https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29186
― koogs, Saturday, 4 May 2024 17:15 (three weeks ago) link
^ the pembleton crossword
― koogs, Saturday, 4 May 2024 17:16 (three weeks ago) link
Watched the episode last night. Picking away at the crossword, I've got about half done.
― ledge, Monday, 13 May 2024 13:49 (two weeks ago) link
aside from a kind of boring cast, this season also seems to have more team tasks and more tasks that are about creativity (like make a portrait of this person using the contents of the hamper), which are usually less fun imo
― na (NA), Monday, 13 May 2024 14:14 (two weeks ago) link
they were more fun, dare i say it, when it was lucy and sam doing it...
― koogs, Monday, 13 May 2024 14:53 (two weeks ago) link
(or bob or sally...)
i just prefer when the contestants are stressed out and tortured, not making fun drawings or videos or whatever
― na (NA), Monday, 13 May 2024 14:56 (two weeks ago) link
i agree this series is lacking something, there's no great spark between any of the contestants in the studio. anyway i finished the xword, had to reveal three or four but all solid clues imo, great job.
― ledge, Monday, 13 May 2024 15:05 (two weeks ago) link
steve and nick are the first people i've seen posting about their experiences on twitterx, which is nice. but maybe that's just an algorithm thing.
― koogs, Monday, 13 May 2024 15:21 (two weeks ago) link
I like the creative tasks. I agree that this series has generally been less laugh-out-loud funny than some, but I've still found it enjoyable in a more low key, gently amusing way. Maybe it's because there are fewer stand up comics than usual? (or at least fewer comedians who do wisecracking, riffing stuff rather than more character stuff?)
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Monday, 13 May 2024 19:36 (two weeks ago) link
I find all the contestants likeable enough now (Nick is just hardcore adorable), but yeah not the funniest bunch.
Some of Greg's recent postmortems have been suffocatingly hilarious, on the other hand.
― chap, Monday, 13 May 2024 19:48 (two weeks ago) link
the channel 4 streaming service had some episodes of the Swedish version of Taskmaster available a while ago, and the Swedish one felt a bit like this, mostly not uproariously funny but the participants were all likeable and it was fun to watch, sometimes you don't want to see people straining to be funny or wring every last drop of comic possibility out of every riff.
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Monday, 13 May 2024 19:58 (two weeks ago) link
I absolutely can't go Joanne McNally but the rest of them are very amiable and amusing without being annoying, and I also wish they had better tasks.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 May 2024 21:12 (two weeks ago) link
Agree on both counts.
― trishyb, Monday, 13 May 2024 23:06 (two weeks ago) link
Aw she's a bit grating but basically quite sweet.
― chap, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 07:07 (one week ago) link