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good tv shows i havent seen?

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
Bit late on the bandwagon but the girlfriend and I are powering through Handmaid's Tale, some good ol' black mirror freaky hot pot of fuckery with a healthy side of feminism. I'm a big fan.
havent tried as the reviews make it sound miserable as hell

current telly shows I am rooting:

The Good Place. up to s2. Totally bonkers premise and 21 minute episodes are fun. Also don't have to look at poor people or ugly people. Set in heaven for the 1% dudley do rights! Although I can't listen to the tall pakistani brit girl without thinking of Russell Brand. She basically is Russell Brand. Russell Brand must watch this show and have a MASSIVE tug. That woman is his PERFECT soulmate. Her accent and voice are just goddamn hypnotic. Executive Summary; the woman is sexfire on a stick.

Killing Eve. damn this is so good. the dialogue is 10/10. something I dont think I have ever written about a telly show

Ray Donovan **SPOILER** e11 was deeply satisfying. All the baddie cops got whacked, with one getting the fire poker right through the back, beautifully addended with scumbag old
lady O'Brady delivering the perfect line; "...it's a copkebab."

recently finished:

Kidding. new thing with Jim Carrey. approached with much trepidation, if he's gonna do his manic bullshit comedy I'm out but luckily he doesnt and this is soooo goood. I hardly even think he's acting he seems so fucked in the head these days. Plus the kids in this are total misanthropic nutjobs which is an unexpected bonus. **SPOILER** final episode, my kingdom for a GIF/youtube clip of the Japanese intern, having been told 3 episodes ago by Carrey that "Allah Akbar" means peace or freedom or some shit, rushing the stage to light the Xmas tree and shrieking "Allah Akbar!" as he pushes a giant button. OH FUCK. Had to push pause and have a full-blown joy aneurysm all up and down my dick for the next 3 minutes after that

Upstart Crow. brit comedy written by Ben Elton with David Mitchell as Shakespeare before he got famous. Shades of Elton's form in Blackadder, the writing is so good. Shakesy does the doth thou shit then switches to lines like "I'm not going bald. I've just got a big brain."

Jack Ryan. Didn't mind this jingoistic seppo war pigs propaganda pamphlet. It somehow kept my attention. Although by the next day I'd pretty much forgotten about the whole thing. The main dude was a bit crap. His conversations with the chick he was trying to root were just goddamn motherfucking excruciating television. Fast-forwarded right past that shit.

gave up on:

Maniac. a medical trials thing (close to my heart, hello Glaxo!) and see now it hasnt been renewed for a second season. The Fukunaga guy from True Detective S1. Lead chick is an intensely horrid spoilt shit of a woman who I hope gets killed off quickly but I know she won't. Lead guy is fat guts Jonah Hill who must've shat out a tapeworm to get that skinny.

Supernatural. think I have finally done my dash with this insanely formulaic carry-on. The new season is TOTAL weepy chick talk bollocks. Huge hoary great 6 or 7 minute weepy expanses of dialogue with 2 of the 5 main charachters having an interminable touchy feely seppotastic sentimental heartstring tugfest while all the ladies tear up and clasp their pillows and empty pringles tubes and wish Dean was making their birth hatches all salty with baby using his dirty great big Pringles tube chopper.


awaiting return of: Bosch.

Has anyone seen "Derry Girls"? Read some RAAAAAVE reviews in the guardian, comedy of the year etc, gave it a burl and lasted all of 5 minutes. Wft. It was shit. Maybe I was expecting the moon on a stick after the reviews but come on. Wft am I missing here?


Louis CK Comeback

Kind of bummed I enjoyed some of his comeback set. It was probably funnier than his last couple of big deal tv specials. The "finding out who my real friends are" bit was interesting. Bit ironic the Parklands bit was the only real dud. The stuff about his own kids was flat-out deluded and deranged. Too bad he couldnt work in some bits about his apology. Guessing wrecking those womans careers/lives is not on his agenda. Judging by youtube comments :eyeroll: barely anyone gives a fuck anyway.

The "my life is over anyway" heckle comeback was telling. Guess losing 35 mill will do that. "Fuck you, what've I got to lose" is always a great mindset for making great comedy/art/music wghatevs. In hindsight, him not having that in his last couple of telly specials is kind of what buttfucked them in the mouth.

Now, with his TRUE edgelord status, I wonder if he'll still be a late night pariah?

I can see him working a couple of "fun" apologies into his next sets and being pretty much back in business, much to the chagrin of us libtards everywhere. In fact, I could see him being a Ground Zero figurehead prophet this year for the pc backlash movement that is surely just around the corner....

