What are you watching tonight?

[Verbal]

Just watched the latest episode of The Fades. Brilliant stuff!

Really? how so? looked like shit to me from the ads...

[General Mannerheim]

i love Black Swan! its even better second time round!

Vinny never disappoints.

[General Mannerheim]

Season 2 of How To Make It In America, first two eps. tremendous!

[General Mannerheim]

need a new boxset to fill the void left by Mad Men - thinking 'Breaking Bad' anyone seen it?

[Verbal]

need a new boxset to fill the void left by Mad Men - thinking 'Breaking Bad' anyone seen it?

Up to the second series...very, very good.

People i talk with on another forum are falling over themselves regarding 3 and 4 though...people putting it ahead of stuff like the Sopranos and The Wire!

[General Mannerheim]

sold!

[William the White]

need a new boxset to fill the void left by Mad Men - thinking 'Breaking Bad' anyone seen it?

Up to the second series...very, very good.

People i talk with on another forum are falling over themselves regarding 3 and 4 though...people putting it ahead of stuff like the Sopranos and The Wire!

Do you agree with them, having watched series 1?

And, you know, 'people' can spout bullshit...

But, if it is that good, or even in the same territory... I'm on this case...

Talk seriously to me please, Verbal... I note that above you aren't joining in their assessment...

[Worthy4England]

I'm trying the Bourne Identity again, cos there's not much else on. Might get the book out again shortly, but just started The Cobra by Frederick Forsythe

I remember one reason I didn't like the Bourne films, they forgot to include his biggest rival, Carlos....and actually any comparison with the books are I think, by chance. As films, trying to suspend the fact that I've read the books, they're not horrendous, but they might as well have called them something completely different...

[jmjhb]

need a new boxset to fill the void left by Mad Men - thinking 'Breaking Bad' anyone seen it?

Up to the second series...very, very good.

People i talk with on another forum are falling over themselves regarding 3 and 4 though...people putting it ahead of stuff like the Sopranos and The Wire!

Do you agree with them, having watched series 1?

And, you know, 'people' can spout bullshit...

But, if it is that good, or even in the same territory... I'm on this case...

Talk seriously to me please, Verbal... I note that above you aren't joining in their assessment...

The first series of 7 episodes starts off quite slow - don't judge it solely on that.

Season 2 cranks up the heat, and it erupts explosively in 3 and 4. The fourth season just finished and it really was fantastic, edge-of-your-seat TV.

[Verbal]

need a new boxset to fill the void left by Mad Men - thinking 'Breaking Bad' anyone seen it?

Up to the second series...very, very good.

People i talk with on another forum are falling over themselves regarding 3 and 4 though...people putting it ahead of stuff like the Sopranos and The Wire!

Do you agree with them, having watched series 1?

And, you know, 'people' can spout bullshit...

But, if it is that good, or even in the same territory... I'm on this case...

Talk seriously to me please, Verbal... I note that above you aren't joining in their assessment...

Well indeed not, because I can't...everyone talks about the third and fourth series in glowing terms, whereas I am only half way through two. Personally so far I think it's an extremely tightly plotted piece of TV with its plus points and bad points, but nowhere near the kind of quality others have mentioned...but, as I say, it's good enough for me to want more and see if it lives up to seasons 3 and 4's billing.

[Bruce Rioja]

I watched Black Swan tonight. Utterly gripped. Wonderful acting. Brilliantly shot. Nonsense story at a rational level. But I can forgive that.

Left the cinema after watching Black Swan thinking - 'well, I don't know what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting that!' Superb film.

[Gary the Enfield]

Just watched the latest episode of The Fades. Brilliant stuff!

Really? how so? looked like shit to me from the ads...

Ah, the ads. Like judging how good a football team is from the MOTD highlights.

Basically the Fades are the dead who, for whatever reason, can't 'ascend'. They can't touch (without experiencing excruciating pain) or hurt or interract with the living. They still exist, though and they still age. Then one of them discovers that by ingesting blood they start to re-grow skin and organs and so the word spreads. Pretty soon they start to kill and then eat flesh to revitalise themselves.

They are monitered by Angelics. They can see and communicate with the Fades. They are a group of people with special powers of healing who don't understand how, suddenly, the fades can attack. They are few in comparison and fairly dysfunctional.

