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  • Has anyone watched Dept Q and read the books?
    I’ve got 2 and a bit books left to read and I don’t want to watch this new adaptation if it spoils any of the books I’ve yet to finish.
    I’m aware it’s set in Scotland not Denmark etc etc but I ultimately don’t want to have any potential spoilers for the main characters.
  • Former Race Across the World contestant Sam Gardiner has died after a crash.

    The 24-year-old had been driving on the A34 near Manchester on Monday night when his car left the road and rolled before landing on its side.


    He travelled with his mum on the South American race. Very sad, he seemed a very nice & caring lad.

  • Only ever seem to write about things I enjoy watching, so taking a different approach of pulling out a couple of stinkers.

    Gangs of London was already ridiculously far fetched in S1 and 2, but S3 is just pathetic and the episode I watched last night (the Lale one) was just awful. Will see this season out and that’s it.

    started watching Ted Lasso with the fam over the last couple of months, and we absolutely love it. However the Coach Beard episode after the City cup game in S2 was just so out of character with the series and just, well crap. 
  • Well I'm watching 1883 again and it's just as good second time round. Missus never saw it and we want to watch 1923 and yellowstone
  • Former Race Across the World contestant Sam Gardiner has died after a crash.

    The 24-year-old had been driving on the A34 near Manchester on Monday night when his car left the road and rolled before landing on its side.


    He travelled with his mum on the South American race. Very sad, he seemed a very nice & caring lad.

    Absolutely heartbreaking 💔 
  • Only ever seem to write about things I enjoy watching, so taking a different approach of pulling out a couple of stinkers.

    Gangs of London was already ridiculously far fetched in S1 and 2, but S3 is just pathetic and the episode I watched last night (the Lale one) was just awful. Will see this season out and that’s it.

    started watching Ted Lasso with the fam over the last couple of months, and we absolutely love it. However the Coach Beard episode after the City cup game in S2 was just so out of character with the series and just, well crap. 
    same re Ted Lasso, as got an apple trial for half term. Saw that episode yesterday and it was reminiscent of Bouncer's dream from Neighbours, no point to it at all from a story point of view
  • Only ever seem to write about things I enjoy watching, so taking a different approach of pulling out a couple of stinkers.

    Gangs of London was already ridiculously far fetched in S1 and 2, but S3 is just pathetic and the episode I watched last night (the Lale one) was just awful. Will see this season out and that’s it.

    started watching Ted Lasso with the fam over the last couple of months, and we absolutely love it. However the Coach Beard episode after the City cup game in S2 was just so out of character with the series and just, well crap. 
    Always think half the fun of Beard is the bit of mystery about him, the fact they only hint at the stuff he gets up to etc, so showing it could never be as fun as that anyway.
  • McBobbin said:
    Only ever seem to write about things I enjoy watching, so taking a different approach of pulling out a couple of stinkers.

    Gangs of London was already ridiculously far fetched in S1 and 2, but S3 is just pathetic and the episode I watched last night (the Lale one) was just awful. Will see this season out and that’s it.

    started watching Ted Lasso with the fam over the last couple of months, and we absolutely love it. However the Coach Beard episode after the City cup game in S2 was just so out of character with the series and just, well crap. 
    same re Ted Lasso, as got an apple trial for half term. Saw that episode yesterday and it was reminiscent of Bouncer's dream from Neighbours, no point to it at all from a story point of view
    Took my kids over Richmond last week, had a drink in the pub, stood outside his flat, the phone box etc. Kids loved it and we alone repeatedly saw ‘we’ve been there’ when watching scenes. Even a Lasso souvenir shop in that alley now 
  • McBobbin said:
    Only ever seem to write about things I enjoy watching, so taking a different approach of pulling out a couple of stinkers.

