What TV are you watching?

[yello]

In this age of streaming, I rarely record anything.

 

[Gunk]

In this age of streaming, I rarely record anything.

We don’t record anything, all the TV we watch is streamed

 

[matticus]

I still refer to recording stuff as "taping" it. Which is now sadly impossible as I have Sky and they want you to stream everything.

Same here!

I also talk about seeing a good movie - which isn't technically wrong, I guess ...
And I'm sure loads of people talk about lack of "disc space" when the device in question doesn't have a disk!

 

[Legs]

Always meant to watch that but it goes back 20 years or something. Is there a good season to start at as a beginner, or would I need to watch from S1E1?

A couple of years go, Jo and I started on S1E1 and worked our way through every episode of Silent Witness over the course of a couple of months. It's interesting how it's morphed from very much a pathology-based show ("well-nourished male, petechial haemorrhaging") in the early Amanda Burton episodes into a more general crime-scene-investigation programme. It's mostly nonsense, and there's nearly always a massive overstepping of responsibility or conflict of interests, but it's entertaining nonsense. We found ourselves shouting at the telly, telling them to check for abrasion marks on the corpses' heels, or hyoid fractures!

I can't recommend a particular place to start (except at the very beginning!), but there are some excellent episodes that stick in the memory:
S5E1/2, S8E7/8, S13E7/8, S14E7/8, S23E19/10.

 

[mjr]

what is this recording of which you speak papa? Is it another thing from the olden days before streaming via iplayer?

(sorry - couldn't resist!)

Nah, it's from the new days, so that Snoopy can't tell what you watch when, profile you and target yet more intrusive advertising at you.

Are you still streaming and letting them know your peccadilloes for free? How quaint! Oh well, it could be worse, you could be using a subscription service and actually paying to help advertisers target you.

 

[cougie uk]

A couple of years go, Jo and I started on S1E1 and worked our way through every episode of Silent Witness over the course of a couple of months. It's interesting how it's morphed from very much a pathology-based show ("well-nourished male, petechial haemorrhaging") in the early Amanda Burton episodes into a more general crime-scene-investigation programme. It's mostly nonsense, and there's nearly always a massive overstepping of responsibility or conflict of interests, but it's entertaining nonsense. We found ourselves shouting at the telly, telling them to check for abrasion marks on the corpses' heels, or hyoid fractures!

I can't recommend a particular place to start (except at the very beginning!), but there are some excellent episodes that stick in the memory:
S5E1/2, S8E7/8, S13E7/8, S14E7/8, S23E19/10.

Good God you must have enough experience to actually BE a forensic investigator ! I'd be putting THAT on the CV !

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Traffic Cops
Ch5
20:00 - 21:00

The call to a scene of a fatal RTC (2 deaths), & the subsequent investigation into it
The offending driver still tried to blame other factors in the interview under caution (dashcam showed otherwise)

However, in the end he was sentanced to 13 years in jail

 

[icowden]

Are you still streaming and letting them know your peccadilloes for free? How quaint! Oh well, it could be worse, you could be using a subscription service and actually paying to help advertisers target you.

Are you worried that your tinfoil hat might slip? Couldn't care less about advertisers. The worst case scenario is that I might see something that I might find useful. I'm not sure why this is seen as pernicious.

 

[PaulSB]

Thanks for the reminder of Reacher. Brain-out tele at its finest.

I got home from my ride on Sunday to find Mrs P watching Reacher. She binge watched all eight episodes of series one. I dipped in and out when I wandered into the front room. In the end I gave up and went to bed!!!

Dreadful, brain dead TV.

 

[Legs]

Great Pottery Throw Down on C4. Lovely TV.

 

[icowden]

Dreadful, brain dead TV.

I thought it was pretty good brain dead TV :-)
I believe the gratuitous beefcake shots are very popular with certain portions of the population.
Nice to see some equality

 

[mjr]

Are you worried that your tinfoil hat might slip? Couldn't care less about advertisers. The worst case scenario is that I might see something that I might find useful. I'm not sure why this is seen as pernicious.

It's ironic that you accuse me of tin foil hat because one of the problems with targeted advertising is political ads pushing conspiracy theories they think you'll believe. And even commercial advertisers can offer you higher prices because your data profile predicts you'll pay them. But this is a bit off topic so here's a link for more info: Targeted ads are a problem—here’s why | TechRadar – https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/targeted-ads-are-a-problemheres-why

 

[icowden]

It's ironic that you accuse me of tin foil hat because one of the problems with targeted advertising is political ads pushing conspiracy theories they think you'll believe.

I haven't seen a single one of those on Amazon Prime. I have seen an advert for Nike Sport running their women in sport campaign. Also ads for other Prime shows, one for a vitamin supplement and any others were so irrelevant I've forgotten them. Either way, if they are targeting their ads they are doing a crap job. I have never seen a political advert on Prime.

 

[Beebo]

Great Pottery Throw Down on C4. Lovely TV.

I love it too. Big Keith is a gem.

My only issue with this series is that from week one it was clear who the best two were.

That cardboard box fireplace was amazing.

 

[MontyVeda]

The Bay season five. I only watch it because it's filmed locally and spent most of my time yelling That's not Lancaster! For a crime drama it's got a very low IQ and it's only good for location spotting. 3/10