Anyone catch Brookers 'Antiviral Wipe' last night? I was most pleased he hadn't forgotten about BoJo's 350m Magic Bus
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 May 2020 07:55 (four years ago) link
i enjoyed DEVS, (8 x 45m) which is still on iplayer.
i'm refusing to go back to the office until they make us a mag-lev Menger sponge to work in (the vacuum aspect is probably too fiddly though - no toilets?)
― koogs, Friday, 15 May 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link
also finished Giri / Haji mentioned above and that was great, all sorts of everything in there, including comtemporary dance.
those two and Normal People make it feel like a purple patch for tv at the mo.
― koogs, Friday, 15 May 2020 09:27 (four years ago) link
A thread for Devs, the new Alex Garland show on FX/HBO (with SPOILERS) in case you have thoughts
― coptic feels (seandalai), Friday, 15 May 2020 12:05 (four years ago) link
The Windrush Scandal drama on BBC1 tonight was very good. It's called Sitting in Limbo.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 8 June 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
I finally went in on I May Destroy You and holy fuck. Best show I've seen in a long time.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
That show is very confused, imo but there are enough great things in it to keep me watching. I may expand once I've seen this week's episodes.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
fwiw, I think the great things are very admirable and the things that I consider to be bad are very confusing, personally. Morally, it seems incredibly weird, at times, but I'm willing to accept that that's part of a greater pattern that is yet to be revealed.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
BBC4 seems to be having a black history month all of its own. Which means I get to see The Long Song which I missed at the time.
Also enjoyed the Keith Haring thing on bbc2 recently.
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
jed I'd be v interested to hear about the things you think are bad. I'll admit there's a lot of the milieu that I'm just kind of taking on faith.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 07:47 (three years ago) link
just got aound to watching 'trigonometry' which i'm really enjoying. unless the charcters take a sudden heel turn over the last couple of episodes it's just been nice watching a series where most of the characters are really nice.
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 9 July 2020 10:44 (three years ago) link
Searching For Shergar is back on for a month, FYI
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 6 September 2020 09:21 (three years ago) link
Drowning By Numbers is available on the Channel 4 app at the moment.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 September 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
oh sweet thanks
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 September 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Cheers!
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 12 September 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
The Mole is fantastic2-part doc on a Danish amateur spy, incredibly well shot and a really unusual vibe to it.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
Will check it out!
― kinder, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
same
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
Made the mistake of watching both parts when I was tired, so started falling asleep at the very end unfortunately (think I caught all the main points), but that's because it was so gripping I wanted to watch part 2 straight after p1. So many questions! That James guy just bowling up and no-one really asking anything!
― kinder, Sunday, 18 October 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
bbc four is showing scandi-drama The Bridge (series 3) two episodes at a time on saturday nights which is a good excuse the rewatch them all - it's probably my favourite of the lot (just above the wallanders)
(not to be confused with The Bridge on ch4 on sunday nights)
― koogs, Sunday, 18 October 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
I just watched all 3 seasons! I missed it the first time round. When I was falling asleep watching The Mole I think I was getting slightly confused having watched more Danes in the Bridge the night before.S3 is ridiculous, nonsensical and dumb compared to the prev 2 series but it's a wild ride and if they show s4 I'll be watching that too.
― kinder, Sunday, 18 October 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
(i'm about to start series 2 - the pvr didn't pick up the first two episodes because the second series had a different series id to series 1 and i didn't notice they weren't going to record until they didn't)
― koogs, Sunday, 18 October 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
The Mole is fantastic
It was... quite good? not super gripping. "The Mole now had a plan. To follow Alejandro and see where it lead... On his return to Spain Alejandro was arrested" was an (unintentional?) lol. The villagers who'd been told they were getting a hospital running out and cheering was pretty depressing.
― neith moon (ledge), Monday, 19 October 2020 09:13 (three years ago) link
that bit and lots of other bits just made me feel sick. like, i now assume this sort of casual horror is just happening all the time, far away
― kinder, Monday, 19 October 2020 10:53 (three years ago) link
yes absolutely.
― neith moon (ledge), Monday, 19 October 2020 12:36 (three years ago) link
I watched all of 4-part political thriller "Roadkill" but didn't find it very thrilling, despite an interesting start.