Throw in the mix a 17 year old boy with teen angst who can see dead people and who sprouts wings when he ejaculates! He has a friend who is a complete nerd but who does a piece to camera at the beginning of every episode and signs off with a tug of the ears and a 'Nanu Nanu' worthy of Mork himself.

It's the best thing I've seen since Being Human in the Black Comedy genre. And I can't do it justice with these few words.

Forget the ads.

[Wandering Willy]

Due to the shock of Rosie Webster's haircut I have turned my attention to Chastity Dingle dug in the archives and started watching World at War again.

Still great viewing - Dear Larry is brilliant.

[Lord Kangana]

Not the actual World At War then?

[thebish]

Just watched the latest episode of The Fades. Brilliant stuff!

Really? how so? looked like shit to me from the ads...

Ah, the ads. Like judging how good a football team is from the MOTD highlights.

Basically the Fades are the dead who, for whatever reason, can't 'ascend'. They can't touch (without experiencing excruciating pain) or hurt or interract with the living. They still exist, though and they still age. Then one of them discovers that by ingesting blood they start to re-grow skin and organs and so the word spreads. Pretty soon they start to kill and then eat flesh to revitalise themselves.

They are monitered by Angelics. They can see and communicate with the Fades. They are a group of people with special powers of healing who don't understand how, suddenly, the fades can attack. They are few in comparison and fairly dysfunctional.

Throw in the mix a 17 year old boy with teen angst who can see dead people and who sprouts wings when he ejaculates! He has a friend who is a complete nerd but who does a piece to camera at the beginning of every episode and signs off with a tug of the ears and a 'Nanu Nanu' worthy of Mork himself.

It's the best thing I've seen since Being Human in the Black Comedy genre. And I can't do it justice with these few words.

Forget the ads.

^ this all just sounds like a trippy bad dream!!

[Annoyed Grunt]

The American.....it s going to be shit....isn't it?

[William the White]

Friday night - comedy night - laughed a lot at Have I Got News... Thought QI much less interesting than usual, but Newsnight the best - as Tory whose name I don't remember tried to explain why Fox should not have resigned.

Review Show on Man Booker prize gave lit crit a bad name - abysmal level of discussion. And Germaine Greer knocks spots off any Old Woman for Grumpiness.

But, if this lot are to be believed, sounds like a dreadful short list (and i've bought all of em)...

[thebish]

Friday night - comedy night - laughed a lot at Have I Got News... Thought QI much less interesting than usual, but Newsnight the best - as Tory whose name I don't remember tried to explain why Fox should not have resigned.

on R5 just now it was John Selwyn Gummer!!! I didn't even realise he was still alive!!!

anyway - turns out Fox did nothing wrong and it was all the fault of the wicked media for making it impossible to do his job...

also in a cringeworthy bit of spin - Cameron is to be applauded for backing his ministers to make the decision themselves over whether they should go - which is the grown up way to do it...

also - don't judge lest ye be judged - (I imagine he wagged his finger at this point!)

the whole thing was extraordinary!! I'd forgotten just what a nob Gummer was/is!!!

[William the White]

Friday night - comedy night - laughed a lot at Have I Got News... Thought QI much less interesting than usual, but Newsnight the best - as Tory whose name I don't remember tried to explain why Fox should not have resigned.

on R5 just now it was John Selwyn Gummer!!! I didn't even realise he was still alive!!!

anyway - turns out Fox did nothing wrong and it was all the fault of the wicked media for making it impossible to do his job...

also in a cringeworthy bit of spin - Cameron is to be applauded for backing his ministers to make the decision themselves over whether they should go - which is the grown up way to do it...

also - don't judge lest ye be judged - (I imagine he wagged his finger at this point!)

the whole thing was extraordinary!! I'd forgotten just what a nob Gummer was/is!!!

Yep. Nat's dead and a man who tried to poison his daughter on live television with a BSE dripped sandwich is alive and allowed on public radio financed by the licence payer.

Outrageous...

[a1]

Yep. Nat's dead and a man who tried to poison his daughter on live television with a BSE dripped sandwich is alive and allowed on public radio financed by the licence payer.

Outrageous...

that's not true , its like saying africans poison their kids making them drink stagnant (?) water.

or people buying drugs cause terrorism.

erm, tv wise - i watched south park.