the Horgan-ishness: black and gross-out humor, feints toward humanity promptly chopped down as the payoff of the scene, devastating personal loss played off as nature of the game, all male characters have the intelligence and maturity of a damaged teen
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
That's food for thought, tbh.
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
in any case, i'm not spoiling anything with that comment that you couldn't figure out by just watching the show, i promise.
you did specifically describe the final scene of the series, and contrasted them with your own expectations from just watching the show, tbh
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
i feel bad! honestly, I assumed you guys got them all at the same time and had already had a fair amount of time to see the show but i guess the international t0rr3nt scene works on a different delivery timeline.anyways, it NODS to the graduate, that's not where it lands. I am also a bit annoyed that it got far enough up its own ass to stop coming up with new ideas after the first ninety minutes.
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 01:26 (two years ago) link
i was just remarking that i likely wouldn't watch half the middlebrow british/australian sitcoms i watch if they were american but the UK/AU stuff's actors are generally 5X better, the subject matter is more daring and they say "fuck" regularly. apparently that does it for me enough so that I can unapologetically binge through Plebs.
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 01:29 (two years ago) link
It’s common-ish for UK (and a bit in Australia) to drop a whole series on free streaming the night the first ep TXs - koogs is just watching week by week on actual TV
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:41 (two years ago) link
liked this pilot about an all female muslim band a lot
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, May 12, 2020 3:51 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
so this has got a series going out on ch4 next week.
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
Currently watching Drifters on Netflix which completely passed me by first time round. Bit of a slow grower, but always watchable and by series 3 consistently hilarious.
― chap, Friday, 14 May 2021 11:01 (two years ago) link
I bailed after the ep where she gets a lesbian friend and doesn't know she's a lesbian lololololol. Guessing it gets better?
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 14 May 2021 13:31 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah I'd sort of forgotten about that. That was a low point.
― chap, Friday, 14 May 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
okay, watched the first two episodes of Ghosts. It's okay! Worth sticking with, I think.I was halfway through the second when i had the very clear thought this was gonna be bought by a premium cable channel to screen and then remade by another premium cable channel for a US audience. Found out this morning it's new to HBO stateside, so halfway there.― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, October 31, 2020 12:58 AM
I was halfway through the second when i had the very clear thought this was gonna be bought by a premium cable channel to screen and then remade by another premium cable channel for a US audience. Found out this morning it's new to HBO stateside, so halfway there.― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, October 31, 2020 12:58 AM
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 May 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
the choices with character reboot design are shall we say interesting?casting looks okay.
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 May 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
uk side : 'video unavailable'
are they remaking GHOSTS for the US market ?
― mark e, Thursday, 20 May 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
yephttps://www.cbs.com/shows/ghosts/
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 May 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
Ghosts is a single-camera comedy about Samantha (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar), a cheerful freelance journalist and up-and-coming chef from the city, respectively, who throw both caution and money to the wind when they decide to convert a huge rundown country estate they inherited into a bed & breakfast—only to find it’s inhabited by the many spirits of deceased residents who now call it home. The departed souls are a close-knit, eclectic group that includes a saucy Prohibition-era lounge singer, a pompous 1700’s Militiaman, a ‘60s hippie fond of hallucinogens, an overly upbeat ‘80s scout troop leader, a cod-obsessed Viking explorer from 1009, a slick ‘90s finance bro, a sarcastic and witty Native from the 1500s, and a society woman and wife of an 1800’s robber baron who is Samantha’s ancestor, to name a few. If the spirits were anxious about the commotion a renovation and B&B will create in their home, it’s nothing compared to when they realize Samantha is the first live person who can see and hear them. Joe Port & Joe Wiseman, Mathew Baynton, Jim Howick, Simon Farnaby, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond and Martha Howe-Douglas; Alison Carpenter, Debra Hayward, and Alison Owen (Monumental Television); and Angie Stephenson (BBC Studios) are the executive producers for CBS Studios in association with Lionsgate Television and BBC Studios’ Los Angeles production arm. Trent O’Donnell is an executive producer (pilot only) and directed the pilot from a script by Port & Wiseman. Based on the BBC Studios distributed format. Ghosts stars Rose McIver as Samantha, Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jay, Danielle Pinnock as Alberta, Brandon Scott Jones as Isaac, Richie Moriarty as Pete, Asher Grodman as Trevor, Sheila Carrasco as Flower, Román Zaragoza as Sasappis, Devan Chandler Long as Thorfinn, and Rebecca Wisocky as Hetty.
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 May 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link
i see your point about episodes 4 and 5 of Starstruck, episode 4 was largely farce. but i'm still enjoying it.
VCM probably the pick of new Taskmaster guests, but we'll see.
full list - Alan Davies, Desiree Burch, Guz Khan, Morgana Robinson and Victoria Coren Mitchell
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
mother's day episode of motherland felt like the first fully realized program and a payoff for the investment of time put in
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
Lady Parts was amazing and the first British comedy I want to recommend to people in ages
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
yes it's great.
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
Been meaning to watch that.
Disappointing lineup for the next Taskmaster. Khan and maaaybe Burch are the only ones I'm looking forward to. Hate Davies.
― chap, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
By that I mean Alan, not Greg.
― chap, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
Though Greg's relationship with Liz Kendall does raise suspicions that he's actually a dickhead...
― chap, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
I'd seen the Lady Parts pilot but was still worth seeing the actual first ep - loved the reiwrite of "Man Of Constant Sorrow".
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 27 May 2021 11:07 (two years ago) link
finished off s3 of motherland, that show really found its stride this go-round
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 May 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
Yeah, Lady Parts was great, have been doing some recommending.
