The TV you like thread - The Bear and Badger

davyK

Peter Falk was the highest paid person on TV for several years. Easy to forget how massive that show was.

He did a really nice turn roasting Frank Sinatra as Colombo....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_UN2S8SasY

mk64

Love the episode he actually likes the female killer

monkey

I love that the creators response to continual network pressure for more supporting characters was to give him a crap car. Then when the network came back asking for the same thing they gave him an unnamed dog.

It is probably the best television show ever made. Until it switched networks anyway. The Beeb bought the early ones and ITV bought the later ones. So there was a useful way of telling if the episode was likely to be good or not.

SpaceGazelle

Things I love about Columbo:

1. Peter Falk. It's unusual to see such a talent more or less stay with one project for so long, but I'm glad he did. It also helps that Columbo is such a good character to play. A real talent.

2. The Crime Writing. So imaginative and it needs to be when it can't hide behind a cliffhanger whodunnit. The reveal is the cleverness in how he catches them, and it's nearly always satisfyingly smart. No shocks all brains.

4. California. Sunny rose-tinted loveleness. Late 60's and 70's the best, but always a pleasure. The 70's clothing and posh dinner parties. Everyone looks cool and everyone has a drinks cabinet that only stocks Scotch and champagne, apart from fashion shambles Columbo.

5. Smoking. It's everywhere and cool as fuck.

6. The missus. Always mentioned but never seen.

7. Film-length episodes. When it's this good you take your time. Always.

tin_robot

SpaceGazelle wrote:

6. The missus. Always mentioned but never seen.

Yep. Except...

Spoiler:

mk64

Love the episode where he pretended it it was his flat to catch the guy

davyK

Watching more of American Gods S1.

I'm starting to like it more actually.

Spoiler:

monkey

SpaceGazelle wrote:

Things I love about Columbo:

1. Peter Falk. It's unusual to see such a talent more or less stay with one project for so long, but I'm glad he did. It also helps that Columbo is such a good character to play. A real talent.

2. The Crime Writing. So imaginative and it needs to be when it can't hide behind a cliffhanger whodunnit. The reveal is the cleverness in how he catches them, and it's nearly always satisfyingly smart. No shocks all brains.

4. California. Sunny rose-tinted loveleness. Late 60's and 70's the best, but always a pleasure. The 70's clothing and posh dinner parties. Everyone looks cool and everyone has a drinks cabinet that only stocks Scotch and champagne, apart from fashion shambles Columbo.

5. Smoking. It's everywhere and cool as fuck.

6. The missus. Always mentioned but never seen.

7. Film-length episodes. When it's this good you take your time. Always.

8. Just one more thing.

acemuzzy

Poor Yoss

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47825572

Yossarian

TBF, I wasn’t expecting a second series, and certainly not one as good as this. The chances of a third season remaining at this standard were always pretty low.

Moot_Geeza

Good. All the best British sitcoms are two or three seasons long anyway. Maximum four, but in that specific case series one doesn't count.

Yossarian

It does not.

pantyfire

davyK wrote:

Watching more of American Gods S1. I'm starting to like it more actually.

Spoiler:

My take on it is that as the world has modernised then new Gods have come into existence from the love/obssession people have for aspects of the modern world such as technology, globalism. Trying to figure out who the glam doll is - modern infatuation with image maybe? Not sure. Some older Gods from ancient times are still kicking around - because there is still love for certain older things and vices. Many others died out as the world progressed and they were forgotten. So it seems they are going to have a rumble. One of them is getting the old gang together and plugging gaps by recruiting certain people (Shadow). There probably wouldn't be a rumble if he wasn't so belligerent

That's exactly what it is about.

mistercrayon

Yeah I don’t want more fleabag unless it’s in the context of miles away from the current one where she is in a different phase of her life. Perhaps someone who is closer to the person she met on the awards ceremony.

Gremill

Watched Joe Lycetts new consumer affairs programme "Joe Lycetts Got Your Back" which is like a cross between Watchdog and Mark Thomas.

Great fun.

Yossarian

What’s that on?

g.man

Ch4. Fri 8.30pm

Bob

Just after Jamie does
His five thing

mk64

The legend of cocaine island is a corker

poprock

pantyfire wrote:

That's exactly what it is about.

Yep. Nailed it. And season two is making all that explicit for the hard of thinking.

Yossarian

g.man wrote:

Ch4. Fri 8.30pm

Cheers, I’ll check it out.

nick_md

Fleabag's still the best thing on TV atm, but it's really dipped as the season's gone on imo. The first episode was fantastic.

The whole manic-pixie-dream-priest thing is so utterly boring. The conflict with the BIL and step mum is far more interesting to me, and both of those characters are played to their utter, cuntish brilliance. The priest thing is dull.

That probably sounds like I hate the show, which I don't. I just think it excels when there's a right shit of a character present.

Unlikely

There are two episodes of You to go. They had better do something unexpected because so far this has gone from intriguingly disturbing to emo-teen garbage.

JonB

Finished After Life. It really went to shit towards the end, turning more into a series of banal self-help lectures rather than the bitter-sweet comedy it started as. Whole scenes of Gervais dropping gems of wisdom about how we should be nice to each other while the rest of the cast sits around smiling and nodding awkwardly. It's a different kind of cringe comedy.

JonB

I've also been watching Traitors on Netfilx this week. UK spy thriller set just after WW2. Still have a couple of episodes to go, but it's shaping up well.

Bob

JonB wrote:

Finished After Life. It really went to shit towards the end, turning more into a series of banal self-help lectures rather than the bitter-sweet comedy it started as. Whole scenes of Gervais dropping gems of wisdom about how we should be nice to each other while the rest of the cast sits around smiling and nodding awkwardly. It's a different kind of cringe comedy.

Yeah he really screwed the end

tin_robot

Yossarian wrote:

TBF, I wasn’t expecting a second series, and certainly not one as good as this. The chances of a third season remaining at this standard were always pretty low.

I was expecting this to be the last. Partly because I felt like it was heading towards a point where...

Spoiler:

I’m probably talking bollocks, but it strikes me that that’s the one relationship the show couldn’t really continue without...

Moot_Geeza

Bob wrote:

JonB wrote:

Finished After Life. It really went to shit towards the end, turning more into a series of banal self-help lectures rather than the bitter-sweet comedy it started as. Whole scenes of Gervais dropping gems of wisdom about how we should be nice to each other while the rest of the cast sits around smiling and nodding awkwardly. It's a different kind of cringe comedy.

Yeah he really screwed the end

I really enjoyed it. Some of it was genuinely very good and the unintentionally amusing parts were hilariously bad. #Gervais.

Kow

I thought it was grand, except towards the end where it turned into a morality lesson that any normal person knows perfectly well. A kind of behavior lesson for sociopaths?

What parts were unintentionally amusing?

Moot_Geeza

The Rocket Man scene, most of his interactions with Band of Gold/heart of brass, some of the Ladbaby style home movie footage. But mostly the "Snarf Snarf!" morality tone shifts.

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