TV Show recommendations

Started by Archie Mitchell, June 23, 2009, 11:32:19 PM

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johnnycool

Quote from: lurganblue on February 07, 2020, 09:16:50 AM
The White House Farm show is def an interesting watch on ITV.  I'm not old enough to have remembered this case in the news at the time so it's all a bit new to me.  Horrible what went on there.

Stephen Graham with a Welsh accent in this one.

Catching up on ITV Hub and it's a good watch. I do vaguely remember it at the time so know the final outcome but interesting all the same.

quit yo jibbajabba

Great actor but getting a lot of stick for his accent in this one

tyroneman

Quote from: screenexile on February 05, 2020, 01:31:51 PM
Started Armando Iannucci's new show Avenue 5 and I'm 3 episodes in. . . not great I would have to say I don't find it anywhere near as good as his other stuff!

Agree...hopefully it's a slow burn and gets better.

Saw first episode of Danny McBride's Righteous Gemstones....again, hope it gets better like Vice Principals did

screenexile

Quote from: tyroneman on February 07, 2020, 01:15:24 PM
Quote from: screenexile on February 05, 2020, 01:31:51 PM
Started Armando Iannucci's new show Avenue 5 and I'm 3 episodes in. . . not great I would have to say I don't find it anywhere near as good as his other stuff!

Agree...hopefully it's a slow burn and gets better.

Saw first episode of Danny McBride's Righteous Gemstones....again, hope it gets better like Vice Principals did

Did Vice Prinicpals get better?? I gave up quite quickly on that one!

Main Street

How quick?
I lasted 10 minutes with vice principals.

Babylon Berlin is on a season 3 now.
I decided to rewatch first, starting with S1 ep 1


BennyCake

#5615
Did anyone see the David Baddiel documentary 'Confronting Halocaust Denial' on BBC?

Couldn't say it was a very balanced program to be honest. Oh and there was an interesting fella from Ennis on it.

screenexile

Quote from: BennyCake on February 21, 2020, 12:22:47 PM
Did anyone see the David Baddiel documentary 'Confronting Halocaust Denial' on BBC?

Couldn't say it was a very balanced program to be honest. Oh and there was an interest fella from Ennis on it.

It's hard to balance a programme like that... do you put Priests and Cardinals on a documentary about how the earth was formed?

bennydorano

Balance, seriously? I'd be interested to hear what way you would you provide balance to such a topic? Like, is there a counterpoint to actually put forward? ???

Milltown Row2

Quote from: bennydorano on February 21, 2020, 04:20:29 PM
Balance, seriously? I'd be interested to hear what way you would you provide balance to such a topic? Like, is there a counterpoint to actually put forward? ???

Yeah was thinking that
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Ea

BennyCake

Quote from: bennydorano on February 21, 2020, 04:20:29 PM
Balance, seriously? I'd be interested to hear what way you would you provide balance to such a topic? Like, is there a counterpoint to actually put forward? ???

Well, he confronted only one denier. One who clearly wasn't very good at putting his point across. Or maybe that's why they chose him. Tar all deniers as nutcases like this fella, and it reinforces the story

Baddiel basically wouldn't tolerate any sort of differing opinion from his own. More or less, the history books say this happened, so if you say hmmm I don't think it was quite like that..., then you're clearly anti-Semitic and hate all Jews.

He interviewed one survivor who spoke of being separated from her family on arrival, and never seen them again, she then got too upset so they stopped filming. No mention of anything that went on in the camps, other than malnutrition, poor conditions. Wasn't very convincing to be honest.

I went into it with an open mind. The denier offered little argument (unsurprisingly), but neither did the other side.

Main Street

Quote from: BennyCake on February 21, 2020, 06:57:12 PM
Quote from: bennydorano on February 21, 2020, 04:20:29 PM
Balance, seriously? I'd be interested to hear what way you would you provide balance to such a topic? Like, is there a counterpoint to actually put forward? ???

