TV Series - Reviews and Recommendations......

johngti

MattFalle said:

Enjoyed by the sort of people who say that they know the second man on the balconey and he's their best mate

I enjoyed it and I haven’t got a clue who he is.

I didn’t enjoy the shooting people bits so much. I like stuff like this because it reminds me how lucky I am that there are people braver than me who put themselves in horrible situations to keep me safe. Dramas like this are an important way to remind the youngsters of this. Whatever else has happened in Ukraine, I think there’s still a tendency for some to see it as distant and exciting. It isn’t. It’s war and it sucks and not very long ago, we were balls deep in one. The book the programme is based on is stunning; I learned things about WW2 that I’d never heard of before.

Anyway, TL:DR: keep youngsters aware that this happened fairly recently. Avoid it happening again.

MattFalle

this programme tried to glamourise it all. it teaches no one anything.

that, together with the shitacting, screenplay, additional made up characters, worn out soundtrack and general boringness of it all makes it fairly missable.

skyblueamateur

MattFalle said:

this programme tried to glamourise it all. it teaches no one anything.

that, together with the shitacting, screenplay, additional made up characters, worn out soundtrack and general boringness of it all makes it fairly missable.

Bang on. Thought the acting was really, really wooden. I was hugely disappointed.

Having said that I spent the first series of Peaky Blinders p1ssing myself at how bad the Brummie accents were.

tailwindhome

I've has 3 cracks at watching 'Knives Out

Fallen asleep within 5 mins each time.

seanoconn

SAS

tailwindhome said:

I've has 3 cracks at watching 'Knives Out

Fallen asleep within 5 mins each time.

Took me about the same. Alcohol helps. You kind of have to enjoy it for what it is, a hammed up whodunit without expecting too much. Same with glass onion.

Pross

Stuck with Gangs of London season 2 somehow but it didn’t reward me. I tried to look past the ludicrous weaponry available and the amount of severe injury people were able to not only survive but walk away from with no hospital treatment or even continue fighting. In the end the plot writers seemed to throw in so many twists they lost the plot themselves. It seems to be a bit of a modern curse that writers take the approach that a storyline needs n+1 twists.

rick_chasey

The glamorisation of the sas going around getting killed and killing lots of Germans wasn’t the problem (not like TV and film hasn’t done that over and over again).

Sas do enough of that themselves.

It was just pretty predictable. I didn’t find the characters pretty interesting or that well drawn (so he’s the angry aggressive northern Irish guy, he’s the posh guy who does it all for jolly japes, he’s the serious one, I get it) and they did exactly what you expected them to, (oh he’s so hard he doesn’t even run when he sets a bomb off, this guy had bloodlust, big whoop).

I found the Dominic west spy love interest a tedious sideshow too and it took too long for anything to happen.

The posho sneaking into the general’s room, I get it, he’s canny and resourceful, but were you expecting anything else?

Maybe I’m just too familiar with the (probably apocryphal) stories.

Tashman

I sat through Riptide on CH5 over the past few nights. What a steaming pile! I had low expectations but this was even below them. So many pointless threads that went nowhere, poor acting and just utter bilge.

morstar

Tashman said:

I sat through Riptide on CH5 over the past few nights. What a steaming pile! I had low expectations but this was even below them. So many pointless threads that went nowhere, poor acting and just utter bilge.

Dodged a bullet then. We had meant to watch it but missed it. Was going to stream it but now maybe not.

Tashman

morstar said:

Tashman said:

I sat through Riptide on CH5 over the past few nights. What a steaming pile! I had low expectations but this was even below them. So many pointless threads that went nowhere, poor acting and just utter bilge.

Dodged a bullet then. We had meant to watch it but missed it. Was going to stream it but now maybe not.

If you frame it as a comedy it may be better

seanoconn

Happy Valley season 3. Above average British police/crime drama with the excellent Sarah Lancashire. Solid start to the new season. All seasons on BBC iplayer, worth a watch.

kingstongraham

I liked Glass Onion - silly and playful with some very well judged cameos.

seanoconn

kingstongraham said:

I liked Glass Onion - silly and playful with some very well judged cameos.

I did too, on the film thread. Just started 2023 and standards slipping already!

kingstongraham

seanoconn said:

kingstongraham said:

I liked Glass Onion - silly and playful with some very well judged cameos.

I did too, on the film thread. Just started 2023 and standards slipping already!

Hmmm... https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/comment/20960686/#Comment_20960686

seanoconn

kingstongraham said:

seanoconn said:

kingstongraham said:

I liked Glass Onion - silly and playful with some very well judged cameos.

I did too, on the film thread. Just started 2023 and standards slipping already!

Hmmm... https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/comment/20960686/#Comment_20960686

Well…err…. That was 2022.

photonic69

Tashman said:

I sat through Riptide on CH5 over the past few nights. What a steaming pile! I had low expectations but this was even below them. So many pointless threads that went nowhere, poor acting and just utter bilge.

Yeah. Utter garbage. A bit like 'Home and Away' but with less psychos and more murder. The wife was watching it so it was on in the background whilst I did looking at bike and HiFi porn on t'interweb.

morstar

photonic69 said:

Tashman said:

I sat through Riptide on CH5 over the past few nights. What a steaming pile! I had low expectations but this was even below them. So many pointless threads that went nowhere, poor acting and just utter bilge.

