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  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent
    White Gold is very funny, the second series only held up because of a sexual allegation case against
    the lead actor.
    I'm also enjoying Martin Clunes in "Warren" on bbc1. a sort of young Victor Meldrew. ;)

    Yes TP I caught Victor last week and found it very funny {[]
  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Best show on tv at the moment is This Time: with Alan Partridge -{

    I also love Fleabag -{

    I will try to catch them, as long as they dont interfere with the crap soap's
  • FrigilianaFrigiliana Posts: 164MI6 Agent
    I watched "abducted in plain sight" , amazed how thick the parents were , if i didn't know it was true i'd have thought it was a spoof documentary.
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,416Chief of Staff
    danjaq_0ff wrote:
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Best show on tv at the moment is This Time: with Alan Partridge -{

    I also love Fleabag -{

    I will try to catch them, as long as they dont interfere with the crap soap's

    Neither of them do -{

    I also just noticed that Deutschland 86 had started... :o must catch up with that as I liked Deutschland 83...
    YNWA 97
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    Frigiliana wrote:
    I watched "abducted in plain sight" , amazed how thick the parents were , if i didn't know it was true i'd have thought it was a spoof documentary.
    Wierd people, guy abducts the daughter, has an affair with the mother and the father pleasures him in a car! I simply couldn't get my head around it!
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • VesperMelogranoVesperMelograno The SouthPosts: 901MI6 Agent
    Chriscoop wrote:
    Frigiliana wrote:
    I watched "abducted in plain sight" , amazed how thick the parents were , if i didn't know it was true i'd have thought it was a spoof documentary.
    Wierd people, guy abducts the daughter, has an affair with the mother and the father pleasures him in a car! I simply couldn't get my head around it!
    It is what you call an awkward Thanksgiving meal.
    I've always wanted to have Christmas in Turkey
  • VesperMelogranoVesperMelograno The SouthPosts: 901MI6 Agent
    I just finished the first season of "After Life." I really can't recommend it more. extremely poetic in explaining the first part of grief after the loss of someone significant may that be a wife,child, mother or father. it's funny and heartbreaking all at the same time which you would think would be a total oxymoron but it somehow kind of perfectly walks that line in between the two. you finish an episode and you feel like crying and laughing and it's pure genius.
    I've always wanted to have Christmas in Turkey
  • 005005 Posts: 138MI6 Agent
    Star trek discovery season two. Much better than the first season. The addition of Captain pike is amazing and he's fast becoming my favourite trek captain!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    :)) :)) :)) Just watching the box set of series 2 White Gold {[]
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    There's a beautiful lady on The Celebrity apprentice, on
    BBC1, she was a basketball player and is six foot five tall !
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent
    has anybody been watching DC Comics' new teevee series Doom Patrol?
    trailer
    I don't have cable and have not yet seen it myself, so I'd like to know what I'm missing.
    I am curious for two reasons...

    1. most relevant to us, Timothy Dalton is in it.
    He plays The Chief, leader of a team of misfit superheroes
    Doom-Patrol-The-Chief.jpg

    2. it is based on one of DC's weirder comics from the 1960s, which was then revived in dark psychedelic style by Grant Morrison in the 1990s.
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  • TonyDPTonyDP Inside the MonolithPosts: 4,279MI6 Agent
    Just as an FYI, I do not believe Doom Patrol is on cable. I believe it is on DC's streaming service so if you have internet access and a supported streaming device (Roku, PS4, etc.) you can sign up for a month, watch the episodes and then cancel out if it's not to your liking.
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,882Chief of Staff
    I just finished a superhero series on Netflix, The Umbrella Academy. This one took me by surprise: a group of dysfunctional superheroes get back together after the man who raised them and taught them (sort of like Professor X, only he's a complete d**k) dies. The characters are engaging, and the show is often very funny. And you have to like a program that features a knock-down, drag-out fight while Lesley Gore belts out "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows." It's already been approved for a second season, and maybe Netflix will keep the commitment. . .after all, it's based on a Dark Horse comic, not one from Marvel.
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • TonyDPTonyDP Inside the MonolithPosts: 4,279MI6 Agent
    005 wrote:
    Star trek discovery season two. Much better than the first season. The addition of Captain pike is amazing and he's fast becoming my favourite trek captain!

    I really like Anson Mount's take on Captain Pike as well; he is by far the most interesting character on the show this year (his performance in Through the Valley of Shadows was especially well done and one of Discovery's best moments so far). Ethan Peck's Spock is also growing on me, though I'd really like to see him ditch the beard and hair and get in a proper uniform before his time on Discovery is done.

    Sonequa Martin Green on the other hand continues to be problematic for me. She may be the de-facto "star" of the show but her habit of always interrupting and trying to one up her superior officers is grating and the writers' attempts to always make her the smartest person in the room is off-putting. Star Trek has always worked best as an ensemble and even TOS was strongest when Kirk, Spock and McCoy worked together to solve problems. Turning her into this know it all who always has all the answers does her and the show no favors.

    At this point, I'm ready to say good-bye to Discovery in favor of Captain Pike show as we still have years of stories to tell before his fateful incident on the cadet ship.
  • Ens007Ens007 EnglandPosts: 863MI6 Agent
    Anyone watching series 5 of Line Of Duty? ... absolutely brilliant drama & makes for compelling viewing.
  • Lady RoseLady Rose London,UKPosts: 2,667MI6 Agent
    Ens007 wrote:
    Anyone watching series 5 of Line Of Duty? ... absolutely brilliant drama & makes for compelling viewing.


    Yep.

