What are we watching on TV?

BobClay

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'The Tourist' on BBC1. Watched the first one hoping to see some of those vast Australian landscapes which I find fascinating. In that it didn't disappoint, but now I'm hooked on the story !! Pretty damned mysterious, with the stuff of nightmares lurking about somewhere under that barren landscape.
 

SketchyMagpie

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I got bored of 'Don't Look Up' and ditched it after half an hour but I keep hearing how great it is. Is it worth sticking with?
 

littleme

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I got bored of 'Don't Look Up' and ditched it after half an hour but I keep hearing how great it is. Is it worth sticking with?
No, it's pretty rubbish. I don't know why people think it's great at all, although I found Meryl Streep funny as the Trump like president.
 

BobClay

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I've always liked 'The Repair Shop' on BEEB1 but tonight's show was a cracker. Lots of emotion and almost fabulous restorations. Of course I don't let the emotions get to me, after all, I am a ruffy tuffy biker, ex-seafarer and ex-dodgy member of the Civil Service. It's just that sometimes my eyeballs sweat a bit. :cool::eek:
 

littleme

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I've been forced to watch 'Antiques Roadshow' in order to watch the new series of 'Vera' right now.....

*neither of us like the others choice of program....
 

BobClay

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@littleme suggested The Squid Game a few posts ago. I watched the first one this afternoon. I ended up watching 5 in a row. It's Korean set and made and has fairly dubious English dubbing, but think of it as a combination of 'The Prisoner,' 'The Hunger Games,' all set against good sets clearly influenced by Escher paintings. (I can't help but think Escher was the only person who had an inkling of what infinity means, outside of Georg Cantor, and he ended up dying in an asylum.)
I can't finish it today, I've done in half a bottle of the good Capt Morgan's so far, so I must crawl to bed, (which right now, seems infinitely far away,) but I'm going to finish it tomorrow, unless the Sun comes out (it's been a grey day today) or I croak in the night. (Joke, joke, but if the badly dressed guy with a scythe and the black hoodie turns up in the night he is going to get his balls kicked in for appearing before I've finished the series.)
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tek-monkey

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Only just starting to watch TV again, been a very long time since I bothered but with a small child you do find yourself kinda rooted to the front room especially in this weather. Currently watching the utter cheese fest that is Cobra Kai, but will move onto some of the more cerebral choices mentioned above later!
 

SketchyMagpie

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@littleme suggested The Squid Game a few posts ago. I watched the first one this afternoon. I ended up watching 5 in a row. It's Korean set and made and has fairly dubious English dubbing, but think of it as a combination of 'The Prisoner,' 'The Hunger Games,' all set against good sets clearly influenced by Escher paintings. (I can't help but think Escher was the only person who had an inkling of what infinity means, outside of Georg Cantor, and he ended up dying in an asylum.)
I can't finish it today, I've done in half a bottle of the good Capt Morgan's so far, so I must crawl to bed, (which right now, seems infinitely far away,) but I'm going to finish it tomorrow, unless the Sun comes out (it's been a grey day today) or I croak in the night. (Joke, joke, but if the badly dressed guy with a scythe and the black hoodie turns up in the night he is going to get his balls kicked in for appearing before I've finished the series.)
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You can turn off the English dub via language settings. I'd highly recommend watching the original language version, the dub makes the main character seem a bit more comical than intended, I feel.
 
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