Favourite TV Series

Definitely Ned.

 

I really liked 1883 - we seem to forget that today's equivalent of a waggon train to the new lands of the west is a trip the the ISS. 1923 I didn't really enjoy - all the one dimensional characters, plots and Helen Mirren's 'Oirish' accept. I didn't have much interest in 'Yellowstone'as one of my American friends in Vilnius was an ex-Federal Park Ranger (Ohio) - he gave up the job of 'interacting' with those who 'ranched' and prospected (mostly illegally) on federal lands to become a TEFL teacher after years of receiving death threats...

 

New series of Taskmaster starts tonight. Could be epic with Frankie Boyle or he could just be a miserable grumpy git.
Time will tell and generally how a series fares depends on the interation between contestants.

 

We can still catch AFC Richmond.

 

Our rivals m8.

 

I’m still waiting for us to catch Harchester Utd

 

I very rarely watch actual TV these days but there is a decent number of things I like on atm.

Race Across the World on BBC is class. Love that show. Taskmaster as you say is one of the best. Would I lie to you is brilliant. Gogglebox is my guilty pleasure. Quite enjoy Celeb bake off & hunted and of course the new season of Succession has started!

 

Hunted for me was a bit of a novelty the first series but it got too contrived and scripted. I suppose it was a necessity as those going on it could just have a stash of cash & tinned food somewhere for when the time comes and then just camp in the wilderness for a month.

 

Not sure if anybody has mentioned this but Pistols on Disney+ is a great watch

 

Blue Lights is the Beebs rookie cop drama set in Northern Ireland and it’s pretty darn good. The first, scene setting episode is a little slow, but by the end there is a growing sense of menace that builds in subsequent episodes. It’s not The Wire but it is, in that, like that great series, it reveals the interplay between social strata through crime.

The cast is excellent, particularly John Lynch, who has gone full Cantona and especially because there is no obligatory role for James Nesbitt. IMDB says 8.3.

In this clip, officers respond to reports of a woman with a knife in a Nationalist area of Belfast.

 

It’s by the same people but I just don’t like it. I prefer tempting fortune which has a better premise.

 

It’s nowhere near as good as the Traitors but I much prefer it to Rise and Fall. The dynamic is quite interesting when it comes to spending the money and reducing the prize pot.

 

Absolutely brilliant show!

One of the worst things about the pandemic was this show being a victim

 

Watched the first 2 episodes of this with Mrs D and agree that it is excellent.

 

If you are interested in Northern Ireland dramas the film ‘71 was a riveting, hard hitting thriller.

 

The fact that you don't know who the mole is sounds like a much better watch. I'll look that up later.

Much to my shame I started watching Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins USA in a moment of weakness. It's so much better than our one and I'm hooked. One episode to go.

 

Been watching the Night Agent on the Netflix.

Can't decide if it's excellent or horse manure yet. Suspense every 5 minutes but at the cost of credibility in a too convenient roller coaster storyline.

 

Wrong thread but I've just seen an abomination of a performance of Phaedra at the Lyttleton.

My friend didn't make the second half!

Having had forty five/fifty years on the terraces I can take a little profanity.

This however was just a **** fest and a waste of Janet Mcteer.

Shame.

 

Did you chant What the ******* hell is that? Followed by That’s why your (theatre audiences) going down, that’s why you’re going down. Or And you ******* it up second act and you ****ed it up second act.
To Janet Mcteer, what a waste of money and cry in a minute, she’s going to cry in a minute…

 

I saw this at the National and agree, it was terrible.

 

I only saw the advert for this, but what I thought was revealing was that if you become rich (presumably through exploiting, cheating and being an all round git to the others), then you are able to take it easy.

If you are 'poor' in the program, you have to do hard labour. You have to get your shirt sweaty. Put in some graft.

This is not reality! Loads of rich people have absolutely assured me that *nobody* works harder than them. They slog and sweat all hours in return for their riches.

Surely the 'rich' ones on the program ought to be the ones made to do all the hard work, whilst the 'poor' ones would all sit around drinking gin, scratching lottery cards and watching wide-screen TVs?

 

Hard to understand how the director managed to make such a total **** up of it really!

To coin a phrase!

 

It was fantastic last night, one of the best single episodes of TV since peak GOT. The writing and performances of the main characters were brilliant and had me hooked for the whole episode.

 

It was both shocking and brilliantly acted from start to finish. Such a shame it's the last series.

 

I couldn’t agree more. I’d love to see a spin off with Tom and Greg

 

I didn’t even believe it to the very end. I still don’t. Thought it was a trick. Which goes to show how well they’ve built the character over the years.

 

Yes, absolutely, me too, but careful no spoilers....

 

That’s exactly what I thought, waiting for the twist at the end

 

Yeah no Succesion spoilers please, want to blitz them all in one go.

 

If you come into the ‘tv shows’ thread the day after the biggest tv show in the world is broadcast in the UK and two days after the US broadcast, you're running an awful risk IMO.

 

Spoiler

we can still catch Brentford

 

The person who caused all the trouble in Succession is clearly:

Spoiler

Rob Edwards