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DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
edited January 2 in Heaven
What’s your poison - I really enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man and I saw a YouTube vid with the director breaking down a scene. He mentioned his first film was Brick.

I remember watching that when it first came out and it stuck with me. So I am thinking I may now rewatch that.

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  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Rather against our better judgement (because we really rated the first one) Mrs RR and I watched 'The Nightmanager II'. I rather wish I hadn't. Can any kind shipmate who actually watched it and understood it tell me what was going on explain the plot (so far)?

    I'm awaiting hearing aids which might help ....... Mrs RR has hearing aids but had to turn them right down.
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    The new Traitors is shaping up well. I like the secret traitor twist.
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    I need to finish a bunch of series. The most recent GeGege No Kitaro…
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    Can't wait for Thursday the 8th. The new 911 shows, and me and my friend will also watch the new season opener of Will Trent.
  • Cheery GardenerCheery Gardener Shipmate
    Over the holiday break I have been watching several of the UK TV Christmas specials, Death in Paradise, Call the Midwife etc. A very pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon.

    I am looking forward to the new series of The Artful Dodger (with Thomas Brodie Sangster), here in Oz it will be on Disney in February.

    Cheery husband gave me a set of William and Mary on DVD featuring a young Martin Clunes, I've enjoyed that blast from the past very much!
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    Boogie wrote: »
    The new Traitors is shaping up well. I like the secret traitor twist.

    They got a traitor on the third episode. I don’t think they’ve ever got one that quickly.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    I'm getting used to flicking through the channels on my new telly (I haven't had a TV for years!) and came across a programme about pilgrimage presented by Simon Reeve. In his first episode, he was visiting English shrines, from Lindisfarne to Walsingham, joining some modern day pilgrims doing the Chaucer trail to Canterbury, and meeting interesting people along the way. In later programmes he'll head across Europe, ending up in Jerusalem.
  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    I quite enjoyed The Night Manager II though the sound was poor. As I have extremely crap hearing even with aids I always use sub-titles.
    We watched the David Attenborough programme about wild London which was lovely. A few bits were shot in places we know such as Richmond Park and the Regents Canal and its good the Attenborough is still around even if it was hedgehogs rather than gorillas that he was getting close and personal with.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited January 6
    We're binge watching Voyager is it's only got two more days before Netflix takes it off, the fiends.

    Also binge watching Stranger Things 1-4 before watching 5 as some younger members of the family didn't see it first time around.

    Having to fit this around Daughter's Traitors obsession. I only take a passing interest; the tasks are mostly a bit boring but watching clueless people flailing for desperate pretexts to decide someone's a traitor is amusing, especially when they serially get it wrong. I personally think the Traitors should amass their prize pot by subtly sabotaging the tasks, rather than helping.
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    edited January 6
    Mrs Gramps and I watched CNN's I am Chevy Chase and You're Not. Kind of fun to laugh as some of the old prat-falls again as well as some of the old jokes. In reality, Chevy had a hard life with drugs, depression, and, later, alcohol. His memory is not very good because of a heart condition. But he is in his 80s and still kicking.
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    Chevy Chase is one of the more famous alums of my college, Bard.
  • MarkDMarkD Shipmate
    New to streaming but I did breakdown and get Apple TV to watch Plur1bus, then discovered War Chief and now Foundation (which is pretty slow). Read the books eons ago but recall nothing except a Mule is coming. (Two episodes in on season 1).
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    NicoleMR wrote: »
    Chevy Chase is one of the more famous alums of my college, Bard.

    They had several video shots of his time at Bard, and a couple of his classmates gave some recollection of his time there.
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    Cool!
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    I’m also watching Phil Vischer’s “What’s In the Bible?” series.
  • Graven ImageGraven Image Shipmate
    I just finished watching "Ripple" on Netflix. I enjoyed the characters.
  • Schroedingers CatSchroedingers Cat Shipmate
    Traitors is such compulsive viewing. Really brilliant.
  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    KarlLB wrote: »
    We're binge watching Voyager is it's only got two more days before Netflix takes it off, the fiends.

