What Are You Watching? 2025

Quicksand (2019)

Standard but reasonable 6 episode Netflix crime drama from Sweden. Traces the flashback of a girl accused of murder in a school shooting & the events between her & her rich boyfriend that led up to it. Heavy subject matter tackled including parental abuse & racial tensions in Swedish society.
 
Years and Years which I really enjoyed a few years back on BBC but went a bit under the radar from Russell T Davies is being added to Netflix with a bit of a push I see
 
Just finished Last One Laughing Ireland. Think I probably preferred the UK one overall, but that's quite possibly due to seeing it first, and being familiar with all the contestants beforehand. In the Irish one I didn't know or had very little knowledge of half of them.

Graham obviously > Jimmy Carr, and although Roisin Conaghty felt entirely superfluous, I guess she did serve a purpose in diluting Jimmy a little.

I did like the rule they brought in at the end of Ireland - booting out the ones who had caused the least laughter, as those three guys added the least to the show of the entire cast and I'd have been pissed off had any of them won. As it was we ended up with a great final two. So on balance perhaps I did prefer the Irish one after all.

Is the Australian version worth watching?
 
So last year I watched the first 1 or 2 episodes of Love & Death with one of the Olsen sisters on ITV that came on fairly late on a saturday evening I think, I then missed a few and could not for some reason log into ITV X so I had a hissy fit and BOYCOTTED it. I am now back on it and plan to carry on with it as it was really bubbling under quite well from what I remember. :disco:
 
lolly said:
Just finished Last One Laughing Ireland. Think I probably preferred the UK one overall, but that's quite possibly due to seeing it first, and being familiar with all the contestants beforehand. In the Irish one I didn't know or had very little knowledge of half of them.

Graham obviously > Jimmy Carr, and although Roisin Conaghty felt entirely superfluous, I guess she did serve a purpose in diluting Jimmy a little.

I did like the rule they brought in at the end of Ireland - booting out the ones who had caused the least laughter, as those three guys added the least to the show of the entire cast and I'd have been pissed off had any of them won. As it was we ended up with a great final two. So on balance perhaps I did prefer the Irish one after all.

Is the Australian version worth watching?
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It's absolute fucking filth.
 
To be fair the UK cast was so much better than the Irish edition. They all contributed.
 
Just Act Normal on BBC3. Excellent young cast, a very charming lover drug dealer called Dr Feelgood and a winning guest turn from Jamelia.
 
Recent realities I watched and enjoyed:


Deal or no deal island 2

Second season of this spin-off of the game show Dear or no deal, with a touch of Survivor. Among the contestants this season, Survivor legend Parvati.


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Got to Get Out

Twenty people under one roof; $1 million in prizes up for grabs. To win it, they’ve GOT TO GET OUT … but that’s much easier said than done. Half of the contestants are reality iconas, like Omarosa, Spencer (of Speidi) and a couple of popular Real Housewives.

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Million Dollar Secret

12 contestants, with one of whom is secretly awarded a $1 million prize at the start of the game. The objective for this "millionaire" is to keep their identity hidden while the other contestants attempt to uncover who holds the prize.

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Extracted

Competitors face extreme conditions in the wilderness while their families watch via a live feed and can decide their fate by negotiating to send essential lifelines or by pressing the “Extract” button, removing their family from the competition.


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The Comeback (2005, 2014), S02E08 'Valerie Gets What She Really Wants'. Just seeing Mickey say his name for the Emmy party "Mickey plus none" - was it said what happened to his partner from season 1 (2005)? God I love this show.
 
Just binged North of North on Netflix, quite lightweight but sweet enough and easy to watch in one sitting. 8 episodes and 25 minutes each.
 
Ill Advised said:
The Assembly looks very good also
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I'm so happy it's back with more. I'll even brave ITVX for it

If you didn't see the pilot last year it came FINN ENDORSED:

Finn said:
I've just watched this, where a panel of 30 autistic, neurodivergent and/or disabled people all interview one celebrity in a no-holds-barred way. Based on a French format, and it is fucking brilliant. Lovely and unpredictable and I think manages to avoid feeling worthy or patronising:

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BBC One - The Assembly

Michael Sheen faces the interview of a lifetime from The Assembly. Expect chaos!
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I hope it goes to series. I reckon there'd be enough good names willing to risk the awkward questions for the profile bounce.
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Dying For Sex on Disney. It took a couple of episodes to settle in but I was soon involved and predictably a bit broken by the last couple of episodes. It also has Rob Delaney, who I know has some fans here.

Now started The Studio and Your Friends & Neighbours on Apple.
 
Really enjoying Carême on Apple TV, a very silly and very sexy period piece about a chef in Napoleonic France COOKING and FUCKING his way through historical events. There’s no diplomatic or constitutional crisis that can’t be solved either with his CAKES or COCK!
 
Finished This City Is Ours, and fuck me what a final episode! I screamed at one point

Loads more fun that the Gangs of London / Peaky Blinders borefest I initially assumed it was, and ALL about the women. Second series please BBC, with even more of the evil wronged Derry Girl :disco:
 
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Binged The Four Seasons on Netflix. Highly enjoyable.
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Just finished watching this over the past couple of evenings, didn't get loads of laughs but very watchable anyway.

Thought the end of episode 7 was quite the unnecessary turn, but then watched the final episode and thought it was perhaps the funniest of the lot!
 
I've boarded the Last One Laughing UK train and oh my word, Bob Mortimer <3

I love how it gives him an outlet for grade A stuff that would have made its way on to Shooting Stars 20 years ago. I'm three eps in and already wanting series two.

Also, let Roisin compete! She's too good to be there just as someone for Jimmy Carr to talk at. Not that you'd think it based on this.

Joe Wilkinson, Richard Ayoade and Daisy May Cooper also my highlights so far. It's definitely the best use of comedians this side of Taskmaster.
 
lolly said:
@Rita

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Oh wow! This has sure as hell made me smile. I think the next season will be 1971? So am assuming the film will just be the main cast.

I do hope this isn’t going to be the end for it though by finishing with a film. :(
 
Finished - and fucking loved - Last One Laughing UK. I'd still need paying to sit through a set by Rob Beckett or Sara Pascoe, but my love for Daisy May Cooper / Richard Ayoade / Bob Mortimer burns even brighter than before.

Now also a big fan of Harriet Kemsley, though unsure if she'll ever be as funny as the face she does when trying not to laugh. Somewhat reminiscent of this moopmoji:

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I've gone straight into LOL Ireland, which is a big step down (WOW does the Irish comedy scene have a lot of UNAPPEALING MEN) but absolutely worth it for Aisling Bea, Deirdre O'Kane and tbh all the women plus the long-haired man and Graham Norton.
 
I like Sara Pascoe a lot, but prefer her as a writer than her stand up.
 
Loving GRACE and the Brighton BACKDROP, currently on S2 E3 and they are all mini films arent they, 1.5 hours2 hours each :o
 
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