    Gangs of London was already ridiculously far fetched in S1 and 2, but S3 is just pathetic and the episode I watched last night (the Lale one) was just awful. Will see this season out and that’s it.

    started watching Ted Lasso with the fam over the last couple of months, and we absolutely love it. However the Coach Beard episode after the City cup game in S2 was just so out of character with the series and just, well crap. 
    same re Ted Lasso, as got an apple trial for half term. Saw that episode yesterday and it was reminiscent of Bouncer's dream from Neighbours, no point to it at all from a story point of view
    Took my kids over Richmond last week, had a drink in the pub, stood outside his flat, the phone box etc. Kids loved it and we alone repeatedly saw ‘we’ve been there’ when watching scenes. Even a Lasso souvenir shop in that alley now 
    What about Selhurst?
  • MobLand is brilliant. Don't want it to end. Ever.
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  • McBobbin said:
    Only ever seem to write about things I enjoy watching, so taking a different approach of pulling out a couple of stinkers.

    Gangs of London was already ridiculously far fetched in S1 and 2, but S3 is just pathetic and the episode I watched last night (the Lale one) was just awful. Will see this season out and that’s it.

    started watching Ted Lasso with the fam over the last couple of months, and we absolutely love it. However the Coach Beard episode after the City cup game in S2 was just so out of character with the series and just, well crap. 
    same re Ted Lasso, as got an apple trial for half term. Saw that episode yesterday and it was reminiscent of Bouncer's dream from Neighbours, no point to it at all from a story point of view
    Took my kids over Richmond last week, had a drink in the pub, stood outside his flat, the phone box etc. Kids loved it and we alone repeatedly saw ‘we’ve been there’ when watching scenes. Even a Lasso souvenir shop in that alley now 
    What about Selhurst?
    They were happy to skip that bit :-) 
  • McBobbin said:
    Only ever seem to write about things I enjoy watching, so taking a different approach of pulling out a couple of stinkers.

    Gangs of London was already ridiculously far fetched in S1 and 2, but S3 is just pathetic and the episode I watched last night (the Lale one) was just awful. Will see this season out and that’s it.

    started watching Ted Lasso with the fam over the last couple of months, and we absolutely love it. However the Coach Beard episode after the City cup game in S2 was just so out of character with the series and just, well crap. 
    same re Ted Lasso, as got an apple trial for half term. Saw that episode yesterday and it was reminiscent of Bouncer's dream from Neighbours, no point to it at all from a story point of view
    Took my kids over Richmond last week, had a drink in the pub, stood outside his flat, the phone box etc. Kids loved it and we alone repeatedly saw ‘we’ve been there’ when watching scenes. Even a Lasso souvenir shop in that alley now 
    You should’ve said, I’d have shouted you a shandy
  • Macronate said:
    MobLand is brilliant. Don't want it to end. Ever.
    The scene in the goal, reminded me of the scene out of the Italian Job.
  • Mobland was class. I might be going against the grain a bit but I grew to absolutely love Pierce Brosnan and his accent as well as Helen Mirrens. They reminded me of one of my mates parents, less gaellic, but the annunciation was spot on. Paramount are pumping great show after great show out 

    Thought the last of us was poor and they have made this season total filler in my opinion to keep making the show for as long as possible as opposed to doing a tight and neat story 

    Few of my favourites have finished for now or had finished a while ago. Now into season 2 of Peaky Blinders, its ok but they are arseholes, every single one of them! It also explains why so many of Chathams finest loved it, they see themselves in it. I do like Alfie Solomons though, especially his history lessons and attitude to anti-jew banter. Your friends and neighbours started brilliantly but seems to be running out of juice, Jon Hamm is loving it but I really just want more of the horrible German act fencer and Elena. 

    I'm patently waiting for Mayor of Kingstown to come back as well as Tulsa King, or Lioness. Anything Taylor Sheridan made in fact as well as Slow Horses, love that. 

    Stranger Things not back until November 

    Clarksons farm is brilliant, we will miss Jeremy Clarkson when he is gone he makes such good television. 

    I always wondered how so much shite gets commissioned, reality shows, wanky stuff that ends up normally on ITV and Channel 5 until my missus moved in with me and then understood it exists so people can have something on a screen in the background while they play with their phones. 

