reality_groove posted:Oh bless your little cotton socks. Clearly you haven't been watching 'Paddy McGuinness Rips off Tarrant on TV', 'Sketch comedy group gets schtick stretched to six episodes' or 'The Inbetweeners USA for some reason'. I'm not insane.
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Bown posted:I don't understand why Mrs Brown's Boys isn't just treated with waves of vitriol. It's the worst show I've ever seen, and I don't say that lightly. I can't believe it's getting a loving movie  it's already been a movie... Also, I've seen some of the original Irish episodes without the laugh track and they definitely fall into the "dram-edy" category than out an out slapstick of the current iteration. My own opinions, eh, it's harmless, I'll watch it if it's on, I'll chuckle a bit then immediately forget about it.
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Well this is frustrating. I'm trying to watch the new Utopia on 4OD, but every time it gets to an ad break, it'll show the adverts and then jump to a seemingly random Channel 4 show when part two resumes. I tried watching it on 4OD's YouTube channel, but I get a black screen whenever I watch it in full screen mode. I could watch it in a smaller frame, but it's shot so well that I don't want to. EDIT: Ugh. I had to resort to... Explorer to watch it. It was worth it though. I'm hooked. 7seven7 fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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I just watched Kill List and it works as a perfect origin story for the Utopia wheezy hitman.
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Am I the only one who just doesn't... get Utopia? It looks very pretty, but it's too bogged down in exposition about a frankly uninteresting government conspiracy to keep me engaged. I find the concept of an "insane" secret organisation that's going to test a virus on Great Britain a bit too silly to take seriously - I just don't buy that they'd have any motivation to do that. I like some of the characters, particularly Grant, Becky, and Wilson, and having Curtis from Misfits in it is cool, but then spending so much of last episode with Jessica "I pull one pouty face and say all my lines in the same flat breathy way" Hyde just lead to me wanting the group to run away from her and never come back. On top of it all, it just seems far too mean spirited - I like black comedy but ending the episode with a family of four being gassed to death in their own home just seemed unnecessary. I don't know, it does lots of things well but I'm just not engaged with the overall narrative. I'll probably keep watching it though because I'm a plum. Howards Bellend fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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Jan 25, 2013 10:50
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Yeah to be honest I agree. It's got some interesting ideas but its definitely a case of style over substance. Jessica Hyde is pretty terrible, but I do really like the hitman character though.
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Jan 25, 2013 11:44
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Just uploaded something to YouTube that people here may be interested in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma2GqZW5Tww Ian Hislop doing a corporate gig speech.
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Jan 25, 2013 12:11
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:
It's kind of televison white noise for me. The only issue I take with it is when it tries to be serious. You can't really expect me to believe the serious bits, if for the past half-hour it's been line flubs, running through the sets, and slastick.
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NaDy posted:Yeah to be honest I agree. It's got some interesting ideas but its definitely a case of style over substance. Jessica Hyde is pretty terrible, but I do really like the hitman character though. I'd need to see the actress in something else to judge, but I think the character is supposed to an unemotional robot.
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Jan 25, 2013 12:38
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Zythrst posted:I'd need to see the actress in something else to judge, but I think the character is supposed to an unemotional robot. It's still kind of boring to watch. Also, she's basically Anton Chigur filling in for Kyle Reese from Terminator. Does look lovely though,
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Jan 25, 2013 12:44
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Zythrst posted:I'd need to see the actress in something else to judge, but I think the character is supposed to an unemotional robot. That's true, but you could say the same about the Hitman, but he pulls it off well. I just don't think she is playing it that well really. Don't get me wrong I still like the show, there's just not much to it.
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Howards Bellend posted:Am I the only one who just doesn't... get Utopia? It looks very pretty, but it's too bogged down in exposition about a frankly uninteresting government conspiracy to keep me engaged. I find the concept of an "insane" secret organisation that's going to test a virus on Great Britain a bit too silly to take seriously - I just don't buy that they'd have any motivation to do that. I like some of the characters, particularly Grant, Becky, and Wilson, and having Curtis from Misfits in it is cool, but then spending so much of last episode with Jessica "I pull one pouty face and say all my lines in the same flat breathy way" Hyde just lead to me wanting the group to run away from her and never come back. On top of it all, it just seems far too mean spirited - I like black comedy but ending the episode with a family of four being gassed to death in their own home just seemed unnecessary. I really like it but I agree with you about the plot. I think the conspiracy is lazily written and not very engaging, but they don't really try to milk it for suspense as much as they could so I don't feel like its a huge problem. It's definately a case of style over substance but the style is very good so I'll still tune in for it. Maybe some of the violence is unnecessary but the gratuitiousness can work. The extent of that torture scene in the first episode, for example, was so unexpected for me that it lead to a brilliant few minutes. I was a bit disappointed that they tried to cash in on that again too much in the second episode but there you go.
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Bown posted:I don't understand why Mrs Brown's Boys isn't just treated with waves of vitriol. It's the worst show I've ever seen, and I don't say that lightly. I can't believe it's getting a loving movie Have you seen Miranda? I'm honestly beginning to think the portrayal of BBC Comedy that Ricky Gervais showed in series 2 of Extras is close to what actually goes on there.
