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the room dressed as Christmas was incredibly sad.
Absolutely - reminded me of Christmases past and being a kid in the 1970's. Very sad and quite touching. My younger brother got an Action Man Helicopter one Christmas 🤣
Thoroughly enjoyed Small Prophets though 🤩
Best bit of telly for a long time!
"D'you sell buckets?"
"no"
Best thing on telly for a while, and shot locally to me, so I kept recognising places...weird
except for maybe the paranoid neighbour who grates on me a bit
I like the guy. Been watching Big Boys on Channel 4 recently - try that, if you haven't. He's more endearing there. He's also in Run Away on Netflix - he seems like hot property just now.
I also like Dennis Pennis (Paul Kaye) in Small Prophets - the role suits him. One episode to go, I'm wondering how it all pulls together, or not.
Just finished it, thought it was brilliant
3 episodes in, and it's very good, but we're trying not to watch it too quickly!
I completely missed his Worzel Gummidge when it was on - is it worth watching??
3 episodes in, and it's very good, but we're trying not to watch it too quickly!
I completely missed his Worzel Gummidge when it was on - is it worth watching??
Yes. Another gentle bucolic fantasy without being Reform nostalgic about the countryside. Highly recommended.
Given the huge number of high profile shows he's been in over the last 30 years, it tickles me that your go to for Paul Kaye is still Dennis Pennis!
Same here - I can never remember his name so have to resort to Deenis Peenis, and then his real name eventually comes back to me.
Great telly, finished it tonight. Loved Micheals weirdness/dry sense of humour, and the brilliantly writted nosey nieghbours (every street has 'em, minimalist house with grey everything) Really touching at times too.
Never got the deal with the kid on the bmx though?
Never got the deal with the kid on the bmx though?
Unless he takes a bigger role in a future series, I thought that was just a one-liner opportunity to refer to him as being nicknamed Elliot (i.e. same as the kid in ET, being on a BMX)
The neighbour and Brigham both sweeping the meteorite pieces into a dustpan and binning them, proper made me laugh.
"Unless he takes a bigger role in a future series, I thought that was just a one-liner opportunity to refer to him as being nicknamed Elliot (i.e. same as the kid in ET, being on a BMX)"
Think it was just a fun reference, but more than a one-liner. The BMX is the right one too (or at least has the right paint job). Just missing the basket on the front!
Maybe also a nod to having something not of this earth with supernatural powers hidden in the shed?
Awesome that Modest Mouse was the thing that brought the two outsiders together.
(Media Studies teacher overthinking time) Also means that the 'normal' Clive next door is the true outsider in the close between Michael, Olive and Elliot.
Absolutely adored Small Prophets, for so many reasons.
Brigham building the jump over the bins for the tandem was the epitome of Crook's writing brilliance IMO. The setup is all you need, leave the rest to the viewer, it's such a rewarding way to write.
Back to the Detectorists, I've only just started watching it as a result of Small Prophets. My favourite line, while the club president Terry is lying in hospital bed announcing his retirement and that Lance should take over.
Lance: What does it involve?
Russell: Buying a new jar of Nescafe every 3 months.
Terry: Its more than that!
Russell: Every 4 months
I rarely LOL!! at the telly, but that prompted it.
There aren't many things on TV that make me laugh hours after watching them, but the scene where he 'poured' out his cereal started me chuckling and then 'tit boxes' made me guffaw. I finished it last night and don't want to wait for the next series.
Lots of nicely observed and crafted characters to enjoy in what one hopes will be a future series. Comparing it to Detectorists is too sweet a very high bar, but it really was wonderful telly. Back to repeats for now.
Within the first seconds I was hooked – I used to put "doubler" malted wheats on the side of my bowl just like that when I was a kid – it made my hair stand on end. Then he got into the car of my childhood dreams – a Capri 3.0S.
Great show, loved it!
Nice article about the programme here that's worth a read: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/mackenzie-crook-16th-century-small-prophets-interview/
Starting Detectorists tonight hopefully. Somehow missed that first time around.
Capri 3.0S.
Not sure what it is, but I don't think it's a 3.0S...the consensus of the Ford nerds over on PH seemed to be that it was a 2.0 with the 2.9 from a Granada swapped in.
Not sure what it is, but I don't think it's a 3.0S...the consensus of the Ford nerds over on PH seemed to be that it was a 2.0 with the 2.9 from a Granada swapped in.
It has a twin exhaust (I don't think the 2.0S did). And it certainly sounded like a V6 (although of course the 2.9 is a V6 too). I don't suppose upgrading the single to a double exhaust would be much of a job so I guess I could be wrong.
Given the huge number of high profile shows he's been in over the last 30 years, it tickles me that your go to for Paul Kaye is still Dennis Pennis!
It honestly never occurred to me that he could be called anything other than Dennis Pennis.
Starting Detectorists tonight hopefully. Somehow missed that first time around.
Enjoy! I sometimes wish I could be a Detectorists virgin again..
So I have just finished watching it – very enjoyable and sympathetically-acted throughout. The one bit that really annoyed me, though, was that nobody made any attempt to clean up the oil leak from the Capri and no vehicles left tyre tracks down the road after going through it (such as the wagon that dropped off the manure). A small thing I know, but it frustrated me as it featured quite heavily throughout.
I'm one of the lucky people that has never seen The Detectorists, so I am going to start that next.
What a great series. It’s another show where you can’t really tell someone “it’s like such and such a show”… it stands alone.
The warehouse retail workers really took me back to my time at Halfords last century. So well observed.
It was lush. Made me chuckle and, as someone else said up there ^, I don't think I've ever watched a final episode of something as intently as I watched that.
The one bit that really annoyed me, though, was that nobody made any attempt to clean up the oil leak from the Capri and no vehicles left tyre tracks down the road after going through it
I assumed there might be a reason for that, and the fact that it was so rabbit shaped that will be featured in series 2.
Given the huge number of high profile shows he's been in over the last 30 years, it tickles me that your go to for Paul Kaye is still Dennis Pennis!
The original Dennis Pennis video was my most watched "thing" during 2nd year at Uni, he'll never be anyone but Dennis Pennis to me - can still quote almost the entire video ("The peach always falls!")
Oh, and just finished Detectorists. Have loved settling in at the end of day recently to have some quiet telly time with that - just got the final 2022 special to watch.
I assumed there might be a reason for that, and the fact that it was so rabbit shaped that will be featured in series 2.
I tried to tell myself that, but oil is oil (off, and Michael stood in it right at the end as he was walking back to the motorbike and it was solid).
The one bit that really annoyed me, though, was that nobody made any attempt to clean up the oil leak from the Capri and no vehicles left tyre tracks down the road after going through it
I assumed there might be a reason for that, and the fact that it was so rabbit shaped that will be featured in series 2.
It was a hare, magical creatures which don't observe the laws of physics. Absolutely loved small prophets, the question "have you had your break?" wasn't funny until the first scene of the first episode.