Telly thread

Agreed excellent.

We enjoyed Dept Q.
It didn't have to be 9 episodes long, but we didn't mind that it was.

I gave up halfway through Andor S2. A relentless onslaught of tedious backroom politicking set in space. Yawnfest.

Strung out for too long and ended up a bit bored. Would have made an excellent 5 or 6 episodes.

I thought it was marvellous until the last episode which was predictable. I suppose inevitably so, given the subject matter. Therapeutic violence didn't sit right for me.

Did interesting things start to happen or did it just keep being muttered conversations at society parties and sneaking around in shit disguises discussing how to have a revolution while not actually doing anything at all? I think I made it through 6 episodes before I just couldn't be bothered any more.

If Napoleon pops into say hi then that's basically the first 100 pages of War and Peace.

I think it's fair to say that if that's not your thing then it's not your thing. I found the intrigue fun even if the disguises were shit. The mundane machinations were My Thing. And the build up to the events on Ghorman were rewarded with an appropriate climax.

One weird thing though, was there was one particular character/actor that just annoyed the tits off me every time she was on screen. Like everyone else was so talented and their characters were well invested, and then there's this competition winner hanging about with her friends or something. I've rarely been so irritated, even by Daniel Mays.

Just smashed through Derry Girls. It’s absolutely terrific, innit. I thought it was going to be decent but fluff, but I think it’s one of the best sitcoms I’ve seen. Brilliant cast and characters, touching and laugh-out-loud funny from start to finish. Sister Michael needs a spin-off series.

It did leave me feeling a little sad that I was a bit out of touch with magnitude of the Good Friday Agreement and what it meant and how it was achieved. It all happened when I was at University so wasn’t paying all that much attention. I didn’t check back into world events until 9/11 and, to be frank, they have been largely and increasingly awful since then. Ending the ‘troubles’ may be one of the great geopolitical achievement of my lifetime.. and I was too busy arguing about Blur vs Oasis to appreciate it.