― ailsa, Thursday, 27 May 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
Bit of a wasted opportunity on Partridge, an actual tory band would be playing polite folk rock not 80's synth pop. "Cottswold Commuters" is admitidely a jam.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 31 May 2021 09:47 (two years ago) link
Yeah that segment felt like it was gonna be total ilx bait when it started but it didn’t really come off I am loving it in general tho. The Ruth Duggan bit is a joke I’ll never tire of, also fair play for getting in lines about “things that don’t fly at the bbc anymore, like criticising the government”
― Pfizer the pharma chip (wins), Monday, 31 May 2021 10:52 (two years ago) link
i don't know how many other americans read this thread but i was recently informed that Stath Lets Flats is on HBOMax now. i know there are several UK ILXors who loved it but i hadn't found an easy way to watch it before this. it is very funny.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
Glad Americans can dig it too, it's quite culturally specific.
― chap, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
there's probably cultural stuff of which i'm not getting the nuances but there's also destroying three TVs while trying to catch a pigeon with a small plastic bag
― na (NA), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
Stath is kinda perfect.
I knocked out the first season of Friday Night Dinner, which is basically the same set of jokes rearranged for each episode and consistently told well. i liked it well enough to keep going i think.
UK ilxors: what other britcoms from the 00's/10's that are commonly known to be good over there but are unknown in the US should I be looking for? I need good acting, decent writing, no laughtrack and am otherwise willing to take a shot.
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
Pulling?
― kinder, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
watched all of it at the start of this year!
from upthread:
if you want a general guide as to how dark Pulling is, right around the fourth episode of the first season, there's a sequence where they beat a cat to death with a brick. And it's funny! But it is very much there.― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, January 30, 2021 12:19 AM
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
Count Arthur Strong is, I think, massively underrated. Laughtrack though, if that's a deal-breaker.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
unfortunately it is. But i'll try the pilot!
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
i tried 8 out of 10 cats/countdown and it's not watchable
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
I’ve no idea what’s well-known in the US. Inbetweeners? Spaced? Detectorists? Mighty Boosh? Royle Family? All good, for different values (and types) of good. Some of them may have laugh tracks for all I know. Black Books has one for sure.
― Tim, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:26 (two years ago) link
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu)
It's appalling. If you want a cosily undemanding yet entertaining comedy panel show try Would I Lie to You (or better yet Taskmaster).
― chap, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
Inbetweeners? Watched all of this so long ago that i have completely forgotten it existed! I think it was fine?Spaced? heard of this, never watched it, will try it. i like edgar wright well enough so this is a good recommendation. i get it confused with red dwarf which i am thinking you might find funny.Detectorists? Watched this, its decidedly okay!Mighty Boosh? dated a girl who was really into this and i don't know if i can ever watch it again.Royle Family? Never heard of this. Will give it a try!
Tried taskmaster, mostly unwatchable but to be fair i don't think I am into panel shows of any variety. I love Only Connect tho!
here's a list of some stuff that exists that I don't know anything about:how to stay married not going outspicks and specksrob and romesh versusmurder they hopeenterpricehousostwo weeks to live
here's a list of some uk/au stuff i watched and like:adult material, aftertaste, brass eye, Cunk on, Day Today, Damned, Dead Pixels, Fisk, Fleabag, Getting On, Ghosts, Anything/Everything Alan Partridge, Look Around You, Mandy, Motherland, Mum, The Other Guy, Serafinowicz show, Plebs, Pulling, Rosehaven, Saxondale, Slings and Arrows, Staged, Stath Lets Flats, Why Are You Like This
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
I'd say you have watched far more British comedy than most people in the UK. I've seen about 4 of those and haven't heard of most of the rest.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:59 (two years ago) link
The only one I've seen out of that is Not Going Out and I suggest Not Watching It
― kinder, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
(xxp) Have you never seen The League Of Gentlemen?
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
15 Storeys High is kind of weird but good? Errol shows up in really random movies, always fun to spot.I assume you've seen Peep Show
― kinder, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
And IT Crowd I assume? Laughtracked to death though it is.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
Peep Show is great and foundational, yes. IT Crowd's laughtrack means I can't watch it.I think League of Gentlemen got US play years ago... that's also laughtracked I think.I have never heard of 15 Storeys, grabbing that now. Cult comedies are of particular interest, sketch comedy is not.
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
i'm also gonna try enterprice and two weeks to live, both look promising.
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:14 (two years ago) link
outside of covid times, these shows usually have audiences, which forks doesn't like - probably not worth the recs
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
oh lol xp
here's a list of some stuff that exists that I don't know anything about:how to stay marriednot going outspicks and specksrob and romesh versusmurder they hopeenterpricehousostwo weeks to live
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― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
laughtrack/live studio audience with a "LAUGH NOW" sign just takes me right out of the picture for some reason. Too many years of it as a kid.
explain your derision at spicks/specks and housos? I don't know anything about them.
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
they are from a different country, continent and hemisphere
Spicks and Specks is a music-quiz game show with an audience btw
I can't imagine you liking Housos, which is a very aggressively LCD sitcom about residents of public housing. (the creator/writer/producer/director/star dumbed it down from his previous sitcoms about working-class reprobates, Pizza, Fat Pizza, Fat Pizza: Back In Business, Pizza: Special Deliveries, World Record Pizza and Swift & Shift Couriers. There is also a Fat Pizza feature film, a Housos feature film, and a Fat Pizza Vs. Housos feature film. So if you do try it and like it, there's plenty of distraction to be getting on with.)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:25 (two years ago) link