19 hours ago, Blueblur said:

Fiancée and I just finished it. It was BRILLIANT. So well written, funny and heartfelt. 

Moira was my favourite! Can’t believe she was Kevin’s mother from Home Alone 1+2, barely recognised her. Her lilting accent had me in hysterics most of the time, bebehhhh 

Yeah her voice is ridiculous and hilarious. I`m halfway through season 4 which so far has possibly been my favourite. The cast has a few surprises, namely the dad and son are real life dad and son.

2 hours ago, dkw said:

Yeah her voice is ridiculous and hilarious. I`m halfway through season 4 which so far has possibly been my favourite. The cast has a few surprises, namely the dad and son are real life dad and son.

Indeed, and Twyla from the cafe is their sister/daughter! 

5 minutes ago, Blueblur said:

Indeed, and Twyla from the cafe is their sister/daughter! 

Blimey, I don't know that. A proper family affair.

I’ve been really enjoying Escape At Dannemora lately. You could think of it as Prison Break for grown ups. It has a great cast and most of the episodes seem to be directed by Ben Stiller, who I only know from Zoolander and Tropic Thunder. This is nothing like either of those.

Phoenix Rising - documentary on Netflix about the Paralympics based mainly around London 2012 

We are almost finished with the Office, we have I think less than 10 episodes left.  

After that we are likely going to move onto either Umbrella Academy Season 2 or The Rain Season 3.   I am more excited about Umbrella Academy and I think my wife is too.  The rain will probably come after that.

Millie Bobby Brown is going to be in some Enola Holmes series on Netflix coming out later this month.  I'm interested in seeing that.  

The Crown season 4 drops in November.  

So it looks like my wife and I are booked in terms of stuff to watch through November with maybe a possible lull in there in late October/November were we will have to figure out something to watch until the Crown drops. 

In terms of what I watch on my own, I binged watched Cobra Kai while my wife was working this weekend.  I also watched one episode of Luther on recommendations I got on here.  Too early to judge IMO if I will like the series or not so I'm going to give it a few more episodes.  

Edited September 1, 20205 yr by Valpo

On 01/09/2020 at 18:01, Valpo said:

In terms of what I watch on my own, I binged watched Cobra Kai while my wife was working this weekend.

We share the same achievement this weekend, I loved it. I still maintain Larusso is the ‘villain’, he’s such a self centred dick!

We had a 3 day weekend here and my wife and I blew through Umbrella Academy and The Rain.  I found out that the Danish have a cuss word that sounds exactly like the English cuss word.

I'm up late most nights and found the X-files showing on Paramount.

Seen most yet not all so enjoying this while I can.

Some are neat some are not.

Edited September 8, 20205 yr by strider6004

1 hour ago, Strider6003 said:

I'm up late most nights and found the X-files showing on Paramount.

Seen most yet not all so enjoying this while I can.

Some are neat some are not.

I love the X-Files. Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man is a great episode.

9 hours ago, Stretford Ender said:

I love the X-Files. Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man is a great episode.

Ah yes the Smoking Man.

Mulder's clandestine contacts with another law enforcement group are pretty neat too, expect at times that does happen on occasions.

@Stretford Ender

What did you think of the X-file movies?

I liked both of them though the second came in for a lot flack not sure if this was because of the limited budget preventing a blockbuster like the first or whether they just thought the story was weak.

 

 

34 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

@Stretford Ender

What did you think of the X-file movies?

I liked both of them though the second came in for a lot flack not sure if this was because of the limited budget preventing a blockbuster like the first or whether they just thought the story was weak.

 

 

I thought the first one was the better of the two. I did see the second one but it wasn't very memorable.

3 hours ago, Stretford Ender said:

I thought the first one was the better of the two. I did see the second one but it wasn't very memorable.

I enjoyed the second though of course it was not about the Alien theme. Reading up on it, it was thought to be a mistake to release it so close to the Dark Knight. 

I thought the story was good as was seeing the actors in different roles later in their lives as they then uncover the cause of deaths which interestingly was a recent theme emerging out of some of the conflicts and what was happening to prisoners.

The Billy Connolly character too was interesting and a little bizarre.

Re the first one, it was released in '98 and as you know partly set in Antartica which is known to have a magnetic anomaly indicative of something like metals under the ice. So a general mystery.

Then in 1999  NZ radio ham amateurs picked up details of  a 'fight on the ice' and a US plane was flown there during winter and evacuated some staff that were taken to a hospital in Christchurch and as the media hordes descended a security blanket was constructed and then the media were told the patients had been moved, destination unknown.

I was living there at the time so it was a strange event, just looked for it and found these articles referring to an illness by a company working for Raytheon. I know Raytheon as being a US military contractor.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1312258/Pilots-land-Antarctic-ice-runway-rare-winter-rescue-mission-save-sick-worker.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/14/antarctic-rescue-flight

Still don't know what happened here yet it must have done wonders for the X-files movie as large parts were set in Antarctica!

