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Re: What's on TV?
« Reply #25 on: May 24, 2021, 08:32:35 AM »
I've seen The Pact now, just finished it actually but day off tomorrow so not up early. Wow!

Saw the final episode of the Pursuit of Love earlier, great stuff, and Call the Midwife.

I too have seen all of The Pact now. Minor niggles with it, why did they spend half of episode 4 doing a virtual recap - annoying waste of time and suggests they could have done it in 5 rather than 6 episodes. And I know people move about but I found Julie H's accent incongruous, but that's probably just me. I'm not entirely sure real people would behave in this manner but it is called Drama for a reason  :)

As for Pursuit of Love, just didn't do it for me for some reason. Gave up after one episode. Strange, usually the sort of thing I enjoy.
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« Reply #26 on: May 24, 2021, 04:00:22 PM »
 Trent:- "I'm not entirely sure real people would behave in this manner but it is called Drama for a reason"

I agree with that!

Pursuit of Love was quite lightweight. I'm sure I saw something like it before - when I was young - and it had more depth but I googled & could not find a TV drama of the same name apart from this one. I did find it pleasant, easy watching but I prefer a bit more.

Innocent is quite gripping at the moment, think it's on tonight.
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« Reply #27 on: May 24, 2021, 04:20:49 PM »
Trent:- "I'm not entirely sure real people would behave in this manner but it is called Drama for a reason"

I agree with that!

Pursuit of Love was quite lightweight. I'm sure I saw something like it before - when I was young - and it had more depth but I googled & could not find a TV drama of the same name apart from this one. I did find it pleasant, easy watching but I prefer a bit more.

Innocent is quite gripping at the moment, think it's on tonight.
I think you are thinking of Love In A Cold Climate which covers both Nancy Mitford books The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate


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« Reply #28 on: June 01, 2021, 03:42:47 PM »
Another excellent Call The Midwife on Sunday - last in current series.

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« Reply #29 on: June 04, 2021, 12:15:25 PM »
Another excellent Call The Midwife on Sunday - last in current series.

We thoroughly enjoy that series. :)

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« Reply #30 on: June 05, 2021, 03:35:19 PM »

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« Reply #32 on: June 06, 2021, 11:31:24 AM »
I have set it up on the iplayer and we will start watching it tonight, having never seen it before.
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« Reply #33 on: June 06, 2021, 12:12:33 PM »
Rewatching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Superb


https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006ylbp/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy
The original! I absolutely must watch that.
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« Reply #34 on: June 06, 2021, 03:42:58 PM »
Half-way through 'Children of Earth', the third series of 'Torchwood', on iplayer. Torchwood from the beginning was extremely silly, and strained one's willing suspension of disbelief to breaking point, and this is also something of a rip-off of John Wyndham's 'The Midwich Cuckoos', but it's very enjoyable all the same. The last episode of series two, sardonically called 'Exit wounds', and dealing with the deaths of Owen and Toshiko, was almost moving, but not quite.
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« Reply #35 on: June 06, 2021, 09:16:28 PM »
Rewatching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Superb


https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006ylbp/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy

I've seen the first two episodes now. When it was first broadcast, it was on past my bedtime, so I've never seen it. So far, it's been superb.

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« Reply #36 on: June 06, 2021, 09:24:46 PM »
I've seen the first two episodes now. When it was first broadcast, it was on past my bedtime, so I've never seen it. So far, it's been superb.
Really good that you are enjoying it, so many great performances.

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« Reply #37 on: June 06, 2021, 11:22:21 PM »
Interesting take.


https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/dec/15/how-john-le-carre-changed-television-and-paved-the-way-for-box-set-culture?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


I find the series quite fast even if there are slow camera changes and lots of silences

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« Reply #38 on: June 07, 2021, 11:04:42 PM »
Really good that you are enjoying it, so many great performances.

I've now finished the series. I still think State of Play is better but there isn't anything else to touch it in the genre.
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« Reply #39 on: June 10, 2021, 11:21:18 AM »
We are enjoying the drama series, 'Innocent'. 
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Re: What's on TV?
« Reply #40 on: June 26, 2021, 09:10:35 PM »
Enjoying Lupin on Netflix.

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« Reply #41 on: July 10, 2021, 07:55:08 PM »
Just watching an episode of Lewis. I like it (as I liked watching Morse) but it annoys me that Lawrence Fox is in it because he's such knobhead.
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« Reply #42 on: July 10, 2021, 08:08:51 PM »
Just watching an episode of Lewis. I like it (as I liked watching Morse) but it annoys me that Lawrence Fox is in it because he's such knobhead.
He is, but there is a 100% guarantee that someone is anything you watch is a knobhead.

Apart from my one man show









In which case everyone is.

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« Reply #43 on: July 10, 2021, 08:09:55 PM »
He is, but there is a 100% guarantee that someone is anything you watch is a knobhead.

LOL! Probably. ;D
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« Reply #44 on: July 10, 2021, 08:10:35 PM »

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« Reply #45 on: July 10, 2021, 08:17:19 PM »
Noooo! :)
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« Reply #46 on: July 11, 2021, 11:16:53 AM »
Just watching an episode of Lewis. I like it (as I liked watching Morse) but it annoys me that Lawrence Fox is in it because he's such knobhead.

I prefer Lewis to Morse, but now knowing what I do after that unpleasant guy, Fox, it has spoilt the programme for me. :o
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Re: What's on TV?
« Reply #47 on: August 18, 2021, 02:52:00 PM »
Just binge watching 30 Rock on Amazon Prime, which I appreciate is quite old now, but I've never seen it before (don't know if it ever hit network TV here?).

Very entertaining, funny and sharp. Love Alec Baldwin in it.
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« Reply #48 on: August 18, 2021, 03:16:06 PM »
Just binge watching 30 Rock on Amazon Prime, which I appreciate is quite old now, but I've never seen it before (don't know if it ever hit network TV here?).

Very entertaining, funny and sharp. Love Alec Baldwin in it.
Great series, although as so often loses a bit in later seasons. If you haven't seen Community, it's worth seeking out as well.

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« Reply #49 on: August 20, 2021, 10:41:57 PM »
I'm not especially into whodunits anyway ( with the exception of Sherlock Holmes), but Morse irritated the heck out of me, with his pretentious love of opera and real ale (I love real ale myself, but some aficionados are twats, like 'The Real Ale Twats' from Viz), and I was also irritated that his surname was the name of a code: unsubtle, or what? The same goes for Inspector Rebus, whose surname is that of a type of puzzle.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus
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