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Just caught up with Buzzcocks. The funniest part of the episode was when it showed a flashback and the host had the same hair but not dyed. That was some serious helmet hair.
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FreakyZoid posted:Yeah, I've been enjoying it. Light humour, likable characters, nice locations, mysteries you're given enough clues to work out for yourself. It's pretty much perfect sunday night TV. I like it too. Good to see Cat from Red Dwarf on telly again 
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:So I watched Black Mirror and thought it was aces and then felt compelled to make this. Spoilers for the show if you haven't caught it. I thought this was going to be the pig sex scene intercut with him fake wanking.
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SymfonyMan posted:Just caught up with Buzzcocks. The funniest part of the episode was when it showed a flashback and the host had the same hair but not dyed. That was some serious helmet hair. This post infers that you don't know who Cilla Black is and I refuse to believe that. And I just watched episode 3 of Mongrels, the Immigration one. I agree with the posts earlier on that say that it seems very anti-immigration and feels incredibly Daily Express. What the hell is that all about? He mentions that the daily mail is hypocritical but then says that there's loads of illegal immigrants coming to the "immigration nation" and bringing their families, then says they're taking advantage of the welfare state and have new PS3s. It's like he wasn't really sure what he wanted to say so offended everyone. Taear fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Dec 7, 2011 |
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:So I watched Black Mirror and thought it was aces and then felt compelled to make this. Spoilers for the show if you haven't caught it.  I lost it when the Coldplay music kicked in.
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Taear posted:This post infers that you don't know who Cilla Black is and I refuse to believe that. It was very awkward. I can only assume that the intention was to build up the tension then release it with the daily mail lines. It fell pretty flat though, like you say, they just ended up being offensive to everyone.
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Daktar posted:It was very awkward. I can only assume that the intention was to build up the tension then release it with the daily mail lines. It fell pretty flat though, like you say, they just ended up being offensive to everyone. Or perhaps the writers really believe that stuff. There's not really anything in the episode to suggest otherwise.
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CJ posted:I thought this was going to be the pig sex scene intercut with him fake wanking. That was the original intention but it got a bit away from me.
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Dec 7, 2011 19:59
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The hot tap was really hot. Oh Him And Her.
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I watched the first episode of Him & Her last night, and loved it Going to marathon the poo poo out of it after work! 'are you enjoying that toast?' 'mmm, yes' 'good. i'm glad you're enjoying that toast' Has any one listened to Richard Herring's new snooker podcast? It might be the most tragic/brilliant thing ever. He genuinely sounds about 12 years old.
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Dec 7, 2011 21:39
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It was actually quite tense when then Laura and Paul were showing off their holiday pictures. Any second I was expecting evidence of Pauls tendency to be unfaithful towards her.
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Taear posted:Or perhaps the writers really believe that stuff. There's not really anything in the episode to suggest otherwise. I hope not. Right at the end where Kali gets the immigrant pigeon eaten, she has a fairly pithy line: "boom shakalak, once again western civilization uses brute violence to repress the poor underpriveliged people of the third world....ah crap I'm part of the problem". I *think* that that line is intended to throw everything that happened before into a new context. I agree that the song is too easy to interpret at face value because the message is muddled, you can take it as an indictment of the middle class double standard, or you can take it as attacking immigrants. I personally think they had good intentions, but the thing is so confused that it does come across as quite offensive.
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I know I'm super-late with this, but I just watched Black Mirror. I'm not sure what to think - it was jet-black drama with a sprinkling of jokes that would have got more than half-smiles out of me if the rest of the programme weren't so unrelentingly BLEAK. I think someone said it earlier in the thread, but it was like reading one of Brooker's more miserable and nihilistic columns. I don't know if I liked it, but it kept me utterly gripped from start to finish. Also, what's the consensus on the new series of Mongrels? I enjoyed the first series well enough, but haven't caught any of the new one yet.
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Mongrels is still good. Though as has been discussed a few times, their message can be sometimes... lets say, opaque.
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Anyone else loving love Masterchef? I am addicted to this current series, it has to be my favorite one yet. Currently rooting for Claire, I don't get how she can be so young and yet good at cooking  .
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DaWolfey posted:Mongrels is still good. I'm fine with every episode other than episode 3. Although why number 6 still isn't up is beyond me.
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No Zainab, don't marry him! He smacks you around and that one time he set you on fire!