 

I suspect the 'fight on the ice' was misheard and might been 'flight' rather than 'fight'.  

 

 

 

 

You were living in Antarctica or NZ? The former has all kinds of stories attached to it dating back hundreds of years, if not more including the theory that the Piri Reis map showed part of the coastline not covered in ice.

58 minutes ago, Stretford Ender said:

You were living in Antarctica or NZ? The former has all kinds of stories attached to it dating back hundreds of years, if not more including the theory that the Piri Reis map showed part of the coastline not covered in ice.

NZ and yes familiar with the Piri Reis map.

Have you heard about that alleged military expedition in 1946 to Antarctica supposedly to flush out a Nazi base?

11 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

NZ and yes familiar with the Piri Reis map.

Have you heard about that alleged military expedition in 1946 to Antarctica supposedly to flush out a Nazi base?

I have. Wasn't that the one about American vessels coming under fire from strange flying machines?  Operation Highjump, I think it was called.

Edited September 9, 20205 yr by Stretford Ender

11 hours ago, Stretford Ender said:

I have. Wasn't that the one about American vessels coming under fire from strange flying machines?  Operation Highjump, I think it was called.

Yes that was the allegations, though was not aware of the operation name.

Last two nights the X-files was put back to later so last night watched the ordinary Red Heat with Arnie as a Russian cop in Chicago trying to catch a Russian criminal.  Struck me it was unlikely we would see a film made today with a decent Russian character. That was made when Gorbachev was in power.

 

1 hour ago, Strider6003 said:

Yes that was the allegations, though was not aware of the operation name.

Last two nights the X-files was put back to later so last night watched the ordinary Red Heat with Arnie as a Russian cop in Chicago trying to catch a Russian criminal.  Struck me it was unlikely we would see a film made today with a decent Russian character. That was made when Gorbachev was in power.

 

Reminds me of the old joke. Why do police in Russia walk around in threes? One can read, one can write, and the other keeps his eye on the two intellectuals.

Watching the The Good Place on Netflix.  

I've just watched or should I say endured the first episode of Ratched. Here's something I've never complained about before but the incidental music is deafening it's like having an orchestra in your front room. Everything is so loud from the main character's clothes to a doctor's office which I can only presume as it's a mental hospital is supposed to be soothing for the patient is not for the viewer it's migraine inducing. It comes across like a camp version of Silence of the Lambs and in the film she was cold and unsympathetic and in this she's almost a criminal mastermind who regardless of the circumstances would be plotting major heists rather than working in a mental hospital.

Have loved the Mortimer & Whitehouse fishing series on BBC. Only found out about it towards the end of series 2, so watched rest on catch-up and have just watched series 3 - final episode was last night.

Never really been into fishing but have always liked the idea. But the programme is not really about the fishing. More about two funny blokes, getting on in years, both of whom have had health issues and are clearly very fond of one another and every episode is just a great 30 minutes which leaves you feeling a lot better about the world having watched it. 

21 hours ago, Nibs said:

Have loved the Mortimer & Whitehouse fishing series on BBC. Only found out about it towards the end of series 2, so watched rest on catch-up and have just watched series 3 - final episode was last night.

Never really been into fishing but have always liked the idea. But the programme is not really about the fishing. More about two funny blokes, getting on in years, both of whom have had health issues and are clearly very fond of one another and every episode is just a great 30 minutes which leaves you feeling a lot better about the world having watched it. 

I'm a fan as well. The actual fishing is almost irrelevant, I just love hearing them take the piss out of each other.

On 27/09/2020 at 09:36, bluehaze said:

I've just watched or should I say endured the first episode of Ratched. Here's something I've never complained about before but the incidental music is deafening it's like having an orchestra in your front room. Everything is so loud from the main character's clothes to a doctor's office which I can only presume as it's a mental hospital is supposed to be soothing for the patient is not for the viewer it's migraine inducing. It comes across like a camp version of Silence of the Lambs and in the film she was cold and unsympathetic and in this she's almost a criminal mastermind who regardless of the circumstances would be plotting major heists rather than working in a mental hospital.

Our telly is probably a bit old now, but it has something called a "volume" button on the remote.  Oddly, it can allow you to make the sounds coming out of the TV both louder AND quieter on the same button.  A bit like Beckham's thermos flask.

On 28/09/2020 at 20:17, Nibs said:

Have loved the Mortimer & Whitehouse fishing series on BBC. Only found out about it towards the end of series 2, so watched rest on catch-up and have just watched series 3 - final episode was last night.

Never really been into fishing but have always liked the idea. But the programme is not really about the fishing. More about two funny blokes, getting on in years, both of whom have had health issues and are clearly very fond of one another and every episode is just a great 30 minutes which leaves you feeling a lot better about the world having watched it. 

Its a lovely little programme, nice gentle viewing with 2 very funny people. Its got me wanting to take up fishing, Ive a few mates who are really into it so might tag along.