    Also trigger warnings. If something promises me violence, bad language, nakedness, sexual scenes then that is what I want, not a glimpse of bare flesh, a bare arse of a body double or their back in a shower or someone getting a dry slap. I'd hoped game of thrones set the bar with this, proper violence you want to cover your face from, hairy minges, warts on penises being examined. C-bombs not a muttered mild swear. And less making the whole plot about "strong female characters" they exist, just write them in, most of the star wars stuff is packed with them and by and large it works without the signposting the acolyte got. 

    Also, while I'm on the subject, anything that over romanticises kids in something that is otherwise adult-oriented, they do nothing but slow stories down, Disney always kill off parents for the same reason. It would be sociopathic to do that to kids in fiction I suppose. 


  • For those who need a gangster fix now that Mobland is over, I can recommend a couple of (not new) shows that have gone under the radar a bit: The Offer (Paramount, one season) - about the making of the Godfather, with some of the Families trying to stop it and other supporting it Snowfall (Disney, six seasons) - the beginnings of the crack epidemic in Los Angeles mixed up with the CIA coke for arms funding of the Nicaraguan contras.
  • Jints said:
    For those who need a gangster fix now that Mobland is over, I can recommend a couple of (not new) shows that have gone under the radar a bit: The Offer (Paramount, one season) - about the making of the Godfather, with some of the Families trying to stop it and other supporting it Snowfall (Disney, six seasons) - the beginnings of the crack epidemic in Los Angeles mixed up with the CIA coke for arms funding of the Nicaraguan contras.
    Agree re The Offer. Very good. Guarantee that anyone watching that will feel compelled to give The Godfather another watch too.
  • Jints said:
    For those who need a gangster fix now that Mobland is over, I can recommend a couple of (not new) shows that have gone under the radar a bit: The Offer (Paramount, one season) - about the making of the Godfather, with some of the Families trying to stop it and other supporting it Snowfall (Disney, six seasons) - the beginnings of the crack epidemic in Los Angeles mixed up with the CIA coke for arms funding of the Nicaraguan contras.

    Loved The Offer, hadn't heard of Snowfall, thanks, will give it a try.
  • Thanks to everyone for mentioning Mobland, have really enjoyed the first four episodes so far.
  • Carter said:
    Mobland was class. I might be going against the grain a bit but I grew to absolutely love Pierce Brosnan and his accent as well as Helen Mirrens. They reminded me of one of my mates parents, less gaellic, but the annunciation was spot on. Paramount are pumping great show after great show out 

    Thought the last of us was poor and they have made this season total filler in my opinion to keep making the show for as long as possible as opposed to doing a tight and neat story 

    Few of my favourites have finished for now or had finished a while ago. Now into season 2 of Peaky Blinders, its ok but they are arseholes, every single one of them! It also explains why so many of Chathams finest loved it, they see themselves in it. I do like Alfie Solomons though, especially his history lessons and attitude to anti-jew banter. Your friends and neighbours started brilliantly but seems to be running out of juice, Jon Hamm is loving it but I really just want more of the horrible German act fencer and Elena. 

    I'm patently waiting for Mayor of Kingstown to come back as well as Tulsa King, or Lioness. Anything Taylor Sheridan made in fact as well as Slow Horses, love that. 

    Stranger Things not back until November 

    Clarksons farm is brilliant, we will miss Jeremy Clarkson when he is gone he makes such good television. 

    I always wondered how so much shite gets commissioned, reality shows, wanky stuff that ends up normally on ITV and Channel 5 until my missus moved in with me and then understood it exists so people can have something on a screen in the background while they play with their phones. 

    Also trigger warnings. If something promises me violence, bad language, nakedness, sexual scenes then that is what I want, not a glimpse of bare flesh, a bare arse of a body double or their back in a shower or someone getting a dry slap. I'd hoped game of thrones set the bar with this, proper violence you want to cover your face from, hairy minges, warts on penises being examined. C-bombs not a muttered mild swear. And less making the whole plot about "strong female characters" they exist, just write them in, most of the star wars stuff is packed with them and by and large it works without the signposting the acolyte got. 

