The TV Thread

[Yorks Tim]

I am going to bother and will quote Lucy Mangan's Guardian review header as she's absolutely right.

Quote

Adolescence review – the closest thing to TV perfection in decades

 As she can write much better than I can, here's the full review:

Adolescence review in The Guardian

[Bedford Roughyed]

Contrary to other opinions.... Adolescence is pretty damn good.

Amazing camera work.  Each episode is 1 continuous shot, no cuts.  Remember that towards the end of episode 2.  

[The Hallucinating Goose]

6 hours ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

Contrary to other opinions.... Adolescence is pretty damn good.

Amazing camera work.  Each episode is 1 continuous shot, no cuts.  Remember that towards the end of episode 2.  

It has certainly had very positive reviews from critics. It's currently got 100% rating from 39 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes with an average score of 9.2/10, and a score of 9/10 from 24 reviews on metacritic. Like I say, critics certainly rate it!

[graveyard johnny]

12 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

It has certainly had very positive reviews from critics. It's currently got 100% rating from 39 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes with an average score of 9.2/10, and a score of 9/10 from 24 reviews on metacritic. Like I say, critics certainly rate it!

Stephen Graham is the darling of the critics at the min and can do no wrong in their eyes - I like the bloke but he plays the same person in everything - a one tone mumbling, frustrated, angry scouser with one facial expression - apart from the time he tried that disaster of an American accent in that de niro movie and that was awful 

[Futtocks]

As part of the ongoing embuggeration of subscription TV, MotoGP highlights are now on Quest, which means either a SDTV broadcast or navigating the Discovery+ website/app, which is even worse than ITVX.

The same company has switched their Track Cycling coverage from their basic subscription to the premium and more than three times the price.

[Father Gascoigne]

On 15/03/2025 at 19:29, graveyard johnny said:

anyone who recommends "adolescence"  the new stephen graham "drama " to you - DONT BOTHER - a 4 hour mumbling  borefest on netflix - graham plays his amazing array of different characters - yes ONE- the same one he always plays in everything else - like my nan used to say "they must be getting stuck for stuff to mek" 

Agreed. Just finished it. The only highlight is the one-shot takes, and that gets old by the second episode. I'd recommend watching the first episode and stopping there. 

 

Edited March 19 by Father Gascoigne

[graveyard johnny]

On 16/03/2025 at 23:11, Bedford Roughyed said:

Amazing camera work.  Each episode is 1 continuous shot, no cuts

like they used to do back in the day you mean?

[The Masked Poster]

I read Blue Peter has been axed - which was a surprise as I just assumed it had been dumped already. 

[Futtocks]

55 minutes ago, The Masked Poster said:

I read Blue Peter has been axed - which was a surprise as I just assumed it had been dumped already. 

It hasn't been axed; they are just moving from partly live to fully pre-recorded.

Given the viewing habit of the yoof of today, the live aspect probably doesn't matter to them too much.

[graveyard johnny]

31 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

It hasn't been axed; they are just moving from partly live to fully pre-recorded.

 

so we can watch one "they made earlier?"

[Sidi Fidi Gold]

I've just got round to watching Adolescence, I though it was excellent, I particularly enjoyed part 3 which involved just the boy and the psychologist. On another note, I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was filmed in South Elmsall and South Kirkby with the school scene being filmed in Minsthorpe College.

[bobbruce]

On 17/03/2025 at 18:38, graveyard johnny said:

Stephen Graham is the darling of the critics at the min and can do no wrong in their eyes - I like the bloke but he plays the same person in everything - a one tone mumbling, frustrated, angry scouser with one facial expression - apart from the time he tried that disaster of an American accent in that de niro movie and that was awful 

What even in pirates of the Caribbean he’s an angry scouser. 

[graveyard johnny]

19 minutes ago, bobbruce said:

What even in pirates of the Caribbean he’s an angry scouser. 

not seen it to be honest

[The Masked Poster]

6 hours ago, Futtocks said:

It hasn't been axed; they are just moving from partly live to fully pre-recorded.

