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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    Even though it's obviously not what it's primarily intended to be, The Sopranos would potentially make it into my top ten TV comedies of all time. It's genuinely hilarious on a pretty regular basis.
    “When I came in to open up one morning there you were with your head half in the toilet, your hair was in the toilet water. Disgusting.”

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    Unbelievable on Netflix, the show I posted about earlier in the thread based on a ProPublica article from a few years ago, is brilliant. Very grim at times due to the subject matter, the first episode especially, but it's ultimately rewarding and at times very purely entertaining. The three leads, Kaitlyn Dever, Merritt Weaver, and Toni Colette are all outstanding.

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    That's on the list.

    How long is the whole thing? I daren't check the episode screen on Netflix for fear of spoilers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Unbelievable on Netflix, the show I posted about earlier in the thread based on a ProPublica article from a few years ago, is brilliant. Very grim at times due to the subject matter, the first episode especially, but it's ultimately rewarding and at times very purely entertaining. The three leads, Kaitlyn Dever, Merritt Weaver, and Toni Colette are all outstanding.

    Yeah just finished watching this actually. First episode is tough, but worth sticking with. Some of it is reeeaaaally slow, but it’s great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    That's on the list.


    How long is the whole thing? I daren't check the episode screen on Netflix for fear of spoilers.
    8 or ten episodes of 45-50mins each. 8 I think.

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    Noice. Decent length to get stuck into.

    Has anyone else seen The I-Land yet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Has anyone else seen The I-Land yet?
    It could be next up for me but nobody I know has seen it yet so I can’t get a gore rating on it. The story sounds right what I’d watch though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    That's on the list.

    How long is the whole thing? I daren't check the episode screen on Netflix for fear of spoilers.
    Eight episodes. First and last clock in at an hour, the others are around fifty minutes.

    I watched the first episode and needed a bit of a break it was such tough going. I mean that in terms of subject matter and the utter heartbreak and anger it caused, rather than being in any way bad. Episodes two through eight were watched in one go last night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    It could be next up for me but nobody I know has seen it yet so I can’t get a gore rating on it. The story sounds right what I’d watch though.
    Given his opinions on my Fringe rants on the old board, take his offer to pay me to watch it as a review that it's extremely messy sci fi bibble.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Given his opinions on my Fringe rants on the old board, take his offer to pay me to watch it as a review that it's extremely messy sci fi bibble.
    Who?

    The I-Land is only out this week I think.

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    I was going to watch The I-Land but it's been getting such bad reviews.

    The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 0% approval rating for the first season with an average rating of 1.67/10, based on 8 reviews.[13] TV Guide gives the miniseries a rating of 0.5/5, and their critic Tim Surette summarizes that The I-Land "is an astonishingly dumb seven-episode mystery-box limited series about 10 people who wake up on a deserted tropical island with no memory of who they are or how they got there. But that central conceit is quickly resolved by Episode 3, as The I-Land spins out of control, rolls over, and wraps itself around an entirely new and equally stupid story."[14]

    Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, Daniel Fienberg compares the miniseries to the series Lost "only with a fundamental misunderstanding of how Lost handled character development, mythology, flashback structure, theme and ensemble-building." He also writes that "no aspect of The I-Land works, and every bad aspect builds on the bad aspects before in a way that makes it pretty clear that nobody involved could have been under any misapprehensions about the quality of the endeavor."[15]

    At Paste, Allison Keene says "I have watched some truly, truly bad series in my day, but few that went off the rails this hard this fast. But man, what a ride. Cannibals, climate change, rogue simulations, for-profit prisons, a game with no rules and no logic … what an embarrassment of riches. Or just an embarrassment. We’ll go with that last one."[16]

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    Shit, that sounds woeful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Who?

    The I-Land is only out this week I think.
    Yev's.

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    It's awful. Absolutely awful and the first two episodes are some of the worst tv I've ever seen.

    I just think it'd be funny to see a balls deep John style review of it.

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    Yeah, do it John.

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    I-Land looks like a dumpster fire if I'm honest.

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    I might, just to make RL's brain leak out his ears trying to understand it.

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    Do a thread and an episode by episode review. We can all watch along.

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    I've just seen a show called Criminal:UK appear on Netflix, thinking it may have just appeared today.

    Initial reviews look good, one for tonight.

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    It sounds nearly bad enough to be essential watching at this stage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Unbelievable on Netflix, the show I posted about earlier in the thread based on a ProPublica article from a few years ago, is brilliant. Very grim at times due to the subject matter, the first episode especially, but it's ultimately rewarding and at times very purely entertaining. The three leads, Kaitlyn Dever, Merritt Weaver, and Toni Colette are all outstanding.
    I started this last night and finished it this morning, it's the first thing I've completely "binge watched" in quite some time and I thought it was really compelling viewing. It's very rare that I watch something that genuinely takes me inside what a person is going through to the point where it will probably inform my opinion on the particular issue in touches upon forever, but I would say this has certainly done that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    I started this last night and finished it this morning, it's the first thing I've completely "binge watched" in quite some time and I thought it was really compelling viewing. It's very rare that I watch something that genuinely takes me inside what a person is going through to the point where it will probably inform my opinion on the particular issue in touches upon forever, but I would say this has certainly done that.

