We have been very anxiously waiting for them to add the new season of WILTY to BritBox. Thank goodness that they are endlessly rewatch able (and very quotable).
I know I've said this elsewhere in this thread, but I am *so* happy to hear that we're not alone in our love of this show!! We'll pretty much follow David Mitchell anywhere, but teaming him up with Lee Mack and Rob Brydon—hoo boy, that's some serious comedy alchemy.
OMG, Taskmaster just might be the best show on television (if I started recounting my favorite moments I'd never stop) and when David Mitchell gets all wound up on WILTY it is comedy gold. (Also, I snort -laughed in bed at the title card for The Ambassadors... OF DEATH!! They should have given the same treatment to The Seeds Of Doom.)
Ambassadors... OF DEATH is so hilarious, I'm so happy they were having fun at the BBC in 1970, hahaha.
Yeah, Taskmaster is one of those that has given us SO much joy over the years—I knew it was going to be a show of my heart the minute Romesh busted into the lab, smashed the watermelon, and ate so much that he barfed—and the ongoing Greg-Alex dynamic is so wonderful and cheeky and odd. And David Mitchell on WILTY just wrecks me, I love that you can tell that he WANTS to be right, but also appreciates when someone really fools him.
I always look forward to your dispatches, and this time I have OPINIONS and QUESTIONS and several repetitions of the word "love".
1) Please read _Lessons in Chemistry_ on the week off, and (like most people I've know who've read it) excoriate the American cover choice while enjoying the book. The student who loaned it to me said Elizabeth Lott reminded her of me, and I was well chuffed.
2) I love WILTY! It was one of the main pick-me-ups of Deep Pandemic times, even just looking at older episodes on YouTube. I dream of BritBox...maybe when school gets out, it will be a celebratory purchase for myself! I'm a huge QI fan.
3) Poker Face. We are also loving it here -- and I'm also super nostalgic for Columbo. You probably already know this, so forgive me if so, but the character is based on Pyotr Petrovich, the detective in _Crime and Punishment_. It has been explicitly stated by the creators. I love that bit of trivia!
4) Have you ever seen _Picture Mommy Dead_? It's the only other horror movie I can remember watching around the same time that I was introduced to _The Changeling_, and I think it had a bleeding portrait, and oh, scarred me forever...anyway, no one else in my circles has heard of it.
Thanks for having around for the brain dump! --erin
1. I have *absolutely* been warned about how tonally OFF the cover is, and I'm VERY prepared to complain at length about it, heh.
2. I'm so glad that other folks have discovered WILTY, it's such a joy. We already loved David Mitchell and Rob Brydon, but Lee Mack has been such revelation—he's SO quick with the wordplay, and really does a great job of putting newer players on the show at ease. We're fans of QI as well, and as much as I loved Stephen Fry, I think the switch to Sandi Toksvig really made the tone of the show warmer and sillier, in a good way.
3. Yes! Also Father Brown, I think, but I've still never read any Chesterton. (Given how big I've been on Golden Age stuff lately, maybe I should pick the first one up?) I don't think I mentioned it here at length, but we watched Dial M For Murder pretty recently, and the detective in that (played by the same actor who played Audrey Hepburn's father in Sabrina!) gave me WICKED Columbo vibes—right down to pulling a 'Just one more thing...' move.
4. I have not, but it looks ENTIRELY up my alley & I'm adding it to my watchlist—looks like it's not streaming in any of my spots at the moment, but I'll watch for it for sure. Don Ameche! Zsa Zsa Gabor! Wendell Corey!
Did *not* know about the Father Brown connection! Also have not read any Chesterton (that I remember). Totally agree about Sandi -- though Fry and the boys "They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is" cracks me up almost every time. I keep it in my mental pocket to rewatch when I need some extra silly.
Oh, yes, there is so much gold in the Fry years as well! (Our Mental Rolodexes of Fun Things are so important, there should be a database of things like that.)
Count yourself lucky that I didn't include the OTHER picture I took: When they showed him from the back, we were face-to-face with at LEAST half of his butt, hahahahaha.
