Television, drug of the nation

sapphire and steel

Not even close. Try Cop Rock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9puOuTaGPc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmlOo3EdPcY

A musical police procedural.

sapphire and steel

the worst tv show ever ? discuss

Depends on how old you are.

As a kid it was far more scary than Dr Who could ever be. And Dad loved it because of Joanna Lumley.

I liked it. I was maybe 8/9 years old, so I liked almost everything, but it scared the crap out of me on a couple of occasions and was weird and a bit unsettling the rest of the time...

Yeah, I actually have it still on my Plex server. The 'Special Effects' are shit but it is of it's time.

The stories themselves were pretty good.

Has anyone watched Them yet? Heard good things

Wasn't impressed at all.

It wasn't quite the US/Lovecraft country ripoff the internet was predicting but having sat through the full 10 episodes I have to say the discussions online about it being 'black trauma' porn are pretty spot on. Any deep insight into the black experience during those times is overshadowed by the overt "look how racist everyone was" tone without trying to make any point/commentary about it.

there's seemingly 3 plot lines and none of them really make sense in isolation and when combined everything is just a mess. there might be some lazy metaphors hidden in there but as a story it's just a bunch of tropes cobbled together.

there's a scene halfway through the season (the c** ** * *** one) that is so gratuitously unnecessary I would have happily given up on the show there and then but out of curiosity I persevered to see if I was missing the big wrap up at the end. I really wasn't.

this is a good spoiler'y summary

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/04/them-full-season-review-amazon-prime-1234629314/

Meh, sounds lame. Cheers

Frank of Ireland (c4) is proper good.

I switched off at first ad break

Mike Wozniak on Taskmaster this evening, bloody hell

Not sure I can face another casserole now

That noise.

Hilarious and troubling.

And I thought Lee Mack's noises last week would be the worst of the lot. Enjoying Jamali not give a fuck as well

Got tickets for the next bunch of audience screenings in May, but sadly in the cinema at the Curzon

Many lols.

Frank of Ireland quite shits and giggles

I'm liking it, I think it helped I listened to who I assume is Frank on the off the menu podcast and took a shine to him, but silly fun all the same.

Jeff Lemire stuff on the small screen, I have strangely high hopes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrBw0pbF11s

Highly recommend 'The Break' on Netflix.

French speaking Belgium (subtitles), cop investigates a murder in a town with dark secrets.

Wow nice, looking forward.
DC rebooted comic last year as six issue mini series on black label

Watched the first episode last night, lots of laughs

Mom walks in: and who is this Frank?
Frank: my MDMA instructor teaching me basics of unarmed combat

😁

I want to watch that just because of Pirate Steve. Who's Plexing it for me?

Haha that was on the (British guy that's on US TV) show recently. What a fucking mess!

Yeah - John Oliver.

I’d seen it in the depths of Reddit years ago but that brought it back to life. Terrifyingly bad.