    Absolutely love it.

    It's not a series you can't pop in and out of though. If you hadn't seen the previous series you wouldn't have a clue what's happening.
  • Ens007Ens007 EnglandPosts: 863MI6 Agent
    Lady Rose wrote:
    Ens007 wrote:
    Anyone watching series 5 of Line Of Duty? ... absolutely brilliant drama & makes for compelling viewing.


    Yep.

    Absolutely love it.

    It's not a series you can't pop in and out of though. If you hadn't seen the previous series you wouldn't have a clue what's happening.

    Yeas I fully agree - apologies if my post was slightly misleading ... you most certainly have to watch from the very start of the first series.

    Got so many theories as to who the mysterious 'H' is!! ?:)
  • JoshuaJoshua Posts: 1,138MI6 Agent
    I have been watching some of the 'Callan' programes on television. He is not James Bond, but more a bit like Harry Palmer. I have found them entertaining. I watched the film a short time ago and that was very good.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Yes, Callan was a very down beat security series -{

    On a similar genre, I've started watching Spooks
    ( a series about MI5 ) from the beginning, can't
    Praise this series enough.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,416Chief of Staff
    Fleabag - sheer genius -{
    YNWA 97
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Watching the chase tonight, I heard an odd fact about the X-Files. Apparently
    Pamela Anderson was going to be Dana Scully ! :o
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent
    edited April 2019
    has anybody been watching DC Comics' new teevee series Doom Patrol?
    trailer
    I don't have cable and have not yet seen it myself, so I'd like to know what I'm missing.
    TonyDP wrote:
    Just as an FYI, I do not believe Doom Patrol is on cable. I believe it is on DC's streaming service so if you have internet access and a supported streaming device (Roku, PS4, etc.) you can sign up for a month, watch the episodes and then cancel out if it's not to your liking.
    turns out Doom Patrol is on the Space Channel, Tuesday nights at 9pm. Also streaming from their website but it looked better on cable.

    I caught an episode this week, episode 3. They travel to Paraguay. It was like a dark psychedelic black comedy superhero version of Boys From Brazil, with a certain Dead Kennedys Nazi-themed song I cannot name in a family forum played over the big action sequence at the end.
    No Timothy Dalton is this episode though, the Doom Patrol are on a quest to find their missing Chief.
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    EDIT: looks like Space Channel is a Canadian cable specialty channel, sorry that doesn't help folks elsewhere
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Caught the end of Star Trek : Discovery. The second series
    Was better than the first and I'd love to see a spin off show
    With Pike and crew. -{ But, I still prefer The Orville :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    I'm watching the second season of The Handmaiden's Tale. I admire that the series dares to have an opinion and a real message. (and no, the message isn't "hate men" :)) ) the cast is great. Elisabeth Moss has made a career out of high quality TV, and it's great to see Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck) and Alexis Bledl (Gilmore Girls) in roles that are very different from the ones that made them famous.
  • Lady RoseLady Rose London,UKPosts: 2,667MI6 Agent
    edited May 2019
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Fleabag - sheer genius -{

    Just started watching it a couple of weeks ago ... then she was announced as a writer for Bond!!

    It's very odd and quirky. I had no idea she was involved with Killing Eve.
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,416Chief of Staff
    Lady Rose wrote:
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Fleabag - sheer genius -{

    Just started watching it a couple of weeks ago ... then she was announced as a writer for Bond!!

    It's very odd and quirky. I had no idea she was involved with Killing Eve.

    Have you watched the first series?

    It’s a great show, both funny and sad - and filthy :))

    Don’t think she wrote much of the second series of Killing Eve as she was doing Fleabag.

    Be interesting if Bond broke the fourth wall like Fleabag :))
    YNWA 97
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    ^ Bond already did break the fourth wall in OHMSS. ;)
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Lady RoseLady Rose London,UKPosts: 2,667MI6 Agent
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Lady Rose wrote:
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Fleabag - sheer genius -{

    Just started watching it a couple of weeks ago ... then she was announced as a writer for Bond!!

    It's very odd and quirky. I had no idea she was involved with Killing Eve.

    Have you watched the first series?

    It’s a great show, both funny and sad - and filthy :))

    Don’t think she wrote much of the second series of Killing Eve as she was doing Fleabag.

    Be interesting if Bond broke the fourth wall like Fleabag :))


    Maybe we could have him wondering if he has a big ar$shole ?? :)) :))

    I'm still on series one. Haven't had the time to watch the rest yet which is very annoying.Hopefully will rectify it at the weekend. X-(
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,416Chief of Staff
    ^ Bond already did break the fourth wall in OHMSS. ;)

    Kind of...but he doesn’t speak directly to camera and he could be talking about anyone...maybe someone he’d seen on that beach the day before ;) :v
    YNWA 97
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,416Chief of Staff
    Lady Rose wrote:
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Lady Rose wrote:

    Just started watching it a couple of weeks ago ... then she was announced as a writer for Bond!!

    It's very odd and quirky. I had no idea she was involved with Killing Eve.

    Have you watched the first series?

    It’s a great show, both funny and sad - and filthy :))

    Don’t think she wrote much of the second series of Killing Eve as she was doing Fleabag.

    Be interesting if Bond broke the fourth wall like Fleabag :))


    Maybe we could have him wondering if he has a big ar$shole ?? :)) :))

    I'm still on series one. Haven't had the time to watch the rest yet which is very annoying.Hopefully will rectify it at the weekend. X-(

    I’m almost sad I watched the second series in one sitting...it’s THAT good -{
    YNWA 97
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