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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 popped this on as a nostalgic re-watch of one of the shows we shared in the formative stages of our relationship – only to then find there was an entire 2nd series we’d completely missed! Well-constructed within the confines of the genre. I’ve no idea how authentic it is or what it tells us…
It’s been a true epic in many senses, however we finally made it through to the end of Season 1. I think I’ve come to accept that this show is fundamentally a historical-fantasy-soap-opera, and realistically the plot doesn’t tend to develop *very* far in any given episode. However I’m still drawn to it, and the…
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 forces me to confess I haven’t read the Aldous Huxley book… but SURELY it doesn’t have all that fucking in it. Does it? Hmm. ANYWAY – it sorta teeters on the bullshittish for a long way, before tipping right over into it at the end. Useful that in the here & now we have…
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…
Gary, Ellie, Matt, Arnaud, Brenton, Zoe – another crowd of hopefuls entering the Masterchef kitchen under the beady gaze of Marcus Wareing & Monica Galletti. If anything this show’s softened my stance on what we now call “reality TV” – although I prefer to think of it as a cooking competition rather than just the…
Holy shit! ITV Hub has historically been a seething cesspool of tedium, however this 3-part dramatisation of the scandal of “The Coughing Major” on UK breakout gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was surprisingly captivating television! A little laborious to start, but it drew us in with its portrayal of a “special” subcommunity within…
I suspect I wildly missed the point of this. Lauded as “must see” by some ppl in my circles, I gave this a good solid attempt at watching (3 episodes), but ultimately found it impossible to give much of a fuck about what Fran Lebowitz thinks. Near as I can tell she’s a some-time actress,…
I think we bailed on this after 5 episodes, which I feel’s a reasonable tilt at it. In truth I think we picked this up for the wrong reasons – i.e. that it had Michael Sheen attached to it. Son of a psychiatrist/murderer who becomes a serial killer profiler, with episodic and background story arc…