kinuta Posted December 16, 2016 Report Share Posted December 16, 2016 Rejoice, Nashville fans, it's back !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 16, 2016 Report Share Posted December 16, 2016 Good news, my wife is happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted December 18, 2016 Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 (edited) 'Modus' ended last night with blood everywhere. Not the best Scandi-noir but perfectly watchable. Second part of the Walt Disney documentary - as expected, everything went pear shaped. Did not seem a happy man. Special award to Friday night's 'Have I Got News For You' that replaced an indisposed Nicky Morgan (currently reeling in the Trousergate scandal) with a large, expensive handbag. Edited December 18, 2016 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted December 19, 2016 Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 Just had a quick flip through the year on this thread (see, these threads do have a purpose!) to try and work out my favourites of the year. Not easy to do as you never know how much you really enjoyed something in January compared with something in November; and how far your sense of enjoyment is affected by subsequent wider discussion. Confining to TV from 2016, what I did notice was most of what stuck in my memory was from the first half of the year. My awards (purely based on what I saw from my tiny corner of the world through my particular prejudices and predilections) go to: War and Peace Happy Valley II The A Word The Night Manager Line of Duty III Marcella Peaky Blinders III Trapped (marvellous Greenland Scandi-noir) Fleabag Overall top award goes to 'Fleabag' for its utter originality and combination of razor-edge comedy with emotional depth. Though 'Question Time' deserves an award as the TV programme I shouted at most, especially in June. What was really scary, leafing through, was how many programmes I watched which I have quite forgotten. Need to eat more oily fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted December 19, 2016 Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 TV shows I liked from 2016 Westworld OJ Made In America The Night Of The Crown Happy Valley 2 Planet Earth 2 War & Peace Daredevil 2 Line Of Duty 3 Bosch 2 Peaky Blinders 3 Hypernormalisation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzjet Posted December 19, 2016 Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 7 hours ago, A Lark Ascending said: Just had a quick flip through the year on this thread (see, these threads do have a purpose!) to try and work out my favourites of the year. Not easy to do as you never know how much you really enjoyed something in January compared with something in November; and how far your sense of enjoyment is affected by subsequent wider discussion. Confining to TV from 2016, what I did notice was most of what stuck in my memory was from the first half of the year. My awards (purely based on what I saw from my tiny corner of the world through my particular prejudices and predilections) go to: War and Peace Happy Valley II The A Word The Night Manager Line of Duty III Marcella Peaky Blinders III Trapped (marvellous Greenland Scandi-noir) Fleabag Overall top award goes to 'Fleabag' for its utter originality and combination of razor-edge comedy with emotional depth. Though 'Question Time' deserves an award as the TV programme I shouted at most, especially in June. What was really scary, leafing through, was how many programmes I watched which I have quite forgotten. Need to eat more oily fish. Pretty much matches my favourite TV, although I haven't watched Happy Valley I yet and don't 'get' Peaky Blinders. I would only add River and the ITV crime series Unforgotten. I've spent quite a lot of time working through series on Netflix such as Homeland, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. PS Isn't 'Trapped' set in Iceland rather than Greenland? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 (edited) 20 hours ago, Jazzjet said: Pretty much matches my favourite TV, although I haven't watched Happy Valley I yet and don't 'get' Peaky Blinders. I would only add River and the ITV crime series Unforgotten. I've spent quite a lot of time working through series on Netflix such as Homeland, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. PS Isn't 'Trapped' set in Iceland rather than Greenland? Yes, I enjoyed those two as well - was that this year or last? Can't remember. I really enjoyed the latest series of House of Cards and The Good Wife (No 6 so not the latest) this year but they might be 2015 that I only got round to recently. You are right about Iceland. I do this all the time when mentioning it. Don't know why. Explains why I'm forever returning from the high street having failed to locate frozen goods. Edited December 20, 2016 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzjet Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 6 hours ago, A Lark Ascending said: You are right about Iceland. I do this all the time when mentioning it. Don't know why. Explains why I'm forever returning from the high street having failed to locate frozen goods. Isn't Greenland a store where they sell stuff from Iceland that's gone off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 Watched the St. Olaf Choir on PBS last night - a Christmas time tradition for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted December 21, 2016 Report Share Posted December 21, 2016 21 hours ago, Jazzjet said: Isn't Greenland a store where they sell stuff from Iceland that's gone off? I'm way too posh to shop at Iceland (though not hipster enough to shop at Lidl). Two part Xmas edition of 'Last Tango in Halifax'. Disappointing - thin, silly 'ghost' storyline, way too many potential themes thrown in and undeveloped. Some of the acting even looked a bit unrehearsed (not just the amateur dramatics parts). Wainwright has a great eye for niggling family tension and it was on display here - but I'd not be surprised if she was rushed into this 'Christmas Special'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted December 21, 2016 Report Share Posted December 21, 2016 An entertaining program. it was fun to see Bill Murray working again with Paul Shaffer at the piano almost 40 years after they first did so on SNL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted December 22, 2016 Report Share Posted December 22, 2016 Travelers A time travel show that has almost no mention of time travelling. The cast are all in the present with no return to their present in our future. This crept up on me and is one to look forward to each week. The cast are easy to relate to and their shenanigans all