Do we live in a golden age of television?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Masterchef the Professionals

When did it start back?

It was quality, although eye-bleedingly obvious beardy baldy would be put through at the end.

The woman looked a potential winner.

[Jimmy Floyd]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...group=p02q32xl

Just noticed this on iPlayer, not tried the second series yet but the first was quality homespun stuff.

[Magic]

Masterchef the Professionals

When did it start back?

Shit yes. SHIT YES.

[Yevrah]

New series of 'Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish' starting in half an hour. I'm fairly sure a few on here watched it before.

I love it, but tonight's has had an ad break every 10 minutes so far.

[Baz]

Dana Gordon was in the episode of The X-Files I watched last night. Most people would be perving on the hot CGI woman the episode was about, but Dana Gordon, man!

[Boydy]

Can someone answer me a question on The Walking Dead. I've just watched episode 3 of season 4 and just realised:

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Hershel is walking around without crutches now. But I don't remember seeing him getting a fake leg or anything built. Did I miss that or did they just not show it?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Can someone answer me a question on The Walking Dead. I've just watched episode 3 of season 4 and just realised:

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Hershel is walking around without crutches now. But I don't remember seeing him getting a fake leg or anything built. Did I miss that or did they just not show it?

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http://comicbook.com/blog/2013/11/17...-his-leg-back/

Proper shit really.

[phonics]

I'm up to season 6 now and Alan Cummings hair has changed colour 4 times in as many weeks.

[The Merse]

Re- Walking Dead, am I the only one that's done a 360 and now finds Carl relatable and not shit?

I'm up to speed on Frequency (that was a bat out of hell to find on Netflix, of all the films being adapted to tv series I wouldn't have expected Frequency at all) and Westworld. The former is ok-ish, the latter is exceptional. Both have difficult pacing a plenty, but it works well with the particular narratives and I think we're all getting used to it. Looking forward to seeing how Westworld progresses. I've an idea of how Frequency will go but it's ok enough to justify following it down that path.

[Boydy]

I hated Carl in the first season or two. Then I started to change and I really quite like him now. I'm just about to watch the final episode of season 4.

[Foe]

Re- Walking Dead, am I the only one that's done a 360 and now finds Carl relatable and not shit?

I'm up to speed on Frequency (that was a bat out of hell to find on Netflix, of all the films being adapted to tv series I wouldn't have expected Frequency at all) and Westworld. The former is ok-ish, the latter is exceptional. Both have difficult pacing a plenty, but it works well with the particular narratives and I think we're all getting used to it. Looking forward to seeing how Westworld progresses. I've an idea of how Frequency will go but it's ok enough to justify following it down that path.

Frequency (the Jim Caviezel film) is one of my all time favourites. It's total shit, but brilliant at the same time.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah, Carl gets better which is strange. I found that most characters got worse during the run.

[John]

The joke at the end of the intro of the most recent Brooklyn Nine Nine is among the best they've ever done.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Was scrolling through Amazon Prime Video's library to find something to watch.

I couldn't say no to another run through when Parks and Rec popped up.

[Bernanke]

John Lithgow as Churchill is an inspired choice.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Is The Crown worth a watch then? I hadn't even heard of it until I googled what you were talking about. Seems to have great reviews but doesn't really look like my cup of tea.

[Bernanke]

It almost feels like a direct continuation of The Kings Speech in tone, you enjoy that? The girl playing Elisabeth talks just like Bonham-Carter does in the movie.

[Magic]

Nearly finished SE03 of The Office and it is fucking golden.

If I could sum it up in smilie format:

[phonics]

After putting it off for a while, Atlanta is bloody brilliant. At 22 minutes a show it never has long enough for you to get bored and just enough to be left wanting more.

[wullie]

Got an email from Netflix about a new show I might like



It looks like Aldi's version of Archer

[Shindig]

Australian, no less. Aaaaahchair. In other news, BBC are starting online coverage of the BBL and WBBL tonight at 7:45pm.

[Alex]

I started with The Good Wife a few weeks ago and have since watched copious amounts of it. I blame phonics. It is good though.

[Reg]

I just finished season 2 of Narcos.

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One of my favourite series I can remember watching. The last episode is one of the best pieces of television I can remember. I thought they did it perfectly. It was exciting, tense, and while Pablo was strolling freely around in Medellín comic and tense at the same time. I'd put that episode alongside episode 7 (this might be off) from season 1 when the excitement was at another peak.

I'm really glad it's going to continue. The writers and director(s) are obviously talented so hopefully it will be somewhere near as good without Pablo.

Will catch up with everyone else's thoughts.

[Jeet]

Anyone catched the Invasion flash/arrow/supergirl/legends crossover episode?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I did.

It was nice to see them all together but the whole storyline was a bit pointless and I didn't like that they cut away from the main story-lines in each for an episode. Although not really a problem for Legends as there is no proper story-line at all.

