Decent Recent TV

[JLv3.0]

Always here to help - you, especially.

[Matty]

It's not recent, but I've started re-watching Better Off Ted which aired about 8 years ago.

The episode "Racial Sensitivity" where the sensors can't see black people is tremendous. Shame it only lasted 2 seasons.

[JLv3.0]

It really was a shame, it was a very good show.

[NotoriousREV]

I’ve started watching Mindhunter on Netflix. We’re 3 episodes in and it’s pretty good. It’s a fictionalised account of the FBI’s attempts to understand serial killers in the 70s, based on the book and work of John Douglas. The pacing is a bit uneven but there’s some great performances in it. Cameron Britton as the serial killer Ed Kemper is amazing, he gets these moments where he’s this stable, likeable guy chatting about his life but he gets darker and more intense when talking about certain things but it’s so natural and subtle, like the humanity drains from him slowly.

[duncs500]

Yeah, we loved Mindhunter, slow burn but it sucks you in. Think there's another season coming at some point.

[JLv3.0]

its well worth a watch - the amount of stuff the new lawyer finds wrong with the original evidence is mind-boggling.

Yeah, whether Avery and Dassey are guilty or not, the incompetence of the police and FBI, and the arrogance of the DA and his department, is stunning.

Half way through S2. I can only watch it in short stints as it just infuriates me at the outstanding incompetence and arrogance of the prosecution and the defence.

I watched the first two episodes of S2 last night and don't know if I'm going to continue. Yes, the current situation is a child of almost mind-boggling incompetence, but frankly I'm finding the new-school "this raises a question mark therefore I'm automatically right and they're wrong" just as insulting.

For example - the blood near the ignition key that was IMPOSSIBLE for Avery to have smeared there himself? Well - no. Improbable, perhaps, on the basis of how one normally holds a key. But what if he wasn't holding the key that way?

What if he'd managed to unhook a truly exceptional booger and was holding it at the end of an extended middle finger in order to preserve it and in doing so, was more than able to bridge the two-inch gap between a normal key grip and this booger-preservation style? I can readily assume his middle finger is more than two inches long, therefore it is not impossible.

OK - a less facetious example. The confession that was clearly under duress according to the normal conversational cues of the defendant. Do these strict rules apply to someone who is educationally impaired?

Raising a question mark is not the same as definitively disproving a previous outcome and it smacks of sensationalism. In fact - the whole internet warrior response to Season 1, whereby the viewer assumes his / her ability to watch a documentary series entitles him / her to march and protest and get REALLY JOLLY CROSS ABOUT THINGS is absolutely shameful.

So that's that. I don't think I'll be continuing.

[dinny_g]

They Shall Not Grow Old - Peter Jackson's Great War documentary.

Truly stunning - quite literally takes your breath away at the moment the colourised and normalised (in terms of speed) footage starts.

The saddest part was the rank and file soldier talking about his German counterpart who were basically the same as them.

[Rich B]

Yeah, whether Avery and Dassey are guilty or not, the incompetence of the police and FBI, and the arrogance of the DA and his department, is stunning.

Half way through S2. I can only watch it in short stints as it just infuriates me at the outstanding incompetence and arrogance of the prosecution and the defence.

I watched the first two episodes of S2 last night and don't know if I'm going to continue. Yes, the current situation is a child of almost mind-boggling incompetence, but frankly I'm finding the new-school "this raises a question mark therefore I'm automatically right and they're wrong" just as insulting.

For example - the blood near the ignition key that was IMPOSSIBLE for Avery to have smeared there himself? Well - no. Improbable, perhaps, on the basis of how one normally holds a key. But what if he wasn't holding the key that way?

What if he'd managed to unhook a truly exceptional booger and was holding it at the end of an extended middle finger in order to preserve it and in doing so, was more than able to bridge the two-inch gap between a normal key grip and this booger-preservation style? I can readily assume his middle finger is more than two inches long, therefore it is not impossible.

OK - a less facetious example. The confession that was clearly under duress according to the normal conversational cues of the defendant. Do these strict rules apply to someone who is educationally impaired?

Raising a question mark is not the same as definitively disproving a previous outcome and it smacks of sensationalism. In fact - the whole internet warrior response to Season 1, whereby the viewer assumes his / her ability to watch a documentary series entitles him / her to march and protest and get REALLY JOLLY CROSS ABOUT THINGS is absolutely shameful.

So that's that. I don't think I'll be continuing.

Stick with it - I know exactly what you mean but it does get more solid.

[JLv3.0]

Ah good stuff, I will do in that case. Tbh your comment quoted above wouldn't have sat easily with me had it been based on just the first two episodes as I would have imagined you would have reached the same conclusions as me - barring, perhaps, The Booger Theory

[Rich B]

Yeah, the whole “simple repeating back the same statement to the expert whilst sounding incredulous” in the first few episodes was a bit insulting - but it gets better!

[Swervin_Mervin]

They Shall Not Grow Old - Peter Jackson's Great War documentary.

Truly stunning - quite literally takes your breath away at the moment the colourised and normalised (in terms of speed) footage starts.

The saddest part was the rank and file soldier talking about his German counterpart who were basically the same as them.

The bit that got me was the guy describing his mate that had gone down in the 1st wave who was crying for his mum and had injuries that would likely be fatal. So the chap put him out of his misery

[ZedLeg]

They Shall Not Grow Old - Peter Jackson's Great War documentary.

Truly stunning - quite literally takes your breath away at the moment the colourised and normalised (in terms of speed) footage starts.

The saddest part was the rank and file soldier talking about his German counterpart who were basically the same as them.

The bit that got me was the guy describing his mate that had gone down in the 1st wave who was crying for his mum and had injuries that would likely be fatal. So the chap put him out of his misery

Watched this on iPlayer last night, it's a tough watch. Really brings the futility of the war home, all that carnage for the sake of some imperial posturing.

[nuttinnew]

The Billy Monger Story;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p ... nger-story

[nuttinnew]

Car Crash; Who's Lying?;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p ... whos-lying

[speedingfine]

Car Crash; Who's Lying?;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p ... whos-lying

Saw that, it was very good.


Britain's Biggest Warship - HMS QE
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b08zpp

Watched the first one of these, excellent.

[IanF]

“Inside the Foreign Office” on BBC2. Fascinating insight into the work the government does worldwide. Today’s was about getting a 17yo British girl out of Iraq whose family was trying to force her into marriage with her first cousin, and the guys who had that pool party in Cambodia. We found it quite interesting.

[Swervin_Mervin]

“Inside the Foreign Office” on BBC2. Fascinating insight into the work the government does worldwide. Today’s was about getting a 17yo British girl out of Iraq whose family was trying to force her into marriage with her first cousin, and the guys who had that pool party in Cambodia. We found it quite interesting.

It's actually a really good programme that probably ought to be on a syllabus - you get to see so much about how this country operates on a day to day basis behind the farce that is our political system.

[Jobbo]

Vic and Bob’s Big Night Out. Utterly brilliant and way better than the one-off special they did a year or two ago.

[JLv3.0]

Vic and Bob’s Big Night Out. Utterly brilliant and way better than the one-off special they did a year or two ago.

Oh this is out already?!! I only just heard they were making more of them! I vividly remember Big Night Out when it was new - second year of 6th form at the time, it was massive.

[Jobbo]

Started at 10pm on Wednesday, BBC4. It's on iPlayer if you can get it