Well, he confronted only one denier. One who clearly wasn't very good at putting his point across. Or maybe that's why they chose him. Tar all deniers as nutcases like this fella, and it reinforces the story

Baddiel basically wouldn't tolerate any sort of differing opinion from his own. More or less, the history books say this happened, so if you say hmmm I don't think it was quite like that..., then you're clearly anti-Semitic and hate all Jews.

He interviewed one survivor who spoke of being separated from her family on arrival, and never seen them again, she then got too upset so they stopped filming. No mention of anything that went on in the camps, other than malnutrition, poor conditions. Wasn't very convincing to be honest.

I went into it with an open mind. The denier offered little argument (unsurprisingly), but neither did the other side.
An open mind to what??  There is no denial argument. There are just degrees of denial, usually regurgitated nonsense, long discredited which our man in Ennis was unable to even get his ducks in a row.
Baddiel did made fleeting  reference  to the pseudo Leuchter Report  and the "historian"  David Irvine libel trial , Irvine being more educated that the Ennis chap.
If you were interested in the denial aspect, that debate that is dealt with in a film called Denial based on the book by Deborah Lipstadt History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.

As a documentary, I thought it could have been better directed and edited. nevethelesss  it's well worth a view.

BennyCake

Quote from: Main Street on February 21, 2020, 07:43:17 PM
Quote from: BennyCake on February 21, 2020, 06:57:12 PM
Quote from: bennydorano on February 21, 2020, 04:20:29 PM
Balance, seriously? I'd be interested to hear what way you would you provide balance to such a topic? Like, is there a counterpoint to actually put forward? ???

Well, he confronted only one denier. One who clearly wasn't very good at putting his point across. Or maybe that's why they chose him. Tar all deniers as nutcases like this fella, and it reinforces the story

Baddiel basically wouldn't tolerate any sort of differing opinion from his own. More or less, the history books say this happened, so if you say hmmm I don't think it was quite like that..., then you're clearly anti-Semitic and hate all Jews.

He interviewed one survivor who spoke of being separated from her family on arrival, and never seen them again, she then got too upset so they stopped filming. No mention of anything that went on in the camps, other than malnutrition, poor conditions. Wasn't very convincing to be honest.

I went into it with an open mind. The denier offered little argument (unsurprisingly), but neither did the other side.
An open mind to what??  There is no denial argument. There are just degrees of denial, usually regurgitated nonsense, long discredited which our man in Ennis was unable to even get his ducks in a row.
Baddiel did made fleeting  reference  to the pseudo Leuchter Report  and the "historian"  David Irvine libel trial , Irvine being more educated that the Ennis chap.
If you were interested in the denial aspect, that debate that is dealt with in a film called Denial based on the book by Deborah Lipstadt History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.

As a documentary, I thought it could have been better directed and edited. nevethelesss  it's well worth a view.

To see what both sides had to say.

It is interesting that there are laws in some countries where you're prosecuted for saying it didn't happen, or didn't happen how the history books said. Surely that sort of thing only fuels the doubters? I mean, with other conspiracy type events, I'd say you'd be looked upon as a madman if you said you believed the "true report" of Oswald assassinating JFK. But show any sign of an inkling of doubt here, and you're anti-Semitic.

lenny

Quote from: BennyCake on February 21, 2020, 08:24:19 PM
Quote from: Main Street on February 21, 2020, 07:43:17 PM
Quote from: BennyCake on February 21, 2020, 06:57:12 PM
Quote from: bennydorano on February 21, 2020, 04:20:29 PM
Balance, seriously? I'd be interested to hear what way you would you provide balance to such a topic? Like, is there a counterpoint to actually put forward? ???

Well, he confronted only one denier. One who clearly wasn't very good at putting his point across. Or maybe that's why they chose him. Tar all deniers as nutcases like this fella, and it reinforces the story

Baddiel basically wouldn't tolerate any sort of differing opinion from his own. More or less, the history books say this happened, so if you say hmmm I don't think it was quite like that..., then you're clearly anti-Semitic and hate all Jews.

