Do we live in a golden age of television?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Tom is great. A massive twat but also one of the few with a grip on reality, at least latterly. So well acted.

[SvN]

Every character is so well written, and each brings something unique to the show. Sarah Snook brings something else on top of her character @Dquincy

[Baz]

Presumed that was the actor who plays Willa so googled for some age but nope. You must be joking.

[Panda Bear]

I threw the towel in after the wedding episode. Completely unnecessary.

you fucking what

[Panda Bear]

Tom is great. A massive twat but also one of the few with a grip on reality, at least latterly. So well acted.

I used to hate Tom due to his sycophantic ways and cruelty to those below him, but he really grew on me.

Tom highlights include:

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* bragging about the very urban experience he had with a woman at his bachelor party
* putting a napkin over his head to eat fine food
* celebrating not going to prison by completely trashing Greg's office

[Panda Bear]

Every character is so well written, and each brings something unique to the show. Sarah Snook brings something else on top of her character @Dquincy

I marvel at the amount of character development in the show. Each character has a tremendous amount of texture and depth, and their arcs all make sense within the world of the show.

I didn't expect to like Kendall so much after hating him at the beginning of the show.

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He can make moves like Logan, but they always end up failing because he wants people to like him more than he wants to win. Everything gets done halfway, and he ruins everything for himself as a result.

Beyond that, their portrayal of his very likely being bipolar without naming it is very well done.

Nor did I expect to see Shiv reclaim her humanity

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when she is appalled that Roman has hired men to follow Kendall's family and realizes that things have gone too far between them

near the end of season three.

Even Connor's arc is fantastic, going from a likeable pleb to clueless pleb to fucking stupid pleb.

[Manc]

you fucking what

Did I stutter?

[Yevrah]

C'mon Manc, you should know you're not allowed to think Succession is anything other than brilliant.

[Giggles]

I don’t get what this Boba Fett episode is for.

[Panda Bear]

C'mon Manc, you should know you're not allowed to think Succession is anything other than brilliant.

Disliking Succession is an indictment against that person's mental acuity.

[Panda Bear]

Presumed that was the actor who plays Willa so googled for some age but nope. You must be joking.

Taz would understand.

[Don]

I've googled both and Panda is correct. That Willa bird looks the sort to have sex with the lights off.

[Baz]

I've googled both and Panda is correct. That Willa bird looks the sort to have sex with the lights off.

Whereas pasty ginger pubes is a wanking on the bus home from an abandoned evening.

Neither are particularly great but one is far better than the other.

[Panda Bear]

Whereas pasty ginger pubes is a wanking on the bus home from an abandoned evening.

Neither are particularly great but one is far better than the other.

She's thicc, Baz. Thicc.

[Browning]

I don’t get what this Boba Fett episode is for.

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It was very strange because it was basically an episode of The Mandalorian. I'm sure they'll tie both of them together next week, but it definitely felt out of place, as much as I enjoyed it.

[Lofty]

Every ginger bird I have ever shagged was pure filth so I reckon that can be rolled out across them all.

[Giggles]

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It was very strange because it was basically an episode of The Mandalorian. I'm sure they'll tie both of them together next week, but it definitely felt out of place, as much as I enjoyed it.

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Or land back for the end of the series after he goes off visiting. It was a good episode and all, though I found the whole thing a bit odd to go through melting the spear and the fight and the stories and all, only to just randomly ask about the helmet and tell him to piss off.
I actually hadn’t realised this current Fett story was set after he helped the Mandalorian in that series.

[Giggles]

I was also expecting some A-Team music for an overly long stretch in it too.

[Manc]

Every ginger bird I have ever shagged was pure filth so I reckon that can be rolled out across them all.

Phwoar.

[randomlegend]

Mr Inbetween

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Christ, the bit where Gary turns up to do his first shoot and it's a gay couple is excruciating

[hfswjyr]

I have also hopped on the Succession bandwagon. Just finished Season 1 and can't wait to watch more. My only worry is they might go down the Shameless path, where every character ends up making terrible decision after terrible decision in order to keep the setting of the story the same, rather than let them develop and move into new territory. Hopefully that won't happen.

[SvN]

It hasn't happened so far.

[Spikey M]

Finished "The Responder". The BBC do this stuff very well, don't they? Another lacklustre ending, but I enjoyed it all the same. Freeman was excellent. I didn't know he had it in him.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've never seen him be bad in anything, tbf. When he did 'A Chip in the Sugar' I was fearful as it's about my favourite text ever, but he was class.

