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[Barrister]

Yeah. Holodeck episodes always seemed to be ones the actors forced into their contracts so they could have a bit of range.
I recall DS9 has a few later on. Maybe a good one with O Brien and Bashir? The baseball one is horrific.
The worst DS9 episodes though were the prophety vision quest ones.

The ferrengi episodes are amazing.

The DS9 baseball episode is generally thought to be one of the series best.

[Syt]

The baseball one is great. And so are the Vic Fontaine ones.

[Habbaku]

I bailed out during the Polynesia version.

I bailed out after the very first episode.

Wow, so advanced.

[Tamas]

I bailed out during the Polynesia version.

I bailed out after the very first episode.

Wow, so advanced.

It sucks, what can you do.

[garbon]

I bailed out during the Polynesia version.

I bailed out after the very first episode.

You missed out - if only for the Jessica Walter's scenes.

[Syt]

I bailed out during the Polynesia version.

I bailed out after the very first episode.

I originally did, too, but I'm glad I stuck around this time.

[HVC]

Tamas will never know how to avoid ants.

[Eddie Teach]

I've seen like half a dozen episodes. It's ok.

I enjoy very little long form comedy though.

[Josquius]

Its one of those shows that is good but samey (yes, I know, later series break this) so it leads to quick burn out. I stopped watching somewhere along the line, series 3 or something, as it just grew tired.

[celedhring]

"Visionary" - O'Brien jumps in time and tries to prevent his death, repeteadly. He ends up being replaced by his own self from the future.

A pretty great "let's fuck with O'Brien" episode 

[Sheilbh]

Latest couple of Inside No 9 have been very good.

One with Sir Derek Jacobi as a revered barrister in palliative care wanting to go over his old cases with his nurse for something that's weighing on him. Best line - when the Devil arrives - "Oh! It's you, isn't it - Mr Mistofeles? Oh wait. No, that's Cats."

The last one of this series was a sort of Biblical Brexit horror story and it felt like the darkest they've done in a while.

But all very good this year.

[Barrister]

Yeah. Holodeck episodes always seemed to be ones the actors forced into their contracts so they could have a bit of range.
I recall DS9 has a few later on. Maybe a good one with O Brien and Bashir? The baseball one is horrific.
The worst DS9 episodes though were the prophety vision quest ones.

The ferrengi episodes are amazing.

The DS9 baseball episode is generally thought to be one of the series best.

I went and re-watched "Take me out to the Holodeck" - the baseball episode in question.

It's great.

I mean maybe it's because I know baseball and Tyr doesn't - but I think if the episode was about cricket (which I know nothing about) it would still be as good.

[garbon]

I recall thinking that the character interactions were nice but wondering why I was watching a long, drawn out sporting event.

[celedhring]

Finished the third season. I probably enjoyed the arc about the "secret war" against the Dominion the most.

Loved the nod to The Thing in the last episode of the season, where they extract their blood to discover who's being impersonated by a changeling.

[Sheilbh]

Jimmy McGovern continues his run as one of our best TV writers with his latest series, Time.

Summary, I suppose, is it follows a middle aged teacher, played by Sean Bean, who killed someone by dangerous driving on his 4 year prison sentence. His prison officer, played by Stephen Graham, is a conscientious guy trying his best in an underfunded system and has a personal weakness that is identified by one of the most dangerous inmates.

McGovern is sort of like a TV, scouse Ken Loach in the last few years. He writes incredible human dramas about our society and social issues - these have recently included Broken (also starring Sean Bean as a priest in Leeds), Anthony (about the racially motivated murder of a black teenager in Liverpool) and Care about the care system.

As with the rest of McGovern's stuff it really depends on good, believable performances and Bean and Graham are superb. And it's another series (like Broken, Hillsborough, Care etc) that shows people shaping and being shaped by the flawed, failing institutions they're in. There are always a few wrong'uns but as is quite common with McGovern most of the people genuinely are trying their best - but have personal weaknesses or foibles or the system that means that normally counts for nothing. 

It isn't maudlin or abject, like Loach there's normally a bit of humour or lightness or real humanity in awful circumstances and, like Loach, when McGovern goes wrong it's normally because he's a bit preachy, which is perhaps inevitable given his subject is our society, but in this case he doesn't.

It's brilliant - strong recommend.

Edit: And only three episodes which is always good.

Edit: Also one of the actors in it is the absolute spit of my nephew - and has the same pretty rare surname as me and is also from Liverpool, so I feel he must be some distant/lost relative