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Either Saruman or Voldemort is the traitor.McBobbin said:
The second Australian series is magic. I can't say anymore without spoiling itcarly burn said:
Yep. Never watched it before. Not really sure why? It's right up my street.AFKABartram said:Never watched it before but 1st episode of Traitors had me gripped. Can see why it’s so popular
So I started the latest series and I've gone very full on and can't wait for the next episode.
I've just binged the very first series over 2 nights!! Can see me watching the American, Australian and Venezuelan series at this rate just to get my fix!
What is happening to me?2 -
Betty Gilpin has been great in everything I’ve seen her in.Chunes said:American Primeval on Netflix is excellent. Very gritty western limited series with a great story.2 -
+1 for this, we are really enjoying it 👍🏻thewolfboy said:'Patience' (Ch 4) is like an english version of 'Astrid: Murder in Paris.' Set in York, so a pleasant background. Excellent, I think, but I'm a sucker for autistic series: Monk etc.1 -
Yes. Astrid is better. A blatant copy by channel 4eaststandmike said:
+1 for this, we are really enjoying it 👍🏻thewolfboy said:'Patience' (Ch 4) is like an english version of 'Astrid: Murder in Paris.' Set in York, so a pleasant background. Excellent, I think, but I'm a sucker for autistic series: Monk etc.2 -
Severance is great. Only discovered the first season in December so glad I haven't had to wait 3 years!4
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Last episode of S2 of Silo, straight into first episode of S2 of Severance
Both 10 out of 10 - cannot stress enough how good these two shows are. Up there with Mr Robot, Breaking Bad and The Wire.
Severance had a lot to live up to after the superb first series and a three year wait for the second, but it lived up to it and more.4 -
Started watching the English Game it is one of those football dramas for football fans.
Also saw that Luis Figo documentary - must say that was very dramatic.0 -
Just watched the 4 part documentary about the 7/7 bombings in London (2005), well worth a watch still have vivid memories of that day, wasn't caught up in any of the bombings but I was working in The City and Mrs H was travelling on the Northern Line around at the time the bombs went of on the tube, as was her sister who was working in Aldgate at the time and was herded into a pub by the police to get her (and others) of the street. I'm sure others on here were in a similar situation.0
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What is it, a Katie Price documentary?guinnessaddick said:3 - Sponsored links:
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Anyone delved into 3 Body Problem on Netflix yet? Really enjoyed the first two episodes and then suddenly hit a wall half way through the third and losing interest rapidly. Is it worth sticking with?0
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No, but I did see an advert yesterday during a break in Sunday Bunch on channel 4, Katie Price making babies, her journey with IVF. FFS.eaststandmike said:
What is it, a Katie Price documentary?guinnessaddick said:0 -
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Is the Bayeux Tapestry a spoiler?carly burn said:0 -
I liked it a lot, all the way through.Sillybilly said:Anyone delved into 3 Body Problem on Netflix yet? Really enjoyed the first two episodes and then suddenly hit a wall half way through the third and losing interest rapidly. Is it worth sticking with?3 -
Binged Video Nasty on iPlayer yesterday. Enjoyed it. Thriller/black comedy which looks at the Video Nasty moral panic in the 80s.
3 youngsters from Ireland head to England to collect the final tape in the official video nasty list. All unravels from there.
Murder and mayhem and a very Straw Dogs feel to the village they end up in.1 -
One thing I've never understood is why so many British drama series get their endings so horrifically wrong?
Like all of us, I've watched a fair few American series and nearly every one I've watched ends with an excellent and satisfying end.
Do the producers of British drama not watch the American stuff and draw inspiration?
A recent example. We watched the ITV drama ' Playing nice'.
This had the story potential to be good but what it amounted to was a load of guff with one of the most ridiculous endings I think I've seen.
In opposition,I've just finished the first series of ' Severance' and the ending was exemplary (I know there's a second series that I've not yet watched).