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sex pervert posted:Have you seen Miranda? I'm honestly beginning to think the portrayal of BBC Comedy that Ricky Gervais showed in series 2 of Extras is close to what actually goes on there. Miranda is alright if you're the target audience (slightly posh gawky unattractive woman), in which case you'll get cheap laughs because you too have a posh mum and posh friends, and out of sympathy/recognition of awkward social situations. It's not high art but it's the TV equivalent of comfort food, and I think it's great to have a comedy featuring 'quirky' women that aren't quirky in a really cringey Zooey Deschanel manic pixie dream girl way. Having said that, the new series ran out of actual jokes about 2 episodes in and is now running on pure padding.
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Interestingly the BBC twitter account once asked for script ideas about Transgender issues or Transgender characters. This is while the avatar was a picture of the bloke from Mrs. Browns Boys dragged up and gurning to camera.
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The first four minutes of ep 3 of Utopia are going to be the most talked about 4 minutes of TV this year. Trust.
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Jan 25, 2013 16:06
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New series of the Last Leg on Channel 4 now, good stuff.
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reality_groove posted:The first four minutes of ep 3 of Utopia are going to be the most talked about 4 minutes of TV this year. Trust. You little tease.
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Jan 25, 2013 22:47
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reality_groove posted:The first four minutes of ep 3 of Utopia are going to be the most talked about 4 minutes of TV this year. Trust. Can we get a Toxx on that?
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Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell are writing a new sitcom for Sky Living, which could go either way, considering that Lab Rats was utter shite.
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reality_groove posted:The first four minutes of ep 3 of Utopia are going to be the most talked about 4 minutes of TV this year. Trust. You cocktease  I'm just watching This Is England '88. I'm so happy Alex Macqueen (Julius Nicholson) is in it, bloody love that guy.
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onoflalks posted:New series of the Last Leg on Channel 4 now, good stuff. I don't think the last leg has, as it were, legs. It's watchable enough, but there's no real focus to it, other than people on it happen to be disabled.
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Bloodbath posted:You cocktease drat it. Every time someone mentions This is England, I need to watch through the entire thing again. And cry like a drat child at the end of '88. Don't judge, I know everyone else did too.
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Michael Fassbender is playing a character based on Frank Sidebottom in a new film (complete with papier mache head). Sounds interesting but it better contain The Monopoly Song and constant Timperley references.
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Something I must ask while I remember. There is a recurring extra in so many British comedies I have watched. It's a white Nissan Micra (early 90s model). It appears in almost every episode of Saxondale and shows up all the time in Peep Show. I've seen it in lots of other shows as well. Wtf?
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sex pervert posted:Something I must ask while I remember. There is a recurring extra in so many British comedies I have watched. It's a white Nissan Micra (early 90s model). It appears in almost every episode of Saxondale and shows up all the time in Peep Show. I've seen it in lots of other shows as well. Wtf? 
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Its registration was K702 TKN. I first noticed it in The Office, probably because my mum drove the same model and colour of car for a long time. Until the arse fell out of it, actually. edit: I think it must have been some comedy inside joke. Like Kevin Eldon, but a car. sex pervert fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Jan 26, 2013 |
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Maybe it's Alan Smithee's car? 
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Giedroyc posted:Michael Fassbender is Frank Sidebottom 
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Bown posted:I don't understand why Mrs Brown's Boys isn't just treated with waves of vitriol. It's the worst show I've ever seen, and I don't say that lightly. I can't believe it's getting a loving movie I loving hate Mrs Brown's Boys. It's like someone made a single show out of everything I hate in british tv. I was on a coach late at night once and everyone on it was drunk and when the driver put Mrs Brown's Boys on the TV EVERYONE complained. If a bunch of sleepy drunks hate Mrs Brown's Boys I have no idea how anyone sober and awake endures it.
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Giedroyc posted:Michael Fassbender is playing a character based on Frank Sidebottom in a new film (complete with papier mache head). I don't mean to be hopelessly fixated on appearances, but why would you put the ridiculously beautiful head of Michael Fassbender inside papier mache?
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sex pervert posted:edit: I think it must have been some comedy inside joke. Like The Actor Kevin Eldon, but a car.
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Giedroyc posted:Michael Fassbender is playing a character based on Frank Sidebottom in a new film (complete with papier mache head). Mixed feelings about this as I do like me some Fassbender but Frank Sidebottom terrified me as a child.
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Lemon posted:Mixed feelings about this as I do like me some Fassbender but Frank Sidebottom terrified me as a child.
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Jeremy Clarkson, the World's Shittest Dalek.
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McDragon posted:Jeremy Clarkson, the World's Shittest Dalek. Him getting James something from Ann Summers made me laugh more than it should have. The Dragons Den bit was far too long.
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Ripper Street was probably the best episode of the series so far though, really great and very well acted.
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No chat about Wonders of Life? Watched the first one last night while really tired. Not all of it went in, but really enjoyed it. Looked amazing too and the bits where he was talking while diving into that lake were hilarious. Next week is about the evolution of the eye, which should be amazing.
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Mickolution posted:No chat about Wonders of Life? Watched the first one last night while really tired. Not all of it went in, but really enjoyed it. Looked amazing too and the bits where he was talking while diving into that lake were hilarious. Next week is about the evolution of the eye, which should be amazing. I only have room in my heart for David Attenborough's Africa at the moment ... Baby turtles NOOOOOO!
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Mickolution posted:No chat about Wonders of Life? Watched the first one last night while really tired. Not all of it went in, but really enjoyed it. Looked amazing too and the bits where he was talking while diving into that lake were hilarious. Next week is about the evolution of the eye, which should be amazing. 
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