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@stockcar86 said in TV Serieseseses:
There is only one truly great reality tv show - Forged In Fire!
You mean Takeshi's Castle?
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@stockcar86 said in TV Serieseseses:
There is only one truly great reality tv show - Forged In Fire!
i mate pointed me towards that, i haven't watched whole episodes but "followed" the highlights....and so started getting targets for the forging vidoes that are fascinating....and now im looking around for a course, found a couple of one day course where you make our own kitchen knife! think it could be fun
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Anyone here watched Clarkson's Farm? New one on Amazon Prime. Just tore through all eight episodes.
It's a doco that follows Jeremy Clarkson's attempt to actually run the farm he's owned for about a decade (but paid for others to manage). It's a pretty sizeable property in the Cotswalds.
I'm not a massive Clarkson fan, but I really enjoyed this show. I found it engrossing. I'm not a farmer but always been fascinated with how farms work, so this was right in my wheelhouse. The farmhands and assistants steal the show.
It was pretty serious in nature, obviously light-hearted moments but Clarkson shelved his Top Gear persona for the most part.
I'd recommend. I think it's one of those shows that you'd know within the first 15 minutes if it was for you or not.
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@barbarian Have watched it, and as someone who grew up on a farm, enjoyed it a lot. He doesn't dodge the fact it is a hard slog in the physical, mental and financial sense.
A couple of farmers i know commented favourably on social media, and I tend to agree: while still retaining a bit of that Clarkson pigheadedness, it is very well crafted and Kaleb and Gerald are the highlights for me.
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Black Summer
Season 2 came out on Netflix and it is mostly to do with winter. Minimal dialogue, a crapload of violence, and some questionable decisions on how to handle yourself during The Zombie Plague.
I commented somewhere about season 1's grip on reality, in terms of people who could otherwise work together but choose selfishness/greed. Perhaps in season 1, being early in the piece, everyone is a little nuts.
This time we're 6 months down the track and there are far less people around. Maybe I'm an optimist, but I think the human need for tribe would at this point would outweigh the mania that consumes most of the characters involved.
Perhaps that is the REAL plague; the message being that humans are terrible and deserve to be callous shitbags.
Still, I liked it. Some good tension building, use of audio and music to back up the camera work, which is a great blend of delightful scenery and whirlwinds of chaos during the violent bits.
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@nta said in TV Serieseseses:
Black Summer
Season 2 came out on Netflix and it is mostly to do with winter. Minimal dialogue, a crapload of violence, and some questionable decisions on how to handle yourself during The Zombie Plague.
I commented somewhere about season 1's grip on reality, in terms of people who could otherwise work together but choose selfishness/greed. Perhaps in season 1, being early in the piece, everyone is a little nuts.
This time we're 6 months down the track and there are far less people around. Maybe I'm an optimist, but I think the human need for tribe would at this point would outweigh the mania that consumes most of the characters involved.
Perhaps that is the REAL plague; the message being that humans are terrible and deserve to be callous shitbags.
Still, I liked it. Some good tension building, use of audio and music to back up the camera work, which is a great blend of delightful scenery and whirlwinds of chaos during the violent bits.
Looking forward to it. Was gonna binge it this weekend but given it’s apparently sunny ( albeit freezing ) I’m taking the boys on some bush walks tomorrow and have a lunch with the other half’s mates on Sunday.
I think the thing that irked me in season one was how dumb some main character were, particularly in the school scenes.
I doubt this show has the legs to go on for too many seasons though…..
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Started Clarkson's Farm last night with Mrs M and we both enjoyed it. Farmer next door to us mentioned it to us as being a pretty good watch.
I'm not into Top Gear Clarkson, but like his serious documentaries.This comes across as a serious doco with some laddish moments and great characters which Clarkson doesn't try and over-shadow,
Can highly recommend Clarkson's documentaries on the Victoria Cross, The Dieppe Raid, the Artic Convoys and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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@virgil said in TV Serieseseses:
@r-l said in TV Serieseseses:
@virgil never fails to make me laugh.. So many good episodes.
Agree with Neps, it definitely got better when it came into it's own.
Michael Scott just has to be one of my all time favourite characters in any comedy show, and Dwight.
still my fave...That gif is giving me a seizure..
I'm glad you said seizure.
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@stockcar86 said in TV Serieseseses:
There is only one truly great reality tv show - Forged In Fire!
Funnily enough this one reality show I've seen a bunch of episodes of - was in Nelson Bay (Oz version not @Chris-B version) over summer and we got rained out so spent the day making cocktails and playing board games with Forged in Fire running constantly.
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@victor-meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
Started Clarkson's Farm last night with Mrs M and we both enjoyed it. Farmer next door to us mentioned it to us as being a pretty good watch.