ITV are so consistently bad at this. Beeb a bit better, but the yanks win hands down I'm afraid.3 -
In reality most programmes are sold to broadcasters first and then made by independent production companies.carly burn said:One thing I've never understood is why so many British drama series get their endings so horrifically wrong?
Like all of us, I've watched a fair few American series and nearly every one I've watched ends with an excellent and satisfying end.
Do the producers of British drama not watch the American stuff and draw inspiration?
A recent example. We watched the ITV drama ' Playing nice'.
This had the story potential to be good but what it amounted to was a load of guff with one of the most ridiculous endings I think I've seen.
In opposition,I've just finished the first series of ' Severance' and the ending was exemplary (I know there's a second series that I've not yet watched).
ITV are so consistently bad at this. Beeb a bit better, but the yanks win hands down I'm afraid.It’s about the quality of writers and the production not the corporations.Of course how much they can afford to pay may influence the quality they buy. They are buying ‘blind’ in large part based off a script or maybe a demo/outline.0 -
Two things from that day for me.HastingsRed said:Just watched the 4 part documentary about the 7/7 bombings in London (2005), well worth a watch still have vivid memories of that day, wasn't caught up in any of the bombings but I was working in The City and Mrs H was travelling on the Northern Line around at the time the bombs went of on the tube, as was her sister who was working in Aldgate at the time and was herded into a pub by the police to get her (and others) of the street. I'm sure others on here were in a similar situation.
1) I was teaching at Thomas Tallis back then.Any of you who went there or were Tallis parents back then may remember that on 7/7 the school had arranged what they called a “Big day out” where pretty much every student and all but a handful of staff were going on trips in and around London.Nearly all free venues, so loads were heading to museums in town on coaches, buses, rail and tubes. I was on a coach to Hornimann museum when we got the first news. By the time we got off at the museum, the school had made the decision to get everyone back to school, so we got straight back on and headed back.
I can’t describe how stressful that day was. Imagine a school of over 1000 kids where pretty much every parent is (understandably) worried that their kid is safe.
2) On that day, an old school friend of mine died on the tube at Aldgate. 34 years old. Was due to get married that year. RIP Lee.
Edit: Sorry, just occurred to me that this is maybe the wrong thread for this. The post above just made me think of it. Apologies.9 -
Please do not apologise @lordromford
Finally got around to The Day of the Jackal. Half way in and I’m hugely disappointed. It just reminds me of all the reasons we never watch police/secret service stuff. It’s just so full of inconsistency. God knows what people in firearms must think of it 😳 I know there has to be a level of artistic license but this is way out there. Don’t think it helps that the two main characters are totally unbelievable imho.
I’ll watch it until the end now I know who Noah is (I like him as an actor & am really hoping he can save it).
Really makes me realise how good The Wire was. That was bang on the money for realism.2 - Sponsored links:
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Said it earlier on here, Eddie Redmayne is a shit actor.KBslittlesis said:Please do not apologise @lordromford
Finally got around to The Day of the Jackal. Half way in and I’m hugely disappointed. It just reminds me of all the reasons we never watch police/secret service stuff. It’s just so full of inconsistency. God knows what people in firearms must think of it 😳 I know there has to be a level of artistic license but this is way out there. Don’t think it helps that the two main characters are totally unbelievable imho.
I’ll watch it until the end now I know who Noah is (I like him as an actor & am really hoping he can save it).
Really makes me realise how good The Wire was. That was bang on the money for realism.
also didn't care at all about the MI5 woman's family life or the scenes involving the Jackals family really.1 -
Did you watch the American TV show LOST. It was truly awful. Same with how I met your mother.carly burn said:One thing I've never understood is why so many British drama series get their endings so horrifically wrong?
Like all of us, I've watched a fair few American series and nearly every one I've watched ends with an excellent and satisfying end.
Do the producers of British drama not watch the American stuff and draw inspiration?
A recent example. We watched the ITV drama ' Playing nice'.
