most interesting part of of four lions is how the more devout brother is actually most against what the main guy wants to do, and the main guy is relatively secular yet hellbent on blowing himself up.
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Yeah, so much really dark shit in it, the scene at the hospital where he tells his wife he has to take his team to the top floor. “See you up there, yeah?”
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Still feel bad about Brother Crow.
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this is the one thing we didn’t want to happen
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oh yeah when i saw that scene i got chills, how proud his wife looks. and she’s a nurse as well wtf
i guess it might run the risk of repeating the same trick but i wouldn’t be surprised if he’s toyed with the idea of doing a film or series about middle class white kids who’ve run off to join ISIS, like that dipshit from oxford
The scenes in The Day Today with Peter O’Hanraha-Hanrahan (and whatever spin off had the one where he’s in New York on 9/11) are excruciatingly magnificent
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Would like to see more news anchors bully journalists tbh
lying about being at the UN conference in NY as the attacks are happening 
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Where Now for Man Raised by Puffins?
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I really loved Nathan Barley.
But you had to be there.
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Imagine it hasn’t dated terribly well but went out in east London a lot at the time and 70% of the people there were exactly like those depicted in the show.
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It’s about Dan Ashcroft, a journalist played Julien Barrett, who works for a hipster magazine called Sugar Ape, and has to deal with what he perceives as a world filled with idiots who are obsessed with their hair and technology and puerile jokes. The biggest idiot of all is Barley, a self-facilitating media node who runs a website, trashbat.co.ck (it’s registered in the Cook Islands, yeah?). Of course, the more time he spends tormenting himself among the idiots, the more unclear it becomes who the real idiot is.
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Brass Eye is pitch perfect satire. Fucking brilliant. The Day Today is also great but plays for the straight laughs while Brass Eye really goes all in on specific aspects of British culture. Both are 5/5s for me.
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think paedogeddon is my favourite episode of any show ever
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the cctv footage of the paedo disguised as a school
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A cobweb!
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Mostly summed up here:
“the woman being bummed by a wolf” cracks me up every time.
Love how the comments are all people saying how true it is and how idiots really are on the rise, when in the show that’s exactly what the idiots say (and they start calling Ashcroft Preacherman for “telling it like it is”). Suppose it shows how good a satire it is that it’s still tripping people up now.
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