Best TV shows or movies you can recommend (18 Viewers)

Farmer Jim · Apr 3, 2025

Series 2 of Severance was a bit of a let down.

Thought it started off very well and then wandered all over the place and then pulled it back with the last episode.

I know it`s a head bender and I loved the first series, but I found some episodes difficult to focus on at times.

Otis · Apr 3, 2025

Farmer Jim said:
Series 2 of Severance was a bit of a let down.

Thought it started off very well and then wandered all over the place and then pulled it back with the last episode.

I know it`s a head bender and I loved the first series, but I found some episodes difficult to focus on at times.

Same. A bit underwhelmed and what the hell was all that with the marching band?

Farmer Jim · Apr 3, 2025

Otis said:
Same. A bit underwhelmed and what the hell was all that with the marching band?

What about the goats ??????

Otis · Apr 3, 2025

Farmer Jim said:
What about the goats ??????

Well, yup. Exactly.

mmttww · Apr 3, 2025

Copa90s stuff just keeps getting better all the time.

Sky_Blue_Daz · Apr 4, 2025

This could be brilliant, Although Seth Mcfarlene can be a bit inconsistent . Apart from family guy and the first Ted I don't rate much else of his work

shmmeee · Apr 4, 2025

Sky_Blue_Daz said:
This could be brilliant, Although Seth Mcfarlene can be a bit inconsistent . Apart from family guy and the first Ted I don't rate much else of his work

Just make a new IP FFS! I love Police Squad/Naked Gun, there’s no need to tag onto them. Just make a new parody.

Otis · Apr 4, 2025

Sky_Blue_Daz said:
This could be brilliant, Although Seth Mcfarlene can be a bit inconsistent . Apart from family guy and the first Ted I don't rate much else of his work

To be fair to it, the trailer is quite funny.

Sbarcher · Apr 4, 2025

Just watching This City is Ours on BBC iPlayer. Really good and gritty.

bulko · Apr 5, 2025

Sbarcher said:
Just watching This City is Ours on BBC iPlayer. Really good and gritty.

I loved it watched it all on iPlayer UHD.

Nick · Apr 5, 2025

Sbarcher said:
Just watching This City is Ours on BBC iPlayer. Really good and gritty.

Put the first one on last night. Seemed good so will keep watching.

Farmer Jim · Apr 5, 2025

Sky_Blue_Daz said:
This could be brilliant, Although Seth Mcfarlene can be a bit inconsistent . Apart from family guy and the first Ted I don't rate much else of his work

A Million Ways To Die In The West was very good.

Naked Gun shouldn`t be touched though, as no one can play Drebbin like Leslie Neilsen.

Farmer Jim · Apr 5, 2025

Just been catching up with series 5 of What We Do In The Shadows.

It`s just gone totally bonkers, with even more off the wall humour than usual.

You can see that the cast are having a ball too.

On a side issue, I wish they would do another series of Phone Shop.

Nick · Apr 5, 2025

Getting annoyed with endings of "gritty dramas"

Farmer Jim · Apr 6, 2025

Novacaine - cinema.

Totally bonkers, almost like an adult version of Home Alone.

Jack Quaid plays an unassuming bank manager, who has a neurological condition that means he can`t feel pain.

His bank is robbed by a group of vicious bank robbers, who kidnap one of the bank clerks ( his girlfriend ) and he sets off on a one man mission to save her.

Off the scale levels of comedy violence and very very funny in parts.

Good mindless less fun.

Sbarcher · Apr 7, 2025

Last episode of White Lotus. Whole thing has been a bit slow and pedestrian but finale was pretty good.

Sbarcher · Apr 8, 2025

A vote for Mobland - great first 2 episodes and an amazing cast.

Mcbean · Apr 8, 2025

Sbarcher said:
Last episode of White Lotus. Whole thing has been a bit slow and pedestrian but finale was pretty good.

Yes it wound up - too many skinny women

Ccfcisparks · Apr 10, 2025

New series of Black Mirror out so will enjoy watching that tonight.