This had the story potential to be good but what it amounted to was a load of guff with one of the most ridiculous endings I think I've seen.
In opposition,I've just finished the first series of ' Severance' and the ending was exemplary (I know there's a second series that I've not yet watched).
ITV are so consistently bad at this. Beeb a bit better, but the yanks win hands down I'm afraid.Gavin and Stacey only a couple of weeks ago, decent ending.Totally down to the quality of the writers on the show not geography.0 -
Is this new or an older series? I heard Sky were working on a new documentary but I can only find an older BBC 4 parter on catchup.HastingsRed said:Just watched the 4 part documentary about the 7/7 bombings in London (2005), well worth a watch still have vivid memories of that day, wasn't caught up in any of the bombings but I was working in The City and Mrs H was travelling on the Northern Line around at the time the bombs went of on the tube, as was her sister who was working in Aldgate at the time and was herded into a pub by the police to get her (and others) of the street. I'm sure others on here were in a similar situation.0 -
I absolutely loved Lost!BalladMan said:
Did you watch the American TV show LOST. It was truly awful. Same with how I met your mother.carly burn said:One thing I've never understood is why so many British drama series get their endings so horrifically wrong?
Like all of us, I've watched a fair few American series and nearly every one I've watched ends with an excellent and satisfying end.
Do the producers of British drama not watch the American stuff and draw inspiration?
A recent example. We watched the ITV drama ' Playing nice'.
This had the story potential to be good but what it amounted to was a load of guff with one of the most ridiculous endings I think I've seen.
In opposition,I've just finished the first series of ' Severance' and the ending was exemplary (I know there's a second series that I've not yet watched).
ITV are so consistently bad at this. Beeb a bit better, but the yanks win hands down I'm afraid.Gavin and Stacey only a couple of weeks ago, decent ending.Totally down to the quality of the writers on the show not geography.
The ending was a bit muddled, but in god knows how many episodes, I don't think I saw a bad one1 -
Lol, we find the same about the police, security service and overseas stuff! But whilst it doesn't stop us point put the errors, we have learned to enjoy things what what they are, despite of the all errors.KBslittlesis said:Please do not apologise @lordromford
Finally got around to The Day of the Jackal. Half way in and I’m hugely disappointed. It just reminds me of all the reasons we never watch police/secret service stuff. It’s just so full of inconsistency. God knows what people in firearms must think of it 😳 I know there has to be a level of artistic license but this is way out there. Don’t think it helps that the two main characters are totally unbelievable imho.
I’ll watch it until the end now I know who Noah is (I like him as an actor & am really hoping he can save it).
Really makes me realise how good The Wire was. That was bang on the money for realism.
So many poor, underwhelming endings though. And once it is out there is another series, it kind of hints at likely series ending, although there have been some great cliff hanger season endings1 -
Another fan of Silo here. Binged both series since the start of the year and can’t wait now for the next two series to come round to close off the story.Into series 2 of Foundation and will stick with it, but not a patch on the above.
Watched the first episode of The Agency. Dark and brooding, looks promising.2 -
No need to apologise sorry if my thread brought back such painful memories...RIP to your old mate Lee.lordromford said:
Two things from that day for me.HastingsRed said:Just watched the 4 part documentary about the 7/7 bombings in London (2005), well worth a watch still have vivid memories of that day, wasn't caught up in any of the bombings but I was working in The City and Mrs H was travelling on the Northern Line around at the time the bombs went of on the tube, as was her sister who was working in Aldgate at the time and was herded into a pub by the police to get her (and others) of the street. I'm sure others on here were in a similar situation.
1) I was teaching at Thomas Tallis back then.Any of you who went there or were Tallis parents back then may remember that on 7/7 the school had arranged what they called a “Big day out” where pretty much every student and all but a handful of staff were going on trips in and around London.Nearly all free venues, so loads were heading to museums in town on coaches, buses, rail and tubes. I was on a coach to Hornimann museum when we got the first news. By the time we got off at the museum, the school had made the decision to get everyone back to school, so we got straight back on and headed back.
