Let's have a TV shows thread.

[SecretPro]

If you didn't watch Episode 1 of Years and Years tonight then get it on catch up now...ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL TELEVISION.

 

(PS, I almost didn't watch it because the adverts looked shit, so glad I gave it a chance)

[urban.spaceman]

https://twitter.com/blackmirror/status/1128599652817707009?s=21

 

I am ready. 

[SecretPro]

10 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

https://twitter.com/blackmirror/status/1128599652817707009?s=21

 

I am ready. 

If you like Black Mirror you will love Years and Years. 

[RoboFox]

14 hours ago, ithuriel said:

Watching Chernobyl, remember the news at the time so it is definitely interesting.

It's quite sublime.

[urban.spaceman]

10 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

If you like Black Mirror you will love Years and Years. 

Yeah I saw your rave review and others online, gonna have to watch it now and see if RTD is back on form!

[Grebfromgrebland]

Years and years? Where can I watch this?

[Heathrow fox]

The 2nd episode of Chernobyl was excellent.Im expecting a bit more from the human side next week.Should imagine there will be some harrowing scenes from hospital no 6 ?

[SecretPro]

1 hour ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Years and years? Where can I watch this?

iPlayer and BBC1 Tuesdays nights at 9.

 

 

Also, just watched Stephen Graham's new Virtues - top class acting, grim watch though. 

Edited 15 May 2019 by SecretPro

[MC Prussian]

On 15/05/2019 at 12:21, urban.spaceman said:

https://twitter.com/blackmirror/status/1128599652817707009?s=21

 

I am ready. 

The whole Twitter outrage culture, here dominated by twisted fandom and sometimes weird fans' expectations, could also be subject of another BM episode in itself, shades of the "Perfect Blue" anime and whatnot.

[VinceNoir]

How ****ing good is Chernobyl?  

[Izzy]

26 minutes ago, VinceNoir said:

How ****ing good is Chernobyl?  

Superb. Best thing I’ve seen in a while. 

[Heathrow fox]

45 minutes ago, VinceNoir said:

How ****ing good is Chernobyl?  

Ready to watch episode 3 right now.

[ithuriel]

1 hour ago, VinceNoir said:

How ****ing good is Chernobyl?  

seeing the state of the bodies before the end, that is no way to go out.

[Izzy]

On 15/05/2019 at 21:51, Heathrow fox said:

The 2nd episode of Chernobyl was excellent.Im expecting a bit more from the human side next week.Should imagine there will be some harrowing scenes from hospital no 6 ?

Yup 

 

Those miners though 

[VLC86]

29 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Yup 

 

Those miners though 

They look like Griezmann on a team night out.

 

Edit: I think I’m at the bit you mean and I’m not sure he goes to nights out like that  

Edited 21 May 2019 by Costock_Fox

[Guest]

As much as I enjoyed Band of Bothers and recommend it for entertainment I think the old (early 70's) World at War is a much better series. It removes a lot of the romanticism that appears in BoB and shows all sides in a more true light. To watch and hear Americans thinking that the Japanese were sub human (before fighting them) like the Germans thought the Poles, Slavs, Romanys and of course the Jews were sub human is enlightening. Watching the Americans bombard the japanese islands and use flame throwers on the defenders, watching the Germans decimate the Poles, seeing the "survivors" of the death camps and the piles of glasses and shoes, the actual killing of combatants and non-combatants is truly humbling. 

 

People have already forgotten even though these actions have been reproduced in Yugoslavia, the middle east and Africa during the last 20 years. Let's get all nationalistic again, disband the EU, ignore the UN and segregate all people even over the smallest of differencies.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

52 minutes ago, FIF said:

As much as I enjoyed Band of Bothers and recommend it for entertainment I think the old (early 70's) World at War is a much better series. It removes a lot of the romanticism that appears in BoB and shows all sides in a more true light. To watch and hear Americans thinking that the Japanese were sub human (before fighting them) like the Germans thought the Poles, Slavs, Romanys and of course the Jews were sub human is enlightening. Watching the Americans bombard the japanese islands and use flame throwers on the defenders, watching the Germans decimate the Poles, seeing the "survivors" of the death camps and the piles of glasses and shoes, the actual killing of combatants and non-combatants is truly humbling. 

