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Post by simple on Jul 18, 2024 7:16:46 GMT
I always think of Egg apart from when he’s stalking his friend’s teen bride in Love Actually. Then I’m mainly thinking how creepy he is.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 18, 2024 7:43:24 GMT
First season of Teachers was so good.. and then it never really recovered from Simon (Egg) leaving.
I kinda want to watch it now... though the revelation that it has James Corden in it as a kid is a bit off putting.
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Post by simple on Jul 18, 2024 7:56:07 GMT
Along with all the noncing, the presence of Corden looking just like Corden is quite off putting when it comes to rewatching History Boys these days.
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Post by zisssou on Jul 18, 2024 8:37:15 GMT
I can seee yourr belllllyyyy
Edit : I suspect nobody remembers this
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Post by dfunked on Jul 18, 2024 8:41:25 GMT
Invincible S2
A couple of episodes left. It swings wildly between finding it absolutely fantastic, then wondering why the fuck they stick with longer episodes if they're just going to pad them out with absolute bullshit.
Colin from Accounts S2
Entertaining as always with a few glols along the way.
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Post by Vortex on Jul 18, 2024 9:05:39 GMT
Colin from Accounts S2 Entertaining as always with a few glols along the way. Nice. Enjoyed the first series, so looking forward to the next one. |
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Post by mrpon on Jul 18, 2024 9:36:07 GMT
The Boys S2
CHANGE BACK!!
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Post by Syrette on Jul 18, 2024 10:23:50 GMT
Colin from Accounts S2 Entertaining as always with a few glols along the way. Nice. Enjoyed the first series, so looking forward to the next one. Would be nice if the BBC could let us know when it's due to air. |
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Post by Vortex on Jul 18, 2024 11:26:07 GMT
It would. Re-running S1 now though, so hopefully after that.
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Post by X201 on Jul 18, 2024 17:27:19 GMT
It would. Re-running S1 now though, so hopefully after that. There’s the small matter of The Olympics chewing up loads of airtime, so add a couple of weeks to that |
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Post by Vortex on Jul 18, 2024 20:59:30 GMT
Oh yeah. 😕
I will enjoy all the athletics though, so at least it's not all bad!
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Post by dfunked on Jul 20, 2024 19:44:04 GMT
The Bear S3E3
Quite a weirdly paced opening flashback(ish) episode, then straight back to the usual ridiculously stressy kitchen environment. It all feels like a bit of a spinning the wheels season so far.
I might just shelve it for a while, as you really need to be in the mood for it and I'm clearly not. Some of the arguments somehow seem a little nastier than I remember too.
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Post by rawshark on Jul 20, 2024 20:55:18 GMT
I can seee yourr belllllyyyy Edit : I suspect nobody remembers this Oh I remember this. They both made arses of themselves. |
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Post by simple on Jul 20, 2024 23:38:23 GMT
Absolutely excruciating from all three of them. Stewart definitely fluffs it but Corden is such a prick about it he manages to turn his potential win into a loss too.
I hate myself for watching it again.
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Post by loto on Jul 21, 2024 16:35:34 GMT
I’ll be watching Life of a Mountain at 7pm on BBC4 tonight. This one looks at Scafell Pike and it’s from an excellent mini-series. Well worth catching
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Post by cubby on Jul 22, 2024 6:59:34 GMT
I caught one episode of that Alan Carr everyone hates Chris knock off. Absolute cringe.
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Post by Danno on Jul 22, 2024 19:41:16 GMT
11.22.63
Two episodes in and there's maybe a good show here? It doesn't seem to know what it wants to do just yet. Except the usual time travel pothole stuff.
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Post by rftp on Jul 23, 2024 7:38:58 GMT
Shogun.
It's better than I thought it was going to be.
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Post by simple on Jul 23, 2024 10:06:22 GMT
Started watching On Thin Ice: Greenpeace vs Putin on iplayer this morning.
Its a documentary about an extraordinary Greenpeace action where the plan had been to occupy a Gazprom oil rig which had started drilling in the Arctic Ocean in order to prevent it from operating. I’m only one episode in but as you can imagine Putin and the FSB decided that they didn’t want this to happen and sent a ship to intercept the Greenpeace vessel.
