What tv show/box set you watching ??

rossieman wrote: This Life was a excellent show.

Paulie wrote: pre Madonna wrote: rossieman wrote: This Life was a excellent show. Maybe I just 'get' British shows more, but the Yanks throw out a polished turd and market it and you can't move for some idiot telling ya about his latest 'box-set', it is great marketing. Maybe I am being harsh but a lot of it is bad television that wouldn't have got past a pilot 20 years ago. Bang on. Telly back in the day was full of quality shows such as Manimal and Hardcastle and McCormack.

McG wrote: pre Madonna wrote: Paulie wrote: pre Madonna wrote: rossieman wrote: This Life was a excellent show. Maybe I just 'get' British shows more, but the Yanks throw out a polished turd and market it and you can't move for some idiot telling ya about his latest 'box-set', it is great marketing. Maybe I am being harsh but a lot of it is bad television that wouldn't have got past a pilot 20 years ago. Bang on. Telly back in the day was full of quality shows such as Manimal and Hardcastle and McCormack. Great use of 'shows' I have never even heard of deliberately undermine a point. They were probably all still less embarrassing than Homeland though! What's embarrassing about precious Homeland?

Edited by pre Madonna - 12 Apr 2017 at 2:51pm

I would absolutely love to watch Brookside again, what a show.
Gagsey, our Em and Jimmy the dealer.

I met Mick Johnson in a club a good few years ago in Manchester too

pre Madonna wrote: Stretchryan wrote: Paulie wrote: pre Madonna wrote: rossieman wrote: This Life was a excellent show. Maybe I just 'get' British shows more, but the Yanks throw out a polished turd and market it and you can't move for some idiot telling ya about his latest 'box-set', it is great marketing. Maybe I am being harsh but a lot of it is bad television that wouldn't have got past a pilot 20 years ago. Bang on. Telly back in the day was full of quality shows such as Manimal and Hardcastle and McCormack.   Manimal was so bad it was good back in the day. I had to look it up on Google there! At least it wasn't a piece of America (f**k yeah!) propoganda for the 21st century. Just a bit of harmless fun,I doubt I will watch that 'box-set' either though!

We had Rocky 4 for our american propaganda. And the soundtrack! "Two worlds collide there's no surrender.......is it east versus west or man against man". Chills. That's all i'm saying.

pre Madonna wrote: Paulie wrote: pre Madonna wrote: Stretchryan wrote: Paulie wrote: pre Madonna wrote: rossieman wrote: This Life was a excellent show. Maybe I just 'get' British shows more, but the Yanks throw out a polished turd and market it and you can't move for some idiot telling ya about his latest 'box-set', it is great marketing. Maybe I am being harsh but a lot of it is bad television that wouldn't have got past a pilot 20 years ago. Bang on. Telly back in the day was full of quality shows such as Manimal and Hardcastle and McCormack.   Manimal was so bad it was good back in the day. I had to look it up on Google there! At least it wasn't a piece of America (f**k yeah!) propoganda for the 21st century. Just a bit of harmless fun,I doubt I will watch that 'box-set' either though! We had Rocky 4 for our american propaganda. And the soundtrack! "Two worlds collide there's no surrender.......is it east versus west or man against man". Chills. That's all i'm saying. There has always been propaganda, same as there as always been sh*te tv, the difference between previous sh*te tv and modern is that the modern 'box-sets' are marketing themselves as brilliant, clever and innovative  when they are every bit as bad as what went before. Rocky was sh*te, and I have never watched a full one, but it was honest about being propaganda and didn't take itself seriously. Nobody sat next to you in the pub to tell how great he is because he watched a Rocky film, compare that with 'Homeland'.

I don't really get your last sentence. That hardly happens? For what it's worth I watch homeland and enjoy it very much. I'm very aware though that it's a fictional tv show and i certainly don't take it too seriously or allow it to shape my views on anything. It's the same amongst my friends. I've certainly never heard any of them trying to big themselves up because they watch whatever tv show. Maybe it's because I'm a little older (40's).

pre Madonna wrote: Paulie wrote: pre Madonna wrote: Paulie wrote: pre Madonna wrote: Stretchryan wrote: Paulie wrote: pre Madonna wrote: rossieman wrote: This Life was a excellent show. Maybe I just 'get' British shows more, but the Yanks throw out a polished turd and market it and you can't move for some idiot telling ya about his latest 'box-set', it is great marketing. Maybe I am being harsh but a lot of it is bad television that wouldn't have got past a pilot 20 years ago. Bang on. Telly back in the day was full of quality shows such as Manimal and Hardcastle and McCormack.   Manimal was so bad it was good back in the day. I had to look it up on Google there! At least it wasn't a piece of America (f**k yeah!) propoganda for the 21st century. Just a bit of harmless fun,I doubt I will watch that 'box-set' either though! We had Rocky 4 for our american propaganda. And the soundtrack! "Two worlds collide there's no surrender.......is it east versus west or man against man". Chills. That's all i'm saying. There has always been propaganda, same as there as always been sh*te tv, the difference between previous sh*te tv and modern is that the modern 'box-sets' are marketing themselves as brilliant, clever and innovative  when they are every bit as bad as what went before. Rocky was sh*te, and I have never watched a full one, but it was honest about being propaganda and didn't take itself seriously. Nobody sat next to you in the pub to tell how great he is because he watched a Rocky film, compare that with 'Homeland'. I don't really get your last sentence. That hardly happens? For what it's worth I watch homeland and enjoy it very much. I'm very aware though that it's a fictional tv show and i certainly don't take it too seriously or allow it to shape my views on anything. It's the same amongst my friends. I've certainly never heard any of them trying to big themselves up because they watch whatever tv show. Maybe it's because I'm a little older (40's). It very much does and I am in my 30s, and the reason I chose that pub was to avoid that sh*te, at least they know for future reference. It is certainly very common on other boards I am too.  The propaganda aspect has been well discussed online too, both in the US where it is seen as liberal propaganda and by those elsewhere for its ridiculous and dangerous view of how US foreign policy needs to be dealt with and Islamophobia. Your friends might be different as you chose them, I personally gave  mine up for acquaintances, but there is certainly a lot of 'box-set bores' out there.

To be fair, it's very easy to argue that almost any given show is trying to push whatever agenda by picking out moments that suit the argument that's being put forward. I'm not saying that it's not the case with Homeland. It's just more of a general point. I suppose I don't think too deeply about it as I mentally just put this stuff under the heading "entertainment".

pre Madonna wrote: Which would be exactly  the argument against, I am not going into it now and don't want to drag a thread anymore off topic, but all good propaganda, like all good marketing, is subliminal. In this case I don't even think it is that, look where they bought the original from sure!  Anyway, enjoy it if ya want, whatever about it being propaganda it is bloody awful television.

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After years of not watching because it has dragons and fantasy stuff in it I finally gave Game Of Thrones a chance. 10/10 so far  a long month of binge watching to come