    Also, while I'm on the subject, anything that over romanticises kids in something that is otherwise adult-oriented, they do nothing but slow stories down, Disney always kill off parents for the same reason. It would be sociopathic to do that to kids in fiction I suppose. 


    do yourself a favour @carter and just stop Peaky Blinders now.
    you have basically seen it, just rinse and repeat the next 4 series.
  • Really satisfied with how Mobland ended as well.

    Started Department Q and liking it.


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  • Well I'm watching 1883 again and it's just as good second time round. Missus never saw it and we want to watch 1923 and yellowstone
    Ladyromford and I just finished 1923.
    I’ve talked before about how shit I think Yellowstone became thanks to Taylor Sheridan’s writing and characters being shite, but I liked 1883 and season 1 of 1923. Silly at times, but ok.

    Season 2 of 1923 was ok to start with I suppose, but was becoming more and more ridiculous the longer it went on. But I stuck with it. 

    Then the finale came along. What an absolute shit show. Ludicrous. Taylor Sheridan is not a writer, he’s a fucking moron. Just like in Yellowstone, he wrote himself into endless corners and ended up tying up some of the loose ends with ridiculously idiotic conclusions, while just not bothering to deal with others. The main plot’s resolution is one of the least satisfying outcomes I’ve ever seen and is interspersed with such brazen lack of understanding of real life it makes me wonder if he deliberately made it make no sense.
    Really disappointing. Don’t think I’ll bother with 1944

    Some thoughts on why the series (but particularly the finale) was so bad…
    1) How we’re expected to accept that the ranch has been waiting for Spencer’s return all this time, and for him to effectively resolve the conflict in two minutes by shooting a handful of people is absolutely insane. They would have won the battle anyway, surely? Also, what is he, Captain America? He just strolled in and shot all of them with a revolver before seemingly anyone even moved.
    2) Alex and the disposable English toffs was almost as criminally badly written. They tried to drive a snowed in route that a train couldn’t pass? Really? Even though a knowledgable local pretty much told them they’d die? Fuck off.
    3) Talking of Alex - I’m pretty sure a 26 week baby born in 1924 to a mother who’d been affected by frostbite would a) not survive anyway, but b) certainly wouldn’t be able to suckle within a minute of birth, especially considering the aforementioned frostbite.
    4) Timothy Dalton’s “Pleasure vs Pain” bollocks. What a load of faux shock shit. Not to mention his stupid death scene. Apart from anything else, “You killed my wife” - er, no he didn’t. She did, by being stupid. She could’ve waited the storm out. Job done. Also, he was in a house alone with two prostitutes with just one bodyguard stood outside. I think Harrison and a posse could’ve killed him a while ago. Idiots.
    5) Sending the young pregnant newly widowed woman away to raise her child alone. Wow. Charming. What a bunch of cunts this family is. She was a shit character, but still.
    6) The girl that escaped the Christian school. No link to the plot other than that she and Spencer both met the annoying sister off of Dexter. Then she goes to court and the case gets thrown out. Hmm… A Native American. On trial for murder. Of white victims. In 1924. Yeah, don’t think so Taylor.
    7) That other bloke, Harrison Ford’s mate. Brain surgery, then riding a horse the next day. Just fuck off.

    Helen Mirren was (unsurprisingly) the best thing in it. Jerome Flynn not bad either. But what a waste of Harrison Ford. The poor guy just bumbled about growling, but doing fuck all else.

    Just a dreadful, awful, terrible conclusion to a show with real initial promise.
  • Well I'm watching 1883 again and it's just as good second time round. Missus never saw it and we want to watch 1923 and yellowstone
    Ladyromford and I just finished 1923.
    I’ve talked before about how shit I think Yellowstone became thanks to Taylor Sheridan’s writing and characters being shite, but I liked 1883 and season 1 of 1923. Silly at times, but ok.

