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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Would you mind naming this? I'm a dirty euro and wish-a to a-partake It's Secrets Of The Castle. I also had to google the names of the historians involved to find the name. Looks like a fun show. As long as my central heating doesn't break down again. Then it might look too realistic.
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mrfart posted:It's Secrets Of The Castle. Yeah, sorry, thought I'd put that in my post. Whoops! Was terribly good fun though. I like Ruth Goodman, the lady who enters into the life of various working-class women through history with such open enthusiasm. It's so rare and so wonderful to watch someone work at a project that they obviously adore.
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Irisi posted:Yeah, sorry, thought I'd put that in my post. Whoops! I'll definitely check it out. About the missing. It's great, but gut churning. Even more so because I'm belgian. I don't know how many of you realize this, but almost all of this series is filmed in Belgium. They use a lot of French flags in the background, but it's usually Brussels, Binche, Dinant. The majority is shot just minutes away from the crime case that changed the country, it's justice and police system forever in the early nineties. A case so horrible and similar to what this series is about, that I find it very hard to think it wasn't done on purpose.
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Nov 19, 2014 20:40
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mrfart posted:I'll definitely check it out. Can you pick up Belgian accents there or do Belgian actors actually put on French ones for the show?
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Nov 19, 2014 21:05
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Paladinus posted:Can you pick up Belgian accents there or do Belgian actors actually put on French ones for the show? Yeah there are a lot of Belgian actors with a Belgian accent. Especially the Flemish actors(who normally speak Dutch like myself) have a very recognizable accent.
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Nov 19, 2014 21:17
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Watched all the episodes of The Missing, back-to-back. Might need counseling now
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mrfart posted:I'll definitely check it out. I keep saying to my girlfriend 'That part of France looks a lot like Belgium. Probably because they're so close  '
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mrfart posted:I'll definitely check it out. I'm not sure there are a great many countries they could film it in which has never had an abduction case or six.
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What I find really compelling about The Missing is how media are shown to directly interfere often damaging the investigation instead of just reporting. Sensationalism around missing children is pretty unsettling. Re similar cases, I think the show obviously took some inspiration from disappearance of Madeleine McCann, which took place in Portugal.
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Nov 20, 2014 14:33
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Paladinus posted:Re similar cases, I think the show obviously took some inspiration from disappearance of Madeleine McCann, which took place in Portugal. The mum's hair does it for me.
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Paladinus posted:What I find really compelling about The Missing is how media are shown to directly interfere often damaging the investigation instead of just reporting. Sensationalism around missing children is pretty unsettling. It's about a child abduction, there are thousands of similar cases it could have taken inspiration from.
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Yeah, but McCann is the touchstone case at the moment.
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Paladinus posted:What I find really compelling about The Missing is how media are shown to directly interfere often damaging the investigation instead of just reporting. Sensationalism around missing children is pretty unsettling.
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Nov 20, 2014 15:26
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Belgium has a problem with child abduction and police corruption though, especially relative to it's size. In 2011 there were around 500 international abductions in Belgium vs 700 in Germany which has x8 the population, although frankly the UK is much worse. There is a push at the moment to reform international law and reporting in this area because it is a complete shambles, especially when it comes to migrant children (60% of migrant minors in social care in the UK go missing and never get found again). So I guess if the missing raises awareness in this regard, it can only help.
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Hope everybody is watching David Attenboroughs' Life Story tonight. The male Peacock Spiders' mating dance and his eventual fate is the funniest thing I've seen in my life. Probably the BBC sound departments' decision to set the entire thing to tango music is what really tipped it from informative to ridiculous.
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I don't care what it says about me, I love Sun/Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents. It's usually pretty loving hilarious. My particular favourites are the parents who can't stand watching their poor sweet babies getting falling-down drunk.
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Nov 21, 2014 00:59
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Surprised there's no talk about Babylon, it's back after the pilot and pretty great. It certainly works better as a proper series than as a one-off.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Surprised there's no talk about Babylon, it's back after the pilot and pretty great. It certainly works better as a proper series than as a one-off. Watched the first episode and enjoyed it. Came across as a less silly version of "Touch of Cloth".
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The adverts for Babylon look pretty good, though I can't see Johnson from peep show not being Johnson.
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Nov 21, 2014 12:52
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The tone is a bit off at times. Like the Welsh copper recycling Inbetweeners cruditty. Could drop him entirely from the show and lost nothing.
