General TV Thread

Homegrove

Masters of Air keeps getting better. Surprisingly it got better after the Cary Fukunaga-episodes and different directors. I’ve also appreciated internet not spoiling some of the turns despite it being a true story. Especially the end of episode six.

erik

Dubman gonna do the last 3 tonight 🤙🏽

alistair

erik you shouldn’t be disappointed unlike True Detective

Dan

alistair Cheers for the heads up 😐

Homegrove

All in on Shogun after the two episode debut. That latino fella who was on Lost and was the Mayor of Gotham on Nolan’s Batman-movies stole the show from the English dude though. Oh, and Anna Sawai is reeeeally purty.

erik

Homegrove she was in Monarch - Legacy of Monsters too

erik

Finished Criminal Record last night. The last two episodes were absolutely superb.

Homegrove

erik yeah. Thankfully she’s way better in this. Not that I think it was her fault in that, but the writing was just bad.

whatever

Just realised there is a TV series of Sexy Beast covering Don and Gal’s early days. It’s on Paramount.

Along_the_Wire

whatever it’s fucking awful.

whatever

Along_the_Wire

Oh really? Fuck. Thanks for the heads up

Along_the_Wire

Amazon Prime now has ads - so many of the fuckers, it’s almost unwatchable - literally every ten minutes. To avoid, you have to pay an additional £3 a month. The thieving cunts.

alistair

Along_the_Wire I acquiesced begrudgingly

Dubman

Along_the_Wire
Noticed this whilst I was in India. I’m also trying to cut down on Amazon but let’s be honest is usually the cheapest and can be delivered the next day.

rhouses

Along_the_Wire fuck the man and all that, but come on, 3 quid is like a couple cans of coke. Prime has been dirt cheap for us in India, don’t mind giving them a little extra to avoid ads.

I wish they did the same for cricket here!

303abuser

Saw the ads coming and we cancelled amazon. It’s like these companies forgot why streaming became popular in the first place and are creeping the cable model back in place. I’m going the vpn route and back to downloading again. They clearly don’t want or need my money.

Mad_Cyril

303abuser
I’m inexorably moving toward iptv.

Fuck em.

Looks like snidey paul was ahead of the game after all

Along_the_Wire

I need to wean the missus off of Amazon delivery and then I’m cancelling. What a crock.

vinnyt77

Along_the_Wire 100% this. If it weren’t for the stack of Amazon boxes turning up daily, they’d be in the fucking bin, where they belong.

whatever

I suspect the market must be plateauing and they can’t resist going back to the ad revenues. As 303 says, doing the thing that people want to avoid. Get you back to being a good consumer.

nicksneddon

Mad_Cyril Get it mate, I cant recommend it enough ( however tbf I only really use it for the football, my couch gets a proper workout every Saturday afternoon )

303abuser

To get way off topic, these giant corporations are a plague on society. We need to get ourselves away from the allure of cheap, disposable goods and back to supporting local businesses. More expensive in the short term, but better for everyone by slowing the wealth transfer to a small number of people.

Mad_Cyril

303abuser
Agree totally.

I’m now using Amazon for ‘shit what is hard to find in shops’ (from a physical goods perspective).

What I do order goes to a local collection point to try lower delivery journeys.

Probably pissing in the wind, but it seems a more appropriate approach to the mass consumption model.

Then I see Deliveroo drivers queuing up outside Starbucks 🤬

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