Best TV shows or movies you can recommend (14 Viewers)

ajsccfc

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Sam Campbell was great, never seen him on anything before. That's what I don't get about when people complain that they've not heard of a contestant when the new ones are announced
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

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Me and the good lady are watching strictly come dancing , bit of a guilty pleasure for me if I’m honest
 

Ian1779

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Re-watching some of Eddie Izzard’s early work…. The stuff when he was still funny.

God Bless Mrs Badcrumble!
 

shmmeee

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Just watched season 1 of Schmigadoon on Apple TV+ and I’m secure enough in my masculinity to say I enjoyed it a lot.
 
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Watched the new series of taskmaster , enjoyed it .
Tried the New Zealand version - meh, too much like the British one, but can't relate to the comics as they all sound the same (as I'm not from New Zealand!). Finding the Swedish one strangely watchable(!)
 
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I thought Boiling Point on BBC1 tonight was good. Plot seems very predictable but it conveys the pressure and stress of working in a restaurant kitchen well and the characters seem really believable. It feels stressful watching though.
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

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I thought Boiling Point on BBC1 tonight was good. Plot seems very predictable but it conveys the pressure and stress of working in a restaurant kitchen well and the characters seem really believable. It feels stressful watching though.
Do you have to have seen the film ?
 

Bertola

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Watching Season 4 of Sex Education currently... seems to have gone a little overboard with its LGBTQ+ representation nd trying to cover every single demographic, but still some very funny lines.

Have also been recommended Only Murders in The Building, so that's next on the list
 

DrPoolittle

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Anyone into WW2, I would recommend the Norwegian series War Sailor. It’s about the sailors of the Norwegian merchant fleet.
Harrowing stuff.
 

clint van damme

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Watching the Long Shadow, dramatisation of the Yorkshire ripped story.

Reminds me what a grim, bleak decade the 70s were.
I know some people look back on it with fondness but I thought it was an awful time.
 

AOM

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Some pretty good crime series on BBC iPlayer at the moment -
The Woman in the Wall - with Ruth Wilson about the fallout of the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. Really interesting, but also depressing being based on true historical events
Black Snow - Australian crime series about solving a cold case murder. A bit like a mix of Broadchurch and Unforgotten and then add in Ragnar Lothbrok from Vikings
 

Flying Fokker

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Some pretty good crime series on BBC iPlayer at the moment -
The Woman in the Wall - with Ruth Wilson about the fallout of the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. Really interesting, but also depressing being based on true historical events
Black Snow - Australian crime series about solving a cold case murder. A bit like a mix of Broadchurch and Unforgotten and then add in Ragnar Lothbrok from Vikings
The Woman in the Wall, great acting and yet another example of how trusted groups manipulate people. I think this will be a strong contender for a Bafta/ or the Irish equivalent 🙂
 

AOM

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The Woman in the Wall, great acting and yet another example of how trusted groups manipulate people. I think this will be a strong contender for a Bafta/ or the Irish equivalent 🙂

Yep, I really enjoyed it. Also quite funny and dry in parts, especially the local police officer.

Actually didn't even know such a thing as the laundries existed until I'd seen the series, really grim to read up on
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

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started watching Billions, Fell out of the habit of watching it a while ago but it is enjoyable
 

Flying Fokker

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Yep, I really enjoyed it. Also quite funny and dry in parts, especially the local police officer.

Actually didn't even know such a thing as the laundries existed until I'd seen the series, really grim to read up on
Being arrested for hitting a Police Horse…He didnt know it was a Police horse!
 
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Grendel

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Finished it. Harrowing stuff.
Police and politicians letting down working class people as usual.

Tbh it’s just a sign of the society then - serial killers like Suttcliffe would be bought to justice much earlier now
 

Grendel

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I’m currently watching a re-run of the 1986 Eastenders Christmas Special
 

olderskyblue

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Watched the Continental this week. its the story of that hotel in the John Wick films. Lends a lot from those films. I liked it
 

Mcbean

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Just finished the long Shadow - well documented interesting drama

what a mess and a series of senior cock ups - I guess hindsight is a wonderful thing but why they didnt believe those who were attacked that he was quietly spoken and not a Geordie cost them a year at least and three lives
 

nicksar

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Just finished the long Shadow - well documented interesting drama

what a mess and a series of senior cock ups - I guess hindsight is a wonderful thing but why they didnt believe those who were attacked that he was quietly spoken and not a Geordie cost them a year at least and three lives
The senior officers in charge were very incompetent,your right it cost lives.
 

clint van damme

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Just finished the long Shadow - well documented interesting drama

what a mess and a series of senior cock ups - I guess hindsight is a wonderful thing but why they didnt believe those who were attacked that he was quietly spoken and not a Geordie cost them a year at least and three lives

There was another huge cock up that wasn't in the show.
They used roladex cards to keep information on suspects, if you took a card out you were supposed to put a placeholder in its place until it had been returned. If you eliminated a suspect you just removed their card.
An officer went to get Suttcliffes card but it wasn't there and there was no place holder so they assumed he'd been eliminated, in fact someone had it but didn't put a place holder in its place when they'd took it so the officer thought he's been eliminated and didn't pursue it.

If the placeholder had been there he'd have almost certainly have been caught earlier as he'd have become a prime suspect.
 

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