What TV are you watching?

[NorthernDave]

[QUOTE 5104533, member: 45"]We watched Ep.1 last night off the back of recommendations here. Wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be -acting was pretty stilted. Hope it settles down.[/QUOTE]

It might not be for you (for example, people rave about Peaky Blinders but we never got into that at all) - but we really enjoyed Bosch, to the extent that we watched the entire first series last weekend.

 

[keithmac]

Started Peaky Blinders last night, should have 1st season finished tonight!.

Not a bad watch so far.

Hard to find another Breaking Bad tbh..

 

[Roadhump]

Better Call Saul , stopped watching as it was a week between episodes. Might go back to it as I like binge watching

There are 3 series on Netflix now.

 

[Chris S]

A House Through TIme. One of the occupants was a cotton broker who had indirectly made money through slave labour. The presenter was so outraged about this that he didn't notice his tightly curled hair and so probably had some black ancestry.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Vanished by the lake..really enjoying these subtitled French series

 

[Adam4868]

Vanished by the lake..really enjoying these subtitled French series

It's good,and a double episode of Spiral later happy days !

 

[colly]

Been watching the second series of Spiral after enjoying the first series.

 

[John the Monkey]

Catching Up Post;

Inside Number 9 (iPlayer & Netflix)
I skipped these when they were first broadcast, because of not really being a fan of The League of Gentlemen, assuming that these would be a similar parade of grotesques. However, this is a subtler anthology horror series, with a slight "Tales of the Unexpected" feel. I really like the episodes that are formally inventive, for instance, the most recent one (s4 e1) which is done in rhyming couplets, or the season three episdoe "The Devil at Christmas" which is filmed in the manner of a '70s tv film, complete with apparent film to video transitions in the stock! The story telling, and guest stars are top notch too.

Black Mirror (s4)
Another strong series of this, with Netflix' money clearly paying off in the larger canvas given the episodes scope and effects. I found that I liked the most widely disliked episode in this season (Metalhead) for it's unusual lack of exposition, and willingness to let the viewer conjure the back story to the scenario. This season also hints at a "Black Mirror Universe" (the suggestion that at least some of the episodes take place in the same continuity) which I hope they don't tie themselves in knots trying to stick to.

Romesh Ranganathan - Irrational (iPlayer)
Comedy is, of course, very subjective, but I enjoyed this, and am glad to see the BBC putting up comedy "Specials" for British standups in the same way that the US networks do for American stars.

The League of Gentlemen - Anniversary Specials (iPlayer)
Watched to see whether I "get" the League of Gentlemen now - as a result, I think I missed some of the in jokes, but whether comedy has moved on or I have, I found this ok.

Spiral / Engresnages 6 (iPlayer)
They're back! I love Spiral, and season 6 has what you'd expect, Gilou on the edge of legality, Berthaud bending the rules to keep her team involved in this season's investigation and "enjoying" a chaotic homelife. If you liked previous seasons, you'll like this. If you like Police procedurals on the hardboiled side, you'll like this.

Deep Water (iPlayer)
Australian police procedural about a small town cop who moves to Sydney, and uncovers what appears to be a gang targeting gay men for murder. Taking a lot of its visual style from "The Code", it seems to me, I'm enjoying this so far (two episodes in).

 

[Levo-Lon]

Finished Vanished by the lake..excellent

Vera ,good as usual
And Mcmafia recorded for weds as new Silent Witness on mon tues

 

[AndyRM]

The Metalhead episode from Black Mirror.

Really enjoyed this, sort of like a mini version of Fury Road where you're chucked into a world and left to crack on with it. My favourite episode so far, though the Space Fleet one is very close behind, as is Crocodile. Just Black Museum to go, which seems to have generated some controversy on the interweb.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Have now finished re-watching Death in Paradise, series 1 to 6. My wife wants to wait until I have recorded of series 7 before we watch it.

I need my Caribbean fix!

If we ever win the lottery, you'll know where to find me - pootling around Guadeloupe. In the sunshine. All year round.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Have now finished re-watching Death in Paradise, series 1 to 6. My wife wants to wait until I have recorded of series 7 before we watch it.

I need my Caribbean fix!

If we ever win the lottery, you'll know where to find me - pootling around Guadeloupe. In the sunshine. All year round.

Lovely place but a very high murder per capita rate!!
Bit like Midsummer..poor life expectancy..

 

[MontyVeda]

Not watched the recent series of Black Mirror yet, but got round to finishing off the previous series... Hated in the Nation was excellent, possibly the best of series three, although Nosedive is a very close contender.

 

[MontyVeda]

Lovely place but a very high murder per capita rate!!
Bit like Midsummer..poor life expectancy..

Radio 4's More or Less discussed this a while back...

A listener [...] asked whether the murder rate in Midsomer was out of the ordinary. The team quickly set to work to investigate whether this were so and found some interesting results. Comparing Midsomer to Oxfordshire, which is where it is filmed and presumably based on, it seems the fictional area has a surprisingly high murder rate.

With an average of 2.6 murders per episodes and roughly eight episodes per year, it equates to about 32 murders per million inhabitants. That is over three times the rate actually recorded by Thames Valley Constabulary for the area. This makes Midsomer a much more dangerous place to be than the fictional Oxfordshire of Morse or Lewis.

In an article about the findings in the Radio Times, they pointed out that Midsomer’s murder rate is actually equivalent to that of Chile or Latvia. Although they also pointed out that perhaps the most dangerous TV place in history is Abbot Cove from Murder She Wrote, starring Angela Lansbury. Over the course of the show, a whopping 2% of the population of the small town in Maine were bumped off. That’s a massive murder rate of 1,490 per million.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Not watched the recent series of Black Mirror yet, but got round to finishing off the previous series... Hated in the Nation was excellent, possibly the best of series three, although Nosedive is a very close contender.

I’ve watched the first episode of the first series which was OK (prime minister and YouTube), and the first 15 minutes of episode two (15 million credits) which I turned off because I was bored. I understand that monotony in the modern world was one of the points of the episode (so in a sense it succeeded), but I was falling asleep and not because I was tired. I might try a different episode and see how I get on.