[Limoutsonik]

Yeap,it wasn't as much as a spectacle as i had hoped but the LOT-focused episode saved the whole crossover.It surely would have been better if they were fighting the now known Legion of Doom with Reverse-Flash,Merlyn and Damien Darhk but they needed a sufficient reason to include Supergirl.Still,i give it a rating of 7,5 out of 10.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

The Missing really is absolutely outstanding TV.

Well you wren't wrong. Powered through the first season just before the finishing the second season, on the off chance of any revelations. Both seasons excellent but I'd say the second was definitely better.

Julien Baptiste

[Spikey M]

The first series was decent, the second (had I not watch Breaking Bad this year) is easily this years best TV.

[Giggles]

https://youtu.be/FOXZgRTfSUA

Someone on the full site can imbed that if they want.

[Max Power]

Rewatching Freaks and Geeks (it's on Netflix). Such a lovely programme and still probably the best thing Judd Apatow has been involved with.

[John]

[Adamski]

Did anyone watch Rillington Place? BBC dramas aren't ordinarily my thing, but Tim Roth being in it piqued my interest.

Loved it.

[Dark Soldier]

I loved it, bar episode 2 being a bit of a headfuck if you didn't know the case.

Roth was amazing.

[Adamski]

Yeah I had a quick read through on wiki before I started it.

He was, played it to perfection.

[Baz]

I've started watching Wayward Pines. Seems interesting after one episode.

Also watched episode one of The Wire. She wasn't a fan though so if I do continue with it, it'll be very slowly.

[John Arne]

Last two episodes of Brooklyn Nine Nine have been boring. Hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

[Giggles]

Last two episodes of Brooklyn Nine Nine have been boring. Hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

I liked last weeks. Haven't caught yesterdays one yet.

[Mazuuurk]

I just finished season 2 of Narcos.

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One of my favourite series I can remember watching. The last episode is one of the best pieces of television I can remember. I thought they did it perfectly. It was exciting, tense, and while Pablo was strolling freely around in Medellín comic and tense at the same time. I'd put that episode alongside episode 7 (this might be off) from season 1 when the excitement was at another peak.

I'm really glad it's going to continue. The writers and director(s) are obviously talented so hopefully it will be somewhere near as good without Pablo.

Will catch up with everyone else's thoughts.

I recently finished this as well.

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It'll be a bit weird for next season, since I imagine they will not be able to keep up the 'historically correct' kind of flavour they had going on with Pablo Escobar wearing the right clothes, stuff seemingly happening as they were "supposed" to, etc.

Which also could be a bit refreshing.

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Also on finishing it I stumbled across two documentaries on Netflix: Narco Cultura and Cartel Land. Both are fucking grim, specially the former.

[Giggles]

Two episodes into The Man in the High Castle. Hard to know what to make if it yet but enough there to make me watch more.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Two episodes into The Man in the High Castle. Hard to know what to make if it yet but enough there to make me watch more.

2 central characters are dull as can be, everything else besides them was very good though. 2 days until the second season starts.

[Boydy]

Is anyone else finding Westworld fucking dull?

I watched most of it week to week and I'm now watching episode 9 and 10. 9 is almost over and if I wasn't so close to the end I'd probably just give up on it.

[Bernanke]

I enjoyed it, but it's overhyped. It's a well-produced, well-acted show with an alright plot and some fairly long parts that feel unnecessary and outright boring.

[John]

Ryan Philippe (remember when he was supposed to be a star?) is in a new thing about a special forces sniper trying to stop people murdering the president. His character's name is Bob Lee Swagger. That's a fucking rasslin' persona, not the protagonist of an apparently serious dramatic endeavour.

[Dark Soldier]

Ryan Philippe (remember when he was supposed to be a star?) is in a new thing about a special forces sniper trying to stop people murdering the president. His character's name is Bob Lee Swagger. That's a fucking rasslin' persona, not the protagonist of an apparently serious dramatic endeavour.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/?ref_=nv_sr_2

'tis the reason. Still fucking ridiculous.

[Boydy]

Shooter?

I saw that advertised somewhere recently. Pretty sure it's based on the mediocre Mark Wahlberg film of the same name. They'll remake anything these days.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

I can't believe I've waited 15 years to get round to Band of Brothers. Started on Monday and finished it already, a must watch.

[phonics]

I'm watching The Missing. I'm really quite bored of James Nesbitt but Sayid from La Haine turning up makes it worth it.

P.S. Way too many of these french people speak English for it to be realistic.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I see him pop up now and then in things and each time he looks more like a middle aged man, which is to be expected I suppose, but still rather depressing. He'll always be Sayid to me.

[phonics]

This spurred me on to see what Hubert was up to. Nothing but French tele for the last decade, how depressing.

[ItalAussie]

Christmas episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine was one of the show's weakest episodes ever.

That it still got five or six solid out-loud laughs is testament to the high standards of the show, but this whole season has felt a little goofy and meandering so far. Still, it's not like I'm going to stop watching, so we'll see if they can swing upwards.