Rolling iPlayer and All 4 and iTVPlayer 2017-2018

idk, by the end it felt like each character had said a lot of things but not done a lot... but then it's not like nothing dramatic happened so it's probably just me watching late at night when I need to go to sleep!

tbf, that is my viewing method for that show as well...

iPlayer now features all of Sorry I've Got No Head. You're welcome.

Just finished Bridge III during the week, will wait for series 4 to finish before starting it.

This weekend has been DNA which did a great thing in that there were two threads going through it but the two threads were 4 years apart which you only found out in episode 5 when she phoned the police.

Next up, something from Walter Presents and then the Valhalla thing that's currently on bbc4 Saturdays.

Also, witch, witch, witch!

Ha, just started Bridge s4, then will start DNA. Anyone watched Industry? I've not seen anything about it except the iPlayer blurb.

only seen the first two. the characters are predictably loathsome, but also really boring, except maybe harper. don't think i'll bother with the rest.

god help me i watched all 6 episodes of french series 'fear at the lake' on all4 mainly in disbelief at the combination of unbelievable coincidences and unfathomable decision making throughout. truly incredible stuff.

(the art dealer bloke from bridge iii is also in dna - nicholas bro. there are only 5 actors in denmark)

...and at least two of them will be in The Investigation, a dramatisation of that case about a murder on a homemade submarine

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/the-investigation

(foreigners probably think the same thing about David Tennant and idris elba and Olivia Colman)

That latest news is from 2019 and it's nearly 2021

the aforementioned 'something from walter presents' is The Same Sky, 6 hours of german thing treading pretty much the same path as Deutschland 8x, but in the 70s. it took two episodes for me to realise that the woman being honey-trapped was Saga from The Bridge.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5424556/mediaviewer/rm585891840/

Made it through 2 eps of Industry. Not sure if I'll stick with it but my mind is still reeling re Miles from Lost being a senior boss guy

I liked it although I mostly couldn't understand what people were talking about. I can watch pretty much anything with good looking men in it though.

guadagnino thing is pish

christ almighty the Lovers Rock “episode” of Small Axe is just monumentally great

the bike ride in the morning was one of the most beautiful shots i can remember seeing in a movie

so many incredible things about this

Bike ride was slightly odd on that it was shot upwards, which looked great, as you say, but just had me wondering if they couldn't find a road that didn't look too modern

Just switched on to watch the end of mastermind and then Only Connect. Instead got the end of Some Mothers Do Ave Em and then Butterflies, with the current BBC 2 ident and a trailer for the Marcus Rashford programme inbetween. Stopped and started and it went back to normal. Wtf?

when watching the 'live' stream on iplayer?

the default 2 hour buffer might explain this - you were seeing the start of the buffer and not the live edge.

(this is exactly my job, the live streams. have spent the last year re-writing it to work better (not yet deployed). ask me about converting transport streams to mp4 (don't))

ding ding! just looked, they were indeed on two hours before. disappointed it wasn't a 40 odd year time slip as i first thought.

Seasons 1-7 of Engrenages aka Spiral - the best French police procedural - are up on iPlayer.

that's Christmas sorted

Next and last season starts in Jan.

French colleague tells me he finds it nearly unwatchable in the original, says the acting is terrible.

lol i kind of agree tbh

vastly prefer le bureau

No way! Only good thing about Le Bureau is that their codenames are borrowed from Captain Haddock.

Spiral is ridiculous ofc but it makes more sense than idk Line of Duty

Spiral starts tonight at 9

I'm halfway through 'The Serpent' on iPlayer. It's kind of interesting but not sure it needs 8 episodes...

Definitely didn't need to be as long and there were several times when the time shifting worked against it - it lost all the momentum when we're trying to follow Nadine's story more than once - and towards the end a couple of times scenes from earlier are restaged to show another angle. One of these *really* doesn't work imo.

Yeah the back-and-forth was thoroughly confusing, particularly at the start.

There's one point in I think ep 6 that it just ruins the whole sequence there's a lovely tension build then suddenly everyone's walking around like nothing's happened then we drop back into the tension.

>> (the art dealer bloke from bridge iii is also in dna - nicholas bro. there are only 5 actors in denmark)
>> ― koogs, Sunday, November 29, 2020

> ...and at least two of them will be in The Investigation, a dramatisation of that case about a murder on a homemade submarine
> ― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, November 29

which starts on 22nd january, trailer just been on bbc2 (just after a bbc kids education trail)

(also, wallander's in it, the one from early 2000s, not the one from later 2000s)

Anybody watched It's A Sin?

Everyone and his dog seems to be raving about it on social media but wondering if it's actually any good.

some talk on the doctor who thread (given that it's written by rtd)

Doctor Who: Classic or Dud?

I'm halfway through 'The Serpent' on iPlayer. It's kind of interesting but not sure it needs 8 episodes...

― kinder

Yeah it was an enticingly stylish and atmospheric series but overlong, repetitive and kind of shallow. If you read Charles Sobraj's wiki there's a ton of crazy stuff he did which they didn't even touch on, which feels like a squandered opportunity.

I've watched the first ep of It's A Sin. Nothing too surprising yet but it's made me chuckle.

Did any discussion of It’s A Sin make it out of the Who thread? Curious what people made of it. I thought it was a masterpiece up until the last episode, when an out-of-nowhere Keeley Hawes scene de acting boots it into embarrassing amdram

it's on the list

I mostly thought it was brilliant, apart from the BAFTA-bait scene referred to above, which seemed completely out of synch with the rest of it (and an unwelcome return to the RTD Point Hammering Home excesses so maligned over on the Who thread which were, for the most part, reined in throughout). The denouement of the Stephen Fry subplot was a bit shit in that respect as well.

some chat about it here: Queer as Folk US v Queer as Folk UK FITE

I'm watching the Man in Room 201 on iPlayer and it's terrible, don't do it

301!

i watched it.
biased cos i loved watching finland etc.
oh, and there is a LOT more swearing than the subs reveal.

couple of days late but just watched the final episode of the current run of Unforgotten and holy fuck they gonna end it like that!!!!!

Series recommended?

that's next on my list to watch from the start

xp
yeah i really liked it. but it is v much a police procedural in that every series is based around a body being discovered many years after it was hidden and the same team of officers trying to identify the victim and find out what happened. usually 4 or 5 suspects who we follow in the present day as they go about their lives. so the premise is nothing new but i love how understated it all is, how professional the police are in it (well it is fiction) and the performances of the whole squad.

thanks for the explainer, I kinda hate police procedurals but my partner loves them so maybe i can give it a go after me knock out giri/haji (another police procedural of sorts, lol)

each series is only 4-6 episodes long and about 45mins per episode so not too much of a commitment at least!