TV Programmes You'd Recommend To A Friend

[tricky_colour]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie8G-ktwMqY

[BonnieShels]

The Tunnel is back this Thursday.

I cannot bloody wait for this. Really hope it lives up to the first 2. First series is as good as you're likely to get with a TV show. excluding The Bridge (SWE-DEN) of course. :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxyyjPsx_WI

https://www.sky.com/watch/title/series/f5ed30c7-5d1e-49eb-87c7-f57e6f966b49

[Kingdom]

Manhunt Unabomber. Watched 5 episodes in one go last night. Compelling viewing.

[pablo1020]

Just starting Black Sails, looks promising. ;)

[passinginterest]

The End of the Fuc**** World is a good watch.
I’ll admit I also enjoyed Big Little Lies

[BonnieShels]

I started watching The Crown... damn it's good.

[nigel-harps1954]

Finally caught up on Peaky Blinders this week. Great show. Really looking forward to seeing where the next series goes with it.

[nigel-harps1954]

Currently watching World War II In Colour on Netflix.

Basically just a documentary series on the war, but all footage has been colourised and it's fantastic. Some footage is superb and it's a superb in-depth look at the war.

[OwlsFan]

Currently watching World War II In Colour on Netflix.

Basically just a documentary series on the war, but all footage has been colourised and it's fantastic. Some footage is superb and it's a superb in-depth look at the war.

Yes, as a WW2 buff I love it. The colour brings it to life but if you really want a great WW2 series, the BBC's WORLD AT WAR which is from the 1970s is excellent with interviews with many of the participants who were of course alive only 20 years after the war, including Admiral Donitz with his almost caricature English speaking accent.

On another matter, how many people have seen The Staircase and if so, do you think he's guilty or not?

[SkStu]

Line of Duty... 5 seasons in. Where have you been all my life?

[nigel-harps1954]

Line of Duty... 5 seasons in. Where have you been all my life?

Cracking show! Enjoyed every minute of it.

Spin offs from LOTR and Game of Thrones..Rings of Power and House of the Dragon. Rings of Power a big budget mess, veering way too far from source material, but House of the Dragon been a success so far. Interesting to see where they take both going forward though.

Two shows well worth anyone's time, both on the same universe, but running largely separately, The Boys and Gen V. The anti-superhero show. If you're familiar with the comic books, it's some of the best written material out there. Genuinely, The Boys is one of the most fun, but also most gory and disgusting shows I've ever watched and I am gutted I have to wait two years for the next season.

[A N Mouse]

Cracking show! Enjoyed every minute of it.

Spin offs from LOTR and Game of Thrones..Rings of Power and House of the Dragon. Rings of Power a big budget mess, veering way too far from source material, but House of the Dragon been a success so far. Interesting to see where they take both going forward though.

Two shows well worth anyone's time, both on the same universe, but running largely separately, The Boys and Gen V. The anti-superhero show. If you're familiar with the comic books, it's some of the best written material out there. Genuinely, The Boys is one of the most fun, but also most gory and disgusting shows I've ever watched and I am gutted I have to wait two years for the next season.

+1 for the boys.

Slow Horses - 4th series is dropping soon on apple tv.

Gary Oldman as a misanthropic washed up has been of an mi5 agent, on a punishment detail looking after a motley assortment of never will be's. It sounds not fun, but is compulsive viewing. Based on a series of books.

trailer for 1st season - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9ZJChzPn0U

[tetsujin1979]

Never thought I'd find myself watching a documentary about Boyzone, much less recommending one, but here we are.
No Matter What is quite good. The four lads come across well, Mikey seems to have gone through the worst of them, but is in a good place now. Ronan gets a slight majority of screen time, but he also had a longer career than the others. Shane and Keith are enjoying themselves. Louis Walsh looks halfway between Podge (or Rodge) and the doll from the Saw movies, and does not come out of it at all well.
On the one hand, he's the same as every other music manager you've ever heard of, on the other, he had a duty of care to five lads in their late teens and early twenties, and he exploited them for all he could get. The scene with the paper where Stephen Gately had come out as gay was sickening. All Walsh cared about was that he was on the front page, not what he was going through at the time, and the reason he had to do the story in the first place.
Some remarkable self awareness from a Mirror reporter as well, realising how far the business had sunk when he was watching photographers and journalists trying to get anything no Gately's death, and reporting it without any fact checking.

[passinginterest]

Funnily enough, I watched the whole lot last night too. It's well put together. Louis Walsh definitely comes out the villain of the piece. His lack of empathy or care for what were essentially children when he first put them together is frightening. Maybe it's just me, but Ronan Keating comes across a bit false at times. A bit more self aware than Louis but not cut from very different cloth. Can see why Ronan and Mikey eventually just lost it with the other two lads being on one big jolly for the final tour. The expectation on touring groups to work all day every day seven days a week is just incredible. The more you watch documentaries like this, it's amazing most of them survive and manage to keep up any kind or relationships at all. Watched the Bon Jovi one last year and they were ready to kill each other after too many years on the road too (and a similarly driven front man who'd push and push for more).

[SkStu]

Not sure if I can get that documentary over here but will check it out if i do.

