Absolutely loved the second series of 'Peaky Blinders', but as with the first I felt a little irritated by the ending. Dam it, I want Thomas Selby to be in control of the situation.
Still remains one of the best shows of recent times, with great direction, brilliant characters, and a soundtrack of awesome.
Still remains one of the best shows of recent times, with great direction, brilliant characters, and a soundtrack of awesome.
I've just started watching 'Only Connect'. Why did nobody tell me how awesome (and difficult) that show is?
Twisted fucking flax!
Only connect is great, they used to use Greek letters as the round question options and people complained that it was too intellectual, so they changed it to hieroglyphics
Only connect is great, they used to use Greek letters as the round question options and people complained that it was too intellectual, so they changed it to hieroglyphics
What is it?
Quiz show presented by Mrs David Mitchell.
Teams have to find the link between four items/clues/people/other things. Very addictive, but also dam tricky.
Teams have to find the link between four items/clues/people/other things. Very addictive, but also dam tricky.
Victoria Coren, you mean? You sexist pig, defining a woman by her spouse. What is this, the 1800s?
Sorry, came over all Myppy there.
Sorry, came over all Myppy there.
The majority of episodes are on YouTube by the way.
Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Victoria Coren, you mean? You sexist pig, defining a woman by her spouse. What is this, the 1800s?
Sorry, came over all Myppy there.
Sorry, came over all Myppy there.
I think she prefers Victoria Coren Mitchell.
Mr Russell wrote:
The majority of episodes are on YouTube by the way.
There goes the long dark winter nights! Yay!
Kern wrote:
Mr Russell wrote:
The majority of episodes are on YouTube by the way.
There goes the long dark winter nights! Yay!
A few users have set up playlists, but IIRC most of series 4 is missing, but if you find a list with loads of eps in then it's likely the full run.
The current series is entirely on iPlayer.
After a while you'll find it clicks, as it's more about lateral thinking than general knowledge a lot of the time.
Hence the name
Dominic Sandbrook's look at the history of sci-fi was very enjoyable.
Surprisingly, it turns out that watching Nigel Farage get drunk does not great television make.
Kern wrote:
Surprisingly, it turns out that watching Nigel Farage get drunk does not great television make.
It's not fun watching your best mates gets drunk, let alone someone you despise.
Not sure if we have covered it (I might have already but full of Xmas Cold) The Fall S2 is out. Very good show
Yes indeed. Is it going to finish this season, does anyone know?
Grim... wrote:
Yes indeed. Is it going to finish this season, does anyone know?
Final episode tonight and based on the advertising I think it's the final final. Gillian Anderson
We've been watching that too. The Missing was pretty damn good as well.
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Black Mirror - White Christmas
Surprised no-one has mentioned this yet.
I thought it was great.
Big fan of this show in general and this was one of the best episodes IMO.
Surprised no-one has mentioned this yet.
I thought it was great.
Big fan of this show in general and this was one of the best episodes IMO.
BertyBasset wrote:
Black Mirror - White Christmas
Surprised no-one has mentioned this yet.
I thought it was great.
Big fan of this show in general and this was one of the best episodes IMO.
Surprised no-one has mentioned this yet.
I thought it was great.
Big fan of this show in general and this was one of the best episodes IMO.
I thought it was excellent, the best black mirror so far. Brooker seems to have exorcised his humorous language which always felt jarring. Now he has something which is funny because it's so absurd, not because people are saying rude words. The end was mind bendingly brutal. Merry Christmas!
A reminder that the radio adaptation of Good Omens starts today and runs till the 27th daily at 11pm on Radio 4.
Grim... wrote:
Yes indeed. Is it going to finish this season, does anyone know?
This show is very well acted, but the overall plot script is crap, the ending (if it is the last season) was really bad.
Morte wrote:
A reminder that the radio adaptation of Good Omens starts today and runs till the 27th daily at 11pm on Radio 4.
Some background on the writing process of it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30512620
Black Mirror : White Christmas was pretty good.
Still preferred the very first one with the PM and the pig though.
Still preferred the very first one with the PM and the pig though.
BBC4's 'Some Santas telling jokes'.
Did exactly what it said on the tin.
Did exactly what it said on the tin.
David Starkey's Magna Carta, other than the self-aggrandising title, is a watchable look at how the Great Charter came about and how it's been used (and abused) since.
BBC4 did another fun 'Hidden Killers of the $timeperiod Home' last week which I caught up with last night. This time round it's the Tudors. Fascinating stuff as ever, and the presenter at one point...
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Mr Brooker is back tonight.
22:00, BBC2.
22:00, BBC2.
Adam Curtis' Bitter Lake, only available on BBC iPlayer. Rather long (2hrs 17mins) but fascinating to see how the U.S., USSR and UK got embroiled in actions in Afghanistan when they had no hope achieving their objectives, or ultimately, even an understanding of local politics. Almost a real-life parallel with Yes Minister, where their actions had virtually the opposite effect to their plans. It wasn't just about Afghanistan, it also looked at how western politicians handed power to the banks and how far out of control our economies became and how little we understand about the complexity of the world. Thoroughly recommended.
