What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?

[8ball]

I just watched this, and it is truly fascinating. I don't think it breaks any new insight into the day - delusional mob mentality - but nonetheless very chilling.

Here's the link, as I don't think it was in MrCurry's post.

Definitely a strange day.

 

[stdP]

The BBC dramatisation is one of the few DVDs I still possess, Denholm Elliot is outstanding.

"Never work with children, animals, or Denholm Elliot" as the saying goes Also have the DVD, watched again this year in preparation for...

A Ghost Story for Christmas - The Mezzotint

1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.

www.bbc.co.uk

...The Mezzotint, another adaptation under the "Ghost Story for Christmas" moniker that I'm happy to see being revived again. Creepy changing picture, cold ham, dark family skullduggery and more cold ham, what's not to like?

FWIW a few more of the old ghost stories from the 70s have been put up on iplayer as well.

 

[sojourner]

Loved The Mezzotint, absolute quality.

 

[kittyP]

Loved The Mezzotint, absolute quality.

I really wish they would make a series of either different similar ghost stories or one longer one over numerous episodes.
I loved it too but it left me wanting more.

 

[stdP]

I really wish they would make a series of either different similar ghost stories or one longer one over numerous episodes.
I loved it too but it left me wanting more.

For the most part, our christmas ghost story routine involves watching the classics and then getting plastered so we can't remember them too well the next time, leaving them relatively fresh for next year.

I could definitely have handled more of The Mezzotint but I still appreciate so much being crammed in to it. Given his evidence love of the genre, I hope Gatiss gets to be able to do some more/bigger stories in future.

In a very swift mood change, the rather beautiful and I think rather underrated Blade Runner 2049 is up:

BBC One - Blade Runner 2049

After a disturbing discovery, replicant hunter K looks for the one person who could help.

www.bbc.co.uk

I wasn't too convinced of this the first time I saw it, but like the original it's grown on me over repeated viewings and regardless of what you think of the storyline (it's at least half an hour too long), the visuals, production design and soundtrack are beautiful.

 

[Epona]

I really wish they would make a series of either different similar ghost stories or one longer one over numerous episodes.
I loved it too but it left me wanting more.

I would be happy for more ghost stories (one offs, mini-series, feature length etc) at any time of the year tbh, I love a good tale of the supernatural

 

[kittyP]

I would be happy for more ghost stories (one offs, mini-series, feature length etc) at any time of the year tbh, I love a good tale of the supernatural

Yes me to. :l

 

[danny la rouge]

Loved The Mezzotint, absolute quality.

I loved it, but thought they could have shortened the final scene. We didn’t need as much.

 

[Pingety Pong]

I would be happy for more ghost stories (one offs, mini-series, feature length etc) at any time of the year tbh, I love a good tale of the supernatural

Me too! This is not on the iplayer but on BBC sounds - a series about real life ghost stories and hauntings. I am loving it so far - especially this one about a haunted bothy in the Highlands.

Uncanny - Case 10: Don't Sleep in this House - BBC Sounds

 

[cyberfairy]

I loved it, but thought they could have shortened the final scene. We didn’t need as much.

I am a member of the MR James Appreciation Society on Facebook and the ending has caused huge consternation! MR James's writing was so powerful as it worked on the horror your own mind could imagine not special effects tbf- did like the rest of it though.

 

[sojourner]

Citizen Kane.

If you've never watched it (like us), you should. Astonishing for its time, in so many ways.

 

[8ball]

Citizen Kane.

If you've never watched it (like us), you should. Astonishing for its time, in so many ways.

Indeed. In the 80 years that have passed since its release, a better cure for insomnia has still not been found.

 

[sojourner]

Indeed. In the 80 years that have passed since its release, a better cure for insomnia has still not been found.

I was gripped all the way through tbh, so much in there to talk about.

 

[stavros]

Frankie Boyle's New World Order 2021.

"Former Health Secretary and current wanker Matt Hancock..."

 

[T & P]

I enjoyed the first two episodes of Around the World in 80 Days, with David Tenant.

 

[T & P]

Third episode of the above best one so far, and adding more layers than the original story has had in previous adaptations. Enjoying this a lot.

 

[Numbers]

Watched the 3 parter H2O The Molecule that made us over the last cpl of days, really interesting and worrying in ways.

 

[sojourner]

I enjoyed the first two episodes of Around the World in 80 Days, with David Tenant.

Watched the 3 parter H2O The Molecule that made us over the last cpl of days, really interesting and worrying in ways.

Have stuck both of these on My Programmes to watch, now that we've finished Anne.

 

[Part 2]

Watched Four Lives last night...drama about the Stephen Port case. I'd not read anything about it but have done since. The police involved really were fucking hopeless.

 

[sojourner]

Watched Four Lives last night...drama about the Stephen Port case. I'd not read anything about it but have done since. The police involved really were fucking hopeless.

Got that on my list too.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Citizen Kane.

If you've never watched it (like us), you should. Astonishing for its time, in so many ways.

I think CK suffers a bit from its 'best film ever' tag. People often seem to watch it and come away disappointed, but it's totally brilliant on its own terms, even before you realise that Welles and his crew invented many of the techniques used. Quite aside from the cinematography, its dialogue and naturalistic acting are ahead of their time as well.

I'd love to be able to watch it for the first time again.

 

[sojourner]

I think CK suffers a bit from its 'best film ever' tag. People often seem to watch it and come away disappointed, but it's totally brilliant on its own terms, even before you realise that Welles and his crew invented many of the techniques used. Quite aside from the cinematography, its dialogue and naturalistic acting are ahead of their time as well.

We watched it BECAUSE of that reputation, thinking 'well, how good can it be for a film of that time?'. Fully expected it to have been overhyped, but genuinely thought it brilliant. The playing with temporality, the cinematography, loads of innovative stuff in there - it really was 'ahead of its time' as you say.

I was surprised to see it pooh-poohed up there ^^ but hey ho.

 

[sojourner]

Oooo, there's a new series of Mandy just hit!

 

[Part 2]

Got that on my list too.

Prepare to be angry.

 

[oryx]

You don't know me. Gripping and excellent.

Finally catching up with this.

It is indeed gripping and excellent!

BBC One - You Don't Know Me

A defendant sacks his barrister and gives his own defence.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[sojourner]

Watched the 3 parter H2O The Molecule that made us over the last cpl of days, really interesting and worrying in ways.

Watched the first one of these last night. Brilliant. And chilling. When he was kayaking!

 

[Numbers]

Watched the first one of these last night. Brilliant. And chilling. When he was kayaking!

Mad/sad isn't it.

 

[Sprocket.]

Loved The Mezzotint, absolute quality.

Loved it too, easily one of the best productions on TV this Christmas.

 

[Carvaged]

Oooo, there's a new series of Mandy just hit!

Some of the new episodes are real crackers lol

 

[spanglechick]

Oh my god the Steven Port thing. Amazing. Awful.

How have Barking and Dagenham and that Family Liaison Officer got away with it??