Bob The Badger

The chances of Clowes sacking Warne with the team 3rd and less than a quarter of the season left, are almost zero. 

Does anybody remember a club doing something like that?

If it helps people vent to call for it, then fair enough. But Clowes would look like an idiot to the rest of the footballing world irrespective of whether if it's the right long term decision. The optics would be terrible for the club and owners do usually care about that kind of thing. 

I doubt we miss the play offs, but like others, I doubt we can hold it together for 3 playoff games. 

Oppenheimer

We finally got around to watching this and really enjoyed it with the almost 3 hours, flying by.

Great acting although I did feel like Cillian Murphy wasn't straying too far away from Thomas Shelby!

All the acting was great, but for me, RDJ stole the show. Surely an Oscar for him?

There were confusing moments with the time shifting but overall, Paul Goddard/10.

5 episodes into Griselda, and it's an enjoyable tale made better because I didn't know of her so have no clue how it ends.

It feels like Narcos 6, but not quite as good.

A solid 7/10 after a lukewarm start.

15 hours ago, ketteringram said:

Re Kin....

I've finally finished the second season. Great ending. 

Left me puzzled though, about the delightful Mollie from the pharmacy storyline 🤔

Yeh!!! How random was that?

I like the occasional random, meaningless plotlines.  Bosch was good for weaving those in.

I do wonder if it will resurface in the next one though

4 hours ago, Wolfie20 said:

 

Gomorrah 

24

Spiral

Fortitude

Top Boys

Hill Street Blues

The Wire

Love/Hate

Das Boot

Strike

 

 

Wow, 6 the same as mine. 

And of the other 4 the only one I've seen was Strike.

Hated it though. 

Bloody hell I forgot about Peaky Blinders. Ok, sod sentimentality, The Sweeney is getting subbed at half time. 
 

I forgot about Homeland too, but it dipped so badly in the middle seasons that I'm less bothered. 
 

Ooo baby, this looks like it may very well be a big hit with this board!

Stop cheating, the lot of you!

I said more than one season because I wanted to include Caliphate and Chornobyl and it made it easier.

But with you lot, oh no, you're special, you don't need to play by the rules. You can start bandying around one-season shows or sharing more than ten like you just don't care. Bstards.

And then @BaaLocks mentioned Edge of Darkness which would have been under consideration, so duck him too.

The next cheater gets docked 21 points.

9 hours ago, ariotofmyown said:

This thread keeps reminding me to watch Gomarrah, I really should.

To help me narrow this down, I've gone back to look at "The Ultimate Watchlist" you can find on Now TV. It's got all these with the starred ones definitely in my own top 10...

Sopranos

Succession*

Game of Thrones

Band of Brothers

The Wire*

Sherlock

Six Feet Under*

The Leftovers*

Boardwalk Empire

Justified

Big Little Lies

The Deuce

(It's also got brilliant stand alone series Watchmen, Chernobyl, The Last of Us, Mare of Easttown, The Night Of, True Detective plus loads of comedies too)

If you have never watched many of these, they are yours for approx the price of 2 pints a month.

Sopranos-it is obvioulsy great, but I'm not sure it's 100% in my top 10. I did watch it late though, so it was hyped to death already. But so was the Wire and it was even better than I hoped

I'd probably have Breaking Bad + Better Call Saul and Sons of Anarchy + Mayans in as 2 entries. Which is maybe cheating.

The This is England spinoffs in there too.

That leaves me with 3 to choose, with Sopranos maybe included.

I forgot about The Leftovers and The Deuce. We enjoyed both. Much preferred the first season of Big Little Lies tbh.

6 hours ago, Crewton said:

Jeez, how could I forget Better Call Saul?!?

Especially as I mentioned it in the OP!

18 minutes ago, Crewton said:

Bear in mind I haven't seen allot of the series' from streaming services, Sky etc that others have mentioned :-

Spiral

The Wire

The Sopranos

Breaking Bad

Boys From The Blackstuff

The Bridge

Borgen

Our Friends In The North

The Killing

Snowfall

 

Kin might well break into that list once I've seen the 3rd series. Ozark would have been on it but for the fact that it lost its way towards the end of the run. 

 

I'd forgotten about Snowfall too. That was great and very underrated it seemed. I didn't realise there was a 5the and 6th season tbh. May need to check how I can get that.

We saw the US version of The Killing which was great. So we decided to watch the original - was it Danish? But the script was word for word and it isn't one of those things I can watch more than once because there's no suspense. 

6 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

I no particular order but mine might well include:

Breaking Bad

Gomorrah

Subarra

Black Mirror

Game of Thrones

Boardwalk Empire

Caliphate

Narcos

Chernobyl

Fargo

With honourable mentions for:

Killing Eve, Das Boot, Happy Valley, Westworld and House of Cards.

I know, I've cheated and listed 15.

You've cheated with Caliphate and Chernobyl as both were only one season. 

We'd probably have had both if it was one season.

We considered Subarra too, very good. However, the latest season was tragic. 

I flat-out forgot about Succession @Anag Ram. Both that and Mayor of Kingstown would have made a top 20 for sure.

