The Goggle Box Thread

[The Bear]

I know, I know. As with many things, very much accept my opinion on WWDITS is the minority.

It's typical Taika comedy when he has no-one to reign his "humour" in. Just like Thor Love & Thunder where they let him write all the jokes. Either misses the mark or is just painfully repeated until unfunny.

 

[sycophantia]

Tonight's episode of Detectorists is the best ever, chuckling all the way through. Think I must have missed this one last time.

 

[Johnny75]

You join Keef with his Jump (for my love) by Girls Aloud is better than the Pointer Sisters version in the worst take of 2023 competition

Pfft, your 'Joe Hodge is good'* is a long way ahead in those stakes


*This may be my interpretation of your opinion

 

[Johnny75]

I know, I know. As with many things, very much accept my opinion on WWDITS is the minority.

Whilst we're here and in the same vein I really struggled with Breaking Bad.

Way too ponderous and some of the characters are shockingly poor in the first 2 seasons.

And I know I'm in the minority with this view.

 

[Sniffer]

Tonight's episode of Detectorists is the best ever, chuckling all the way through. Think I must have missed this one last time.

Which one was it? I’ve just rewatched series one on the iplayer.

 

[Sniffer]

The best part of Happy Valley is in series 1 when for a very small period of time Rita and Bob are in the same room, made me smile

Back in a house together in the latest episode.

 

[sycophantia]

Which one was it? I’ve just rewatched series one on the iplayer.

Series 1 episode 5.
The one in which Lance refers to Maggies new bloke as a 'cunt' to Sophie.

 

[lemonjelly]

How far did you get with Parks & Rec? Season 1 isn’t as good as the rest but Season 2 onwards is superb.

About three quarters of the way through series 1. Same for schitts creek I think.

 

[sycophantia]

Fabulous finale to Happy Valley.
Last week I said I thought the programme was nearly as good as LOD, Tredders I think thought it was better. Doesn't matter really, two great TV shows.
What I will say is the last episode was just perfect, a real twist and gripping till the end, much better than the final episode of LOD maybe the best end to a show ever!

 

[Langers]

LoD is fantastic, but the big difference between the 2 shows is that LoD has suffered from massive overkill in the latter series. Happy Valley has sensibly waited a while between seasons so they keep the consistently high standards.

Love them both though.

 

[Carrotdude]

I’ve been watching series 1 of Happy Valley and I wasn’t expecting it to be quite so brutal!

 

[sycophantia]

LoD is fantastic, but the big difference between the 2 shows is that LoD has suffered from massive overkill in the latter series. Happy Valley has sensibly waited a while between seasons so they keep the consistently high standards.

Love them both though.

Think that's fair comment

 

[Dire Wolf]

LoD is fantastic, but the big difference between the 2 shows is that LoD has suffered from massive overkill in the latter series. Happy Valley has sensibly waited a while between seasons so they keep the consistently high standards.

Love them both though.

I read that the long gap between series was because they were waiting for the actor who plays the son(?) to get older to fit with the storyline?

 

[Dire Wolf]

I caught up with episode 3 of The Last of Us over the weekend. Wow. Brilliant and beautiful IMO.

 

[Tredman]

I caught up with episode 3 of The Last of Us over the weekend. Wow. Brilliant and beautiful IMO.

It is brilliant TV - never played the game (or even heard of it really), but its a really good watch

 

[Langers]

I read that the long gap between series was because they were waiting for the actor who plays the son(?) to get older to fit with the storyline?

Yeah, I read that too - I've been impressed with his performance. But she also wanted to get the right script as well. Definitely shows that sometimes it's better to wait and make sure scripts etc are decent rather than churn out lesser quality shows due to demand.

Not seen any of The Last of Us as we don't have NOW TV anymore, a bit annoying as the game is awesome.

 

[Carrotdude]

It is brilliant TV - never played the game (or even heard of it really), but its a really good watch

The third episode is almost entirely new from the game but it works perfectly. The official podcast with the director and game developer is a really good listen to hear about why they made certain choices etc.

 

[Alan]

The casting of Offerman was inspired tbh.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

The official podcast with the director and game developer is a really good listen to hear about why they made certain choices etc.

Listened to these this afternoon, really good

 

[Kenny]

This is going to be very very very shit

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