Fair.
Morse hasn't aged well tbh
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
Scott & Bailey doesn't really fit tho it's an ok show, i want to see toffs murdering each other
haven't watched Banks, nor hardly any of Broadchurch. French and Saunders have permanently rewired the other one as Witless Silence in my head
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
Well yeah, because he's dead... But y'know what I mean xp
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
Morse has definitely aged but mostly in quite a cute way imo
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
https://www.itv.com/presscentre/sites/default/files/styles/pi_large/public/DCI_BANKS4_EP1.jpg
Don't know their names but these three (Banks) are all just really good actors. At least in this series.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
Morse feels too nostalgic for me to take completely seriously these days? Idk maybe that is indeed cute. Simpler times etc
not sure of the one on the left, Stephen Tompkinson in the middle, Doc Marten's wife on the right
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
i.e. same revolving cast of actors that are in everything.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
i don't watch this stuff to be challenged
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
Same. It's comfort food.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
Can't stand that one with Brenda Blethyn in it, dressed all dowdy, though it has got Jon Morrison in it.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 13 April 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
Vera isn't terrible but too seedy again, like most of Frost for that matter
and i kinda like Dalziel and Pascoe against my better instincts, it's basically a celebration of twattery
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 April 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
Vera gives lots of actors the chance to "Tak like that, man. I divven't kna what's happened to wor lass, like". And Alun Armstrong isn't even in it.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 13 April 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
New Tricks! liked that before all the good actors left/died
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 April 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
I can't take Brenda Blethyn's crap Geordie accent
My mum loves it though, and every other show mentioned above. I was wondering whether to recommend Game of Thrones to her (too violent?) until we watched a Silent Witness where a lead character got his skull crushed and his body set on fire
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 13 April 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
I like the Dalziel and Pascoe books, never saw the show.
I've read most of if not all of the Banks books. Still laughing that one book was about a Mojo writer getting murdered while writing an article about Not At All Syd Barrett.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 13 April 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
its been on in the background as i do the dishes and i feel very very strongly that nobody involved in endeavour should be paid to be so
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
Roger Allan's solid enough. I've watched very few of them tho, it's not a patch on its 2 companion serieses
― biliares now living will never buey (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
I typed Allam, my phone is a dick
― biliares now living will never buey (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
i love roger allam but the scene i caught was parody dressed as historical drama
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
It's no Heartbeat
― biliares now living will never buey (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
endeavour sends me into instant anachronism hives every fucking episode: someone always uses a spoken phrase no one used before 1995
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
of all the "classic prog rock band gets back together then one of them is murdered" stories in all the brit-tec series, the lewis one is way worst
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
A Blairite with long term memory loss is found as a stunning new exhibit at the Museum of Human Disease. Suspicion falls on Little Crosby’s professional clown guild, angry that sex-toy anarchists might threaten to upset their plans for world domination.— Midsomer Murders Bot (@midsomerplots) December 3, 2018
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
also a handy bit of pub quiz knowledge: the number of villages in midsomer murders called midsomer ____________
answer here, but guess before you look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsomer_Murders#List_of_fictional_villages_in_Midsomer
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
Endeavour gets better iirc. It’s preferable to Lewis.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
i am happily not in the position of being forced to choose
there are v many things that get better that are still better off left id say
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
the endeavour on right now features a suicide or possibly murder in a TV studio absurdly closely based on thunderbirds complete with gerry and sylvia anderson lookeylikeys
― mark s, Sunday, 17 February 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
TOO MUCH SWINGING NOT ENOUGH PUPPETRY
― mark s, Sunday, 17 February 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
just seen this mentioned on Facebook and am looking forward to a repeat as soon as possible
― CDU next Tuesday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 February 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
the story was bad but the look of some of the sets was good, 1969-style, also N. Dev. now has a tache
― mark s, Sunday, 17 February 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
I've seen his moustache, there's a big advertising billboard for this season near where I work.
― CDU next Tuesday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 February 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
this is why i no longer leave the house tbh
― mark s, Sunday, 17 February 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
To be clear, I am in no way having the best day of my life ever drinking all of these leftist tears.My cup it overfloweth.But please don’t stop.— LAURENCE FOX (@LozzaFox) January 17, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 January 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
Lewis obv
― mark s, Thursday, 17 November 2011 bookmarkflaglink
🤔
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 January 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
the problem with all this culture wars bullshit is, no-marks like this who I wouldn't even normally heard of polluting my space. And lots of melts whose politics are utter garbage are suddenly the big heroes and good ..not!
― calzino, Friday, 17 January 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
Laurence Fox, the anti woke bad boy 💯 pic.twitter.com/1Z4QvevD35— Josh Berry (@JBImpressions) January 17, 2020
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 January 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
you want culture wars, here you go: nothing in this thread* said by me is incorrect
*or any other ever
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
You’re always an invaluable contributor on the subject of Rory Stewart!
― steer karma (gyac), Friday, 17 January 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
key gloss on the NDev ep mentioned above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObruuuRw-jw
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
note that the aquaphibian prison is called AQUATRAZ
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOeIVjLX4AAk784?format=jpg&name=900x900
I'd honestly never heard of this cunt before, for a second I thought that QT clip was Garry Monk. Lol what a 3 time loser, shit actor and in a shit landfill band - no wonder he's so bitter!
― calzino, Friday, 17 January 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
i like billie piper but she has bad taste in men
also son eugene's full name is eugene pip fox-piper get a grip here ppl
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
Pre-culture war: Morse
Post-culture war: Lewis
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 January 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
ts louis vs morbse
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
would like a cartoon version of Morse where Morse and Lewis were grizzled cats
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
i don't remember knowing about the Piper-Fox ship. i still love Hathaway tbh but i've been on the rum
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 January 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
Both Fox’s albums, one would hazard a guess, are informed by his failed marriage to Billie Piper (the first was released just before the marriage ended), but the defining song for Laurence Fox as he is now fixed in the public eye – crusader for common sense, or halfwitted bigot, depending on your point of view – is The Distance, whose lyrics are pinned at the top of his Facebook page. Here Fox explains how you’re just not allowed to say anything any more: “The first to fall is laughter / Just to quell the unoffended / They seek to murder your opinion,” sings the man who gets repeated national newspaper interviews and TV appearances in which to express his opinion. “The light has been turned down on the age of reason / Replaced by blinding fires that burn wild across the region,” he sings, before offering a couplet that unwittingly summons the memory of Nigel Farage pledging to take up his rifle if Brexit were denied: “So I need you more than ever / Need your hands in this resistance.”
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
I forget if the ep of Lewis where one of the members of an ageing 60s rock group is electrocuted on-stage -- it turns out by one of the others, over Fleetwood Mac-style be-swapping shenanigans 40 years ago lol -- is also the ep where Hathaway's fancy guitar is stolen and the duo have to get it back by unorthodox means. Anyway Fox gets to play guitar every now and then on-screen: he is no John Fahey. The best bit abt the rock group ep is that Lewis ends up flailing around in the treatment pool of a sewage farm iirc.
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
i thought it was Hathaway, appositely, who ends up in the slurry but i could be wrong
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link