New Tv series (REMEMBER: No Spoilers)

Clem_Snide said:

Greenhithe said:

ValleyGary said:

Anyone still watching ‘From’?

5 episodes into the new series and still absolutely none the wiser about what or why anything is happening.

It’s actually beginning to piss me off.

Same as that. Yellow suit man is a cracking character though. 

It’s going to turn into Lost I tell ya. 

We aren’t going to find out what is happening in this series either.

The writer confirmed in an interview that it concludes at the end of season 6

PragueAddick said:

jose said:

Liked seeing Greenwich Park featured in episode two of Dear England.
I there another episode? I thought E2 was it.

3 and 4 released on IPlayer yesterday. 

Finished it last night - really well done even though you know what's coming. I thought Joseph Fiennes did a very good job but he was a bit too twitchy, which is not something I ever noticed about GS.
I also watched the BBC1 documentary Footballs New Generation last night, which focused on the players at Euro2024 more than the manager, but felt like a follow on. Quite impressed with some of them.

Watched all four of Dear England - thought the first one was the best episode, where it was the positive side of Southgate's reign - the other three were a little heavier and also I thought suffered from the fact that the positive bits (goals, celebrating after the wins etc) were the actual footage, so then all you got to see Joseph Fiennes do was look worried a lot.  

I might be remembering it wrongly but while I think Southgate was a bit serious in interviews etc I don't remember him being that serious and never smiling etc.

Enjoyed it overall though.

AFKABartram said:

I’ve seen two episodes, I’ve enjoyed it but I’ve not been sure how they are portraying Southgate and I think some of the artistic license dramatisation has been taken too far. Will continue with the last two though 

Harry Kane comes out very well from it, and I wondered how much of that I can really believe, so I asked my friend Kat Law of Spurs Trust and she answered:

stoneroses19 said:

3 episodes in to The Chestnut Man on Netflix. Dark and creepy so far, but well worth watching. 

I’d not heard of it before, season 1 released in 2021 with season 2 coming out last month. 

Loved the first series. Didnt know there was a second. Will add that to the watchlist. 

Belatedly ( only 11 years since it was made ) we caught up with " Cuffs" over the last 2 nights. 

Absolutely loved it - all 8 episodes. 

Great characters, great actors and so wish they hadn't cancelled the 2nd series. 

Criminal ! 

Anyone watching the current series of Welcome To Wrexham?

As much as I dislike Wrexham in general, the parts where they actually focus on the team are pretty interesting,  but there's so many human interest stories shoehorned in makes huge chunks of episodes pretty rubbish 

siblers said:

Anyone watching the current series of Welcome To Wrexham?

As much as I dislike Wrexham in general, the parts where they actually focus on the team are pretty interesting,  but there's so many human interest stories shoehorned in makes huge chunks of episodes pretty rubbish 

Haven't started the latest series but last one I just fast forwarded past all of that. 

se9addick said:

Jints said:

siblers said:

Anyone watching the current series of Welcome To Wrexham?

As much as I dislike Wrexham in general, the parts where they actually focus on the team are pretty interesting,  but there's so many human interest stories shoehorned in makes huge chunks of episodes pretty rubbish 

Haven't started the latest series but last one I just fast forwarded past all of that. 

There’s probably only so many stories about locals that are genuinely interestingly enough to show, and those will all have dried up by now.

And it gets a bit samey.  I was going through a tough time, but Wrexham has always been there, it's not just football it's a community....

I get why they show them - the focus on how the ownership has helped the local area is better than 'look, we spent lots of money on footballers and it turns out expensive players are good', and in the early series I enjoyed it, but it is becoming repetitive!

North Lower Neil said:

se9addick said:

Jints said:

siblers said:

Anyone watching the current series of Welcome To Wrexham?

As much as I dislike Wrexham in general, the parts where they actually focus on the team are pretty interesting,  but there's so many human interest stories shoehorned in makes huge chunks of episodes pretty rubbish 

Haven't started the latest series but last one I just fast forwarded past all of that. 

There’s probably only so many stories about locals that are genuinely interestingly enough to show, and those will all have dried up by now.

And it gets a bit samey.  I was going through a tough time, but Wrexham has always been there, it's not just football it's a community....

I get why they show them - the focus on how the ownership has helped the local area is better than 'look, we spent lots of money on footballers and it turns out expensive players are good', and in the early series I enjoyed it, but it is becoming repetitive!

You also have to remember that the documentary is primarily aimed at the American market. Clubs like Wrexham (and Charlton) are always going to be closer to their community than the monolithic entities that make up the NFL etc. Those NFL teams, like the really big Premier League clubs here, will still do great things for their communities I assume, but these types of human interest stories will be more resonate and romantic with the smaller English (and Welsh!) clubs. 

Also watching the current series of Clarkson's farm. 
 Really enjoying it but do have to take bits of it with a pinch of salt, particularly where he goes on about profit margins but has a seemingly endless amount of money. But I guess that's the only way it could work as a entertainment show 

siblers said:

Anyone watching the current series of Welcome To Wrexham?

As much as I dislike Wrexham in general, the parts where they actually focus on the team are pretty interesting,  but there's so many human interest stories shoehorned in makes huge chunks of episodes pretty rubbish 

The heart donor bit was 😢

Not sure if anyone has mentioned Criminal Record on here yet? Apple TV -series two about to reach its conclusion. A very up to date cop drama with show-stealing performances by Peter Capaldi and a guy who played a drippy character in Slow Horses but does a horribly scary turn as the lead baddie in this one. 

Has anyone else watched Widows Bay? I've really enjoyed what I've seen so far.