Yup, that too!
I watched Season 1 last week, and found it really interesting and worth a watch. Looking forward to starting the next season this week.
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Just finished Inside Man on Netflix (I assume it was on BBC first).
Fuck me, what a frustrating show. 4 episodes long featuring the likes of David Tennant and Stanley Tucci who are both performing well - should be a great mini-series. Instead its completely destroyed by the absolutely terrible writing of Stephen Moffat. The entire premise of the show depends on failures of communication, every plot point, every thing that happens could have been resolved by a conversation but instead continues to escalate as no character in the show just actually says what they want to say.
Then Tucciās involvement in the show devolves into a pointless side story. Every scene with him and the reporter could be cut from the show and it wouldnāt change it in any significant way. Especially as a recurring promise to resolve why he murdered his wife was dropped as āa story for another timeā in the last scene of the show (in other words, we couldnāt think up a good reason so weāll not even try). They even give him a side-kick in the very first scene, played by Atkins Estimond, and the two of them have great chemistry but immediately Estimondās character is relegated to just someone who listens along from behind a wall while Tucci solves a crime from a prison cell.
The way it ends is also very formulaic and even more stunningly convenient than the very worst of Moffatās Sherlock episodes.
Very frustrated as that could have been a good show, unfortunately the writing just destroyed it.
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Iāve never understood the praise Moffat got for The Sherlock Holmes or Dr Who stuff.
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Yeah, it was mildly entertaining in a disposable sort of way, but infuriatingly stupid in the needless way issues escalated.
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kinda like how Shameless (US version) was written, or Sons of Anarchy? or Yellowstone? or Dexter?
What?! Sherlock is brilliant (except when they introduced the sister)
Anyone see The Repair Shop last night?
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Iāll get me coatā¦
It was OK, for me it was nowhere near brilliant
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So Mrs SBYM and her mate bumped into Andrew Scott in Sohoā¦the mate lost her shit and literally screamed āMoriarty! Moriarty! Moriarty!ā in his face (just her personality). He was (understandably) well pissed off.
I will see if I can dig out the photo he took with her afterwards. Itās gold.
Potential Mandalorian spoilers
Iāve genuinely been enjoying it, but itās starting to bug me a little. I donāt get any show that spends a lot of time and plot on something only to immediately bin it off.
The whole helmet storyline is one such offender.
I was also not a fan of the pirate ship with an actual wheel.
Donāt get me wrong, Iād have loved this if it was in the Droids cartoon in the 80s, but it was so jarring in the episode - like, why would this even be a thing.
Also the armorer saying This is the way to everything, When that guy agreed to help Apollo Creed, she was all this is the way. But if heād said, no weāre not going to help. Sheād have still said this is the way.
The end music is still cool though 
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Iāve nearly finished The Sopranos, and I want to start it all over again.
So, so good.
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Yeah, I love the theme music
the bad batch has improved massively aswellā¦ last few episodes were pretty coolā¦
infact, most stuff around the clones, thier purpose, thier moral dilema and the way they are used in the star wars universe is pretty coolā¦dont get me wrong, theres heaps of fluff but id go so far as to say the last few seasons of Clone wars is the best stuff in the whole franchise.
Ashoka Tano is so freakin Cool
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When you get to the end - donāt stop.
Love that show, used to buy the DVDs, which came out a bit later after they first aired in the UK, so Mrs managed to do the ultimate spoiler when she came back from Scotland. She didnāt even watch the show, just one of the episodes with her mates there.
Boom, she spoilers one of the most unexpexted plot twist of all time. This was years ago, I still feel the pain.
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Not really any Mando spoilers but I figured this out
It really annoyed me when the Mandelorians were pinned down in the gunfight. Ahā¦you all have jetpacks? 
Enjoying the show though
Adrianaās fate is unbearably heartbreaking.
Possible spoilers about The Mandalorian
Also, I hope the Coruscant episode leads to something.
And they couldnāt have found a better planet to settle in? Monstrous critters in every corner!
Doctor Who going panto again?
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