Started the new season of Orange is the new Black today. They do such a good job at making Piper look even worse with each season.
Such a colossal twat and easily the worst character ever.
Oh boy,one of the characters might actually cause you to punch your screen.She is so unbearable annoying that you actually want to switch off the episode.So grating to see her appear.
In another news,Better Call Saul is back with quite possibly the worst line spoken throughout the whole BB-Better Call Saul lore.
Started 'Unsolved:The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G' and it's fun but it feels a little like a Channel 5 version of American Crime Story at the same time. Jimmi Simpson's great but I have trouble seeing him in anything and not seeing Liam McPoyle.
Not seen that but I have the same problem with anything he turns up in. Once a McPoyle, always a McPoyle
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45154707
And they're back.
Watching that Real Narcos thing Channel 4 have been doing and it's slightly bonkers. The Mexican police, on their way to raid somewhere, have had to stop and individually pay their own way through a toll road. No wonder they never catch any bugger.
Great British Menu back
God I love BCS.
Assume I'm stating nothing new here, but a noticeable drop in quality for Taskmaster series 6, might be the weakest of the lot.
Nope, that's been pretty unanimously agreed on here. Comfortably the weakest lineup.
Started watching Deadwood. Not sure what to make of it so far.
I really don't know if I'm excited for the return of Gomorra.
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It was the first poncy, critically acclaimed "prestige" tv drama I didn't really enjoy. As a pretentious 16 year old discovering The Wire and the Sopranos blew my tiny mind, but I thought Deadwood was a bit shit. I find it slow as fuck and boring, and I fucking love slow and boring tv shows.
Drunk and bored this weekend I watched the last two seasons of Suits after getting sick of it a few months ago. Apparently it's meant to have gotten better since Mike and the princess left, but looking at the first 7 seasons as a whole....I dunno. It really declined, but I dunno if it was wasted potential or that the original premise was always going to have a sell-by date. The writers basically ignored Mike's photographic memory in the last few seasons.
Is Louis still in it?
I'm a twit
I stopped watching after Mike went to Jail. Too many plots could have been immediately solved by all party's involved telling the other one what was happening. I can normally avoid getting annoyed at this but when you could avoid your entire law firm falling apart by saying "Louis, you're not being fired" or "Donna, of course I fancy you and your perfect tits." for 2 seasons it gets a bit tedious.
Deadwood is great, the first series especially. The rest feels like they either rushed it or thought they'd have more series to flesh it out.
Definitely watch season 2. It's got some of the best scenes in it. It also has the most plot of any of the seasons. 3 is where it fails to deliver on the promise of 2.
If you don't get to season 2 you don't get to the scene of Ian McShane and random chinese man concocting a whole plan using only the word 'Cock Sucker' back and forth to each other because it's the only word he knows.
Rewatching Scrubs since it came out on a streaming platform I'm subscribing to here
He's a classic "compassionate asshole" yeah. He's made a bit less likeable even still by his general feebleness I guess. Anyway - it's what makes the whole series in a way so can't complain really about it.
Just downloaded Fear The Walking Dead and Ballers on my Sky box.
Worth it?
Taskmaster season 7 5th September
One of the tasks glimpsed on the trailer appears to see the contestant stuck in a well or something. It looks far more like Crystal Maze than is ideal anyway.
I've been watching Homicide recently. I've just finished "season" two, which only had four episodes for some reason. I'm really liking it. It's all about Frank Pembleton, obviously. What a great character. It's interesting seeing things pop up that would later influence, or just straight up appear in, The Wire.
Three Men and Adena is one of the best episodes of anything, but in general I find it very hard to watch now.
That, in particular, has been a highlight so far. Properly riveting stuff. Just excellent acting from all involved. Do you mean you find that episode hard to watch now, or the show in general? It does like very of-it's-time (although the colour palette is noticeably less grainy in season two) but it's not really bothering me much.
I also just watched the one where Pembleton gets the black guy to confess to a crime he didn't commit to make a point, because Giardello doesn't want to investigate the police officers who actually committed the crime, which was similarly brilliant.
Chortle have a load of interviews about the new series of Taskmaster up. In James Acaster's he mentions that Rhod Gilbert and Greg Davies' friendship was fairly prominent, which I hope is a huge overstatement, because the moments in the first series where he made mention of his friendship with Roisin Connaty were just annoying.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...ebs-go-dating/
At least the blonde hair has made her look less like her Dad.
I've just finished The Sopranos. It's objectively very, very good (even they could have cut about twenty per cent of it), and I do think the infamous ending works. I don't regret watching it... But I don't know. It's hard to get that invested into it when the main characters are irredeemable cunts. Even Game of Thrones, which is hardly the most sophisticated programme ever, has personal ambiguities in it. Other than appreciating the acting and writing, what is meant to stop you from hoping that Tony Soprano dies? In that respect it leaves you a bit cold.
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I think that's why I got quite far through and then just sort of stopped watching. I'd been powering through watching a few episodes a week, then ended up at a point where it was an episode every couple of weeks and then just gave up with, I think, about a season and a half left.
Re Tony
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Taskmaster back tonight
Isn't that every Maffia-film or Series ever made in a way? Maybe not The Godfather, but at least the "Scorsese archetype": a bunch of cunts are doing fucking well then fuck everything up for themselves and usually ultimately die or end their lives suffering, as they are in fact cunts in the first place.
The Sopranos is the most re-watchable show I've ever seen. It's brilliant - I've watched it through 5 or 6 times in total, and I only saw it for the first time a few years ago. The dialogue is brilliant, and it's hilarious at times.
FUCKIN' QUEERS *throws chair*