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good tv shows i havent seen?

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
The Good Place. 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.
upcoming season 4 will be the last. good decision. go out on top. great show. usually tees off around September
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
My comedy recommendation is Toast of London. Absolute pisser of a show, really really ridiculous, completely absurd.

today's episode had an extreme close-up of Toasty's tackle. I was so impressed I was moved to screenshot the momentous occasionne. No wonder he's such a hit with all the ladies. Just look at the size of the thing!

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Up the Guts

Steve Williams (59)
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.
Started smashing through Toast last week after I saw a best of clip. Have been walking around saying “bon juh-vee” to myself like a madman all weekend.
 

Dctarget

John Eales (66)
Started smashing through Toast last week after I saw a best of clip. Have been walking around saying “bon juh-vee” to myself like a madman all weekend.

Hahaaa. It's so good. Such a bloody fruit loop. He showed up on the latest episode of Archer which was a surprise.
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
sounds like Ricky Gervais' new special will be right up my alley:
He hates “woke comedy”, he tells us. “I’d rather watch Louis CK masturbate.” One routine after another is designed to flout PC propriety and startle us with rudeness. There’s the one about Gervais wanking over a picture of baby Hitler.
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
damnit was lookign forward to some more wooded intrigue from OZARK but turns out they're only just filming now and it won't be back til 2020
 

Tex

John Thornett (49)
The first episode of The Loudest Voice was really good, looking forward to it unfolding.

If you haven't been pasted by the ads on Fairfax sites its the story of Roger Ailes and Fox News, with Russell Crowe as the lead. Great work from Rusty as usual, very convincing acting
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
Years and Years. Raced through this 6 ep BBC thingie. So good. Sort of a Black Mirror lite set in near future. Heavy on the dystopia. Writing is so good, so many great little ideas which seem so plausible visa visor GOVT.
the Group Chat Link thing creeps me out. Are families really that close? Man, mine weren't. What a pain being so interconnected at all times. FFS, I have to turn the music down AGAIN for these dicks to tell me about their boring day? Jesus, it's like a telephone that just won't shut up.
It's so accurate how the little kids are just silent numbed zombies beholden to their phones. They never physically "play" and have nothing in the way of a boisterous imagination or playful curiosity like the kids from my horse and cart childhood had.
Sadly though, being the bastard I am, I did quite enjoy the banking collapse in Ep 2.
Was great to see Bethany blossom into a mega-spunk in the last 10 minutes. Lincoln too! A bit idyllic how no one called him a pansy though. Establishes a good role model though as to how to treat gender confused. Or diffused. Or whatever the term is
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
The free climbing guy? Yeah fuck that shit. Not watching that.

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Been pounding rooting watching The Boys, a sort of marvel anti-hero thing. I have a vague ultra stiffy for the mega baddie Immortan Joe mega milf matron.....



haha, just noticed, all the photos behind her are of herself. Don't blame her.
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
Staff member
The free climbing guy? Yeah fuck that shit. Not watching that.

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Been pounding rooting watching The Boys, a sort of marvel anti-hero thing. I have a vague ultra stiffy for the mega baddie Immortan Joe mega milf matron...





haha, just noticed, all the photos behind her are of herself. Don't blame her.
Is that where you claim to not remember where you put your ultra-stiffy?
 

Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
Staff member
Same here. Very squirmy to watch. He's an odd guy.


Yeah, certainly a bit of a sociopath. I guess you need to be mostly devoid of emotion to be able to consider doing what he did.

It's a pretty amazing film. I actually found the first two thirds more stressful than the actual footage of the climb. The talking about it and the reactions of family and friends and the general unease of the crew were hard to deal with.

There are two other climbing films I've got queued up to watch now. Meru (which is the same filmmakers) and Dawn Wall (which features Tommy Caldwell who is the main climbing friend in Free Solo). Neither are about free soloing so shouldn't be as stressful!
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
Staff member
Yeah, certainly a bit of a sociopath. I guess you need to be mostly devoid of emotion to be able to consider doing what he did.

It's a pretty amazing film. I actually found the first two thirds more stressful than the actual footage of the climb. The talking about it and the reactions of family and friends and the general unease of the crew were hard to deal with.

There are two other climbing films I've got queued up to watch now. Meru (which is the same filmmakers) and Dawn Wall (which features Tommy Caldwell who is the main climbing friend in Free Solo). Neither are about free soloing so shouldn't be as stressful!

Some friends have watched Dawn Wall - I haven't yet. It sounds incredible, in terms of single-minded strength of purpose!
 

teach

Trevor Allan (34)
Fringe. Sort of X files type of show. 5 season long overarching story line. Monster of the week episodes. Mad Scientist, time travel, alternate universes, that sort of thing. Took a fair part of season 1 to find its feet. Created by J.J. Abrams .
 

Tex

John Thornett (49)
Yeah, certainly a bit of a sociopath. I guess you need to be mostly devoid of emotion to be able to consider doing what he did.

It's a pretty amazing film. I actually found the first two thirds more stressful than the actual footage of the climb. The talking about it and the reactions of family and friends and the general unease of the crew were hard to deal with.

There are two other climbing films I've got queued up to watch now. Meru (which is the same filmmakers) and Dawn Wall (which features Tommy Caldwell who is the main climbing friend in Free Solo). Neither are about free soloing so shouldn't be as stressful!

Both are great films and not quite as butt-clenching as Free Solo, although there's a few scary scenes in Meru. Can't quite fathom how these people camp on portaledges high above the void.

This is an excellent short doco about an expedition to climb Hkakabo Razi in Myanmar. Some real old-school adventure climbing in a very isolated and remote part of the world.

Then there's the classic Touching the Void. That one is the stuff of nightmares:

"In 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, both experienced mountaineers, set out to ascend the previously unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande in Peru. Though they reach the summit, a powerful storm develops and Joe suffers a badly broken leg in a fall during the descent. The pair attempt a self-rescue, deciding to lower Joe with ropes down the steep and snowy slope while an enormous storm rages on. Simon cannot see where he is lowering Joe and Joe eventually drops over the edge of a large cliff and is suspended by the rope in mid-air. Simon arrests his fall, but neither sees the predicament his partner is in nor hears him over the howling wind.
Unable to pull Joe back over the cliff and gradually losing traction in the loose snow, Simon realizes after about an hour that there is little chance of recovery from this situation for either of them and he decides to cut the rope connecting him with Joe. Simon descends after surviving a subzero and stormy night on the mountain but cannot find his partner. He assumes Joe is dead and returns to the base camp alone, where he stays to recover."
 
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