What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?

[T & P]

As a general observation, and this obviously applies to all other streaming services, I’m a bit peeved off that during this lockdown the Beeb have not made entire series such as Killing Eve S3 available all at once, instead of drip feeding it.

Even more so when you consider much of the current weekly programming that has now to be filmed without audience and with guests/ panellists contributing from their living rooms, such as Graham Norton, HIGNFY etc, is frankly rather shit.

 

[Me76]

I'm half way through Noughts and Crosses which is exceptional so far.

 

[belboid]

Race Across the World.

Is Jo a wonderful human being? She won't win cos she has to keep frittering away money to keep Sam happy- they'll go skint before the end.

I very much like Rob and also Lizzie. I hope they'd eventually couple up - they'd suit each other. I think and Jenny and Dom could couple up too - have the negative gits together

Well it had a reasonable result, don’t ya think? Came to like everyone enough in the end. And Jo is indeed an utter saint.

 

[sojourner]

Shankly: Nature's Fire.

Excellent, if really quite sad.

 

[oryx]

Anyone else been watching Normal People?

It's excellent - well-cast and sensitively directed. I haven't read the book, although my sister put me off it by claiming it was really boring and a lot of the reviews have said the TV version is better than the book!

 

[MsHopper]

Well it had a reasonable result, don’t ya think? Came to like everyone enough in the end. And Jo is indeed an utter saint.

I really enjoyed this

 

[D'wards]

Well it had a reasonable result, don’t ya think? Came to like everyone enough in the end. And Jo is indeed an utter saint.

Yeah, cos they were all such nice people I think ultimately the ones who win deserve to win, because they won iyswim.

The winners occasionally mentioned how uncle was out of the family for ten years. I thought he must have done something awful, but no, it was because he married the woman he wanted to rather than the one his family wanted him to. So good for him.

 

[D'wards]

Yeah, cos they were all such nice people I think ultimately the ones who win deserve to win, because they won iyswim.

The winners occasionally mentioned how uncle was out of the family for ten years. I thought he must have done something awful, but no, it was because he married the woman he wanted to rather than the one his family wanted him to. So good for him.

And they are donating 10 large out of their winnings to the poor family they encountered in Sao Paulo

 

[8115]

Anyone else been watching Normal People?

It's excellent - well-cast and sensitively directed. I haven't read the book, although my sister put me off it by claiming it was really boring and a lot of the reviews have said the TV version is better than the book!

I haven't read the book yet so I'm avoiding it like the plague, I read Conversations with Friends and absolutely loved it otherwise I wouldn't be so bothered. My copy of Normal People is at my mum's and I can't get it due to lockdown.

I just started a show called In My Skin about a girl whose mother has bipolar. The first episode is pretty good.

 

[moonsi til]

Devs.

Just been recommended to me this week. Will definitely watch soon.

 

[little_legs]

Anyone else been watching Normal People?

It's excellent - well-cast and sensitively directed. I haven't read the book, although my sister put me off it by claiming it was really boring and a lot of the reviews have said the TV version is better than the book!

I've now watched it twice and I couldn't concentrate on work today because I kept thinking and recalling things from my own adolescence. I found myself staring at spreadsheets in some kind of stupor remembering things the characters said, cried and laughed about. I am going to buy the book.

Both lead actors are freakin' amazing.

 

[oryx]

I've now watched it twice and I couldn't concentrate on work today because I kept thinking and recalling things from my own adolescence. I found myself staring at spreadsheets in some kind of stupor remembering things the characters said, cried and laughed about. I am going to buy the book.

Both lead actors are freakin' amazing.

It made me think about things in my own adolescence and the bit where he starts uni was really reminiscent of my own experience...yet I'm a fair few decades older than the protagonists!

It's somehow very 'universal'.

 

[MBV]

I am trying to savor it but have just watched episode 6 (I've read the book)

 

[not-bono-ever]

Twin.

