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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2025 15:34 
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Worse than sexualising his 5 year old daughter??


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Lucifer did the same thing Blacklist did which is make the female lead flip from hating the guy (Red or Lucifer, depending on the show) one week and then completely liking/trusting them the next. I didn't finish either show but did read up what happened and it's just a total mess in both cases.

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DavPaz wrote:
Worse than sexualising his 5 year old daughter??

No, I didn’t say it was worse, but that wasn’t a one-off. He’s an attention-seeking moron who says disgusting things for clicks and money. I heard he also superglues locks.

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Another G Coren post:

Next door have brought their 12-year-old son a drum kit. For fuck’s sake! Do I kill him then burn it? Or do I fuck him, then kill him then burn it?”

He followed that up with the ‘punchline’: “Child for sale, charred and partially fucked. Has own drum kit.”

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A few (but really very few) of the massive amount of Twattish things GC has said, here: https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/ ... iles-coren

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Mimi wrote:
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Next door have brought their 12-year-old son a drum kit. For fuck’s sake! Do I kill him then burn it? Or do I fuck him, then kill him then burn it?”

He followed that up with the ‘punchline’: “Child for sale, charred and partially fucked. Has own drum kit.”


Wow, that's disgusting. And I personally find 'dark humour' funny, but there's nothing funny nor clever nor witty there.

I find it hard to understand why someone would post something like that. All the while others will adamantly spout how "cancel culture has gone mad and you can't say nuffin these days can ya"

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It always seems to be that the ones that moan the loudest about cancel culture and being cancelled are the ones that still have a platform somewhere, just one that people don't pay attention to.


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The Devil May Cry series on Netflix is pretty good, better than I was expecting, I'm enjoying it. It's quite loud and flashy, fun yet a bit corny, some of the bits land brilliantly and a few bits (not that many really) are a bit cringy. Dante seems to alternate between being incredibly powerful and yet also too easy for the main human character to get the best of.

So much like the games then, or at least the ones I've played.

My son told me off for calling it a cartoon. "It's anime, Dad, and you'll make my friends cross if you call it that".

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Bit late to the party but Russian Doll was really good, series 1 especially. We watched both series over the course of this long weekend.

It was good to watch something that really grabbed our attention and kept us there. There have been a number of things we've started to watch and then just indifferently drifted away from them, never to be completed. Some we may go back to, but others seem unlikely.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:15 
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Bit late to the party but Russian Doll was really good, series 1 especially. We watched both series over the course of this long weekend.

It was good to watch something that really grabbed our attention and kept us there. There have been a number of things we've started to watch and then just indifferently drifted away from them, never to be completed. Some we may go back to, but others seem unlikely.


My son loves this (and I really liked the first season of Poker Face, also with Natasha Lyon, second season not so much) and I have given it a couple of goes. but it really didn't grab me.

I may try it again, but I just didn't like any of the characters.

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Russian Doll was decent.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 0:24 
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Malc wrote:
Sir Taxalot wrote:
Bit late to the party but Russian Doll was really good, series 1 especially. We watched both series over the course of this long weekend.

It was good to watch something that really grabbed our attention and kept us there. There have been a number of things we've started to watch and then just indifferently drifted away from them, never to be completed. Some we may go back to, but others seem unlikely.


My son loves this (and I really liked the first season of Poker Face, also with Natasha Lyon, second season not so much) and I have given it a couple of goes. but it really didn't grab me.

I may try it again, but I just didn't like any of the characters.


S1 really picks up around ep 4, and accelerates towards the end when things start to get a bit weird.

I know what you mean about the characters, at times it felt that it was trying just a little bit too hard to be cool/spunky/sassy, I was thinking how in the real world they would have been told to just fuck off for being annoying and over the top. But I can suspend that disbelief as it's just telly.

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I'm the other way round to Malc, though admittedly only a few episodes into s2 of Poker Face. Really liked Russian Doll but then just stopped watching series 2 - keep thinking I'll go back so I can tick it off, but maybe I'm just not bothered. But Poker Face so far is - along with the wild ride of The Rehearsal - is so satisfying that I've more or less stood up and applauded at the end of an episode.


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 16:17 
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I'm the other way round to Malc, though admittedly only a few episodes into s2 of Poker Face. Really liked Russian Doll but then just stopped watching series 2 - keep thinking I'll go back so I can tick it off, but maybe I'm just not bothered. But Poker Face so far is - along with the wild ride of The Rehearsal - is so satisfying that I've more or less stood up and applauded at the end of an episode.



Series 2 of Poker Face really feels like some other production team has taken over without having seen the previous season and with barely any notes from the original crew.

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I tried Poker Face but it felt like a 10p Columbo. I'd rather just watch that instead I think. Her schtick is okay for one show but I wasn't feeling it outside of Russian Doll.

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I see The Bear is back soon for S4. I really liked the first season, found the second season started very slow and was kind of low stakes. The Thanksgiving episode was brilliant TV though.

Didn't watch s3. Was it any good?

I'm not sure I can care about them opening a restaurant.