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TheJanitor posted:Anyone else loving love Masterchef? I am addicted to this current series, it has to be my favorite one yet. Currently rooting for Claire, I don't get how she can be so young and yet good at cooking Though I want her to win because she's cute and I'm shallow.
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Fatkraken posted:No Zainab, don't marry him! He smacks you around and that one time he set you on fire! I really hope he ends up set on fire himself, possibly with Amira. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtspNJIZUIs
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Brown Moses posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtspNJIZUIs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfiqrkV_ZqI
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Brown Moses posted:I really hope he ends up set on fire himself, possibly with Amira. Yusef roasting on an open fire. Happy Christmas from Albert Square.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/dec/08/sherlock-returns-bbc sherlock back on New Years Day
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Ben Soosneb posted:Yusef roasting on an open fire. Happy Christmas from Albert Square. Speaking of UK soaps, Corrie is getting a musical. Finally, a musical more depressing than Blood Brothers.
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1 minute of the new episode of Black Mirror, looks awesome as always.
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I just watched 15 Million Merits (because I'm special and poo poo). It's definitely a very different proposition from The National Anthem with a much broader dystopian sci-fi setting and without the gross-out gimmick of "Will this pig get hosed?". Overall though I'd call it an improvement. The setting is really well crafted and Brooker takes satirical swings at everything from reality TV to pop-up advertising. It does sag a little in the middle once you realise where it's heading and I was a little disappointed in the ending, but I won't go into it anymore and wait to see what you all think.
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reality_groove posted:Overall though I'd call it an improvement. The setting is really well crafted and Brooker takes satirical swings at everything from reality TV to pop-up advertising. It does sag a little in the middle once you realise where it's heading and I was a little disappointed in the ending, but I won't go into it anymore and wait to see what you all think. Brooker and Huq of course. I wonder if being on the inside of a reality talent show and really getting to find out exactly how these things work from personal experience helped will come through in the writing. It does seem like it would lend a unique perspective. Also everyone, remember it starts 35 minutes later this week, and genuinely starts immediately after the X factor final.
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TheJanitor posted:Anyone else loving love Masterchef? I am addicted to this current series, it has to be my favorite one yet. Currently rooting for Claire, I don't get how she can be so young and yet good at cooking I can't stand the dramatic music in Masterchef. It's so American Reality Show and totally unnecessary. e: if Claire is that little platinum blonde cutie though, yeah she's fiiine. Al2001 fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Dec 9, 2011 |
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The banter between Michel and Gregg has been pretty good in this series, and a couple of the latter's reactions in the Claire/Steve semi final were hilarious. I like to think the producers are aware of how ridiculous the music is... suppose those cooking scenes need to be spiced up somehow?
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God drat I love Reginald D Hunter. Episodes of HIGNFY with him or Victoria Coren are always the best.
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LittleBob posted:God drat I love Reginald D Hunter. Episodes of HIGNFY with him or Victoria Coren are always the best. I find him really annoying and overly american. He has a cool voice but I don't like "You guys over here, you do this" *laughter*.
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LittleBob posted:God drat I love
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Al2001 posted:I can't stand the dramatic music in Masterchef.
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tentish klown posted:Victoria Coren On that note, a reminder for Only Connect fans that although the main series is over, there is a word wall special on 12th December.
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Taear posted:I find him really annoying and overly american. Is there a single American TV personality who appears on our screens who couldn't be described as "overly american" by someone who just doesn't like them?
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Daius posted:Is there a single American TV personality who appears on our screens who couldn't be described as "overly american" by someone who just doesn't like them? It's a specific thing with Reginald D Hunter because he literally does the "over there we do this, over here you do this" poo poo.
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So does Rich Hall? He also does documentaries about America and American culture for BBC Four. America.
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Does he? On every single appearance? I really don't think he does. And making documentaries about American culture isn't the same thing at all.
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TheJanitor posted:Anyone else loving love Masterchef? I am addicted to this current series, it has to be my favorite one yet. Currently rooting for Claire, I don't get how she can be so young and yet good at cooking I've been enjoying it, but the number of pieces to camera of the chefs saying "Making it to the next stage would mean everything, I'd be gutted to leave." becomes exasperating. Would love for someone to say "Actually, I dont really care". Also love the ridiculous number of filler shots of Roux/Wallace grimacing or giving an impish grin.
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