Yeah. Utter garbage. A bit like 'Home and Away' but with less psychos and more murder. The wife was watching it so it was on in the background whilst I did looking at bike and HiFi porn on t'interweb.

I do now imagine you have been watching porn with a high quality sound track.

pblakeney

morstar said:

photonic69 said:

Tashman said:

I sat through Riptide on CH5 over the past few nights. What a steaming pile! I had low expectations but this was even below them. So many pointless threads that went nowhere, poor acting and just utter bilge.

Yeah. Utter garbage. A bit like 'Home and Away' but with less psychos and more murder. The wife was watching it so it was on in the background whilst I did looking at bike and HiFi porn on t'interweb.

I do now imagine you have been watching porn with a high quality sound track.

Glad I'm not in your head. 🤣

photonic69

morstar said:

photonic69 said:

Tashman said:

I sat through Riptide on CH5 over the past few nights. What a steaming pile! I had low expectations but this was even below them. So many pointless threads that went nowhere, poor acting and just utter bilge.

Yeah. Utter garbage. A bit like 'Home and Away' but with less psychos and more murder. The wife was watching it so it was on in the background whilst I did looking at bike and HiFi porn on t'interweb.

I do now imagine you have been watching porn with a high quality sound track.

Now that is both really funny and horrific at the same time!!! lol

morstar

pblakeney said:

morstar said:

photonic69 said:

Tashman said:

I sat through Riptide on CH5 over the past few nights. What a steaming pile! I had low expectations but this was even below them. So many pointless threads that went nowhere, poor acting and just utter bilge.

Yeah. Utter garbage. A bit like 'Home and Away' but with less psychos and more murder. The wife was watching it so it was on in the background whilst I did looking at bike and HiFi porn on t'interweb.

I do now imagine you have been watching porn with a high quality sound track.

Glad I'm not in your head. 🤣

You should be!

I’d joke about there being too many people in here already but one poster already has that angle covered.

morstar

photonic69 said:

morstar said:

photonic69 said:

Tashman said:

I sat through Riptide on CH5 over the past few nights. What a steaming pile! I had low expectations but this was even below them. So many pointless threads that went nowhere, poor acting and just utter bilge.

Yeah. Utter garbage. A bit like 'Home and Away' but with less psychos and more murder. The wife was watching it so it was on in the background whilst I did looking at bike and HiFi porn on t'interweb.

I do now imagine you have been watching porn with a high quality sound track.

Now that is both really funny and horrific at the same time!!! lol

It’s an unusual element to prioritise when reviewing the content.

“I watched buttfest 14 last night, the sound quality was exceptional”.

The tweeters and woofers did me proud.

kingstongraham

Not sure if it counts as film or TV, but it's a documentary on the BBC iplayer now.

My Old School is just superb.

wakemalcolm

kingstongraham said:

Not sure if it counts as film or TV, but it's a documentary on the BBC iplayer now.

My Old School is just superb.

Couldn't agree more, it's the best thing I watched all Christmas (& thanks to the kids that includes Nativities 1, 2 & 3). Even Lulu massacring Steely Dan at the end couldn't ruin it.

Munsford0

wakemalcolm said:

kingstongraham said:

Not sure if it counts as film or TV, but it's a documentary on the BBC iplayer now.

My Old School is just superb.

Couldn't agree more, it's the best thing I watched all Christmas (& thanks to the kids that includes Nativities 1, 2 & 3). Even Lulu massacring Steely Dan at the end couldn't ruin it.

We ended up watching it waiting for the big reveal only to be slightly disappointed in the end. Not sure what we were expecting TBH. The video of the school musical was a bit of a shocker though...

kingstongraham

Munsford0 said:

wakemalcolm said:

kingstongraham said:

Not sure if it counts as film or TV, but it's a documentary on the BBC iplayer now.

My Old School is just superb.

Couldn't agree more, it's the best thing I watched all Christmas (& thanks to the kids that includes Nativities 1, 2 & 3). Even Lulu massacring Steely Dan at the end couldn't ruin it.

We ended up watching it waiting for the big reveal only to be slightly disappointed in the end. Not sure what we were expecting TBH. The video of the school musical was a bit of a shocker though...

The reveal wasn't the thing for me, it was how the classmates dealt with it, and the way the director handled it. Them watching the video was quite something, a bit uncomfortable for everyone really.

kingstongraham

The "reveal" was pretty clear from very close to the start surely, even if you hadn't heard or read anything about it.

kingstongraham

Also enjoyed the fact that everyone is an unreliable narrator, even when they are not trying to be.

wakemalcolm

kingstongraham said:

Also enjoyed the fact that everyone is an unreliable narrator, even when they are not trying to be.

That was it's cleverest trick, with the screen kiss being the gut wrenching yet hilarious proof.

dabber

I've been watching "Stonehouse" on ITV for the last two nights, the third and last is tonight. All treated humorously and as a bit of a lark. It's entertaining and amusing.
I'll wait to see tonight's final episode then read up on what actually happened. Quite a bit of poetic license has been used I think.

Pross

Watched the opening episodes of the latest series of Silent Witnesses. I really don’t know why I watch it, the plots get more ludicrous every series and there would be a load of criminals getting released on technicalities due to the forensic scientist and pathologist sticking their noses into the police investigation.