What Are You Watching Now?

[cronus]

I'm watching machine code come back.

[Svartalf]

Speak of an ungrateful Cunt...

[Tero]

Nothing. I don't watch anything alone. I might watch CNN 10 minutes.

Earlier watched 1 hour Netflix, some BBC comedy drama.

[tattuchu]

Started watching The Office. Not much in the way of funny. I'm thinking the original British version is much better?

[PsychoSerenity]

Started watching The Office. Not much in the way of funny. I'm thinking the original British version is much better?

I thought the US version was OK in later seasons, but totally different from the original. The first season they kept it broadly similar but couldn't quite pull off the cringingly awkward humour. After that they had the problem of wanting to do far more episodes and seasons - meaning they would either have to stretch it out until it became unbearably boring or continually come up with more always new yet never really going anywhere plot-lines than could be remotely believable in a "fake documentary" format - so basically they turned it into a sitcom.

[Pappa]

We've been watching Wallander lately. The Swedish version.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

We've been watching Wallander lately. The Swedish version.

I love that show! Have you got to the end of season 1 yet?

[tattuchu]

I'm watching season 8 of Doctor Who. I like this Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, and he and Jenna Coleman's Clara have good chemistry. I started watching an episode called "In the Forest of the Night Dark Water" and was startled to see Felix onscreen. The character Bradley looks like Felix. Well, a bit like him. Enough like him that I thought it looked like him.

[trdsf]

Some voice actor panels from Emerald City Comicon where cartoon voice actors read bits of the Star Wars scripts... two words: Darth Pooh (that's late in Part 3).

Part 1 (2012)

Part 2 (2013 1st set)

Part 3 (2013 2nd set)

Part 4 (2014)

[cronus]

Human Centipede III, don't ask how I got a copy. It isn't online yet. Came in the post.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Season 2 of Parks and Recreation is so much better than season 1. I am hazzing chuckles a-plenty!

[tattuchu]

Started watching The Office, the original with Ricky Gervais. Is everything with English accents just naturally funny?

[tattuchu]

Enjoying The Office. The humor works, whereas in the American version it fell completely flat for me. Also, Gervais plays a character that isn't quite as funny as he thinks, while being quite funny doing so. In the American version, Steve Carell plays an unfunny character who isn't the slightest bit funny to watch. His performance is embarrassingly, cringe-inducingly unfunny.
Beyond that, it's interesting to note the differences between the two shows. The British version includes a lot of sexual jokes, whereas the American version studiously avoids them. Also interesting, though, are the similarities. I had assumed the U.S. version would be inspired by the original. I had no idea and was shocked to see the U.S. show shamelessly appropriating so much, from plot points to entire jokes verbatim. But the American show doesn't seem to understand the jokes. It goes through the motions but is completely soulless. Gervais's Office, on the other hand, is a thing of beauty.

[tattuchu]

Just watched Ricky Gervais 's The Office special, in which Tim and Dawn finally get together at the end. When they kissed, I cried.

[tattuchu]

The Ricky Gervais Show, in which podcasts featuring Ricky and his pals Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington are animated. Badly. Unwatchable. Couldn't even make it through one episode.