TV/Movies Megathread

[mongers]

Skins.  A gang of English school kids, including Samwell Tarly's squeeze, engage in numerous shenanigans.

They're attending a college.  What exactly does that mean?

Probably post mandatory schooling, 16-18 years, either a 6th form college (often gateway to undergraduate study at a uni) or a vocational college.

[Sheilbh]

Skins!

Haven't rewatched in years but that was set in the town I went to uni in and was screening while I was there. It was weirdly popular for us. Also any time you went out you'd see one of the cast in the pub

And yeah they're in Sixth Form College (16-18).

[Eddie Teach]

Are 16 year olds allowed in the pub?

[garbon]

Are 16 year olds allowed in the pub?

Yes, though it can vary.

https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-young-people-law

However, if you're 16 or 17 and accompanied by an adult, you can drink (but not buy) beer, wine or cider with a meal.

If you're 16 or under, you may be able to go to a pub (or premises primarily used to sell alcohol) if you're accompanied by an adult. However, this isn't always the case. It can also depend on the specific conditions for that premises.

It's illegal to give alcohol to children under 5.

[garbon]

Also, looks like most of the cast was around 18 when filming first series.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah. They were about the same age as us, just far more glamorous and successful.

Also, in old man grumbles, now pubs are quite strict on ID. But in the early/mid-2000s you could go into a pub and drink if you were a mature enough 14 year old.

The landlady at my local as a teenager used to always say "eighteen again?!" every year when I, inevitably went there for a birthday drink

On my actual eighteenth they got me a little cake from sainsbury's.

[The Brain]

Finished the second season of Babylon Berlin. The British charge at Verdun was a stirring moment.

[Malthus]

Finished the second season of Babylon Berlin. The British charge at Verdun was a stirring moment.

I've just started the second season - I'm enjoying it so far.

No mention of Winston Churchill's stint as a Berlin detective yet, though.

[Barrister]

So, I want to start watching the Simpsons with my boys, but I'm trying to figure out where to start.

One possibility of course is to start right at the beginning.  Start with the pilot.  There are some decent episodes there (like where Bart is sent to France, or the Simpsons buy an RV), but not the best.  It has the advantage though of setting up a lot of the characters - it's the first introduction to Sideshow Bob for example.

I think the other possibility would be to start at season 3.  Now we start hitting some absolute classics.  Season starts with the Michael Jackson episode, the one where they help Krusty reunite with his father, Flaming Moe's, the baseball episode...


The thing is these are kids, the youngest is six.  It's still easy for them to lose interest, and they're already going to miss a lot of pop culture context (starting with: who is Michael Jackson?).  But completeness counts too.

[The Brain]

Not the very first crap IMHO. Start where it's hitting its stride.

[Valmy]

So, I want to start watching the Simpsons with my boys, but I'm trying to figure out where to start.

One possibility of course is to start right at the beginning.  Start with the pilot.  There are some decent episodes there (like where Bart is sent to France, or the Simpsons buy an RV), but not the best.  It has the advantage though of setting up a lot of the characters - it's the first introduction to Sideshow Bob for example.

I think the other possibility would be to start at season 3.  Now we start hitting some absolute classics.  Season starts with the Michael Jackson episode, the one where they help Krusty reunite with his father, Flaming Moe's, the baseball episode...


The thing is these are kids, the youngest is six.  It's still easy for them to lose interest, and they're already going to miss a lot of pop culture context (starting with: who is Michael Jackson?).  But completeness counts too.

Isn't the pilot the Santa's Little Helper episode? I think that one is great.

Pick and choose from the first season. Take the great ones and skip the duds I say.

[Barrister]

Isn't the pilot the Santa's Little Helper episode? I think that one is great.

Pick and choose from the first season. Take the great ones and skip the duds I say.

Yup, pilot is the Christmas episode.  I mean it's fine, but I never thought it was great.

[Valmy]

Isn't the pilot the Santa's Little Helper episode? I think that one is great.

Pick and choose from the first season. Take the great ones and skip the duds I say.

Yup, pilot is the Christmas episode.  I mean it's fine, but I never thought it was great.

Ah well..to each his own then. Still I say pick the best episodes from the first two seasons. I mean the show became an international hit right out of the gate for a reason.

[Razgovory]

The show doesn't really find itself until midway through Season 2.  I think there was a point during Season 2 were the writers said to themselves "Hey, this all animated right?  Why can do stuff that a live-action show can't.  Let's go for something really wild."  So they made the Halloween episode, discovered that there was a market for really surreal comedy and went in that direction.  I'd start at Season 3, that's the show everyone in the 1990's actually remembers.  I bought up seasons 3-8 last year on Amazon.  It stops being consistently great after season 5 but is still pretty good.  Then there is the fake Skinner episode in season 9 where I lost interest.  Admittedly, Season 9 was while I was in High School and I had shit to do that didn't involve watching cartoons.

[Habbaku]

Finished the second season of Babylon Berlin. The British charge at Verdun was a stirring moment.

Wait, that's out? Ugh, I'm so far behind.