The Goggle Box Thread

[YoungWolf]

We have just discovered Slow Horses. Absolutely excellent.
Gary Oldman plays a great part. We have 4 series to catch up on now.

Still need to start this, is it on apple?

 

[Johnny75]

Still need to start this, is it on apple?

It is and it's excellent

 

[leedswolf]

Just watched the series, Criminal Record on Apple tv. A really enjoyable cop drama.

 

[Tom Hark]

Ceefax launched 50 years ago today. I still miss Bamboozle on C4.

 

[lemonjelly]

Ceefax launched 50 years ago today. I still miss Bamboozle on C4.

bamboozle used to be a daily adventure!

 

[Boozad]

Grotesquerie on Disney+, watched the first two episodes tonight and absolutely love it. This will tell you what you need to know miles better than I could.

Grotesquerie review – horror as gorily unsubtle as you’d expect from Ryan Murphy | Television | The Guardian

This tasteless, grisly, state-of-the-nation tale is certainly bold. Who knows what it’ll be like when Travis Kelce makes his long-awaited acting debut later in the series?

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Jolemai]

Agatha All Along has been decent so far.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Mr.McMahon on Netflix is a great watch for anyone interested in the darker side of wrestling. Uncovers a lot of sordid stuff that I was unaware of.

 

[leedswolf]

Mr.McMahon on Netflix is a great watch for anyone interested in the darker side of wrestling. Uncovers a lot of sordid stuff that I was unaware of.

Yes. It’s ok, the archive footage is great but for me I learnt nothing new and it covered too much WWE history rather than solely focusing on McMahon.

Also the sex trafficking stuff news broke during the filming, which they mention and dedicate 30 minutes to at the end of the last episode. All the interviews with everyone were done prior to the scandal.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Yes. It’s ok, the archive footage is great but for me I learnt nothing new and it covered too much WWE history rather than solely focusing on McMahon.

Also the sex trafficking stuff news broke during the filming, which they mention and dedicate 30 minutes to at the end of the last episode. All the interviews with everyone were done prior to the scandal.

Yes I saw that.

 

I stopped watching in 2000 so didn't know about the weird storyline he got his kids to do, Stephanie McMahon being drugged and essentially raped on her wedding night etc. Condoning her image as a slut. Pitching a storyline that he fathered her child.
All very disturbing. Especially when he admits that there was incest in his own family when he was growing up.
Plus the story where he has an affair while his wife is drugged up. He blurs the lines between fiction and his own life.

 

[Lupo]

Been watching Freddie Flintoff's Field Of Dreams this week. He gathers together a group of rough lads in Preston and gets them into Cricket before taking them on a tour of India. During the series Flintoff suffers his horrific accident and takes 18 months or so out before returning to the lads to take them on tour.

Enjoyable watch and Flintoff comes across very well as he develops the lads as cricketers and as human beings

 

[sycophantia]

Been watching Freddie Flintoff's Field Of Dreams this week. He gathers together a group of rough lads in Preston and gets them into Cricket before taking them on a tour of India. During the series Flintoff suffers his horrific accident and takes 18 months or so out before returning to the lads to take them on tour.

Enjoyable watch and Flintoff comes across very well as he develops the lads as cricketers and as human beings

Yeah I enjoyed Flintoffs series, a feel good factor in it. My son-In-law hates cricket but loved the series.

 

[Lupo]

Yeah I enjoyed Flintoffs series, a feel good factor in it. My son-In-law hates cricket but loved the series.

I hate cricket too but am enjoying it, really got into the game they played against the girls, great leadership by Sean!

 

[leedswolf]

Been watching Freddie Flintoff's Field Of Dreams this week. He gathers together a group of rough lads in Preston and gets them into Cricket before taking them on a tour of India. During the series Flintoff suffers his horrific accident and takes 18 months or so out before returning to the lads to take them on tour.

Enjoyable watch and Flintoff comes across very well as he develops the lads as cricketers and as human beings

I watched S1 when it aired a couple of years and enjoyed it.

 

[Lupo]

I watched S1 when it aired a couple of years and enjoyed it.

Not watched S2 yet? Covers the tour of India, really interesting

 

[SSB]

Funnily enough I’ve just started watching S2 as well. Freddie patience is being severely tested at times!

 

[Lupo]

Funnily enough I’ve just started watching S2 as well. Freddie patience is being severely tested at times!

Breakfast time?

 

[leedswolf]

Not watched S2 yet? Covers the tour of India, really interesting

No, I haven't...

 

[SSB]

Breakfast time?

Couldn't help but think it was a bit of engineered tv bullshit? Surely Adnan wasn't being consistently late everyday?

 

[Sniffer]

One of the funniest parts of the series was when they were discussing Ramadan, so he'd have been up fuelling himself for the day.