TV Series - What Are You Watching?

We watched The Detectorists last night. My Mrs hasn’t watched any of it before, she wasn’t interested, maybe she had watched S1E1 and didn’t get it - but watched last night ‘for me’. And she loved it…really got involved and felt for Lance at times. Lovely, lovely wee comedy with that love of nature and the countryside, and the little hint from time to time of the distant past knocking on their doors as they sensed something…
 
PNWokingham said:
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Through episode 4 now.....I'm trying, but.... Feel like I'm watching something like The Borgias or something. Backstabbing, killing, more backstabbing.....I assume it stays depressing the whole way? I never did get into shows like The Sopranos, Breaking Bad etc

I do like the scenery though....days drive from where I grew up, and very similar to where I went to Uni.
 
banjofred said:
Through episode 4 now.....I'm trying, but.... Feel like I'm watching something like The Borgias or something. Backstabbing, killing, more backstabbing.....I assume it stays depressing the whole way? I never did get into shows like The Sopranos, Breaking Bad etc

I do like the scenery though....days drive from where I grew up, and very similar to where I went to Uni.
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Maybe not for you then. I don't agree that it is depressing but certainly backstabbing and killing!!
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
We watched The Detectorists last night. My Mrs hasn’t watched any of it before, she wasn’t interested, maybe she had watched S1E1 and didn’t get it - but watched last night ‘for me’. And she loved it…really got involved and felt for Lance at times. Lovely, lovely wee comedy with that love of nature and the countryside, and the little hint from time to time of the distant past knocking on their doors as they sensed something…
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We watched it when it came on Drama recently and have the Xmas special to watch. Really enjoyed the three series, it sort of draws you in. Love the melancholy nature of the theme music too.
 
We've been watching Stanley Tucci's Searching for Italy on iplayer which was very good. Interesting series on the various regions of Italy and the cuisine. My only criticism is that it tends to drift toward Michelin Starred restaurants in the later episodes rather than the early focus which seemed to be on ordinary, run of the mill episodes.

The series does highlight how other countries have taken Italian recipes and changed them, normally making them worse! And also that quality ingredients is often the difference between dishes made in Italy and equivalents over here.
 
We've also been watching A Spy Among Friends on ITVX, the story of Kim Philby, the Cambridge 5 etc. Really interesting series based on the Ben Macintyre book, so one imagines there's a good dose of embellishment / fiction regarding certain matters.
 
Tongo said:
We've also been watching A Spy Among Friends on ITVX, the story of Kim Philby, the Cambridge 5 etc. Really interesting series based on the Ben Macintyre book, so one imagines there's a good dose of embellishment / fiction regarding certain matters.
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Really enjoyed this.

The Anna Maxwell Martin character is made up, but everything else seems to be pretty accurate - I did a bit of reading up after finishing the series the other day.
 
Tongo said:
We've been watching Stanley Tucci's Searching for Italy on iplayer which was very good. Interesting series on the various regions of Italy and the cuisine. My only criticism is that it tends to drift toward Michelin Starred restaurants in the later episodes rather than the early focus which seemed to be on ordinary, run of the mill episodes.

The series does highlight how other countries have taken Italian recipes and changed them, normally making them worse! And also that quality ingredients is often the difference between dishes made in Italy and equivalents over here.
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I have watched a few of them, he ends up in a town north of Amalfi. There’s a cafe there that does lemon cakes. It is on my bucket list of things to do. There’s another family reason for going to the town, but that’s another long story.
 
Julia on Sky Atlantic, excellent evocation of 60's America. If you like "The Marvellous Mrs Maisel", you should like this. A tue story that I didn't know. Surprisingly starring Sarah Lancashire in a great cast.
 
SiL put on That's my Jam last night, Google it. I can't begin to explain how awful it was. Clearly American in style, with American singers last night, didn't know them apart from Donny Osmond, fake excitement about nothing. Terrible, terrible, terrible ?
 
Lord Tyrion said:
SiL put on That's my Jam last night, Google it. I can't begin to explain how awful it was. Clearly American in style, with American singers last night, didn't know them apart from Donny Osmond, fake excitement about nothing. Terrible, terrible, terrible ?
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Watched 5 minutes of the first episode - shocking TV all round. Presenter, "guests", format...grim. Clearly rehearsed and rather contrived too.
 
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