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.

I got through one episode of Derry Girls and thought it was really lazy. I didn't find it funny at all. Maybe I should have given it more time for all the nuanced stuff to come though but thought it was a bit rubbish. Then again, one episode doesn't make a series, (see Veep) so maybe I should have given it more time.

Dying for Sex is hitting the right spot for me, although Cancer,, grief, death and deviant sex all in one go shouldn't be funny, it is.

If you just want silly, I am enjoying the Righteous Gemstones even though I am not a massive Danny McBride fan (as he more or less does the same thing), but it has my attention after admittedly not a great first episode.

Chicago: Hard to please.

My take exactly

I'm currently watching E.R., I'm midway through the third season and it still holds up well. It's fun seeing so many big names who were at the time unknown playing small roles.

I also only watched first episode of Derry girls and never went back to it.

Blur v Oasis 1995
Good Friday Agreement 1998

Sounds like you wouldn’t let it lie

I mean, as I was team blur, by then it was just shooting fish in a barrel. But being a twat on the internet was still new and exciting at the time, and how was I to know it was setting the groundwork for the destruction of civilisation?

Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem on Netflix is a quick but good watch. Just even as a reminder as to what absolute joke Rob Ford was.

I do not need to be reminded of that chapter of insanity.