Sherlock

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Have you watched any of series 3?
I've heard it's back to it's best?
Nah. Couldn't be bothered tbh. Didn't even make it through the whole of series 2

There's too much other good stuff out there to give programmes second chances
 


Just noticed this thread has reappeared so thought I would add a comment again.

I just finished watching Sherlock series 4 and now wholeheartedly commend @The Exile's advice to stop viewing at the end of series 3. Things were already pretty far-fetched by the time that series ended but series 4 is the one where the show finally "jumps the shark" in grand style. The final episode, where Sherlock discovers that he has an evil sister (Eurus) with powers of mind control who is incarcerated in a maximum security prison for the protection of the human race, with Mycroft's full cognisance and authority, and who turns out to have actually started running the prison through her powers of mind control, is an insult to the intelligence of the viewer, unless that viewer is watching, mouth agape, to see how carried away the producers of a tv show can get and how far up their own arses they can insert themselves. The suspension of disbelief required to watch that episode was, I'm afraid, far in excess of what I or our lass could muster, and we were just looking at each other in astonishment as Eurus put Sherlock, Mycroft and Watson through hoops and things got progressively more ridiculous.

I don't actually see how they could make another series after that, which would have any credibility at all.
:lol: I thought it was kind of funny how stupid it was tbh.
a far cry from the early series which were smart and refreshing
 
:lol: I thought it was kind of funny how stupid it was tbh.
a far cry from the early series which were smart and refreshing

Yes we found it funny but also disappointing how such a rewarding series had imploded through smug writing and production. It was actually bad enough when Sherlock faked his own death with the assistance of that famous illusionist, David Blaine was it?
 
Death in Paradise - it's a hard hitting, all action, gritty cop show set on an island in the Caribbean. Critics describe it as The Wire on Martinique.
Classic Christie type whodunnit.
John that is not Agatha!
 
A bit different from most of the other recommendations but I think 'Inside Number 9' is one of the best things around at the moment. They're half hour stand alone episodes so you can just dip in and out of it too.
 
A bit different from most of the other recommendations but I think 'Inside Number 9' is one of the best things around at the moment. They're half hour stand alone episodes so you can just dip in and out of it too.

Half hour episodes and all one off storylines as well so you can really dip in and out.

As series 2 started last night, I'll throw The Last Kingdom in as a recommendation. TV version of Bernard Cornwell's Saxon stories, set in time of Alfred the Great.
 
Just returned to the UK after a few years and bought one of those fire stick thingys and subscribe to Netflix and started to catch up with some British telly what we have missed.

Started to watch Sherlock and finding it very, very good.

Are there any other British made gems I have missed the great SMB can recommend?

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The tunnel
Black work

Try some of the scandie noir stuff.
 
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