involve actual hard technology and a constant struggle to remain under cover. Avoids histrionics but is tense, well written and involving in a way that Twelve Monkeys never was. I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted December 23, 2016 Report Share Posted December 23, 2016 Vienna: Empire, Dynasty and Dream (BBC 4) Interesting if irritating three parter - suffered in the last 30 minutes from recycling the same old cliches about Freud, Klimt, Alma Mahler and Hitler - "Vienna, a city in political decline but the birthplace of modern thought...blah! blah! blah!". Presented by yet another effin' public school boy (Simon Sebag Montefiore) posturing in a hat. Didn't help that the camera kept getting in really close to his face when he was making grandiose statements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted December 26, 2016 Report Share Posted December 26, 2016 (edited) British posters, help satisfy my curiosity by telling me what the ' bake off ', ' great bake off ' thing is all about? I'm puzzled that so many tv viewers are interested in baking. I would have thought it a dull, minority interest topic. Edited December 26, 2016 by kinuta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 26, 2016 Report Share Posted December 26, 2016 (edited) 3 hours ago, kinuta said: British posters, help satisfy my curiosity by telling me what the ' bake off ', ' great bake off ' thing is all about? I'm puzzled that so many tv viewers are interested in baking. I would have thought it a dull, minority interest topic. Beats me - I never watch it. Enormously popular though, appealing to the same demographic that gets equally worked up and manic over Strictly Come Dancing.. While some of us are spinning our Tina Brooks disks the rest of the country is praying at the altar of Mary Berry and Darcey Bussell. Edited December 26, 2016 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted December 26, 2016 Report Share Posted December 26, 2016 2 hours ago, sidewinder said: Beats me - I never watch it. Enormously popular though, appealing to the same demographic that gets equally worked up and manic over Strictly Come Dancing.. While some of us are spinning our Tina Brooks disks the rest of the country is praying at the altar of Mary Berry and Darcey Bussell. Thanks Bob. Mary Berry and Darcey Bussell? Never heard of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 26, 2016 Report Share Posted December 26, 2016 Mary Berry - well into her 80s, vintage writer of cookery books turned TV superstar (well, UK superstar). Darcey Bussell - ex ballerina lead with Royal Ballet and poised to be the new head judge on 'Strictly' (so they tell me ). Both of the above extremely popular over here ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 27, 2016 Report Share Posted December 27, 2016 Watched the exceptional Season 3 of Black Sails on Blu-ray Watched Game of Thrones Season 6 on Blu-ray Watched The Expanse on DVD (looks like Blu-ray with excellent upscaling) Watching X-Files Season 2 on Blu-ray (amazes me how well-done and beautiful appearing and sounding these X-Files seasons look on Blu-ray) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted December 28, 2016 Report Share Posted December 28, 2016 The Witness For The Prosecution BBC I really enjoyed this dark, noirish adaptation , which is a far cry from Billy Wilder and Miss Marples. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted December 29, 2016 Report Share Posted December 29, 2016 Never really paid much attention to Alan Bennett but really enjoyed both the documentary on BBC2 and the film that followed. What a nice man - and some splendid music too (Walton, Elgar....). Loved the section where he talked about being educated by the state, had his health looked after by the state, was sent to university by the state and could not understand how the term 'the state' had become such a term of abuse when used by the right. My experience precisely. Lovely scenes of rural Yorkshire too. 'The Lady in the Van' was desperately sad - nuns have a lot to answer for. Saw this when it first came out in the cinema (1989) - amazed that rewatching it 30 years later I could not recall a single scene. Sentimental and follows the standard Hollywood template of a group of blokes at odds with one another, gradually forged into a unit of mutual respect and great courage. Enjoyed it - the final scene (storming the fort) was harrowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted December 30, 2016 Report Share Posted December 30, 2016 (edited) 'To Walk Invisible' (BBC1) Sally Wainwright's telling of the Bronte sisters' story. Ee but its grim up't North. Very enjoyable if more conventional than what you usually get from Wainwright. Spent the first half wracking my brains wondering where I'd seen the actor playing Anne (far right) before. Then it clicked - she was the young PC in 'Happy Valley'. Wouldn't want to meet Emily Bronte (middle) on a dark night....scary! Edited December 30, 2016 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted December 31, 2016 Report Share Posted December 31, 2016 (edited) This was recommended here a number of times. Enjoyable couple of hours but it made me feel about 98. I think I've more in common with Haworth in the 1840s than the bizarre culture on view here (there's a potential Attenborough series!). I do like Anna Kendrick's voice (first noticed her in 'Into the Woods') - I love the 'When I'm Gone' song which was recently used as a UK TV theme ('Mum'). Edited December 31, 2016 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 31, 2016 Report Share Posted December 31, 2016 Moving on to season 3 of X-Files on Blu-ray (had to after that cliff-hanger!) I really never saw all these episodes of X-Files and it was about season 4 where I had to stop watching broadcasts as my wife's clinical paranoia made it something best not to have played back. . . . But man they did a fantastic job with these transfers, the show looks astonishingly good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 Sherlock The Six Thatchers Comic book balderdash. The script writing chaps were on holiday so the tea lady, assisted by Guy Ritchie, took up the reins. I'll stick to Elementary, at least it has half decent stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 2 hours ago, kinuta said: Sherlock The Six Thatchers Comic book balderdash. The script writing chaps were on holiday so the tea lady, assisted by Guy Ritchie, took up the reins. I'll stick to Elementary, at least it has half decent stories. The new Sherlock is not for me. More nonsensical than ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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