I’ve not seen this trailer, but I have a weird memory if this being done before, with someone being brainwashed to push someone off a roof. I think there may have been two or three people given the choice to do it and at least one did.

I’ve not seen this trailer, but I have a weird memory if this being done before, with someone being brainwashed to push someone off a roof. I think there may have been two or three people given the choice to do it and at least one did.

I got bored about ep6. I'll try and go back to it. They're trying to make the girl be Arya Stark when in fact she's just irritating and dull.

It’s been absolutely panned in every review I’ve read. We watched the first episode last night, and though, yes, it does weave about quite a bit, and I think we jumped about 40,000 years forwards at one point, it is full of pretty things, and I like pretty things.

I saw a whole collection of the fertility goddesses at the British Museum once and they absolutely hit me hard as just something so POWERFUL. I can’t explsin it, but I think it must have been a similar surge of feeling something meaningful that people sense when they think they e had a religious experience.

I watched the second one yesterday over the Iplayer and really enjoyed it. Unlike the opener there was definitely more of an argument and thread to the 'essay'. Mary Beard does poke a little bit of fun at Lord Clarke in it, but that's good. Discussions about art should be a conversation.



I love it when that happens. My guilty secret is that I tend to find galleries boring (music and architecture are always more my thing), but once I realised it was better to go around aimlessly and find something that grabs you, rather than dutifully looking at each picture in each room and reading all the labels, I started to get a heck of a lot more out of these trips.

I remember being really grabbed in the Louvre by a large mosaic from the court of King Darius. Saw the Mona Lisa from a distance, as the crowds were more interesting than the portrait. Wasn't expecting to be so blown away by the 'Raft of the Medusa', given that I've seen it in prints many times and it's a key part of a Julian Barnes book, but hey, I was.

I must dig out my 'Ascent of Man' DVDs and re-watch that, thinking about it.

Good art should have a visceral reaction

Woah, that's big.

Now you know how other people feel.

https://twitter.com/LegionFX/status/971085523329589248/video/1

April 3rd for the new season - cannot wait !

If parmo is always with bechamel that suggests it's distinct from the US version

I was very surprised that none of the chef judges or hosts had heard of it, even in it's original form.

Strongly suspect they were pretending to be shocked because they thought it would make better TV.

You really think someone would do that? Go on TV and lie to the British public? Shame on you

I'd argue that's only a minor variation, given the Americans melt mozzarella over it.

Minor variation? Serve me a lasagne made with ricotta instead of bechamel and let's see how minor the damage is.

Mozzarella > ricotta though.

I recently discovered that ricotta in lasagne is an Italian thing, and not an American blasphemy as I thought.

We watched the first two episodes of The End Of The F***ing World on Netflix. 20 minutes long because it’s channel 4, so were probably an hour long with adverts. It’s a bit like Bates Motel and Skins mashed together. I think the 20 minute episodes could be about 7-8 minutes long if you took out all of the long shots of James and Alyssa sitting awkwardly side by side staring straight ahead. The rest is 100% swearing. The Vision is in it as James’ dad. This concludes my review.

Russell watched the opening of the original about seven times and fell asleep every single viewing.

I miss Throughsilver.