What are we watching on TV?

[littleme]

Villain

Netflix 2020

Villain (2020) - IMDb

Villain: Directed by Philip Barantini. With Craig Fairbrass, George Russo, Izuka Hoyle, Mark Monero. Eddie Franks is a former criminal who attempts to help his family by reconnecting with his daughter and clearing his brother's debt. Despite his efforts, he is drawn back into a criminal way of...

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[Gramaisc]

I'm working my way through Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - virtually a documentary about life in mid-70s England, outside the Home Counties.

 

[Gramaisc]

I'm working my way through Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - virtually a documentary about life in mid-70s England, outside the Home Counties.

In the Black Horse in tonight's episode - in 1974.

Half pint of lager.
Pint of bitter.
Roast beef sandwich + chutney.
Pickled onion.
Pasty.
Cheese sandwich.
Scotch egg.
Packet of crisps.
Two sausages + mustard.

Total = 82p.

 

[BobClay]

Interestingly I was freelancing at sea that year for £16.00 per day. Believe it or not, that was mega-money at the time. Downside was it was a Liberian registered ship that was ... shall we say ... a bit iffy in terms of safety. Did 8 months on her but I'm still here ....

 

[Gramaisc]

Interestingly I was freelancing at sea that year for £16.00 per day. Believe it or not, that was mega-money at the time. Downside was it was a Liberian registered ship that was ... shall we say ... a bit iffy in terms of safety. Did 8 months on her but I'm still here ....

You flash bastard!

I was on £17 - a week!

 

[Bob]

And just like that

Hmmm I don’t remember Sex and the City being a cinematic marvel but this is scraping the barrel bit time, I’ll keep watching I’m sure, just to see what happens but it’s not good

 

[littleme]

The last leg

 

[Trumpet]

Just watched Love Actually.........again!

 

[Trumpet]

The last leg

Boy is good mates with Brooker, went to University together, still have occasional nights on the p*ss.

 

[littleme]

Boy is good mates with Brooker, went to University together, still have occasional nights on the p*ss.

He, always seems a great, down to earth bloke!

 

[Trumpet]

He is, very much so.

 

[SketchyMagpie]

Decided to have another crack at watching "Don't F*** With Cats" on Netflix, had to tap out after 5 minutes on my first attempt a few years ago because the subject matter is so upsetting. But I braved through the first episode and, wowser.... I was aware of this case as it was happening (as many were, I guess) and remember him being caught but completely missed all of the non-animal stuff.

I was expecting this to be just be about a cat killer being tracked down by internet sleuths. Took me by surprise to see where it's gone, to say the least!

 

[BobClay]

Watched the first episode of what they're saying will be the last series of 'The Expanse' on Amazon Prime. I read all the books after watching the first series. (I did the same with Game of Thrones some years ago now, the later series of that actually went beyond the books but with the approval of George RR Martin.) 'The Expanse' is really quite good for TV SciFi and is more about the storylines and the characters than the effects ... (which are quite good.)
I can't binge it as they're releasing one episode at a time. If I croak just before last episode, there's going to be some serious shit going down just outside the Pearly Gates.

 

[SketchyMagpie]

Watched the first episode of what they're saying will be the last series of 'The Expanse' on Amazon Prime. I read all the books after watching the first series. (I did the same with Game of Thrones some years ago now, the later series of that actually went beyond the books but with the approval of George RR Martin.) 'The Expanse' is really quite good for TV SciFi and is more about the storylines and the characters than the effects ... (which are quite good.)
I can't binge it as they're releasing one episode at a time. If I croak just before last episode, there's going to be some serious shit going down just outside the Pearly Gates.

Have you read the final book, book number 9, that just came out a week or two ago? I'm halfway through that currently, good stuff.

I must admit the show doesn't do much for me, in that it doesn't live up to what was in my head. It has its moments, but I'm a bit disappointed that it will be ending a few books short as I think some of the better material is in the last few. Hopefully they'll do movies or something to finish it off.

Plus, you know, shame they had to kill a main character off because of the actor being a creep....

 

[BobClay]

Cancelling shows that are very popular isn't that new. They cancelled 'Firefly' despite its popularity. The wrap up movie (Serenity) was good, but there was so much more potential in the series. Now I hear Disney are going to reboot it !!! (Effing joke or what ?)

 

[SketchyMagpie]

I was wondering if they chose to end it here because of the

Spoiler

30-year time jump

that occurs between books 6 and 7, I guess they'd either have to scrap that or change the story significantly?

 

[BobClay]

The theory with books is, as far as I can see: see the film/TV/whatever, then read the book. You get so much more. Now with a serialised session that idea goes by the way, hence, with GOT, it only worked for me with the first book. By season 2 I'd read all the books, but in all fairness they did a good job of it.
Many years ago, I read the Len Deighton spy books of the sixties (The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin, Billion Dollar Brain etc) before the films. I enjoyed the films as very 60's culture, but .. they weren't really about the books. The books were not the popular idea of the Ian Fleming view of the intelligence services. They were very grey and cynical views of that game. I can personally relate to that.
With SciFi I read the 'Dune' books decades ago, so when David Lynch decided to film it ... OH ... and rewrite it ... I was utterly disgusted with his effort. I'm curious to see the latest film manifestation of Dune from Dennis Villeneuve. (I will say the TV series of the books were quite good but suffered from budget restrictions.)

 

[SketchyMagpie]

The theory with books is, as far as I can see: see the film/TV/whatever, then read the book. You get so much more.

I kind of prefer to read the books first if I'm honest, though, because otherwise you're stuck with the versions of the characters that appeared on TV whereas I like to do my own minds-eye casting, plus your reading will be coloured by how it played out on-screen. Like I say, I prefer what was in my head to what the show did.

For example, I can't stand TV version of James Holden. He's so one-dimensional compared to the book. Conversely, TV Bobbie and Amos are so good that they wound up "over-writing" my minds-eye image of the characters.

 

[littleme]

Cancelling shows that are very popular isn't that new. They cancelled 'Firefly' despite its popularity. The wrap up movie (Serenity) was good, but there was so much more potential in the series. Now I hear Disney are going to reboot it !!! (Effing joke or what ?)

Isn't that a very Netflix thing... I swear they cancel everything that I love....


*hope Stranger things is safe from the culling

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

We're ditching Sky after many years and getting a freesat recorder box to supplement the existing Disney+ subscription (in addition were going to subscribe to Netflix....)...

Happy to see that they have restored channel 4 hd to the freesat channel lineup...