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Unlike Cassandra, Channel Zero (Prime, I think?) is very Black Mirror but benefits from being serialised. The first two seasons at least, we overdid it and are having a break before going back to the third.


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Smashed Season 2 of The Rehearsal in one sitting last night, absolutely incredible TV (his attempt to get into the head of "Sully" Sullenberger was truly something else).


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It took me a couple of episodes but I did eventually twig Craig off of Hollyoaks in Fubar s2. Best character.


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BikNorton wrote:
Unlike Cassandra, Channel Zero (Prime, I think?) is very Black Mirror but benefits from being serialised. The first two seasons at least, we overdid it and are having a break before going back to the third.


I really enjoyed Cassandra.

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After many, many years I finally finished Cheers over the weekend.

While it had many great moments, I just don't think it's aged as well as Frasier has. The early seasons have too many topical references that don't work any more, and the underlying sexism and treatment of women makes for uncomfortable viewing at times.

Now, I appreciate that watching a sit-com weekly is going to be a very different experience to zooming through many episodes in a compressed space of time, and the point of the genre is nothing changes, but dear god Carla gets irritating pretty quickly. Likewise Rebecca was far better when she had things to do that didn't involve weeping over men, but that was pretty infrequent.

I'd recommend restricting yourself to the main Frasier ones for both the lore and the utter delight of the Lillith/Frasier relationship. I also think the season 3 episode The Heart is a Lonely Snipehunter is a brilliant examination of male bonding (marred slightly by an uninteresting B-plot about baseball stats).

I'm not sure I'll be going back to the bar. Like Seinfeld I'm glad I've watched it but it just doesn't stick with me in the way the spin-off does.


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Finally finished Hand Maids Tale recently. Good god they could have wrapped this up seasons ago. Great start, shit finish.

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Finally finished Hand Maids Tale recently. Good god they could have wrapped this up seasons ago. Great start, shit finish.

Modern US TV in a nutshell


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We’re working our way through Succession at the moment. It was really engaging from the start, and the scheming and back-stabbing is a good replacement for the now-sullied House Of Cards.

When every character in a show is odious, it’s hard for one character or role to stand out as being particularly more debased than the rest, but surely, for the first season at least, it’s Tom. The actor, (Michael McFadden?) can turn his character traits in a blink. So creepily brilliant.

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Tom was brilliant. I loved that show.

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Lady T has been trying to plow through Lost. She feels that watching it in big chunks makes the story easier to follow, and that's probably true to an extent, but I still feel like the writers were kinda making it from season to season without any clear mind of exactly where they were going and just 'answered' one mystery by creating two more mysteries instead.

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Mimi wrote:
We’re working our way through Succession at the moment. It was really engaging from the start, and the scheming and back-stabbing is a good replacement for the now-sullied House Of Cards.

When every character in a show is odious, it’s hard for one character or role to stand out as being particularly more debased than the rest, but surely, for the first season at least, it’s Tom. The actor, (Michael McFadden?) can turn his character traits in a blink. So creepily brilliant.


He is amazing. And his character gets even better as the show goes on. Each series you’ll struggle to pick who the worst one is.

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I was bored so binge watched Foundation over the past few weeks.

The first season is okay/decent, but then it really fucking takes off. Season 2 was excellent and 3 has been really good so far.

Lee Pace is superb as Day, as is Terrence Mann as Dusk.

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We’re on episode 3 or 4 of the second series of Succession and just been through the Boar On The Floor episode. It really is quite an exploration of different types of depravity.

Kieran Culkin is very effective at being creepy, too. That weird little snorty snicker he does is so effective, as it’s not (thus far) overused. I like the way the show likes to dangle a ‘safe’ character to the viewer before either peeling off a layer or flipping that character. It’s really good.

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Alien Earth!!! Only seen the first episode so far, they have obviously spent a lot of cash on this...excellent stuff (including Ronnie James Dio over the end credits).

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Morte wrote:
Alien Earth!!! Only seen the first episode so far, they have obviously spent a lot of cash on this...excellent stuff (including Ronnie James Dio over the end credits).


Yep, that was absolutely spot on for look, feel, cast and plot.


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Maybe don't listen, but there's a decent interview with the showrunner for Alien Earth that tempered my excitement a little. But I've got the first two lined up to watch, and am very happy to hear good news from everyone who has seen it.

https://podscripts.co/podcasts/kermode- ... us-special


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Alien Earth!!! Only seen the first episode so far, they have obviously spent a lot of cash on this...excellent stuff (including Ronnie James Dio over the end credits).

Not even finished the first episode so far* - I'm calling it, best Alien since Aliens.

* Having to take breaks because of pacing is a sign of an Aliens doing the right things, these days.


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One ep in on Alien Earth also. I'm not too sure about it. It didn't look or feel right. Too colourful, too fake looking. The xeno looked particularly rubbish. And all the synth kids stuff felt like Westworld wankery to me.

I didn't get the Dio thing either. It was like it was a full stop on a much more exciting episode than what we got.

I had no idea that was Adrian Edmondson as the trillionaire's advisor.

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