[Spikey M]

Other than The Office, I'm not sure I've seen him outside of a duff Rom-Com or Christmas Film. I just thought he existed to play different versions of Tim. I stand very much corrected.

[Ian]

I definitely had a moment there of "Somebody's adapted your favourite text message?"

I've not watched The Responder yet but Freeman is basically always good. The material around him isn't always great but I think he does a good job even when he's ended up with shoddy material, like the later series of Sherlock, say, or the dreadful Hobbit films.

[Spikey M]

Ah, you see there's the problem. I won't watch Cumberbatch, I hate the cunts face, so no Sherlock and I'm afraid The Hobbit falls the wrong side of 'Comic Book Bollocks".

*I appreciate it isn't actually from a comic.

[Ian]

He is in some actual comic book films if you'd rather trot out your moan about those again.

I'm having to remind myself what else he's been in because my brain is failing me. Fargo is the other obvious one I guess, though Wikipedia tells me he's also done an episode of DuckTales.

[CJay]

He was a fantastic Bilbo in the Hobbit, and probably the only redeeming feature of any of those 3 films.

Great as Stick Man too, if you prefer him in grand novel adaptations, Spikey.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He could play anyone I reckon. Gatsby. Hannibal Lecter. Julius Caesar. Sign him up.

[Spikey M]

I didn't know he voiced Stick Man.

What a guy.

[wullie]

I like Rob Brydon, but he surely doesn't need to be in every one of those.

[SvN]

Martin Freeman has surpsied me by being as good as he is.

Perhaps we can rebrand to a Martin Freeman fan forum? It'd assure us of some new blood.

[Pepe]

Took me some time to realize that you are not talking about Morgan Freeman. Needless to say, I was very confused. Who the fuck is Martin Freeman?

[Ian]

He's the guy who was in all that stuff we just said he was in.

[Baz]

Worst thing about Martin Freeman is in his introduction in The Office he seems like a feeble manlet when Tim is like “uhh don’t do that” to Gareth when he messes his hair up. But then he’s actually nothing like that and basically bullied Gareth throughout and/or gave zero fucks about anything other than Dawn. So why is his first impression completely wrong? Always annoyed me.

[randomlegend]

He's the guy who was in all that stuff we just said he was in.

[Pepe]

Having Googled and seen his face, he looks like a twat. Give me Morgan Freeman any day, for any role, instead.

[Spikey M]

He's the guy who was in all that stuff we just said he was in.

[Giggles]

His over acting in Sherlock put me off him.

[Lofty]

Watched Screw, it was wank.

Edit: Just seen Sir Alan moaning about the scouse accent in The Responder

[Shindig]

Not to bring this back to After Life but I can't get over how fucked Ricky's neck is in this. And his attitude.

[Kikó]

Martin Freeman is Mark Noble.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Worst thing about Martin Freeman is in his introduction in The Office he seems like a feeble manlet when Tim is like “uhh don’t do that” to Gareth when he messes his hair up. But then he’s actually nothing like that and basically bullied Gareth throughout and/or gave zero fucks about anything other than Dawn. So why is his first impression completely wrong? Always annoyed me.

Pilots (if that's what it was) often have stuff in them that doesn't get brought forward.

[Ian]

It's also not bad going if the worst thing about him is one scene he didn't write.

[phonics]

New Boba Fett fucks.

[Baz]

Watched some of season two of After Life earlier, after watching the first season when it first came out. Can't be doing with the only thing he ever fucking talks about is his dead wife. Can see why I didn't bother with season two first time round.

If it wasn't for the postman, I wouldn't be continuing.

[Ian]

Just watched Boba Fett

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So yeah, best episode of the series but because it was an episode of The Mandalorian. Not a great look when you should be building up to the big battle in the finale next week.

Still, I forgot Mando had the darksaber so that caught me out when he whipped it out and the lads done well to get himself a Naboo starfighter, it's a good looking space ship. Handy of them to get a little of Mando series 3 in now to save time at the start of next series.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just watched Boba Fett.

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Great episode but obviously it was basically a Mandalorian episode. I do think it's a cool way to get him involved into what will be the war.

Also, Ian. The final isn't next week. It's the week after.

[Ian]

Forgot it was an odd number of episodes. Not so bad then to have done that this week.