The Lowdown is definitely drawing inspiration from The Big Lebowski. Feels like something you’ve seen before, but is so far enjoayble (I’ve only watched half of ep1).
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Black Rabbit - gave it a big swerve after 20 mins of EP1 - I could tell the direction it was heading. terrible pacing and script.
The Tuesday Murder Club - when my Mum said her and my Dad were enjoying it, I knew it wasn’t for me haha.
The Girlfriend - Woeful. I posted my thoughts earlier in this thread and was convinced to keep watching based on others’ feedback. Really wish I hadn’t.
I’m hopeful for the new Toni Collete cult leader show on Netflix, and oddly enough, the Ed Gein story!
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Yeah I finished it and I get what you’re saying. Not the best resolution and it definitely got more pulpy as it went on, but it had some interesting bits here and there and Brown’s performance especially kept me invested.
Fun ride, but I wish they made it a miniseries instead of dragging the story out for another season.
Two episodes in and Task is turning out to be pretty heavy viewing. Can only manage one episode at a time. The tension just keeps building.
Alien Earth, I enjoyed it and was with it to the last episode but not only could they not stick the landing, they missed the runway by a mile.
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When I drifted out of school in the mid 80’s, I fell into menial factory work. In no way does it compare to Piper Alpha, but the health and safety was pretty much non existent. No PPE when using some pretty nasty chemicals for example, and I remember seeing veterans of this sort of work with fingers and even eyes missing.
Every time I hear some tosser like Jacob Rees-Mogg and the like talk about “unnecessary red tape” and “health and safety gone mad” I remember how it was back in those days, and get really angry.
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Safety measures improved after PA. One of which was Stop the Job - anyone has the right to call for a job to be ceased at any time for safety reasons. Also hands off operations - the roughnecks and deck crew etc now don’t have hands on directly, they use pipe handling tools to attach the pipe collars.
And the Permit to Work system was properly implemented. If I had to take a server from the comms cabinet to a storage container out on the deck or the platform, every step of the way had to be signed off. Total pain in the arse if you need to do something quickly off piste, but that’s how it is. Every morning/evening shift there’s a toolbox talk so everyone knows what jobs are happening.
We had an extended toolbox talk once that went on for a couple of hours where the OVM ranted about someone shitting in one of the shared cabin showers (someone did it in someone else’s shower obvs 
). He had a photo of the offending log printed and stuck it up everywhere, threatening to take away rec room priveleges and turning off the satellite TV in the cabins unless someone owned up, but nobody did…
At Fugro the last company I worked for they used to send out the global Incident Book every quarter detailing injuries…loads of people in mostly non-European countries (and the US obviously) getting dragged off the deck of vessels, losing hands/fingers/arms from ropes, falling off platforms. Divers getting killed, compression injuries. Fascinating but grim reading.
Lots and lots of Philippines and Malaysian marine crews all over, they earn a pittance but comparatively they are rock stars back home. Always these people that suffer the most from lax safety regulations. They mostly have completely unpronounceable names so they call themselves Jack or Billy or Dan…on the Skandi Olympia I put a call out for a sparky which resulted in two guys showing up because they were both called Jack, so one had to be Jack 1 and the other said well I don’t want to be Jack 2, call me Jackie instead… surreal!
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Watched the first episode of the Toni Collett series… looks good
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Sneaker Wars on Disney+ is OK. Documenting the Adidas v Puma rivalry.
I wanted it to cover more on sneaker culture but its generally about the companies differening strategies. Anyway its an easy 3 part watch
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Alien Earth started off ok but descended into a load of tosh. Worth it for the special effects though.
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it’s kinda disappointing but also kinda comedic for me… from Alien v Predator to Alien v Peter Pan 
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Watched this last night…crass, childish, puerile…loved it
New series of Blue Lights up on iPlayer
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I watched 4 episodes of Task and it’s really good… highly recommend it…
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Oh this looks good ^.
I’m watching this old three part doc series about Spies on the BBC. Got pretty fascinated by spies and I have no clue why… I think it’s the fact that there is this weirdly polite world of people then they just kill each other when needed or turn double agent etc… I hate to admit it to myself but I am one stop off John Le Carre novels.
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It’s really good, Tom Pelphrey is as good as always…
I’m really enjoying it. Halfway through episode 3 at the minute
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The spy who came in from the cold is a BANGER
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I’ve been drawn into Task as well. Really good
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yes me too, 3 episodes watched this evening.
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