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Part 2 said:
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.
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I was tempted to watch it the other night but ended watching sci-fi escapism The Expanse on Netflix instead, because I didn't fancy watching something with such a heavy subject matter.

I do really want to watch it, though, because my flat sort of had an audition for it. I had a flyer put through my door a couple of years ago, a location scout was looking for a flat to be the home of one of the characters. The location scout came to my flat, which is on the second floor, and explained that ideally they wanted to film in a ground floor flat, because of external lighting, which would obviously be easier to rig up outside a ground floor flat than a second. One of my neighbour's flats got the gig, so I want to watch because a bit of it was filmed near me.

I was a bit gutted as I was skint at the time and the money would've come in handy. I understand that being a shooting location can be quite lucrative.
 
Hollis said:
Just got round to watching the film "Four Hours at the Capital" - on the Washington riot last year. Highly recommend it.. really well made... and lets you make you're own mind up on things..
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We watched it again tonight too, prompted by the anniversary of the event a couple of days ago. Just as shocking and powerful as the first viewing.
 
I found Nick Cave's idiot prayer had been broadcast on BBC three and is on iPlayer. I'd heard a recording of it but...wow. Best TV I've seen in years.
 
Numbers said:
Watched the 3 parter H2O The Molecule that made us over the last cpl of days, really interesting and worrying in ways.
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Tried to like this as the subject matter is right up my street but I find this overly-emotive style of the voiceover grating and patronising.

contadino said:
I found Nick Cave's idiot prayer had been broadcast on BBC three and is on iPlayer. I'd heard a recording of it but...wow. Best TV I've seen in years.
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Think I mentioned it upthread. I'm quite a fan of Nick but didn't think I'd be able to sustain watching some dude with a piano for an hour and a half. Was very happy to be proved wrong, it was enthralling :)

Once the pandemic is over I hope to see a kazoo version of Babe, I'm On Fire.
 
AnnO'Neemus said:
I was a bit gutted as I was skint at the time and the money would've come in handy. I understand that being a shooting location can be quite lucrative.
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I worked with a woman whose house was on Coronation Street and think she was well rewarded but for considerable disruption. I don't think she anticipated quite how much gear there would be and how many people would be in and out of the house.
 
Part 2 said:
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.
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Have just finished watching this myself and found it thoroughly engrossing. I'd seen the previous BBC doco about it (listed here if anyone fancies it) so I knew more or less what to expect - lots of gnashing of teeth and the temptation to hurl things at the screen at such a parade of incompetence - but was somewhat trepidatious about how subject matter like this are too often handled for TV.

Very happy to have persevered and found it riveting throughout with no lurid lechery and veered away from too much in the areas of cloying sentimentality or mawkishness. I don't think there was a wrong foot in the script, direction or any of the cast (aside from a couple of slightly too wobbly accents). Everyone will I'm sure compliment Merchant's sublime creepiness and Sheridan Smith's no-nonsense steadfastness but even relatively small parts were exceedingly well done.

As per the reply above... if the dramatised version makes you mad, don't go reading too much about the real details of the case as there was plenty of other stuff the police missed or ignored that wasn't even mentioned in the show (would have probably needed an extra episode TBH).
 
Part 2 said:
Seen those.

I thought the first episode on bbc3 might just be the same thing with being called scooter boys but the ideas been developed a bit. 6 episodes on iPlayer.
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Ah shit I just watched episode 6 first

GODDAMIT

ah well I’m still looking forward to working through this, loved the YouTube vids
 
Watched the pilot episode of Mammoth today, written by and starring Mike Bubbins. It's a comedy about a 70s PE teacher who is caught in an avalanche and somehow preserved alive until the present day. It's six months after he was discovered and media attention has moved on elsewhere, his best mate is in a nursing home, and he's a man out of time - pornstar tache, brown Cortina, etc.

I really enjoyed it tbh, there's no laugh track and it's not chock full of gags, but the characters (especially Mammoth himself) are well drawn and engaging. I hope they make a full series.
 
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BBC Two - The Last Survivors

A landmark documentary about the last survivors of the Holocaust living in Britain today.
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The Last Survivors, an incredible documentary from 2019, is back on iPlayer.

Featuring interviews with some of the last remaining survivors (in this country) of the death camps, what really struck me is the time and space given to the interviewees to tell their stories their way. Some who are used to sharing and processing their memories, others much less. At the risk of naivety, it felt like it had a very light editorial touch.

Required viewing.
 
porp said:
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BBC Two - The Last Survivors

A landmark documentary about the last survivors of the Holocaust living in Britain today.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

The Last Survivors, an incredible documentary from 2019, is back on iPlayer.

Featuring interviews with some of the last remaining survivors (in this country) of the death camps, what really struck me is the time and space given to the interviewees to tell their stories their way. Some who are used to sharing and processing their memories, others much less. At the risk of naivety, it felt like it had a very light editorial touch.

Required viewing.
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Nice one, have added that to my list.
 
We spent ages tonight looking for Four Hours at the Capitol and didn't find it because I was under the misapprehension that it was called Twenty Four Hours in the White House :facepalm: doh.

Watched The Tourist instead which, going by the first episode, is thrilling and excellent.

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The Tourist

Fight your demons, face your enemies, find your answers. He’s running from a past he can’t remember - and someone wants him dead. Starring Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald.
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another vote for the tourist . Halfway through it - and really enjoying. funny, violent, offbeat, head spinning and with very engaging characters - even the minor ones.

someone's going to hit a roo whilst driving at night aren't they?
 
Think something called The Responder is starting soon, cop drama in Liverpool. I read an interview with one of the actors and thought it sounded good
 
not sure it's to everyone's taste but J Hogg's Souvenir is now on Iplayer.
I read somewhere that "it shouldn't work but it does" and I'd agree. Wasn't turned on by the trailer but it's defo worth a watch.
The Souvenir
 
DJWrongspeed said:
not sure it's to everyone's taste but J Hogg's Souvenir is now on Iplayer.
I read somewhere that "it shouldn't work but it does" and I'd agree. Wasn't turned on by the trailer but it's defo worth a watch.
The Souvenir
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Thanks for the heads-up - that's a film I've wanted to see for some time.
 
2 storyville films
Undercover OAP - really lovely film - elderly man is hired to go undercover in a care home in Chile after allegations from relatives of one of the people in the home ,of abuse and theft of their relative - this sounds depressing but it’s a lovely film

Collective - Romanian documentary about journalists initially investigating a fire in a music venue - reiterated to me the disappearance of investigative journalism here and the power of their investigation.
 
I am actually quite liking The Responder, although some of those accents are fucking dire. There's enough bloody Scouse actors around, why don't they just use them?? Martin Freeman's accent is really quite good though. I was worried it would be a bit too sympathetic to the filth's point of view, and while there is some of that, it's not ALL like that. Watchable, anyway, if not brilliant.
 
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