    Season 2 of 1923 was ok to start with I suppose, but was becoming more and more ridiculous the longer it went on. But I stuck with it. 

    Then the finale came along. What an absolute shit show. Ludicrous. Taylor Sheridan is not a writer, he’s a fucking moron. Just like in Yellowstone, he wrote himself into endless corners and ended up tying up some of the loose ends with ridiculously idiotic conclusions, while just not bothering to deal with others. The main plot’s resolution is one of the least satisfying outcomes I’ve ever seen and is interspersed with such brazen lack of understanding of real life it makes me wonder if he deliberately made it make no sense.
    Really disappointing. Don’t think I’ll bother with 1944

    Some thoughts on why the series (but particularly the finale) was so bad…
    1) How we’re expected to accept that the ranch has been waiting for Spencer’s return all this time, and for him to effectively resolve the conflict in two minutes by shooting a handful of people is absolutely insane. They would have won the battle anyway, surely? Also, what is he, Captain America? He just strolled in and shot all of them with a revolver before seemingly anyone even moved.
    2) Alex and the disposable English toffs was almost as criminally badly written. They tried to drive a snowed in route that a train couldn’t pass? Really? Even though a knowledgable local pretty much told them they’d die? Fuck off.
    3) Talking of Alex - I’m pretty sure a 26 week baby born in 1924 to a mother who’d been affected by frostbite would a) not survive anyway, but b) certainly wouldn’t be able to suckle within a minute of birth, especially considering the aforementioned frostbite.
    4) Timothy Dalton’s “Pleasure vs Pain” bollocks. What a load of faux shock shit. Not to mention his stupid death scene. Apart from anything else, “You killed my wife” - er, no he didn’t. She did, by being stupid. She could’ve waited the storm out. Job done. Also, he was in a house alone with two prostitutes with just one bodyguard stood outside. I think Harrison and a posse could’ve killed him a while ago. Idiots.
    5) Sending the young pregnant newly widowed woman away to raise her child alone. Wow. Charming. What a bunch of cunts this family is. She was a shit character, but still.
    6) The girl that escaped the Christian school. No link to the plot other than that she and Spencer both met the annoying sister off of Dexter. Then she goes to court and the case gets thrown out. Hmm… A Native American. On trial for murder. Of white victims. In 1924. Yeah, don’t think so Taylor.
    7) That other bloke, Harrison Ford’s mate. Brain surgery, then riding a horse the next day. Just fuck off.

    Helen Mirren was (unsurprisingly) the best thing in it. Jerome Flynn not bad either. But what a waste of Harrison Ford. The poor guy just bumbled about growling, but doing fuck all else.

    Just a dreadful, awful, terrible conclusion to a show with real initial promise.
    I completely agree. The last few episodes of 1923 were hammy and ludicrous. Very disappointing after an excellent first season.  Having watched 4.5 seasons of Yellowstone I gave up on that - it was just meandering and repeating itself. Photography is great but the plotting is just dreadful. That said Landman and 1883 were very good. 
  • edited June 5
    MrOneLung said:
    Carter said:
    Mobland was class. I might be going against the grain a bit but I grew to absolutely love Pierce Brosnan and his accent as well as Helen Mirrens. They reminded me of one of my mates parents, less gaellic, but the annunciation was spot on. Paramount are pumping great show after great show out 

    Thought the last of us was poor and they have made this season total filler in my opinion to keep making the show for as long as possible as opposed to doing a tight and neat story 

    Few of my favourites have finished for now or had finished a while ago. Now into season 2 of Peaky Blinders, its ok but they are arseholes, every single one of them! It also explains why so many of Chathams finest loved it, they see themselves in it. I do like Alfie Solomons though, especially his history lessons and attitude to anti-jew banter. Your friends and neighbours started brilliantly but seems to be running out of juice, Jon Hamm is loving it but I really just want more of the horrible German act fencer and Elena. 

