What are you watching tonight?

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:00 am

Bruno wrote:
BWFC_Insane wrote:
jimbo wrote:Anyone been watching the new series of Peep Show? First two episodes absolutely top drawer!
The latest episode was absolute top drawer.

"set it to 29. Give it something to aim for".

Totally agreed. My brother and I sat down to watch the first episode, both of us saying 'please don't be shit, please don't be shit' and we were laughing our socks off all the way through.

I am so glad that it hasn't dropped in quality one little bit, and I still fancy Dobby.

Series 5 was a bit dodgy.

First episode of series 6 I was a little unsure.

Second episode was pure genius.

Peep show is at its best when the internal thoughts are used a lot. Series 5 went more for a "sit-com" approach and for me it didn't work as well.

This time it seems back to its quirky best.

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:02 am

BWFC_Insane wrote:
Bruno wrote:
BWFC_Insane wrote:
jimbo wrote:Anyone been watching the new series of Peep Show? First two episodes absolutely top drawer!
The latest episode was absolute top drawer.

"set it to 29. Give it something to aim for".

Totally agreed. My brother and I sat down to watch the first episode, both of us saying 'please don't be shit, please don't be shit' and we were laughing our socks off all the way through.

I am so glad that it hasn't dropped in quality one little bit, and I still fancy Dobby.
Series 5 was a bit dodgy.

First episode of series 6 I was a little unsure.

Second episode was pure genius.

Peep show is at its best when the internal thoughts are used a lot. Series 5 went more for a "sit-com" approach and for me it didn't work as well.

This time it seems back to its quirky best.

Agree series 5 was a little patchy, and the only one I haven't re-watched over and over. So glad it's back on top form though this time. The whole central heating thing was brilliant, as was 'Fork my bag'

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:45 pm

Sister-in-law leant me a video from way back. Twas South Pacific and, yes I confess, I watched it last night.

Modern version (John Kerr, Rossano Brazzi,Mittzy Gaynor etc) was made in 1958 and I had a go-back in time moment when, half way through the film it stopped and the word "Interlude" appeared on the screen. Film stopped, just showing stills for a couple of minutes while people went to the loo or got an ice-cream. A lot's changed in the last fifty years.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:22 pm

CYE season 7, episode 2 - oh aye!!!

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:23 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:CYE season 7, episode 2 - oh aye!!!

No interludes, no messing about, no women bringing ice-creams at Unit4 Walkden.

'Why would you do that Larry, why?'

ratbert · Post by **ratbert** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:03 pm

William the White wrote:
ratbert wrote:In Bourne 2, he still has no memory and gets chased around a lot. Bit like the other two.

Saw a film called 'Fish Tank' last night. Gritty social realism directed by a woman called Andrea Arnold who used to be a children's TV presenter. It follows a mouthy young girl on an Essex housing estate trying to break free of her surroundings and getting dangerously involved with her mother's new boyfriend. A bit slow but full of great imagery, a startling natural central performance by first-time actor Katie Jarvis and some near-shocking moments. If Ken Loach is your bag (and even Shameless, to an extent) you'll probably like this.
Didn't she direct Red Road - which i thought was a really decent Loach-like movie?

Yes, and a very unsettling one, largely because the motivations of the lead character are only gradually revealed throughout the film. Worth a watch if you like that kind of 'kitchen sink' drama.

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:40 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:
Bruno wrote:
BWFC_Insane wrote:
jimbo wrote:Anyone been watching the new series of Peep Show? First two episodes absolutely top drawer!
The latest episode was absolute top drawer.

"set it to 29. Give it something to aim for".

Totally agreed. My brother and I sat down to watch the first episode, both of us saying 'please don't be shit, please don't be shit' and we were laughing our socks off all the way through.

I am so glad that it hasn't dropped in quality one little bit, and I still fancy Dobby.
Series 5 was a bit dodgy.

First episode of series 6 I was a little unsure.

Second episode was pure genius.

Peep show is at its best when the internal thoughts are used a lot. Series 5 went more for a "sit-com" approach and for me it didn't work as well.

This time it seems back to its quirky best.

This. Haven't seen E2 yet due to lack of TV licence or internet, but was unsure on 1. Glad it sounds like its back on form.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:17 am

Keep forgetting about Peep Show. And I can't set the Sky+ 'cos I'm archiving summat to DVD. Hmm. To LocateTV it is, then.

Been catching up on True Blood, watching the end of House series 5 and one episode per night of The Street - plus the usual nightly Daily Show with Jon Stewart. (Excellent quote the other night that made me think of Bolton fans: "I'm not cynical, I'm sceptical. I've been hurt before.")

Glad to see BBC Four showed all three parts of The Cell documentary series last night, got that recorded now. Also received text to say an old colleague was on BBC Four's Upgrade Me, which I was delighted to find hosted by Simon Armitage.

