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Which 'TV box set' are you currently watching?
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08-05-2020, 06:37 PM -
(08-05-2020, 06:32 PM)2NaPoodle Wrote: Having an utter lack of morals, a desire to humiliate and deligitimate your closest family and an acid tongue could be said to be redeeming qualities.

Anyway, that's the last time I say anything positive about Acey. The characters in Succession have no positive ethical traits certainly, but they're all engaging, variously charming, distinct and formed. The closest you get to a 'good' character in, say, Breaking Bad is Hank and he's obnoxious and boorish.

I guess it's a bit easy to make everyone a variation on Maggie Smith in Downton (there's an episode at the end of season one that is just Downton in the digital era) but ultimately it's a show about the Murdochs so it's not like 'they're all shits' is so far from reality.

Also, needs to be said there's several really strong performances. Kieran Culkin and Cox do a great job with roles that are easy to act up to, but McFadyen is really flexible performer. Funny, snivelling, weaselly, threatening and all in the same scene.

Awrite Mark Kermode.
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08-05-2020, 07:02 PM -
(08-05-2020, 06:32 PM)2NaPoodle Wrote: snivelling, weaselly, threatening and all in the same scene.

^^^ an average VS post
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08-05-2020, 07:31 PM -
Pretty good Colin
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08-05-2020, 10:14 PM -
L to the OG, A N, he playin’


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08-10-2020, 10:27 PM -
Once Upon a Time in Iraq

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08-16-2020, 11:10 PM -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CdCGAdaIww

Can mind watching this at the time when I was about 11 thinking I was going to be a soccer player Warnock Sob
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08-17-2020, 01:58 AM -
Finished season 2 ofUmbrella Academy, definitely an improvement on the first season and didn’t seem to drag as much



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08-17-2020, 09:18 AM -
(08-16-2020, 11:10 PM)Mikey Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CdCGAdaIww

Can mind watching this at the time when I was about 11 thinking I was going to be a soccer player  Warnock Sob

I remember that show Warnock did any of them other than Charlie Adam even make it in the game?
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08-17-2020, 09:26 AM -
Is that the one with Chris Burke or was that another one? We watched it in a highschool class, can't mind which one.
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08-17-2020, 09:50 AM -
Chris Burke is in there too. Rest basically never made a first team appearance, and got loaned off to Brechin, etc. Although, Andy Dowie did alright with spells with Dunfermline, QoS and their ilk.
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08-17-2020, 09:57 AM -
Jordan Peele's new show Lovecraft Country has just started on Sky, going to check that out.
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08-17-2020, 11:13 AM -
Watched the Great Heist last night on Netflix, about the Colombian bank robbery in 1990's

Pretty good viewing
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08-17-2020, 11:25 AM -
(08-17-2020, 09:18 AM)Picards Forehead Wrote: I remember that show Warnock did any of them other than Charlie Adam even make it in the game?

(08-17-2020, 09:26 AM)Roger H. Sterling Wrote: Is that the one with Chris Burke or was that another one? We watched it in a highschool class, can't mind which one.

Chris Burke was in there too aye. There was that boy Jordan McMillan that got banned for about 3 years for taking coke when he was at Partick and Andy Dowie who had a decent career.

Think the big goalie played part time. They done a follow up in 2011:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTT7V3xQpBA
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08-23-2020, 09:28 PM -
Up to S9E7 of It's Always Sunny - the gang gets quarantined Lampoon
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08-26-2020, 10:28 PM -
Watched the third season of The Sinner this last week. Really couldn't take to it; i'd enjoyed the other two a lot but this one left me cold.

The antagonist is a middle aged (dreamy, but that's by the by) white guy with a nice life. He's a bit bored and steps back in to his college Nietzschean, self pitying bullshit and kills a few folk. I really think they wanted him to come across as understandable, if not quite relatable but he just sounds like every 15yr old boy who wants to feel special and decides some man and superman shit will elevate them. Coming from a guy in the prime of his life he just seems like a massive douche.

Maybe i'm biased, Hitchcock and Shaw have had goes at dramatizing the concept and i've disliked them for similar reasons.

Finishing up the third season of ozark too; better than the second, not as good as the first.
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08-27-2020, 07:20 AM -
So confused by 2na's life at times. In what world does 'every 15 year old boy' read Nietzsche Warnock
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08-27-2020, 07:22 AM -
I have looked in the abyss of my middle class upbringing, and it has looked in to me.

For clarity, it was 'every fifteen yr old who wants to feel special'. I'm talking about losers with an inflated sense of their own self worth - holden caulfield, Tyler durden, dank.
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08-29-2020, 08:14 PM -
Watching the Louis Theroux episode with Lake Palmer. Top echelon television.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz-TUzjSXOw

'We have very 'ectic two days. Very 'ectic.'

'I speak English'.
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09-04-2020, 06:02 AM -
The Boys S2 has landed.

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09-04-2020, 10:45 PM -
(09-04-2020, 06:02 AM)Felix Wrote: The Boys S2 has landed.

VanGaals Bitch


Fuck me that was brilliant  Zlat

What a rollercoaster VanGaals Bitch

An episode a week now. I honestly cant even imagine where the story is going to go from here.

Ps. Season 3 has been given the green light Piggy




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