    The Star Trek Voyager? It's on Sky Mix, Freeview Channel 11 (If you're in the UK)
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    I was quite annoyed that they shifted the weekday pattern of The Traitors. Was expecting it to be Thursday, Friday, Saturday as usual but then this morning I saw that they changed to Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So I'm now trying to avoid spoilers so I can catch up later.
  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    'Dark Hearts' on iPlayer, about the French component of occupation forces in Iraq, is well worth watching. A tough watch at times, but consistently excellent .
    'The Night Manager' Series 2 is keeping me interested, not least in wondering where the budget came from for the locations.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    Being old fashioned and watching Digging for Britain one week at a time like in the old days. Quite possibly the only thing we will watch until the 6 Nations, & probably then until Wimbledon.

    Judging from comments elsewhere on the intertubes every time Alice Roberts appears on the tele, I may be in a minority amongst Blokes of a Certain Age in watching primarily for the archaeology...
  • Schroedingers CatSchroedingers Cat Shipmate
    Sipech wrote: »
    I was quite annoyed that they shifted the weekday pattern of The Traitors. Was expecting it to be Thursday, Friday, Saturday as usual but then this morning I saw that they changed to Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So I'm now trying to avoid spoilers so I can catch up later.

    It is a pain. I wonder whether it is because there is a big match on Saturday? I thought they had moved it to prime time because it was so popular.
    Sandemaniac wrote: »
    Judging from comments elsewhere on the intertubes every time Alice Roberts appears on the tele, I may be in a minority amongst Blokes of a Certain Age in watching primarily for the archaeology...

    I watch for both Alice and the archeology. I think she presents it really well, always enthusiastic and knowledgeable. And good to look at too.

    But this series, she seems to be taking a different role, with two others going to a lot of the sites. Which is, I think, a good thing, enabling a succession!
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    Tonight I watched the newest episode of Will Trent, and also 911, and 911:Nashville. It was very nice to see them after their breaks.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    BBC Scotland is becoming my favourite channel for gentle, relaxing viewing. The other night I watched a chap walking the length of the River Spey, and last night Ben Fogle was soaking up the spiritual atmosphere of Iona, and there was the lovely programme over Christmas about Hercules the bear (famous for escaping into the Scottish islands while filming an advert for Kleenex!)
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    Fogle Fogling around the place does tend to cause islanders to roll their eyes. We had him over here a few years back. No harm in him but he does tend to perpetuate touristy stereotypes of the isles.
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    Boogie wrote: »
    The new Traitors is shaping up well. I like the secret traitor twist.

    Yes. We are not quite caught up with this week's yet but are puzzling over something.

    ***SPOILER ALERT ***
    Reece saw the two traitors (not that he knew they were traitors) looking at the family tree together on the night nine of them were marked for murder; not only that, one of them asked him to leave them with it. Why isn't he talking about that? Why aren't they talking about it on Uncloaked?
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Sparrow wrote: »
    KarlLB wrote: »
    We're binge watching Voyager is it's only got two more days before Netflix takes it off, the fiends.

    The Star Trek Voyager? It's on Sky Mix, Freeview Channel 11 (If you're in the UK)

    Yeah, but not on demand. We managed it with hours to spare.
  • Mr ClingfordMr Clingford Shipmate
    Doublethink wrote: »
    What’s your poison - I really enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man and I saw a YouTube vid with the director breaking down a scene. He mentioned his first film was Brick.

    I remember watching that when it first came out and it stuck with me. So I am thinking I may now rewatch that.

    We very much enjoyed it and I preferred it to Onions II.

    Also recommend The Beast Within Me. Very engaging.
  • MarkDMarkD Shipmate
    I'm midway in season 2 of Foundation now and while I'm enjoying it a little I can't shake the feeling that the whole thing is what Iain McGilchrist would call a LH (left hemisphere) fantasy about human intelligence and control of everything.
  • Barnabas62Barnabas62 Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Hadn’t seen Grantchester before and finding a binge-stream both enjoyable and thought provoking. Good to see priests being portrayed as recognisably human, complex and often conflicted.
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    Did I see The Muppet Show is coming back? Has it been 50 years since it first aired? I bet the kids will love it.

    Congratulations to Owen Cooper for winning the Golden Globe for best Supporting Actor in Adolescence.
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