Topic: The TV Show Thread

@nessisonett Nope. Could possibly be a reference by the original author, but I'm guessing it's just pure coincidence, since they're nothing alike otherwise.

I watched through The Thick Of It and In the Loop this week and they are so funny. I know it's dark satire but there were moments that just had me creasing up. I'd seen In the Loop before but it's much funnier when it's watched in the context of The Thick of it. I feel like the UK govts policies, backtracking and general perceived chaos kind of make a bit more sense now that I've seen this show.

There's an American show called Veep made by the same guy (Armando Ianucci) that is kind of a follow up/adaptation with some of the same actors from In The Loop so I'll definitely be watching that when it rejoins one of my streaming subs

Mr Inbetween... a cracking little Australian show. I don’t really watch much comedy as I have quite a dark sense of humour that not much in the mainstream even gets near. This show cracked me up regularly though. The tales of a half-decent Ozzie career-criminal (does a bit of everything beyond the law really) and how his ageing sensibilities and morality clashes with the current age and his criminal life. Brilliant!

@ralphdibny Excellent show. I first saw it after he was in Doctor Who, so all the way through i couldn't get outta my head that Malcom Tucker would go back into his Tardis at the end of each episode.

@JohnnyShoulder haha, yeah it's a bit weird to think of the Doctor being so foul mouthed when he's moonlighting as a government spin doctor.

I just looked up to see if he'd played any other kind of doctor and found out he's actually going to be in the new suicide squad film playing the thinker

@RogerRoger I need to check those videos out, they sound really funny

I finally caught up on Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2, man what a ride. I had already been spoilered about most of the surprises sadly, but still had a fun time watching them being played out!

I'm planning to start binge watching the rest of the Arrowverse asap next, starting with Black Lightning: Season 2.

Other than that, just waiting for Wandavision to come out, super excited to see MCU's first Disney+ live action series.

@ralphdibny Some of his other comedy shows are quite surreal but hilarious.

The Armando Ianucci Show was a weird sort of sketch show and I loved the recurring character of Hugh.

Time Trumpet was another one from the mid noughties which satired those shows where celebs reminisce about the events of years but it was set in the future and looked back on years in the late noughties. Quite weird but hilarious.

Check them out if you like his work. They are a bit more out there than the stuff you mention!

@KidBoruto

I gave up on the Arrowverse around 4 or 5 seasons into Arrow and 2 seasons into The Flash. I do kinda want to watch the seasonal cross-over events... but would feel like I’m missing out on so much of what had led up to them that I doubt it would be worth it.

I’m looking forward to the Disney+ Marvel shows too, pretty much all of them sound interesting but out of the ones that have had trailers, Loki really grabbed my interest.

Just finished Bridgerton, period shows aren’t generally my cup of tea but it was okay. The missus loved it though so there is that... and for all the shows and films she has had to watch that are more my thing I’m glad she enjoyed it.

@colonelkilgore Yeah, my mum and sister have both binged it already. My sister’s in a bubble with my grandparents at the moment and they all sat and watched it together, which makes me cringe as it did get rather saucy in places 😬

@nessisonett

🤣 While I wouldn’t say it gets ‘crazy’... I’d certainly rather not watch it with the grand parents! 🤣

@colonelkilgore That whole storyline about the ‘pull out method’ must have been a nightmare 😂

Trust me I understand how repetitive and never ending the Arrowverse can be...that's partly how I fell so far behind lol. Especially with the annual crossover events that require you to be completely caught up on all the shows.

Loki's trailer was very hype! I'm curious what the TVA will be exactly. Also looking forward to The Falcon and the Winter Solider.

Glad to hear you'll be giving WandaVision a chance! Hope you enjoy it enough to check out the other MCU series (Falcon & Winter Solider, Loki, What If... etc)

Started watching The Crown with my Mrs and finished Blood of Zeus, hopefully a second season isn't far away as it was excellent!

@Thrillho nice, I've seen the Armando Ianucci show before but I'll look into time trumpet! I mainly got linked over to his work as a spin off from Chris Morris work like The Day Today and Brass Eye. I still think The Day Today is one of the funniest shows I've ever watched

@KidBoruto

I could be wrong but I did get a bit of a Quantum Leap-vibe from the Loki trailer... you maybe too young to remember QL but back in the late 80’s - mid 90’s it was one of the only sci-fi shows on TV and was pretty good for the time.

Yeah, as a big Cap fan The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is also one I’m looking forward too and what with Wanda-Vision setting up Spider-man 3 and Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness, it all sounds very exciting.

The What If animated show looks great too.

@ralphdibny The Day Today and Brass Eye were awesome! IIRC the latter had some pretty dark humour which is probably explains why it was on so late. One of the shows I always used to catch a bit sozzled and never really appreciated it until I saw it a few years later.

@JohnnyShoulder yeah same actually, brass eye definitely required a bit more attention than I was ever able to give it!

@JohnnyShoulder @ralphdibny Brass Eye and The Day Today were both fantastic. The "paedogeddon" Brass Eye special was great for the amount of fury it generated in the right wing media if nothing else.

@JohnnyShoulder @Thrillho my mates stepdad was a big watcher of BBC news for some reason. Like he would watch the news all day. One day when I was round there, we actually put on The Day Today, I guess under the pretense it was Sky News or something, to see if he'd notice. It took a couple of episodes but he eventually turned around to us and said "What the F--- is this?!" 😂