All this stuff to watch, and it's Champions League night... balls to it, I'll watch the highlights on x12.

ratbert · Post by **ratbert** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:25 am

Peep Show terrifies me. I think I've been both main characters at some point in my life.

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:51 am

ratbert wrote:Peep Show terrifies me. I think I've been both main characters at some point in my life.

My theory on peep show is that the two main characters are the extremes of the male population. Everyone is either one or t'other or a mix of the two.

Some of the internal thought processes that are vocalised are too close to the bone! Like the central heating, I've at times turned mine up way past what I really wanted just because it was cold and I wanted it to heat quicker. Totally irrational but like Jeremy my rationale was "feck it, it'll get hot quicker".

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:00 pm

Flashforward. Very promising

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:02 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:
ratbert wrote:Peep Show terrifies me. I think I've been both main characters at some point in my life.
My theory on peep show is that the two main characters are the extremes of the male population. Everyone is either one or t'other or a mix of the two.

Add in Super Hans as what we'd secretly like to be and you're bob-on, chum. Don't ask me: ask the show's creators. See this from The Guardian at the start of the last series:

Oscar Wilde is often misquoted, in reference to his novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray, as saying, "People say I am Lord Henry, I wish to be Dorian but I am Basil."

This is only worth mentioning because standing in a muddy field on the set of the new, fifth series of Peep Show, watching the three main actors chat with one another, something similar occurs to me. It should occur to anyone who has watched the show. Or, at any rate, any man who has watched the show. People in general think men are Jez, Peep Show's shallow self-styled libertine; men themselves wish they were Super Hans - tall, confident, elegantly wasted, utterly amoral; but men are really Mark, a highly moral, but sexually repressed conservative whose idea of a good date movie is the four-hour German submarine epic, Das Boot.

Jesse Armstrong, who together with Sam Bain writes Peep Show, laughs. "We all wanna be Super Hans," he agrees with a mischievous smile, "but the fact is that most of us are, as you point out, just pathetic old Mark."

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:58 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:
BWFC_Insane wrote:
ratbert wrote:Peep Show terrifies me. I think I've been both main characters at some point in my life.
My theory on peep show is that the two main characters are the extremes of the male population. Everyone is either one or t'other or a mix of the two.
Add in Super Hans as what we'd secretly like to be and you're bob-on, chum. Don't ask me: ask the show's creators. See this from The Guardian at the start of the last series:

Oscar Wilde is often misquoted, in reference to his novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray, as saying, "People say I am Lord Henry, I wish to be Dorian but I am Basil."

This is only worth mentioning because standing in a muddy field on the set of the new, fifth series of Peep Show, watching the three main actors chat with one another, something similar occurs to me. It should occur to anyone who has watched the show. Or, at any rate, any man who has watched the show. People in general think men are Jez, Peep Show's shallow self-styled libertine; men themselves wish they were Super Hans - tall, confident, elegantly wasted, utterly amoral; but men are really Mark, a highly moral, but sexually repressed conservative whose idea of a good date movie is the four-hour German submarine epic, Das Boot.

Jesse Armstrong, who together with Sam Bain writes Peep Show, laughs. "We all wanna be Super Hans," he agrees with a mischievous smile, "but the fact is that most of us are, as you point out, just pathetic old Mark."

Super Hans. Great character. Find it odd that anyone would aspire to be him though.

Now Johnson is a different matter.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:37 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:Super Hans. Great character. Find it odd that anyone would aspire to be him though.

Super Hans is great because he's as utterly selfish as we'd all secretly love to be. The id, if you like, to Mark's super-ego and Jez's middle-ground ego.

If I recall correctly, there's a scene at that Christian rock festival where Hans has scored some weed and Jez asks for some. Hans quite simply says no, because it;s his, and he wants it all. That's yer id right there.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:30 pm

Angels and Demons tonight.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:46 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:CYE season 7, episode 2 - oh aye!!!

i was laughing that loud the missus went out!!

unbelievable how its still so funny! pure genius.

'no sips, no bites...'

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:59 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:Angels and Demons tonight.

I didn't think they could ever make a film as utterly dull and shit as Da Vinci Code, until I saw Angels and Demons. Awful.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:04 pm

Bruno wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:Angels and Demons tonight.
I didn't think they could ever make a film as utterly dull and shit as Da Vinci Code, until I saw Angels and Demons. Awful.

Whislt I agree totally on the former, I thought the latter quite decent. You must have been a little uncomfortable amongst all that religion.

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:06 pm

Not at all, I was raised in a very religious household, and have studied many religious texts over the years.

I just know a shit film when I see one.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:18 pm

Bruno wrote:Not at all, I was raised in a very religious household, and have studied many religious texts over the years. I just know a shit film when I see one.

But you say that most of the time about Bolton as a football team..Our ideas of both may differ slightly.

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