Nordic noir with surfing

I am loving this actually..yes its absurd but the twists are great

 

[Reno]

This documentary on Lee Miller. First a model and artist's muse and later a brilliant photographer and war correspondent, her life is fascinating because she was at the centre of so much of what defined the 20th century.

BBC Two - Lee Miller - A Life on the Front Line

Celebrating Lee Miller, a model turned photographer turned war reporter.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[stavros]

Boys Banged Up, where Stephen Nolan goes inside an 18-21 prison in Northern Ireland.

 

[stavros]

Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation is on Iplayer atm, which I have on very good authority is sensational, and will be watching in the next few days

I watched this today. Very good. How on earth did Coppola managed to make this and Godfather II in the same year?

 

[wayward bob]

i watched it last night and thought it was dreadful genuine i want my 100 minutes back stuff

How on earth did Coppola managed to make this and Godfather II in the same year?

presumably he kept all the actors in a cage and swapped them in/out as required...

 

[belboid]

I watched this today. Very good. How on earth did Coppola managed to make this and Godfather II in the same year?

Conversation was shot in '73 and FFC had a couple of months off before starting on G2. I say 'off' although he was undoubtedly working on edits etc, tho most of that work had been passed to Walter Murch.

 

[red & green]

I've now watched it twice and I couldn't concentrate on work today because I kept thinking and recalling things from my own adolescence. I found myself staring at spreadsheets in some kind of stupor remembering things the characters said, cried and laughed about. I am going to buy the book.

Both lead actors are freakin' amazing.

I watched this yesterday. I used to play on the beach in it. It’s really wonderful as Is the book . still thinking about it today. parts of it had me in tears which is very rare for me.

 

[little_legs]

I watched this yesterday. I used to play on the beach in it. It’s really wonderful as Is the book . still thinking about it today. parts of it had me in tears which is very rare for me.

I've read the book now too, it's so much better than the TV adaptation, which by itself is also very good.

I've also now read her Even if you beat me essay in the Dublin Review and Colour and Light in the New Yorker, and I've decided that I love her.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Anyone else been watching Normal People?

It's excellent - well-cast and sensitively directed. I haven't read the book, although my sister put me off it by claiming it was really boring and a lot of the reviews have said the TV version is better than the book!

I've not watched it (I'll confess, I've seen, err, bits posted to certain other forums I subscribe to), though I knew I was gonna enjoy the outrage. Cue Daily Mail etc, "Porn at the BBC," "On MY licence fee!," "IT'S A WILLY!!!!!." Might give it a watch through, as presumably 23 million can't be wrong.

 

[Guineveretoo]

In My Skin, tragic drama about a Welsh teenager dealing with very dysfunctional parents (and friends) whilst trying to navigate her school life,
I found it surprisingly beautiful as well as depressing.

I binge watched this and loved it! Actually came on to this thread to recommend it. It’s just excellent. Bleak in parts, but uplifting. And fun.

 

[kittyP]

Taboo is back on.
Dark and mysterious. Tom Hardy giving it maximum Tom Hardy and then some.
"I have a use for you..."

Superb.

A new series?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

A new series?

No - same one - but it's worth watching again.

 

[Mattym]

I'm really enjoying 'State of Happiness'.
BBC Four - State of Happiness

 

[Orang Utan]

This is great, Under The Skin's Jonathan Glazer directing a very short film - disturbing and eery. Fantastic soundtrack by Mica Levi.

BBC Two - Jonathan Glazer's The Fall

A mob's punishment of a lone man proves cruel and unusual in this nightmarish short film.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[rubbershoes]

Don't bother with Imperium. Harry Potter as an FBI agent infiltrating white supremacists.

I lasted 15 minutes

 

[Orang Utan]

big love to Tony Slattery (and his partner) for doing this:

BBC Two - Horizon, 2020, What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?

Comedian Tony Slattery turns to psychiatry for some answers to his psychological problems.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bond]

Anything with either David Attenborough or Louise Theroux I can rewatch (especially the former).
Fleabag
Noughts and Crosses

I plan to watch Normal People but intend on reading the original novel first after my cousin suggested it to me a while back.