What Are You Currently Watching (on tv/dvd)?

[fish]

Ah, not the old "what happens if I press this button" trick?

[Ian]

Buffy: Passion. One of the alltime great Buffy eps this, as the deranged Angelus steps up his campaign of terror against Buffy and her friends, ultimately murdering Gile's girlfriend - semi-regular pretty computer teacher Jenny Calendar - in shocking scenes, and then leaving her corpse in Giles' bed as a twisted 'present'. An excellent episode, but seriously dark stuff.

[Ian]

Buffy: Becoming (Parts 1 and 2). Angelus plans to suck the whole world into Hell in the thrilling season 2 finale. As Willow stumbles on a way to potentially re-ensoul Angel, Buffy gears up to kill the monster that used to be the man she loved. Epic.

[DMt.]

My oldest friend, lord Percy of Aigburth Vale, the other night knowingly forced me to watch TV, in order to be placed in a position where I had to admit that Being Human, a series about a werewolf, vampire and ghost household which is most emphatically not any menage a trois, so far at least, is actually really good; ie is darkly funny, has a genuine sense of the reality of evil, and somehow unabashedly affirms love and goodness despite it all...the bastard.

But I still maintain that even the very best of TV is only the tempting bait on the hook.

[fish]

I started watching series one of Being Human when it first came on.
You know, Lenora Crichlow and all that.
Ever since "Sugar Rush".
But I haven't watched it that much lately.
Maybe I should try to catch up.

[Ian]

Sons and Daughters. Poor Amanda gets what must be one of the most disturbing exits ever given to a regular character on a TV show. Basically, she's in the wrong place at the wrong time and overhears something she shouldn't - and that's it. We see her get grabbed - and then neither we nor her family ever see her again. And in another year or so she eventually turns up in a morgue somewhere, having been abducted, drugged up and used as a sex slave in the interim. That's pretty f*****g harsh, man, especially for such a beautiful and harmless young woman. I remember being rather disturbed by it as a kid, and it isn't any less disturbing now.

[fish]

...I remember being rather disturbed by it as a kid, and it isn't any less disturbing now.

I'm kinda glad I didn't see it.

[Ian]

Doctor Who - The Horns of Nimon again last night. What a hoot! Oh, I do love late Tom with Romana and K9. So much fun! Lalla Ward is especially good in this, looking absolutely ravishing and, with Tom and Graham Crowden as the evil Soldeed engaging in an out-hamming contest with great glee, deciding she's not having any of it and playing it totally straight lol! The final confrontation between her and Soldeed is just bliss, Lalla spitting fire and contempt and righteous outrage, and Crowden going so far over the top he's in orbit. Just the way he says one single word - "Three" - has me in stitches. Janet Ellis is also very cute and endearing as Teka, and for a very cheap looking story, there's a terrific physical visual effect in the collapse of the Anethan corpse into dust (Ellis looks genuinely shocked by it as it implodes the moment she touches it). Great fun.

[Rebecka Fan]

This evening I watched, How To Be Indie.

[Ian]

Doctor Who - Shada last night. For all its flaws - the main one being it was never finished, obviously! - it's great fun, filled with the joie de vive that makes season 17 so much damn fun. Tom and Lalla are as wonderful as always, Denis Carey is terribly lovable as the absent minded Professor Chronotis and there's a nice turn from Daniel Hill as Chris Parsons. I love the bit where he starts soliloquising about his science dreams and K9's tail drops in boredom!

[Ian]

Lost season 6.

[sydney]

Watching it every day on the iPad on my half hour train ride. Really glad I bought this DVD, although it was not aired on dutch national TV, it's a hit in the Netherlands.

[fish]

Seems to be called "The Bridge", at least over here, but I can't find out much about it, other than it was made in 2011 and there were about 10 episodes. Couldn't find a review or even the plot details.

What's it all about?

[Ian]

Have rented season 1 of The Walking Dead. Start on it tonight.

[sydney]

Seems to be called "The Bridge", at least over here, but I can't find out much about it, other than it was made in 2011 and there were about 10 episodes. Couldn't find a review or even the plot details.

What's it all about?

Here's a small plot outline:

It's about the collaboration of the two police forces of Malmo and Copenhagen. They are forced to work together because of a jurisdiction issue. A dead body was found on the bridge from Copenhagen to Malmo and it is exactly in the middle. We follow a female Swedish detective and a male Danish detective on their search for the killer. Quickly things get pretty big.

And a small note... The policewoman is really strange