The Goggle Box Thread
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Just rewatched Maradona on C4, yes he was a (fantastically gifted) dick head at times but surely no one on the planet could deal with the pressure he faced in Italy.
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It's a truly brilliant piece of film. Went to watch it with DW at the Lighthouse Cinema. Thoroughly enjoyably evening.
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Just watched this. More a period drama than a history lesson. Eton boys v Northern Scum. The main characters are based on real people but a pointless bit of fiction to finish off the story as they put the key players in a match that their team never played in, one from the same town but still not the right team and changed the scorers. Didn't really need to make that change as the story was fine if they stuck to the truth
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The football bits are nearly all games between Eton and Darwen & Blackburn (they seem to have merged Rovers and Olympic for this show) so there is a fair amount but the majority of story is based around the lives of one Eton chap (Arthur Kinnaird) and 2 Scottish players (Fergus Suter & James Love) that came down to Darwen and were paid to play. Its like they made Downtown Abbey but chucked some football in to get more men interested. Personally would have prefered them to focus on the football and how it went from the Gentlemans game to including the working class and eventually the pro game. Its still a decent watch but a little bit disapointing with the history rewrite and overall focus
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Utterly dreadful.
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Cheers Kenny. I had hoped for more based on the trailer.
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From the period drama fella, knows fuck all about football except he did go to see an East or West Ham match once he couldn't recall which.
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Into season two of Bloodline and it has got better. Still quite slow and a couple of the characters really grind my gears (think it’s the actors rather than the characters) but the storyline has got some depth now.
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Never watched Luther, so might be the time to check it out. Is that on the iPlayer?
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Not sure - we're watching it on Netflix.
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well I won't bother searching on the BBC then and go straight there then
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It was definitely on iplayer, last I looked Netflix didn't have all the series but that has probably changed now.
I'm going to re-watch Stranger Things from the start, just finished The Pacific for the 2nd time. My other half won't watch The Wire with me which frankly is almost grounds for divorce...
I'm going to re-watch Stranger Things from the start, just finished The Pacific for the 2nd time. My other half won't watch The Wire with me which frankly is almost grounds for divorce...
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There are 4 seasons of Luther on Netflix - is that all of them?
My other half has finally agreed to watch Band of Brothers with me. If she doesn't like that, I won't be impressed. If she does, I too have The Pacific to follow it up.
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Yeah I think its 4. They must have put the 4th one up in the last couple of months maybe.
I've watched Band of Brothers so many times I can recite most of the lines!
"Remember boys, flies spread diseases, so keep yours closed" is a particular favourite!
I've watched Band of Brothers so many times I can recite most of the lines!
"Remember boys, flies spread diseases, so keep yours closed" is a particular favourite!
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Amazing to think that BoB was filmed 20 years ago - it improves with every watch and has aged beautifully. I think it has to be my all time favourite drama series - with Chernobyl and Game of Thrones making up the rest of my top 3.