Given the viewing habit of the yoof of today, the live aspect probably doesn't matter to them too much.

Whilst it probably makes me a dinosaur, to me that's probably tantamount to the same thing. 

[Father Gascoigne]

Season 2 of Severance was a fairly good watch, not quite living up to the standards set in the first season. 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

I'm watching the quiz show, The Finish Line, and there has just been a woman on who claims she's a bookworm that reads 125 books a year, however when she got a question asking which author created the character 'Jeeves' she said Neil Gaiman and didn't seem to have a clue who PG Wodehouse was.

[Futtocks]

10 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I'm watching the quiz show, The Finish Line, and there has just been a woman on who claims she's a bookworm that reads 125 books a year, however when she got a question asking which author created the character 'Jeeves' she said Neil Gaiman and didn't seem to have a clue who PG Wodehouse was.

Quite plausible these days, given the overwhelming number of genres and books there are to read at everyone's fingertips.

If a person's tastes don't run to 1920s whimsy, Wodehouse could well have passed a pretty avid bookworm by. Their loss, naturally.

[gingerjon]

11 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Quite plausible these days, given the overwhelming number of genres and books there are to read at everyone's fingertips.

If a person's tastes don't run to 1920s whimsy, Wodehouse could well have passed a pretty avid bookworm by. Their loss, naturally.

Wodehouse died fifty years ago. The Fry & Laurie Jeeves & Wooster was thirty years ago.

I'd be surprised if people my age didn't know who created Jeeves, possibly not that surprised by anyone younger.

[Futtocks]

Just now, gingerjon said:

Wodehouse died fifty years ago. The Fry & Laurie Jeeves & Wooster was thirty years ago.

I'd be surprised if people my age didn't know who created Jeeves, possibly not that surprised by anyone younger.

Back when I was on twitter, the outrage and abuse you'd read from men of a certain age when a teenage contestant on Pointless didn't recognise a moderately-successful chart act from the Eighties or Nineties was always predictable.

[gingerjon]

5 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Back when I was on twitter, the outrage and abuse you'd read from men of a certain age when a teenage contestant on Pointless didn't recognise a moderately-successful chart act from the Eighties or Nineties was always predictable.

I mentioned the BBC Radiophonic workshop in a meeting a few weeks ago. I might as well have said I started working in the era of papyrus.

[Futtocks]

8 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

I mentioned the BBC Radiophonic workshop in a meeting a few weeks ago. I might as well have said I started working in the era of papyrus.

I have a colleague who studied at Robinson College, Cambridge.

I haven't mentioned to them that I was there, sitting by the main entrance when the Queen officially opened it.

[Red Willow]

1 hour ago, Futtocks said:

Back when I was on twitter, the outrage and abuse you'd read from men of a certain age when a teenage contestant on Pointless didn't recognise a moderately-successful chart act from the Eighties or Nineties was always predictable.

I upset the other half this morning telling him that the Human League to youngsters today is like Vera Lynn to us.

[GURNER]

On 17/03/2025 at 18:38, graveyard johnny said:

Stephen Graham is the darling of the critics at the min and can do no wrong in their eyes - I like the bloke but he plays the same person in everything - a one tone mumbling, frustrated, angry scouser with one facial expression - apart from the time he tried that disaster of an American accent in that de niro movie and that was awful 

my sentiments entirely but in  1000  blows he is him being a cockernee.

To be honest his acting fitted Adolecence perfectly

[GURNER]

On 23/03/2025 at 17:33, bobbruce said:

What even in pirates of the Caribbean he’s an angry scouser. 

To be fair he did play an angry billy bremner, which gives his acting a bit of variety

and an angry tranmere rovers fan in away days

Edited April 1 by GURNER

[Liverpool Rover]

I have watched Last One Laughing on Amazon. It’s the only time I’ve seen Richard Ayoade even close to laughing.