[TobyD]

Good in our time
Also, I'm sure everyone else saw it years ago but breaking bad on Netflix is amazing.

I was late to the Breaking Bad party (not quite as late as you    )

I’ve watched the entire thing 4 times. Amazing!

Isn't it just. I didn't have a TV for about ten years, so there's quite a lot I haven't seen!

[TobyD]

W has discovered Melvyn and In Our Time in the last couple of weeks through her studies and is now completely in love with him and the programme. 

She was studying 18th C industrial history and stumbled across the archive - it’s searchable by subject and date.  A valuable resource...

It's brilliant isn't it. I quite often download an episode to listen to on long car journeys. Also on the BBC I player, I quite like Nick Robinson's weekly political thinking podcast, and more or less, although this seems not quite as entertaining as it used to be, somehow.

[Yossarian]

W has discovered Melvyn and In Our Time in the last couple of weeks through her studies and is now completely in love with him and the programme. 

She was studying 18th C industrial history and stumbled across the archive - it’s searchable by subject and date.  A valuable resource...

It's brilliant isn't it. I quite often download an episode to listen to on long car journeys. Also on the BBC I player, I quite like Nick Robinson's weekly political thinking podcast, and more or less, although this seems not quite as entertaining as it used to be, somehow.

We are massive IOT fans. I don’t think I’ve ever been more proud than when, during the Extremophiles episode, my daughter (then two-years-old) shouted at the top of her voice HYDROTHERMAL VENTS. (This will make total sense to parents of Octonauts fans.) I’m supposed to meeting up sometime with the astrobiologist from that one.

I particularly enjoy the episodes when Melvyn starts to really struggle. P vs NP, Relativity, etc.

Caitlin Moran wrote an essay about listening to one every day for a year.

[Jim]

Good in our time
Also, I'm sure everyone else saw it years ago but breaking bad on Netflix is amazing.

I was late to the Breaking Bad party (not quite as late as you    )

I’ve watched the entire thing 4 times. Amazing!

Really? BB was good but I was sick of it at the very end and just glad that it had finished so I didn't have to watch it any more

[Oldmanmatt]

Good in our time
Also, I'm sure everyone else saw it years ago but breaking bad on Netflix is amazing.

I was late to the Breaking Bad party (not quite as late as you    )

I’ve watched the entire thing 4 times. Amazing!

Really? BB was good but I was sick of it at the very end and just glad that it had finished so I didn't have to watch it any more

You’re talking about the walking dead, aren’t you?

[TobyD]

Good in our time
Also, I'm sure everyone else saw it years ago but breaking bad on Netflix is amazing.

I was late to the Breaking Bad party (not quite as late as you    )

I’ve watched the entire thing 4 times. Amazing!

Really? BB was good but I was sick of it at the very end and just glad that it had finished so I didn't have to watch it any more

You’re talking about the walking dead, aren’t you?

?? Just finished season 2 of BB; I can't believe I'm going to get sick of it... I'll struggle to make myself watch anything else before I embark on season 3.

[moose]

?? Just finished season 2 of BB; I can't believe I'm going to get sick of it... I'll struggle to make myself watch anything else before I embark on season 3.

and, it gets better.....(magnets, bitch!). The first 4 seasons of the Wire (and maybe The Shield, if only for the final operatic episodes) are possibly better but Breaking Bad is close in my Pantheon of godly TV. 

Breaking Bad is the series that most subverted my initial impressions.  At first I thought it was a cliched fish-out-of-water "dramady": uptight nerd meets druggie, watch how sparks fly!  But, it rapidly defied my expectations, with Jesse transitioning from comic relief stoner to moral centre, and Walter White becoming increasingly unsympathetic (from "cancer victim" to "Heisenberg").  Plus, it takes a series with great writing to get better with more constricted scenarios and less resources, but Breaking Bad managed it: witness "bottle" episodes like "The Fly".

[teestub]

I can’t remember how far I got before giving up. It became impossible to suspend my disbelief that no one had shot WW in the face yet.

