#324

Thank you, as always, Colin! These threads are dead good IMO

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#325

think it was balonz who referred to this as ‘mad mandem’ and i can’t help thinking about that everytime i see its name now

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#326

“We’re going straight to the mad, mad men” is how I imagine the theme song to go

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#327

Hahahahahaha just thought of something.

So basically I’d been watching Breaking Bad at the world’s slowest pace (because it’s so difficult to binge watch by being a massive bummer all the time). Went to visit my friend in Amsterdam BECAUSE WE WERE MEANT TO BE BANGING and we ended up watching a few episodes of series 4 late at night in his flat INSTEAD OF BANGING and after the episode we watched on the last night I instigated a conversation to find out what was going on and basically his attraction to me massively fluctuated and so we DID NOT BANG and I was in a very bad place at the time so it sort of broke me a bit and there were lots of tears :frowning: so I have not watched an episode of Breaking Bad since because it reminded me of a very painful evening.

however WE RECENTLY FINALLY BANGED and so the bad memory has been consigned to the dustbin of past sadnesses and I can finally finish watching Breaking Bad!

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#328

I don’t think that this is true. I think it had a different kind of cultural discussion around it.

The Wire wasn’t shown on terrestrial TV until the final series, which meant that it was much more of a web-driven word of mouth phenomenon. The Sopranos has a much bigger and wider cultural impact, but it also had less of a kind of secret club enthusiasm within its fandom. The likes of Charlie Brooker were the first to champion the series over here. It seems hard to believe, but it was possible for HBO to put out a David Simon series in the US and for it to pass relatively unnoticed in the UK for a couple of years.

#329

Voted for 5 in the top 10, and then nothing until #30. Interesting …

#330

i actually like AJ most of the time but he is definitely one of the most complained about things in the show

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#331

Inside No. 9 should be higher

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#332

Looks like it’s currently … outside no. 9

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#333

breaking banged

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#334

Breaking Beds

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#335

He is fucking hilarious.

In the middle of a rewatch at the minute and I had completely overlooked how funny his interactions with Tony are the first time round.

This specific bit absolutely killed me

“What are you fuckin’ stupid, huh?”

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#336

Good to see Corrie at number 45

#337

Backing Bands

bit of cross thread promotion there

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#338

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#339

Somehow missed the votening for this. I suspect my scores would have had minimal effect:

1: Sopranos
2: The Wire
3: Thick of It
4: Always Sunny
5: Peep Show
6: Breaking Bad
7: Rick and Morty
8: West Wing
9: BoJack Horseman
10: Deadwood

Half way through first series of Succession on an illness-facilitated binge-watch and honestly, Deadwood should be feeling nervous…

…also, every single program on my list is about objectively awful people except the west wing, isn’t it? Not sure what that says about me.

#340

El Cumino

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#341

One of the things that these series brings home to me is how baffling some of the Guardian’s ratings are. Neither Chernobyl nor Bojack are probably top 10 in the grand scheme of things but to not chart at all? Really?

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#342

Nothing animated at all I don’t think, they must think cartoons can’t be good for some reason.

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#343

Reckon they might have done the poll a few months ago and just thought nothing that amazing would be shown over the summer. And they don’t like cartoons because they’re a bunch of eggheads.