Re: TV/Streaming shows
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 11:40 am
I've not met him, so cant comment and so I certainly wouldn't reduce myself to be like one of his audience members and condemn him...
I've not met him, so cant comment and so I certainly wouldn't reduce myself to be like one of his audience members and condemn him...
Come off it. Kyle's name has been on this shite for sixteen years, it's not as if he didn't understand the mechanism by which he has been making a good living. I note that you're not above judging his audience members as being far beneath you though.
I don't think Christopher Lee was really a vampire either*. As regards the behaviour of the audience..... have you actually seen the show?
Rutabaga wrote: ↑5 years agoI realise that you have a huge amount of scorn for anyone who supports UKIP and Brexit (and, to a certain extent, so do I), but I think your remarks about the Kyle Show participants and audience are wide of the mark.
However incredulous we might be about this, it seems that people volunteered to be in either one of those groups in the sadly vain hope of getting help for their life problems, often if not always problems based in poor mental health. Then they were baited, manipulated, deceived, and closely edited to fit a production agenda that has justifiably been described as a 'theatre of cruelty'.
Reading this article, from 2008 (a mere three years after the programme first aired) it's clear that, from the start, many people saw the phenomenon for what it was, yet it continued and became more extreme over the following eleven years. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/ ... television
Perhaps Kyle is pitching a new fly-on-the-wall show called Bedlam, there are strong historical precedents after all.
Is the dwarf winning?Whiskeyjack wrote: ↑5 years agoUp to the penultimate episode of game of thrones. Feck. At least it’s over soon, what a train wreck it’s become.
I've made it to the last episode. It's a good series. I was afraid it was going down the SWF road, but it's much subtler than that. No one is absolutely bad. The tragedy is slowly escalating, with a dark twist at the end of most episodes. Sometimes it's things the audience doesn't know, and sometimes it's characters learning a dark secret. People behave in stupid ways all the time, just like in real life and great tragedies. I am reminded of my brother's tutor who told him "I can't watch Othello any more. I just want to go on stage and shake each character by the shoulders and say 'stop being so bloody stupid'" People doing the best they can, break things and hurt each other. So, like life.Joan wrote: ↑5 years agoI've just watched the pilot of Dead To Me. It is (or seems to be) the story of two grieving women who feel alone until they become friends. I was moved and loved the ups and downs. I was ready recommend it, but
(mild spoiler)It stars Christina Applegate, Linda Cardenelli and featured - bizarrely - Ed Asner, who was old before I was born.alluding to the end of the pilot, but not explicitShowit took a very dark twist in the final moments of the pilot that I think takes it into a different genre, probably a thriller, and I don't think it's for me. I will watch a couple more episodes, and see.
This week's castaway on Desert Island Discs, and very interesting, although his choice of the one record he'd keep over all the others was appalling, I'm afraid.The Real Ravenhurst wrote: ↑5 years agoCan I just say, if I have not said it before, that I am more than a little bit in love with Louis Theroux?