john eden

male pale and stale
I saw the trailer and didn't fancy it.

If you want exquisitely rendered 1980s London then I recommend this:


 
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WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
John Adams, jfc, lasted 50 mins

You wonder if this sanctimonious preachy guff fed into alt-right developments. It’s appalling. The bloke who plays George Washington has the worst fake nose. You can’t unsee it. You’re made to care about the Adams marriage, which is divorce material in plain sight. Then a cast of forgettable forefathers. Benjamin F is bald, shocker and an ex stripper. The Brits are cunts? Spring has come early. Grotesque projection of a national “movement“

life is too short for more
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
With these series it's important to know when to bale if you're not feeling it. With a film you can readon there's only 40 min left let's see if it improves, but if there are 50 episodes....

I watched a cartoon called Inside Job - it's about the employees of a shadowy organisation called Cognito Inc who work behind the scenes to undermine democracy with departments creating subliminal messages for kids' telly or clones for replacing celebrities. In one episode they attend a meeting of reptoids at The Real Yale and in another they go to the moon - it turns out that the landings were real but they stayed there and built a Utopian society so Kubrick had to fake the return and cover that up. Pretty stupid stuff, it's too over the top to be really funny but the odd good line. Lizzy Caplan is the main voice, Christian Slater her father.
 

Leo

Well-known member
Sorry, @Leo that reads far more brusque than was intended!

I think maybe I'm not not able to see the actors who were in "people do nothing" as anything other than that, which might be a me thing.

Ha...well, since I've never seen PDN (should I?), I've got a clean slate.
 

woops

is not like other people
i've been watching arrested development, which is alright but as with succession, i'm giving up after the first few episodes, it's not good enough for me to want to watch 5 series or however many there are.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Nighty Night - has anyone seen it? Liza watched it all the way through not too long ago and then she wanted to watch it back through again and she persuaded me to accompany her on the journey.

And, well, I dunno what to say really. I knew it was nasty and dark and all that, I'd had some scenes described to me even. But despite that... it is just fucking horrible isn't it? Is it funny? I don't even know. It reminds me of something Mr. Tea once said about how The League of Gentlemen changed its focus from trying to make people laugh at horrible stuff, to being as horrible as possible and seeing if people still laughed. Except this starts right off in evil mode.

So yeah if you wanna see a woman brutalising her cancer ridden husband - locking him up and strapping him into a bed in an adult nappy - while she pursues her neighbour's husband, bullying his sick wife and fucking their son, this is the thing for you.

And then the second series relocated to a Cornish hippy therapy retreat just gets worse... Jill and her sidekick cut a swathe of destruction through everyone and everything in their path - killing the vicar by unplugging his iron lung, hammering a teenager to death during a nose job she's convinced she needs, accusing a twelve year old child of repeatedly raping her - and top that off with all kinds of gross out stuff - the scene where Jill balances on her head and Linda stuffs a spunk covered roast dinner into her in a desperate attempt to make her pregnant springs to mind - all in the pursuit of an utterly vacant Angus Deayton.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I have seen it, now you mention it, @IdleRich, but only one or two episodes. It looked pretty up my street so that's a good reminder to see more of it.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
I know a lad who tapped JD
Nighty Night - has anyone seen it? Liza watched it all the way through not too long ago and then she wanted to watch it back through again and she persuaded me to accompany her on the journey.

And, well, I dunno what to say really. I knew it was nasty and dark and all that, I'd had some scenes described to me even. But despite that... it is just fucking horrible isn't it? Is it funny? I don't even know. It reminds me of something Mr. Tea once said about how The League of Gentlemen changed its focus from trying to make people laugh at horrible stuff, to being as horrible as possible and seeing if people still laughed. Except this starts right off in evil mode.

So yeah if you wanna see a woman brutalising her cancer ridden husband - locking him up and strapping him into a bed in an adult nappy - while she pursues her neighbour's husband, bullying his sick wife and fucking their son, this is the thing for you.

And then the second series relocated to a Cornish hippy therapy retreat just gets worse... Jill and her sidekick cut a swathe of destruction through everyone and everything in their path - killing the vicar by unplugging his iron lung, hammering a teenager to death during a nose job she's convinced she needs, accusing a twelve year old child of repeatedly raping her - and top that off with all kinds of gross out stuff - the scene where Jill balances on her head and Linda stuffs a spunk covered roast dinner into her in a desperate attempt to make her pregnant springs to mind - all in the pursuit of an utterly vacant Angus Deayton.

2004/5, it’s like a different world

Imagine Jill on Twitter
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen

for the record, Craig smashes it in said work, not once did I think of him fucked on crack in a ufo taxi

who makes these shows? they’re generically awful (which is part of the fun) but it’s not awful enough

for a start, his ufo PhD assistant is about a a 6.8 on the fuck ladder. she pulls these faces feigning concern or extreme interest which means for about 10% of the show you’re weighing up yes/no

ep1


summary, not like fuck all is resolved

 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Ufo crashed in Britain, MOD covered up shooting it down by scrambling aircraft

Craig Charles got involved and platformed the urgency of said crisis, yet no-one cares

Caz Clarke does @Mr. Tea , she saw magical things flying in the sky and yet you fixate on her objectively and ungenerously as a GPO lookalike
 
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