[SA Chris]

I think I recommended it a while back. Season 2 is in the making. I think it's a great premise, series gets better btw.

[tomtom]

I think I recommended it a while back. Season 2 is in the making. I think it's a great premise, series gets better btw.

👍👍

[Plattsy]

Season 2 due 4th Sept.

[remus]

Great shout with The Boys, 2 episodes in and friggin loving it!

[SA Chris]

Early "scene" with A Train is a bit of a shocker!

[TobyD]

Has anyone watched Hinterland? Any good?

[tommytwotone]

A few from me the we've watched recently...


1) iPlayer


I Can Go For That - The History Of Yacht Rock (BBC4) - Katie Pukrick's overview of the late 70s / early 80s "smooth rock" genre
The Last Wave (La Derniere Vague) (BBC4) - slightly weird sci-fi-y French drama currently on BBC4


2) Netflix


Fear City - 3 part documentary about how the FBI infiltrated the 5 mafia families in NYC in the 80s


3) All4


Two good Scandi-noirs hidden away in Walter Presents...


Greyzone
Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders

[spidermonkey09]

Might have been mentioned elsewhere but finished the Murdoch dynasty series on iPlayer last night. Very good although obviously slightly rage inducing.

[steveri]

 

Has anyone watched Hinterland? Any good?

Yes, give it a go. Scandinoir with less consonants and more drizzle.

[TobyD]

Has anyone watched Hinterland? Any good?

Yes, give it a go. Scandinoir with less consonants and more drizzle.

Thanks Steve, I will give it a go. Started watching Life on Mars last night which I'd not seen before.  Based on the first episode only, it's well worth watching for anyone else who hasn't seen it. 

[SA Chris]

I loved LoM, looks like there might be a third series.

Ashes to Ashes wasn't great though.

[tomtom]

Chugging through ‘Ozark’ on Netflix at the moment. All good so far! (Up to Mid S2)

[SA Chris]

Only on episode 2, still trying to explain money laundering to my dearest.

[Falling Down]

+1 for the Detectorists. Gentle investigation into the psyche of hobbyists overlain with subtle humour. Brilliant stuff.

Me and W just watched all three series of The Detectorists on iPlayer and loved every minute. What great television. Really, really good.

[tommytwotone]

Watched the BBC Fidel Castro documentary over the last 2 nights. Very good, especially speaking as someone with very little knowledge / background.

On iPlayer etc. 2 x hour-long docs.

[Ged]

Unorthodox on Netflix. 4 part drama, gives a fascinating insight into the world of hasidic Jews, with a very compelling story line.

[andy popp]

If you have Apple TV I can highly recommend the documentary "Boys State." Boys State is a summer programme for US junior high school students that aims to teach how politics and civil society work, essentially through mass week long role playing (e.g. mock elections). It's been run by the American Legion since 1937 and there is a Girls State equivalent (also since 1937).

It's run at the state level and the film follows the 2018 Texas programme. The film provides a great insight into some of the ways the US political system/culture is deeply messed up. Compelling and horrifying.

[spidermonkey09]

Watched the BBC Fidel Castro documentary over the last 2 nights. Very good, especially speaking as someone with very little knowledge / background.

On iPlayer etc. 2 x hour-long docs.

Also enjoyed these.

Probably mentioned already, but anyone who hasn't seen once upon a time in Iraq on iplayer really ought to. One of the best docs I've ever seen.

[moose]

Not a "must watch" but an interesting curio - article and TV piece on the Krumlin festival.  An ill-fated 1970 attempt to recreate Woodstock on the Huddersfield moors. 

Elton John just a year into his career was an opener and ended up having to pass reviving bottles of brandy around the frozen audience.  Fairport Convention shat themself and pissed on journalists.... the organiser did a runner across the moors... 70 people hospitalised with exposure!  My Dad was there and I thought his tales were probably exaggerated... they were not!

  https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2020-08-13/50th-anniversary-of-yorkshires-first-ever-major-music-festival

[SA Chris]

Season 2 due 4th Sept.

Next week!

[tommytwotone]

Not a "must watch" but an interesting curio - article and TV piece on the Krumlin festival.  An ill-fated 1970 attempt to recreate Woodstock on the Huddersfield moors. 

Elton John just a year into his career was an opener and ended up having to pass reviving bottles of brandy around the frozen audience.  Fairport Convention shat themself and pissed on journalists.... the organiser did a runner across the moors... 70 people hospitalised with exposure!  My Dad was there and I thought his tales were probably exaggerated... they were not!

  https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2020-08-13/50th-anniversary-of-yorkshires-first-ever-major-music-festival

I happened on this as well - sounds mad!

They should obviously have held it at Almscliff, which as everyone knows is always OK in bad conditions.

[SA Chris]

Whitehouse and Mortimer go fishing series 3 is now on iPlayer.

Thought I'd be bored by now, but still love it.

[SamT]

Whitehouse and Mortimer go fishing series 3 is now on iPlayer.

Thought I'd be bored by now, but still love it.

 

Good to hear it still delivers.  The other half just doesn't get it, but I just love it for its gentle daftness.  I find it similar to the detectorists in the way that it oozes the english countryside at its best.

[battery]

Staged on BBC iPlayer, one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.

[moose]

Finally got around to watching Giri / Haji. For some reason I'd avoided it, assuming it would be too demanding and grim for my present state. How wrong I was. So far, it's like an unhinged verse-chorus-verse collaboration between Takeshi Kitano gangsters, Guy Ritchie mockneys, and Line of Duty. I cannot imagine what will happen next (Spaniards battering one another with giant hams?).

It's not perfect - perhaps too messy - and the mockney gangsta's are a bit irksome - but it is enjoyable.  Bonkers fun at times (accentuated by the stillness of some of the Japanese influenced parts - even the violent ones) but it also has a heart in its treatment of some of the more emotionally wounded characters.  Good to watch something so unpredictable. The man who pitched it and asked for funding must have had a helluva gift of the gab!