    I'm patently waiting for Mayor of Kingstown to come back as well as Tulsa King, or Lioness. Anything Taylor Sheridan made in fact as well as Slow Horses, love that. 

    Stranger Things not back until November 

    Clarksons farm is brilliant, we will miss Jeremy Clarkson when he is gone he makes such good television. 

    I always wondered how so much shite gets commissioned, reality shows, wanky stuff that ends up normally on ITV and Channel 5 until my missus moved in with me and then understood it exists so people can have something on a screen in the background while they play with their phones. 

    Also trigger warnings. If something promises me violence, bad language, nakedness, sexual scenes then that is what I want, not a glimpse of bare flesh, a bare arse of a body double or their back in a shower or someone getting a dry slap. I'd hoped game of thrones set the bar with this, proper violence you want to cover your face from, hairy minges, warts on penises being examined. C-bombs not a muttered mild swear. And less making the whole plot about "strong female characters" they exist, just write them in, most of the star wars stuff is packed with them and by and large it works without the signposting the acolyte got. 

    Also, while I'm on the subject, anything that over romanticises kids in something that is otherwise adult-oriented, they do nothing but slow stories down, Disney always kill off parents for the same reason. It would be sociopathic to do that to kids in fiction I suppose. 


    do yourself a favour @carter and just stop Peaky Blinders now.
    you have basically seen it, just rinse and repeat the next 4 series.
    Spot on. It peaked in season 1. Have never got the fuss over this show. If you want a laugh though check out Adrien Brody in it.
  • MrOneLung said:
    Carter said:
    Mobland was class. I might be going against the grain a bit but I grew to absolutely love Pierce Brosnan and his accent as well as Helen Mirrens. They reminded me of one of my mates parents, less gaellic, but the annunciation was spot on. Paramount are pumping great show after great show out 

    Thought the last of us was poor and they have made this season total filler in my opinion to keep making the show for as long as possible as opposed to doing a tight and neat story 

    Few of my favourites have finished for now or had finished a while ago. Now into season 2 of Peaky Blinders, its ok but they are arseholes, every single one of them! It also explains why so many of Chathams finest loved it, they see themselves in it. I do like Alfie Solomons though, especially his history lessons and attitude to anti-jew banter. Your friends and neighbours started brilliantly but seems to be running out of juice, Jon Hamm is loving it but I really just want more of the horrible German act fencer and Elena. 

    I'm patently waiting for Mayor of Kingstown to come back as well as Tulsa King, or Lioness. Anything Taylor Sheridan made in fact as well as Slow Horses, love that. 

    Stranger Things not back until November 

    Clarksons farm is brilliant, we will miss Jeremy Clarkson when he is gone he makes such good television. 

    I always wondered how so much shite gets commissioned, reality shows, wanky stuff that ends up normally on ITV and Channel 5 until my missus moved in with me and then understood it exists so people can have something on a screen in the background while they play with their phones. 

    Also trigger warnings. If something promises me violence, bad language, nakedness, sexual scenes then that is what I want, not a glimpse of bare flesh, a bare arse of a body double or their back in a shower or someone getting a dry slap. I'd hoped game of thrones set the bar with this, proper violence you want to cover your face from, hairy minges, warts on penises being examined. C-bombs not a muttered mild swear. And less making the whole plot about "strong female characters" they exist, just write them in, most of the star wars stuff is packed with them and by and large it works without the signposting the acolyte got. 

    Also, while I'm on the subject, anything that over romanticises kids in something that is otherwise adult-oriented, they do nothing but slow stories down, Disney always kill off parents for the same reason. It would be sociopathic to do that to kids in fiction I suppose. 


    do yourself a favour @carter and just stop Peaky Blinders now.
    you have basically seen it, just rinse and repeat the next 4 series.
    Spot on. It peaked in season 1. Have never got the fuss over this show. If you want a laugh though check out Adrien Brody in it.
    I have wiped the Brody series from my memory
  • 3 episodes into Tulsa King.

    Not sure yet.
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