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    Peaky Blinders season 5.

    What did people think? I'm half way through now and it's not season 4 levels of bad but it's absolutely lost what it had in terms of writing. It had so much wit about it before whereas now it just seems lacking.

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    I gave up in season 3 as I just wasn't feeling it anymore.

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    I haven't bothered with Series 5. GoT taught me to avoid jumped sharks.

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    Peaky Blinders has been bobbins from the start, it's just stylish enough bobbins that it took me a full series to notice. It baffles me that it's taken so seriously.

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    I haven't watched it, but judging a book by its cover, it just looks a bit wank.

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    There's only so many ways you can spin 'loveable arsehole and his family outsmart enemies' before it becomes dull.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    I haven't watched it, but judging a book by its cover, it just looks a bit wank.
    When told that at the beginning a hardline, possibly sociopathic Ulster police officer played by Sam Neill sends an irresponsibly good looking female officer in to infiltrate a gang run by a very charismatic Cillian Murphy, what would you expect from the final episode of the series?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    I haven't watched it, but judging a book by its cover, it just looks a bit wank.
    I gave it one episode and it failed to do anything other than bore me. Avoid.

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    I'm watching Unbelievable now and it's powerful enough, but it's not coming close to the effect '3 Girls' had on me. I had to actually stop that and come back to it a few days later out of sheer repulsion.

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    Sam Neill will always be my hero for doing United Passions. Proper professional, you gets a job you does a job.

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    Thanks for reminding me that film exists.

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    Just looking at the cast for the Wheel of Time TV series which I didn't realise had started filming already. Rosamund Pike is the only one I've heard of. Couple in there that don't look how I'd have expected them to be cast but fingers crossed it's good.

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    Sam Neill will always be my hero for doing United Passions. Proper professional, you gets a job you does a job.
    Him and Tim Roth agreeing to be in that. Fucking hell. I've still never seen it but I feel I ought to.

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    My wife made me watch the first episode, despite it holding no appeal to me whatsoever, and I'm pleased to say that although she tried to get me to watch more, I only lost an hour of my life to Peaky flippin Blinders. Like a glittery turd, and all the people dressing up like it look like proper cunts as well.

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    I reckon a lot of people who really like peaky blinders watched breaking bad and thought Walter White was a #ledge for the entirety of the show.

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    Peaky Blinders has completely passed me by so I gave the first episode a go and it looks lovely but is a complete load of fluff. Do the accents get any better though? The communist guy seemed to veer all over the country in the space of one scene.

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    The accents and general feel of Ep 1 put me off for years but it does get into more consistent territory by the end of the season and is very good thereafter. A fair few accents improve in S2 onwards too but there’s still the odd awful one. The Billy Boys West Scotland patter is particularly bad.

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    Of course Merse likes Peaky Blinders. Even has the merch haircut.

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    Anyone been watching The Circle? Absolutely brilliant tv.

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    Tom hardy turned up for 10 minutes and it was the best 10 minutes of the entire season.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dino View Post
    Anyone been watching The Circle? Absolutely brilliant tv.
    I kept seeing ads for it but couldn't work out what it was.

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    It sounds weird as fuck from the Wiki page. Apparently Richard Madely randomly did a stint as a contestant this series?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    I kept seeing ads for it but couldn't work out what it was.
    A load of mostly young people (and a 58 year old ex-UKIPper who's going to win it) live in flats in the same building (but never get to meet) communicate via a social media app. A few of them are pretending to be someone else.

    It's better than it sounds. The Richard Madeley thing was a shit gimmick really, I'm glad he's left.

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    My mother watched Peaky Blinders for the clothes/other bullshit. Maybe that was the way to do it.

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    I’ve started watching Mindhunter; two episodes in.

    The lead is basically Coop-lite (twin peaks) and his partner is the result of breeding Sam Allardyce with Turtle, but it’s enjoyable. I’m particularly enjoying Big Ed.

    The main guys girlfriend is one of the worst actresses I’ve seen on something proper though. Absolutely diabolical. I just wanna skip her scenes, and not just cos they're usually sex.
    I'm a twit

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    The most recent series of taskmaster is a proper return to form

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    It's challenging season 5 for me as the best.

    I'm not overly sold on Wix (although she does have her moments) but the rest are smashing it, especially Gamble and Baddiel.

    Some properly good tasks and they've nailed the two team selections as well.

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    Ed Gamble's water feature was incredible.

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    Agreed, it's been brilliant. The team tasks have been the stand out, largely because of Baddiel and Brand not giving a single fuck.

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