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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on May 12, 2020 13:25:13 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 8:49:14 GMT 1
I recently finished re-watching all of the available episodes of ARE YOU BEING SERVED? I could find on YouTube.
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Post by Grandmaster on May 13, 2020 9:36:41 GMT 1
I recently finished re-watching all of the available episodes of ARE YOU BEING SERVED? I could find on YouTube. Thats so cool. Not a fan of Captain Peacock for some reason...
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 9:39:27 GMT 1
I recently finished re-watching all of the available episodes of ARE YOU BEING SERVED? I could find on YouTube. Thats so cool. Not a fan of Captain Peacock for some reason... Possibly because he's a contortionist... Judging by where he's got his head stuck.
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on May 13, 2020 15:38:41 GMT 1
Watched an episode or two of this while I was in France… Lots of fun. The fashions and styles are great (if not always 100% convincingly ’50s). I was surprised how well Gallicizing Christie’s veddy British stories and creating new sleuths work, but then again the detective characters were never her strongpoint. (My favorite Christie sleuths are the virtually unknown ones: Supt. Battle, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.) What will they do when they run out of Christie plots, though?
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on May 13, 2020 16:20:48 GMT 1
Recently have been catching up on the latest season/series (2014) of Jonathan Creek. It’s awful. That’s really too bad, because it was one of the greatest mystery TV shows of all time: entertaining, funny, with ingenious plots. (The 1998 Christmas special, “The Black Canary,” is super-brilliant.) It’s not a change in talent: Creator David Renwick has written every episode, these last few included. Unbelievably, though, for this latest season he’s excised everything interesting or amusing about his own character (originally a cranky, eccentric magician’s ingénieur who lived in a windmill and whose trademark was a mane of shaggy hair and a rumpled old duffle coat) to make him a high-powered businessman (huh?!) who gets married and moves into a Midsomer Murders-y village. Again: Huh?! As if the characterization whiplash weren’t enough (actor Alan Davies is good enough to sell the change, mostly), Renwick seems to have lost all talent for plotting. The last Christmas specials before this, “The Grinning Man” and “The Judas Tree,” had their share of plot flaws (“The Judas Tree” in particular), but they felt grand and interesting. In this season, Jonathan solves mysteries like — how does a parish newsletter find gossip before anyone else? Why is a man peeing in the bushes? Was his wife’s mother having an affair? How on earth are these supposed to be interesting? Renwick doesn’t have to give us a murder every episode, but he should at least come up with a burglary or something more than peeing in the bushes! Gah. Worse, the first episode this season, “The Letters of Septimus Noone,” had an intriguing premise: a Columbo-esque inverted mystery in which we know who committed the crime and how, coupled with a spoof of Sherlock. Unfortunately, Renwick didn’t have the talent for the Sherlock spoof, so it went nowhere and, worse, was unfunny. The other mystery, Polly’s mother’s affair, was (1) boring and (2) obvious. The second episode was such an unmitigated disaster that the best part was why Polly had a fear of carrots. (Renwick, by the way, can apparently no longer dream up a single mystery that can fill an entire episode, so he gives three different minor town mysteries per episode.) I’m going to watch the third episode just to finish it off and then, unfortunately, give up on Jonathan Creek. If Renwick is no longer interested in mysteries, can he just end the show? And if he still does want to continue it, can he just hire a collaborator, ideally Robert Thorogood? At its zenith, though, the show was unrivaled for plotting brilliance, even by Thorogood’s Death in Paradise. Oh, how the mighty have fallen, all right.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 0:34:51 GMT 1
Two ringing endorsements of this French show? I gotta at least check out the pilot then. Worst case scenario I can check out some French women
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on May 14, 2020 1:08:00 GMT 1
Two ringing endorsements of this French show? I gotta at least check out the pilot then. Worst case scenario I can check out some French women It's quite entertaining. I'd definitely recommend checking it out. www.imdb.com/title/tt1349600/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt However, just be aware that the first season doesn't include the people in the picture I posted. I'm on Season 2 and never saw Season 1. I'm guessing it might've been different in 'tone' to the one I'm watching (though I could be wrong). I started the show partway through Season 2 (I missed the first umpteen episodes, unfortunately). I liked what I saw of the first episode I watched and kept watching until the new episodes stopped showing. They'd been airing repeats recently and I was keeping an eye out for new ones, which is why I was so glad I managed to catch the first new episode this week (oftentimes I've missed when new episodes of shows have started airing here because the channels screw things around by mixing new episodes with repeats, changing times and days that shows are on and taking them off for months only to suddenly put them back on without warning/advertising). I just saw episode episode 13 of Season 2 this week. I'm hoping they'll air all the remaining episodes and there won't be yet another 'break'. It's such a fun show. Took a little while to get used to how the characters interact, but now I'm fully invested.
