i think the one netflix has isn't even the first season, it's the third or fourth. maybe they'll get more?
― nomar, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
http://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2015/08/19/10/maryberry1908a.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:12 (eight years ago) link
It seems impossible to find the first few seasons in the US, which is unacceptable.
― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
baking gal giving me a Phyliis Diller vibe
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
mary berry is like a mecha version of my grandmother & her friends
prim proper ladies who are very serious about spongecake
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
i love the old scottish feller who recited robert burns
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:57 (eight years ago) link
british desserts are the most alien thing, "today you're going to make a multi-tiered honeycomb fruit biscuit but you must incorporate a design using blackberry mincemeat pudding, and it must be in the shape and color of the boathouse at westminster abbey"
― nomar, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:01 (eight years ago) link
euro desserts in general are crazy
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
i've noticed a lot more bakeries selling kouign amann after it was featured on that show
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034dy9k
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:24 (eight years ago) link
like sue perkins, can't stand mary berry's other sidekick
in our defence literally nobody eats anything like this, its just to make the challenges harder i think.
i wish there was more than one bread round, but that's just my own personal baking preference at play.
― a fucking men (stevie), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 07:38 (eight years ago) link
trace, do you mean paul hollywood? i've warmed to his curmudgeonness as the series has progressed but his own series on bread was p bad, and i think he's quite charmless outside of bake-off.
― a fucking men (stevie), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 07:39 (eight years ago) link
no he's a necessary cowell figure, i mean the other woman
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 09:42 (eight years ago) link
i find the one with specs annoying in her constant bad punning, but ultimately she's endearing.
― a fucking men (stevie), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 10:07 (eight years ago) link
yes that's sue perkins
it appears i'm talking about Mel Giedroyc
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 10:17 (eight years ago) link
My sister kept talking about the great British baking show, which at the time dominated British life with insane "MASH"-like ratings. So we watched the first few eps of the first season, and apparently it gets slicker as it goes on, because the first few eps were basically like watching a dry documentary about baking bread. My kids were all wtf and made me put something else on, all the while with my sister insisting that it gets better.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 14:53 (eight years ago) link
netflix has attenborough's:
frozen planet
frozen planet: on thin ice
frozen planet: the epic journey
the making of frozen planet
should i watch them all?
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 January 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
Better Call Saul s1 is up.
― weatheringdaleson, Monday, 1 February 2016 23:16 (eight years ago) link
apparently s2 of Saul will air on Netflix the day after it airs on tv
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 1 February 2016 23:24 (eight years ago) link
Really enjoyed a few docs I've seen on Netflix about the film industry:
Electric Boogaloo - about the studio who released a bunch of infamous b-movies back in the 80s (Masters of the Universe, Death Wish, etc).
Lost Soul - About the making of the Island of Dr. Moreau and all its craziness. I highly recommend this one. So entertaining throughout.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 01:46 (eight years ago) link
three hannibal buress specials i haven't seen up...
― scott seward, Saturday, 6 February 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
UK people, that electric boogaloo documentary is on film 4 next Friday
― koogs, Saturday, 6 February 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link
Better Call Saul is not enjoyable at all. At all! Alternately slow and painful, each making you wish for the other in turn. Starting ep 3 against my better judgement.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Monday, 8 February 2016 21:22 (eight years ago) link
i think that, as is the custom, the season gets more enjoyable as it goes on. i loved it from the jump though.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Monday, 8 February 2016 21:27 (eight years ago) link
I just finished Better Call Saul season 1 and liked it a lot, but it was definitely much darker than I was expecting. In many ways, I think Breaking Bad was a generally broader, wackier show, although often very grim as well.
