TS: Lewis vs Morse

Morse feels too nostalgic for me to take completely seriously these days? Idk maybe that is indeed cute. Simpler times etc

not sure of the one on the left, Stephen Tompkinson in the middle, Doc Marten's wife on the right

i.e. same revolving cast of actors that are in everything.

i don't watch this stuff to be challenged

Same. It's comfort food.

Can't stand that one with Brenda Blethyn in it, dressed all dowdy, though it has got Jon Morrison in it.

Vera isn't terrible but too seedy again, like most of Frost for that matter

and i kinda like Dalziel and Pascoe against my better instincts, it's basically a celebration of twattery

Vera gives lots of actors the chance to "Tak like that, man. I divven't kna what's happened to wor lass, like". And Alun Armstrong isn't even in it.

New Tricks! liked that before all the good actors left/died

I can't take Brenda Blethyn's crap Geordie accent

My mum loves it though, and every other show mentioned above. I was wondering whether to recommend Game of Thrones to her (too violent?) until we watched a Silent Witness where a lead character got his skull crushed and his body set on fire

I like the Dalziel and Pascoe books, never saw the show.

I've read most of if not all of the Banks books. Still laughing that one book was about a Mojo writer getting murdered while writing an article about Not At All Syd Barrett.

its been on in the background as i do the dishes and i feel very very strongly that nobody involved in endeavour should be paid to be so

Roger Allan's solid enough. I've watched very few of them tho, it's not a patch on its 2 companion serieses

I typed Allam, my phone is a dick

i love roger allam but the scene i caught was parody dressed as historical drama

It's no Heartbeat

endeavour sends me into instant anachronism hives every fucking episode: someone always uses a spoken phrase no one used before 1995

of all the "classic prog rock band gets back together then one of them is murdered" stories in all the brit-tec series, the lewis one is way worst

A Blairite with long term memory loss is found as a stunning new exhibit at the Museum of Human Disease. Suspicion falls on Little Crosby’s professional clown guild, angry that sex-toy anarchists might threaten to upset their plans for world domination.

— Midsomer Murders Bot (@midsomerplots) December 3, 2018

also a handy bit of pub quiz knowledge: the number of villages in midsomer murders called midsomer ____________

answer here, but guess before you look:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsomer_Murders#List_of_fictional_villages_in_Midsomer

Endeavour gets better iirc. It’s preferable to Lewis.

i am happily not in the position of being forced to choose

there are v many things that get better that are still better off left id say

the endeavour on right now features a suicide or possibly murder in a TV studio absurdly closely based on thunderbirds complete with gerry and sylvia anderson lookeylikeys

TOO MUCH SWINGING NOT ENOUGH PUPPETRY

just seen this mentioned on Facebook and am looking forward to a repeat as soon as possible

the story was bad but the look of some of the sets was good, 1969-style, also N. Dev. now has a tache

I've seen his moustache, there's a big advertising billboard for this season near where I work.

this is why i no longer leave the house tbh

To be clear, I am in no way having the best day of my life ever drinking all of these leftist tears.

My cup it overfloweth.

But please don’t stop.

— LAURENCE FOX (@LozzaFox) January 17, 2020

Lewis obv

― mark s, Thursday, 17 November 2011 bookmarkflaglink

🤔

the problem with all this culture wars bullshit is, no-marks like this who I wouldn't even normally heard of polluting my space. And lots of melts whose politics are utter garbage are suddenly the big heroes and good ..not!

Laurence Fox, the anti woke bad boy 💯 pic.twitter.com/1Z4QvevD35

— Josh Berry (@JBImpressions) January 17, 2020

you want culture wars, here you go: nothing in this thread* said by me is incorrect

*or any other ever

You’re always an invaluable contributor on the subject of Rory Stewart!

key gloss on the NDev ep mentioned above:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObruuuRw-jw

note that the aquaphibian prison is called AQUATRAZ

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOeIVjLX4AAk784?format=jpg&name=900x900

I'd honestly never heard of this cunt before, for a second I thought that QT clip was Garry Monk. Lol what a 3 time loser, shit actor and in a shit landfill band - no wonder he's so bitter!

i like billie piper but she has bad taste in men

also son eugene's full name is eugene pip fox-piper get a grip here ppl

Pre-culture war: Morse

Post-culture war: Lewis

ts louis vs morbse

would like a cartoon version of Morse where Morse and Lewis were grizzled cats

i don't remember knowing about the Piper-Fox ship. i still love Hathaway tbh but i've been on the rum

Both Fox’s albums, one would hazard a guess, are informed by his failed marriage to Billie Piper (the first was released just before the marriage ended), but the defining song for Laurence Fox as he is now fixed in the public eye – crusader for common sense, or halfwitted bigot, depending on your point of view – is The Distance, whose lyrics are pinned at the top of his Facebook page. Here Fox explains how you’re just not allowed to say anything any more: “The first to fall is laughter / Just to quell the unoffended / They seek to murder your opinion,” sings the man who gets repeated national newspaper interviews and TV appearances in which to express his opinion. “The light has been turned down on the age of reason / Replaced by blinding fires that burn wild across the region,” he sings, before offering a couplet that unwittingly summons the memory of Nigel Farage pledging to take up his rifle if Brexit were denied: “So I need you more than ever / Need your hands in this resistance.”

I forget if the ep of Lewis where one of the members of an ageing 60s rock group is electrocuted on-stage -- it turns out by one of the others, over Fleetwood Mac-style be-swapping shenanigans 40 years ago lol -- is also the ep where Hathaway's fancy guitar is stolen and the duo have to get it back by unorthodox means. Anyway Fox gets to play guitar every now and then on-screen: he is no John Fahey. The best bit abt the rock group ep is that Lewis ends up flailing around in the treatment pool of a sewage farm iirc.

i thought it was Hathaway, appositely, who ends up in the slurry but i could be wrong

also he plays in an "ambient world fusion" band or something like that

I've read about five tweets from diff people I follow calling for the Laurence Fox tweets to stop. I think only other subjects that I've seen this much pain on the timeline over are Tony Blair and the Lab party.

nah, the stolen guitar episode is the quiz weekend one with Alan Davies guest starring

in which Davies plays an obnoxious shifty self-regarding twat

the ep of Lewis where one of the members of an ageing 60s rock group is electrocuted on-stage

This sounds very much like Midsomer Murders' 'The Axeman Cometh':

55 4 "The Axeman Cometh" Renny Rye Michael Aitkens 2 February 2007 August/September 2006 6.87
The music lovers of Midsomer County are delighted when a host of bands arrives for the Midsomer Rocks festival. Barnaby himself is particularly looking forward to seeing recently re-formed rock band, Hired Gun, perform on stage, but he soon gets close to the band for rather unfortunate reasons. During their opening performance, the band's singer, Mimi (Suzi Quatro), falls to the ground dead – electrocuted by a wire that had been run through the microphone stand. Barnaby and Jones soon find the rest of the band could be targets, and when another is killed, questions are raised as to whether former band member, Ginger Foxton, who went missing for 30 years and is presumed dead, is still at large. The detectives soon have to delve into a world of rock music, drug use and greed, to find the truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0pekalbPjk