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Destiny is all!
James May: Our Man in Italy is great but I personally enjoyed the trip to Japan more.
How does it compare to Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy?
Unknown although James May > Tucci.
We Own this City is incredibly disappointing.
I've finished Ozark. I mostly really enjoyed it. Season three was the pinnacle but I enjoyed four a lot too. I'm glad they've not let it outstay it's welcome. On reflection I kind of feel like Wendy Byrde is the real villain of the entire piece. Excellently played by Laura Linney too.
I've also smashed through season five of the perennially underrated Snowfall over the last couple of days too. Such a cracking show. Not it's strongest season, it lost it's way a little in places, but the ending was absolutely excellent and sets up the sixth (and final) season perfectly.
I thought it got better as it went along, with a slightly disappointing finale.Originally Posted by Manc
It's overall just terribly depressing.
Fielder is back donning it with The Rehearsal.
So good.
The second episode was wild.
I've started watching OITNB, I'm on episode 6 and about ready to tap out, it's really quite boring.
I don’t think I can get through season 4 of Stranger Things. Frustrating to come so far and not get a final payoff though.
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Even googling to get that made me lol out loud.
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Whats OINTB?
Scrap that, just worked it out and yeah, I felt the same.
I think I gave up on it after a couple of seasons too. I seem to remember my main gripe with it just being that I thought the main character was an insufferable twat.
I loved OITNB but yeah, Piper is an absolute cunt.
I wish Id followed this advice when I asked whether to watch stranger things or better call Saul.
After thinking I was gonna abandon stranger things I realised I only had two episodes left so I persevered and its done. Christ its shite.
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Are we assuming that episode 2 is going to be the basis for the rest of the season?
Either way, I agree, the first 2 episodes were great.
Yeah, hard to disagree. Did you see the Trojan horse justification for her existence? The maker of the show said she put in a middle class cracker protagonist to get people to watch it who wouldn't have otherwise, which I sorta accept but if you're gonna do that you might as well make her not shit.
Game of Thrones, talk to me. Never watched an episode, never read the books. Am I missing out?
I've tried a couple of times and can't get into it. My wife keeps telling me it's like Breaking Bad was for her, to persevere into the second series and then it comes really good.
I refused to watch it for ages cus stupid dragons and dwarves fantasy wank for twats, but eventually enough people I actually respect banged on about it that I took the plunge. I feel similarly about it to breaking bad - it's very good by the usual standards of normie tv that goes massive like lost or whatever, but it's definitely a tier down from sopranos, the wire, six feet under etc. And i know it's a massive cliche at this point but it really does fall off a cliff about 4-5 seasons in. But it is definitely worth a watch, it is really good, genuinely compelling telly for the first few seasons.
I sat through the first season of it when it was coming out. Dogshit.
I watched the first episode and quickly realised it wasn’t for me. After hearing people irl moan about it, it seems like I made the right choice.
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Game of Thrones is a strange one because (in my opinion) it was very clearly the best thing on television for a long time. Although I appreciate that depends on your tolerance for "Fantasy" as a genre. But on the other hand the final season was such a sack of shit I almost lean towards not recommending it.
It's a bit like Lost in that regard. Although Game of Thrones, at its best, was a lot better than Lost at its best.
I don't like fantasy as a genre but it was cracking TV for the most part.
The office discourse around it seemed to be around characters being bumped off. I didn't bother but I'm also not big on fantasy.
Think I’m gonna delay catching up on Better Call Saul and instead give the American version of The Office a try. I keep seeing clips on Instagram and laughing at them. Is it good?
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Yes.
Game of Thrones is shit.
Disgrace.
Yeah man, I remember this being the case as well. I also remember my colleagues seeming pretty perplexed at the critical panning the last couple of seasons were getting. Thankfully I was in my late 20s rather than my late teens, so I didn't explain in length why they were wrong and link them to numerous youtube essays explaining why it was shit.
Why not? You might have gained a few subscribers.
Don't.
The first few seasons are so fucking good. There's no point saying "watch up to the end of season 5" or whatever because it's the kind of story where you want to know the end.
But the end is SO FUCKING BAD it just sours the whole experience. It will leave you feeling so unsatisfied.
It's almost worth watching just to see how hard they fucked the ending. I can't express how bad it is.
The ending is terrible, but that show went to shit way before that.
very good, you absolute wanker
The American version is better than the Gervais original.
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Watch it immediately and unfriend me if you dont like it. My favourite tv show. Jim.
Very much agree.
Very much disagree.
The US one went on far too long and really shat the bed at times.
Had it ended at the right time though then it would be close.
If I'd been old enough to see UK office when it came out maybe I'd like it, but it's too hard for me to separate it from how much of a cunt Gervais is now. Same with the hallowed radio shows and that.
I wouldn't say way before but yes people do generally complain about the final season without also mentioning that the season prior was also horseshit.
Absolutely, the turning point was as soon as they ran out of the fat old twats material and had to write it themselves, with this being prob the absolute nadir of the show:
Season 5 lol
Season 1 done. Very good.
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Dorne was the biggest waste of space in a story ever
That's basically just a copy of the UK version. From series 2 onwards it's original material and it really finds its feet.Season 1 done. Very good.
GoT was great until they ran out of source material, and then the writing quickly became paint-by-numbers rubbish.
Edit: soz igor missed your post.
Honestly I’d say this is only true of the very first episode, which makes it almost unwatchable. However, perseverance has certainly paid off.
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I've never tried the US Office because I saw a few random episodes and it just seemed to be 20 minutes of random shite which just built up to one guy going "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID" like the whole series was written during that one week about 15 years ago when that was funny.
I probably should give it a fair shot at some point given the reviews it gets, but I'm not sure I can, because I fully expect it to just be that constantly for like 25 seasons.
Seasons 2 to 4 are very funny. The others are mostly watchable, but by season 6 it's all very silly and over the top. The moment it jumped the shark for me was the wilderness episode at the end of season 4.
But I suppose that's American sitcoms for you.
It’s barely comparable to The [actual] Office in that one is a cringefest of awkwardness and the other is just daft.
Based on the 7 episodes or whatever I’ve watched so far, anyway.
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Despite the name and inspiration I don't think the two are at all comparable. One was a low-budget punt made for BBC2 which is a brilliantly observed parody of a certain segment of British life at the turn of the century. The American one is a fully fledged American network sitcom with all that comes with that, and a billion series and episodes. Apples and oranges.
Edit: I've done it to Baz now.
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