Square-eyed interlude...
Good evening Fiendlets,
It's been a while since I did a square-eyed ramble, so here goes...
Since we got our TIVO box we've watched some quite good telly on our late evenings when Micro is in bed. Assuming you don't mind wading through the 8 billions channels of tat, there are a few decent channels and it's also rather cool to have access to old shows on Catch-up TV.
The other week we watched State of Play (the original 2003 TV series). Its a drama/thriller in 6 parts, centred around a news journalist and a politician. It was available on catch-up TV but I think it's also on DVD. Anyway I really enjoyed it. It's got loads of actors in it who went on to become familiar faces. (I had previously watched the US film remake which wasn't bad, but the TV original is definitely better).
Catch-up TV also has the 1985 mini-series of Edge of Darkness available. What say ye? Yay or Nay?
Another goodie (I think) is Rubicon - an American thriller series about a small team of political code breakers/investigators. (I think it's on BBC4, so no need for TIVO, but will have to check). Anyway we're only 2 episodes in, and I must confess that G and I are spending a lot of time guessing at the potential cliches that might come up. But I'm enjoying it nonetheless. The whole theme of thriller/conspiracy/code-breaking could not be rammed any further up my alley - hence I am perfectly willing to let it off if it all gets a bit silly.
BBC4 is also currently showing the 80s series The Singing Detective, which I seem to recall being very good, Am I remembering correctly? (Am recording it but haven't re-watched any of it yet)
Rather annoyingly we bought the TIVO too late to catch the start of series 4 of Fringe (an excellent American Skiffy show) which means that we have to wait until they start it over again. In the meantime, in a bid to fill the hole, we've had a go on Haven and Eureka, neither of which really come close. But they're alright for a bit of unchallenging chewing-gum-for-the-eyes, just before bed... I spose.
Ooh, another good thing from TIVO is that it keeps showing the old Blackadders. I'm usually not a big fan of wallowing in 'the good old days' of telly from one's youth but recently I've made a few exceptions, especially for Bladder. It really is consistently funnier than anything that's on now. I can't deny that I've had some great laughs from the likes of Spaced, Misfits and the Inbetweeners, but there's not a lot else I can think of from the last 15 years or so that has made me do proper lols all the way through it in the same way as Blackadder. It has the perfect holy trinity of smut, wordplay and slapstick.
As for the coming-soons, I'm probably going to have a spin on the new Danish killer-thriller on ITV3 to see if it's worth a go (I forget the name) and anything else Danish that comes up. Also I quite fancy something called Alcatraz that hasn't started yet and another one called Grimm
Well that's probably enough about my sad life. And my takeaway has just arrived - hooray!
It's been a while since I did a square-eyed ramble, so here goes...
Since we got our TIVO box we've watched some quite good telly on our late evenings when Micro is in bed. Assuming you don't mind wading through the 8 billions channels of tat, there are a few decent channels and it's also rather cool to have access to old shows on Catch-up TV.
The other week we watched State of Play (the original 2003 TV series). Its a drama/thriller in 6 parts, centred around a news journalist and a politician. It was available on catch-up TV but I think it's also on DVD. Anyway I really enjoyed it. It's got loads of actors in it who went on to become familiar faces. (I had previously watched the US film remake which wasn't bad, but the TV original is definitely better).
Catch-up TV also has the 1985 mini-series of Edge of Darkness available. What say ye? Yay or Nay?
Another goodie (I think) is Rubicon - an American thriller series about a small team of political code breakers/investigators. (I think it's on BBC4, so no need for TIVO, but will have to check). Anyway we're only 2 episodes in, and I must confess that G and I are spending a lot of time guessing at the potential cliches that might come up. But I'm enjoying it nonetheless. The whole theme of thriller/conspiracy/code-breaking could not be rammed any further up my alley - hence I am perfectly willing to let it off if it all gets a bit silly.
BBC4 is also currently showing the 80s series The Singing Detective, which I seem to recall being very good, Am I remembering correctly? (Am recording it but haven't re-watched any of it yet)
Rather annoyingly we bought the TIVO too late to catch the start of series 4 of Fringe (an excellent American Skiffy show) which means that we have to wait until they start it over again. In the meantime, in a bid to fill the hole, we've had a go on Haven and Eureka, neither of which really come close. But they're alright for a bit of unchallenging chewing-gum-for-the-eyes, just before bed... I spose.
Ooh, another good thing from TIVO is that it keeps showing the old Blackadders. I'm usually not a big fan of wallowing in 'the good old days' of telly from one's youth but recently I've made a few exceptions, especially for Bladder. It really is consistently funnier than anything that's on now. I can't deny that I've had some great laughs from the likes of Spaced, Misfits and the Inbetweeners, but there's not a lot else I can think of from the last 15 years or so that has made me do proper lols all the way through it in the same way as Blackadder. It has the perfect holy trinity of smut, wordplay and slapstick.
As for the coming-soons, I'm probably going to have a spin on the new Danish killer-thriller on ITV3 to see if it's worth a go (I forget the name) and anything else Danish that comes up. Also I quite fancy something called Alcatraz that hasn't started yet and another one called Grimm
Well that's probably enough about my sad life. And my takeaway has just arrived - hooray!