Warhead wrote:
Adam Curtis' Bitter Lake, only available on BBC iPlayer. Rather long (2hrs 17mins) but fascinating to see how the U.S., USSR and UK got embroiled in actions in Afghanistan when they had no hope achieving their objectives, or ultimately, even an understanding of local politics. Almost a real-life parallel with Yes Minister, where their actions had virtually the opposite effect to their plans. It wasn't just about Afghanistan, it also looked at how western politicians handed power to the banks and how far out of control our economies became and how little we understand about the complexity of the world. Thoroughly recommended.
Watched this the other day, some quite graphic depictions of war intermingled with the documentary as well the stunning insight.
Malc
Worth watching all his other films too if you have never seen them.
markg wrote:
Worth watching all his other films too if you have never seen them.
This! Along with Jonathan Meades, he's my favourite documentarymaker.
Didn't realise he had a new one out, and interesting that it's Iplayer only rather than also being shown on TV.
Kern wrote:
markg wrote:
Worth watching all his other films too if you have never seen them.
This! Along with Jonathan Meades, he's my favourite documentarymaker.
Also Werner Herzog.
Kern wrote:
Mr Brooker is back tonight.
22:00, BBC2.
22:00, BBC2.
Tits. Thought it was next week.
ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:
Kern wrote:
Mr Brooker is back tonight.
22:00, BBC2.
22:00, BBC2.
Tits. Thought it was next week.
I didn't realise until I saw it on the EPG.
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'Inside the Commons': utterly fascinating look at the life and work of Parliament, in all its archaic glory.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
Yeah, I really enjoyed it 
Got the first two episodes of 'Wolf Hall' stored on my PVR. Is Damian Lewis in a codpiece worth watching?
Kern wrote:
Got the first two episodes of 'Wolf Hall' stored on my PVR. Is Damian Lewis in a codpiece worth watching?
Absolutely. He's an impish, proud buffoon. Everyone's excellent in it, Rylance almost perfect.
As someone with a cretinously poor grasp of our history, I found having read the book helped. It's a show that dumps you in the deep end and lets you paddle. Like the Wire with ruffles.
Though I get the impression that you, Kern, would have no problem knowing exactly what's going on in a historical program.
Watched the first two last night and really enjoyed them. Yes, Rylance is brilliant in the role.
It's not quite UK TV*, but a number of the cast are British so it was the closest fit I could find, but is anybody watching Fortitude and is it any good? I'm hoping it will make it's way to the BBC or Netflix, etc before too long so I can have a peek.
*On second checking, it is. It was created in the UK, the cast are British and (mostly) Norwegian and it was filmed in the UK and Iceland. Just for confusion.
*On second checking, it is. It was created in the UK, the cast are British and (mostly) Norwegian and it was filmed in the UK and Iceland. Just for confusion.
Mimi wrote:
It's not quite UK TV, but a number of the cast are British so it was the closest fit I could find, but is anybody watching Fortitude and is it any good? I'm hoping it will make it's way to the BBC or Netflix, etc before too long so I can have a peek.
I quite enjoyed the first episode but haven't seen it since. I will try and watch more tonight.
MaliA wrote:
Mimi wrote:
It's not quite UK TV, but a number of the cast are British so it was the closest fit I could find, but is anybody watching Fortitude and is it any good? I'm hoping it will make it's way to the BBC or Netflix, etc before too long so I can have a peek.
I quite enjoyed the first episode but haven't seen it since. I will try and watch more tonight.
Awesome.
MaliA wrote:
Mimi wrote:
It's not quite UK TV, but a number of the cast are British so it was the closest fit I could find, but is anybody watching Fortitude and is it any good? I'm hoping it will make it's way to the BBC or Netflix, etc before too long so I can have a peek.
I quite enjoyed the first episode but haven't seen it since.
It was very well done, but it wasn't compelling enough to watch the next straight away, and then we just didn't bother with the next for some reason.
It's good, but hard going.
BBC have cancelled Atlantis after S2!
Loved watching it on a Sunday, surprised they have done this as I thought it would fill the Merlin gap nicely and run longer.
Loved watching it on a Sunday, surprised they have done this as I thought it would fill the Merlin gap nicely and run longer.
But BBC have renewed The Fall for a 3rd season!
asfish wrote:
But BBC have renewed The Fall for a 3rd season!
DOCTOR UNCONVINCED FACE
The Fall was bloody great, but it didn't know how to handle its denouement, which consisted of two great actors playing compelling characters spouting unfortunate cliches at each other. And I think the story may have run its course.
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
asfish wrote:
But BBC have renewed The Fall for a 3rd season!
DOCTOR UNCONVINCED FACE
The Fall was bloody great, but it didn't know how to handle its denouement, which consisted of two great actors playing compelling characters spouting unfortunate cliches at each other. And I think the story may have run its course.
Would agree, It was so well done for the most part, end wasn't great. Hopefully they will sort this out in the next season
The first series was great, if a little mysognistic torture porn-ey. However, it could really have done without the second series, let alone a third.