The TV you like thread - The Bear and Badger

Blocks100

I refuse to watch it on the basis that the original was some of the best British telly ever made (and was cruelly cut short with no third series). Really don't want to sully it's memory by watching some yank version

b0r1s

I agree that the first series was one of the best British showed I’d watched at the time. The 2nd series didn’t grab me at all and only watched one episode. Can’t imagine the Amazon version being better.

Bob

Anyone watching High Score on Netflix? Video Game documentary so it's going over a lot of known ground but they've dug up some really interesting people and stories to keep it fresh. Only six parts (And I've only watched five) but it's very good.

Also Cobra Kai was amazing for the first two episodes. Zabka was great even if he now looks like the love child of Chris Tarrant and Jerome Flynn. Script and story are clever and there's enough nods to the film while keeping it fresh.

I particularly liked Zabka claiming the Crane was

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and you get a different perspective on the original story

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Unlikely

For reasons that escape me I seem to be watching Shitt's Creek. Somehow I'm now on Series 3.

Kow

Really enjoyed both seasons of Cobra Kai. I'm sure someone here was banging on about it for ages when it was on YouTube, but who's going to bother paying for YouTube?

poprock

Unlikely wrote:

For reasons that escape me I seem to be watching Shitt's Creek. Somehow I'm now on Series 3.

Mrs Poprock has been talking about that since it won all the Emmy awards. Is it tolerable?

mk64

Armitage_Shankburn wrote:

I'm watching Utopia. It's actually pretty good, albeit dumb like tv shows are dumb nowadays - some stupid thing happens to progress plot and DRAMA OMG WE NEED THAT WATER COOLER CHAT wait, shit. Still good though.

I enjoyed this

nick_md

Kow wrote:

Really enjoyed both seasons of Cobra Kai. I'm sure someone here was banging on about it for ages when it was on YouTube, but who's going to bother paying for YouTube?

Gonz was banging on about it when it debuted on youtube aye, no one believes his TV show opinions though, took Netflix to spread it.

I really enjoyed the whole 2 seasons.

mistercrayon

I thought utopia 1 was good but I wonder if it was a hollow victory. I wasn’t that into the revelations in utopia 2.

Armitage_Shankburn

nick_md wrote:

Kow wrote:

Really enjoyed both seasons of Cobra Kai. I'm sure someone here was banging on about it for ages when it was on YouTube, but who's going to bother paying for YouTube?

Gonz was banging on about it when it debuted on youtube aye, no one believes his TV show opinions though, took Netflix to spread it.

I really enjoyed the whole 2 seasons.

You have no idea how much this hurts

Armitage_Shankburn

I watched it for free and explained how to do that as well *flounces our*

Unlikely

poprock wrote:

Unlikely wrote:

For reasons that escape me I seem to be watching Shitt's Creek. Somehow I'm now on Series 3.

Mrs Poprock has been talking about that since it won all the Emmy awards. Is it tolerable?

It's strangely moreish but takes a while to get going. It's fluffy and fairly insubstantial but the cast are game (if you can get past the not-terribly-original characters) and it has managed to elicit quite a few genuine laughs from me along the way.

Episodes are only 20 minutes each so it's easy to watch a few at a time. For you I'd suggest it's worth giving it a shot purely for Moira and David's costume design.

poprock

Ta. I do like a show with short episodes.

Diluted Dante

poprock wrote:

Ta. I do like a show with short episodes.

I got you covered pop.

poprock

Amazing.

Kow

Too many episodes. Would there be a recap at the beginning of each one?

Kow

Actually, it was bad enough trying to watch the film over three days, there's no way I'd subject myself to that garbage for so long.

poprock

I made it as far as hearing he paints houses then I turned it off.

Blocks100

He missed out Episode: Apalling Fight Scene

Raiziel

First ep of Ratched done. Was it Kow who mentioned the music? He’s not fucking wrong. It’s relentless!

Kow

I'm up to episode 6 now and I'd like to say it gets better, but actually it gets much, much worse. Apart from the offensiveness of putting a classic character in this drivel, the story is so full of pointless characters and arcs, and ridiculous decisions made by all and sundry that it's laughable. And not even in a funny way. It is shockingly awful.

Kow

Episode 7. Probably the stupidest shit tv I've ever seen. Insultingly awful. If Ken Kesey isn't secretly alive somewhere them he's spinning in his grave so fast that he might destabilise the whole planet. Everyone involved deserves a good kicking.

nick_md

I watched one ep then realised I didn't have to watch any more so didn't.

Kow

I'm only watching it to... keep the peace.

Diluted Dante

Why not sleep during it?

Oh right, tuba of doom.

Kow

Don't get me fucking started.

LivDiv

Married at First Sight Australia season 4.
On All 4, first season up is s4.

One of those reality TV shows that get it right and become incredibly bingeable.

I have laughed, cried, flipped out and been faux offended.

Blocks100

Latest Lovecraft Country then....

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Every great series has its dodgy episode, let's hope this was it.

poprock

It was episode seven, but it wasn’t an ‘episode seven’ if you know what I mean.

Yes, it was nuts. And having an episode so far out there right after a bottle episode that delved into Tic’s past seems an odd choice. But I thought it was pretty awesome - in the literal sense of the word.

There were some clunking moments.

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But generally that was a hell of a ride.

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My worry is how things tie back into the main narrative.

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Diluted Dante

The Force Awakens wasn't that bad.

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