Tracee Ellis Ross in the first episode, what a MILF.

torchomatic · Apr 12, 2025

There was a recent discussion of 1984's Threads on one of the other.. er..threads.

It's being remade by the same people who made Adolescence.

Threads is still on iPlayer.

Farmer Jim · Apr 21, 2025

Series 3 - Gangs of London.

A vast improvement on the previous two.

Better written, much tighter plot, but still has mass shootings and death going on all over London, with pretty much no police action.

There`s suspending belief, but when there`s daily gun battles going on, hundreds dying from poisoned cocaine, you`d kind of think that the police / government would maybe want to use all that state of the art CCTV / facial recognition and ANPR to some effect

Oh and it`s the first time I`ve seen anyone strangled with an umbilical cord !

Sbarcher · Apr 21, 2025

Farmer Jim said:
Series 3 - Gangs of London.

A vast improvement on the previous two.

Better written, much tighter plot, but still has mass shootings and death going on all over London, with pretty much no police action.

There`s suspending belief, but when there`s daily gun battles going on, hundreds dying from poisoned cocaine, you`d kind of think that the police / government would maybe want to use all that state of the art CCTV / facial recognition and ANPR to some effect

Oh and it`s the first time I`ve seen anyone strangled with an umbilical cord !

Umbilical Jeff!

The Great Eastern · Apr 21, 2025

Farmer Jim said:
Series 3 - Gangs of London.

A vast improvement on the previous two.

Better written, much tighter plot, but still has mass shootings and death going on all over London, with pretty much no police action.

There`s suspending belief, but when there`s daily gun battles going on, hundreds dying from poisoned cocaine, you`d kind of think that the police / government would maybe want to use all that state of the art CCTV / facial recognition and ANPR to some effect

Oh and it`s the first time I`ve seen anyone strangled with an umbilical cord !

Totally agree. Mrs GE not totally impressed by some of the violence but, apart from the umbilical cord strangling, it brought home what really happens when shooters go off at close proximity.
Thoroughly enjoyed the series 3 and just hope they commission series 4.

Farmer Jim · Apr 21, 2025

The Great Eastern said:
Totally agree. Mrs GE not totally impressed by some of the violence but, apart from the umbilical cord strangling, it brought home what really happens when shooters go off at close proximity.
Thoroughly enjoyed the series 3 and just hope they commission series 4.

Think there`s every chance, as it`s one of Sky`s all time most watched shows and with so many different threads on the go at the same time, there`s a lot of scope for it to go in different directions with the various polts.

JAM See · Apr 21, 2025

Warfare.

Saw it at the picture house ( which is the best way to see it).

Loved it.

If you are going to stream it, turn the volume right up. The sound design is superb.

chiefdave · Apr 21, 2025

This weeks episode of The Last of Us, not going to say anything more than that for people who haven't seen it yet but its TV at its absolute best.

Mcbean · Apr 22, 2025

Binged watched the Glass dome - scandi noir from Sweden - very good and gripping
I like the subtitle option with local language - dubbed is rubbish

apologies if this has been covered before

Otis · Apr 22, 2025

chiefdave said:
This weeks episode of The Last of Us, not going to say anything more than that for people who haven't seen it yet but its TV at its absolute best.

It was brilliant.

There is just one little thing that nags away at me with this show (I still highly rate it) and that is that the "monsters" look really naff. To my mind anyway. Do they look the same in the game?

To me it just looks like they have latex masks on and it all seems very 1970's Doctor Who like and the big baddie just looks like the Michelin man with boils.

It's a shame, because otherwise, I think the show is excellent.

chiefdave · Apr 22, 2025

Otis said:
There is just one little thing that nags away at me with this show (I still highly rate it) and that is that the "monsters" look really naff. To my mind anyway. Do they look the same in the game?

To me it just looks like they have latex masks on and it all seems very 1970's Doctor Who like and the big baddie just looks like the Michelin man with boils.

It's a shame, because otherwise, I think the show is excellent.

I thought exactly the same last night. The part human ones look ok to me but there's some very obvious 'man in a suit' for the ones who have completely turned. Its weird that on such a big budget show nobody has flagged this up.

