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El Pibe Wrote:

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> Shit a brick, just watched "No Fire Zone" about

> the Sri Lankan crushing of the tigers and the

> deliberate murder of tens of thousands innocent

> civilians.

> Feel quite drained and utterly ashamed that our

> leaders just went over there with mild rebukes and

> smiles rather than arrest warrants for The Hague.

> @#$%&!!!!!!!!



This is the kind of stuff we have to research when we do asylum claims. Gives you a different perspective on life when you see what appalling things are going on around the world and have the victims sitting in front of you telling their stories and showing you their torture scars.

By the way, our government still sends Tamils back to be tortured and killed by the Sri Lankan government, despite overwhelming evidence that this is precisely what will happen before they are removed.



Sorry, back on topic I am waiting for the new Revenge series on Channel 4. Totally crap, but addictive :-)

steveo Wrote:

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> I nearly laughed up a lung watching Toast of

> London last night. Last episode unfortunately


Fear not, a second series has been commissioned. You can catch Matt Berry in Vic & Bob's 'House of Fools' on BBC2, his character is how I envisage HonaB to look and sound like...:)

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Don't know if anyone watched Generation War (our mother's and father's) broadcast recently.


Excellent german drama looking at WW2 on the eastern front from the perspective of a group of friends, of the personal moral failures that can add up to such monstrosity.


A good review from the Spiegel here that mentions the German 'inability to mourn' that brings to mind Spain's inability to come to terms with its civil war.


Here's hoping someone can make a drama that captures the imagination and prompts a national dialogue there too.


Hopefully it's on some sort of catch up somewhere if you didn't see it.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> I watched it - thought it was rather good.

> However, there was a follow-up programme hosted by

> Martha Carney which did my head in. If you want

> to burst a blood vessel, watch that too. It's a

> drama FFS!


Yes I saw that too - attacking the writer/producer for making the young germans 'attractive' and doubting their relationships given the upbringing they would have had. I think the portrayal of the Polish resistance was harsh and can understand their objections to the series - less so the US bleating about having Nazis work for them after the war - but it WAS only one group and the possibility wasn't ridiculous. It did what drama is supposed to do - stimulated debate and provoked thought/reflection on how it might have felt to be there.

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Happy Valley was better than I expected it to be. Good acting and the script was good, apart from a couple of unrealistic coincidences to make the story fit. I liked the complexity of the characters too and the good/bad mix within the lead characters. Worth a watch in my opinion.

Ditched before completion:

The Bridge (original version)

Orange Is The New Black

- Neither up to scratch, got bored.


Completed: Breaking Bad (of course)

Finally got around to: Battlestar Galactica - great so far.

Revisiting: Band of Brothers

Awaiting - Game of Thrones, season 1 (come on, Cinema Paradiso, hurry uuuuuup)

i have it recorded, but la piba was ill in bed, so ewagerly awaiting.


Have read the books up to about here, so some stuff in season 4 was new to me, some not. Thus know a few bits of what'll happen but hopefully a couple of surprises in there too.


It is excellent though.


And it's not _really_ fantasy (zombies and dragons aside), as la piba would have hated it otherwise.

*Bob* - I loved Band of Brothers (reduced to tears on occassion) but really struggled with the semi-sequel Pacific.


I don't like OITNB either but MrsDC loves it. I think it's squarely aimed at her demographic though.


I've revisited the Wire with her too and have got through 1-4. It still remains the par score to beat.


I'm afraid I went off Breaking Bad at around season 2 finding it hard to like anyone in it (see also Mad Men).

I remember Pacific when it aired, whenever that was. It was really disappointing and just didn't seem to work for some reason so I dropped it quite quickly.


That said, I missed the opener of BOB the first time - and I'm glad I did. It's a duffer - probably would have put me off tuning in for the rest.


The Wire is to me as BB is to you I think.. maybe I'll give it another go one day. But with 50 hours of Battlestar to get through that time might take a while to come..

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