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Both wrong, it's delightful.
Yes. Never watched the UK series.
I hated it. An insipid, pale shadow of the original. It's the cast that make the UK one - take them away and there's nothing.
I just finished the 5th and final series of Better Things - one of my all time fave shows. It's not a sitcom, but a drama with some comedy.
It's a single Mum looking after her 3 daughters. It's about the frustrations of every day life, wonderfully observed. It will make you smile and make you feel, although everyone is flawed and largely unlikeable.
It's often a collection of life's vignettes, captured like a photo. It is given room to breathe, and we are given time to think. The occasional episode is a bit too weird, and various scenes don't work or are overlong, but overall it's wonderful.
Oh, the last series takes a dip, and 1 ep is poor, but it wraps up with the best final 5 minutes since the ending of Six Feet Under. 8/10
Just finished Gordon From Account (iPlayer) Really liked it!
I watched both Gordon and Colin from Accounts and thoroughly enjoyed them both. I'd watch it again.
I watched both Gordon and Colin from Accounts and thoroughly enjoyed them both. I'd watch it again
D'oh!
Beef (2023) - this has been getting high ratings, and for good reason ... it's bloody great !
75% of IMDB users voted 8+/10 (averaging 8.2 after 65k votes) - pretty impressive, especially cos of the down-voters who will no doubt be upset by the 'woke' casting.
It's an exciting rollercoaster, with snappy dialogue, an unpredictable plot, quirky characters, some dark LOLs, some gasps, some cringes, even some feels ... above all, it's entertaining and good fun!
OK, it is a bit too goofy in places, and the slow final episode needs some time to appreciate, but A24 have really knocked it out of the park with this one. Sit back with your popcorn, and try to resist watching just one more episode ... essential viewing, 8.5/10
British Miracle Meat (C4).
I won't use spoiler tags as I don't really think they're needed, but proceed with care if you haven't seen it/heard of it yet.
So cheery Greg Wallace fronts a documentary in which it is revealed we can now buy meat engineered from human tissue. That's revealed in the first few seconds, there's no build-up; but do you believe it or not, that's the thing. And naturally even before the doc has finished its broadcast, Twitter/X is erupting with outrage from those who swallowed it hook, line and sinker and are even complaining to Ofcom as they're watching it.
I knew it wasn't real as soon as the words 'human meat' were mentioned. I watched it because of a text from a pal, to whom I'd been moaning the other day about one of my pet hates, the pumping up of meat with water, so I thought the doc would be about that. If engineered human meat were to ever go on sale it would only be after years, if not decades, of fierce and endless debate on both sides of the argument. We'd all be sick to death of the debate long before anything ever appeared in a shop. It's as simple as that. You wouldn't find out about it on Channel 4 from a popular host who was trying not to laugh throughout - and fair play to him, Wallace pulls it off. But even if you were gullible and ignorant enough to believe it, at least two of the actors were very obviously just that, actors delivering scripted lines. This is something that often sinks mock docs, I think it's quite tricky for professional performers to come across as real people. The old woman having her flesh removed and the business suit showing Greg round were actors you could spot a mile off.
It's otherwise very well done. In fact if they had changed the approach slightly to Wallace interviewing food scientists who were considering engineering human cells for meat, and got real people to pretend, they might well have pulled it off. But come on, Twitter fools... even if you have only half a brain, if you saw a packet of human meat in your local supermarket, you'd know it was a joke.
Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee).
A "real" person is called up for jury duty, but the whole thing is a setup with actors playing every other role. Quite amusing and the non-actor seems a genuinely nice person. I can see why it was nominated for some awards. Critics don't appear to like it much, but what do they know.
