Iāll add my endorsement for this show. Well written, well acted, well produced. Top stuff!
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There is new season of Black Mirror on Netflix. Iāve watched three episodes so far. One was about the vote-up system on this forum, and how some people take it too srs, and are so desperate for upvotes they hardly ever call i.e. beltch an i.e. cunt. That was quite gd episode. One was about an internet troll who hacked into a boyās laptop and recorded a video of him jacking it. That was ok episode. The boy seemed pretty bummed about getting filmed, but I quite like the idea of ppl watching me jacking it so I wasnāt in complete sympathy. Iām always sending celebrities and polititians link to my webcam.
The best episode so far was one about where there is internet heaven where you go when you die. Internet heaven is like a 80s night club in America, which I spose is quite gd for a visit, but you wouldnāt want to be there for all eternity, so that makes you think. That was best episode. It had lesbians in it.
On other hand, Iām losing bit of patience with Westworld. They seem determined to suck all the fun out of it. You never get to see anyone banging the robots. It all happens Off Screen.
I am also more Questions than Answers:
- What happens to all the jizz in the robot prostituteās fannies and bumholes? Do they just like wash it out? Or maybe, do they run on Jizz as like i.e. powersource?
b) If I rape a robot, cos thatās allowed, but then it turns out it wasnāt a robot, it was another guest, would I get in Trouble?
- Why does that one woman robot, the one with the dad, have such a big chin? I canāt believe youād design a sexbot with a chin like that. I know itās Wild West, but they werenāt all Desperate Dan. I reckon the chin is concealing a darker secret.
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I still havenāt gotten around to watching Westworld. I remain on the Boardwalk, which is more than can be said for many of the characters that once strutted its decks. A few episodes into season four now, there are a lot of people that have already been murdered, and arenāt coming back.
One hugely fucked up character is Gillian Dromerty, played by Gretchen Mol. I donāt want to spoil the show too much, but sheās a massive influence in not only the world we see depicted, but the world as we find it when the story begins. Thereās a fantastic flashback episode toward the end of season two which reveals just how that happened. A couple of scenes essentially provide the entire reason for why her son Jimmy has turned out the man he has. Masterful, heartbreaking stuff - and not cheating the audience at all. The show had provided a number of hints throughout.
Iāve read some of the bios of the real life people these characters are based on. The show has already killed off some people that lived to a ripish old age in reality, so itās employing a fair bit of artistic licence already. So while I know that āNuckyā Johnson, was eventually convicted in 1941 for tax evasion, Iāve got no idea how āNuckyā Thompson gets on or how Boardwalk Empire ends. Sixteen episodes left to find out.
I wont spoil it for you Pap but you will enjoy finding out. I am running out of patience with Westworld too, but not for the same reason as Bearsy. The pilot episode promised much that has yet to be delivered. It seems to be going in a completely different direction to the movie (which would not be a bad thing if that direction was interesting) and also doesnt have the menance of the movie. Hopefully things will pick up as the story moves along. Divorce, which follows it, has been a bit of a let down too. I thought it would be funnier but it is very dry and dark and the two leads seem very one dimentional. I did have a chuckle when he dug out his old Yes LPs and played them at full volume to piss off his wife though! It is written by Sharon Horgan of Catastrophe fame so was expected more. Perhaps it has just been āAmericanised?ā
Iāve got some other stuff to catch up with regardless. I think for my next trick, Iām going to check out Hannibal. Wouldnāt normally be my cup of tea, but Bryan Fuller (the next showrunner of Star Trek) was at the helm. Iād like to see some of his recent work.
He did Dead Like Me back in the day. If you havenāt seen that yet, youāre in for a treat. Mandy Patinkin is superb in it.
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Really enjoyed hannibal, didnāt think Iād like Mads Mikkelson in the title role but he did a pretty good job.
One of our members, who Iām not sure has posted yet, used to bemoan the fact that after satellite TV and cable were introduced, we all lost what the Americans call the watercooler moment. You could argue that shows like X-Factor and Bake Off still fulfil that role, but never to the extent I remember on a Monday morning at school.
Everyone had seen this weekās A-Team (or whatever was on Saturday nights at the time), in later years everyone had seen Blackadder or Red Dwarf. When people started departing for other channels, much of that was lost.
Quite weird then, that with a panoply of choice, both in terms of consumption options and wealth of programs, weāre getting back to that same watercooler thing independently.
The Missing is worth a look. No James Nesbitt this time (he seems to be in everything) and a different story line but with a link to the last one. Lots of flashes back and forth to keep you on your toes but is building nicely.
Iām watching the missing. Didnāt watch the first series but that doesnāt appear to be a problem. Glad I missed it if that twat Nesbitt was in it.
Iām currently watching Question Time. Ken Loach is being very good. There is some tit from labour on who is being a tit. Thereās some cock from the Tories on, whoās being a cock. And then thereās some twat Iāve never heard of called Dia Chakravarty on and she is a twat of the highest order.
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Agree that Nesbitt is a twat. His eyebrows seem to move independently across his forehead and he is more stuck in his accent than Sean Connery.
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The arrival of SyFy channel on the summer brought a raft of old shows weād missed out on.
One we came to love as a happy place which was the quirky Eureka.
Think it ended a 6 year run in about 2006. We caught all but 2 episodes. Basically Einstein built a town in Pacific Northwest West & populated it with geniuses to do funky science shit. Into this comes a US Marshall Jack Carter who has about half the IQ of the residents but is an expert in the bloody obvious. Wormholes time travel just about every weird science & always the Sheriff saves the day.
A reminder of old fashioned tv light comedy soap before tbe arrival of Hollywood budgets. You fell in love with characters and their daft antics kind of a US version of Red Dwarf without the lols.
Meanwhile, Westworld moves on, it really is stunning cinematography and, chins apart, the acting is superb. For me it is the continuing menace that is building each week. We know it will go wrong but the when how who and exploration of inteilligence evolution the soul and maybe evil & insanity is gripping.
They showed all the Eureka seriesā (titled āa town called Eurekaā in UK) back to back on Freeview Pick TV last year and I loved it. Off the wall storylines with quirky characters and bags of charm.
I was hooked from the start and felt quite disappointed when it came to an end. Mind you, itās good to wrap up a tv series while itās on top, rather than drag it out until it loses itās edge, like too many do.
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Sod Westworld, they should make Bearsyworldā¦now, that I would pay money to watch, maybe.
I remember watching Nesbitt get completely trollied in The Vic in Oxshott a few years back and get poured into a taxi to get back to that there London
The cunt wouldnāt give an autograph to the missus so we laughed at him when he couldnāt find the door to get in the taxi.
Absolutely no point to the story apart from a poor attempt to get a name-dropper badge ā¦(Pap - take note)
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Thereās no such thing as āa poor attemptā when it comes to name dropping Cob 
ā¦ btw, did I ever mention I played snooker with Marian Parhars ? ā¦ 
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Once or twice my friend, once or twiceā¦
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I reckon one of you should start a name-dropping thread.
Iād do it myself, but to swerve accusations of total domination by yours truly, I prefer seeing others doing it.
We take bletch out of the gimp box for a couple of hours each day for similar reasons.
Good idea Pap, Iāve got even better oneās than Marian P
Iāll leave it for Cob thoā as Iām off out for a couple of beers. Itāll give him something to do, to take his mind off sobriety, as he waits to pick up 'mutant ninja #2.
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