We've just binged It's A Sin on All4 - the new Russell T. Davies thing. As you'd expect it's excellent.
Quote from: tommytwotone on January 27, 2021, 12:52:59 pmWe've just binged It's A Sin on All4 - the new Russell T. Davies thing. As you'd expect it's excellent.Just watches the first episode, hooked already! Thanks for the recommendation.
Quote from: remus on January 27, 2021, 10:05:16 pmQuote from: tommytwotone on January 27, 2021, 12:52:59 pmWe've just binged It's A Sin on All4 - the new Russell T. Davies thing. As you'd expect it's excellent.Just watches the first episode, hooked already! Thanks for the recommendation.I love RTD's stuff - Years And Years was brilliant as well.
LupinWatched the first episode, passingly entertaining, but pretty overrated I thought. I don't know if you can watch it with subtitles instead of the dubbing, which I found distracting.
Quote from: tommytwotone on January 28, 2021, 09:00:01 amQuote from: remus on January 27, 2021, 10:05:16 pmQuote from: tommytwotone on January 27, 2021, 12:52:59 pmWe've just binged It's A Sin on All4 - the new Russell T. Davies thing. As you'd expect it's excellent.Just watches the first episode, hooked already! Thanks for the recommendation.I love RTD's stuff - Years And Years was brilliant as well. Agreed on both It's A Sin (first episode was great, looking forward to rest) and RTDs other stuff. He also seems like a really decent bloke and appears to a be very good interviewee - good interview on Pilot TV podcast last week, his Desert Island DIsc's is a great (if emotional) listen
Quote from: TobyD on January 28, 2021, 07:59:10 amLupinWatched the first episode, passingly entertaining, but pretty overrated I thought. I don't know if you can watch it with subtitles instead of the dubbing, which I found distracting.Depends what you're looking for. A lot of the better (from a critical perspective) stuff we've watched recently has been pretty dark with some fairly unpleasant characters - Serpent, Ozark, Cardinal. Sometimes it's just nice to have some entertaining escapism and I thought Lupin fitted that description quite well. The dubbing became less distracting after the first episode.
Quote from: Stabbsy on January 28, 2021, 09:52:19 amQuote from: TobyD on January 28, 2021, 07:59:10 amLupinWatched the first episode, passingly entertaining, but pretty overrated I thought. I don't know if you can watch it with subtitles instead of the dubbing, which I found distracting.Depends what you're looking for. A lot of the better (from a critical perspective) stuff we've watched recently has been pretty dark with some fairly unpleasant characters - Serpent, Ozark, Cardinal. Sometimes it's just nice to have some entertaining escapism and I thought Lupin fitted that description quite well. The dubbing became less distracting after the first episode.Lupin is pretty powderpuff. In a good way, it's easy to watch, good fun with an interesting thread running through it.
Quote from: IanP on January 28, 2021, 09:39:20 amAgreed on both It's A Sin (first episode was great, looking forward to rest) and RTDs other stuff. He also seems like a really decent bloke and appears to a be very good interviewee - good interview on Pilot TV podcast last week, his Desert Island DIsc's is a great (if emotional) listenWell (no spoilers, I think it's obvious it isn't exactly a barrel of laughs) you'll be in for some emotion with It's A Sin too. Me and the missus were both in pieces towards the end.
Agreed on both It's A Sin (first episode was great, looking forward to rest) and RTDs other stuff. He also seems like a really decent bloke and appears to a be very good interviewee - good interview on Pilot TV podcast last week, his Desert Island DIsc's is a great (if emotional) listen
Lance documentary on iPlayer is well worth watching. Despite endless other ones, this is a remarkable portrait of a fascinating guy, a hero, but a really horrible one.
Can anyone who's seen It's a Sin let me know how explicit it is? We have my mother-in-law living with us at the moment and she's quite a conservative fifty-something Asian lady... so if there's too much bumming, we can't really watch it.
Thanks guys. My MIL is fairly open minded and has no problem with gay people, just not sure she'd appreciate too much of the actual shennanigans.
Quote from: seankenny on February 11, 2021, 11:08:27 amThanks guys. My MIL is fairly open minded and has no problem with gay people, just not sure she'd appreciate too much of the actual shennanigans. Going to swim against the tide a bit here and say maybe its worth a go; sounds like your MIL is pretty enlightened compared to lots of other 50 year olds and might get a lot out of watching it? Its amazing TV.
Especially since we still have several episodes of Monty Don's "Around the World in 80 Gardens" to work through! (Which is actually pretty good too.)