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in NIF?? I may have missed this.

Re: The Stranger discussion above, it can be assumed that I've 'seen' all shows of this ilk because my gf enjoys them all and I am usually in the room while she's enjoying them and failing to understand what she enjoys about them but oh well I suppose it's tolerable as accompaniment to the cooking of dinner or light reading or what have you. I think the only one of these I actually got into and enjoyed was Happy Valley. The rest are, at minimum, completely looney tunes if not outright anger inducing (looking at you, Broadchurch). This one was about as dumb and forgettable as last year's Coben installment featuring TV's Dexter.

I made it about halfway into the first ep of The Stranger. I was already squirmy with the Novelty Funsys nonsense but once the detectives found a “human bite mark” on the leg of the headless alpaca i was like “ok another Coben journey to dumbtown” and turned it off

i have no patience for him anymore

that being said:, I do worship & adore Richard Armitage & the opening scene of him driving & singing “Dancing in the Dark” to his kids made my liiiife 😍

Fwiw ya’ll are underrating ITV dramas which are typically much better than the stranger was.

Happy Valley is an effing masterpiece (although is BBC not ITV)

happy valley was very good and much better than broadchurch, which was bad enough in the first season, but just got totally fucking shite in the second and third

i understand there's going to be more happy valley, they're waiting for the kid to get a bit older so he can be more evil i guess?

unrelated: this please like me show - my gf watched it - do australian people really speak like this main guy? sounds like an english person doing an american accent which slips into australian occasionally

the most identifiably australian aspect to my ears is that everything he says sounds like a question

They were also waiting for James Norton to be available again too as he got quite big for a while there. There was even James Bond chat around him for a bit.

nobody speaks like Josh Thomas, as you can probably tell from every other character in the show (I watched half an episode seven years ago but unseen I guarantee this holds true throughout the series)


happy valley was very good and much better than broadchurch, which was bad enough in the first season, but just got totally fucking shite in the second and third

weird that a show by a good writer would be better than an unrelated show by a terrible writer, yeah

I think the only one of these I actually got into and enjoyed was Happy Valley

NB to OL's GF that the creator / writer / sometime director of Happy Valley had her next not-ITV series do well in Top 77 Television and Streaming Video Series of 2019 , the arbiter of taste for all GF's everywhere

I’m watching Please Like Me as well but I’m not sure whether I like it. There’s a casual cruelty in it which is unpleasant but there are some engaging elements and some good performances as well as nice looking young men. The fact that they all have sexual relations with Josh is ludicrous though.

They were also waiting for James Norton to be available again too as he got quite big for a while there. There was even James Bond chat around him for a bit.

― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:06 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

seems like a good actor and I've just noticed he was in little women but he's little bit (or a lot) too good-looking to play small-town yorkshire serial rapist/hoodlum. my one criticism of happy valley

I agree with that.

I read a bit about Happy Valley s.3 and it does seem that the initial delay around it was because of Norton's availability but because the delay grew so long Sally W. changed her ideas around it to focus very heavily on the child and that he had to be older for her idea to make sense. I can't quite remember but the last scene of s.2 seemed to be the characters taking a walk into the moors and then the child saying something very ominous that threw Sarah Lancashire's character off.

Love Is Blind, guys.

― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 22:45 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

absolutely horrific in so many ways but tt is watching and i am not not watching

sex education quite manifestly deserves its own thread btw. someone please start it

that's true.

"I looked at some cheese and got an erection.": SEX EDUCATION on Netflix

Just started the second batch of Love Is Blind and Jessica is hideous, compelling viewing.

Yeah, because of you lot we started watching Sex Education and after three episodes we are now completely hooked, so thanks for that.

Jessica is hideous, compelling viewing.

― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Friday, February 21, 2020 8:30 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

she is top five worst reality show contestants ever, a true monster

She's got worse with each new stage.

genuinely, what does that man see in her, is he just determined to love someone, anyone. get out of there! n.b. they are just back from cancun in our timeline

Yeah I've finished the first post-Mexico ep and believe me, she gets worse again.

Jessica/Mark and to a lesser degree Bartlett/Amber totally deserve each other.

Poor Mark just wants to be married to the Chicago Cubs and salt beef. It's true that just when you think Jessica can't get worse, she doubles down. My MVP from this series is really not who I expected it to be at the beginning.