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on May 16, 2020 4:07:15 GMT 1
Recently have been catching up on the latest season/series (2014) of Jonathan Creek. All right, finished the season. The third and last episode, “The Curse of the Bronze Lamp,” is the best of the three episodes, but that only shows how bad the season is, because it’s not good. Unlike the execrable second episode, here Renwick actually connects his boring plot threads — and gives the delightful (and beautiful) Sarah Alexander something to do other than fear carrots. The solution to the main mystery is actually quite clever and surprising, but unfortunately it’s so minor that it comes off as disappointing anyway. I expected the kidnapped wife, who’s set up as a super-genius, to escape from the locked chamber, reappear in her house, and then keep mum about how (because, I thought, her politician husband had set up her kidnapping) — a puzzle actually worthy of Jonathan Creek (and of Jonathan Creek). In fact, that’s the scenario Renwick seems to be setting up, just to go with the much more disappointing bracelet reappearance. Gah. The titular bronze lamp, unfortunately, is pointless and provides not a shred of atmosphere. Renwick’s joke-writing (the painfully contrived “Laurel and Heidi”) is almost as bad as when he reached his joke-writing nadir in Season 4 with a joke about a pothead Snow White. But, ah, Sarah Alexander… It’s so disappointing she entered this series this late, because she’s by far Jonathan’s best partner. Anyone know what else she’s appeared in? All in all, though, what a disappointment. Sic transit gloria spectaculi.
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Post by Jayman on May 23, 2020 17:50:39 GMT 1
Lou Grant Mission impossible Smallville Eureka Seinfeld The Exes Sarah Connor chronicles
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Post by Grandmaster on May 23, 2020 20:11:29 GMT 1
Arrow....
Two episodes in. Liking what I see.
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Post by Jayman on May 23, 2020 21:21:09 GMT 1
Arrow.... Two episodes in. Liking what I see. OH my god I got so hooked when I first started. I think I got through a whole season in like a week
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2020 7:35:38 GMT 1
Arrow.... Two episodes in. Liking what I see. Welcome to the club
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Post by equality72521 on May 25, 2020 4:34:11 GMT 1
I'm a week in to month 5 of being at home. Lately I've been on a "crime spree": Bosch... Peaky Blinders... Dexter... etc. so I just finished downloading all 5 seasons of Boardwalk Empire.{/i]
I watched season 1 back when it first came out but then drifted away from it. Time to catch up on what I missed.
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Post by AQUA JAR!™ on May 25, 2020 5:23:37 GMT 1
Arrow.... Two episodes in. Liking what I see. Welcome to the club rule 1 do not talk about arrow club
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Post by Grandmaster on May 25, 2020 10:09:00 GMT 1
Im on episode 12. I started saturday. Do I have issues?
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 11:18:22 GMT 1
Im on episode 12. I started saturday. Do I have issues? It's really strong in its first 2 seasons. Youll be even happier when you find out who the villain is in s2. Best season
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on May 28, 2020 4:21:18 GMT 1
I’ve been watching Night Gallery (1970-1973), the show Rod Serling did after The Twilight Zone. Never seen it before, and though I’m a big Serling fan I unfortunately have to report it’s just not very good. It looks like a soap opera, for one thing, and usually sounds like one, with inane dialogue delivered by inane actors. The best “episode” I’ve seen (unlike TZ, each “episode” is an hour and contains two stories) so far is Ep. 3, made up of “The House” (directed by Gomez Addams!) and “Certain Shadows on the Wall.” Both parts are fine, even if the first doesn’t make any sense and the second makes too much sense, but even though Serling wrote both they lack the quality (a unique blend of whimsy, liberal social conscience, and pulpiness) that defined his writing, whether on TZ or his early television dramas. According to reviews, the show doesn’t get any more Serlingesque, either: on the contrary, according to Wikipedia he was eventually forced to cede control to producer Jack Laird. Too bad. I’ve been complaining for years that every show with The Twilight Zone label after Serling’s was unable to capture the original’s magic; viewing this, it seems like Serling was unable to do it himself.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 9:25:52 GMT 1
Having run out of episodes of ARE YOU BEING SERVED? on YouTube, I then tracked down and watched the 5 BOTTOM LIVE stage shows.
And now I'm re-watching episodes from DAD'S ARMY. Just lately, I've been in the mood to laugh.
