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After 4 episodes Mrs Badger is getting a bit bored with Severance so that may be on its way out. I'd be ok with sticking with it, but I'm not. too arsed.

I'm not quite sure why, maybe it wasn't on a channel we had in the US, but we never saw Bloodline and it gets good reviews on IMDB. Any good?

I'm most interested in hearing the opinions of @86 Hair Islands and @David as they tend to see eye-to-eye.

Just ove rhalf way through Operation Mincemeat and I'm very happy I waited and didn't pay to see it.

I'll see it through tonight but it's a bit of a yawn as of now.

Having said that, when I think about it, it must be a tough book to make exciting. Especially when you have to strip 80% of it out and you lose a lot of the really interesting detail.

The book had me in awe whereas the film had me in bed.

It's all kicking off in Truro after McDonald's put this poster up in a rather unfortunate position. Being in marketing I'm wondering if they did this accidently on purpose.

Ok, so @Stive Pesley has put me off Kaleidoscope, what about Severance?

4 hours ago, NottsRam said:

Decided to give Mare of Easttown a go having read some good reviews.  I am on episode 3 and hooked.

It' fantastic. I love that Kate Winslet refused to wear make-up and also did a load of ad-libbing, like the scene where she ate the wotsit type things.

Finished episode 2 of The Last of Us.

Scoring 9.2 on IMDB is an utter travesty and I can only imagine 98% of the people who voted were either fans of the game, fans of Zombies with bad hair does or on acid.

I've never played the game, I can talk or leave Zombies unless they come to my front door and I'm on mushrooms not acid, so I won't be voting that high.

It's not particularly bad, the young girl has some really funny and well written lines and the acting is pretty good, but it all feels a bit formulaic.

I may try another episode but I shall let Mrs Badger make the call and won't be arsed if she'd rather watch something else.

Having said that, we've nothing imminent I'm looking to get my teeth into.

I'm intrigued by Kaleidoscope, but it looks a tad too much like money Heist which I thought was b*******. 

This is a brilliant book and there's even a section explaining why ghosts are utter bollox. I've got a real badger crush on Hannah Fry. A smart, funny, red head mmm

On 06/02/2023 at 10:06, Kokosnuss said:

 then they've definitely seen your carnal activities. Fancy a little 'alone time' tonight? 

Am I the only one who read that as camal activities?

If so, am I the only one with a blow up camal called Carol? Surely not.

You seem like a nice chap, but tbh I cannot stand Wednesday. They are just behind Leeds and Forest for me in terms of teams I most dislike.

I think it's because I was born in Bakewell and was dealing with largely United, Wednesday, Leeds (simply because of the era, early 70s and Man U fans at school). And my brother-in-law was a Wednesday and and he got on my nerves.

I'd like to see us and Plymouth go up, with you losing in the play off final to Ipswich when they get a diabolical penalty in the final seconds.

Sorry, it's not personal ? 

Who has opinions on the ending of Happy Valley?

Me, that's who.

Spoiler if you haven't watched it yet.

Don't scroll past here.

Or here.

And definitely don't go lower then here.

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I was disappointed.

Too many loose ends and the way they tried to tie up the plot line about the pharmacist felt lazy and too contrived with her finding the pills.

They'd have been better leaving it that he got away with it and showing them charge the school teacher for the murder. 

Him being charged for something he didn't do but could very well have ended up doing, would have felt more satisfying - to me anyway.

And why did he know to kill the 3 goons in the car? I presume you were meant to think they were going to kill him, but why and how did he know other than a random petrol can? They could have killed him any number of times and before he was suspicious. Am I missing something?

But my biggest gripe was the final scene that was powerful, but didn't make sense.

Psychopaths, presuming he was one, have an inability to feel empathy, that is what makes them psychopaths. Yet all of a sudden he's turned into a Buddhist monk complete with self-immolation.

I did like the belt and braces comment though, genius.

I still enjoyed it and overall the acting and script were of the highest order.

3 hours ago, Crewton said:

I'd reccomend

Line of Duty has gone one a couple of series too long, but not liking ANY British-based drama is a curious one.

The Shadowline? Broken? Time? Top Boy? Guilt? The Responder? All series in the last 10 years I enjoyed as much as most of the foreign-language and US series that are rightly lauded.

It's purely personal taste of course, but IMO there's good UK-based/produced stuff out there.

Spiral is brilliant BTW, I won't hear a word said against it  ?

Top Boy may well be my favourite of all time, even ahead of Gomorrah  and Spiral.

Time and The Responder were excellent too. Don't know the others so I'm guessing they were out before we moved back to the UK. 

1 hour ago, ketteringram said:

The one place I didn't think to look, as it's French.

So I've just searched for it using the iPlayer app on phone, and no mention of it. 

