What are we watching on TV?

BobClay

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I have now watched it all. He writes and directs this. His humour is a two edged sword, sometimes hilarious, sometimes quite brutal. But his characters are weird to the point of fantasy and make for compulsive viewing. As I've mentioned elsewhere I'm a ruffy tuffy biker and ex-seafarer ... (sailed though the eye of typhoon, weaved around icebergs in the arctic, had to drink Venezuelan onion beer) and crying was not an issue. (cough)
I've always had sweaty eyeballs.
 
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BobClay

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Watched "Don't Look up" on Netflix. A black comedy satire that doesn't pull any punches. It takes the piss out just about everything and is very much (I think) influenced by the Trump presidency. It's got a stunning cast which I wont list, look it up. All them getting into a Grade A piss taking mode. Reviewing it Mark Kermode said it doesn't cop out in the final act, and I have to agree. Also, if you do watch it, follow the credits at the end all the way through, there are a few gems stuck in there.
 

littleme

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Watched "Don't Look up" on Netflix. A black comedy satire that doesn't pull any punches. It takes the piss out just about everything and is very much (I think) influenced by the Trump presidency. It's got a stunning cast which I wont list, look it up. All them getting into a Grade A piss taking mode. Reviewing it Mark Kermode said it doesn't cop out in the final act, and I have to agree. Also, if you do watch it, follow the credits at the end all the way through, there are a few gems stuck in there.
I thought I was the only one who thought it a piss take. Merel streep is great as the trump like character... Shit film though, that's an hour + that I won't get back.
 

BobClay

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WOW. It made me feel better to see she was braced because you can see there's breeze up there and she's holding quite big cards. That lady has got a lot of cabbage to do that.
 

Thehooperman

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I've got an old episode of the Sweeney playing in the background whilst I'm doing some work and just heard Regan and Carter talking about a villain -

Carter "Ricky Martin, currently doing three for robbery"
Regan "He should be doing ten for murder"

Personally, I didn't think Livin la Vida Loca was that bad back in the day 😂
 

Gramaisc

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I've got an old episode of the Sweeney playing in the background whilst I'm doing some work and just heard Regan and Carter talking about a villain -

Carter "Ricky Martin, currently doing three for robbery"
Regan "He should be doing ten for murder"

Personally, I didn't think Livin la Vida Loca was that bad back in the day 😂
I have the first series here - tempted to watch them all again now.

The car chase from Stoppo Driver never gets old.

 

Thehooperman

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I have the first series here - tempted to watch them all again now.

The car chase from Stoppo Driver never gets old.

I have every episode on that new fangled DVD fingy fing.

I've watched every episode about 5 times over not counting when it was actually originally shown on proper TV.

I still like the surprise of which episode will ITV4 play each day even if I have seen them all.

Not to mention enjoying seeing the technology or lack of it from yesteryear. Not sure about the now politically incorrect attitudes of the seventies though.
 

Glam

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I've got an old episode of the Sweeney playing in the background whilst I'm doing some work and just heard Regan and Carter talking about a villain -

Carter "Ricky Martin, currently doing three for robbery"
Regan "He should be doing ten for murder"

Personally, I didn't think Livin la Vida Loca was that bad back in the day 😂
I have every episode on that new fangled DVD fingy fing.

I've watched every episode about 5 times over not counting when it was actually originally shown on proper TV.

I still like the surprise of which episode will ITV4 play each day even if I have seen them all.

Not to mention enjoying seeing the technology or lack of it from yesteryear. Not sure about the now politically incorrect attitudes of the seventies though.
Love the Sweeney, sod political correctness, it was more entertaining than any episode of Prime Suspect or owt like that. I think I've watched every episode about same number of times as @Thehooperman .
Loved Life on Mars too. Gene Hunt, not quite the carbon copy of Regan, but very watchable.
 

BobClay

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I just finished watching the first series of 'Between the Lines' which I recorded last year. First broadcast in 1992 and I can remember recording it on a VHS video tape because I was working watches at the time. Not unsimilar to 'Line of Duty' but I found it surprisingly darker and more cynical than I remembered. (High up corruption in the Met ... topical even 30 years on.)
No mobile phones (at least as we know them,) very DOS like computer displays on enormous CRT monitors. Barring such gizmos, I'd say it was ahead of its time if similar modern series are anything to go by.
 

BobClay

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I see ITV are to broadcast a new series based on Len Deighton's book, The Ipcress File sometime in the Spring. It's set in the 60's, as of course was the book, twisting around the intricacies of Cold War espionage. From the trailer it looks like it will follow the book perhaps in more detail than the film did. There were no nuclear explosions in the film, but there were in the book. (Tests only.)
As a big fan of Len Deighton, particularly his early books, I'll be glued to the box for that. I can only hope they might follow it up and do the same for 'Funeral in Berlin.' which was my favourite book by Len Deighton.
 

littleme

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Startup

As its gone on I've got less into it, the carers got more into it.


Wanting to watch 'Inventing Anna' next.
 
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