However, interspersed with all of this, I occasionally watch an old adventure or mystery film.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 10:01:33 GMT 1
New additions: Rick and Morty, Stargirl. Still Harley Quinn and Killing Eve
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 10:04:29 GMT 1
Oh btw Chalice_Of_Evil you can watch that French show online for free when you sign up to sbs/sbs one (cant remember which one). They have the first season too. Dont need to pay for the account, no catch or nothing. Just need an email address
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on May 28, 2020 17:27:23 GMT 1
With all that I’ve been writing here about mystery TV programs, I should note that I’ve been watching Seasons 8 (2019) and 9 (2020) of BBC One’s Death in Paradise on PBS. Neither of these people is on the show anymore. This show has more cast-changes than Murder, She Wrote has murders. I kind of love the show, for some reason: it’s hilariously formulaic and frequently suffers from subpar acting and directing, but I love the characters, the good cheeriness, the Caribbean scenery, and the fair-play mystery plots. On that last point, the show is long past its prime, unfortunately. Season 1 had some of the best mysteries on primetime TV since original Jonathan Creek and Season 2 Monk, most of them written by creator Robert Thorogood. The pilot has a delightfully subversive twist for a lighthearted detective show, and “Wicked Wedding Night” and “Predicting Murder” are hyper-ingenious (yet, remarkably, still solvable). Season 2 was a bit weaker but still fun, but the plots started losing their cleverness in Season 3, and the formula started getting a bit tiresome. Still, the show was still capable of great episodes (the Season 4 opener is superb), nearly all of those written by Thorogood, who now usually pops up once per season to write what always ends up being that season’s best episode. Season 8 is OK—better than the lousy Season 6 or the forgettable Season 7. The opener, “Murder on the Honoré Express,” is what most TV mysteries should aim to be: solvable, but not instantly obvious, so the viewer can put together all the clues at the same time as the detective. While I love a huge whopper of a surprise solution, that’s not (I think) the sort of thing most people tune into mystery shows for. I found Insp. Jack Mooney (Ardal O’Hanlan), who was introduced as the show’s third (!) lead in Season 6, much more fun than he was in previous seasons. I don’t think that the writing’s any better, though, just that he was more settled into his role. And his new deputy, Madeleine Dumas (Aude Legastelois), is, shall we say, very easy on the eyes. Unfortunately, I missed three episodes, and PBS isn’t repeating them, instead marching headlong into Season 9, which so far seems weaker (again). The last one broadcast here, “Pirates of the Murder Scene,” was terrible both on the mystery and soap-operatic fronts. Anyway, I’m still watching. The next one up, according to Wiki, is a Thorogood episode!
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Post by taylorfirst1 on May 28, 2020 17:55:30 GMT 1
I’ve been watching Night Gallery (1970-1973), the show Rod Serling did after The Twilight Zone. Never seen it before, and though I’m a big Serling fan I unfortunately have to report it’s just not very good. It looks like a soap opera, for one thing, and usually sounds like one, with inane dialogue delivered by inane actors. The best “episode” I’ve seen (unlike TZ, each “episode” is an hour and contains two stories) so far is Ep. 3, made up of “The House” (directed by Gomez Addams!) and “Certain Shadows on the Wall.” Both parts are fine, even if the first doesn’t make any sense and the second makes too much sense, but even though Serling wrote both they lack the quality (a unique blend of whimsy, liberal social conscience, and pulpiness) that defined his writing, whether on TZ or his early television dramas. According to reviews, the show doesn’t get any more Serlingesque, either: on the contrary, according to Wikipedia he was eventually forced to cede control to producer Jack Laird. Too bad. I’ve been complaining for years that every show with The Twilight Zone label after Serling’s was unable to capture the original’s magic; viewing this, it seems like Serling was unable to do it himself. I've been watching this too and, sadly, I agree 100% with your assessment.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on May 28, 2020 17:58:02 GMT 1
I have been watching the excellent 1960's series "COMBAT!" starring Vic Morrow. The whole series is available for free on Youtube. I'm still on the early episodes of season 2. It is a quality show all around and some of the episodes are quite powerful.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2020 3:19:22 GMT 1
Anyone going to watch Netflix' Space Force?
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Post by taylorfirst1 on May 30, 2020 3:35:20 GMT 1
Anyone going to watch Netflix' Space Force? I'll check it out.
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Post by Grandmaster on May 30, 2020 7:51:00 GMT 1
Anyone going to watch Netflix' Space Force? Lol Space Force. That reminds me when I was Space Force Admiral Ackbar....
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2020 9:19:21 GMT 1
Anyone going to watch Netflix' Space Force? Lol Space Force. That reminds me when I was Space Force Admiral Ackbar.... lol when was this
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Post by Grandmaster on May 30, 2020 10:04:25 GMT 1
Lol Space Force. That reminds me when I was Space Force Admiral Ackbar.... lol when was this I think on v2 or THC a few years back.
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Post by AQUA JAR!™ on Jun 1, 2020 5:12:57 GMT 1
I think on v2 or THC a few years back. KA-POW!
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