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It’s a well-known fact among opinionated old arseholes like me that The Simpsons isn’t as good as it used to be. It had its “glory period” from series 4 to 10, and it’s gone downhill ever since. Ask anyone who tells you that what the last Simpsons episode they saw was and you’ll likely get…
Bit of surrealist Australian nonsense here – I think I’d seen a few Aunty Donna videos on Youtube, so their being commissioned for a Netflix series seemed worth a punt. It’s intriguing to ponder if I’d seen this 20 years ago whether I’d be quoting it in the same way we do with Tripod, Python,…
If there’s something I really don’t need in my life it’s more frigging Monty Python documentary. I’ve been watching/reading Python docos pretty much since I’ve known about the Pythons. While watching this I realised that with the bulk of their work produced between 1969 and 1983, the Python team have been reminiscing about their work…
This was the ABC network’s “contemporary” take on using the Muppet characters in a mockumentary behind-the-scenes-on-a-variety-show setting… which is kinda weird, because that’s fundamentally what The Muppet Show was about. So what the hell’s different here? And, missing. The key thing – articulated by someone in one of the seemingly endless actual documentaries I’ve seen…
I got introduced into the one by Tom at work, who it eventually transpired had never actually watched it. No idea what that says about anything. Real-life siblings Daisy May and Charlie Cooper head up this show as Kerrie and Lee “Kurtan” Mucklow – young-ish residents of a Cotwsold village, in this everyday-life-characters mockumentary style…
How could you top the sublime first season? Well, by revealing that the whole thing was in fact a scripted work – and that there are discussions afoot for a US remake… only now there are other actors being considered to play Michael and David. Georgia and Anna get a pleasingly expanded role in this…
We decided to pick up the late-90s comedy as a formative favourite of Liz’s, and see how such a thing might weather today. To start with it seemed VERY dated, owing to a 4:3 aspect ratio alongside the fashion & hairstyles. Remarkable though – at the time I never felt the 90s had anything distinguishing…
This is more a placeholder to mark the date than an insightful comment. However I just can’t believe how it’s taken me so long to fall under the inane spell of Rick & Morty. Actually one standout from all the amazingness was the Snowpiercer/Story Train episode – Morty really, really is a crap storyteller. Can’t…
Originally I had the feeling that Rick & Morty was something that had passed me by, and then I watched an episode or 2 and thought nothing of it – so it was only being brought to it through the laughter-teared eyes of my mate Adrian on a holiday that made me see it for…
Sublime 6-part filmed-in-lockdown piece starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen. Watching these two at play is just a pleasure, and the storyline doesn’t even really matter – except that it’s really well-constructed little story about rehearsing a play. Wonderful (if, totally unexpected) cameos, and I think Sheen & Tennant did a great job of avoiding…