TV Serieseseses
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@Victor-Meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
Was introduced to The Brokenwood Mysteries a few months back. Watching series 6 at the moment. Great fun.
Bloody well written and Gina the pathologist has to be one of the great TV characters of all time.
Follows a tried and true formula (Midsomer, Bergerac, Morse etc) with over the top characters and situations and a very slow release of the arc of the main characters. Has made a shed load of money filling TV schedules around the world.
Used to watch it in the UK as a little piece of kiwiana and there are still the odd kiwi in jokes thrown in that would go straight over the heads of overseas audiences.
What you have to throw away immediately is any sense of reality as you recognise that the 'small town' of Brokenwood, shown as Warkworth has their Police Station in the bank at Wellsford and seems to cover a vast area from Riverhead to Dargaville according to the locations used.
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@Nepia no, it's just a free VPN extension
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Used to live where Midsomer was filmed (Bucks). Lost it's way now, but it was blackly comic, satirical, fun to watch and took the piss out of serious detective series like Morse etc. They'd do things like have extra murder victims killed and then completely ignored in the rest of the script/show or pun Agatha Christie novels and characters.
Brokenwood is a touch more politically-incorrect and acerbic - and I love the Kiwi in-jokes
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nepia no, it's just a free VPN extension
Hola is a free extension too. What's your chrome one called?
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@Machpants said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nepia Don't use Hola. You open your PC up to trafficing all sorts of shit. Your PC becomes a node, so anything could go through it
I don't, I don't use any VPNs currently. But good to know.
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You've really got to be careful with free VPNs, If it becomes like Hola - basically every PC on it becomes a VPN point for someone else using Hola - your PC (and IP address) could be streaming anything. And it looks like your PC to external agencies.
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@Bones said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nepia well have also just started "Guilt". BBC Scotland black comedy drama.
"Two brothers seem to get away with a crime - but soon discover they can trust no-one."
Good so far.
Mark Bonner has to be one of the most under-appreciated actors around. Great in everything he is in. I really like his character in Catastrophe and he is tremendous in Guilt. Have you got far into the series? It gets pretty twisted. The only character who seems to be above board is the dead guy. And he's dead.
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Right, I know you are all dying for an update, so far "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here" is very entertaining and a cringefest!! James Haskell is quite nice actually, mildly funny, uncanny resemblance to triple H according Mr RL. Ian Wright is a gent, the irish comedian bloke underwhelming but a nice wee softie. Caitlyn Jenner, well meh, waiting for someone to call her a He/Him/Bruce.... Oh that will be fun.
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@Crucial I spotted that last night, will have a watch
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@Crucial I spotted that last night, will have a watch
Not sure if it was a one off or a series. Only one available at the moment.
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I've been watching Stumptown, which is about an ex-Veteren who decides to become a PI, had Donal Logue for a couple of eps too.
Light hearted, easy watch.
Also been watching Daybreak on Netflix (a post apocolyptic world where barely any adults survived a bomb, and those that did are zombie-like)
Despite being more aimed at a younger audience, I liked the first few eps, then it kinda went off the rails and is a bit over the top in some of its story lines, but gonna finish just cos I only have 2 eps to go.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
I've been watching Stumptown, which is about an ex-Veteren who decides to become a PI, had Donal Logue for a couple of eps too.
Light hearted, easy watch.
Also been watching Daybreak on Netflix (a post apocolyptic world where barely any adults survived a bomb, and those that did are zombie-like)
Despite being more aimed at a younger audience, I liked the first few eps, then it kinda went off the rails and is a bit over the top in some of its story lines, but gonna finish just cos I only have 2 eps to go.
Very weird show, kind of enjoyed it . Hilarious when he's signing up to the consent app
This is a really long list.
Yeah, well, there's a lot of different positions, different appetites.
Different people get aroused by different things.
What's pegging?
You wouldn't be interested in that.
A Lucky Pierre?
We can't even do that.
Oh, Strawberry Shortcake.
What's that?
It's not the same as the Cheesecake Factory.
Huh.Also
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@jegga yea despite playing a school girl, she is 22 IRL...
Yea some of it is good and funny, some crap...