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Yeah, I'm really liking Babylon. "Who's the oval office in the car" made me laugh far too much. James Nesbit is really great.
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Whoa - on the recommendation of this thread, I've started to watch The Missing. Intense, compelling stuff. The pushy, nasty journalist reminds me in some instances (just the look he gets on his face) of Clem Fandango which adds a whole new dimension to his twattery.
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Nov 21, 2014 20:12
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Irisi posted:Hope everybody is watching David Attenboroughs' Life Story tonight. The male Peacock Spiders' mating dance and his eventual fate is the funniest thing I've seen in my life. Probably the BBC sound departments' decision to set the entire thing to tango music is what really tipped it from informative to ridiculous. Life Stories has had some amazing editing all series, honestly.
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Shelf Adventure posted:The adverts for Babylon look pretty good, though I can't see Johnson from peep show not being Johnson. I've just been rewatching the Survivors 2008 series and am having the exact same problem. JOHNSON.
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Captain Mediocre posted:I've just been rewatching the Survivors 2008 series and am having the exact same problem. JOHNSON. More fool you, rear end in a top hat.
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Nov 21, 2014 22:03
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It's not that bad! Not great, but still.
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I've just sat down and watched all of babylon so far. It's great. There are one or two characters that are a bit too cartoony, but overall it's really well done.
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Tenebrais posted:Life Stories has had some amazing editing all series, honestly. I need to catch up with most of the series, but I don't think I've ever watched anything more tense than the footage of the tiny geese leaping off the edge.
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Shelf Adventure posted:More fool you, rear end in a top hat. We could easily have a Peep Show quote thread, and Johnson could fill 90% of it. Pointless trivia: The original script for the end of series 3 was to have Johnson kill himself.
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I'm enjoying The Missing but the journalist character is horrible. Like, I understand he's meant to be a slimy piece of poo poo but he's so one-note that it's infuriating.
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Pablo Bluth posted:I need to catch up with most of the series, but I don't think I've ever watched anything more tense than the footage of the tiny geese leaping off the edge. The worst part of that was if you watched the follow on making of bit, the camera people said all the babies were promptly eaten by a fox anyway.
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david... posted:The worst part of that was if you watched the follow on making of bit, the camera people said all the babies were promptly eaten by a fox anyway. No, that was during their first attempt at capturing the jump, the second nest they found is the one in the series proper and the event happened as shown.
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What's everyone else's views on the 2nd series of The Fall so far? Like The missing, i kinda feel the sense of dread a lot more than your regular murder/thriller shows because there's no real mystery to it, we just have the killers perspective and the police's perspective. There's no big sharkjumping conspiracy, there doesn't seem to be any nonsensical bits (that i can remember), it's just a clever guy going around murdering women with almost equally clever detectives going after him and it's just good.
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Kin posted:The Fall It is, and what's more Gillian Anderson is very good in it, and fit, unless that is politically incorrect to say.
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Did anyone else watch Remember Me? It's a ghost story in 3 hour-long parts with Michael Palin in it. He's good, the rest of the actors are good, the story is probably about dealing with Britain's colonial past, and it's filled to the brim with clichés from every 15-rated ghost story from the past 20 years.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:It is, and what's more Gillian Anderson is very good in it, and fit, unless that is politically incorrect to say.
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Gillian Anderson's voice is like a cat getting stepped on. I'll pass.
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Rarity posted:Gillian Anderson's voice is like a cat getting stepped on. I'll pass. as in, both are sexy as hell, you mean?
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Remember Me was alright, picked up a lot in the last 10 minutes, although it was a bit reliant on "quiet quiet LOUD quiet" for some of it's scares.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Did anyone else watch Remember Me? It's a ghost story in 3 hour-long parts with Michael Palin in it. He's good, the rest of the actors are good, the story is probably about dealing with Britain's colonial past, and it's filled to the brim with clichés from every 15-rated ghost story from the past 20 years. Really I watched it and the whole conversation was, "is she gonna break in against his wishes? Yep. Rearranging the photographs against his wishes? Yep. I bet she sits down and plays the pia-, yep there we go, now she's taking his stuff out of the wardrobe? He's gonna be really mad about that. Oh hey, Jumanji! I remember this film!" We managed to call every plot point about 5 minutes before it happened. It was a little better after we turned all the lights off, put the subs on and upped the brightness on the telly slightly.
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