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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    I really liked any of that I seen, but they always put it on at a stupid time here so I lost track of it.
    We just download it since we don't even have cable.

    Two seasons and a half in, and they still haven't descended into soap opera cheese. It's just very well written.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Bear View Post
    We just download it since we don't even have cable.

    Two seasons and a half in, and they still haven't descended into soap opera cheese. It's just very well written.
    Must see if it's on Amazon or Netflix and catch it up as once Discovery ends I'll have nothing to watch for a couple of months.

    EDIT: Amazon has series 1 so there's enough to keep going and hopefully the second will land.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Must see if it's on Amazon or Netflix and catch it up as once Discovery ends I'll have nothing to watch for a couple of months.

    EDIT: Amazon has series 1 so there's enough to keep going and hopefully the second will land.
    Amazon also has Goliath, which is great.

    Marvelous Mrs Maisel is a really good show to watch with a girlfriend/whatever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Bear View Post
    Amazon also has Goliath, which is great.

    Marvelous Mrs Maisel is a really good show to watch with a girlfriend/whatever.
    Goliath is one of the ones I'm waiting on to come back on. March isn't it?

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    I didn't know they were doing more Goliath, I thought the end sort of tied it up really nicely as a one season thing. I'm still glad it's coming back though. It's Billy Bob Thornton. In a TV show. What more do you want?

    I've finished Altered Carbon. It was pretty entertaining on the whole. Although I do find Joel Kinnaman to be an almost distracting weird looking bloke. I haven't read the books but apparently there's plenty of material for a second season. I suppose it depends how well it does for Netflix though.

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    You all need to get on Counterpart. Moody, conspiracy laced, low key sci-fi brilliance with JK Simmons playing dual roles, giving two of the best performances of his career. Think of his Whiplash and Juno performances in one show.

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    I downloaded the first three episodes of that when you mentioned it the other day, so I'll be on it shortly. I noticed that American Crime Story is back on too. I haven't given it a go yet though. I'm worried it's just going to be shit compared to the OJ season.

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    I'm trying to wait with both of them so I can binge.

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    Even if you’re the tamest of X-Files viewer, everyone should watch episode four of the new season (the lost art of forehead sweat). It’s an absolute classic.
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    The last episode of the series of Discovery was a ball of shit. Completely like it was written in the mind that it was going to be just the one series.

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    Careful, Giggles. That's dangerously close to analysis of a television episode.

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    I watched all of this miniseries about the Unabomber over the weekend. It was imaginatively titled "Manhunt: Unabomber", and Paul Bettany played him. I thought it was excellent. Only eight episodes too, I would recommend it. It's on Netflix as well.

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    This new ITV thing, Trauma, is very good. John Simm can do no wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    I watched all of this miniseries about the Unabomber over the weekend. It was imaginatively titled "Manhunt: Unabomber", and Paul Bettany played him. I thought it was excellent. Only eight episodes too, I would recommend it. It's on Netflix as well.
    That's piqued my interest a few times when I've scrolled past it but I've not watched any of it yet.

    Sort of thought it'd be shit tbh. Might give it a go now.

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    I thought it was shit. Got tired of "mean bosses not understanding brilliant cops brilliance" after about 3 episodes of it.

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    Caught an episode of Inside No. 9 the other night. It was the one with the estate investigators checking the cluttered house and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Think I'll download and get on the rest.

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    Just finished up watching Ozark, I absolutely loved it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Must see if it's on Amazon or Netflix and catch it up as once Discovery ends I'll have nothing to watch for a couple of months.

    EDIT: Amazon has series 1 so there's enough to keep going and hopefully the second will land.
    Give it a go yet?

    My fiancee and I are halfway through the first season of "Man in the High Castle", which has been pretty fun so far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Bear View Post
    Give it a go yet?

    My fiancee and I are halfway through the first season of "Man in the High Castle", which has been pretty fun so far.
    I just got as far as discussed figuring out where I'd seen to and the plan is to watch on some work travel this week (and keep me out of the hotel bar).

    I loved Man in the High Castle. Still no concrete date for the third series but hopefully this year.

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    http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2018/0...our_new_series

    UKTV has ordered four more series of Taskmaster for Dave.

    The news comes after Chortle revealed yesterday that a sixth series has been filmed.

    Those taking part in season six, which will air in the spring, are Alice Levine, Asim Chaudhry, Liza Tarbuck, Russell Howard, and Tim Vine.

    Chortle understands James Acaster is lined up for a future series.

    Greg Davies will return in the title role and series creator Alex Horne as his sidekick in each of the four new series – bringing the total to onine – which will be extended to ten episodes each.

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    Liza Tarbuck?

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    That sixth series sounds interminable. Liza Tarbuck is probably the best guest there.

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    I personally like Alice Levine.

    Howard and Vine are definitely worse than Tarbuck but they make more sense to me.

    I have no idea who Asim is.

    I really hope they do a Losers special though.

    Romesh or Tim Key from season 1, Joe from season 2, Chowdry from 3, Lolly from 4 and Nishi from 5.

    Although they'd probably get Roisin from season 1.

