Paid Members Monkee Posted January 26, 2022 Paid Members Posted January 26, 2022 Just seen the line-up for Celebrity Mastermind and there are some cracking specialist subjects coming up. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/celebrity-mastermind-lineup-revealed Dave Rowntree, musician (Blur drummer) on Nikola Tesla James Acaster, comedian on the history of ice cream Jackie Weaver, council officer on The Chronicles of Riddick Martin Offiah, former England rugby international on the Battle of Britain Quote
Keith Houchen Posted January 26, 2022 Posted January 26, 2022 18 minutes ago, Monkee said: Dave Rowntree, musician (Blur drummer) on Nikola Tesla Ah, the “Decent” one of Blur. Granted it’s a low bar and he’s a Lib Dem, but at least he isn’t the cheese Tory or the Queen Tay defamer. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted January 26, 2022 Members Posted January 26, 2022 48 minutes ago, Monkee said: Just seen the line-up for Celebrity Mastermind and there are some cracking specialist subjects coming up. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/celebrity-mastermind-lineup-revealed Dave Rowntree, musician (Blur drummer) on Nikola Tesla James Acaster, comedian on the history of ice cream Jackie Weaver, council officer on The Chronicles of Riddick Martin Offiah, former England rugby international on the Battle of Britain It's like if Mastermind happened in an episode of Partridge. Quote
Factotum Posted January 27, 2022 Posted January 27, 2022 11 hours ago, Keith Houchen said: Ah, the “Decent” one of Blur. Granted it’s a low bar and he’s a Lib Dem, but at least he isn’t the cheese Tory or the Queen Tay defamer. I mean, Coxon come on! Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 28, 2022 Author Paid Members Posted January 28, 2022 Watched the first episode of Yellowjackets and didn't really get on with it. Lost crossed with your usual high school drama shit. Quality cast but can see myself ditching it after a couple more. Not a big fan of Karyn Kusama and if I'd known she made this I probably wouldn't have started it. The first few episodes of Barry, conversely, have been excellent. I really like Bill Hader and Sarah Goldberg, the latter as much for aesthetic reasons. Stephen Root is the best. On King of the Hill, Hank just had a problem with a cat and being called a woman on his / her driving licence. Quote
Perry Posted January 31, 2022 Posted January 31, 2022 The Responder is great, much better than I thought it was going to be. You have to love a gritty british drama. Although Martin Freeman plays the main character well, I couldn't help but think Stephen Graham would've been perfect in the role, not just because of his genuine scouse accent either. Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 31, 2022 Author Paid Members Posted January 31, 2022 The Silent Sea was a solid sci-fi thriller series, worth leafing through if that's your sort of thing. Couple of Squid Gamers in the cast as well but Bae Doona, who is well named, is excellent in the lead, as she always is. Quote
Keith Houchen Posted January 31, 2022 Posted January 31, 2022 Via osmosis, I’ve seen the first series and a half of After Life. It’s pretty boring and by the numbers. It’s mainly saying cunt, fat jokes, and a character that seems to exist solely so Tony can answer questions smugly and with condescending superiority about why he’s an atheist. I called making up arguments so you can give your view “The Gervais Position” on here before but it is so apparent in this show. Quote
Paid Members Lorne Malvo Posted January 31, 2022 Paid Members Posted January 31, 2022 8 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said: Via osmosis, I’ve seen the first series and a half of After Life. It’s pretty boring and by the numbers. It’s mainly saying cunt, fat jokes, and a character that seems to exist solely so Tony can answer questions smugly and with condescending superiority about why he’s an atheist. I called making up arguments so you can give your view “The Gervais Position” on here before but it is so apparent in this show. He is a terrible writer/director without Merchant. The Office is in my top 5 TV shows of all time and I love anything he's done with Karl Pilkington, so I've got more time for Gervais than most. But After Life started off distinctly average and proceeded to get worse. The recent series has some of the worst TV writing I've seen in years. Quote
Paid Members waters44 Posted January 31, 2022 Paid Members Posted January 31, 2022 I watched an episode of Idiot Abroad the other day. Karl was building shacks in Africa for charity, before moving on to a bungie jump but refuses to do it. Gervais phones to try and convince him to do it, and Karl says I’ll do the jump if you donate some shacks to the charity. Gervais asks how much they are, Karl responds with £500 each. Multi millionaire Gervais then responds with “OK, if you do the bungie jump I’ll buy……one shack”. Tight fucker Quote
Mr_Danger Posted January 31, 2022 Posted January 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said: Via osmosis, I’ve seen the first series and a half of After Life. It’s pretty boring and by the numbers. It’s mainly saying cunt, fat jokes, and a character that seems to exist solely so Tony can answer questions smugly and with condescending superiority about why he’s an atheist. I called making up arguments so you can give your view “The Gervais Position” on here before but it is so apparent in this show. He’s the shittest thing in his own show. He just goes around telling people they’re stupid and he doesn’t care because his wife died and he’s a miserable cunt. The supporting characters aren’t so bad as far as basic shitcoms go, Joe Wilkinson being my obvious favourite. Gervais is an absolutely terrible actor too. I hold him and Peter Kay in similar comic esteem but the difference is that even away from the teams they worked with that helped bring them success, Kay is still a good comic actor even if the material is shit. Gervais’ career should never have survived Derek tbh. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted January 31, 2022 Members Posted January 31, 2022 I've somehow hate watched all 3 series of After Life (because I hate myself more than Gervais clearly) It is dreadful. It's so heavy handed he might as well be hitting you over the head with a hammer labelled "THERE IS NO GOD BUT AREN'T PEOPLE KIND AND LOVELY" He's also an AWFUL actor. Sad with dog, sad with laptop and sad with wine being his range. Out of 3 series, there was one poignant moment in series 3 where Brian Spoiler Agrees to have his clutter cleared after years of hoarding and he says "Do you mind if I don't watch?" which actually affected me quite a lot But yeah, awful, awful show. It makes me think that Merchant MUST have written most of The Office and Extras. Its basically his Twitter profile stretched across 18 episodes. Did you know Ricky Gervais is an atheist? Quote
wordsfromlee Posted January 31, 2022 Posted January 31, 2022 Stephen Merchant's show, Hello Ladies, was better than anything that Gervais has done on his own. It was a shame it flew under the radar. Quote
Mr_Danger Posted January 31, 2022 Posted January 31, 2022 Brian and the mum from This Is England walking in on ya laddo in the bath did get a hearty laugh to be fair. I’m going to give full credit to the actors who definitely improvised that scene. Quote
Keith Houchen Posted January 31, 2022 Posted January 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Mr_Danger said: Brian and the mum from This Is England walking in on ya laddo in the bath I think the rules of the show mean you must always refer to him as the fat kid, because he’s fat and being fat is funny now Gervais isn’t fat anymore. Quote
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