TV series worth watching/downloading

[Big Boy]

I've downloaded it, but thanks DM, it doesn't sound worth watching. Time to delete methinks.

[Vital Spark]

I can't remember if I've mentioned this series before, but, what the heck, I'll mention it again because it's worth it. We've just finished watching Series 2 and I hope it's not the last series.
Home
Peter, his new partner Katy and her son John return home to Dorking from their first holiday together in France. Hiding in the boot of their car is Sami, a Syrian refugee.

An extremely funny and thought-provoking comedy.

VS

[sateeb]

Agreed, I enjoyed S1 and will download S2, thanks for the update.

[HHTel]

Just watched 'Elephant Hospital' aired on UK channel 5 last night (well this morning to us).
Said to be the largest elephant hospital is the world with over 100 elephants. Located in Thailand but not sure where. Chang Mai was mentioned a few times so I'd guess it's in the jungles close by.
Very interesting and at times, very sad.

Definitely not a job I could do but great respect for those that do.

[HHTel]

Sorry, I meant to put this in 'documentaries'. Having a 'senior' moment.

[Big Boy]

I've downloaded it, but thanks DM, it doesn't sound worth watching. Time to delete methinks.

The above was in response to DM's review of Away.

I had to take Mrs BB to Hua Hin Hospital today for a check-up. I was looking for something to download to my tablet to watch during what is always a very long wait. I hadn't got around to deleting Away, so thought what the Hell.

I got through 5 episodes this morning. As a Sci-Fi, it's crap. As a light entertainment series it was fine, and easy watching.

[dtaai-maai]

I'm sure this must have been mentioned before as this is a BBC series from 2006, but somehow it passed me by.

Life on Mars, 2 series 16 episodes. A police series with a difference... Amazing soundtrack (see title ). Set in 1973, pre-PACE (no caution, just a Sweeny-style "You're nicked!"), pre PC, lots of boob jokes, Cortinas and fitting up suspects.

(EDIT: Oh yes, and dog shit in the streets! )
(EDIT2: ... and power cuts! - now is the winter of our discontent...)
(EDIT3: ... and party 7's)

Thoroughly enjoyed LOM and am now moving on to Ashes to Ashes, moving on to 1982 with most of the usual suspects magically transported to London, in particular the amazing Gene Hunt. The delightful Keeley Hawes co-stars, but unfortunately she spends most of episode 1 in a short red dress over a pair of fishnet stockings, which I'm finding a tad distracting.

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Gene Hunt: Today, my friend, your diary entry will read: took a prozzie hostage, and was shot by three armed bastards.

Gene Hunt: Blimey, if that skirt was hitched any higher I could see what you had for breakfast. Ray, cuff this nancy berk. Chris, look after the lady. Classiest prozzie I've seen all week!

Alex Drake: You're taller than I imagined.
Gene Hunt: I'm bigger in every department.

Alex Drake: [feeling Gene's heart beat] It's beating... that's incredible!
Gene Hunt: [slaps his hand on her breast] Fan-dabi-dozi. Now then, Bollingerknickers? You gonna kiss me? Or punch me?

Gene Hunt: [to Alex Drake] Take that seatbelt off! You're a police officer, not a bloody vicar.

Gene Hunt: Personally I have no desire whatsoever to see your bony, privately-educated bottom, but it's good for morale.

Gene Hunt: [after Shaz offers an opinion on the intended target of a bomb] When I need advice from a lobotomised Essex girl, I will ask for it!

Gene Hunt: DI Bollyknickers, you appear to be drunk in charge of a handbag and dressed like a tart again.
Alex Drake: Oh, piss off, you lardy fascist!
Gene Hunt: We'll make a copper of you yet.

Gene Hunt: What is that?
Chris Skelton: It's a kebab.
Gene Hunt: Looks like a bloody pasty with its arse hanging out!

Ryan Burns: I am the vine! You are the branches! John, Chapter 15, Verse 5!
Gene Hunt: You're nicked for the murder of Delphine Parks, the rape and attempted murder of Nina Akiboa. Anything you say will be taken down, ripped up and shoved down your scrawny little throat until you're choked to death. Gene Hunt, Chapter 1, Verse 2.

Gene Hunt: An agency girl that accuses a client of rape, that's going to go down about as well as a pork pie at a Jewish wedding.

Alex Drake: When they say it's difficult for rape victims to be believed, I wonder why?
Gene Hunt: She gets paid for having sex.
Alex Drake: It's not about sex, is it? It's about control, and power, and revenge.
Gene Hunt: Maybe tell me about it some other time, like when I'm in a coma, or when I'm dead.
Alex Drake: To the interview room? Where's the rape suite?
Gene Hunt: Rape suite? Is that with or without a minibar?

Alex Drake: This requires a cognitive interview procedure.
Gene Hunt: We're fresh out of cognitives. What say we just talk to her?
Alex Drake: I don't think she'll open up with a man present.
Gene Hunt: Plenty of women have opened up to me without so much as a shandy down their necks.

Gene Hunt: Right! How many birds does it take to screw in a light bulb? Two! One to run around screaming "What do I do?" and one to shag the electrician!

