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Escobarbarian posted:Why would I be offended by some lame twist ending over normalising the worst slur for gay people on what will no doubt be the most-watched show in the country on Christmas Day Late 80's song offends over thirty years later, the story of the song is depicting someone who is not a very nice person, I've never seen it as normalising along with in my experience I've seen the use drop of in use.
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Late 80's song offends over thirty years later, the story of the song is depicting someone who is not a very nice person, I've never seen it as normalising along with in my experience I've seen the use drop of in use. It was more Matthew Horne doing a big "whoooaa" face to show how naughty and transgressive their funny comedy joke was by saying the bad word.
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sebzilla posted:It was more Matthew Horne doing a big "whoooaa" face to show how naughty and transgressive their funny comedy joke was by saying the bad word. I'm really not sure what they were going for with it, especially since they were nice about "Crossdressers" (they're old and it did work I think) and such earlier on. We just assumed it'd cut away before that bit.
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njsykora posted:Gavin and Stacey got over 12m viewers, so I'm sharing this cursed vision of the future. with the ending singing 'Cop Killer'
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Dec 26, 2019 16:56
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When my parents put on the new Wurzel Gummage I assumed it wasn't going to be very interesting and I'd return to checking the internet. Instead it was changing, funny, well acted and plotted. Possibly the best bit of homegrown British TV this Christmas.
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Pablo Bluth posted:When my parents put on the new Wurzel Gummage I assumed it wasn't going to be very interesting and I'd return to checking the internet. Agree. It was fantastic and Crook was clearly putting some of his Detectorists magic into it
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W-wor-O-wor-R-wor-Z-wor-E-wor-L-worzel How is that song in my brain, how? How?! It's been decades. My God.
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Dec 29, 2019 01:10
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I watched the first episode and was slowly getting bored until the other scarecrows started shambling. That was wonderful.
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Dec 29, 2019 17:27
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I’ve watched Upstart Crow finally having avoided it. Meh. S’alright.
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Dec 29, 2019 17:49
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thehustler posted:I’ve watched Upstart Crow finally having avoided it. It's just somewhat sub-Blackadder. Emma Thompson was in the Christmas ep and gave nothing less than an Emma Thompson performance. Edit: the Australia nature documentary, voiced by Barry Humphreys, was very good. BizarroAzrael fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Dec 29, 2019 |
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thehustler posted:I’ve watched Upstart Crow finally having avoided it. I just found it really....early 90s. It's a bit like Men Behaving Badly - I don't hate it or anything, it's just there.
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Any thoughts on BBC's Dracula? I found the first two episodes great, with a massively squandered setup for the third, choosing to waste a lot of time on a subplot that felt like unwanted filler in an otherwise direct show.
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I liked it despite myself to be honest, though I've not seen the third one yet. When it's not quite so Moffat-y it's pretty good and the guy playing Dracula is well cast. Not as annoying as Sherlock, thank gently caress.
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The first two episodes were a solid and promising retelling of Dracula. The third was absolute poo poo.
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PriorMarcus posted:The first two episodes were a solid and promising retelling of Dracula. The third was absolute poo poo. I can't even handle how loving stupid the third episode is. It is final episode of Sherlock bad. Spoilers for those interested. A somewhat secret society captures Dracula (after stupidly letting him murder two people) and has him trapped in their research facility for study. For some reason they give him a wifi enabled tablet (he guesses the wifi password is Dracula, because of course they are that loving stupid) to dick around on and he contacts his lawyers (the same firm from the fuckint 1890's) and has them send a lawyer. The secret society with armed mercenaries, for some reason, decides to let this lawyer into their secure facility. The man doesn't bat a goddamn eyelash at the fact that Dracula is a vampire, and bullies them into releasing Dracula on the grounds that he will call the police. Yes, that is the actual real reason they let a five hundred year old vampire who has already murdered two people go free. Caros fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Jan 4, 2020 |
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Now that's what I call Moffat!