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Monday, 8 February 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
everyone i've talked to lately likes BCS better than BB because it's funnier, subtler, and has deeper characterization.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Monday, 8 February 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
yeah i'm well into the first season, having just started last week, and i was also surprised by the darkness, and also like it better
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
feels stylistically/aesthetically very much a continuation of the later BB seasons --- in BB it was sorta obvious that the show took a turn and, while gracefully done in the main, you could tell that someone had said "maybe let's take this in a different direction". BCS has been a lot more coherent in tone, which imo has worked in its favor
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 00:11 (eight years ago) link
Loved BCS, probably more than BB. Very subtle, very patient, great acting/writing/direction. It's as if they learned from the one major mistake BB made, which is to make Walt pretty much instantly malevolent/malignant. He's great and a great character, but not unlike the Nicholson character in "The Shining." If you start out over the top, there are not a lot of places to bring the character. Iirc, by episode 2 he's already dissolving bodies in chemicals. Whereas BCS, it takes its sweet time, intentionally, to make the most of each character beat and development. Like a really good movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 00:52 (eight years ago) link
not worth a new thread and it was mentioned earlier in here - Billions is so, so awful. I bailed when episode 2 introduced a lesbians doing coke off each other blackmail plot.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 00:57 (eight years ago) link
Eh, Disagree overall, but I'll concede the plot is hacky and obvious. But Giamatti is so good.
― calstars, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 01:10 (eight years ago) link
And I'll watch pretty much anything with Maggie siff.
― calstars, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 01:11 (eight years ago) link
i couldnt even make it thru ep 1 of billions
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 01:16 (eight years ago) link
actually, tbh i cant even stomach the commercial for it (saw ~8 seconds of the "metallica" ad)
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 01:18 (eight years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, February 8, 2016 6:52 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same!
they're doing a pretty deft job of making jimmy's transformation subtle and always in character. his worst choices are made impulsively or by some fingers-crossed i think i'm doing the right thing motivation, and not obviously due to some latent mean-streak/capacity for evil (like it was for walt). his slowly piling up merely not as bad choices flow naturally from his general comportment, and would be less consequential if the stakes weren't getting higher and higher.
it's certainly making the platonic everyman lawyer saul of BB more plausible --- tacky but successful and almost certainly shady criminal defense lawyer with a heart of gold and who can somehow make you feel like he honestly just kept getting mixed up with the wrong crowd and making do because isn't that what you would've done c'mon
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 01:32 (eight years ago) link
Billions is kinda like Dynasty or something. i mean it's that level of camp/OTT.
i have a problem with whatshisface's face. the rich guy. hard to watch. and then i got depressed cuz i was totally gonna watch Homeland on Showtime and forgot he is also in that.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
harry and tonto is streaming and its the best movie
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
I thought he was great in Band of Brothers (like 15 years ago, shit) but now it's like he had a stroke and one half of his mouth is permanently clenched.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 21:15 (eight years ago) link
he's british too, right? the brits have stolen all the best american asshole roles. trump should look into that. build a wall or something.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 21:35 (eight years ago) link
Ooh I really don't like that guy either! I had to bail on Homeland early on because I kept wanting to punch him in the head. And I thought that would make him a tolerable heavy in Billions but nope.
Also I know Paul Giamatti is supposed to be Laurence Olivier or whatever but jesus can he occasionally dial it down a little. Guy's intensity is unmodulated, all the way up. I can't take him seriously anymore.
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 00:20 (eight years ago) link
"I'm an act-or!"
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 00:21 (eight years ago) link
all his guys are the same guy.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
surprised he hasn't done waiting for godot with kevin spacey yet.
i do want to keep my good memories of american splendor though.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
He was good in Win Win
― Nhex, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
So I finally got to the end of the man in the high castle and this actually gets really good in the last 3 episodes. Good enough so that it should probably get its own thread that I won't start.
― silverfish, Sunday, 14 February 2016 06:01 (eight years ago) link
I couldn't even get into Breaking Bad, but I'm really enjoying BCS. I started watching it on the laptop two days ago and am already on E7. It's fun to listen Bob Odenkirk talk. What year is it supposed to be set in?
― Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Sunday, 14 February 2016 16:09 (eight years ago) link
late 90s early 2000s iirc
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, 14 February 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
Wikipedia says 2002
― JRN, Sunday, 14 February 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link