There you go. Ratings smash.
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I’m editing the Celeb Traitors and then next series from this summer - fingers crossed for some interesting participants! ‘The Seer’ power had a very different outcome in this year’s US series…
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The “seer” thing was unnecessary but them not saying if they were a traitor or not boosted the tension I thought. I enjoyed it as much as last year and was pleased Jake won, seemed like a decent lad. I thought Leanne was fairly awful.
They should do a red button version where you can watch it without knowing who the traitors are.
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Say Nothing. Brilliant but also bringing bad family vibes back.
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I have vague memories of getting checked for bombs when shopping in Belfast as a kid. Was quite weird being reminded of how fortress like everything was as well. Crazy times
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Finished The Agency on Paramount.
Loved it. I was worried a US remake (of French series The Bureau) would be awful but with Jez Butterworth involved in the writing and a cast including Michael Fassbender, Jeffery Wright, Richard Gere and further famous faces it turned out to be really good. Can’t wait for Season 2.
Watch it if you like complex CIA/MI6/geo political thrillers.
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I just remember loads of rows amongst my relatives at every gathering increasing as the drinking stepped up. It was only my grandparents who’d actually lived over there too. They married across the divide so you can imagine how complicated it got.
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It was unbelievably divisive
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My Mum’s side of the family are Northern Irish (and Donegal) and most summer holidays involved a couple of weeks in Belfast, Newcastle and Donegal. Bag searches, bomb checks and armed soldiers were a normality. Pubs with cages on the doors.
It wasn’t until I was older that the craziness of it all hit home. Love the place and am always blown away how different it is now. Thank fuck!
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My mum’s Irish Catholic, dad Scottish Protestant.
Sunday lunch 
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Same here! My granny and grandad were not best pleased at the time apparently
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sounds very familiar, I had a great aunt who referred to me and my siblings as ‘the wee bastards’ when we were too young to understand what it meant 
My Dad tried to hire a van in Leicester in the late 70’s and when he gave them his name they called the Police. He also had his car pulled apart at the Jersey ferry customs/border.
Me and my Brother were both taunted with ‘Bomber’ at school in the 80’s (in England)
I can laugh about it now but at the time it was fucking terrible
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Remember sitting outside in Charlotte Street when the City bomb went off one Sunday, pretty fucking chilling. Used to get evacuated regularly on TCR where I worked didn’t even blink an eye.
Crazy times.
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Anti-Irish bullshit was terrible in those days, especially in England. Growing up in Glasgow, it was also bad, but more based around religion, NI politics, than Irishness in general. I’d imagine a similar situation in Liverpool with there also having been a very large Irish presence.
I’m just grateful that I wasn’t indoctrinated in any of that crap - my NI family are mainly Protestant, but mixed, with some from the Republic too.
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While I have to wait until Friday for new Severance episodes, I realized just yesterday that the new (and apparently final) season of What We Do In The Shadows is out. Still as silly and hysterical as ever
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American Primeval is definitely one to watch, best thing that been on Netflix for a good while. Great depiction of the brutal and harsh reality of America at that time, it certainly takes no prisoners
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Probably mentioned further up but just finished S2 of Silo. Fantastic imo if you like dystopian futures type stuff. Tim Robbins and Rebecca Ferguson great.
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Kelly’s club in Portrush in the mid/late 90s if you were from the republic of Ireland and many traveled for the big nights Sasha and Digweed ect you were told by the bouncers to stay on this side and use these bsrs 
not what you want to hear entering a club but we never had any hassle there but the owner of the B&B we would stay at would drop us off and collect us…
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I enjoyed it. Really well made.
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