watch like I did with that.
It's all about the story rather than the budget so if they can get that right then it'll be watchable. I think having Enterprise pre Kirk was boring for me. Much more interested in the future space politics.
Which series had the badass female captain?
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Voyager.
Capt. Janeway
I sincerely hope The Office US improves on its first season...
Indeed.Voyager.
Capt. Janeway
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The first season is just an almost exact copy of the UK one. It gets miles better when it starts going its own way (although the UK one is better overall).
The best part of each Office US episode was almost always the little teaser at the beginning, particularly when it involved some sort of prank war between Jim and Dwight. They misjudged the central character far too often for the series as a whole to be genuinely good though. Shit like that 'Scott's Tots' where his obliviousness ruined lives just made him an irredeemable arsehole.
I thought his character was perfect. He's way too funny to be dislikeable. The "Scott's Tots" thing was just him being endearingly foolish like always.
Nope. If that person was involved on any level in your life you'd have battered him to death.
You know it's a comedy?
Most of the characters became too exaggerated the more the show went on. Dwight and Michael were both utterly ridiculous after about 3 seasons. It was still funny, but let's be serious, it's not even in the same league as the original.
I didn't realise Review was finishing with a shortened final season- http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...ortened-867351
That's from a while ago but can't find any word of a broadcast date.
No, I took the documentary format literally.
There were always laughs in the margins, but Michael Scott was too big an arsehole to be funny. Cringe comedy is fine when it's low key and low stakes like the UK Office, but when there's a class of children having their lives ruined I'm out.
Had absolutely no idea Suits season 6 had been out for a few months, probably because I'm the only idiot bothering with it anymore. Smashed through about 5 episodes in the last couple of days but I'm not really enjoying it that much. The silly concept for the show made it great fun at first, but has inevitably led to the show sort of tying itself in logical knots. Bit of a slog now, and it is just about the worst non-soap opera show I've seen for stretching plots that should have lasted 2 episodes over about 10.
Mike is a pretty shit protagonist as well - sort of reminds me of mid-era Harry Potter in that he's been made irritatingly and unrealistically stupid and headstrong as a lazy plot device.
I stopped watching it after about a season, if that, but wasn't the original premise that he was preposterously smart? Have they done a u-turn on that or is he just an idiot in other ways?
Idiot in other ways. Overly-emotional and martyry in that totally unrealistic way just because it is an easy way to create a plot device. "FUCK YOU HARVEY I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP" leading to a couple of episodes of conflict to be resolved, whereas in real life they'd just talk and be like 'oh right, actually that makes sense, cheers mate'. The classic soap opera 'misunderstanding'.
Yeah, it's alright to start with (although a bit nothing-y) but then rapidly turns into total horse cock. I bailed out after a couple of seasons.
Same. Season three I think.
Louis/Lewis (I think that was his name?) was an absolute legend though.
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His storyline this season is that he's in love with an architect but he can't act normal around her because she's TOO amazing. It's awful. I skip through any scene he's in nowadays.
They are great, I just find kids that are ahead of their years creepy. Future serial killers, all of them.
Kid with dialogue that sounds like a 40 year old saying it really shouldn't ever work, but it sometimes does.
If by that you mean that the US >>>>>>> UK then I completely agree.
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