Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 18th March 2025, 11:23 AMMr In-Between. An Australian series about a hit-man for hire while he lives a normal family life.
Cruel, nasty and also very funny.
Ah! I watched several clips from Mr In-Between on Youtube about a year ago, and remember it looked promising, well acted with a vicious but strangely likeable main character. But the series was only available on the Disney channel or something, so I kinda forgot about it.
The White Lotus. A bit behind on this. Just finished Season 2.
Great, though.
Quote: zooo @ 14th March 2025, 8:32 AMAdolescence on Netflix. Bloody amazing. Each episode is filmed in one take 😲
Watched the first episode.
Astonishing.
Stephen Graham, as ever, is mesmerising - you can't take your eyes off him.
The one-take thing - the kind of 'gimmick' i don't normally have much time for - in this case serves the story brilliantly.
Will surely clean up come awards season.
Quote: Lazzard @ 20th March 2025, 9:57 AMWatched the first episode.
Astonishing.
Stephen Graham, as ever, is mesmerising - you can't take your eyes off him.
The one-take thing - the kind of 'gimmick' i don't normally have much time for - in this case serves the story brilliantly.
Will surely clean up come awards season.
Yes! It's so beautifully shot and acted. Deserves all the awards.
I won't watch it all because I'll turn over for the football.
I trust all these "celebrities" are giving their time for nothing.
Fifteen minutes in and I already find it cringeworthy. The only thing I'll want to watch is the NGO/Beyond Paradise sketch.
Ian Dury and the Blockheads concert on BBC4. Wilko and everyone.
Quote: zooo @ 20th March 2025, 12:24 PMYes! It's so beautifully shot and acted. Deserves all the awards.
Finished it now.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
Any father of sons needs to watch this.
Either to thank f**k our boys never had to go through this.
Or, for younger dads, to keep a watchfull eye on what's going on in the bedroom - and who they're being influenced by.
The fact that the Right are getting in a tizzy about this only goes to prove that a) they've not watched it & b) they'll believe any old shite they read on the internet.
Which, ironically, is the whole point of this drama.
Happen to stumble on an old Wogan from the 80s(?) on BBC4, with the music interlude being Jermaine Stewart - some twat I'd never heard of with a stupid hair-cut, looking like a poor man's Michael Jackson
The Women's 6 Nations Championships. (rugby)
The skill level ranges from brilliant to abysmal. England are very good and Italy very poor.
But it is very entertaining.
Especially when their shorts get pulled down
I'm saying nowt - the feminist dogs are ready in the traps.
😆 I'm of an age where I don't care now - wear the dirty old man badge with pride (bad choice of word, but what the hell, it's like the many things I see odd or peculiar now and I call them queer, 'cos that what they were in the 1960s, before some Yank twat hijacked a perfectly ordinary word.)
The difference between the mid 20th century in the UK and now, makes it like another country, and country that I look on in dismay at how far down the tubes it has gone.
In the mid 60s, you could ogle and whistle at the dolly birds, whereupon they giggled and loved it - now you get the thought police on your doorstep. What a sorry state this country has got into, and at the end of the day, I'm quite happy that I haven't got many more to put up with the shit.
True story: In the mid 70's, my wife was walking home from school and a bloke jumped out at her with his cock in his hand. She kicked him in the bollocks and dropped him. With today's dodgy rulings, she might have gone to jail and he would be suffering from mental illness.
👍
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 24th March 2025, 10:27 AM😆 ...it's like the many things I see odd or peculiar now and I call them queer, 'cos that what they were in the 1960s, before some Yank twat hijacked a perfectly ordinary word.).
Really?
I remember using 'queer' in a detogatory way when I was a kid. There was a guy called Shapirio that we called 'Shaqueero' (what wags we were).
We used to laugh at my nana when she talked about a 'gay' scarf or 'that queer little man at the post office'.
But she was born in 1900!
And I think Oscar Wilde was accused of being 'queer' in his trial.
Not sure Americans had anything to do with it.