The TV you like thread - The Bear and Badger

afgavinstan

Fuck sake I said I'll get my coat! Jeez...

Nah, never got on with Bottom past the slapstick. Chaz fucking loved it.

monkey

I was 11 when i first saw Bottom. It was incredible. The funniest thing I’ve ever seen.

bad_hair_day

Gav mate, probably doesn’t help your cause any but found most of his work just amusing at best. The Young Ones used to have people rolling in the isles O_0. Seemed a lovely guy though.

JonB

After The Young Ones, Bottom always felt kind of b-grade.

It took one (admittedly good) element out of a show that had loads of them and wore it thin. Just doesn't have the variety and is a bit one-dimensional.

WorKid

Bottom was clever. Really clever.

WorKid

Young Ones was a weird show. Sitcom? Sketch show? Erm, why are Madness doing a song now?

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WorKid wrote:

Young Ones was a weird show. Sitcom? Sketch show? Erm, why are Madness doing a song now?

I think that was a big part of the appeal of The Comic Strip lot. They weren't pigeon holed into what came before.

n0face

WorKid wrote:

Young Ones was a weird show. Sitcom? Sketch show? Erm, why are Madness doing a song now?

Something to do with having a band on pushed it into light entertainment and that mattered for some reason.

n0face

Wiki wrote:

Eleven of the twelve episodes had a musical guest performing in the house or street. By including the groups, the show qualified as variety rather than light entertainment by the BBC and was allocated a bigger budget than a sitcom. Groups that appeared included Dexys Midnight Runners, Motörhead, The Damned, and Madness, who appeared in two episodes. The one episode that featured no musical act still fulfilled the variety criteria by including a lion tamer whose presence also directly contributed to the plot.

WorKid

Ha ha. Mental.

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Brilliant

Dark Soldier

New Sacha Baron Cohen show this Sunday, Who Is America. He gets Dick Cheney to sign a waterboard. In.

https://twitter.com/SachaBaronCohen/status/1016082033099997184

Bob

Well at least he’s stopped making increasingly shit movies

[Deleted User]

Hopefully it will be good.
Just watching some Ali G in the USAiiiii

Borat hasn't aged too well, both Ali and Borat suffer from over exposure. I still find Bruno hilarious though, he does well showing up the worst parts of America.

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Unsolved.
Brilliant, the Biggie/Tupac re-enactments are probably the weaker parts. Jimmi Simpson is great, only took 5 minutes to forget all about the McPoyles.

g.man

Rik Mayall you say?

Bob

What we can gather from Mayall’s career is that a little goes a very long way .. and he couldnt ride a quad bike for shit.

Raiziel

Rik Mayall was as a god to me. No one on earth has ever made me laugh more. I was utterly devastated when he passed away.

poprock

Watched the first episode of Sharp Objects tonight, on Sky. Pretty good. Tense, atmospheric, and mostly well acted. Definitely has potential.

Stars Amy Adams and based on a book by the same author as Gone Girl.

Spoiler:

I tentatively recommend it. Could be the next True Detective, or it could nosedive and be as bad as True Detective season two. Too early to tell.

Moot_Geeza

I'm starting that tonight. Full giggling crush on Amy Adams since Junebug, she's the only actress that can make me watch things I don't want to see just so I can see her. Luckily I fancy watching this one.

poprock

Same here, I’ll watch Amy Adams in anything.

g.man

...aaaand, that's me caught up and finished S2 of Legion.
Dazzlingly inventive television that's pretty much in a class of it's own. Doubles down on the psychedelic insanity of S1 and just never lets up. I gather the ending was apparently divisive, but I loved it, and it does contain an elegantly woven truth unusual to the genre that's more akin to someone dropping a hand grenade in the room, rather than the usual lumbering pachyderm in the corner.
Seriously, if you haven't been watching this, then you should be standing in front of a mirror asking your reflection why.

Tempy

I still don’t know how to feel about the ending really

g.man

I thought it was brilliant, but I can understand why it was divisive. Massive spoiler ahoy!

Spoiler:

Diluted Dante

At the moment, I'm working on ambivalence, which means feeling two opposite, irreconcilable emotions about the same thing

As you can see, I haven't quite got the hang of that one yet. I look like
a dog with a caramel toffee.

Tempy

I’m just not entirely sure whether I feel the show earned that moment or not. I enjoyed it, and thought it was bold, but I don’t know if am fully happy with it. The thing that happened in Syd’s episode was handled much better IMO. I think as well, Syd is quite easily convinced of some things in the episode prior which makes me thing the show is trying to wedge in the potential to back down. It is exciting having a show almost entirely constructed around subjective truths and characters you have to really work to find purchase in.

g.man

It's just refreshing to see such ridiculous levels of moral ambiguity in what is basically still a comic book superhero show. It sure beats the hell out of men in tights punching the fuck out of each other from where I sit.

Bob

Stand by for Episode Three of Preacher.

Recorded the Amy Adams thing. Add me to the list of admirers.

Tempy

As for the fans thing, the show absolutely haemorrhaged viewers during this season, precisely for the reasons you and I liked it, which is I expect why it hasn’t had much coverage elsewhere. That and accessibility, as for me it was a torrent only thing.

I think it’s excellent, definitely in the vein of Hannibal with it’s excellent use of visual flair and weird soundscapes all used to back up a show where you’re rooting for characters that can gut you at a moments notice. The actor they got in to play Farouk, Navid Negahban is absolutely phenomenal, and definitely has that Madds air about him.

g.man

Aye, he was absolutely fantastic, but the entire cast is up there with him. Struggling to think of a show in recent memory that nails the casting as well as this did.

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