I can’t describe how stressful that day was. Imagine a school of over 1000 kids where pretty much every parent is (understandably) worried that their kid is safe.
2) On that day, an old school friend of mine died on the tube at Aldgate. 34 years old. Was due to get married that year. RIP Lee.
Edit: Sorry, just occurred to me that this is maybe the wrong thread for this. The post above just made me think of it. Apologies.1 -
Mrkinski said:
Is this new or an older series? I heard Sky were working on a new documentary but I can only find an older BBC 4 parter on catchup.HastingsRed said:Just watched the 4 part documentary about the 7/7 bombings in London (2005), well worth a watch still have vivid memories of that day, wasn't caught up in any of the bombings but I was working in The City and Mrs H was travelling on the Northern Line around at the time the bombs went of on the tube, as was her sister who was working in Aldgate at the time and was herded into a pub by the police to get her (and others) of the street. I'm sure others on here were in a similar situation.
New as far as I'm aware.Mrkinski said:
Is this new or an older series? I heard Sky were working on a new documentary but I can only find an older BBC 4 parter on catchup.HastingsRed said:Just watched the 4 part documentary about the 7/7 bombings in London (2005), well worth a watch still have vivid memories of that day, wasn't caught up in any of the bombings but I was working in The City and Mrs H was travelling on the Northern Line around at the time the bombs went of on the tube, as was her sister who was working in Aldgate at the time and was herded into a pub by the police to get her (and others) of the street. I'm sure others on here were in a similar situation.0 -
The ending was awful and one of the most panned of all time. Incredible first season, and trailed off season by season.carly burn said:
I absolutely loved Lost!BalladMan said:
Did you watch the American TV show LOST. It was truly awful. Same with how I met your mother.carly burn said:One thing I've never understood is why so many British drama series get their endings so horrifically wrong?
Like all of us, I've watched a fair few American series and nearly every one I've watched ends with an excellent and satisfying end.
Do the producers of British drama not watch the American stuff and draw inspiration?
A recent example. We watched the ITV drama ' Playing nice'.
This had the story potential to be good but what it amounted to was a load of guff with one of the most ridiculous endings I think I've seen.
In opposition,I've just finished the first series of ' Severance' and the ending was exemplary (I know there's a second series that I've not yet watched).
ITV are so consistently bad at this. Beeb a bit better, but the yanks win hands down I'm afraid.Gavin and Stacey only a couple of weeks ago, decent ending.Totally down to the quality of the writers on the show not geography.
The ending was a bit muddled, but in god knows how many episodes, I don't think I saw a bad one0 -
The first couple of seasons are good, the time jump stuff is where it really veers off course. That being said the episode covering Richard’s backstory (“ab aeterno”) is astonishingly good.BalladMan said:
The ending was awful and one of the most panned of all time. Incredible first season, and trailed off season by season.carly burn said:
I absolutely loved Lost!BalladMan said:
Did you watch the American TV show LOST. It was truly awful. Same with how I met your mother.carly burn said:One thing I've never understood is why so many British drama series get their endings so horrifically wrong?
Like all of us, I've watched a fair few American series and nearly every one I've watched ends with an excellent and satisfying end.
Do the producers of British drama not watch the American stuff and draw inspiration?
A recent example. We watched the ITV drama ' Playing nice'.
This had the story potential to be good but what it amounted to was a load of guff with one of the most ridiculous endings I think I've seen.
In opposition,I've just finished the first series of ' Severance' and the ending was exemplary (I know there's a second series that I've not yet watched).
ITV are so consistently bad at this. Beeb a bit better, but the yanks win hands down I'm afraid.Gavin and Stacey only a couple of weeks ago, decent ending.Totally down to the quality of the writers on the show not geography.
The ending was a bit muddled, but in god knows how many episodes, I don't think I saw a bad one0
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