On another note, my wife and I just finished the first season of Severance on AppleTV+. I had seen it as an option for a while and didnt think it would be my cup of tea at all based on the trailers etc but we dove in based on the recommendation of a colleague and it is fantastic. Really offbeat and strange - not offputtingly so - but the premise is clever, the storyline is compelling, the acting is sensational all round (Scott, Lower, Arquette, Turturro, Zach Cherry all phenomenal. Walken is in it too!) and an Irish girl (Aoife McArdle) directs most of the first season and does a great job. There's some barely disguised social commentary on "work" that lands well too. Starting the second season soon I'd say, hoping it stands up to the first. Highly recommend.

[John83]

It's taken an age to make that second season. Hopefully because they were taking care rather than flailing around.

[nigel-harps1954]

Finally got round to starting in to Dexter on Netflix. First season finished and it's a great show. Been on the list for a while but glad to have finally started it. Heard mixed reviews of later seasons but the start has been excellent

[John83]

Seasons 1,2 and 4 are really good. The rest are mixed, but I think only the final season (which I haven't seen) is supposed to be a disaster.

[Eminence Grise]

Dexter Season 1 was some of he best TV I've ever seen. Mrs Grise and I started it years back and binged the last five episodes one after another in one night - the only thing as heart-thumping and addictive I can think of was Line of Duty.

More recent stuff... Blue Eye Samurai was outside the usual type of thing I'd watch but it turned out to be a good warm-up for Shogun and I'm looking forward to S2 (though less S2 of Shogun as it needs entirely original material). American Primeval was pretty good, but I've always had a thing for Westerns. Godless, a few years back on Netflix, was superb. Deadwood. Stone. Cold. Classic.

Mixed feelings about The Night Agent Season 2 and The Recruit - for the most part, the kind of programme you can watch while thinking about something else. In that vein, there seems to be more 'villain of the week' programmes coming out recently - Poker Face, High Potential (watchable, but samey) - where five years ago it was just the franchise stuff like Law and Order filling that space.

Didn't think The League of Gentlemen clip at the top would still lead the last page on the thread more than seven years on, but it is one of my all-time favourites - hence the signature.

[D24Saint]

I finished 1923 on Paramount plus in a few days. I really enjoyed it after not liking the previous season called 1883. They are both prequels of Yellowstone which I’ve never watched.

[rebelmusic]

I finished 1923 on Paramount plus in a few days. I really enjoyed it after not liking the previous season called 1883. They are both prequels of Yellowstone which I’ve never watched.

I loved both the prequels after watching Yellowstone. Yellowstone is a pure soap opera and you'd need to suspend your disbelief quite a bit...but I still binged the whole thing. Decent enough brain candy TV

[John83]

Anyone watching season 2 of Severance? I enjoyed the first season, but have my fears it'll all fail to come together coherently.

[SkStu]

Yep, watching it John. I am enjoying Season 2 but have the same concerns. It seems like it would have been best to be wrapped up in 2 seasons with resolution of Mark/Ms Casey/Helly R etc. storyline - - but they are working on a third season.

[TonyD]

Have recently started watching Barry, having seen a few mentions of it. Well worth checking out. He is an ex marine who becomes a hit man, but then stumbles into an acting class and decides he wants to give it all up and become an actor. He finds that easier said than done however. Unusual premise, but a good lot of laughs, and good twists and turns in the plot. Henry Winkler does a good turn as the acting teacher and there is a camp Chechen gangster who is a good laugh. One of the Sky channels is showing it at the moment so it might be available to download.

[Kingdom]

I love The Wire and refuse to consider that anything is its equal.
Therefore We Own this City a cop show based in Baltimore was always gonna be of interest. And it's very good albeit I've not watched it all.

[passinginterest]

The Last of Us season 2 seems to have divided opinion a bit. I though it was very good, if not quite the same level as season 1. The last episode did seem a bit rushed and the boat journey seemed very out of place. The cliff hanger ending also not ideal with such a long wait between seasons. I never played the games but I've picked up enough bits to understand why they've done it this way, but it's frustrating from a viewer perspective.

I've got one episode of Andor left and that's been excellent. It really feels like grown up Star Wars, feels gritty, lived in and dangerous in a way other Star Wars series/films don't.

Four Seasons and Sirens are both pretty easy watching and entertaining enough to pass a few hours on Netflix.

[SkStu]

I'll throw a shout out for Hacks by the way. Very funny.

Been waiting for all of TLOU to be released before digging in.

[SkStu]

I love The Wire and refuse to consider that anything is its equal.
Therefore We Own this City a cop show based in Baltimore was always gonna be of interest. And it's very good albeit I've not watched it all.

I thought it was excellent.

[John83]

Murderbot is a few episodes in. It's a sci-fi based on a series of books. Alexander Skarsgard stars as the eponimous security cyborg in a corporate dystopia who has secretly hacked the software that keeps it under control. It can then do whatever it wants, which it turns out mostly means watching trash soap operas. It hides in plain sight to avoid being tagged as a rogue, hunted down, and destroyed. Murderbot is extremely socially awkward - really just wants to be left alone - and provides an often exasperated and sarcastic running commentary. It's a fun character, a little different from the run-of-the-mill. I've enjoyed a few of the novellas and the show is doing a good job of translating the first one to screen. It's being released on Apple TV, with four episodes out so far.

[nigel-harps1954]

Got around to watching Man In The High Castle lately. Thoroughly enjoyed it. An alternative history, based on the Philip K Dick novel, where the axis powers won WWII and effectively took over the world, but set in post war America where Japan control the Pacific east coast and the Nazi American Reich controls the West coast.

Excellent show, start to finish without much weak points throughout the four seasons.

Solid 8/10 for me.