He interviewed one survivor who spoke of being separated from her family on arrival, and never seen them again, she then got too upset so they stopped filming. No mention of anything that went on in the camps, other than malnutrition, poor conditions. Wasn't very convincing to be honest.

I went into it with an open mind. The denier offered little argument (unsurprisingly), but neither did the other side.
An open mind to what??  There is no denial argument. There are just degrees of denial, usually regurgitated nonsense, long discredited which our man in Ennis was unable to even get his ducks in a row.
Baddiel did made fleeting  reference  to the pseudo Leuchter Report  and the "historian"  David Irvine libel trial , Irvine being more educated that the Ennis chap.
If you were interested in the denial aspect, that debate that is dealt with in a film called Denial based on the book by Deborah Lipstadt History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.

As a documentary, I thought it could have been better directed and edited. nevethelesss  it's well worth a view.

To see what both sides had to say.

It is interesting that there are laws in some countries where you're prosecuted for saying it didn't happen, or didn't happen how the history books said. Surely that sort of thing only fuels the doubters? I mean, with other conspiracy type events, I'd say you'd be looked upon as a madman if you said you believed the "true report" of Oswald assassinating JFK. But show any sign of an inkling of doubt here, and you're anti-Semitic.

A tiny minority of complete nutters say the holocaust didn't happen. Everyone else accepts the truth, even the Germans are accepting of the truth even though it's very uncomfortable for them.

BennyCake

Quote from: lenny on February 21, 2020, 08:50:26 PM
Quote from: BennyCake on February 21, 2020, 08:24:19 PM
Quote from: Main Street on February 21, 2020, 07:43:17 PM
Quote from: BennyCake on February 21, 2020, 06:57:12 PM
Quote from: bennydorano on February 21, 2020, 04:20:29 PM
Balance, seriously? I'd be interested to hear what way you would you provide balance to such a topic? Like, is there a counterpoint to actually put forward? ???

Well, he confronted only one denier. One who clearly wasn't very good at putting his point across. Or maybe that's why they chose him. Tar all deniers as nutcases like this fella, and it reinforces the story

Baddiel basically wouldn't tolerate any sort of differing opinion from his own. More or less, the history books say this happened, so if you say hmmm I don't think it was quite like that..., then you're clearly anti-Semitic and hate all Jews.

He interviewed one survivor who spoke of being separated from her family on arrival, and never seen them again, she then got too upset so they stopped filming. No mention of anything that went on in the camps, other than malnutrition, poor conditions. Wasn't very convincing to be honest.

I went into it with an open mind. The denier offered little argument (unsurprisingly), but neither did the other side.
An open mind to what??  There is no denial argument. There are just degrees of denial, usually regurgitated nonsense, long discredited which our man in Ennis was unable to even get his ducks in a row.
Baddiel did made fleeting  reference  to the pseudo Leuchter Report  and the "historian"  David Irvine libel trial , Irvine being more educated that the Ennis chap.
If you were interested in the denial aspect, that debate that is dealt with in a film called Denial based on the book by Deborah Lipstadt History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.

As a documentary, I thought it could have been better directed and edited. nevethelesss  it's well worth a view.

To see what both sides had to say.

It is interesting that there are laws in some countries where you're prosecuted for saying it didn't happen, or didn't happen how the history books said. Surely that sort of thing only fuels the doubters? I mean, with other conspiracy type events, I'd say you'd be looked upon as a madman if you said you believed the "true report" of Oswald assassinating JFK. But show any sign of an inkling of doubt here, and you're anti-Semitic.

A tiny minority of complete nutters say the holocaust didn't happen. Everyone else accepts the truth, even the Germans are accepting of the truth even though it's very uncomfortable for them.

Do they though? Or are they just afraid to say so, as they'll be attacked and called anti-Semitic or "complete nutters"?

Estimator

Moving on slightly from the Holocaust, has anyone one started watching Hunters on Amazon Prime. Great opening scene, then the rest of the episode was basically a set up for the rest of the Season.
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