What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?
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Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Rewatched this, possibly the 3rd time with a 25yr gap. Still has impact and thoroughly enjoyed
yeah, the hairs on my back stood up when the blind woman first starts speaking to Laura about Christine. elements of the rest of the film are a bit meh but I love the atmosphere and cinematography.
And Poltergeist, and The Omen.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
And The Babadook.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Yeah, just watched the first episode tonight. Only marginally more "fun" than The Reckoning but utterly gripping.
Watching The Woman in the Wall. It's excellent. Someone described it as horror so I avoided it but it's more like The Yellow Wallpaper, which I read in 6th form, meets detective series.
The lead, Lorna, is a character and a half. 'Bold' is what the evil nun calls her.
The lead, Lorna, is a character and a half. 'Bold' is what the evil nun calls her.
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Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Re: Time series 2
Good series, was very emotional in places. I'm assuming much of it is reasonably plausible?
The tent reference was alarmingly topical.
Good series, was very emotional in places. I'm assuming much of it is reasonably plausible?
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Was looking for some classic series, which occasionally pop up on iPlayer with no fanfare and disappear just as quietly.
The Ascent of Man is currently up. It says for "over a year", but that's been a lie before. Pretty much essential watching to any who've never seen it, and still highly recommended for a re-watch if you have.
The final episode, where he wades into a pond he believes may contain the ashes of his family murdered in the Holocaust has always haunted me. Apparently shocked the film crew, too.
The Ascent of Man is currently up. It says for "over a year", but that's been a lie before. Pretty much essential watching to any who've never seen it, and still highly recommended for a re-watch if you have.
The final episode, where he wades into a pond he believes may contain the ashes of his family murdered in the Holocaust has always haunted me. Apparently shocked the film crew, too.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Kin. An Irish series about Dublin crime gangs feuding over drug turf.
Excellent stuff but the Kinsellas must be Ireland's stupidest crime family, and wouldn't have lasted long IRL. It also takes them until the end of the penultimate episode to figure out the solution that's obvious to everyone else by the end of the first.
It's a top watch all the same and there's a second series that's not yet on iPlayer.
rubbershoes Mr.Bishie
Excellent stuff but the Kinsellas must be Ireland's stupidest crime family, and wouldn't have lasted long IRL. It also takes them until the end of the penultimate episode to figure out the solution that's obvious to everyone else by the end of the first.
It's a top watch all the same and there's a second series that's not yet on iPlayer.
rubbershoes Mr.Bishie
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
It's alright. I'm going to continue watching it purely on the basis that I'll enjoy anything with Daisy Haggard in it, because I think it's fairly so-so outside of that.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Obviously the Whoniverse. It’s all on there. Epic.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Watched the first episode a couple of nights ago.
It's a bit "zany", which I hate, but there's enough interest there for me to watch the next one.
Numbers
an ting!
Have you ever watched Love/Hate? It’s another Irish crime drama and wipes the floor with Kin.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
It's on the ITV catch up thing. (Happened to notice the other night when I was looking for something else.)Phwoar, that looks the business.
Just bought the first season on Amazon.
Cheers
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Numbers
an ting!
S1 isn’t the best but still good, it really builds as it goes through the seasons.Phwoar, that looks the business.
Just bought the first season on Amazon.
Cheers
Some brutal stuff in it. As good as if not better IMO (but I’m probably biased) than The Wire / Top Boy etc.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Grime Kids - completely charming, sunlit, bright & optimistic drama set in 2001 about a group of 5 lads attempting to set up as a DJ/MC grime crew in East London. Based on a memoir by DJ Target and adapted for the screen by Theresa Ikoko, who wrote Rocks. It bowled me over really - bit ragged and unevenly paced in parts, veers a little close to teen-soap-drama in places, but it's SO much more cheerful and funny and nuanced than you might expect, not bleak in the least, and stuffed to the gills with great young actors and terrific vintage music. 5 x 55 minute eps and does not drag or depress ever. Great antidote to a lot of of the grimmer feel of crime-centred dramas/docs or panicked commentary about the drill scene today. Made for BBC3.
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
One for Anne Rice fans - just found the series adaptation of The Mayfair Witches, which somehow I had managed to not know existed or forgotten about.
Settling down in front of episode 1 now, will report back.
Edit: Failing to grip me so far, and it has terrible reviews on IMDB
Settling down in front of episode 1 now, will report back.
Edit: Failing to grip me so far, and it has terrible reviews on IMDB
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Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I enjoyed it. The story Is better than I thought it would be and it's nicely made. It's got more too it than a straightforward drama and some good people in it.
And Daisy Haggard. If you've never seen Back to Life, go and watch that immediately. It's wonderful.
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
One for Anne Rice fans - just found the series adaptation of The Mayfair Witches, which somehow I had managed to not know existed or forgotten about.
Settling down in front of episode 1 now, will report back.
Edit: Failing to grip me so far, and it has terrible reviews on IMDB
Yeah it's not terrible, it's just not terribly good (nor as good as it should have been).
Great cast, good visuals, just the adaptation is a mess and seems to go more for style over substance, I can barely extract the original Rice story from this mess.
As with many TV adaptations of novel series, they've condensed 2 characters into 1 and lost the quirks and character of the characters in the novels - the actor is a good actor and I like him, but his part was pencilled in to replace 2 very different characters in the novels, and that shows - he's just utterly middle of the road and boring (TV adaptations often do this IME when they mesh characters together - the quirks and mannerisms get written out in order to condense the story for adaptation)
Pingety Pong
Well-Known Member
We were actually laughing at the dire Scottish accents.One for Anne Rice fans - just found the series adaptation of The Mayfair Witches, which somehow I had managed to not know existed or forgotten about.
Settling down in front of episode 1 now, will report back.
Edit: Failing to grip me so far, and it has terrible reviews on IMDB
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Oh god they were terrible, I know that part of the story in the book is set in Scotland but the accents were wavering between bad attempts at Scottish, Irish and Cornish IMO.
I spent a while wondering whether I'd misunderstood and they'd set it somewhere else.
editor
hiraethified
Absolutely loving the dark, violent comedy of Boat Story.
www.bbc.co.uk
Review: Boat Story review – Daisy Haggard’s hilariously dark drama is worthy of Tarantino or the Coen brothers
Boat Story
Two strangers. One boat. Nothing to lose. An unexpected discovery could mean a second chance - or a bloody end. Dark comic thriller with Paterson Joseph and Daisy Haggard.
www.bbc.co.uk
Review: Boat Story review – Daisy Haggard’s hilariously dark drama is worthy of Tarantino or the Coen brothers
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