Marcella REALLY strains credulity even by Luther standards.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
I made a joke that the killer was in fact her two kids stacked two high and dressed like an adult, but everyone on the show is so damaged that I'm not ruling it out just yet.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
(My gf just finished The Fall and detoured directly into Marcella. I mostly do other things while they're on because evidence suggests that these shows about the bucolic mass murder capital of the world are Not My Thing.)
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
xpost I thought you were going to post "there should be a bbc comedy about a support group for damaged u.k. comedians. who can i pitch that to?
― Yerac, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
that's basically every panel show
― Number None, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
wait even university challenge?
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
yeah I had to bail on that after like two eps
― Simon H., Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
You arguably know what you're in for to an extent when the first scene of a television series features the protagonist emerging from a fugue state in a blood-spattered bathroom. Namely: fun times.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
Has anyone done a solid parody of these shows yet? Because I might start shopping one around if not.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
The final series of A Touch Of Cloth?
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
is a touch of cloth good? john hannah and the name make me want to like it
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
john hannah is history’s greatest monster fuiud
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
lol RS hates him so much which I've never understood
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
here in the uk we are subjected to smug, prissy john hannah voiceovers at least once every commercial break which has a lot to do with it but he’s also just a terrible actor
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
The first ToC is pretty good but it gets stupidly meta after the first series (well it is Charlie Brooker).
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
the fall is one of those shows that would have made a truly gripping single season but was needlessly stretched out to three and thus turned into a dull, credulity-stretching messgillian anderson deserves better u monsters
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
as a teen i made a mask out of a moody portrait of john hannah that appeared in the sunday herald and wore it round the house to jump out and scare my brother
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
I've long considered Hannah's Monty Python-quoting turn in Sliding Doors to be the most irritating role in modern cinema
― Number None, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
I could not get past the first episode of The Fall. Glad to see I am not missing out.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
one of the things that drives me crazy about shows like the fall is that the tortured detectives are so often working on these huge high profile serial killer cases ALONE. they are alone so much. i know, the better to be tortured by evil and childhood memories. but i highly doubt these people would be allowed to just brood in rooms filled with evidence by themselves in real life. they would be surrounded by frantic cops and feds.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
It may just be my netflix but it seems like netflix wants to recommend to me a thousand shows with Kiefer Sutherland.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
not gonna lie that
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
pls excuse discarded-post detrius at the start of my previous post
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
bg otm, I enjoy series that are kind of spare, but that one had so incredibly little going on for so long
― mh, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
kimmy schmidt might end soon, which is absolutely fine.also, new arrested development won’t be available on netflix in australia because unelected lord of australia and chief oligarch and super-bigoted fuckpiece rupert murdoch is somehow still holding exclusivity rights and will siphon it through his fucking revolting right-wing rip-off cable tv service
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 11:04 (six years ago) link
I disengaged fairly quickly from the 'moody brooding detective in the homicidal hellscape of the UK' genre after the first season of Broadchurch, whose 'let's say...Moe' resolution still raises my hackles.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 12:02 (six years ago) link
i really enjoyed HAPPY!totally over the top, several WTF moments, and a few chuckles.almost makes me wish i still bought comics.
― mark e, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
i hear you on broadchurch, i still like it somehow
i'm a solid stan of happy valley
jack taylor is dopey but awesome
like so any others i couldn't get past the first episode of the fall
would check out other uk hellscapes
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
"would check out other uk hellscapes"
The Shadow Line was very good at the time, from memory at least, not re-watched it all and find just about all BBC series unwatchable shit these days.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
i wish there was another show like Terriers for me to like. or even something lighter. i couldn't even continue watching season 2 of hap & leonard because it was making me too sad.
i mean there is a place for dark. but i could go for a happy go lucky detective.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
aye Terriers was excellent and way too short lived.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
on the other hand it didn't go on forever and make me hate it.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
someone should do a new series from the nero wolfe books, those are such an awesome antidote to dark & tormented
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
whatever happened to breezy!?
i mean life can be rough enough...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
https://s-i.huffpost.com/gen/1398474/images/n-REMINGTON-STEELE-REBOOT-628x314.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
I am trying to watch the Arrested Development remix. It's weird.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
now that i think about it, no one has done a hipster hart to hart reboot have they? how has that not happened? It's like money just laying there on the sidewalk
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
i just thought of the same thing...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbQCjXo7VF4
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
In September 2015, Deadline.com reported that NBC had made a script commitment to a Hart to Hart remake series featuring a gay male couple. Written by Christopher Fife and produced by Carol Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz, the new series is described as "a modern and sexy retelling of the classic series that focuses on by-the-book attorney Jonathan Hart and free-spirited investigator Dan Hartman, who must balance the two sides of their life: action-packed crime-solving in the midst of newly found domesticity."[4] A similar project had been announced more than a decade earlier in 2002, with Alan Cumming attached to star in a series being developed for ABC that was being touted as a "gay Hart to Hart". Titled Mr and Mr Nash, the planned series featured a gay couple, both interior designers, who "stumble upon a murder each week", but it ultimately never went into production.[5]
― Number None, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
hm so what does Max become in the gay hart to hart? and what breed is freeway now?
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
max would be whoever wanted to play the melissa mccarthy part. freeway would be a pug.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
NBC needs to put Rockford Files back on the air. Not a reboot, just old Rockford episodes in primetime.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
hey mark - Happy was a single 4-issue miniseries that is available in one cheap book if you're really keen(for mine, at the time it was the third-worst thing the writer had ever published, but I can imagine a Brian Taylor take on it being satisfying) (also NB USA, it is a SyFy show that is not on Netflix)
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
i have the hbo now with playstation vue so i haven't been netflixing much. watched all of the wire. watching boardwalk empire on my own. watching the leftovers with maria. will probably watch game of thrones with maria. tempted to do the sopranos again since i never saw the last season.
i did watch the new kevin james comedy special on netflix.
and cyrus is watching the 100 on netflix which does my heart good. i love that show. (i watched every season on netflix by myself and then again with maria. call me crazy...)
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
I really liked Happy. Chris Meloni was great.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
i'm so bad at watching TV now. I still haven't finished Suburra: Blood On Rome. I was enjoying it, too. I think I was burned out on Italian crime after two seasons of Gomorrah and the Suburra film. Plus reading the Suburra book.
― omar little, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
i have no problem watching an episode of something or five or a season and then just stopping. sometimes i just want a little of something. or i've had enough.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
killing eve is the closest terriers analogue right now - it's p good!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
xps Yeah, The Shadow Line was really good. There's a new Hugo Blick series coming to BBC2 later this year
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link