I'm really looking forward to the documentary series Operasjon Muskedunder/Operation Musketoon It will start on Norwegian TV tomorrow. I have no idea if it will be shown in other countries. Two ex-special forces soldiers who will wear and use WWII gear to recreate a sabotage mission that happened in 1942. The plan was for ten British soldiers from No. 2 Commando and two agents from Norwegian Special Operations Executive (Company Linge) to blow up a hydropower plant in Glomfjord in Northern Norway. The unit was transported to the coast by a Free French submarine, then walked to the target in the ryggen landscape. Then they planned to escape to Swede by foot. It was because of this mission Hitler issued the infamous Kommandobefehl ("Commando Order") stating that captured commandoes in uniform could be executed, in direct contradiction to the rules of war.
The two modern day ex-SF soldiers will follow the same route and copy the WWII events as closely as possible.
I just saw the first episode. If you get the chance to watch this documentary and you're interested in WWII and special operations you're enjoy it a lot!
Enjoying a new daytime detective show on bbc1.
Shakespeare and Hathaway ( with a friendly
Police woman called Marlowe ) a light hearted
Slightly comedic detective programme.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Inside No 9 is fantastic -{ and one of the funniest episodes of Not Going Out
was the car trip to France I think anyone who has gone on a car trip with
kids can identify with all that happens. From getting lost to kids being sick,
and the arguments )
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Netflix in the US now has the British show The Frankenstein Chronicles. A lot of you know I have a Ph.D. in British Lit (why else do you think I call myself Hardyboy and have TH as my avatar?), and so this program for me is a funhouse of allusions: a mad scientist trying to replicate the work of Victor Frankenstein; clues provided by William Blake (played by Octopussy's own Steven Berkoff); cameo appearances by Mary Shelley; a dogged young reporter who calls himself "Boz;" Ada Lovelace creating the world's first robot. . .and then there's Sean Bean as the hero. What more could I want? Oh, more episodes of this show!
Someone recommended Fawlty Towers. I just finished it on Netflix and now I don't know what to do with myself. Any suggestions for shows?
have you seen A Fish Called Wanda ?
its a movie, not a tv show, its the next-best thing Cleese ever did that isn't called Monty Python, costars Michael Palin
there's also At Last the 1948 Show, Cleese's sketch show that preceded Monty Python with Graham Chapman, about a half dozen episodes survive
if you want something very silly and very smart but doesn't have John Cleese, my random recommendation is Black Adder, with Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and the guy from that archeology show, and various other silly people. the only comedy series I know that comes with annotations to explain the jokes!
Someone recommended Fawlty Towers. I just finished it on Netflix and now I don't know what to do with myself. Any suggestions for shows?
have you seen A Fish Called Wanda ?
its a movie, not a tv show, its the next-best thing Cleese ever did that isn't called Monty Python, costars Michael Palin
there's also At Last the 1948 Show, Cleese's sketch show that preceded Monty Python with Graham Chapman, about a half dozen episodes survive
if you want something very silly and very smart but doesn't have John Cleese, my random recommendation is Black Adder, with Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and the guy from that archeology show, and various other silly people. the only comedy series I know that comes with annotations to explain the jokes!
Thank you for the suggestions! I will get started tonight.
Valid point, and I promised Fry and Laurie, but neither are in series 1 (Brian Blessed is, and Peter Cook is in the very first episode).
Fry costars all through series 2, Laurie finally appears I think in the final episode.
Then series 3 is exactly the opposite, Laurie costars in every episode and Fry shows up again in the finale.
Both are in each episode from series 4. Laurie gives a surprisingly poignant performance in the final episode, considering how cartoony the whole thing has been.
And good gawd Miranda Richardson is funny as Elizabeth 1 (series 2). Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench might as well never have bothered trying to play that character after Richardson got done with her.
Oh, I'm a big fan of the show and can quote hundreds of
Lines from it
Flashheart: The first thing to remember is: always treat your kite like you treat your woman!
George: Ho-how do you mean, sir? You mean, um... you mean, take her home over the weekend to meet your mother?
Flashheart: No. I mean get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back!
Blackadder: I'm beginning to see why the Suffragette Movement want the vote.
Flashheart: Hey, any bird who wants to chain herself to my railings and suffer a jet movement gets my vote!