An outsiders attempt at a timeline for his whole career.

(dont know where to cue in the radio stuff, Opie and Anthony or whatever that shit is)

1980's-2005: dogshit. a bog-standard d-grade stand-up.
Fun ranking: 0/10. fucken who?
I'm with Louie ranking: 0%

2006-2010: something switches and he loses ALL inhibitions and goes berko, starts slagging off own kids etc. Suddenly liberated he's now funny as hell
Fun ranking: 10/10.
I'm with Louie ranking: 100%

2011-2017: gets rich as fuck. Oops, now he's a man with something to lose and it starts to show in his TV specials.
Fun ranking: 6/10.
I'm with Louie ranking: 80%

2018 until dec: in exile
I'm with Louie ranking: 5%

2018 Dec: comes out of exile. Once again with nothing to lose so hey, fuck you he's doubling down on the un-PC stuff. Retards, faggots, all that horrid noise, the woke SJW crowd can just fucken wear it. You want to heckle him, fine, you get a "my life is over anyway" comeback.

Fun ranking: 7/10 damnit.
I'm with Louie ranking: 40% ffs
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
Barry back this week
Killing Eve back this week
Bosch back apr 18​
Billions back on and everyone is still a bastard. Weird how Ax has zero to do with his ex and 2 kids. They're basically gone from the series and never mentioned. Seems weird after portraying him as a good dad in first season. Can't even remmeber why him and wifey got divorced now, all went down quick.
 

Pfitzy

George Gregan (70)
Love Death + Robots on Netflix.

If you like your scifi, and your animation, in anthology form, this is for you. Get on it.
 

Tex

John Thornett (49)
I'm late to the party but the new Alan Partridge series on ABC iView is an absolute pisser. Up there with David Brent in terms of genius comedy characters.
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
Up there with David Brent in terms of genius comedy characters.
Gervais is really back in business with After Life. I'm 2 episodes in and he's just the perfect nihilistic c**t.
Perfect role for him.​
All inhibitions out the window. Off to "work" in sweatpants and t-shirt. Dinner is corn flake dregs in a glass of water. His ludicrous "free local paper" job, oh jesus, they walk around researching it, write up stories, print a palate of the things then the local druggie delivery guy dumps the whole lot in a skip.
As beautiful as a rock in a cops face.


I want this tv show to go on forever.
 

Dctarget

John Eales (66)
My comedy recommendation is Toast of London. Absolute pisser of a show, really really ridiculous, completely absurd. It stars Matt Berry. Sorta like a much more polished, less bright Mighty Boosh, think it's on netflix.

Also, finally got around to watching the Wire. Don't think I can add anything. Now I actually understand "Omar Comin'"'s name and profile picture.
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
My comedy recommendation is Toast of London. Absolute pisser of a show, really really ridiculous, completely absurd.
took you up on that, 1 episode in and I could go to town on this. Is that the guy from the epically daft Garth Merenghi's Dark Place?

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RugbyReg

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
A Netflix suggestion. Bizarre comedy series. “I think you should leave with Tim Robinson”. Hilarious.
 

zer0

Jim Lenehan (48)
Some further Netflix suggestions:

Derry Girls. Comedy centred around Irish Catholic girls living in a Northern Ireland border town in the 90's. If you're familiar with the Inbetweeners then it's basically that, but with Irish girls in place of English boys. The school headmistress is fantastic.

The end of the f***ing world. Follows two UK teens who decide to runaway, the guy thinks he's a psychopath and the girl is just a huge troll. Very much a dark humour series.

A Very Secret Service. A French satire comedy (a sort of dramedy at times) centred around Cold War era French spies. Involves a lot of general Frenchiness, including culture clashes with Germans, Americans and Quebecois. Also features an episode where three characters are racing to finish their mission so they can get to a Five Nations test match in Cardiff, and, in doing so, inadvertently introduce Islamic extremists to the idea of hijacking aircraft.

Altered Carbon. A cyberpunk sci-fi very much in the Blade Runner mould. Features murderous hotel proprietor AI who takes the appearance of Edgar Allen Poe. He also has a gambling addiction. Don't think I need to say anything more really.

Sex Education. Given the first spoken words in the first scene of the first episode are "do you like my tets" in a strong northern English accent, may be a bit too low brow for some. Pretty much does what it says on the tin. Main character has sex therapists for parents and takes all the sex ed/psychology skills he learns via osmosis and applies them to high school kids.

Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Technically a film, but it's made up of six short stories all set in the wild west. It's a Cohen brothers film so naturally the stories vary from the outright silly (such as the opening one featuring the eponymous Buster Scruggs) to the absolutely weird (Dudley Dursley as a limbless thespian) to the legitimately sad (the one set on the Oregon trail).
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
Has anyone seen "Derry Girls"? Read some RAAAAAVE reviews in the guardian, comedy of the year etc, gave it a burl and lasted all of 5 minutes. Wft. It was shit. Maybe I was expecting the moon on a stick after the reviews but come on. Wft am I missing here?
The end of the f***ing world. Follows two UK teens who decide to runaway, the guy thinks he's a psychopath and the girl is just a huge troll. Very much a dark humour series.
yeah this was ace

may be a bit too low brow for some
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Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
Staff member
I have been smashing a French spy show on SBS on Demand called The Bureau. It's a bit of a slow burner but I've really gotten into it. There are four seasons and I've most of the way through season 3. I watch it during my commute.

There's plenty of good content on SBS on Demand, particularly European crime shows.
 

Dctarget

John Eales (66)
took you up on that, 1 episode in and I could go to town on this. Is that the guy from the epically daft Garth Merenghi's Dark Place?

Yep, tell me how you go. Wait until you meet Clem Fandango.

A Very Secret Service. A French satire comedy (a sort of dramedy at times) centred around Cold War era French spies. Involves a lot of general Frenchiness, including culture clashes with Germans, Americans and Quebecois. Also features an episode where three characters are racing to finish their mission so they can get to a Five Nations test match in Cardiff, and, in doing so, inadvertently introduce Islamic extremists to the idea of hijacking aircraft.

I've taken your advice here, pretty quirky. Only a couple episodes in but it's fun.

I have been smashing a French spy show on SBS on Demand called The Bureau. It's a bit of a slow burner but I've really gotten into it. There are four seasons and I've most of the way through season 3. I watch it during my commute.


Unwittingly watched the first episode with my gf, which means it's now an 'us' show. Even if she doesn't want to watch it, I can't, so it's going to be a very, very slow process. Tough life.
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
Yep, tell me how you go. Wait until you meet Clem Fandango.
haha, not there yet. daft names abound, GF is "Clancy Moped" and just had Paul Whitehouse in as "Vic Titbull".
so good. i find myself laughing even when nothing's happening its so absurd.
 

The Honey Badger

Jim Lenehan (48)
Season 3 of FORTITUDE now on SBS

Cant recommend this enough if you like a bit of a super natural thriller. Amazing setting, in the arctic,

But you definitely need to start at series 1 Ep 1.
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
Been watching a nice, light, whimsical, wee little period piece lately.

It's called "CHERNOBYL"

It stars Jared Harris burg, oh Harris burg, the plant is melting down.....

One part I didnt really get was the tearful internet uproar over ep 4 "watching the poor dogs getting put down was extremely distressing for me, I think I am permanently traumatised over this, those poor widdle puppies, how could they do or show or think to show such a thing on the televisionne. The irradiated humans? Oh, fuck them, I'm fine seeing people with their faces melted off in the burn clinic, whatevs. It's a couple of dogs getting put out of their inevitable misery in a forest that has me all internet incensed and buttraged today. I am deeply scarred now over that."
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
Staff member
Gervais is really back in business with After Life. I'm 2 episodes in and he's just the perfect nihilistic c**t.
Perfect role for him.
All inhibitions out the window. Off to "work" in sweatpants and t-shirt. Dinner is corn flake dregs in a glass of water. His ludicrous "free local paper" job, oh jesus, they walk around researching it, write up stories, print a palate of the things then the local druggie delivery guy dumps the whole lot in a skip. As beautiful as a rock in a cops face.

I want this tv show to go on forever.

Fucking superb. Even my wife, who hates me saying "fluffybunny" loved it.
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
Staff member
Been watching a nice, light, whimsical, wee little period piece lately.

It's called "CHERNOBYL"

It stars Jared Harris burg, oh Harris burg, the plant is melting down...

One part I didnt really get was the tearful internet uproar over ep 4 "watching the poor dogs getting put down was extremely distressing for me, I think I am permanently traumatised over this, those poor widdle puppies, how could they do or show or think to show such a thing on the televisionne. The irradiated humans? Oh, fuck them, I'm fine seeing people with their faces melted off in the burn clinic, whatevs. It's a couple of dogs getting put out of their inevitable misery in a forest that has me all internet incensed and buttraged today. I am deeply scarred now over that."

When the stuff gets in.........
 
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