my complaints about 1917 is that it is another bad sentimental bullshit war movie by a dreadful director. But yeah, what a prize pumper for saying that!
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
it's not like a member of the Fox family to go nuts
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
This made me laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r0XnLs7DSc
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 January 2020 09:54 (four years ago) link
The Greek ep of Morse is so good, he hits some special notes of obnoxiousness, also I want to read The Magus for the first time in 30+ years
― Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 February 2020 01:59 (four years ago) link
tfw you settle down for a nice long maigret and it's just mr bean w/a sour puss >:(
― mark s, Monday, 17 February 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
The Greek ep is one of my faves
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 February 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
I quite like Atkinson as Maigret tbh
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 February 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
i'm still watching
(tho given the topic of this thread that is no index of quality)
― mark s, Monday, 17 February 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
I'm a discerning viewer I'll have you know
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 February 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
lol im not
― mark s, Monday, 17 February 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
"Is there a butler?""Haven't seen one sir.""Pity. It might have saved us a lot of time."
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 01:30 (four years ago) link
i just watched an entire ep of father brown -- lol it was extremely terrible
(not a gkc story for a start but even so)
― mark s, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
The Father Browns are really wrong as far as the stories are concerned, they might as well have just called it something else.
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 February 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
Maths geek listening to Muse ergo clearly deserves to die
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
Lol Peggy Mount in two minute nun cameo
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 August 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
God Morse is a sex pest
― Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 11:51 (three years ago) link
Still getting handsy with the only surviving criminal
― Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
You should try the Elmore Leonard novel where the hero hits on his girlfriend outside the rape clinic
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
The unemployment rate amongst posh elfin actresses must have shot up when they stopped making Lewis
― A bot scamping on a human face, forever (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 March 2021 21:30 (three years ago) link
lol true
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link
I don't know, I have Britbox and there are roughly 5,000 murder mysteries on there packed with posh elfins and hapless dad bods
― so tonight that I might ramona quimby (f. hazel), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
i love Endeavour (esp w mustache) & enjoy Lewis (though Hathaway holds most of the appeal there)... is it weird i’ve never watched Morse? mum used to watch, feel like i absorbed it vicariously i am v fucked off that britbox & acorn stole allmost of the brit detective shows off Primewent to do a rewatch of Cracker but it was the bloody American remake! /vomit emoji
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 01:04 (three years ago) link
i am v fucked off that britbox & acorn stole most of the brit detective shows off Prime
take it to the JiC thread
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 03:25 (three years ago) link
shush
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link
truly this thread was my "horror cannot be set in space" lol
also i see that wikipedia have deleted the list of the name of midsomer villages, which is like the burning of the library of alexandria x one trillion
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link
Ffs the librarians that burn their own holdings
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 11:57 (three years ago) link
i love Endeavour (esp w mustache) & enjoy Lewis (though Hathaway holds most of the appeal there)..
Probably best not to read about the subsequent exploits of the actor who played Hathaway then. Could never stand him myself.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link
Hathaway and shite
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 12:12 (three years ago) link
hitchcock: "actors are cattle"you, aghast: "hitchcock is cancelled!" actors: "hold my beer"
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 12:19 (three years ago) link
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
How about talentless posh cunt from a long line of privileged right wing wankers?
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah that's one of the more disappointing of disappointments in People Who Turn Out to Be Shitheads.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 13:54 (three years ago) link
we called Fox the Gwyneth Paltrow of British TV because women liked him but men instantly hated him and were later vindicated by his despicable behavior
anyway xpost, but I can't really rewatch Morse these days either. It's A. ponderously slow and B. the morality on display hasn't aged well. I'm more excited about a new season of Shakespeare and Hathaway, speaking of Hathaways. The mysteries are barely half a step above Death in Paradise but the leads are so delightful I don't care.
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
Hathaway's mayoral candidate video came up as one of my pre-rolls on YouTube and I felt like I must have done something shameful to deserve it.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
we called Fox the Gwyneth Paltrow of British TV because women liked him but men instantly hated him
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
tbft that line of posh privileged wankers it did at one time include some actors who (despite being cattle) were good not bad
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
AS ACTORS
"Kill the actors"
http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/8/8c/Prod68_03.jpg/600px-Prod68_03.jpg
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
i still enjoy Hathaway tbh not sure Lozza's shenanigans don't add layers
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link
adding in "(the ACAB years)" to every series of all procedurals ever, and never being wrong
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
also i stand by the hathaway backstory-reset as a tool to interpret this show
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
the only constants in Hathaway's backstory are god-bothering and jazz fusion and i'm sure there's an exception to them somewhere
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
shocking how less than 10 years ago i'd never watched Lewis and now i can quote whole eps
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
Poor old Lewis stuck with that miserable old git Morse then the possibly even more miserable Hathaway.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
Lewis excels above Endeavor and Morse at the crucial police/detective procedural scene: having coffee at a picturesque local cafe and talking about murder, then suddenly having to leave
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
also lewis has a competent boss: morse just the "maverick" to tropey mctroutface or whatever he's called
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
even Innocent goes a bit Oxford Mafia every now and then tho
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
It’s been awhile since I watched Morse, but I seem to remember in the first few episodes he wasn’t actually that good at solving the crimes.
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
Yes, Morse got it wrong in quite a few episodes throughout the series: "The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn", "Driven to Distraction" (where he victimised an innocent car dealer), the one set in Australia ("Promised Land") and particularly "Dead on Time", when he meets his former fiancée again and remains clueless right to the end. Not sure whether this is also a feature of Colin Dexter's books.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
Quick ten minutes of "Morse Goes Raving" is as terrible as I remember but also weirdly brilliantly peak Morse
Not you Boyle you're shit sit down
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:15 (three years ago) link