New Tv series (REMEMBER: No Spoilers)

Fashanu and Bellew were blatantly going to stuff that task up

Fumbluff said:

PragueAddick said:

suzisausage said:

I was told I should watch it and was sent the theme tune to play as it was 'iconic'.

Watched it last night.  Didn't understand why there were all these English people in Amsterdam. And they changed the theme tune. 

Funny, as soon as I read of it on here, I was playing the original theme tune in my head, note by note. But I always thought it was a rather odd tune to choose for a detective series, and wondered if it had some other Dutch connection.

Wasn’t it also the Oranjeboom theme tune?

That dire lager? I'll try to look that up. I think Van Der Valk came first though, I think I was still at school when it was on.

Leroy Ambrose said:

SuedeAdidas said:

I’m not Bellew’s biggest fan - but at some point in this, I hope he puts Fashanu on his arse. 

Agreed. Fashanu is an absolute prick of a man. 

A bully and a narcissist, can’t remember if it was the BT sport documentary on the crazy gang, but even some of his team mates hated him, came across as a complete mug.

Van Der Valk was ok easy watching. There is a gentle background piano nod to the famous theme tune in this one if you listen carefully. One good thing about it is that the actors speak in their natural accents. I was worried it would be full of “Schteve McLarens”. I used to always hate in older movies that Ze Germans Spoke viz ze mock accent. We know they are Germans. They are the ones in the grey uniforms and swasticas  ffs!!!  Either speak normally and let us use our imaginations or speak in the other language and have subtitles. 

SuedeAdidas said:

cafcfan1990 said:

Watched 4 episodes of Gangs of London today. Decent without being fantastic so far but well worth a watch if it's your thing. 

Watched the first two. I think they just about get away with the amount of violence given its ‘stylised’ format. 

Gave up during the camp site scene in episode 2. I know it's TV and not meant to be true to life but fucking come on. Seen more believable episodes of Rainbow.

ValleyGary said:

That attempted choke out by Fashanu really wound me up. For Brendan Cole to call you a prick then you must have done something seriously wrong. Anthea Turner came across well and the instructors knew she tried her hardest.

Fashanu is a really unpleasant character and the way he treated his brother was pretty appalling.

I found the instructors referring to Anthea Turner's age all the time as pretty tedious.

Bellew seems very scary.

mendonca said:

Enjoyed S1 of Money Heist (in Spanish with Eng subtitles). Watching S2E1 made me feel it was all being drawn out longer than necessary, so hope am proven wrong with the next episode or two.

S1 was excellent. S2 good.

Love Stephen Graham and Daniel Mays but Code 404 was absolute tripe.

Blimey. Seems that Netflix is going to revive Borgen for a fourth series. That's the good news. Bad news is, may not hit screens before 2022. They expect to re-run previous series. If you've never seen it, enjoy political drama, and are OK with subtitles, you should give it a go.

Watched the 5th & 6th episodes of Devs tonight & at last, am beginning to see the light....

For the first time, am really looking forward to the final 2 next week.

Watched ‘Normal People’ in three sessions on iPlayer. I thought it was extremely good. Not easy to do  justice to a novel of that quality but it managed it.

guinnessaddick said:

Blucher said:

Watched ‘Normal People’ in three sessions on iPlayer. I thought it was extremely good. Not easy to do  justice to a novel of that quality but it managed it.

Shite goalkeeping in E1, even for GAA.

lad didn't even move

Did anyone see Friday nigh dinner tonight?? A few episodes haven't been great this year but wow what an end to the series. Hilarious!!! 

First series of Blood on Channel 5 catch up is good.