I’m looking forward to watching this tonight:
I’m looking forward to watching this tonight:
I'm a twit
I'm not.
Just watched the Manziel one. He had some time of it.
I've no idea what else would be on such a list but it'd fit on a "best things no cunt talked about" ranking somewhere.Originally Posted by Yevrah
Similar to Sixth Commandment, it manages to achieve tension when you already know how it pans out. And yeah, Clunes is just top viewing all the time.
Watched two (well, one in its entirety and one episode of the other) "behind the scenes" football shows over the last couple of days.
The first, which I saw all of last night on Sky was charting Burnley's appointment of Kompany and promotion to the Premier League and it was pretty good, offering a decent insight into what actually happens.
The second, which I've just finished the first episode of now, about the Newcastle takeover on Amazon is deeply sinister, with the only takeaways being that in no way shape or form have Newcastle, or will Newcastle ever breach FFP and the other that Charlotte Trippier didn't really like Spain.
I want to say our owner (as in Staveley's fella) has given one interview since taking over and they just sprinkle that throughout. Does he show off his back-and-white lined suit jacket?
He does.
There's a scene where they go to a board meeting that begins with him showing off his silly jacket.
It's pure unadulterated sports washing that Newcastle one.
We're loving season 5(?) of Taskmaster. Bob Mortimer is brilliant as always.
That is indeed season 5 (which is my favourite) and Bob is perfect.
The next season is the worst though, by a big margin. Fuck Russell Howard and Tim Vine.
The blend is great as well. Sally Phillips and Aisling are brilliantly crazy, Nish is desperately shit and Mark Watson similarly tragic at times (phobia of balloons ffs). Great TV.
Nish is great because he finds everyone else so funny.
Nish is great.
Bit harsh on series 6, I think it's got its moments. Though it is the first series which has a very obvious winner from the first couple of episodes and they can't quite be arsed with the whole thing. The first lockdown series is if not worse at least weirder.
I love Tim Vine despite him being rubbish but Russell Howard is one of those who are unpleasantly competitive, Iain Stirling and Ed Gamble the two other standouts
The Iain Stirling series he's quite obnoxious right up until he sees that particular team task and is horrified by himself and for the studio bits afterwards he's a lot better because he's self-conscious about what a cock he was being.
It's a fine art, being the Taskmaster studio-stuff agitator while still being funny.
On Nish I meant desperately shit at the tasks rather than anything else. It's great how he clearly is loving every minute.
Finished the third season of The Witcher last night.
Massive step down from the previous outings for me, although that might be due to me not feeling it as much due to Cavill stepping down.
The penultimate episode in particular was a real snooze-fest.
Fight scenes were class though as always.
Nicole Kidman is in this series I'm watching. So has had some crazy plastic surgery. Her face basically doesn't move, just a little tiny mouth chirping away.
Been watching Detectorists, half way through series 3 currently. Interesting how wife and I take different sides in Andy/Becky’s relationship
Watched all of Painkiller on Netflix yesterday. Bar a few dramatic license choices that were a bit silly it was pretty good.
I haven't seen this yet, but Dopesick on Disney+ is brilliant, if you haven't seen that.
Second that. Keaton is great.
Cheers gents, I'll have a look.
I've watched the first 2 episodes of Painkiller tonight and it's The Untouchables to Dopesick's Goodfellas. It's alright, but it's a straight-to-dvd version of what's already been done far better.
I will third the motion that Dopesick is indeed very good.
I'm re-watching Deadwood at the moment. It must be over a decade since I watched it originally and I never watched the movie, so a full run through seemed to be in order. I know it's been said to death but the dialogue really is unparalleled.
Finished watching the first three episodes of The Wheel of Time season 2.
It seems to be moving further away from the books (and I'm not sure why they've chosen to do some things as they have) but I'm enjoying it. The third episode in particular was very good.
Top Boy S3 looking tasty.
Never read the books, but the jump up in quality from S1 is immense.
New Justified blows.
Top Boy 3 (5) feels rushed. It's decent enough but underwhelming. A poor way to end it, really.
How much of Justified is good? I'm just making a start on Line of Duty but I nearly went for Justified.
In terms of the original run - all of it is fantastic. It might take a little bit of time to find it's feet in season one (it's a long time since I watched it) but it basically gets very good very quickly and stays that way throughout.
I do, to some extent, agree with this though. I thought Raylan in a "fish out of water" setting would be something I would really enjoy but I don't know, it misses a lot of the background context of the original and the interplay with all those other characters.
I think Olyphant is generally still doing a really good job with the material he is given. And I actually don't mind the bad guy, in his "crazy, over the top villain" sort of way. But something about the whole thing just feels off.
The fucking daughter too. My god. She's terrible! It is his (Olyphant's) real life daughter too. Very much a case of neopitism gone wrong. Why does she fucking talk like that? In that weird baby voice.
It's just shot completely differently, the lighting is so ott, the colour grading is like a knockoff Michael Bay and then the cameras moving about like a shit Jason Bourne. The setting has absolutely no character and everyone outside Olyphant and the bad guy are the most nothing boring characters ever conceived. That baby voice is very creepy.
Agreed on the rush front. Felt like the Irish stuff was wrapped up in no time at all. S3 & 4 being marathons probably didn't help either. Solid season nonetheless, though Kano did carry it at times.
It seems the Wrexham thing is back. Or at least, there’s the first episode of season 2 on Disney. Unfortunately while checking, Netflix flashed up the new series of Virgin River so she wants to watch that. World of Warcraft it is; at least I’ll be able to binge a few episodes when I get chance to watch it.
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New Married at first sight tomorrow. Proper tv gold!
Finished Justified: City Primeval. I thought it was alright. Not up to the standards of the original but decent enough viewing.
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There's a programme on Channel 4 currently, which I've never come across before and looks like it was made in about 1970 called Popmaster or something. Anyway, there's an old woman on it currently who appears to know literally everything about popular music spanning pretty much the whole of pop music history. It's amazing. The two guys up against her are lambs to the slaughter.
Wheel of Time season 2 really has been top quality, a huge improvement from the first season.
They've absolutely nailed the bastard Seanchan.
Still not entirely convinced by some of the changes they've made from the books but hopefully they can do them justice.
Four episodes in and it's great already. The half french guy last night is going to be great, he seemed a total bell end.
I think Channel 4 are going to regret giving him a repeat booking as he was apparently previously on some shit dating show doing the same 'I love big tits here is a list of the words I use for boobs' schtick, their core viewing demographic of housewives are not impressed.
As a non book reader I'm enjoying S2 a massive amount. This latest episode was fantastic.
+1 for Wheel Of Time. I've not read the books but the story is shaping up nicely. Really annoying that it's still episodic and not all out at once.
They’ve done that with Welcome To Wrexham season two as well. Annoying.
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I'm rewatching Lost
How's it holding up?I'm rewatching Lost
I’m only 3 episodes in so can’t tell really. Did laugh that literally the second line in the whole show was Michael shouting ‘Walt!’
I've never rewatched it because I assume it will be horrible. Just thinking about meeting characters like Charlie and that Australian again makes me cringe.
Ben Linus was a boss though.
Bet Locke is still mega
I have tried to watch it again a couple of times and I always tap out somewhere around the start to middle of Season 2, that and season 1 just meander so much the cumulative weight of all the meandering when you know what's going to happen was just too much to take.
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