― kinder, Friday, 30 October 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
I loved the first two episodes! Does it just not follow through? I suppose I'll watch part three this weekend.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 30 October 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
idk, by the end it felt like each character had said a lot of things but not done a lot... but then it's not like nothing dramatic happened so it's probably just me watching late at night when I need to go to sleep!
― kinder, Friday, 30 October 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
tbf, that is my viewing method for that show as well...
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 30 October 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
iPlayer now features all of Sorry I've Got No Head. You're welcome.
― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Sunday, 29 November 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
Just finished Bridge III during the week, will wait for series 4 to finish before starting it.
This weekend has been DNA which did a great thing in that there were two threads going through it but the two threads were 4 years apart which you only found out in episode 5 when she phoned the police.
Next up, something from Walter Presents and then the Valhalla thing that's currently on bbc4 Saturdays.
― koogs, Sunday, 29 November 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
Also, witch, witch, witch!
― koogs, Sunday, 29 November 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
Ha, just started Bridge s4, then will start DNA. Anyone watched Industry? I've not seen anything about it except the iPlayer blurb.
― kinder, Sunday, 29 November 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
only seen the first two. the characters are predictably loathsome, but also really boring, except maybe harper. don't think i'll bother with the rest.
god help me i watched all 6 episodes of french series 'fear at the lake' on all4 mainly in disbelief at the combination of unbelievable coincidences and unfathomable decision making throughout. truly incredible stuff.
― oscar bravo, Sunday, 29 November 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
(the art dealer bloke from bridge iii is also in dna - nicholas bro. there are only 5 actors in denmark)
― koogs, Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
...and at least two of them will be in The Investigation, a dramatisation of that case about a murder on a homemade submarine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/the-investigation
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 November 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
(foreigners probably think the same thing about David Tennant and idris elba and Olivia Colman)
That latest news is from 2019 and it's nearly 2021
― koogs, Monday, 30 November 2020 03:57 (three years ago) link
the aforementioned 'something from walter presents' is The Same Sky, 6 hours of german thing treading pretty much the same path as Deutschland 8x, but in the 70s. it took two episodes for me to realise that the woman being honey-trapped was Saga from The Bridge.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5424556/mediaviewer/rm585891840/
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
Made it through 2 eps of Industry. Not sure if I'll stick with it but my mind is still reeling re Miles from Lost being a senior boss guy
― kinder, Thursday, 10 December 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
I liked it although I mostly couldn't understand what people were talking about. I can watch pretty much anything with good looking men in it though.
― 10percent Discocunt (jed_), Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
guadagnino thing is pish
― worzel scampidge (||||||||), Friday, 11 December 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
christ almighty the Lovers Rock “episode” of Small Axe is just monumentally greatthe bike ride in the morning was one of the most beautiful shots i can remember seeing in a movieso many incredible things about this
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
Bike ride was slightly odd on that it was shot upwards, which looked great, as you say, but just had me wondering if they couldn't find a road that didn't look too modern
― koogs, Saturday, 19 December 2020 08:46 (three years ago) link
Just switched on to watch the end of mastermind and then Only Connect. Instead got the end of Some Mothers Do Ave Em and then Butterflies, with the current BBC 2 ident and a trailer for the Marcus Rashford programme inbetween. Stopped and started and it went back to normal. Wtf?
― ledge, Monday, 21 December 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
when watching the 'live' stream on iplayer?
the default 2 hour buffer might explain this - you were seeing the start of the buffer and not the live edge.
(this is exactly my job, the live streams. have spent the last year re-writing it to work better (not yet deployed). ask me about converting transport streams to mp4 (don't))
― koogs, Monday, 21 December 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
ding ding! just looked, they were indeed on two hours before. disappointed it wasn't a 40 odd year time slip as i first thought.
― ledge, Monday, 21 December 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
Seasons 1-7 of Engrenages aka Spiral - the best French police procedural - are up on iPlayer.
― timber euros (seandalai), Monday, 21 December 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
that's Christmas sorted
― timber euros (seandalai), Monday, 21 December 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
Next and last season starts in Jan.
French colleague tells me he finds it nearly unwatchable in the original, says the acting is terrible.
― koogs, Monday, 21 December 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
lol i kind of agree tbh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link