Published on 12, July, 2020
Are there any shows that are helping you get through the strange days we're living through?
I like those reality competitions e.g. the Bake Off, Sewing Bee, Best Home Cook, Pottery Throwdown etc. And things like Bridgerton and Winx, which are total fantasy escapes from reality.
I also remembered Detectorists. Does anyone watch that? A nice, subtle series with nothing horrible happening.
Does anyone remember Sapphire & Steel?
I loved it, but found it quite chilling and strange, but I suppose it was meant to be.
I particularly liked the ending...
I really liked Blake's 7 when I was a kid.
I think Avon was my favourite character. Hmm
My infant school headmistress looked a bit like Servalan, which was quite intimidating when I got called in for misbehaving!
My favourite episodes are the search for star one and the speed chess scenes.
I binge watch DVDs.
My current series is "Under the Dome." An American series.
Last month I was watching the whole series of "A very peculiar practice", it was made in the late 80s but is still relevant today. The story lines about bulk recruiting of overseas students by UK universities just to get their money, very real.
Then the way universities use dirty tricks to close certain departments. This fictional university closes, Art, English, History, Philosophy etc. In the real world of 2021, Sheffield closes it's Archeology department.
Before that I was binge watching Happy valley, based in the Calder valley, I later tracked down and visited many of the filming locations.
I have the dvd box sets of it.
It brings a new low to the phrase cardboard sets and the dull sound in the BBC studios, no background noise at all.
Made on a string budget, parts of it are so bad that they are good.
A timeless classic.
We've been watching re-runs of Blake's 7. Anyone else remember those? Oh. My. God. The dodgy sets and special effects! Although the conflict between the Federation and the rebels is interesting, and the conflict between Blake and Avon is well done.
Some of my favourite shows have interesting stories behind them.
Currently I'm watching the 1978 & 1980 original version of Battlestar Galactica on the horror channel.
Back in 1978/1980 I enjoyed the 1978 version of Battlestar Galactica. Then in 1980 the successor series was awful. The acting and dialogue was third rate.
Now in 2021 I'm seeing the 1980 version in a new light. The story lines were reasonable, they were just let down by the atrocious acting. And I'm pleased to discover from the internet that other people agree with me. Back in 1980, the series was prematurely cancelled because the viewing figures collapsed.
oh yes
I wish I could pretend like he does
Oh yes to IT Crowd and The Witcher.
'I'm disabled' you know what I mean.
Hmm
Nobody mentioned:
IT Crowd TV Series
Altered Carbon TV Series
The Witcher TV Series
The accountant (someone dreamed up on autistic special agent, who pretends to be an accountant on daily basis :P)
Being a cat lover:
Jackson Galaxy My Cat From Hell TV Series
My daughter loved Victorious and I love The Joy of Painting. It's so soothing.
The Design Challenge is a lot more pretentious than the Pottery Throwdown but it's a laugh anyway. It's better when Alan Carr joins it. He stops them going too far up their own backsides.
I enjoy good documentaries about most topics and lecture series too (the documentaries have to be well made, and factual). The movies I enjoy tend to have a supernatural or science-fiction element to them. I won't watch any reality TV shows, game shows or soap operas. If I had to sit through one of them I'd go crazy.
The Simpsons (1989-99)The WireThe SopranosBreaking BadCrackerBand Of Gold
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I love rewatching anime over and over. I recently rewatched Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and it's still as good as I remember.
I also religiously watch a new episode of Rupaul's drag race every saturday morning
I absolutely love Pottery Throw Down! My mother-in-law did suggest I watch The Great Interior Design Challenge which I think you can stream on Amazon if you've got it. Haven't watched it myself but I intend to give it a try! :-)
Strictly
I don't watch anything on Disney + because the buffering makes me really angry. Sounds a good show though.
It's a follow up to the Marvel films with two of the superhero characters (Wanda and Vision). The clever thing about it is that it riffs on American sitcom's through the decades in a weird Twilight-Zone-style alternate reality set-up. For a short series - I think it works - although there's still the obligatory Marvel skybeams and energy balls being chucked around in a showdown.