I'm up to episode 9 now, but do I have to wait for more episodes? This show has to be at least in part from the same sadistic minds as Married At First Sight.

The way Giannina acts reminds me of me in relationships so much and I hate it. Get your shit together haha

If you're at 9 then there's one more next Thursday, "the weddings".

From my take post ep 6, Kenny and Kelly is the only relationship with legs. Giannina has been really off since coming out (especially after Damian spoke about how they might sack him for being on the show and so was worried about his job) and his 'self-sabotage' comment was bang on.

Amber admitting she's basically a vagrant was hilarious.

The craziest thing is that this filmed in October and November 2018.

So whatever the outcome - married, spectacularly implodes, etc - has been kept secret from the public FOR ALL OF 2019.

it's some Sex House shit

The soundtrack is amazing.

The soundtrack is amazing.

Sorry I thought I’d posted another post about Sex Education there. I love it so much.

There's a thread! But you're right. Shares Thirteen Reasons Why's tendency towards the good 70s and 80s. When Ultravox and The The started playing I flipped

(I mean the early, punkish Ultravox!)

So I gotta say, I gave that jawn Ragnarok a try and...it was kinda good? Apart from clearly not being anywhere near being teenagers, the leads seem amazingly well cast in their physicality & presentation. Idk where they found the actor who plays Magne and who has the biggest, block-of-woodiest head I have ever seen. And idk if it's a spoiler alert, but if his brother turns out to *also* be the reincarnation of a Norse god, he's excellently set up for it too.

It's filmed and set in Norway but was written by a Dane, and apparently it wasn't well received in Norway because they thought it was "too Danish"???! lol amazing

Also frankly Norwegian is trippy. Sometimes I can basically almost understand it--thanks, Angles!

From my take post ep 6, Kenny and Kelly is the only relationship with legs

might want to hold off on this one

I read a bit about Happy Valley s.3 and it does seem that the initial delay around it was because of Norton's availability but because the delay grew so long Sally W. changed her ideas around it to focus very heavily on the child and that he had to be older for her idea to make sense. I can't quite remember but the last scene of s.2 seemed to be the characters taking a walk into the moors and then the child saying something very ominous that threw Sarah Lancashire's character off.

― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Thursday, February 20, 2020 3:56 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

if i remember rightly the kid doesn't say anything. but catherine has just been talking to the mother of the the serial/rapist murderer who reveals that she had shielded her son from society to try and stop him becoming like his father (who was also her father, who raped her), but he had ended up taking after his father anyway. so catherine is looking at the wee man with a worried expression, because she is worried he will end up like his dad.

I watched Dirty John this week, clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel but I love Connie Britton, even though here she plays the most naive woman on earth.

Then I started watching The Stranger last night and I seriously have to reconsider how I spend my time.

even though here she plays the most naive woman on earth.

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-dirty-john/

Then I started watching The Stranger last night and I seriously have to reconsider how I spend my time.

ha, exactly!

I've been exposed to enough of the televisual trash Netflix generally traffics in at this point that I need to hear a pretty overwhelming torrent of praise to feel okay about intentionally starting one of these things. I'm still waiting for like another dozen of you to big-up Sex Education before I finally relax my standard side-eye.

Didn't I read that they're dropping something like four new series every Friday? The quality control has to be pretty much nonexistent at this point if that's anywhere near the case.

i thought sex education was terrible if that's any help

you should watch sex education. It's really good and different and Gillian Anderson!

i still think even the bad shows on netflix are better than the trash i've been seeing on regular tv. I just took The Stranger off my list because of the posts above.

but i also like any shows/movies about teens/hs/college. and they treat the adults in the show well.

it does scratch my pet-peeve of being a show set in britain that pretends britain is america

anyone seen Narcos Mexico, Season 2 yet? I love this fed-loving US propaganda shite. What about Hunters as well? Al Pacino playing a nazi hunter! Sounds intriguing.

it does scratch my pet-peeve of being a show set in britain that pretends britain is america

― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 21 February 2020 20:46 (thirty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

to a ludicrous, deliberate and operatic level!

the entire series reeks of there being wall to wall carpet in the bathrooms so there is never a doubt for me that it is in britain.

Lol yeah the house decor is all 1970s UK

Didn't I read that they're dropping something like four new series every Friday?

Does this mean 'dropping' as in 'getting rid of' or as in 'presenting us with'? I'm assuming the latter but you know what they say about assuming