Early Doors is being re-run on BBC4 from tonight. If you’ve not seen it before, it’s a brilliant comedy.
It appears that 1899 will now not be funded for a second series.
I've been watching Spooks from Series 1 (I watched it late in the run, but missed the first few series-es).S1 is circa 2002 and is very much of its time...the cars, the fashions and the interior design seem like they're from another era, even though it's only about 20 years ago!One of the biggest things you notice is the phones. Good Nokia representation!
Quote from: tommytwotone on January 17, 2023, 11:39:15 amI've been watching Spooks from Series 1 (I watched it late in the run, but missed the first few series-es).S1 is circa 2002 and is very much of its time...the cars, the fashions and the interior design seem like they're from another era, even though it's only about 20 years ago!One of the biggest things you notice is the phones. Good Nokia representation!Do I recall a rather vicious scene early on in the first series, where one of the team gets her head dunked in a deep fat fryer.. I remember being pretty shocked at the time.
2002 and is very much of its time...the cars, the fashions and the interior design seem like they're from another era, even though it's only about 20 years ago!
Quote from: tommytwotone on January 17, 2023, 11:39:15 am2002 and is very much of its time...the cars, the fashions and the interior design seem like they're from another era, even though it's only about 20 years ago!It’s usual for things that are about 20 years old to seem like they’re of another era though isn’t it? It’s kind of the point where the past all feels excruciatingly naff, before we recognise bits as classic. 1981 (Adam and the Ants, The Birdie Song, Triangle, Sorry!, Charles and Di’s Wedding etc.) certainly felt like another era in 2002…Personally I love watching old TV shows- the historical element just adds to the entertainment. On that note, every episode of Desmond’s is available on All4.
Other thing I've noticed, mainly through being an avid re-watcher of old Seinfelds and Frasiers - is how many of the plots / comedy scenarios revolve around using missing a land line call / something to do with an answerphone as a plot device, and how jarring it would feel as they would never happen now!
S1 is circa 2002 and is very much of its time...the cars, the fashions and the interior design seem like they're from another era, even though it's only about 20 years ago!One of the biggest things you notice is the phones. Good Nokia representation!
Quote from: tommytwotone on January 17, 2023, 11:39:15 amS1 is circa 2002 and is very much of its time...the cars, the fashions and the interior design seem like they're from another era, even though it's only about 20 years ago!One of the biggest things you notice is the phones. Good Nokia representation!I think there are more similarities between 2002 and 2022 than say 1964 and 1984, or 1975 to 1995. Everything from the TV itself (b&w to colour), computers moving from universities and spacecraft to the home, the sexual revolution (there weren’t that many gays on TV in the early 80s but homosexuality wasn’t illegal), women couldn’t get a loan without a man in the 60s but by the 80s we were watching Cagney and Lacey (well, my divorced mother certainly enjoyed this tale of gun-toting emancipated New York female cops), the depiction of race went from Mind Your Language to Goodness Gracious Me. So much social change that it makes our last two decades look a bit staid, despite all our many current crises.Having said that… I recently watched the whole of Prime Suspect and 1990s London does seem a very different city to the present day. It’s still a great watch tho and Helen Mirren is superb. I also have just finished watching “The Dropout” which is the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. A jaw dropping tale of deceit! Kinda clunky but thorough and well worth the time.
That’s complete nonsense! Washing machines and pre-prepared food helped increase women’s participation in the (formal, paid) labour force - a massive change that has impacted everyone. Mass air travel destroyed most English seaside towns. The rise of the car made the modern suburb possible and changed the way our towns and cities looked. The phone only looks large in our imagination because there has been so much continuity in our material lives. I haven’t seen anything in my life as different as going from a week in Skegness, getting there by train, to flying for a week in Benidorm (individual changes in life circumstances being taken into account of course). I do think IT has changed our political lives but all the things we see now are to some extent a reworking of trends we’ve seen before (sorry I’m an End of History fanboy).As for fashion, I reckon you could pinpoint the time a photo was taken to within five years using dress, for any time from the late 50s to the mid 90s. After that, not so much, altho over a 20 year span changes are more obvious. I hope the one year old succumbs…!
A podcast is just a new way of delivering a piece of content - the radio show - that first appeared a hundred years ago. WhatsApp is essentially fancy text messaging which I’ve been doing now for nearly a quarter of a century. I also use google maps to get to the crag, but the big change for me was getting a car instead of public transport or hitching everywhere. Once I’d made that leap, whether my map was in a book or a mini computer doesn’t make that much difference.I do think the ways we consume information has had a big impact, but mostly via turbo charging things that we have experienced before in modernity.You may feel that being able to order an on demand television show is as big a change as, say, building a bunch of nuclear power stations and increasing car ownership by a couple of dozen percentage points, but to me that just seems an overblown claim and a kind of bias towards present experience.
You may feel that being able to order an on demand television show is as big a change as, say, building a bunch of nuclear power stations