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Worse than sexualising his 5 year old daughter??

Lucifer did the same thing Blacklist did which is make the female lead flip from hating the guy (Red or Lucifer, depending on the show) one week and then completely liking/trusting them the next. I didn't finish either show but did read up what happened and it's just a total mess in both cases.

I get that too.

No, I didn’t say it was worse, but that wasn’t a one-off. He’s an attention-seeking moron who says disgusting things for clicks and money. I heard he also superglues locks.

Another G Coren post:

Next door have brought their 12-year-old son a drum kit. For fuck’s sake! Do I kill him then burn it? Or do I fuck him, then kill him then burn it?”

He followed that up with the ‘punchline’: “Child for sale, charred and partially fucked. Has own drum kit.”

A few (but really very few) of the massive amount of Twattish things GC has said, here: https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/ ... iles-coren

Wow, that's disgusting. And I personally find 'dark humour' funny, but there's nothing funny nor clever nor witty there.

I find it hard to understand why someone would post something like that. All the while others will adamantly spout how "cancel culture has gone mad and you can't say nuffin these days can ya"

It always seems to be that the ones that moan the loudest about cancel culture and being cancelled are the ones that still have a platform somewhere, just one that people don't pay attention to.

The Devil May Cry series on Netflix is pretty good, better than I was expecting, I'm enjoying it. It's quite loud and flashy, fun yet a bit corny, some of the bits land brilliantly and a few bits (not that many really) are a bit cringy. Dante seems to alternate between being incredibly powerful and yet also too easy for the main human character to get the best of.

So much like the games then, or at least the ones I've played.

My son told me off for calling it a cartoon. "It's anime, Dad, and you'll make my friends cross if you call it that".

Bit late to the party but Russian Doll was really good, series 1 especially. We watched both series over the course of this long weekend.

It was good to watch something that really grabbed our attention and kept us there. There have been a number of things we've started to watch and then just indifferently drifted away from them, never to be completed. Some we may go back to, but others seem unlikely.

My son loves this (and I really liked the first season of Poker Face, also with Natasha Lyon, second season not so much) and I have given it a couple of goes. but it really didn't grab me.

I may try it again, but I just didn't like any of the characters.

Russian Doll was decent.

S1 really picks up around ep 4, and accelerates towards the end when things start to get a bit weird.

I know what you mean about the characters, at times it felt that it was trying just a little bit too hard to be cool/spunky/sassy, I was thinking how in the real world they would have been told to just fuck off for being annoying and over the top. But I can suspend that disbelief as it's just telly.

I'm the other way round to Malc, though admittedly only a few episodes into s2 of Poker Face. Really liked Russian Doll but then just stopped watching series 2 - keep thinking I'll go back so I can tick it off, but maybe I'm just not bothered. But Poker Face so far is - along with the wild ride of The Rehearsal - is so satisfying that I've more or less stood up and applauded at the end of an episode.

Series 2 of Poker Face really feels like some other production team has taken over without having seen the previous season and with barely any notes from the original crew.

I tried Poker Face but it felt like a 10p Columbo. I'd rather just watch that instead I think. Her schtick is okay for one show but I wasn't feeling it outside of Russian Doll.

I see The Bear is back soon for S4. I really liked the first season, found the second season started very slow and was kind of low stakes. The Thanksgiving episode was brilliant TV though.

Didn't watch s3. Was it any good?

I'm not sure I can care about them opening a restaurant.

Unlike Cassandra, Channel Zero (Prime, I think?) is very Black Mirror but benefits from being serialised. The first two seasons at least, we overdid it and are having a break before going back to the third.

Smashed Season 2 of The Rehearsal in one sitting last night, absolutely incredible TV (his attempt to get into the head of "Sully" Sullenberger was truly something else).