RamSteelwood wrote:yeah, i was the same with the grand tour.
Bob wrote:Give McGuinness his due he's very good on Take Me Out.
Yeah I don't watch any of this stuff anymore. But I used to watch Top Gear 10 years ago or so. It got stale but did seem like an exaggerated, staged version of what those three twats might be doing anyway. And it could be quite funny. The modern show was built around the chemistry of those presenters. That's not a format that you can just slot a load of random perky pricks into and expect to work.davyK wrote:Top Gear people need to realise the big three was a happening that occurred naturally; not by any design. It needs to draw a line under it and get back to being a motoring journalism show. For all of Clarkson and Cos faults they knew about motoring and were fanboys who happened to get on. The latest attempts have proven that Chris Evans is a tosser (as if that were needed), Le Blanc would get bored (and did). This one will fair no better without a solid backup from someone who actually knows what they are talking about. Paddy McGuinness is a prick who got lucky in Phoenix Nights and has lived off it since.
tin_robot wrote:I thought the latest episode of The Good Place was an absolute delight. There's not much you can say without becoming horrifically spoiler heavy, but it was simultaneously feel-good yet kind of subversive. Doctor Who was a more complicated one to comment on. Some of the acting was terrible, dialogue was often clunky, often coming across as nothing more than a lesson, and the music choice at the end was faintly embarrassing, but... When I heard they were doing a Rosa Parks episode I was seriously worried - and yet they dodged pretty much every potential pitfall. That's actually quite an achievement. Fundamentally it was about her, not the doctor and Co. It's also, to my mind, the only time Who's really tackled racism head-on. (Sure, it's been raised before, but here it was clearly the enemy - more so than the episode's bolted on baddie - and they did a good job of conveying its ubiquitous evil) Also, having sniggered at Bradley Walsh's presence to date, he gets one truly great moment in this that made me realise he's earned his spot.
afgavinstan wrote:Just throw it all in the bin tbh.
Aaroncupboard wrote:I think the ending was great myself.Spoiler:
tin_robot wrote:I thought the latest episode of The Good Place was an absolute delight. There's not much you can say without becoming horrifically spoiler heavy, but it was simultaneously feel-good yet kind of subversive.
Doctor Who was a more complicated one to comment on. Some of the acting was terrible, dialogue was often clunky, often coming across as nothing more than a lesson, and the music choice at the end was faintly embarrassing, but... When I heard they were doing a Rosa Parks episode I was seriously worried - and yet they dodged pretty much every potential pitfall. That's actually quite an achievement. Fundamentally it was about her, not the doctor and Co. It's also, to my mind, the only time Who's really tackled racism head-on. (Sure, it's been raised before, but here it was clearly the enemy - more so than the episode's bolted on baddie - and they did a good job of conveying its ubiquitous evil)
Also, having sniggered at Bradley Walsh's presence to date, he gets one truly great moment in this that made me realise he's earned his spot.
Tempy wrote:Aaroncupboard wrote:I think the ending was great myself.Spoiler:
My problem is really that
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poprock wrote:Halt & Catch Fire was one of the finest TV show’s I’ve seen. A masterclass in how to do a final season with a proper ending.
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