Rolling iPlayer and All 4 and iTVPlayer 2017-2018

That show is very confused, imo but there are enough great things in it to keep me watching. I may expand once I've seen this week's episodes.

fwiw, I think the great things are very admirable and the things that I consider to be bad are very confusing, personally. Morally, it seems incredibly weird, at times, but I'm willing to accept that that's part of a greater pattern that is yet to be revealed.

BBC4 seems to be having a black history month all of its own. Which means I get to see The Long Song which I missed at the time.

Also enjoyed the Keith Haring thing on bbc2 recently.

jed I'd be v interested to hear about the things you think are bad. I'll admit there's a lot of the milieu that I'm just kind of taking on faith.

just got aound to watching 'trigonometry' which i'm really enjoying. unless the charcters take a sudden heel turn over the last couple of episodes it's just been nice watching a series where most of the characters are really nice.

Searching For Shergar is back on for a month, FYI

Drowning By Numbers is available on the Channel 4 app at the moment.

oh sweet thanks

Cheers!

The Mole is fantastic

2-part doc on a Danish amateur spy, incredibly well shot and a really unusual vibe to it.

Will check it out!

same

Made the mistake of watching both parts when I was tired, so started falling asleep at the very end unfortunately (think I caught all the main points), but that's because it was so gripping I wanted to watch part 2 straight after p1. So many questions! That James guy just bowling up and no-one really asking anything!

bbc four is showing scandi-drama The Bridge (series 3) two episodes at a time on saturday nights which is a good excuse the rewatch them all - it's probably my favourite of the lot (just above the wallanders)

(not to be confused with The Bridge on ch4 on sunday nights)

I just watched all 3 seasons! I missed it the first time round. When I was falling asleep watching The Mole I think I was getting slightly confused having watched more Danes in the Bridge the night before.
S3 is ridiculous, nonsensical and dumb compared to the prev 2 series but it's a wild ride and if they show s4 I'll be watching that too.

(i'm about to start series 2 - the pvr didn't pick up the first two episodes because the second series had a different series id to series 1 and i didn't notice they weren't going to record until they didn't)

The Mole is fantastic

It was... quite good? not super gripping. "The Mole now had a plan. To follow Alejandro and see where it lead... On his return to Spain Alejandro was arrested" was an (unintentional?) lol. The villagers who'd been told they were getting a hospital running out and cheering was pretty depressing.

that bit and lots of other bits just made me feel sick. like, i now assume this sort of casual horror is just happening all the time, far away

yes absolutely.

I watched all of 4-part political thriller "Roadkill" but didn't find it very thrilling, despite an interesting start.

I loved the first two episodes! Does it just not follow through? I suppose I'll watch part three this weekend.

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.