We have been very anxiously waiting for them to add the new season of WILTY to BritBox. Thank goodness that they are endlessly rewatch able (and very quotable).
I know I've said this elsewhere in this thread, but I am *so* happy to hear that we're not alone in our love of this show!! We'll pretty much follow David Mitchell anywhere, but teaming him up with Lee Mack and Rob Brydon—hoo boy, that's some serious comedy alchemy.
OMG, Taskmaster just might be the best show on television (if I started recounting my favorite moments I'd never stop) and when David Mitchell gets all wound up on WILTY it is comedy gold. (Also, I snort -laughed in bed at the title card for The Ambassadors... OF DEATH!! They should have given the same treatment to The Seeds Of Doom.)
Ambassadors... OF DEATH is so hilarious, I'm so happy they were having fun at the BBC in 1970, hahaha.
Yeah, Taskmaster is one of those that has given us SO much joy over the years—I knew it was going to be a show of my heart the minute Romesh busted into the lab, smashed the watermelon, and ate so much that he barfed—and the ongoing Greg-Alex dynamic is so wonderful and cheeky and odd. And David Mitchell on WILTY just wrecks me, I love that you can tell that he WANTS to be right, but also appreciates when someone really fools him.
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I always look forward to your dispatches, and this time I have OPINIONS and QUESTIONS and several repetitions of the word "love".
1) Please read _Lessons in Chemistry_ on the week off, and (like most people I've know who've read it) excoriate the American cover choice while enjoying the book. The student who loaned it to me said Elizabeth Lott reminded her of me, and I was well chuffed.
2) I love WILTY! It was one of the main pick-me-ups of Deep Pandemic times, even just looking at older episodes on YouTube. I dream of BritBox...maybe when school gets out, it will be a celebratory purchase for myself! I'm a huge QI fan.
3) Poker Face. We are also loving it here -- and I'm also super nostalgic for Columbo. You probably already know this, so forgive me if so, but the character is based on Pyotr Petrovich, the detective in _Crime and Punishment_. It has been explicitly stated by the creators. I love that bit of trivia!
4) Have you ever seen _Picture Mommy Dead_? It's the only other horror movie I can remember watching around the same time that I was introduced to _The Changeling_, and I think it had a bleeding portrait, and oh, scarred me forever...anyway, no one else in my circles has heard of it.
Thanks for having around for the brain dump! --erin
1. I have *absolutely* been warned about how tonally OFF the cover is, and I'm VERY prepared to complain at length about it, heh.
2. I'm so glad that other folks have discovered WILTY, it's such a joy. We already loved David Mitchell and Rob Brydon, but Lee Mack has been such revelation—he's SO quick with the wordplay, and really does a great job of putting newer players on the show at ease. We're fans of QI as well, and as much as I loved Stephen Fry, I think the switch to Sandi Toksvig really made the tone of the show warmer and sillier, in a good way.
3. Yes! Also Father Brown, I think, but I've still never read any Chesterton. (Given how big I've been on Golden Age stuff lately, maybe I should pick the first one up?) I don't think I mentioned it here at length, but we watched Dial M For Murder pretty recently, and the detective in that (played by the same actor who played Audrey Hepburn's father in Sabrina!) gave me WICKED Columbo vibes—right down to pulling a 'Just one more thing...' move.
4. I have not, but it looks ENTIRELY up my alley & I'm adding it to my watchlist—looks like it's not streaming in any of my spots at the moment, but I'll watch for it for sure. Don Ameche! Zsa Zsa Gabor! Wendell Corey!
Did *not* know about the Father Brown connection! Also have not read any Chesterton (that I remember). Totally agree about Sandi -- though Fry and the boys "They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is" cracks me up almost every time. I keep it in my mental pocket to rewatch when I need some extra silly.
Oh, yes, there is so much gold in the Fry years as well! (Our Mental Rolodexes of Fun Things are so important, there should be a database of things like that.)
I am quasi-traumatized by that speedo... quasi, because it's actually kind of a cute pattern, but I don't want to admit that AT ALL...
Count yourself lucky that I didn't include the OTHER picture I took: When they showed him from the back, we were face-to-face with at LEAST half of his butt, hahahahaha.