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    Tim Vine will make the whole thing unwatchable by wedging a tortured pun into every segment. The sequence where he goes round the kitchen mid task going on a pun run about everything he sees will be particularly annoying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wullie View Post
    Chortle understands James Acaster is lined up for a future series.
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    Also got me thinking about who’d be good on it. My ultimate would probably be James Acaster. He’s genuinely one of the funniest people I’ve ever seen on TV and I think his style of humour would really fit Taskmaster. Shame there will [probably] be no more Taskmaster after the Champions finale.
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    I love Tim Vine, but very specifically so. Really don't know how he'll go in this.

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    I don't think I've ever seen him out of character, if indeed that is a character.

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    I don't think it matters as much as having good tasks.

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    Only just seen this news

    I love Tim Vine as well, so it should be great.

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    http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-a7959681.html

    Karl Pilkington is back with a new show, Sick of It, which will apparently see him take on two roles: himself and the voice inside his head.

    Sky 1 is launching a push for bolder, edgier comedies in a new 10pm slot which is being seen as a "refresh" for the channel, according to Radio Times.

    Pilkington's new series is his first scripted comedy and will see one of Ricky Gervais' most frequent collaborators try to navigate through the mundane life he might have led had he not met Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
    I'm glad that Karl will be back on TV but a scripted comedy? Meh, just get him doing shit he hates ffs.

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    Seems odd, given he hated acting in Derek.

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    That will be dire.

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    I've been watching that German thing, "Dark", on Netflix recently. I'm about halfway through and it's been really good so far. Apparently it gets compared to Stranger Things a lot? Which I think is a little bit unfair on it. I mean I can see why, it's partly set in the eighties and it revolves around missing kids and weird shit happening, but it's generally a lot, well, darker. It doesn't play the nostalgia card nearly half as much either. That isn't a knock on Stranger things by the way, which I think is largely fantastic.

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    Missus is watching Hard Sun and it’s terrible. The leads just can’t carry it. We’ve got a Poundland Danny Dyer and then some short haired woman who surely can’t be an actress.
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    I have nothing against Karl Pilkington who's quite funny, but if Sky want 'edgier' comedy why give his own vehicle to a novelty act which has been done to death?

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    I'm binging on Star Trek discovery. They've done a great job with this.

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    The second half or so (after the break), is genuinely brilliant.

    I started re-watching Jessica Jones the other day as I spotted that the second season will be out on the 8th. It really is the best Marvel Netflix show for me.

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    Started Big Little Lies. Intriguing.

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    It ends so fucking shit though. Last couple of episodes are a real ramp down.

    EDIT: Discovery, that is.

    All of Big Little Lies was really good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    It ends so fucking shit though. Last couple of episodes are a real ramp down.

    EDIT: Discovery, that is.

    All of Big Little Lies was really good.
    I didn't mind the last couple, they weren't as strong as the few before them but they were still entertaining.

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    The last 20 seconds or so of Discovery was cool as fuck, but I agree that the final episode was weak.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Henry View Post
    The last 20 seconds or so of Discovery was cool as fuck, but I agree that the final episode was weak.
    Yeah I did like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    I've been watching that German thing, "Dark", on Netflix recently. I'm about halfway through and it's been really good so far. Apparently it gets compared to Stranger Things a lot? Which I think is a little bit unfair on it. I mean I can see why, it's partly set in the eighties and it revolves around missing kids and weird shit happening, but it's generally a lot, well, darker. It doesn't play the nostalgia card nearly half as much either. That isn't a knock on Stranger things by the way, which I think is largely fantastic.
    The comparison to Stranger Things is lazy. There's nothing beyond what you mentioned to tie them together thematically.

    Dark is brilliant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Bear View Post
    The comparison to Stranger Things is lazy. There's nothing beyond what you mentioned to tie them together thematically.

    Dark is brilliant.
    It certainly is. I'm going to watch the final episode tonight.

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    Apart from being partly set in the 80s, the only thing that reminded me of Stranger Things was the bit in that first episode where the gang of kids go searching in the caves before they lose Mikkel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    You all need to get on Counterpart. Moody, conspiracy laced, low key sci-fi brilliance with JK Simmons playing dual roles, giving two of the best performances of his career. Think of his Whiplash and Juno performances in one show.
    So I've started watching this now. It seems alright. I'm not on board to quite the extent that you are by the sound of it, but it's enough to keep me watching.

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    That Juno and Whiplash comment is ridiculously accurate, by the way. To the point where I can imagine he read the script and that was his exact plan going into it. It's very difficult to un-see it once you start thinking about his performance in those terms, actually.

    Also, Atlanta is back and the first episode of season two is fantastic. Maybe as good as anything in the first season, which is really saying something.

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    My one problem with it is that the moments there to remind you it's on Starz stand out so much more on such a subdued show. A room full of naked hookers as background was absolutely fine on Black Sails because it was about pirates, but a scene where the camera needlessly lingers on someone getting changed even when she isn't the one in the scene talking just sticks out like a sore thumb.

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    Money Heist is surprisingly good.

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    Finished Jessica Jones season 2 and it was alright but obviously let down by going from an amazing villain to meh. Which follows the Daredevil path but they had a lot more going for it.

    It's worse than Jessica Jones and Daredevil season 1 as well as Punisher and I'd have Cage just ahead too.

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    We need to add the spoiler tags @SvN

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