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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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
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.
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?
I'm a twit
Voyager.
Capt. Janeway
I sincerely hope The Office US improves on its first season...
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.
I'm a twit
Kid with dialogue that sounds like a 40 year old saying it really shouldn't ever work, but it sometimes does.