Blackadder is pretty weak in the first series but
Really improves with series 2,3 & 4 {[]
Maybe I should have stuck with it. I tried a few episodes and just could not get into it.
I started "Man Down" last night and thus far really like it. I wish British shows had more episodes.
I can reccomend Blackadder season 2-4 very highly. They are smart and very funny. As a history nerd I'm a fan of how often the history is good in Blackadder and the last episode will most likely stay with you.It's a cunning plan!
Black Adder is really four shows (+ some standalone specials).
The tone is very different in the first series, where Atkinson is basically doing Mr Bean in mediaeval costumes. Vesper, if this is where you gave up, skip straight to Series 2, as there is no Series to Series continuity. Each series takes place centuries apart. The new characters may be descendants or reincarnations of the previous ones, but there's no plot points from previous series you would need to know.
Both Atkinson's character and the show itself become much smarter once we start following the first Black Adder's descendent in the Elizabethan Age in Series 2. He is much more cynical and conniving.
Third Series is where the DVD's annotations come in handy: another descendant is now butler to the Prince Regent (Laurie) during the Regency Period. I had no idea what The Regency was until I read those annotations, and many of the real jokes would have gone over my head, even while I still bust a gut over all the silliness.
Fourth Series is another subtler change in tone, as yet another descendant is a British Officer in the trenches during WWI. Very dark, grim satire, almost like Catch22. I'm just thinking, the first three Series are so far removed in time they are like parodies of historic costume drama. But Series 4 is so close in time you can almost touch it, my grandparents could remember that time, and the issues of patriotism politics and slaughter are very close to what we are still experiencing today.
There's a subtle joke as the Black Adder family progressively falls in status from generation-to-generation. But really, 800 years from heir-to-the-throne to officer-in-the-trenches is not doing that bad. In real life, a family fortune is usually squandered in a single generation, so Black Adder shouldn't be complaining.
that's one of the things I like about British shows. Instead of a 26 episode series with three key episodes and 23 mediocre, the Brits get 6 really tight episodes where every ones a masterpiece.
that's one of the things I like about British shows. Instead of a 26 episode series with three key episodes and 23 mediocre, the Brits get 6 really tight episodes where every ones a masterpiece.
That's how BLACK SAILS is as well...S1 is OK but clunky, but it's amazing from S2 onwards.
If you're considering giving the show a go, just stick with it through S1 and be confident that all of the pacing and character issues that are perplexing you are completely resolved once S2 hits.
Yes! The first season was a bit like the writers were working on "Pirates of the Caribbean 11: Now Just Bones." After the plot twist (!!!) it became one of my favorite shows. It is full of stone men and women and has one of the most queer positive plots I have ever seen. Plus it gives such a rich commentary on colonialism, (the good and the bad. ) It makes me want to learn how to play the hurdy gurdy and stow away on a ship.
Trailer Park Boys is another show you have to get to the second season to fall in love with.
Blackadder is pretty weak in the first series but
Really improves with series 2,3 & 4 {[]
It was amazing Blackadder got past series 1, it was terrible.
There was obviously a massive rethink before series 2 because Blackadder had a complete personality change. Series 3 was fabulous and series 4 was the absolute best.
I would bypass series 1 altogether if I was a newbie.
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And there's going to be a second series
I'm really looking forward to the documentary series Operasjon Muskedunder/Operation Musketoon It will start on Norwegian TV tomorrow. I have no idea if it will be shown in other countries. Two ex-special forces soldiers who will wear and use WWII gear to recreate a sabotage mission that happened in 1942. The plan was for ten British soldiers from No. 2 Commando and two agents from Norwegian Special Operations Executive (Company Linge) to blow up a hydropower plant in Glomfjord in Northern Norway. The unit was transported to the coast by a Free French submarine, then walked to the target in the ryggen landscape. Then they planned to escape to Swede by foot. It was because of this mission Hitler issued the infamous Kommandobefehl ("Commando Order") stating that captured commandoes in uniform could be executed, in direct contradiction to the rules of war.
The two modern day ex-SF soldiers will follow the same route and copy the WWII events as closely as possible.
Article in English: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Operation_Musketoon
Trailer (in perfectly clear Norwegian)
https://youtu.be/SyhA_AUs7Ac
very, very funny.
Shakespeare and Hathaway ( with a friendly
Police woman called Marlowe
Slightly comedic detective programme.