 

People have already forgotten even though these actions have been reproduced in Yugoslavia, the middle east and Africa during the last 20 years. Let's get all nationalistic again, disband the EU, ignore the UN and segregate all people even over the smallest of differencies.

I love any war documentary, currently watching The American Civil War on Netflix, Ken Burns did some fantastic documentaries and I thought his latest Vietnam War documentary was truly amazing, he also did WW2 and The West. Great watch if you like that sort of thing.

 

The World at War is brilliant, factual and doesn’t glamorise the War at all, real life accounts by those who lived and survived it.

[Uranyl Yellow]

Been catching up with Chernobyl - I can only echo what others on here have been saying. Definitely worth a watch. If not for the sacrifice (whether voluntary or not) of thousands it could have ended up being far, far worse for everybody.

[ithuriel]

8 hours ago, FIF said:

As much as I enjoyed Band of Bothers and recommend it for entertainment I think the old (early 70's) World at War is a much better series. It removes a lot of the romanticism that appears in BoB and shows all sides in a more true light. To watch and hear Americans thinking that the Japanese were sub human (before fighting them) like the Germans thought the Poles, Slavs, Romanys and of course the Jews were sub human is enlightening. Watching the Americans bombard the japanese islands and use flame throwers on the defenders, watching the Germans decimate the Poles, seeing the "survivors" of the death camps and the piles of glasses and shoes, the actual killing of combatants and non-combatants is truly humbling. 

 

People have already forgotten even though these actions have been reproduced in Yugoslavia, the middle east and Africa during the last 20 years. Let's get all nationalistic again, disband the EU, ignore the UN and segregate all people even over the smallest of differencies.

Band of Brothers is a damned fine series but World at War is more like a 26 piece televised encyclopedia of events actually told from the points of view of survivors from all sides and will probably never be matched, if you enjoyed Band of Brothers though, The Pacific is a similar series and tells the story of a group of men who volunteered to fight the Japanese mostly in the US Marine corps, from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima.

[Uranyl Yellow]

Jim Al-Khalili on Britain's Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield. An interesting counterpoint to Chernobyl, and an insight into our own blunders that could have been much worse if not for Cockcroft's foresight.

[Guest Manini]

Came in to see if Chernobyl is worth a go...that’s that answered. 

 

Its overtaken Blue Planet as the No 1 rated TV series on IMDB 

[Grebfromgrebland]

17 minutes ago, Manini said:

Came in to see if Chernobyl is worth a go...that’s that answered. 

 

Its overtaken Blue Planet as the No 1 rated TV series on IMDB 

I've just downloa...erm gonna catch it in sky catch up thing. Looking forward to it, No1 rated on IMDb, must be amazing.

[Strokes]

On 14/05/2019 at 23:37, SecretPro said:

If you didn't watch Episode 1 of Years and Years tonight then get it on catch up now...ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL TELEVISION.

 

(PS, I almost didn't watch it because the adverts looked shit, so glad I gave it a chance)

Christ I read this post and put it on with some expectation, what a load of shit. Didn’t even make it to the end of the episode, in the bin!

[SecretPro]

13 minutes ago, Strokes said:

Christ I read this post and put it on with some expectation, what a load of shit. Didn’t even make it to the end of the episode, in the bin!

If you didn't make it to the end, or the last 5 minutes, then you've missed the whole point. I can see flaws in it, but I can also see that it is EXACTLY as things could go in the next 10 years. 

[Vlad the Fox]

Just watched free solo on channel 4, absolutely incredible, about Alex Honnolds attempt at climbing El Capitan. The blokes filled with helium. Definitely recommend.