Comments on: The Inaugural FreakyTrigger TV Poll: #24 – #13 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2018/02/the-inaugural-freakytrigger-tv-poll-24-13 Lollards in the high church of low culture Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Andrew Farrell https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2018/02/the-inaugural-freakytrigger-tv-poll-24-13/comment-page-1#comment-2235070 Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:25:09 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30885#comment-2235070 My pick would probably be (1-12) Blue Planet II – The Crown – The Good Place – Glow – Halt and Catch Fire – This Country – Peaky Blinders – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – Master of None – Catastrophe – The Deuce – Mindhunter
but to be honest after Twin Peaks as #19 I have no confidence that I know the FT mind.

]]>
By: Andrew Farrell https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2018/02/the-inaugural-freakytrigger-tv-poll-24-13/comment-page-1#comment-2235068 Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:19:16 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30885#comment-2235068 I believe it was St Francis of Assissi, who doesn’t post here any more since we stopped reviewing pubs, that said “Where there is uncertainty, let us have an argument”. On that basis, here’s 30-odd TV shows that did well in other end-of-year polls, so we can pick over them.

Better Things
Big Little Lies
Blue Planet II
Broadchurch
Broken
Catastrophe
Claws
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
The Crown
The Deuce
Doctor Foster
Doctor Who
Glow
Godless
The Good Fight
The Good Place
Halt and Catch Fire
Insecure
The Keepers
Lady Dynamite
The League of Gentlemen
The Leftovers
Line of Duty
Master of None
Mindhunter
Mr Robot
One Day at a Time
Ozark
Peaky Blinders
Pls Like
Search Party
Stranger Things 2
This Country
Three Girls
Top Of The Lake
Transparent
The Trip to Spain

]]>
By: lonepilgrim https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2018/02/the-inaugural-freakytrigger-tv-poll-24-13/comment-page-1#comment-2234810 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:13:24 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30885#comment-2234810 Will we get the rest soon?

]]>
By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2018/02/the-inaugural-freakytrigger-tv-poll-24-13/comment-page-1#comment-2233387 Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:01:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30885#comment-2233387 no argument there

]]>
By: T https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2018/02/the-inaugural-freakytrigger-tv-poll-24-13/comment-page-1#comment-2233257 Mon, 26 Mar 2018 02:04:54 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30885#comment-2233257 That fellow above is a twunt

]]>
By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2018/02/the-inaugural-freakytrigger-tv-poll-24-13/comment-page-1#comment-2226470 Sun, 11 Feb 2018 19:17:03 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30885#comment-2226470 THEY ARE ALL GOOD NOT BAD

]]>
By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2018/02/the-inaugural-freakytrigger-tv-poll-24-13/comment-page-1#comment-2226460 Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:04:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30885#comment-2226460 Oh yeah, Taboo: I watched that the whole way through, occasionally pledging to stop but getting sucked back in. I think the only thing I’ve ever seen Tom Hardy in where his approach was an unambiguous asset to the proceedings is Bronson. (I mean, he’s fine in Fury Road and Tinker Tailor, but they don’t gain from his Tom Hardyness). Taboo, which being a self-designed vehicle is presumably as undiluted Hardy as we will ever get, I found it watchable but ridiculous from start to finish.

(Lord Sukrat’s weakness for fictional depictions of the evil mercantilist octopus East India Company is a matter of record).

]]>
By: Andrew Farrell https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2018/02/the-inaugural-freakytrigger-tv-poll-24-13/comment-page-1#comment-2226428 Sun, 11 Feb 2018 14:17:23 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30885#comment-2226428 I’m with Alba – I assumed this was basically a fight for second place behind Twin Peaks.