Shows around. -{
Absolutely loved the first episode
Plus Not Going Out was on just before it...it’s in its ninth series and it’s just as funny now as it’s always been -{
was the car trip to France
kids can identify with all that happens. From getting lost to kids being sick,
and the arguments
its a movie, not a tv show, its the next-best thing Cleese ever did that isn't called Monty Python, costars Michael Palin
there's also At Last the 1948 Show, Cleese's sketch show that preceded Monty Python with Graham Chapman, about a half dozen episodes survive
if you want something very silly and very smart but doesn't have John Cleese, my random recommendation is Black Adder, with Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and the guy from that archeology show, and various other silly people. the only comedy series I know that comes with annotations to explain the jokes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey0wvGiAH9g
it took me twenty years to figure out why he keeps calling them "kaniggits"
Really improves with series 2,3 & 4 {[]
Fry costars all through series 2, Laurie finally appears I think in the final episode.
Then series 3 is exactly the opposite, Laurie costars in every episode and Fry shows up again in the finale.
Both are in each episode from series 4. Laurie gives a surprisingly poignant performance in the final episode, considering how cartoony the whole thing has been.
And good gawd Miranda Richardson is funny as Elizabeth 1 (series 2). Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench might as well never have bothered trying to play that character after Richardson got done with her.
Lines from it
I started "Man Down" last night and thus far really like it. I wish British shows had more episodes.
Flashheart: The first thing to remember is: always treat your kite like you treat your woman!
George: Ho-how do you mean, sir? You mean, um... you mean, take her home over the weekend to meet your mother?
Flashheart: No. I mean get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back!
Blackadder: I'm beginning to see why the Suffragette Movement want the vote.
Flashheart: Hey, any bird who wants to chain herself to my railings and suffer a jet movement gets my vote!
I can reccomend Blackadder season 2-4 very highly. They are smart and very funny. As a history nerd I'm a fan of how often the history is good in Blackadder and the last episode will most likely stay with you.It's a cunning plan!
The tone is very different in the first series, where Atkinson is basically doing Mr Bean in mediaeval costumes. Vesper, if this is where you gave up, skip straight to Series 2, as there is no Series to Series continuity. Each series takes place centuries apart. The new characters may be descendants or reincarnations of the previous ones, but there's no plot points from previous series you would need to know.
Both Atkinson's character and the show itself become much smarter once we start following the first Black Adder's descendent in the Elizabethan Age in Series 2. He is much more cynical and conniving.
Third Series is where the DVD's annotations come in handy: another descendant is now butler to the Prince Regent (Laurie) during the Regency Period. I had no idea what The Regency was until I read those annotations, and many of the real jokes would have gone over my head, even while I still bust a gut over all the silliness.
Fourth Series is another subtler change in tone, as yet another descendant is a British Officer in the trenches during WWI. Very dark, grim satire, almost like Catch22. I'm just thinking, the first three Series are so far removed in time they are like parodies of historic costume drama. But Series 4 is so close in time you can almost touch it, my grandparents could remember that time, and the issues of patriotism politics and slaughter are very close to what we are still experiencing today.
There's a subtle joke as the Black Adder family progressively falls in status from generation-to-generation. But really, 800 years from heir-to-the-throne to officer-in-the-trenches is not doing that bad. In real life, a family fortune is usually squandered in a single generation, so Black Adder shouldn't be complaining. that's one of the things I like about British shows. Instead of a 26 episode series with three key episodes and 23 mediocre, the Brits get 6 really tight episodes where every ones a masterpiece.
Yes! The first season was a bit like the writers were working on "Pirates of the Caribbean 11: Now Just Bones." After the plot twist (!!!) it became one of my favorite shows. It is full of stone men and women and has one of the most queer positive plots I have ever seen. Plus it gives such a rich commentary on colonialism, (the good and the bad. ) It makes me want to learn how to play the hurdy gurdy and stow away on a ship.
Trailer Park Boys is another show you have to get to the second season to fall in love with.
Worth watching, really funny.
It was amazing Blackadder got past series 1, it was terrible.
There was obviously a massive rethink before series 2 because Blackadder had a complete personality change. Series 3 was fabulous and series 4 was the absolute best.
I would bypass series 1 altogether if I was a newbie.
" Benidorm " on Netflix