That should be awesome -- I saw the liveshow of which that's half.It was an odd experience since I'd bought tickets with a friend for summer 2020. Two years later, we were sitting in the audience going "Well, we finally made it. We survived this far".
Started watching Inside Man last night, it's well worth watching, based on the first episode. Stanley Tucci is exceptional.
No diss, Toby, but I've noticed that a lot of your recommendations are based on the first episode, which I expect the writers put a disproportionate amount of effort into to get the audience interested.For the Inside Man my suspended disbelief quickly resumed when the nice priest locked the tutor in the basement in lieu of sorting out a simple misunderstanding.
Anyone else watching Industry?It’s kind of like Skins shagging Succession in the toilet of an investment bank. An HBO / BBC collaboration - the writing is super sharp. The second series has just been released on iPlayer and I’d say (3 episodes in) it’s even better than the first.
Discussed with some UKBers on Twitter, but just to flag up The Bear on Disney here, totally awesome
The Peripheral (prime)Tbf I'll happily watch CGM in any old rubbish, but this seems like genuinely worthwhile sci fi. 3 episodes so far
Zeitgeist in Grimsby:
Peripheral is good so far, bar an amusing bit of exposition attempting to (I think) address a paradox of the time travel plot, which is a bit complex, but then one of the characters literally says "don't worry about understanding it, it's all pretty complicated"!
Time travel is increasingly regarded as a menace. History is being polluted.One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is also no problem about changing the course of history- the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you for instance how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations whilst you are actually travelling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own father or mother.Most readers get as far as the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up: and in fact in later editions of the book all the pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.Note: The term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.