So much time on my hands.
Iāve raced through Big Little Lies which Iāve enjoyed. Although itās a tourist promo for Monterey most of the time.
I worked out part of the plot line in episode 2. How they showed the domestic abuse was pretty raw.
Iām now onto Riveria. Once again tourist promo for the French Riviera. Bit of intrigue after a v rich man gets blown up on a super yacht. Some ot very nice characters. I do like Iwan Rheon (aka Ramsey Bolton) so worth a view for that.
Yeah, I watched this (all six episodes - half-term!) and really enjoyed it.
Itās not in Fleabagās league but it was funny. Iāve watched Daisy Haggard over the years in really quirky, bit-parts and it was good to see her centre-stage and not typecast for those quirky features and facial expressions.
I donāt know if youāve finished it yet or are watching it week-to-week but I was left at the end not know whether there will be another series. I hope so.
Yeah Iāve watched all of it. I also hope for a second series.
Following @pap 's trip to Prague, there is a new āshowā on Netflix.
As wrongness goes, and cringeworthiness, and face palming, it must be unique.
It is so gross it is funny. Not ROFL funny but in a hold back guffaws while saying gggeeoooghhhhYUK NO! at the same time.
It is bad, it is wrong, and each episode is only about 17 minutes long.
Bonding.
Clever, wrong, gross, funny. The precis is āgay guy gets to help a friend who is a Dominatrixā Iāll leave it there.
We laughed, a lot, but it probably may need an NSFW / Wife / Girlfriend / boyfriend warning
Saw that. Was in two minds. Will add it to the listā¦
Yeah I saw that in Netflix. Iām watching Santa Clarita Diet. Which is silly.
I finished teh Santa Clarita diet which is Drew Barrymore as a modern day zombie. Utterly ridiculous but easy enough to watch. Theyāve just said there will be no sean 4 after a bit of a cliff hanger ending.
Iāve ploughed through the first 2 series of Jamestown which was mention by sadoldgit in 2017. The spare TV is set up and with 2 nights of footie I am getting through it. Quite enjoying it.
S4. Cracking expansion of the Universe & Luciferās character.
And Maze
no spoilers now.
I recommended this to a friend thought wasnāt sure sheād enjoy it but turns out she has. Iāve suggested she try True Blood but think that my be too much for her.
No spoilers just -
Loved it
I hear Netflix actually bothered to mess with the very stale formula (it was stale by episode three of season one) to great effect.
Just watched Years and Year on iplayer.
Set in not too distant future. Tensions between USA and China. In the UK a no nonsense TV personality turned politician divides the UK. Written by Russell T Davies.
Maybe a little too close to home.
Also watched Gentleman Jack (I need a full time job) and quite enjoyed that.
Virtues on Channel 4ā¦ Stephen Graham is excellent - almost fly on wall documentary style dramaā¦ no spoilers from me butā¦
''The Virtues centres around Joseph who, struggling to recover from his addiction to alcohol, finds his world beginning to spiral when his ex-partner moves away from Liverpool to Australia to start a new life with their young son.
Feeling like he has no close family to live for, he sets off for the south of Ireland to confront repressed memories from his childhood years in care and to reconnect with his long lost sister Anna, who until now had thought her brother was dead.
Anna and her husband Michael take Joseph in and give him work in the family-owned building company. There, Joseph comes face-to-face with the demons of his past when he meets Craigy, an odd figure who wonāt leave him alone.
His situation gets even more complex when he becomes entangled with Michaelās troubled sister, Dinah, who is also haunted by a secret from her past.āā
Apparently based on Shane Meadows own repressed childhoodā¦ strong stuff, Powerful, brilliantly acted.
Stephen Graham is a great actor. He first came to my attention in āThis Is Englandā, when he played a right wing thug, just released from prison. Genuinely scary, went from being one of the lads to extreme violence in zero seconds. I have The virtues on my box, but i shall wait until it has finished, then i shall binge watch it.
Yep, He is very good, loved This is England, and his character did sort of go through a redemptive cycle, yet still paid a price in the endā¦ Virtues is difficult watching, disturbing, but compelling. Stephen Grahams best work to dateā¦ and all his stuff is good
There is a scene in Episode one, that is so painfulā¦ remarkable stuff
I have just finished binge watching āOur Friends In The Northā, possibly one of the best dramaās the BBC have ever produced. I watched it back in 1996 when it was first broadcast, have never forgotten it. I did wonder if it would still stand up, but it certainly does, and then some.The story of four friends from Newcastle over a period of 34 years, from 1964 to 1995. It kickstarted the careers of itās four lead actors, Daniel Craig, Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee and Mark Strong. As a history lesson of the UK in this period it canāt be beaten. Absolutely superb. Covers the Minerās strike, police corruption in the porn squad in Soho, Reginald Maudling, who was Home Secretary and T Dan Smith, an architect in the Northeast who were embroiled in a corruption scandal. Cannot be recommended highly enough. Absolutely wonderful. Although 25 years old it pisses all over anything produced these days. Watch it.
Chernobyl, fucking brutal, not as bad as Threads but Jesus wept! Brilliant but hard.
Found this on youtube after you suggested it, the name of it sounded familiar but I was too young in the nineties to be interested in it. Iām enjoying it a lot 
Gina McKeeās right eyebrow is doing funny things to me 