I thought Josh was too whiney.

cookiemonster wrote:

I thought Josh was too whiney.

Perhaps, but I'd sort out all those edges, plus you get Donna to work for you, like, come on!

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

I thought Josh was too whiney.

Perhaps, but I'd sort out all those edges, plus you get Donna to work for you, like, come on!

So did Will Bailey, but I wouldn't like to be him. He started to annoy me something awful when he went to work for the Bingo Bob.

Anybody remember 'House of Cards' the political drama from the early nineties by the BBC. Very prescient at the time. I managed to lay my hands on the box set at the start of the summer and the performance of Ian Richardson as the superdevil Francis Urquart was fantastic. 'You could think that, Matty,...I couldn't possibly comment'.......'Time to put the stick about'.....What a truely conniving bastard he was.

cookiemonster wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

I thought Josh was too whiney.

Perhaps, but I'd sort out all those edges, plus you get Donna to work for you, like, come on!

So did Will Bailey, but I wouldn't like to be him. He started to annoy me something awful when he went to work for the Bingo Bob.

That was in the Fifth Season I binged on last Bank Holiday Weekend, it was fairly fraught between him and Toby. Do you remember when they were locked in together during the White House lock-down? Very good altogether.

Back to proper cerebral telly, Prison Break is back, the show that keeeps on giving. What crazy conspiracies will those two brothers get caught up in this time?

905 wrote:

Back to proper cerebral telly, Prison Break is back, the show that keeeps on giving. What crazy conspiracies will those two brothers get caught up in this time?

Is cuma liom.

Well sucks to you then.

905 wrote:

Well sucks to you then.

And what were you saying about "back to proper cerebral telly"? West Wing is proper cerebral telly!

Tuh. If you want a biting critique of the modern justice system, ideas of power, authority, right and wrong, and Panamanian foreign relations 'Prison Break' is yer only man.

905 wrote:

Tuh. If you want a biting critique of the modern justice system, ideas of power, authority, right and wrong, and Panamanian foreign relations 'Prison Break' is yer only man.

I'd be prepared to accept that if you acknowledge that West Wing is also proper cerebral telly.

If you call petty, transparant Washington propaganda cerebral then yes. But if, in fact, you see it for what it is, it is obviously not cerebral.

905 wrote:

If you call petty, transparant Washington propaganda cerebral then yes. But if, in fact, you see it for what it is, it is obviously not cerebral.

The West Wing is hardly Washington propaganda, it is a richly detailed, high-octane and quite educational dramatisation of the goings-on inside the Beltway in which all those involved are shown to be three dimensional characters with flaws and weaknesses as well as strengths. It ranks as a political classic.

We're going to have to take him outside and give him a jolly good tiffing, AT.

To be honest I've never seen The West Wing, it could be set in the west wing of an underground bunker in Siberia for all I know. The piece about Prison Break being cerebral was a joke; clearly you don't watch it. But I recommend it all the same.

905 wrote:

To be honest I've never seen The West Wing, it could be set in the west wing of an underground bunker in Siberia for all I know. The piece about Prison Break being cerebral was a joke; clearly you don't watch it. But I recommend it all the same.

You're still getting that tiffing.

I saw some of the first season of Prison Break. It was ok, I think, but I didn't follow it all and that poor chap who played the main part put an awful lot of effort into looking angry and pained all the time, it just got on my nerves. Then when it went to a second season and the pained stressed one ended up in another prison I had enough. I now see there is a THIRD season and yet again he's locked up...

cookiemonster wrote:

905 wrote:

To be honest I've never seen The West Wing, it could be set in the west wing of an underground bunker in Siberia for all I know. The piece about Prison Break being cerebral was a joke; clearly you don't watch it. But I recommend it all the same.

You're still getting that tiffing.

I saw some of the first season of Prison Break. It was ok, I think, but I didn't follow it all and that poor chap who played the main part put an awful lot of effort into looking angry and pained all the time, it just got on my nerves. Then when it went to a second season and the pained stressed one ended up in another prison I had enough. I now see there is a THIRD season and yet again he's locked up...

The temptation to milk these things endlessly is wearying. I quite enjoyed Heroes for about five episodes. "My So Called Life" reached legendary status mainly by being so short. A law banning more than six episodes about anything would suit me.

cookiemonster wrote:

905 wrote:

To be honest I've never seen The West Wing, it could be set in the west wing of an underground bunker in Siberia for all I know. The piece about Prison Break being cerebral was a joke; clearly you don't watch it. But I recommend it all the same.

You're still getting that tiffing.

I saw some of the first season of Prison Break. It was ok, I think, but I didn't follow it all and that poor chap who played the main part put an awful lot of effort into looking angry and pained all the time, it just got on my nerves. Then when it went to a second season and the pained stressed one ended up in another prison I had enough. I now see there is a THIRD season and yet again he's locked up...

