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240PP wrote: ↑Sat Dec 30, 2023 11:21 am It’s already been mentioned on this thread but we’ve just finished the second series of Slow Horses. Best thing I’ve seen in ages!

jamcg wrote: ↑Sat Dec 30, 2023 10:08 am We share the tv in our house, and with me being off I’ve been in the room whilst the wife has had eastenders on. Fuck me it’s shite. Right down to how the police operate, can’t even get basic procedure right

scotta wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:54 pm Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Terrifyingly brilliant. You couldn't write a script for that.

Ascender wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:12 pm Mrs Mike has been watching Fool Me Once on Netflix which means I have also been watching it.

It's a murder mystery thing whose premise is that the grieving widow sees her dead hubby pop-up on a nanny cam and she starts investigating. Her husband is from a rich upper class background and there's possibly links to a death years earlier at a private school etc.

It's properly bat-shit insane stuff and I can only imagine that the writer was coked out of their tree when they wrote this and decided it would be 8 episodes long instead of a tight 2 hours.

After about 3 episodes, the one thing that kept coming back to me was the lawyer in The Simpsons who says to Homer that the best way to get him out of jail will be "surprise witnesses, each more surprising than the last. I tell you, the judge won't know what hit him!?"

I have no idea why half the characters exist. Plots or clues get setup then forgotten about. Plot holes abound. People act intelligently one minute, like absolute idiots the next. The police are just making stuff up as they go.

Of course Mrs Mike loves it.

Actually, this sums it up better.

Ascender wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:42 pm

scotta wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:54 pm Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Terrifyingly brilliant. You couldn't write a script for that.

Just finished this. Cracking TV but an utterly appalling series of events.

Zonda_ wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:42 pm Other half binged it, it was rubbish.

unzippy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:06 am

dinny_g wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:37 pm Reacher on Prime

I must confess, I have a weakness for rubbish TV (I watch the Magnum Reboot religiously ffs ) but on a scale of Rubbish where 1 is a small swing bin in the bathroom to 10, a large scale Industrial Waste Disposal Centre, this is a Large Scale Industrial Waste Disposal Centre that also handles commercial Asbestos waste

I’m 4 episodes in already…

At least they chose the right lead as he’s 6’ 5” and built like a brick shithouse.

Thoroughly enjoyed it. It's been 25 years since Killing Floor was written

dinny_g wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:37 am

unzippy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:06 am

dinny_g wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:37 pm Reacher on Prime

I must confess, I have a weakness for rubbish TV (I watch the Magnum Reboot religiously ffs ) but on a scale of Rubbish where 1 is a small swing bin in the bathroom to 10, a large scale Industrial Waste Disposal Centre, this is a Large Scale Industrial Waste Disposal Centre that also handles commercial Asbestos waste

I’m 4 episodes in already…

At least they chose the right lead as he’s 6’ 5” and built like a brick shithouse.

Thoroughly enjoyed it. It's been 25 years since Killing Floor was written

Still watching the new series but the second series isn't as good - the lone Samaritan helping folks in need works, the 'team' angle doesn't.

there was a classic line in a review from the Irish Times:

How Reacher investigates crimes is not how Sherlock Holmes investigates crimes. It’s a little more like how the alien in Alien investigates chest cavities.

Explosive Newt wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:57 pm Good lord they brought back Gladiators.

It's already terrible

ETA:
Actually I retract that now the womens' round has started

jamcg wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:15 pm I loved it, it’s like the 90’s show I grew up with unlike skys attempt at reviving it. Brings back memories of being 6 year old watching the first episode