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Watched the first two series of Bernard Cornwall's 'Last Kingdom' tv adaption. It's amazing what CGI graphics can do.
Sharpe might have been a decent adaption if they'd had the CGI. Then again,....maybe not.

It's worth a look.

kk67 wrote:Watched the first two series of Bernard Cornwall's 'Last Kingdom' tv adaption. It's amazing what CGI graphics can do.
Sharpe might have been a decent adaption if they'd had the CGI. Then again,....maybe not.

It's worth a look.

I wasn't too interested in this, then I accidentally watched a bit of a rerun episode. Got hooked. It's pretty watchable... I even learned a bit of history.

Season finale of Game of Thrones last night. Lots of fun, as the saga trundles in the direction of a climax. A certain amount of silly plotting, and a few characters proving to be essentially indestructible during the series, but superior stuff.

Great final episode. I know what you mean about characters being indestructible but I suppose that many have now been killed off that those left are integral to the final series.

Missed the third series of Inside No. 9 when it aired earlier in the year. Caught up with it over the weekend. It's not as strong as the first two series, but it's ok.

Also discovered Rick and Morty. Animated comedy may not be for everyone but it's fucking funny!

Wubba lubba dub dub!

Been watching some Louis C.K. stand up comedy lately. He's very good!

WaspInWales wrote:Been watching some Louis C.K. stand up comedy lately. He's very good!

He's very funny, have you seen any of the BBC Live stand-up, I caught half of the Doc Brown one last week and he is very good.

OptimisticJock wrote:Great final episode. I know what you mean about characters being indestructible but I suppose that many have now been killed off that those left are integral to the final series.

Yeah, TBH it seems a bit mean of me to complain about it when GOT is much happier killing off characters than most shows.

But I'm like that. Bloody perfectionist.

WaspInWales wrote:Missed the third series of Inside No. 9 when it aired earlier in the year. Caught up with it over the weekend. It's not as strong as the first two series, but it's ok.

Also discovered Rick and Morty. Animated comedy may not be for everyone but it's fucking funny!

Wubba lubba dub dub!

Rick and Morty is brilliant. When I first heard of it, I thought what's the point, what can they do that's new? Then I saw it and I understood.

Numbers wrote:

WaspInWales wrote:Been watching some Louis C.K. stand up comedy lately. He's very good!

He's very funny, have you seen any of the BBC Live stand-up, I caught half of the Doc Brown one last week and he is very good.

Haven't caught that but know Doc Brown from Taskmaster, the David Brent movie and ashamedly something my daughter watches on CBBC. He does come across as funny in those so I may have a look out for him in stand up.

Son of Mathonwy wrote:

WaspInWales wrote:Missed the third series of Inside No. 9 when it aired earlier in the year. Caught up with it over the weekend. It's not as strong as the first two series, but it's ok.

Also discovered Rick and Morty. Animated comedy may not be for everyone but it's fucking funny!

Wubba lubba dub dub!

Rick and Morty is brilliant. When I first heard of it, I thought what's the point, what can they do that's new? Then I saw it and I understood.

I caught my 11 year old son watching it on Netflix and after sending him to bed I decided to give it a go. It took a few episodes to really appreciate it, but I'm glad I gave it a go.

It's awesome and the third series is just outstanding.

Rellik is interesting. It's too early to say how good it really is, and I'm not totally blown away with the characterisation so far but the storytelling method is very interesting for this kind of show, basically the same as the film, Memento.

Expectations are necessarily high for a series based on Philip K Dick's short stories, but Electric Dreams lives up to them for episode one, The Hood Maker. Understandably, they made this opener very Blade Runner-esque indeed (and why not?). I can't remember how much this departs from the original, but this story of a powerful but suppressed minority had enough ideas for a whole series. Great fun, high quality throughout.

Is it anything to do with androids electric sheep or it from another book?

Currently watching Impractical Jokers on Comedy Central. So bad it's actually good.

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Mikey Brown wrote:Is it anything to do with androids electric sheep or it from another book?

As far as I can tell it's a selection of his short stories, not Do Androids Dream...

My god, why did it take me this long to try Narcos? One episode in it looks brilliant.

And did nobody here watch Ozark?

Half way through season 3. Enjoying this season the most.

Mikey Brown wrote:My god, why did it take me this long to try Narcos? One episode in it looks brilliant.

Me too. 3 episodes in and addicted, which is fitting.

I saw an item on the news last week that a location scout on the series had been murdered somewhere dodgy.

Watched Bendylicks Cummerbund in McEwan's Child in Time on the Beeb last night.

It has garnered quite a mixed bag by way of review but while it was always going to be impossible to cram all of the complexities from the book into a 90-minute TV drama, I thought that this was excellent and captured just enough weirdness to remain true to the book. Worth a watch on iPlayer if you missed it.

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:

Mikey Brown wrote:My god, why did it take me this long to try Narcos? One episode in it looks brilliant.

Me too. 3 episodes in and addicted, which is fitting.

I saw an item on the news last week that a location scout on the series had been murdered somewhere dodgy.

Aye. Actually just read about that. Apparently Pablo Escobar's brother is demanding a shit-ton of money (in order to continue filming) in exchange for, what seems like, er... nobody else dying?

I've got to say that makes me even more interested in the history of these people, as I know nothing of them.

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:Watched Bendylicks Cummerbund in McEwan's Child in Time on the Beeb last night.

It has garnered quite a mixed bag by way of review but while it was always going to be impossible to cram all of the complexities from the book into a 90-minute TV drama, I thought that this was excellent and captured just enough weirdness to remain true to the book. Worth a watch on iPlayer if you missed it.

I've not read the book but I couldn't get into it all.

Mikey Brown wrote:My god, why did it take me this long to try Narcos? One episode in it looks brilliant.

And did nobody here watch Ozark?

I've seen all of Ozark, interesting although flawed in some of the plot and it seems that Scottish felly is in everything these days.

Numbers wrote:

Mikey Brown wrote:My god, why did it take me this long to try Narcos? One episode in it looks brilliant.

And did nobody here watch Ozark?

I've seen all of Ozark, interesting although flawed in some of the plot and it seems that Scottish felly is in everything these days.

Yeah there were some weirdly contrived moments, and Peter Mullan as much as I love him cannot do a southern accent, but I thought it was fantastic overall. The Jason Bateman directed episodes were really impressive, some of the others not so much.

OptimisticJock wrote:

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:Watched Bendylicks Cummerbund in McEwan's Child in Time on the Beeb last night.

It has garnered quite a mixed bag by way of review but while it was always going to be impossible to cram all of the complexities from the book into a 90-minute TV drama, I thought that this was excellent and captured just enough weirdness to remain true to the book. Worth a watch on iPlayer if you missed it.

I've not read the book but I couldn't get into it all.

Aye, but I bet you were creaming in your issue anti-microbials over Casualty on Saturday.