Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series

[Alan]

In the second episode, when he was getting his head stuck in the loo after falling from the ceiling... I have no idea how he didn't break either his back or neck, or both

I read his autobiography, he apparently thought he was going to die when the window cleaner one went wrong and left him hanging off the window cleaning gondola thing 12 floors up for the best part of an hour! The man was a modern day Buster Keaton.

Did you see the 2016 Sport Relief one? 70 odd years old and he still did all his own stunts! Bloody nutter

Audio on this is out of sync but hay ho....
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3yp3v9

[Animalmother]

Taboo
Watched the first few episodes and it's pretty good so far if a bit slow to get moving.Tom Hardy mumbles his way through 18th century London encountering various shades of scum and villainy while also dealing with severe PTSD from a
past life of apparent involvement in everything unpleasant. Jonathan Pryce is great as the head of the East India Trading Company and an unscrupulous Edwin. London is filthy, life is cheap, everyone is corrupt and probably smells like a goats nethers.

[eny]

Taboo is brilliant, criminal that they didn't make any more series past the first.

[Sly Boots]

Taboo is brilliant, criminal that they didn't make any more series past the first.

It's Hardy's brainchild, from what I read he always intended to make more but perhaps his other commitments got in the way.

[Snowy]

Funnily enough I am watching it at the moment. It's all a bit disjointed and trippy but I am enjoying it a good deal.

There have been discussions about a second series since the first came out, so never say never I guess.

[Raid]

Archer

I think this show has probably had its day now. The latest season wasn't bad by any means, it was better than some of the coma fantasies, but it just feels like its run out of steam, especially with Jessica Walter's death (which I was unaware of until the final credits rolled - I'm not sure whether she'd recorded all of her lines prior or whether they were a pretty good impersonation). Malory was a magnificent character, entirely down to Walter's performance, and it won't be the same without her.

[Alan]

Inventing Anna

The too slick overproduced nature of it really annoys me but it was quite interesting from a true story stand point. It was just good enough to keep watching but it was touch and go at times. People are stupid.

Basically just watched it because Ruth from Ozark was in it.

[Snowy]

Jimmy Savile - A British Horror Story (Netflix)

My wife and I watched the first half of this last night. It makes for extremely uncomfortable viewing, knowing what an indescribably evil Edwin the man was, but also because watching him riffs so heavily on my childhood. Savile was always on the TV, whether fronting shows, appearing on them or in the news, hell I wrote at least a couple of letters for him to 'fix it for me' at the age of 7 or 8 years old. It is a really strange sensation to sit watching him knowing what he was but getting a sense of nostalgia at the same time.

It is absolutely staggering seeing how embedded he was in the establishment. One journalist interviewed has piles of correspondence from Prince Charles asking for his input into all sorts of things including international diplomacy. He was good friends with the Milk Snatcher too (who was only slightly less evil to be fair).

I have the second part to watch tonight, and I suspect that is where his true nature, which has been hinted at, will really come to the fore. There have been some clips of him where he has made comments to camera that, knowing what we know, are staggering that people didn't pick up on it at the time. Even watching footage where he is 'just' being a 70's sex pest on TV shows, with modern sensibilities you can't look at this fuck, dead behind the eyes, a smile that never reaches those eyes plastered over his face, and wonder how the fuck he got away with everything.

Vile, horrifying and unpleasantly compelling, especially for those of us old enough to remember his ascension to 'national treasure' status.

[Sly Boots]

Jimmy Savile - A British Horror Story (Netflix)

My wife and I watched the first half of this last night. It makes for extremely uncomfortable viewing, knowing what an indescribably evil Edwin the man was, but also because watching him riffs so heavily on my childhood. Savile was always on the TV, whether fronting shows, appearing on them or in the news, hell I wrote at least a couple of letters for him to 'fix it for me' at the age of 7 or 8 years old. It is a really strange sensation to sit watching him knowing what he was but getting a sense of nostalgia at the same time.

It is absolutely staggering seeing how embedded he was in the establishment. One journalist interviewed has piles of correspondence from Prince Charles asking for his input into all sorts of things including international diplomacy. He was good friends with the Milk Snatcher too (who was only slightly less evil to be fair).

I have the second part to watch tonight, and I suspect that is where his true nature, which has been hinted at, will really come to the fore. There have been some clips of him where he has made comments to camera that, knowing what we know, are staggering that people didn't pick up on it at the time. Even watching footage where he is 'just' being a 70's sex pest on TV shows, with modern sensibilities you can't look at this fuck, dead behind the eyes, a smile that never reaches those eyes plastered over his face, and wonder how the fuck he got away with everything.

Vile, horrifying and unpleasantly compelling, especially for those of us old enough to remember his ascension to 'national treasure' status.

Look out for the clip with Gary Glitter.

[Rusty]

I was sort of staying away from that programme as I assumed it was just a collection of old clips but, whilst it does sound like it is, you've made it sound interesting.
I enjoyed watching Louis Theroux's interview with him. He's very calculating and manipulative even then.

My sister went to one of his Jim'll fix shows with a group of Brownies (like the boy scouts but for girls - for any non UKers) and just missed out on going back stage to miss him. Well, at the time she thought she'd just missed out but on review sees it as a close call...

[Snowy]

Watched the second half last night and it was as unpleasant as I thought it would be. That said I would still recommend it. They stayed away from some of the more lurid claims (such as his penchant for necrophilia when working in the hospitals he had free reign over) but with a person this utterly twisted and evil what was featured was bad enough.

I won't lie, if you watch it you will probably be reduced to tears, but even so it remains compelling viewing.

To end on a slightly fun note, at one point close to the end of the second episode I paused it while my wife left the room to do something, and up popped three subtitled icons, thumbs down (I don't like this), thumbs up (I like this) and two thumbs up (I love this!), which made me wonder aloud if anyone would 'love this' and if so whether the police should pay them a visit. OK not that funny now I have written it...

[Wrathbone]

My sister went to one of his Jim'll fix shows with a group of Brownies (like the boy scouts but for girls - for any non UKers) and just missed out on going back stage to miss him. Well, at the time she thought she'd just missed out but on review sees it as a close call...

Growing up in Pontefract, I used to go maybe once every couple of months to the butterfly house in Roundhay Park. I remember my grandma telling me that the man from Jim'll Fix It lived round there and maybe we'd see him, which in hindsight is a bit disturbing, and I have to wonder if the large number of children visiting there everyday was a part of why he lived nearby.

And of course in Ponte in the 80s we also had Harold Shipman swanning about. It's a wonder I'm still here!

[Raid]

I suppose depending on which rumours about Saville you believe, the two demographics were pretty distant or terrifyingly similar.

[Wrathbone]

Finished Killing Eve. The final season is a total waste of whatever shred of potential was left and is embarrasing compared to the early quality of the show. It spends seven and a half episodes arsing about to no avail and then shits the bed with a rushed, WTF ending that doesn't make much sense. It gives Game of Thrones a run at the prize for how to fuck up an ending.

Spoiler

What was the point of anything Carolyn did this season? What was the point of anything Konstantin did? Or Pam? What did Villainelle do the entire season of any substance other than giving up on character development and then reconciling with Eve for no clear reason? What was the deal with the 12 other than "generic shadowy organisation"?

It's inexcusably lazy.

[Alan]

Finished Killing Eve too.

I didnt mind it, fairly enjoyable until the last 5mins which was dogshit. Just utter pish.




Speaking of pish we just started the Chucky TV show which was apparently written by people who have never heard humans speak before. First episode is gash. We might watch another.... maybe.