]]>
By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2018/02/the-inaugural-freakytrigger-tv-poll-24-13/comment-page-1#comment-2226409 Sun, 11 Feb 2018 11:47:06 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30885#comment-2226409 Ketchup commentary on items that have so far appeared in the poll:

GoT (25) and Star Trek D (32=): neither would not have made my final list. I still enjoy watching GoT, though it’s long past its best coups de théâtre I think: it has a handful of actors that entertain me (as well as some awful ones), but too much of it now feels draggy and directionless. STD has a good(ish) concept and I don’t mind the grimness but it’s just not very well realised. My excellent unlocated joke abt it can go here tho: TARDIGRADING ON A CURVE!! i thank yao

My forgot-about list is a bit longer. Brooklyn 99 (31) I’d binged earlier in the year, and maybe got a leetle bored by its most recent series. OJ (Made in America) (21): As MM says, this was terrific, exemplary in fact, really digging into the backstory and the social backdrop. Better Call Saul (18): I could honestly watch jonathan banks as mike ehrmantraut all day on his own, carefully undertaking one of his tasks and quietly grunting to himself, he is mesmeric. Bojack Horseman (15): I really enjoyed this — so melancholy!

Taboo (24): don’t disagree w/the blurb above one whit, except perhaps to add that this series probably has the best politics of anything in my own list (including the things just mentioned NOT in my list).

Rick and Morty (22): picture-perfect dramatisation of nietzsche’s notion of “eternal return” and how we would adapt to that, for good or (more often) bad. I don’t think morty lacks morality — his primary expression is one of appalled terror — and I think the decision to bring beth and summer more into the wilder storylines is abt giving a mix of base-level moral make-ups the opportunity to face the primary horror. As a heartless monster this suits my malicious sense of humour I’m afraid.

The Expanse (17): less “boring and deadly” per blurb than “boring and bad”. Space is bad not good! It has magical-scary alien stuff at one end, and machiavellian diplomacy (including vicious outbreaks of mass-death war) at the other, but mostly in the middle the fact that space is a practical obstacle like mountains or the sea, and a lot of the protection against its dangers are merely incredibly tiresome admin and rote practice: I think it gets that stuff across well (as Star Trek for example never has).

]]>
By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2018/02/the-inaugural-freakytrigger-tv-poll-24-13/comment-page-1#comment-2226219 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 08:16:46 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30885#comment-2226219 Voted for:
OJ: Made In America: I’m generally not evangelical about stuff, but I spent a lot of time telling people they needed to see this. Uses OJ (as others have done before) as a way of examining big chunks of American life. People who hadn’t seen it would often say, ‘What more is there to say about the trial?’, but so much more here than that chunk of the OJ saga. Not saying you couldn’t pick various legit fights with the theories, angles, choices of what to include, but I think overall, an immense achievement.

Twin Peaks: Was part way through it when I included it on my ballot. I enjoyed it, but easy to see why lots of people gave up quickly (or later on) – and it seemed like Lynch & Frost set out to deliberately use the opening episodes to deter casual viewers. There are lovely bits with many of the original characters but they are held back until later in the series.
Think I approached with the correct mindset: assuming it would bear less resemblance to Twin Peaks season 1 and more to other Lynch. Maybe Fire Walk With Me plus Lost Highway are the best coordinates I can offer. I thought it has much that is enjoyable (if you like this kind of stuff), some that is astounding, and a fair bit that seems just intended to test the audience’s patience.

Dear White People: Really liked the movie, despite it’s structural flaws. Interesting how the recasting affects the mood & balance (eg as simple in the film, Sam, who has the provocative radio show Dear White People, is played by Tessa Thompson, whose face makes you expect someone sweeter whereas Logan Browning in the series looks naturally spikier). My memory is that the TV show, which has more time to explore the characters, is far further to the drama end of comedy-drama than the film. It’s also generally tighter and slicker.

Familiar with but haven’t seen the 2017 series of:

Better Call Saul: I enjoy it because it’s beautifully constructed but also find it quite painful. So much less fun that I assumed a Saul show was going to be. Will watch S3 in the next couple of months.

Rick & Morty: Watched a few eps, quite liked, a long way from getting the cult.

Love: Watched the whole of the first series. Will not be watching any more. Found both main characters deeply annoying.

]]>
By: Alba https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2018/02/the-inaugural-freakytrigger-tv-poll-24-13/comment-page-1#comment-2226138 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:14:33 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30885#comment-2226138 Twin Peaks at #19?? I think I’ll go back to my Twin Peaks fan bubble; this is too weird.

]]>