Exactly cookiemonster, who would want to watch such repetitive nonsense? The West Wing would not stoop to such risible conceits to sustain a rapidly deflating original premise.

cactus flower wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

905 wrote:

To be honest I've never seen The West Wing, it could be set in the west wing of an underground bunker in Siberia for all I know. The piece about Prison Break being cerebral was a joke; clearly you don't watch it. But I recommend it all the same.

You're still getting that tiffing.

I saw some of the first season of Prison Break. It was ok, I think, but I didn't follow it all and that poor chap who played the main part put an awful lot of effort into looking angry and pained all the time, it just got on my nerves. Then when it went to a second season and the pained stressed one ended up in another prison I had enough. I now see there is a THIRD season and yet again he's locked up...

The temptation to milk these things endlessly is wearying. I quite enjoyed Heroes for about five episodes. "My So Called Life" reached legendary status mainly by being so short. A law banning more than six episodes about anything would suit me.

Well, Frasier made it to 11 seasons and picked up a stack of Emmy Awards and Golden Globes.
The West Wing managed 7 series and also picked up 43,346 Emmy awards and a number of others. So you can have more than enough of a good thing. On the other hand you can have LOST and I really don't know what the fuck is going on there.

cookiemonster wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

905 wrote:

To be honest I've never seen The West Wing, it could be set in the west wing of an underground bunker in Siberia for all I know. The piece about Prison Break being cerebral was a joke; clearly you don't watch it. But I recommend it all the same.

You're still getting that tiffing.

I saw some of the first season of Prison Break. It was ok, I think, but I didn't follow it all and that poor chap who played the main part put an awful lot of effort into looking angry and pained all the time, it just got on my nerves. Then when it went to a second season and the pained stressed one ended up in another prison I had enough. I now see there is a THIRD season and yet again he's locked up...

The temptation to milk these things endlessly is wearying. I quite enjoyed Heroes for about five episodes. "My So Called Life" reached legendary status mainly by being so short. A law banning more than six episodes about anything would suit me.

Well, Frasier made it to 11 seasons and picked up a stack of Emmy Awards and Golden Globes.
The West Wing managed 7 series and also picked up 43,346 Emmy awards and a number of others. So you can have more than enough of a good thing. On the other hand you can have LOST and I really don't know what the fuck is going on there.

Likewise.

cookiemonster wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

905 wrote:

To be honest I've never seen The West Wing, it could be set in the west wing of an underground bunker in Siberia for all I know. The piece about Prison Break being cerebral was a joke; clearly you don't watch it. But I recommend it all the same.

You're still getting that tiffing.

I saw some of the first season of Prison Break. It was ok, I think, but I didn't follow it all and that poor chap who played the main part put an awful lot of effort into looking angry and pained all the time, it just got on my nerves. Then when it went to a second season and the pained stressed one ended up in another prison I had enough. I now see there is a THIRD season and yet again he's locked up...

The temptation to milk these things endlessly is wearying. I quite enjoyed Heroes for about five episodes. "My So Called Life" reached legendary status mainly by being so short. A law banning more than six episodes about anything would suit me.

Well, Frasier made it to 11 seasons and picked up a stack of Emmy Awards and Golden Globes.
The West Wing managed 7 series and also picked up 43,346 Emmy awards and a number of others. So you can have more than enough of a good thing. On the other hand you can have LOST and I really don't know what the fuck is going on there.

Lost? *shudder*

Hold on. First: Prison Break is on it's fourth series. Second, the neither protagonist is in prison neither were they for the second series). The person who is in prison, and who I suppose will be linked into the fourth series is a sociopath so might well offer an interesting twist.

As for Lost, another favourite of mine, it will have six seasons. Unlike most television programmes it was written with a very definite ending so it won't drag on.

905 wrote:

Hold on. First: Prison Break is on it's fourth series. Second, the neither protagonist is in prison neither were they for the second series). The person who is in prison, and who I suppose will be linked into the fourth series is a sociopath so might well offer an interesting twist.

As for Lost, another favourite of mine, it will have six seasons. Unlike most television programmes it was written with a very definite ending so it won't drag on.

The 60s never ended for you, did they?

cookiemonster wrote:

905 wrote:

Hold on. First: Prison Break is on it's fourth series. Second, the neither protagonist is in prison neither were they for the second series). The person who is in prison, and who I suppose will be linked into the fourth series is a sociopath so might well offer an interesting twist.

As for Lost, another favourite of mine, it will have six seasons. Unlike most television programmes it was written with a very definite ending so it won't drag on.

The 60s never ended for you, did they?

If myself and 905 were sharing a telly, there'd be blood on the carpet. Prison Break and Lost will never be a feature in my nightly telly.

Well you can't claim Lost isn't cerebral enough for you. If you can't follow a plot, don't take it out on the carpet.