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we’ve been watching the old episodes here & there for the past few months - still holds up imo

i dunno what the science is behind it or how they do it but it’s just charming as hell

plus i’ll ride or die for john larroquette forever cf: uyd for life

I will never poll the best female bailiff because Flo, Selma, and Roz were all good

otm

enjoying selma currently in our rewatch but looking forward to roz & flo

Re: Line of Duty, DI Lindsey Denton wiping the floor with IA in her S2 E2 interrogation and then returning Fleming’s phone to her with an understated very hilarious “stealing is wrong, my bad” was one of her many amazing moments in that one. Honestly brilliant portrayal, Hawes is perfect at not showing Denton’s hand at all, whatever hand it is.

night court is pretty much an amazing and perfect sitcom and a real precursor to things like Seinfeld with its disregard for whether stuff was socially acceptable or not as long as it was funny; not to mention it's commitment to weird shit like the Mel Torme obsession. It makes sense that 30 Rock revisited it (which I'd totally forgotten about until recently).

I watched it as a kid (of course) but don't remember being super into it... I think Harry Anderson (R.I.P.) may have seemed kinda smug to me(?) I should revisit it....

(Keep in mind, I never missed an episode of "Who's the Boss?" either - so that's the critical lens at work here)

based on my love of Night Court there’s a standing joke with one of my friends that one year I will go see Yakov Smirnoff’s show in Branson

this joke has been going twenty years. Yakov still has a show in Branson

My friend and I used to just recount Night Court episodes from memory to each other

Night Court was one of those shows which started in such a different place too, Dan Fielding was more a serious pipe-smoking snob and the almost co-lead was a harried court clerk played by Karen Austin. It was a little closer to a Barney Miller type show than what it eventually became.

John Laroquette is the poor man's Kelsey Grammar

or vice versa

vice versa or nothing! kelsey grammar is a poor man’s larroquette!

larroquette himself is, I believe, a genuinely nice and well loved guy, unlike grammar.

Also a fan of Pynchon.

larroquette = a classic
grammar = a dud

laroquette’s learned from past bad behavior, mostly because his alcoholic days were reeeeeeally bad

Fun Facts: Selma Diamond was one of the inspirations for the character of Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Florence Halop actually appeared on that series.

Also: no thread for tv's "night court"?!?!?!

Dedicated thread (of sorts) available here (and I do apologize): NIGHT CORUT

Hope we’ll see Jah and Seth on the show as perverts

The subtitles for Line of Duty look like they were written by someone with severe dyslexia

(any specific episode?)

heh

Xp I just started the first ep of season 1 after seeing it mentioned here and the subtitles are a mess (I have a really hard time watching without them)

What does this actually mean though?

<eldritch thrumming>

As a general thing I watch TV with subtitles on sometimes, and often it seems to have been done by some sort of bot or programme that gets it blatantly wrong - so a main character's name will be wrong because it sounded like it ran into another word. Not always - maybe it's just certain services. But if you rely on them it starts getting really confusing.

Xp to gyac: your sentence written by this transcriptionist would read like

Haatwdeos hist itactlluy anme ought

That’s the best typing I’ve ever seen from a cat

i'm checking the iplayer version and it looks ok (first 15 minutes anyway). but it's probably a long way from here to there and the corruption could be anywhere.

which platform is that you're watching them on? (i know the bbc's subtitles guy and he might be interested)

and the corruption could be anywhere.

It's on the H

I’ve been watching it on Peacock

Yeah that’s a channel problem, no issues when I watched it on iplayer or Netflix

So the longevity of the Line Of Duty thread made me think of the show as something like a British Wire, but now having watched the first episode, it's really just mid-brow schlock, no?

NO

its a lifestyle

keep watching

We’re watching “The Offer,” the Paramount+ series about the (deal)making of The Godfather. It’s super corny, but entertaining… esp. if you have interest in Paramount history; people walking around the lot; “Robert Evans” doing his Evans thing (in Evans’ actual office); etc.

yeah it’s stupid fun

Anyone watched the second season of Avenue 5? First season had its moments but was generally pretty meh so wondering if this one is any better

Avenue 5 really loses its way a couple of times during the season and although it pulls it back it's probably not much better than the first. Tries hard to compensate for the failings by escalating the threats and sort of gets away with it.

I watched all of Line of Duty but don't think at any point I was blown away by it. My feeling is that having come up with the original overarching concept the writer got lost in it and it never really delivered as the main thread got more convoluted. Definitely at least one season too far.

LoD wildly different from the wire. it’s not attempting to be “dickensian” it’s a vehicle for delivering thrills and plot so yeah middlebrow schlock pretty accurate but it’s (usually) executed at a very very high level with a few really memorable performances (keeley hawes, stephen graham, adrian dunbar)

the premise is custom made for plot twists: it’s about police investigating police, so who r the good guys?? you could also see it as a multi-year fictional exploration of the power dynamics of “jurisdiction” - who has it, how do they use it, how is it abused

There are only so many twists you can do though and while they might have worked within the characters in an individual series there were too many in the overarching story (hence the near universal reaction to the ending).

As I said on the LoD thread at the time, I think my biggest problem was the notion of Martin Compston as absolutely irresistible to women, to the extent they behaved completely out of character just to have sex with him.

wow harsh

I get that it's a trope to have a sexy guy but I really didn't think ba' faced Glasgow guy was that universal a thing. I mean if it was then surely Rab Florence would have been picked up for Hallmark movies as the male lead by now.

Even then, looks aren't everything but Steve just had no charisma as a character or even an identifiable personality. It's like he was written as the action guy - which is fine, they can be kind of blank cyphers - and then they realised the show needed the sexy guy too and it was never going to be Adrian Dunbar. So ultimately I think it's a writing failure.

the line of duty cinematic universe should only include the tawdriest sex possible and tbf “sexy steve” ticks this box in spades

Different strokes I guess.

Season 2 aside, LoD thinks it's a better show than it is. But it's well-made, the "guest stars" for each season are always good and the plot is stupid but usually fun.

Lmao I can’t believe IIIIIIIIIII DON’T WANT TO FUCK STEVE ARNOTT THERE GOES MY SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF is still a complaint nearly two years later!

Scamp Granada (gyac)
Posted: 31 March 2021 at 14:45:48
Steve is just one of those people who inexplicably has game/is one of life’s shaggers, we all know people like that.

That'd do it. I'm obviously spending too much time thinking about Steve Arnott.

― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 22:36 (one year ago) link