THE NORTHBANKBREN TV SHOW THREAD

[g88ner]

Anyone catch Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank last night?

no, I was watching monkey tennis on Sky Sports

[officepest]

Anyone catch Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank last night?

no, I was watching monkey tennis on Sky Sports

It was either that or Inner City Sumo.

[arseofacrow]

High culture thankfully still exists

[DB10GOONER]

Anyone catch Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank last night?

no, I was watching monkey tennis on Sky Sports

It was either that or Inner City Sumo.

[DB10GOONER]

True Detective season 2. Mixed bag, really.

Enjoyed Colin Farrell's character, seems to have some depth and is on that morally ambiguous line between good and bad. He's playing it ok too. And I usually HATE him as an actor.

Vince Vaughan didn't ruin it the way I thought he would. But let's be honest, he ain't no serious actor.

Rachel McAdam's character is absolute shite. Cheaply written clichéd tough-female-cop-with-family-problems type character. Insults my intelligence. Hope she dies in the next episode!

The disturbed war veteran bike cop? Who cares. Another cheaply written cliché.

I'll stick with it because the first series was awesome. But it's not looking great. just ok.

Watched the laughably shite last couple of episodes of True Defective Series Poo.

The tagged on Hollywood shoot out a couple of episodes back was hilariously Arnie-ish in it's crapness. And then we are asked to believe that McAdams' and Farrell's characters literally fall hopelessly in love in the course of one conversation, having had literally fuck all real interaction up to that point. Literally.

The Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid type ending for Farrell's character was fucking pathetically insulting to any viewer with an IQ above 5. And then to add injury to insult, ex-Special Forces motorbike cop guy wipes out an entire team of Spec Ops guys in a confined facility and then just diddy-bops his way out the main door to get shot in the back by generic bad guy number 1 just standing there waiting. And this after Ex-Special Forces motorbike cop guy has been specifically told the surrounding area "has eyes on" him??

Cheap, clichéd writing and cliched characters. The writers/director/producers should all be stabbed in the arse with a screwdriver. Please fuck off and die you bastards.

[officepest]

House of Cards.

I watched the BBC version back in '95 and loved it; I got Netflix recently so re-watched it and although it has dated badly it is still very good.

So, having done that, I've just finished watching all three series of the recent American version. I fucking loved it, especially the first half of season one which Dave Fincher directed.

If you have any interest in the scumbag world of politics I'd highly recommend it.

[officepest]

Just to add:

HoC isn’t perfect by any means; Season 3 is a bit meh and season two starts (and ends) brilliantly but is a bit up and down in the middle.

Still a very good piece of television drama.

[Yankee_Gooner_Dandee]

HoC is good, but Season 1 was the best, then Season 2...not liking the trend. But the 2 leads are good. (love me some Jenny from Forest Gump )

[officepest]

HoC is good, but Season 1 was the best, then Season 2...not liking the trend. But the 2 leads are good. (love me some Jenny from Forest Gump )

By far.

It suffers from being too long; which a lot of recent television dramas do. That's what the original does well; all three series together are shorter than one season of the newer version.

Jenny: is she the one who fucks Gump around for years and then dies of AIDS? I hate that film.

[arseofacrow]

HoC is good, but Season 1 was the best, then Season 2...not liking the trend. But the 2 leads are good. (love me some Jenny from Forest Gump )

By far.

It suffers from being too long; which a lot of recent television dramas do. That's what the original does well; all three series together are shorter than one season of the newer version.

Jenny: is she the one who fucks Gump around for years and then dies of AIDS? I hate that film.

Season 3 I felt was a cop out and just a filler.

[officepest]

HoC is good, but Season 1 was the best, then Season 2...not liking the trend. But the 2 leads are good. (love me some Jenny from Forest Gump )

By far.

It suffers from being too long; which a lot of recent television dramas do. That's what the original does well; all three series together are shorter than one season of the newer version.

Jenny: is she the one who fucks Gump around for years and then dies of AIDS? I hate that film.

Season 3 I felt was a cop out and just a filler.

It was strange. I thought it ended on a weird note but then my missus told me they're doing more, which made a bit more sense.

[arseofacrow]

HoC is good, but Season 1 was the best, then Season 2...not liking the trend. But the 2 leads are good. (love me some Jenny from Forest Gump )

By far.

It suffers from being too long; which a lot of recent television dramas do. That's what the original does well; all three series together are shorter than one season of the newer version.

Jenny: is she the one who fucks Gump around for years and then dies of AIDS? I hate that film.

Season 3 I felt was a cop out and just a filler.

It was strange. I thought it ended on a weird note but then my missus told me they're doing more, which made a bit more sense.

I guessed already after a few episodes that all we're getting is filler cos they probably wanted to do more. Then it just looks cynical (doesn't everything )

[Yankee_Gooner_Dandee]

This may be the all time best first season of a show...ever. The writing, acting, concept, intelligent links to other classics. SO GOOD. 10/10

[Henry Norris 1913]

This may be the all time best first season of a show...ever. The writing, acting, concept, intelligent links to other classics. SO GOOD. 10/10

tell us what it is

[arseofacrow]

This may be the all time best first season of a show...ever. The writing, acting, concept, intelligent links to other classics. SO GOOD. 10/10

tell us what it is

Whatever it is, you can't accuse the yanks of excessive hyperbole so it must be good.