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Aug 30, 2022 - 3:07 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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About 4-5 years ago, we started watching a show called THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (a bit of a misnomer, as pretty quickly in the series this proves not to be the case) on the UK FreeView comedy channel Dave.
It was goofy and spoofy and once you got into the characters, it was a fun and daft 23 minutes of 'easy watch'.
We watched 3 series of it and then...it just never came back (I assumed it had been cancelled, as I didn't know anyone else who watched it or had even heard of it..and I always forgot to check about the series' status).
But with Disney buying Fox (it was a FoxTV series) it popped up on the Disney+ lists and I noticed there was a series 4, that Dave had never bothered to buy or screen.
Each series ended with a cliff hanger and unfortunately, as it was cancelled permanently after series 4, the show never had a full resolution anyway.
It was running out of steam as it went further and further and it got even sillier and sillier, but overall, it was a nice change of pace to the usual 'end of the world/zombie*' type stuff one usually sees within these virus/pandemic scenarios.
And probably more realistic too, with boredom and food 'sell-by' dates and nuclear reactors burning through the planet core being the perils of the series.
Your tolerance to Will Forte and his brand of comedy - extremely stupid and annoying - would determine your enjoyment of the show though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(TV_series)
*FYI...there are NO zombies in this series...it's not fantasy, just what-if situ-comedy.
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Aug 30, 2022 - 7:09 AM
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Rameau
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The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling, a five hour (with adverts) doc about the life of Garry Shandling, I recorded it from Sky Documentaries. It's in two parts & I saw it over the weekend & thought it was just great. Shandling seemed like a good guy, but had so many hang-ups & was never really happy, a complex man & a great doc. It's made me get out my big DVD box set of Larry Sanders (which I've never looked at, although I have seen the shows many years ago), but I'm going to have to fit it in between House & Bones, which I've started looking at again (discs - a disc of House episodes followed by a disc of Bones), I used to enjoy those two shows, but they haven't been on UK TV for years.
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Two episodes in of House of the Dragon.
Other than Matt Smith probably being miscast, its been great. GoT level yet? No, but its establishing the characters and hinting at tensions and conflict looming. Bring it on.
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The King. Italian prison drama with inspector montalbano's Zingaretti as a cocaine taking likely crooked but tough prison warden. There is murders at the prison, jihadist troublemakers in the muslim section and an obsessive judge on his case...
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Anyone watched The Staircase, with Colin firth?
Was it shit?
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Ok thanks joanie.
I had it recorded a while and was in 2 minds.
Hope youre keeping well xx
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Anyone watched The Staircase, with Colin firth?
Was it shit?
Firth deserved an Emmy for his acting. He was superb. At times it seemed hard to watch, but I found it brilliant.
Tell you what joanie, 2 episodes in and out of the 28 children in the house i still cant work out which kids are their kids, which are her kids from previous and which are his from previous. 
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Yeah, as we know Joanie, its rare for a series not to be stretched out these days.
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