IdleRich

IdleRich
Barnaby - and his series of interchangeable sidekicks (Troy, Winter etc) and then ultimately his cousin (or something) also called Barnaby - have it well in hand though.
I saw an episode where the actor who plays Barnaby mark 2 was playing a sleazy gardener who was banging all the young ladies in Nether Wallop or wherever it was. Presumably they were hoping that everyone would have forgotten that when he came back.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Hang on a sec, someone dosed Bergerac? The fuckin nerve.
Thing about Bergerac is I think he was in on the Ted Heath thing.
Yeah it was a weird old hippy couple I think. It was a really strange episode that one, wasn't there something about how they thought that the guy had buried his wife in the garden cos he dug a suspicious hole at night - but it turned out he'd buried a lasagne or something. Or am I getting mixed up?Thing with Bergerac is he always looks so unhealthy, every time he walks more than ten metres he's out of breath, really puts me off. Still alive though so maybe he sorted that.
Which Ted Heath thing? Something to do with the EU?
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Barnaby - and his series of interchangeable sidekicks (Troy, Winter etc) and then ultimately his cousin (or something) also called Barnaby - have it well in hand though.
I saw an episode where the actor who plays Barnaby mark 2 was playing a sleazy gardener who was banging all the young ladies in Nether Wallop or wherever it was. Presumably they were hoping that everyone would have forgotten that when he came back.
Something very poetic about some banging half of Nether Wallop.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Yesterday we watched all six episodes of The Undoing; it's about an affluent New York couple - Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman - whose life starts falling apart as things are revealed. Well, I don't want to say too much cos I don't want to give it away. But I'll say that the first two episodes were intriguing and then - as often happens - it trod water until the ending pretty much. But if anyone has seen it I'd like to discuss what it says about empathy and its lack and behaviourism etc Interesting that for a show set in NY you have virtually no American actors amongst the main cast except for Donald Sutherland - the rest of them are a rag-tag of Brits, Aussies and Danes pretending to be native New Yorkers... apart from Hugh Grant who obviously plays a charming Englishman who happens to live in NY.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Bit disappointed in Sofie Grabol though, did she learn nothing from The Killing about how it looks like one guy definitely did it and then it switches to being someone else and so on..
 

Leo

Well-known member
mixed feeling on the most recent "Fargo" (season 4). I applaud them for trying a different type of storyline, and Chris Rock was really good in a dramatic role, but it kind of meandered. the wife bailed after episode 2, said he didn't feel the characters were compelling.
 

catalog

Well-known member
Yesterday we watched all six episodes of The Undoing; it's about an affluent New York couple - Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman - whose life starts falling apart as things are revealed. Well, I don't want to say too much cos I don't want to give it away. But I'll say that the first two episodes were intriguing and then - as often happens - it trod water until the ending pretty much. But if anyone has seen it I'd like to discuss what it says about empathy and its lack and behaviourism etc Interesting that for a show set in NY you have virtually no American actors amongst the main cast except for Donald Sutherland - the rest of them are a rag-tag of Brits, Aussies and Danes pretending to be native New Yorkers... apart from Hugh Grant who obviously plays a charming Englishman who happens to live in NY.
Sounds like this could be Sunday night telly sorted. Got a big game of thrones sized hole just at the moment. Struggling really.

These are my top series so far, in order of preference:

The wire
I Claudius
Deadwood
The sopranos
Six feet under
Game of thrones
Mad men
Breaking bad

Can't think of much else, there must be some more though.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Sounds like this could be Sunday night telly sorted. Got a big game of thrones sized hole just at the moment. Struggling really.

These are my top series so far, in order of preference:

The wire
I Claudius
Deadwood
The sopranos
Six feet under
Game of thrones
Mad men
Breaking bad

Can't think of much else, there must be some more though.
Loved I Claudius... probably would look incredibly dated now mind but it's just such a good story - if you haven't read the books I strongly recommend them both, read them several times through.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I definitely have yeah, books I've gone back to over the years... probably among my most read along with Three Men In A Boat and... er, Alice In Wonderland perhaps.
 
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