I'll try the app on TV later.

God knows what's going on because there are episodes on Prime that you have to pay for but it also looks like it's on Apple TV

But it does look like it's no longer available on iPlayer and we only finished watching it 3 or 4 months ago.

There are always deals on Apple TV, I've never paid for it and currently on a 6 month freebie via Sky. 3 months can always be had with a quick search.

https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/spiral/umc.cmc.2hcv5rv37j60joexpxqresqp1

1 hour ago, ketteringram said:

I quite like the sound of this, but where can I see it?

Have Netflix, Disney, Apple , Now, and Prime, and can't find it ?

Spiral is on iPlayer. 7 seasons I think, maybe 8.

20 minutes ago, David said:

Must say, I’m a little confused.

You would be happy to rent for no more than a fiver, yet Batman is £6.99 to buy, £2 more to own is a no brainer isn’t it?

Operation Mincemeat is £6.99 on DVD from Amazon brand new, or even buy it second hand for a fiver at CEX

https://uk.webuy.com/product-detail?id=5051892235747&categoryName=dvd-movies&superCatName=film-tv&title=operation-mincemeat-(12)-2021&referredFrom=boxsearch&queryID=c1ef83790c78c0a33f210a0f0e0a458d&position=1

Sell it back to them after and you will get £1.20 back. 

It's only a no brainer if I'd ever want to watch cubit again, which I wouldn't. 

And I don't own a dvd player, it's not 2006 you know ?

43 minutes ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

Surprisingly, Banshees is still showing in theatres. Mincemeat has been a success for Netflix so they'll rinse the teeth out of it prior to wider release. Not sure you'll be terribly enamoured with The Batman. Frustrating when you're looking forward to seeing them, but the first two will reward your patience. 

Mincemeat was on Prime for a long time, I didn't know it had been on Netflix?

2 hours ago, therealhantsram said:

Just a guess... Movie studios are trying to drive pervious renters to become subscribers to their own streaming services. They all have one nowadays.

I didn't know that. So are you saying that a video that you can only buy on Prime is available on another streaming service?

I searched for the 3 films I mentioned and nothing came back other than Prime and stuff that went via Prime like Paramount and the cost was all the same.

21 hours ago, Stive Pesley said:

Same here.

I'd much rather watch foreign dramas (subtitles - never dubbed) and always enjoy them immensely. I don't know why British drama is such a turn off for me

Sometimes though I do wonder when I'm watching a foreign show, whether what I think is cool/quirky/interesting is just as bland to their natives

For example - have way through watching French police drama "Spiral" I suddenly stopped and thought...

am i just watching the French version of 'The Bill'? 

 

Nah, Spiral was outstanding. The scriptwriting was of another class. 

One of the things that binds Spiral, Bosch and Happy Valley together is the way all of them would have random conversations that you were lulled into thinking were meaningful to the plot and really were just random conversations.

I also *think* that the actors in Spiral were allowed to ad lib at times. I haven't read that, but in later seasons it felt like that. Then again, like comedians pretending to corpse or get stuff wrong, it could have been written to appear that way.

Spiral is in my top 5 series of all time.

23 hours ago, Chester40 said:

I have an aversion to British based drama that the general public love. 

People who never watch anything with subtitles and are avid soap opera viewers don't carry much weight if I'm debating whether to follow their tip.

Line of Duty was the previous big one where I eventually gave in and watched it - I thought it was decent enough but I could have lived without it and I wouldn't have recommended it to anyone else as a must watch.

So I've been on the fence and seen a fair few say it's good who know their stuff on here too.

Yesterday the missus started watching it and she insisted it's so amazing we needed to watch the rest together.  So I've watched the first 2 episodes of series 1 to catch up with her.

I was pleasantly surprised but I wasn't desperately hankering for the next episode either.....Will stick with it!

 

I must admit that Line of Duty did not live up the the hype, but the BBC did a brilliant job of marketing it.

Whereas LoD got worse and worse, Happy Valley has improved each series and I'm doing something tonight that I haven't done in years.

Having a wash.

Then I may even sit down and watch Happy Valley ayt 9 pm rather than wait until tomorrow night.

And that is biog for me because I'm usually tucked up in my sett by 10ish.

Well you guys haven't been very helpful.

In fact, I'm in a total pickle.

Is it only me, or does anybody think this team is a totally different animal under Warne?

In previous years, and I'nm going back into the 80s, I always expected Derby to slip up when they were on a run. I just don't expect it with this team.

Maybe the exception was the Jim Smith team that went 20+ games unbeaten.

I'd be worried if I was team above Derby.

5 minutes ago, SKRam said:

@StrawHillRam to me 

Not as quick as me mate. The wife says I'm super quick.