Gene Hunt: Oh dear Lord, if this is a test, I fear I may fail. And I thought it would be the booze or the fags but oh no! I'm gonna die in an underground vault, in the company of a posh, mouthy tart with a head full of brains and the common sense of a grain weevil.

[Alex, Gene, Chris and Ray have walked into a hotel room minutes after Neary has had gay sex. Chris opens up a briefcase that turns out to be full of sex toys. He holds up a dildo and inspects it.]
Chris Skelton: He must have bloody big ears.
Alex Drake: Wrong orifice, Chris. It's a butt plug.
['Chris looks at it, still puzzled.]
Gene Hunt: It goes up your arse, Chris!

Alex Drake: What am I doing here really? What is the point of all this?
Gene Hunt: To dress like a tart. Wiggle your arse in my direction, and fill my days with glimpses of the depths of your depraved mind. It's good enough for me, Bolly.

Alex Drake: The mind's an amazing organ...
Gene Hunt: I've got an amazing organ.
Alex Drake: ... capable of much more than you could imagine.
Gene Hunt: Right again.

Gene Hunt: [to Alex] You want a hunk of the Gene Genie in case the nasty man scares you?

Gene Hunt: I want this place cleaner than a virgin's pudendum!
Chris Skelton: What's a pudendum, Guv?
Gene Hunt: You are, Chris! You are!

Lord Scarman: I've seen plenty, thank you! I've spent the night with a mentally ill man who thinks he's a police officer, who you now seem to be entrusting with actual police work. I've seen two of our most brilliant barristers treated with appalling disdain!
Gene Hunt: I'm sure we can arrange a car to take Lord Scarman home.
Lord Scarman: I've talked to several young, homosexual men, and heard their despair, their dreadful tales of police harassment.
Gene Hunt: Put it all in your report, your Lordship!
Lord Scarman: The police harassment of sexual and racial minorities is an endemic, ineradicable disease threatening the very survival of our society!
Gene Hunt: [coldly] Catchy title. Got "Bestseller" written all over it. Now if you'll excuse me...! [turns away]
Lord Scarman: I'll be keeping a beady eye on you, DCI Hunt! [Gene turns back to face him]
Gene Hunt: Is that right!? Well you can take this home in your Harrods pipe and smoke it! In twenty years time, when the streets are awash with filth, and you're too frightened to leave your big, posh Belsize Park house after dark, don't come running to me, mate! Because I'll be in Alicante, oiled up, skin sizzling in the midday sun like a burnt sausage!
Lord Scarman: If you're quite finished... ?
Gene Hunt: No, not quite. You can despise us, you can disown us, you can even try and close us down, but you will never break us! We are police officers! We are brothers! We are UN-BLOODY-BREAKABLE! [all of CID cheers and applauds his words]

Alex Drake: You're playing with them.
Gene Hunt: No, that's just the way I'm standing.

Gene Hunt: You're looking very chirpy Bolls, you been sitting on top of the washing machine again?

Gaynor:Not until you call me by my name....GAYNOR!
Gene Hunt:I'll call you what I damn well want you gender bender, wierdy beardy, freak of nature. (Gaynor knees Gene in the balls)

[sateeb]

The bosses took away a lot of fun in the 80's when they introduced trousers for PW's

[pharvey]

^ Actually thought the second series was better - some classic Gene Hunt that's for sure!! The music wasn't too bad either...

[migrant]

Due to the politically incorrect quotes of Gene Hunt that D-M posted I just looked him up. I guess there is also an American version of the series and Gene Hunt is played by Harvey Keitel.

I think I feel the need to watch

[sateeb]

I’ve watched worse police dramas than Vera - might not be everybody’s cup of tea, but it’s ok.

As for Strike, which I really enjoyed, my son told me than a new 4th series has just started - pity I can’t watch it with my defunct VPN!!

For fans of Comoran Strike the 5th book of the series, Troubled Blood, has just been released. Downloadable from the usual vendors.

[oakdale160]

In these troubling times, I like to watch shows with NO drama, NO suspense NO murders, NO car chases. I think Tony Robinson is such a gem. How totally opposite he is from the Baldrick character that he played so well. His archiological digs, Time team, is at times somewhat repetitive and a little boring but very relaxing. His Walking through history show, where he goes on meaningful 4 day walks in the UK is superb.

[migrant]

I've been watching Life on Mars and enjoying it, thanks guys

I enjoy shows with a lively, and smart ass, dialogue so thought I would share some of my favorites

Lucifer - The devil comes up to earth and he is truly a smart-ass. He hooks up with a police detective and helps solve murders under the aegis that his job is to punish.
Quite a few seasons and shows. I never expected to enjoy this but once I started I couldn't stop, truly entertaining!!

Jack Taylor - Set in Galway, Ireland, a disgraced guard turns into a private eye type. He has his own demons though. Very enjoyable

Longmire - A Wyoming sheriff and his staff, I found this very enjoyable.

Happy - Homer, and I, have mentioned this before. A disgraced detective that enjoys drugs and alcohol turns semi professional hitman. A daughter he never knew he had is kidnapped and her imaginary friend, a blue unicorn, teams up with him to find her. Two seasons, first superb, second just OK. Very bloody and appeals to a strange sense of humor like mine.

Available on most download sites and most on netflix too. Give them a shot!!