I'm not into Top Gear Clarkson, but like his serious documentaries.This comes across as a serious doco with some laddish moments and great characters which Clarkson doesn't try and over-shadow,
Can highly recommend Clarkson's documentaries on the Victoria Cross, The Dieppe Raid, the Artic Convoys and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
I'm interested in all of those topics but unsure if I can balance that against Clarkson.
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@nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
@victor-meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
Started Clarkson's Farm last night with Mrs M and we both enjoyed it. Farmer next door to us mentioned it to us as being a pretty good watch.
I'm not into Top Gear Clarkson, but like his serious documentaries.This comes across as a serious doco with some laddish moments and great characters which Clarkson doesn't try and over-shadow,
Can highly recommend Clarkson's documentaries on the Victoria Cross, The Dieppe Raid, the Artic Convoys and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
I'm interested in all of those topics but unsure if I can balance that against Clarkson.
Check them out - he's a very different, serious persona. Researches and writes them as well. The one on the VC has a real kick at the end.
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@nta said in TV Serieseseses:
A couple of farmers i know commented favourably on social media, and I tend to agree: while still retaining a bit of that Clarkson pigheadedness, it is very well crafted and Kaleb and Gerald are the highlights for me.
Really Kaleb, Gerald and Charlie take the show from passable to bloody good. They are so different from Jeremy, but watching them work together and bounce off each other (Kaleb especially) makes the show about more than just a farmer on a farm.
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@victor-meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
@nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
@victor-meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
Started Clarkson's Farm last night with Mrs M and we both enjoyed it. Farmer next door to us mentioned it to us as being a pretty good watch.
I'm not into Top Gear Clarkson, but like his serious documentaries.This comes across as a serious doco with some laddish moments and great characters which Clarkson doesn't try and over-shadow,
Can highly recommend Clarkson's documentaries on the Victoria Cross, The Dieppe Raid, the Artic Convoys and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
I'm interested in all of those topics but unsure if I can balance that against Clarkson.
Check them out - he's a very different, serious persona. Researches and writes them as well. The one on the VC has a real kick at the end.
The problem is I know his actual persona.
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Never met him or anyone who knows him. Have you met him?
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@victor-meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
Never met him or anyone who knows him. Have you met him?
I was assuming his Top Gear and associated persona was more likely to be his actual persona than a serious doco persona.
Are you sure you don't know him, you were quick to chuck that armour on.
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@nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
@victor-meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
Never met him or anyone who knows him. Have you met him?
I was assuming his Top Gear and associated persona was more likely to be his actual persona than a serious doco persona.
Are you sure you don't know him, you were quick to chuck that armour on.
No, not at all. Thought from your post you might have met him
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Glitch is pretty intriguing so far and happily enough it is a show that both the other half and I enjoy which has been a struggle of late.
Anyone else seen it ? Intriguing premise ( basically dead folk coming back to life ). As she has pointed out the first series won a bunch of awards but the second and third didn’t so it might turn to shit as so many TV shows do.
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@mn5 said in TV Serieseseses:
Glitch is pretty intriguing so far and happily enough it is a show that both the other half and I enjoy which has been a struggle of late.
Anyone else seen it ? Intriguing premise ( basically dead folk coming back to life ). As she has pointed out the first series won a bunch of awards but the second and third didn’t so it might turn to shit as so many TV shows do.
Hmmm... Top Review on IMDB starts with:
Season 1 was great. Season 2 was good. But Season 3 was beyond awful.
And ends with:
...watching Season 3 to its conclusion, left me angry in the end, making me with [sic] I hadn't watched it at all.
So... a qaundary... watch a couple of seasons, and leave it halfway through? Or watch it all for the sake of completeness? Or just ignore it, and admit I've already got 30 seasons of unwatched TV Serieseses downloaded, and that'll just have to do for a while.
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@kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 said in TV Serieseseses:
Glitch is pretty intriguing so far and happily enough it is a show that both the other half and I enjoy which has been a struggle of late.
Anyone else seen it ? Intriguing premise ( basically dead folk coming back to life ). As she has pointed out the first series won a bunch of awards but the second and third didn’t so it might turn to shit as so many TV shows do.
Hmmm... Top Review on IMDB starts with:
Season 1 was great. Season 2 was good. But Season 3 was beyond awful.
And ends with:
...watching Season 3 to its conclusion, left me angry in the end, making me with [sic] I hadn't watched it at all.
So... a qaundary... watch a couple of seasons, and leave it halfway through? Or watch it all for the sake of completeness? Or just ignore it, and admit I've already got 30 seasons of unwatched TV Serieseses downloaded, and that'll just have to do for a while.
I almost always watch shows til the end ( apart from Walking Dead which just got too fucken stupid for words, I think I gave up when that guy with the pet tiger appeared ).
