When will it be possible to acquire the first episode?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
tmmrw night i think
― Mordy, Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sunday Night.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
right, that's what i meant
― Mordy, Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol, i thought it was saturday already
Thanks. Monday torrent viewings looking very nice for the next few months then; this, GoT and Mad Men.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
there's a pretty bustling thread about another HBO sitcom happening on sundays
― Mordy, Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
The recently completed Eastbound? Or am I missing something?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
GIRLS
― Acute puppy syndrome (admrl), Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
the infection spreads
― Mordy, Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Never heard of it, but damn that's a long thread.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
THick Of It>>>>In The Loop, right?
Yes, but I thought the americans had the funniest parts of In The Loop, so I'm optimistic.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 21 April 2012 07:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
i saw the first three episodes of this, it's very good
― max, Saturday, 21 April 2012 13:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's not as good as the thick of it, mostly because there's no hilarious sweary malcolm tucker character, but i loled several times
― max, Saturday, 21 April 2012 13:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm looking forward to this, especially if it doesn't prove another example of a gifted satirist who sets his eyes on America but quickly reveals he knows little about this country.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 April 2012 14:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah now that you mention it, I'm glad there was a thread for this before one for The Dictator.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 21 April 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I didn't realize the Thick of it Connection. I just liked the look of a trailer but now I realize that I probably should watch that movie. I'd forgotten about it after the comedy poll.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Saturday, 21 April 2012 16:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not quite In The Loop funny, but it was pretty good. I don't know if it would be possible to have two characters as funny as Malcolm Tucker and the eff-star-star-cunt American from ITL.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 23 April 2012 04:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Some thudding moments here and there, but this was pretty funny overall.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Monday, 23 April 2012 04:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is great, as are Anna Chlumsky and the slimeball. The press secretary and her body man could wear thin.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 23 April 2012 04:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
this seemed sort of ... off. it's an interesting decision to have the passive-aggressive dweeb kid instead of a malcolm tucker figure but ... i dunno
― thomp, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe in three or four episodes i will stop automatically comparing it to the thick of it, and then i will also stop automatically trying to make the differences be emblematic of differences in national character
max
i. do they keep up the 'did the president call?' 'no' 'no' and the 'did you know i have my own flag' bitsii. do they get funny and how many repetitions does it take for them to get funny
― thomp, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
would honestly stick w/ this just for tony hale & matt walsh but i was ok w/ those 'jokes'
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, i laughed. i'll watch until they cancel it.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
no i mean i honestly believe, given time, those 'jokes' will become funny
― thomp, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is fine, it's not remotely as good as the early thick of it but it's doubtful anything else is going to be, certainly within the pro forma confines of the american sitcom
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
felt very "ooh, handheld cameras, gratuitous cursing, big fuckin deal" to me, but still pretty funny and a good cast, will watch again
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol well in 2k12 those things are pretty commonplace no?
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
feel like american sitcom is a more expansive genre than british sitcom -- one of the weird things about the thick of it is that it is an absolutely classical version of standard british sitcom setup, only it somehow escapes being awful
xpost ha yeah i don't really notice those things at this point?
― thomp, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
well yeah that's what i meant, the look/feel of it is kind of played imo
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's an unplayable aesthetic
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think it needs time to develop side characters. People like Blinky Ben, etc...
There's also a different dynamic from The Thick of It. Everyone listened to/was scared of Malcolm, and the politicians tended to need to be shepherded around. JLD seems to have all the agency in Veep, where everyone else is just scrambling to fix her mistakes or get her what she wants.
Also the US doesn't have an equivalent of the civil servant, so we don't get a Terri.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
you guys realize this isn't an adaptation, right, it's a different show by the same creator
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
original title was "The Veep of It" iirc
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
the thick of eep
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
In the Veep
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
ah, british humour.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
some dude is british?
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol no, i don't think so
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
oi mates some dude is
these political shows that Iannucci has done, do they have any of the same absurdity of the 'Armando Iannucci Show'? I saw the first episode of 'Veep' and it didn't, though it was funny enough in its own right.
― boxall, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
no. at least not the surrealism.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
though his next show for HBO, Armando Iannucci's Veep Trumpet, probably will
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
the early thick of it is blackly absurd in the best sense, some of his more freeform stuff is a bit winsome
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
blimey blood sausage, i've been outed
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
too right guv'nor
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Some of the lines felt quite British or straight out of TTOI like 'massive and total shit' and 'Tom Hanks might die'. This is not nec a bad thing but slightly jarring?
― kinder, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 05:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
American innovation on stale British sitcom formula = something nice occasionally happens to the lead character, instead of being dangled in front of them and snatched away.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 06:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Obviously I'm against it.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 06:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ six series
― thomp, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 09:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thick of It is obv next level, but I'm laughing far harder at this series of Veep than the last. So many nice little moments in E3; the "robust" farce set-up, "procrasturbate", and a touching ending as the responsibilities of office intrude upon the career politician, which didn't happen at all last season (I may have forgotten that tho)
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Thursday, 2 May 2013 09:12 (1 month ago) Permalink
Yeah it's the combination of multi episode stuff and the attempt at a touching ending this week that makes me nervous
― caek, Thursday, 2 May 2013 09:26 (1 month ago) Permalink
Also my complaint is not that it's like/not like ttoi. My complaint is that it's nowhere near as good.
― caek, Thursday, 2 May 2013 09:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
do i need to know anything about british politics to get into The Thick Of It
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 2 May 2013 09:32 (1 month ago) Permalink
No
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2013 09:51 (1 month ago) Permalink
Not really. Political shananigans cross the atlantic quite well. My grasp of US politics is a bit shaky but I've no trouble with Veep. The pop culture references might be more problematic tbh, tho maybe they're not quite as parochial as I remember.