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njsykora posted:Now that's what I call Moffat! It is just bafflingly bad. Like if I saw that poo poo in transformers 6: The Explosioning I'd consider it a new low for the series for how loving idiotic it is. I just ended up skimming the rest of the episode because it kept being that profoundly bad and I was just done.
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Just watched the first episode despite the Moffat/Gatiss combo because of good reviews and I honestly thought it was crap. I find their obsession with adapting but not really adapting something bizarre.
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First episode was terrible but watched the second as I figure morbid curiosity is a perfectly valid reason for watching a show about the undead. Second episode was actually quite good, but if that last scene is anything to go by, the third episode will redefine the term "drizzling shits".
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Jan 4, 2020 11:44
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Derek Acorah has died. Hurrah!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fViWsBm_1Ac Was there a bettter UKTV opening credits from the last decade? The Night Manager had great visuals but the music doesn't quite hit the spot. While The Shadowline didn't have great visuals, the music is so overwhelmingly forceful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2cCqA0HJI Any other contenders? Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Jan 4, 2020 |
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Dell_Zincht posted:Derek Acorah has died. Yep, what absolute loving scum.
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Most Haunted was good unemployment telly to be fair.
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Dell_Zincht posted:Derek Acorah has died. Has he given any interviews about it yet?
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Christmas/New Year TV was so bad my ma says she's going to stop paying her TV licence. Like she's said it before but it's not something she says lightly. She believed in the detector vans 
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Only just watching dracula now, and jfc I hate how smug these bastards are "its 4 weeks to england, what did you expect me to do, lie around in a box?". It's not enough to adapt a classic novel, you have to make fun of it at every possible opportunity. Dracula menacing the nuns was pretty fun when he dialled down the camp and actually seemed to enjoy the excitement of mortals challenging him.
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I saw the last 40 minutes of the second episode the other night and I thought it was okay if a bit silly. The ending was the most BBC thing ever though and made it feel like I'd been watching Dr Who  I'm not dying (lol!!!) to watch the whole thing, anyway crispix fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Jan 4, 2020 |
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I watched the first episode of What We Do In The Shadows instead of bothering with Dracula and that seems alright.
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Oh my sweet gently caress, are Moftis incapable of writing stories that don't require everybody to be staggeringly incompetent and recklessly unprofessional? Look, it's the preserved and lifeless corpse of a vampire, let me shove my bare hand into his mouth.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:are Moftis incapable of writing stories
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Watching the first episode of Dracula I wanted to hit myself after the Hungarian nun made a reference to Sherlock and getting help from him to find Mina
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Pablo Bluth posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fViWsBm_1Ac drat, I completely forgot about the shadow line and how great that title sequence was. Can't remember anything at all about the show itself, but the titles give me chills.
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The Perfect Element posted:drat, I completely forgot about the shadow line and how great that title sequence was. Can't remember anything at all about the show itself, but the titles give me chills. I remember a really great cold open with a body in a car. Good show. The title sequence for His Dark Materials was better than the show itself, tbh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRaT0QXAxCw
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The Perfect Element posted:drat, I completely forgot about the shadow line and how great that title sequence was. Can't remember anything at all about the show itself, but the titles give me chills. And as usual, if it's good in the last 10 years, you can't attribute it to the BBC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHmInliE7dE
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njsykora posted:I watched the first episode of What We Do In The Shadows instead of bothering with Dracula and that seems alright. It’s absolutely super. There’s a big thread about it somewhere. There’s also a film (which was first) set in New Zealand.
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Kin posted:And as usual, if it's good in the last 10 years, you can't attribute it to the BBC.
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Red Oktober posted:It’s absolutely super. There’s a big thread about it somewhere. Just want to echo both of these points.
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Although I like flight of the conchords so of course I've heard of the film it still always shocks me there are people who have watched the show but don't even know the film exists It feels bizzare!
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