Got some real footage from the time, bits of reconstruction, talking heads with a lot of the Greenpeace crew, a Russian security guy and Iain Duncan Smith. Compelling stuff but man, deciding to take direct action against a rig as isolated as that sounds insanely risky.
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Post by simple on Jul 23, 2024 19:07:02 GMT
A lovely documentary about Robin Ince’s big science comedy Christmas variety gigs has just been put on youtube. Interviews and onstage footage from lots of the acts from over the years. youtu.be/NEa3okOo8Wo |
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Post by Danno on Jul 23, 2024 20:45:04 GMT
11.22.63 Two episodes in and there's maybe a good show here? It doesn't seem to know what it wants to do just yet. Except the usual time travel pothole stuff. Nah ok it was shite. Apparently there's a second series but it's neither available or intriguing enough. |
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Post by dfunked on Jul 24, 2024 8:37:40 GMT
That's disappointing to hear. Read the book recently and I've been toying with watching the show next.
I can imagine a straight adaptation dragging a bit.
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Post by cristar on Jul 24, 2024 9:30:47 GMT
I read the book about 10 years ago, really liked it, and alwyas toyed with watching the show. Never got round to it, but seems that was for the best maybe.
I have two episodes of The Bear left. Overall the weakest season easily. On at least two episodes I was pretty much falling asleep. Hopefully an exposive last couple episodes with more in Kitchen scenes.
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Post by rawshark on Jul 24, 2024 10:08:03 GMT
Was just looking back at some of the tv series I've successfully managed to "complete" this year. Never thought it would have been the case going into it but honestly Fallout is the one that stands out so far. Baby Reindeer is the other, but Fallout didn't get ripped to shreds by poor compliance standards and duty of care on the part of Netflix after it aired.
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Post by minimatt on Jul 28, 2024 5:22:41 GMT
first two episodes of Will Trent on disney, got recommended by a relative i wouldn't ordinarily trust but got 7.something on imdb so gave it a shot and, yeah, kinda, i guess it's ok
police procedural with damaged, dyslexic, slightly autistic (?) lead because every lead detective in this genre has to have some unique characteristic and lets not be subtle about it
opening case has two blonde girls, one murdered and one kidnapped by a rapist because of course women exist as plot hooks to get raped and murdered and your victims have to be young, white, and blonde because you know why
look it's alright, it's nothing you've not already seen before, but sometimes there's a time and place for this sort of telly. i watched two seasons of Reacher for god sake which, like this, was fine. it's not trying to be The Wire
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Post by Dougs on Jul 28, 2024 7:06:14 GMT
Saw that pop up. Sort of background telly I like. Have read a few books by the author - summer page turners with lots of blonde women being raped and murdered too.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jul 28, 2024 8:05:40 GMT
Can't be any worse than the shit-fest that is Rizzoli & Isles. Very few things could be.
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Post by Syrette on Jul 28, 2024 13:59:33 GMT
Shogun. It's better than I thought it was going to be. I'm a little confused why anyone would go into Shogun with anything but the highest of expectations. |
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Post by RadicalRex on Jul 28, 2024 20:41:22 GMT
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
Not great so far, but I'm willing to give it a chance and watch further for a while at least. It's not actually made by Roddenberry, having started 10 years after his death, but taking the popular understanding of some philosopher's ideas and making an entire space civilisation out of that, that's so TOS it's funny.
Also interesting: some said that Discovery is influenced by this, but I doubted that, I doubted they'd even heard of this show. Now I'm not so sure anymore. The good guys' most important (and sentient!) ship gets thrown a few hundred years in the future where their federation/commonwealth doesn't exist anymore, so they go on a journey to rebuild it on the basis of idealism and understanding and stuff. Seems oddly familiar.
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Post by rftp on Jul 29, 2024 7:07:26 GMT
Shogun. It's better than I thought it was going to be. I'm a little confused why anyone would go into Shogun with anything but the highest of expectations. My memory of the books is that they are a bit clunky (decent story but not so decent writing, cultural and historical liberties), plus FX. So it's better than I expected. |
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