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Thursday, 2 May 2013 09:59 (1 month ago) Permalink
you'll be fine h4a, check it out
― caek, Thursday, 2 May 2013 10:10 (1 month ago) Permalink
i dig veep. its not Hilarious but i get some chuckles out of it and i like the actors and im just into the general vibe
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 2 May 2013 10:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
liked the first season, but it definitely feels like this season stepped up a bit, really great right now.
i was on the set for a couple hours a few months ago, worked on a psa w/ J L-D, was really cool to see random cast members walking around and see the sets -- it really looks like they're in cramped old government buildings on the show but it's all these huge sets in a giant warehouse in columbia, maryland.
― love bullets featuring skylar grey (some dude), Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:00 (1 month ago) Permalink
jld elevates this into something far superior to ttoi imo
― NI, Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:28 (1 month ago) Permalink
interesting that chris morris and chris addison directed the first 2 eps but barely seemed different to the rest, in tone, etc. (thankfully as addison has shown himself to be grimly unfunny outside of ttoi)
― NI, Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:29 (1 month ago) Permalink
i don't think he's terrible in mock the week. but yeah ianucci's group seem pretty good at sticking to a consistant house style
― chilli, Friday, 3 May 2013 01:28 (1 month ago) Permalink
not seen him in that but his twitter account is a hive of smug 6th form bants
― NI, Friday, 3 May 2013 14:09 (1 month ago) Permalink
so like his ttoi character?
― abcfsk, Friday, 3 May 2013 14:43 (1 month ago) Permalink
― NI, Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nuh uh. langham & capaldi operate in such singular territory, i think jld's really good but i don't think she's doing something so novel or engrossing as to beat out ttoi. i think i said stuff upthread about the specifity of that show trumping veep's broad-brush stuff, but yeah this season is so much better, ep 2 in partic.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Friday, 3 May 2013 18:15 (1 month ago) Permalink
yeah imagine that guy but one who isn't saying words written for him by the best comedy brains britain has to offer. and without a malcolm to brutalise him for his obnoxiousness. not quite as good huh
― NI, Friday, 3 May 2013 23:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
and yeah i get that ttoi is v novel and singular and all that but i simply don't find it as watchable, amusing or as engaging as veep. v rare i'd say that about any uk>us comedy but like i said, largely because jld plays that role so well, and her character is so well-written - maybe more cartoonlike than any of the brits but hey.
btw that's not to diss, ttoi's great but i found myself agreeing with a lot of the stuff in this article: http://richardhcooper.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/how-to-write-thick-of-it.html (esp re final series)
― NI, Saturday, 4 May 2013 00:07 (1 month ago) Permalink
I think that article is pretty offtm. Most of all because the dialogue is improvised with the actors, so it's really not describing how to write it... Also, the examples he creates are really not that fun. It mainly made me think that ttoi had to do something right, since it's dialogue is so much better than when other people try it.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 4 May 2013 16:20 (1 month ago) Permalink
ttoi is not improvised. it's like the most tightly scripted, printed-script-revering thing on tv. they just improvise the lines that don't matter to give it a looser feel.
― caek, Saturday, 4 May 2013 17:04 (1 month ago) Permalink
right
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, 4 May 2013 17:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
they even published the scripts from the early episodes
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, 4 May 2013 17:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
come on though, the swears became as hackneyed as 'rock on tommy' by the end
― NI, Sunday, 5 May 2013 00:36 (1 month ago) Permalink
i swear i will rip your tongue off and shove up your arse so far it comes out of both ears so you can hear me calling you a bellend in stereo you mum-sucking sewer-drinking numpty blah blah blah
― NI, Sunday, 5 May 2013 00:38 (1 month ago) Permalink
it sounds like you just didn't really like ttoi?
― caek, Sunday, 5 May 2013 00:43 (1 month ago) Permalink
"i just had to sign a 2 year lease on a nissan cube"
― johnny crunch, Monday, 6 May 2013 03:31 (1 month ago) Permalink
"it actually comes out as the number two."
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Monday, 13 May 2013 04:18 (1 month ago) Permalink
<3 dave foley
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Monday, 13 May 2013 04:26 (1 month ago) Permalink
i'm giving up on this :-(
― caek, Sunday, 19 May 2013 19:59 (1 month ago) Permalink
really! i think it's improved greatly this season!
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 May 2013 20:12 (1 month ago) Permalink
why did the midnight caller ask for mike again? he wanted him so much that he basically bribed VPOTUS. why??
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 May 2013 20:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
ohhh to get rid of jolly green jizzface perhaps
sometimes you just have to write it down and then you know
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 May 2013 20:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
it's got more ambitious this season i suppose. it's still not gotten funny imo.
― caek, Sunday, 19 May 2013 21:19 (1 month ago) Permalink
i love it
― Mordy , Sunday, 19 May 2013 21:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
xxposts -- common interest in boating i thought made him think of mike as someone appealing to work with.
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Monday, 20 May 2013 05:27 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Anyone else notice how ramped-up Jonah's douchiness was in the last one? Thought it was great.
― yuoowemeone, Friday, 24 May 2013 07:21 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
theres the uh bluff puff which we're gonna start off with youre her friend you went to high school together you guys like each other then we switch right over to rough puff
― johnny crunch, Monday, 10 June 2013 22:57 (1 week ago) Permalink
i thought this was one of the better eps.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 June 2013 23:19 (1 week ago) Permalink