Metal Hammer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 11:39 pm
'Four Lives' - Steven Merchant plays a gay serial killer bus driver in Barking (Hi DL ) based on a true story on BBC1 - was pretty good
Put 'The Tourist' on the backburner to watch this. Merchant is truly creepy in the lead role, but the police??? What were they playing at??
Four Lives episodes 1&2. Sheridan Smith, as always, delivering a great performance and Stephen Merchant suitably creepy, especially without the syrup.
But as others have said WTF were the Met up to? Keystone Cops meets Carry on Constable
Chicken Run Supreme wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 7:11 pmFour Lives episodes 1&2. Sheridan Smith, as always, delivering a great performance and Stephen Merchant suitably creepy, especially without the syrup.
But as others have said WTF were the Met up to? Keystone Cops meets Carry on Constable
Didn't see it but now watching, 'How Police Missed the Grindr Killer' on BBC3.
Shocking how it was investigated.
Not enough police or because the victims were gay?
It's not like it was that long ago, either.
Story of Anne Williams and her fight for justice and to find the truth about what happened to her son Kevin at the Hillsborough disaster.
Truly awful some of the crap that came the way of the families.
Barely saw any of them. The little I did see was heartbreaking.
1) It should never have happened. There had been previous incidents that hadn't been taken on board.
2) And then the cover up...
Could have been any football fan there that day. Any one of us.
15 Minute chunks of delightfully silly comedy on BBC2.
I think over the years BBC2 has been my favourite channel for understated comedy, with the likes of The Office, The Detectorists and This Country. Mandy is more surreal than those, but for me just as good.
Samba wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 11:13 pm
Didn't see it but now watching, 'How Police Missed the Grindr Killer' on BBC3.
Shocking how it was investigated.
Not enough police or because the victims were gay?
It's not like it was that long ago, either.
Watched this after having seen the final episode of Four Lives last night.
Truly shocking.
Sometimes when you watch a dramatisation of true events you wonder how much ‘artistic license’ has been used. Having seen the documentary and the drama, it appears that very little was applied and what was depicted over three episodes was very factual and that just made it all the more shocking that the Met had missed so many clear signs of foul play. That it was the victims families that did more investigating than the Met, speaks volumes.
Also, having seen the documentary, the casting on Four Lives was absolutely spot on.
Chicken Run Supreme wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 8:58 am
Watched this after having seen the final episode of Four Lives last night.
Truly shocking.
Sometimes when you watch a dramatisation of true events you wonder how much ‘artistic license’ has been used. Having seen the documentary and the drama, it appears that very little was applied and what was depicted over three episodes was very factual and that just made it all the more shocking that the Met had missed so many clear signs of foul play. That it was the victims families that did more investigating than the Met, speaks volumes.
Also, having seen the documentary, the casting on Four Lives was absolutely spot on.
Last part of "Anne". Heartbreaking, and at the same time made me very angry.
Can't help feeling some incompetent and negligent people got away scot free when they should have been locked up for a long time. The cover up and lies told were horrendous.
Re. Four Lives: I was also wondering if there was dramatic licence at play. Watched in incredulity as red flag after red flag was ignored and basic procedures like fingerprinting and DNA were not carried out.
Three more episodes of Succession (season 1 episode 3-5), it is clearly well made and very slick but I don't think it is for me. I have no attachment with the story and just don't care about them or it. My tastes is not very hibrow, I'll go back to my fantasy/sci-fi stuff (Wheel of time next)
simon hammer wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 12:21 am
Toast of Tinseltown.
Absolutely marvellous stuff, and while some of the new characters didn't quite hit the mark, Matt Berry is superb as the irrepressible, angry Toast.
I have this recorded. I loved Toast Of London. I'm looking forward to seeing Ray bloody Purchase and, 'Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango' again.
Its probably an acquired taste but I think its genius.
Robbie wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 6:29 pm
I have this recorded. I loved Toast Of London. I'm looking forward to seeing Ray bloody Purchase and, 'Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango' again.
Its probably an acquired taste but I think its genius.
I took my children on a day trip to London last summer. As we exited the tube station, someone walked past and uttered "can you hear me" into their mobile...
...I could not resist, and as the words "yes I can hear you Clem Fandango" escaped my eager lips, my children could not stop laughing!
Plashet Grove Pete wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 11:57 am
Last part of "Anne". Heartbreaking, and at the same time made me very angry.
Can't help feeling some incompetent and negligent people got away scot free when they should have been locked up for a long time. The cover up and lies told were horrendous.
Great drama, plus "The Real Anne" documentary tonight. Never buy The Sun, tell your mum to do the same.
The Apprentice. Same old deluded, obnoxious tossers trying their best to rim Suralan Lord Sugarness. Anyone who runs a successful business isn't going on it, so we get the 'entrepreneurs' who have conned people into investing in their pyramid scheme.
Ran its course long ago but it's a bit of mindless entertainment and I enjoy a bit of familiarity.
'stone hammer wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:49 am
The Apprentice. Same old deluded, obnoxious tossers trying their best to rim Suralan Lord Sugarness. Anyone who runs a successful business isn't going on it, so we get the 'entrepreneurs' who have conned people into investing in their pyramid scheme.
Ran its course long ago but it's a bit of mindless entertainment and I enjoy a bit of familiarity.
I felt really old watching it last night and the format seemed tired. But, it's entertaining guff and I suppose.
Billy Hunt wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 9:37 am
Finally caught up on the most recent series of Shetland, thoroughly enjoyable and Douglas Henshall is on top form as always
He was superb in it. I was given the first five (?) series in a box-set for Christmas. Wa-hoooooo! Mrs Dave and me saw the preceding series but neither of us can remember much about it - the joys of getting older and more diminished on the memory front - so we'll watch all of them again. By which time, we'll have forgotten this latest series so can catch up on that again
Toast of Tinseltown - In this, the dreariest, meh-iest of all months this is a pick-me-up. It can be really, really (in a good way) silly but it's always brave and un-obvious, and most importantly of all funny, which is often a missing ingredient in comedies that try to do similar things to Toast. You can see why it'll never make BBC1 but it'll be a sad day when Berry stops making them.