The IT Crowd… not all that good really

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Fantastic pilot episode.

Shame the second one sucks.

It’s sub-Red Dwarf (the unfunny years), improbable in plot and unconvincing in execution.

O! To have one’s expectations raised so high, then dashed so low!

UPDATE: Just watched episode 4… which was almost a return to the form of the first one, so maybe it’s not a complete wash-out.

Now if only Channel 4 would sort out the stupid, D-bloody-RM-encumbered video format on their website and let people like me who don’t really ‘do’ television watch it without pain and I might forgive them for the woeful mess which was the second episode.

I’m popular!

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I think dysphoria.net has really hit the big-time now!

I just had to delete 17 spam comments, advertising ‘Phentermine’ (a diet pill similar to amphetamine, apparently) and gay sex (when two chaps of the same gender shag, apparently).

So that must mean that somebody is reading me!

(Oh, and one comment from Mr 1, daring to disagree with my opinions concerning the Co-op’s cheese-of-the-gods Wensleydale with Cranberries.) (I didn’t delete it though, 1.)

Brokeback Mountain

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[“Brokeback Mountain” poster art]
That this is a masterpiece of a film is not in doubt.

If nothing else, the fact that an unflinching portrail of homosexual love has made headlines for being a moving story, rather than a gay cowboy movie, is historic.

The cinematography is amazing. You can practically smell the Wyoming (actually Canadian) scenery. The 1960s to the 1980s are real and convincing, and tacky and awful.

However, it does go on a bit. Continue reading →

The IT Crowd

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The funniest Irish joke ever starts, “There were these three priests on an island…” It ran for 3 series on Channel 4.

One of the writers behind The Funniest Irish Joke Ever, Graham Linehan, has written a sitcom about an IT department. Channel 4 has the first episode for free download in WMF format and I strongly encourage you to watch it. It’s exceptionally funny.

It has the kind of throwaway genius, surreally freakish characters and beautifully deadpan acting which made Father Ted the sort of television that doctors have to warn their patients against watching immediately after surgery. It also contains enough truth and affection for its subject matter that IT people the world over will snort their coffee all over their ThinkGeek t-shirts at the in-jokes*. That’s a promise.

Plus, the pilot episode has two references to The A Team.

I’m there, man.

* The end credits of the pilot have a slideshow of pictures with music playing over them. The music is the default ‘slideshow’ music from iPhoto. (Or so…someone…told me.) …It’s probably funnier if I don’t have to explain it.

Cracking Cheese!

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I’m not generally a bit Wensleydale fan, but the Co-op’s Wensleydale with Cranberries is gorgeous. Possibly the best thing I’ve tasted in the last year. Just creamy, and sweet, and made with something increadibly addictive, apparently.

Co-op Wensleydale with Cranberries. Yummy.

It’s probably seasonal, what with the cranberries and everything, so I suggest, (unless you have a very serious aversion to cheese), that you run to your nearest Co-op and stock up.