Diss Shoebury again and I'll come for you.Originally Posted by Spikey M
And he has family in Shoebury.
Diss Shoebury again and I'll come for you.And he has family in Shoebury.
Why is it that people from the biggest shitholes are always so proud of their home towns (that they left ASAP usually)? There's a psychology thesis in that.
If it gets you out of Shoebury then he's done you a favour.
Devil In Ohio is pretty damn shit. The acting isn't great, the plot is fairly paint by numbers, it's too damn slow, the evil group don't feel that evil/powerful etc etc and yet I couldn't stop watching it.
Barrow has gone down hill since I left apparently, when you'd have thought it would have improved somewhat in my abscence.
You were clearly Barrows Emile Heskey. You attracted all the wrong'ns and allow the norms to function.
I tried watching Ladhood but I didn’t get on with it at all so have sacked it off, two episodes into season two.
That went downhill so quickly, season 1 is good, if basic, but by season 3 it became tragic.
Decided to finally start on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia last night and I'm instantly hooked.
Not sure why it's taken me so long to get on board but I'm glad I finally have.
How much have you seen? It gets even better when Danny DeVito joins.
Just starting the last episode of season 1 so no DeVito yet.
How does it compare to Arrested Development?
Dahmer on Netflix is pretty good, but it could easily be a Napoleon Dynamite spin off where Napoleon has had a psychotic break and Pedro is in the freezer.
Not as funny, but still worth watching.
I'm a twit
I watched it as it's so close to home, both in terms of location and the age of the bloke. At one point the sister and her friend outlined a night out and it would basically be a standard Friday/Saturday night out when I was a teenager.
I thought the first few episodes were really good, but I'm up to about 7 now and it's running out of steam.
If it was British it would have been done in 3 or 4 episodes - like the excellent "Four Lives" with Stephen Merchant playing Stephen Port - but it's American, so we should just be happy that it isn't 15 seasons long.
Thought season 2 of The Capture was pretty good.
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Moron tagged Gillian Anderson instead of Britta.
Yep. The one after the deaf lad episode is toss, so presuming it carries on like that now.
Also, I had heard that Donald Glover was not likely to come back for a film
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Up to halfway through season 5 in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and I absolutely love it.
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On the other hand I'm struggling a bit with Trailer Park Boys now. I absolutely loved it for the first seven seasons but the specials (Christmas special, the films, Live shows and the Swearnet film) have been a bit shit and season 8 which I finished the other night just doesn't feel like Trailer Park Boys any more.
The eighth season has felt more like a TV show which is leaning too heavily into what made the characters good and as such is making it a little much at times. I miss the mockumentary style.
That's around the same point I stopped with it. I went back and tried again but there's a definite change from the point it was brought back by Netflix.
It's miles better than Arrested Development.
I've always had a strong dislike of killer whales so good on the BBC for doing this hatchet job on their Free Willy bullshit PR machine in Frozen Planet 2.
Watched that last night. Motherfuckers. Incredible though.
They are dolphins pretending to be whales, and dolphins are bastards. All of them. The only ocean bound mammal to used dead fish as sex toys.
Lofty is the only land based mammal to do the same iirc.
Into The Deep on Netflix is one of the maddest things I've seen in some time.
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Agreed @Sir Andy Mahowry and @wullie
The stuff after the revival is pretty terrible, you can tell the original creator sold the rights to Bubbles Ricky and Julian and stopped being involved before it came back. It's a bit like what happened to the Simpsons, except if the Simpsons had jumped straight from golden era s4-6ish straight to Moe make dating app called bumble except it's called Dumble season 76 hellscape without the slow decline transitional s7-10ish period.
Obviously trailer park boys prob makes most people (e.g. the thickos making them their fortune through the weird TPB cottage industry) think ha ha bubbles freak haha Ricky stupid haha Julian...er, drinking rum and coke, but I do honestly think during its peak, the subtlety of the writing and world building and shit is fucking immense. When I finished my first watch of the original 7 seasons I almost convinced myself it was the greatest television show ever made, but I was doing a lot of drugs then.
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I loved how the first run of it looked really cheap and shitty because it basically was, the move to HD and the general sheen with the revival made it all feel a bit cold and off. Same thing with the Simpsons when they changed animation and everything's so clean and quiet now, both completely devoid of the charm they had.
Lovesick is decent easy-watching-with-the-wife TV.
The real gold of TPB was stuff like Ricky falling down the shopping cart hill, presumably unscripted.
Haha yeah I also loved those stupid little moments like that, they really helped the mockumentary vibe. Something which TPB did about a billion times better than The Office.
I honestly don't think House of the Dragon, at the moment, is that far off Game of Thrones when it was at its peak. It's just getting stronger and stronger as it goes. Far, far better than I had any expectation of it being. Daemon Targaryen is genuinely quite close to being my favourite character from the whole franchise.
The throne room scene in the latest episode was ace.
It was class, wasn't it? What a guy.
Wreck on BBC (iplayer only? I'm not sure) is good. Started it last night and finished it tonight.
Don't know if I mentioned it in here but the Deutschland series are worth a watch. Currently on 89. Really interesting time in modern history.
I loved 83 but the second one messing about in Africa put me off, keep meaning to go back and watch the rest.
Dunno. I liked the story in Angola and the ANC. 83 didn't have English subtitles so we actually skipped it.
How have I not heard of this? Sounds great.
The Able Archer story in the first one is great, mad how close they came to outright nuclear war. I think it was just the relocation in 86 that put me off even though a show called Deutschland obviously isn't staying too far away for long, we'll get back to it at some point. We had a bit of a spate of watching German stuff at the time too, didn't like Babylon Berlin and Dogs of Berlin, liked The Wave, Balloon and Dark.
Sounds right up my alley. I never did watch Heimat but maybe it's time to check that out.
I got halfway through 83 before the Channel 4 streaming quality killed me off.
Similarly I’ve been struggling to watch Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared cos All4 is absolutely littered with ads. It’s not 2004, let me watch my programme in peace.
I'm a twit
All4's ads are bizarrely inconsistent. Some shows cut to ads only to cut back to the show immediately, while others serve massive ad breaks 4/5 times per episode. I think the longest one I ever got was a seven-minute ad break.
Not sure how All4 responds to it because I've not tried, but for other streaming sites I use the Brave web browser and it completely eliminates all ads. I only ever see a YouTube advert these days when I'm using the work computer.
Excellent intel, ta.
Finished She Hulk: Attorney At Law and I'm surprised at how much I enjoyed it as the trailers made it look a little weak.
I thought the first couple of episodes were a little slow but the final few were excellent. The cameos were done well and Maslany was brilliant in the lead role.
That horrendous twerking scene that was doing the rounds has made me never want to watch it.
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