Goggle box

[steveo]

True Detective with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson on HBO

It's well 'ard and I'm lining it up to be my new addiction

Ritual slayings in Louisiana: what more could you want?

[the-e-dealer]

helix - channel 5 a Crighton rip off apparently.

NETFLIX Orange is the new black a hardened up women's prison drama

NETFLIX Intelligence. Cops do deals with drug baron. Cool.

[LadyDeliah]

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.

[LadyDeliah]

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 :-)

[El Pibe]

Depressing and shameful indeed!

On a lighter note I've been enjoying Masters of Sex. Annoyed at myself for reading Bill Masters' wikipedia entry now so I pretty much know how series 2 will pan out :(

[red devil]

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...:)

[red devil]

A late heads-up, Danny Baker has a new series on BBC4 @ 9 exploring musical decades, tonite it's the 70's...

[Dopamine1979]

Outnumbered.

I hade given up on this but it had me in stitches yesterday.

Sitcoms like this usually become unwatchable when the kids stop being cute.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Sunday nights. Lancelot has become Aramis. Very yummy.

[Alan Medic]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10681832/37-Days-BBC-Two-review.html

Caught up with the first episode of 37 days last night on BBCi. It's about the lead up to the outbreak of WW1. Only a 3 parter but I liked it.

[El Pibe]

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]

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!

[maxxi]

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.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Just finished watching "Happy Valley".

Rather good I thought.

[holloway]

Missed out on 'Happy Valley', not that happy by all accounts I've read. Really enjoyed watching 'The Americans' though...

[LadyDeliah]

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.

[El Pibe]

The Americans does seem to have slipped under the radar, i too thought it was excellent.

[maxxi]

Is the new Wallander series any good? I enjoyed the whole Wallander stuff a few years ago but despite having recorded all of the latest series I have yet to watch one - every time I think I might I find I can't be arsed.

[El Pibe]

Just watched The Tunnel, the anglo-french remake of The Bridge. It was very enjoyable, but I do like Stephen Dillane a lot (when he's not being boring old Stannis) and Poesy was excellent (not to mention pretty) as the socially awkward asbergic detective.

[steveo]

Wallander is still good but...

SPOILER ALERT

..the poor old chap is suffering memory loss so he's not quite firing on all six

[david_carnell]

So....Game of Thrones season 4 finale last night.

Anyone else a fan? I've not read the books and don't normally like fantasy but this has had me gripped from season 1.

[*Bob*]

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)

[El Pibe]

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.

[david_carnell]

*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).

[*Bob*]

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..