Otis · Apr 22, 2025

chiefdave said:
I thought exactly the same last night. The part human ones look ok to me but there's some very obvious 'man in a suit' for the ones who have completely turned. Its weird that on such a big budget show nobody has flagged this up.

Yes, exactly. Just look like men in suits.

No idea why they have done that, because everything else costume and cinematography wise, is spot on.

Farmer Jim · Apr 22, 2025

Couple of films this week :

The Amateur. ( cinema )

Rami Malek plays a CIA computer nerd, whose girlfriend is murdered by terrorists during a botched bank raid and then goes on a one man vengeance mission to hunt down the terrorists, uncovering unsanctioned CIA black ops, being run by his boss, as he digs into the team behind his girlfriends death.

Rami Malek is good as a nerdy version of Jason Bourne and Lawrence Fishbourne is really good too, as a CIA hit man, sent to take him out.

At just over two hours, it`s probably 20 mins too long, as a lot of the initial hour could`ve been chopped and feels like padding.

The Companion ( just left the cinema / streamed it )

This was way better than I thought it was going to be.

Totally bonkers, with a real blend of clever black humour, mixed in with some truly shocking violence.

Set slightly in the future, people are able to purchase synthetic " companions " as boyfriends / girlfriends / partners.

A mixed group of straight and gay friends, plus two " companions, spend a weekend at an uber rich associates rural mansion and things go badly wrong during an attempt by some of the guests to rob the householder of the contents of his safe.

Jack Quaid is very good in the lead, with a really good cast in support, but the standout is Sophie Thatcher as Quaids " companion " turned psycho killer.

No one plays these parts better than her at the moment and they`ve left the ending open for another, which I hope they do.

Terry_dactyl · Apr 22, 2025

Farmer Jim said:
Couple of films this week :

The Amateur. ( cinema )

Rami Malek plays a CIA computer nerd, whose girlfriend is murdered by terrorists during a botched bank raid and then goes on a one man vengeance mission to hunt down the terrorists, uncovering unsanctioned CIA black ops, being run by his boss, as he digs into the team behind his girlfriends death.

Rami Malek is good as a nerdy version of Jason Bourne and Lawrence Fishbourne is really good too, as a CIA hit man, sent to take him out.

At just over two hours, it`s probably 20 mins too long, as a lot of the initial hour could`ve been chopped and feels like padding.

The Companion ( just left the cinema / streamed it )

This was way better than I thought it was going to be.

Totally bonkers, with a real blend of clever black humour, mixed in with some truly shocking violence.

Set slightly in the future, people are able to purchase synthetic " companions " as boyfriends / girlfriends / partners.

A mixed group of straight and gay friends, plus two " companions, spend a weekend at an uber rich associates rural mansion and things go badly wrong during an attempt by some of the guests to rob the householder of the contents of his safe.

Jack Quaid is very good in the lead, with a really good cast in support, but the standout is Sophie Thatcher as Quaids " companion " turned psycho killer.

No one plays these parts better than her at the moment and they`ve left the ending open for another, which I hope they do.

I Enjoyed The Companion…like you say, violent and kinda funny!

Of a similar ilk Ive just started watching the new series of Black Mirror. So far so good!

Went to the cinema to watch Death of a Unicorn last week. I’d never heard of it before but wanted to go to The Everyman and it was on…erm…we came out and decided we weren’t bored watching it. Just wondered how the hell the film got made and what the fuck Paul Rudd was doing in it.
I asked the waiter what they thought of it as we were settling down to watch it…they said they’d watched it and at the end just thought “why”? Which kinda summed it up for us.

Sky_Blue_Daz · Apr 23, 2025

Watched the first episode of protection earlier , will finish this over the next few days

Bertola · Apr 23, 2025

Late to the party, but I'm three episodes into This City is Ours.... Brilliant stuff

Otis · Apr 23, 2025

Sky_Blue_Daz said:
Watched the first episode of protection earlier , will finish this over the next few days

Oh, I missed that ..... and now my missus is pregnant

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