Although I’ve enjoyed most of them, MM is the one series of his I keep thinking about in quiet moments, it really worked for me.
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The Trump Inauguration?
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I saw this article from the Bishop of London regarding the loss of communial TV watching:
People are losing out on “moments of togetherness” watching TV because they are streaming shows on separate devices, the bishop of London has said.
Right Rev Dame Sarah Mullally said the profusion of choice meant that watching TV had become a “more solitary and insular” experience.
I think she has a point. It’s not just that families don’t watch together, but the wider population doesn’t.
When there was only a limited number of broadcast channels, there were many occasions when the nation was sharing the same experience at the same time.
This happens rarely now. There isn’t that much event TV, really only international football matches on free-to-air TV have that capability of bringing the nation together.
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Exactly right. Shared cultural reference points are being lost as a result, leading to a more insular and fragmented society.
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just watched the WH40K episode of Secret Levels. Kind of what i hoped for/ expected as a 15 minutes intro into the universe.
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Incidentally this is precisely why Netflix is “winning.” The money it spent in the streaming wars to maintain its market share worked and the result it is the only streamer that is consistently able to have a new release be in the zeitgeist where if you don’t watch it immediately you are missing out on the conversation. They manage to do that 6 or 7 times a year, but when was the last time any of the other streamers had even a single show like that?
It’s possible Severance S2 will be. Maybe House of the Dragon in S1 was.
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I’m just listening to Richard Osman’s Entertainment podcast and they has a list of the UK’s favourite Christmas films from a polling organisation.
- Home Alone
- Elf
- Love Actually
- The Snowman
- Die Hard (It’s a Wonderful Life if you don’t think that’s a Christmas film)
I mean where is A Muppets Christmas Carol or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vaccation?
Blood Hell, you can’t trust the British public with anything.
Interstingly, they found the favourite film by political persuation.
Labour: Elf
Green: A Muppet Christmas Carol
Conservative: Love Actually
Reform: Scrooged
No mention of Liberals, SNP etc, but it would appear that I’m Green based on that.
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The only real issue is the length (haha @redalways 
). The animation and atmosphere are great but the universe is humongous, you could hardly scratch the surface in 15 hours, let alone 15 minutes. Mark my words, if Cavill doesn’t play Marneus Calgar one day, he’ll play Titus.
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It’s quite interesting how Cavill has picked up quite the collection of iconic character film/ tv roles…Superman, Wolverine, Napoleon Solo and Geralt…
With Voltron and the Highlander already in the pipeline, forever linked with the Bond role, now the Warhammer project getting the go ahead. It shows no sign of letting up.
I cant wait to see which character he goes for in WH40k, or how they plan to map out the stories they wish to show.
I hate The Snowman, got made to watch that every year in our house. That’s a boring film.
It’s a Wonderful Life is clearly the winner. I actually argue it has a good shout of being the best film of all time, not only the best Christmas film.
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The Snowman isn’t even a feature film. Then again, there is only so much Raymond Briggs that anyone can endure at one time without psychotherapy.
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Night we put the tree up, National Lampoon
Days running up: That annoying fucking girl and Arthur Dent. Scrooged. The Santa Clause. Blackadder’s Christmas Carol.
Christmas Eve, the greatest Christmas movie ever made and I am here for the food.
New Year’s Day It’s a wonderful life.
Perfect pretty much apart from that fucking child. A baby brother my arse.
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TBH it’s more “When The Wind Blows” that did it for me. I watched it mainly because David Bowie had done the theme to it. It’s a cheery tale of an elderly couple perishing in a nuclear holocaust. Most of the music was actually by Pink Floyd’s arch-miserablist Roger Waters.
'Tis the season to be jolly, I suppose.
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I got radicalized against the Snowman when I realized Aled Jones wasnt the singer in the film. It wasnt a Welsh solidarity Pro Jones position, but more a “why the fuck are we forced to listen to this fucking kid sing this shitty song all time time if he wasnt even involved in that boring arse film?” sort of position.
The sequel was much better
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Netflix are doing One Hundred Years of Solitude.
They’re going to fuck it up aren’t they? 
It was released yesterday, or it was in the US at least. Reviews seem really positive so I’m definitely going to make time for it sometime over christmas.
So did we (well, me and my cousin). I reported that the first episode of S 2 was very disappointing to me and made me skeptical, but episode 2-3 were really good ! 
So all good. A fine series. Way above average. The books it is based on are pretty average, so it’s not as if it matters a lot of they go a bit off script
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I continue to be amazed by how successful the Netflix Harlan Coben shows can be given they are, without exception, utterly shit. I got sucked into another one this week that Mrs Limie’s parents started watching and so I felt compelled to finish once they’d left - Fool Me Once. This was supposedly one of their biggest hits of the year. The acting is terrible (except for Lumley), the plot is absurd (“they claim their drugs have no side effects, they are proud of it but it turns out that isnt true”…wrote a writer who has a 11 year old’s perspective on what a pharma company scandal would be) and the pay off is laughable.
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I am hoping for less Marvel and more grim dark Dark Knight. So I am hoping for Eisenhorn and less of the more over the top shooty stuff bereft of human interaction.
But it’s probably going to be Marvel-like and not John Blanchè style 40k.
Basically, if they just stick to Dan Abnet novels, it would have been great.
Cavel is an interesting man though. I think he will nail some of it, but you can’t please everyone and Amazon is a very sanitised firm, so there is much of the sinister grim dark bits that probably won’t be there.
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