I wanted to contribute to the '2014 albums' thread, but I'm a disorganised music listener, preferring to pluck musical nuggets out of the ether, whereas I've been positively regimented with my television viewing habits this year.
So here's my best of 2014.
Review with Forrest Macneil - A premise for a comedy hasn't grabbed me this much since peep show started. The space travel segment was my favourite comedy scene of the year. Or was irt the cocaine segment? Or the orgy segment? I can't decide. Seriously recommended - 5 stars.
Childrens hospital - 11 minute epiodes, some amazing, some not so, but when its good its as funny as funny gets.
Louie - just deserves its own special place, for me the most recent season was the strongest so far, which is praise and then some, as it has always been a very strong show. The verbal smackdown he gets from the comedy club waitress was one of the most effective bits of tv I've seen in this or any year.
Toast of London - Hi, it's Clem Fandango, can you hear me? I've liked Matt Berry in his previous roles (the IT crowd, Snuff box), and this, along with the other comedies I've enjoyed has gotten stronger with each episode. The characters and stories are absurd, but that's a style of comedy I have plenty of time for.
Special mention goes to Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse for the BBC 2 anniversary stuff and fast show reunion episodes, both of which were properly funny.
Would like to have watched but didn't get around to it:
The detectorists.
Discovered for the first time in 2014:
Archer - gets better and better, can't wait for season six.
The wire - woah, don't think I've ever enjoyed a tv series as much. Breaking bad or this.
Trailer park boys - let the liquor do the thinking. A tour de force of hideous, hilarious caricatures, with some genuinely sweet, funny, stupid moments. Made with love. Special mention goes to John Farnsworth AKA Jim Lahey, a truly superb exponent in the art of drunkard acting.
Looking forward to watching in 2015:
BETTER CALL SAUL! (My caps)
new series of it's always sunny in philadelphia
new series of Review with forrest macneil
the concluding half-season of the walking dead
possible new curb your enthusiasm
I think I've forgotten a few.
So here's my best of 2014.
Review with Forrest Macneil - A premise for a comedy hasn't grabbed me this much since peep show started. The space travel segment was my favourite comedy scene of the year. Or was irt the cocaine segment? Or the orgy segment? I can't decide. Seriously recommended - 5 stars.
Childrens hospital - 11 minute epiodes, some amazing, some not so, but when its good its as funny as funny gets.
Louie - just deserves its own special place, for me the most recent season was the strongest so far, which is praise and then some, as it has always been a very strong show. The verbal smackdown he gets from the comedy club waitress was one of the most effective bits of tv I've seen in this or any year.
Toast of London - Hi, it's Clem Fandango, can you hear me? I've liked Matt Berry in his previous roles (the IT crowd, Snuff box), and this, along with the other comedies I've enjoyed has gotten stronger with each episode. The characters and stories are absurd, but that's a style of comedy I have plenty of time for.
Special mention goes to Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse for the BBC 2 anniversary stuff and fast show reunion episodes, both of which were properly funny.
Would like to have watched but didn't get around to it:
The detectorists.
Discovered for the first time in 2014:
Archer - gets better and better, can't wait for season six.
The wire - woah, don't think I've ever enjoyed a tv series as much. Breaking bad or this.
Trailer park boys - let the liquor do the thinking. A tour de force of hideous, hilarious caricatures, with some genuinely sweet, funny, stupid moments. Made with love. Special mention goes to John Farnsworth AKA Jim Lahey, a truly superb exponent in the art of drunkard acting.
Looking forward to watching in 2015:
BETTER CALL SAUL! (My caps)
new series of it's always sunny in philadelphia
new series of Review with forrest macneil
the concluding half-season of the walking dead
possible new curb your enthusiasm
I think I've forgotten a few.
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