I was chatting with Mrs Badger when we took out the hounds yesterday morning and we agreed on the following with the only rules being there must be at least 2 seasons and no comedy. They are not in any order.

Gomorrah - A total classic that hooks you in the first episode, which is no mean feat in these days of slow burners. 

The Wire - My niece's favourite of all time, and it had everything.

24 - I think this would be laughingly dated now, and there would be too many plot holes for me to stomach, but at the time, it was cutting edge. Wasn't it?

The Sweeney - I mean, come on, who didn't love this back in the day?

The Sopranos - only watched this last year and ducking loved it.

Love/Hate - a better, more gritty version of Kin

Breaking Bad - the OG os binge-worthy series, maybe?

Top Boy - If I was ordering them, this may have been number one for me depending on my mood.

Narcos - Season one and two were as good TV as anything I've ever seen, but it had dropped off by the end.

Spiral - French cop drama that Mrs Badger would possibly have fighting with Top Boy for her number one place.

Honourable mentions for House Of Cards, but the last season was just too horrible to stomach and Manhunter, which is kicked out by The Sweeney for sentimental reasons. Better Call Saul and the Israeli dram, Fauda were also considered and close to making it.

As a point of note, we have never watched Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead. We couldn't get into the former and never tried the latter.

We also only watched the first 3 seasons of The West Wing when Channel 4 added adverts, so that would be considered, I think, if we'd finished it.

11 hours ago, Alph said:

The line should be drawn just before Liz Truss steps up to a microphone?

 

(Joking btw, let it all be heard)

Barking mad. 

3 minutes ago, Barney1991 said:

We haven’t been a particularly great watch all season. I’ve not really blamed games on him this season but today for me he takes most of the flack. At half time you could see the back 3 was hindering us going forward. Easy change to make take Bradley off bring nyambe on and move Kane further forward and go 433. We didn’t even muster another shot on goal second half 

You see some lovely football in League One.

Said nobody, ever.

6 minutes ago, Andrew3000 said:

You love it?

Don't you walk through his words

Just now, DavesaRam said:

What a STUPID, STUPID, STUPID fiotball club.

Has anybody told them that we are supposed to play football.

If by some sheer fluke we scrape through the play-offs I will not be going to Wembley. They players don’t deserve it

We're second in the division. Why don't we deserve it? That makes zero sense.

We're not very good, but CLEARLY, neither is the entire division.

You don't fluke your way to 20 wins out of 33 games.

1 minute ago, 8Leeds said:

Come on Derby 

Can we be more specific for those us reading on our phones. Which Derby are you talking about? The mens team, the women's team, the Rugby club or the men's 4 x 100 in the athletics? IHow are we supposed to know?

1 hour ago, MaltRam said:

'"...I contain multitudes."

I wouldn't ban David Icke, his views are so mad that they defeat themselves in all but the most mad company.

15 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:

Finished Love / Hate. It's odd that I recall watching the first series, but never went back to it, but thanks to all for the heads up as it's a belter. Initially, I didn't buy Tom Vaughn-Lawlor's character at all, but it's a stellar piece of casting as he'd not be the first actor that'd spring to mind for the role, yet it's ultimately as memorable a performance as I can recall. He's like a Machiavelli for the 21st century and the way the noose inexorably tightens from episode to episode and series to series, as his greed and narcissism run riot, is almost Shakespearean. It all seems inevitable and yet utterly compelling at the same time and that's a very nuanced and clever trick. I liked Kin, but for me, this was in a different stratosphere.

 

He had the most amazing charismatic smile. He could switch from evil scumbag to lovely genuine guy in a second - it was really chilling. And I agree, I thought his character was the weak link in the first series, but he dominated it as it went on. Definitely better than Kin,which is a lot more polished, but I really like Kin too.

1 hour ago, StaffsRam said:

J/G/K seemed to complement each over quite nicely.

I'd say exactly the opposite; they couldn't work together. The sums of their parts rarely equalled the whole. It was rumoured or maybe true, that Gabbiadini and Kitson hated each other. None of them were ever consistent enough

I thought the side under Arthur that went up was amazing. The speed that they could counter with Gee, Davison NC and GM was breathtaking.

1 hour ago, Jimbo Ram said:

You didn’t rate Gabbiadini….really?? Became a 🐏 legend in my view.

That wasn't the conversation.

He was ok, but not much more. He was as likely to hit one over the Ossie End roof as into the net, and his control could be atrocious at times.

His record of 50 goals in 188 games was hardly prolific, and any legendary status he has now (which is debatable) is more down to his attitude, work rate and clear fondness for Derby.

H was the anti-Kitson who had a higher goal per-game rate and was more skilful, but was sulky and lazy.

Started Griselda last night. A fairly promising first episode, very much in the Narcos vein. 

5 hours ago, Jimbo Ram said:

Which 3?

Pembridge, Gabiadini and Kitson. 

46 minutes ago, B4’s Sister said:

Might already have been mentioned but I watched Deadwater Fell this week. Really enjoyed it. David Tennant was very creepy 

What side is it on? I do like me some sinister David Tennant!