[tomtom]

I can’t remember how far I got before giving up. It became impossible to suspend my disbelief that no one had shot WW in the face yet.

Suspending disbelief is far easier in a Brexit/Trump world...

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

This may be useful if others are like me and find the Netflix browse feature pretty useless.
https://netflixcodes.me
 

[Will Hunt]

I've watched Godless on Netflix and have really enjoyed it. I do have a weakness in this regard: if it's got horses, canyons, sprawling plains, drawling desperados, corseted belles and repeating rifles then it's likely that I'll watch it, regardless of whether it's dross or not.

Plenty of clichés, but plenty of fast drawing pistol excitement which helps it along greatly. Best of all, it's a 1 series six partner, so the characters and story actually develop at a non-glacial pace.

[teestub]

With these criteria Will I hope you’ve watched the Westworld series, it’s really really good.

[Will Hunt]

With these criteria Will I hope you’ve watched the Westworld series, it’s really really good.

Looks like it's only on Sky. Disaster.

[teestub]

If you don’t have an ideological standpoint against Sky, you can get their internet player thing free for a month and just smash through everything you want to watch.

[duncan]

Tones, drones, and  arpeggios: the magic of minimalism.

On BBC4 right now but I expect it will be repeated.

(Or on iPlayer)

[dontfollowme]

Tones, drones, and  arpeggios: the magic of minimalism.

On BBC4 right now but I expect it will be repeated.

(Or on iPlayer)

Nice tip.

[Will Hunt]

Civilisations on the iPlayer. In the first episode, Simon Schama takes us on a tour of the beginnings of ancient art. Well worth a watch.
The only fault I can find is that I can't really see where the line between fact and speculation are drawn. Schama seems to get romantically drawn into the possible explanations for various ancient practices which one can only surmise are based on a certain amount of educated guesswork.

[Will Hunt]

Good In Our Time this week about the Highland clearances.

[remus]

Just polished of Altered Carbon (on netflix i think?) Very enjoyable SciFi series. Got a little lost in the middle but pulls it all together nicely in the end. It's based on a novel, though I haven't read it so not sure how it compares.

[tomtom]

Just polished of Altered Carbon (on netflix i think?) Very enjoyable SciFi series. Got a little lost in the middle but pulls it all together nicely in the end. It's based on a novel, though I haven't read it so not sure how it compares.

We’re in the middle so good to hear it perks up. Decent so far.

[Evil]

Just polished of Altered Carbon (on netflix i think?) Very enjoyable SciFi series. Got a little lost in the middle but pulls it all together nicely in the end. It's based on a novel, though I haven't read it so not sure how it compares.

Having read it, I felt like the first half of the series was really good, but as it started to deviate from the book, it lost it's way a bit. I don't really want to give spoilers, but some of the changes they made changed the backstory quite a lot, and I preferred the book version. I did like the change to the hotel though. Overall I really enjoyed it, and realise that TV and book things are never going to be exactly the same. I recommend the author, all his stuff is good.

[andy popp]

So, I think this is available in the UK; new Netflix documentary series called "Flint Town," about the police department in Flint Michigan, which, for those not in the know, is the ultimate in rust belt decline. We watched three episodes last night: compelling, gruelling (they do not flinch from showing random murder victims lying where they've fallen in the street), but also this incredible cinematic aesthetic.

[SA Chris]

New series of Electric Dreams any good? Not managed to see any yet.

[galpinos]

Just polished of Altered Carbon (on netflix i think?) Very enjoyable SciFi series. Got a little lost in the middle but pulls it all together nicely in the end. It's based on a novel, though I haven't read it so not sure how it compares.

We’re in the middle so good to hear it perks up. Decent so far.

Don't get too excited. Big ideas and looks lovely but only skims the surface in lieu of naked sword fights and gratuitous violence. Seemed a panic to tie all the loose ends back together at the end from the multitude of storylines/paths that had developed by the middle. 6/10 (for reference, the most recent Black Mirror series was a 6.5/10 on the galpinos scale)

[SA Chris]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/david-morrissey-the-city-and-the-city

Could be interesting, quite a challenge to adapt to TV!