What Are You Watching Now?

[colubridae]

Simon Pegg and Andy Cirkus in 'Burke and Hare' iplayer. very funny.

[Tero]

Looking up
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wick ... 2006_film)
to see how much I can find free/netflix

[Jason]

The last three seasons of Futurama on my free month of Netflix.

[macdoc]

Glorious and a reminder of what's at stake if we get this path to carbon neutral wandering too much

enjoy

[Sean Hayden]

[FBM]

UFC Fight Night. But it's

[Svartalf]

Watched Black Sails and Helix yesternight.

[cronus]

Sherlock Holmes : Brett variant : Sign of Four.

[Clinton Huxley]

Watched Sightseers the other night, low budget British dark comedy about a caravanning serial killer. It was alright. Halfway through vampire flick Byzantium.

[Jason]

The new Simpsons episode Specs in the City where they stole my username for Homer.

Seriously. Watch it.

[SteveB]

I just watched that Simpsons episode.

Anyone else watch True Detective on HBO? I'm not sure what to make of that show... it's definitely different, but I'm not sure if it's in a good way.

Also watching Mud. Over-saturated in McConaughey. Dude totally won me over in Wolf of Wall Street, then I started liking him after watching Lincoln Lawyer and Tropic Thunder. One of those actors you didn't think who would turn out decent, like Ben Affleck directing.

[SteveB]

Men's Figure Skating.

Not just for them falling on their asses either. I like the artistry.

[Hermit]

Just begun watching Kenneth Clark's Civilisation. It is the first of a slew of humongous productions subtitled A Personal View, some of the others being Sagan's Cosmos, Bronowski's The Ascent of Man and Burke's The Day the Universe changed. The title is a bit misleading. The series should be called something like 13 Centuries of European Art and Architecture. The first episode is called By the Skin of our Teeth. It sketches out how civilisation, that is to say Christianity, was almost wiped out by a number of waves of barbars that invaded the lands. At one stage they were barely hanging in there by the barest of margins, eking out a miserable living on the very edges of the most inhospitable fringes of the universe - tiny, rocky islands off Scotland, Ireland and such. It really was touch and go, but little by little, Christianity spread across Europe again. Civilisation resumed its course.

Clark begins by quoting Ruskin, who by all appearances was a bit of a pompous, opinionated arse: "Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts—the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. ... of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last." Then he proceeds to have a look at just that. If you can get over the breathtaking conservatism, the Eurocentrism and Clark's poncy diction (he became a peer after all) it is a good show. Well, at least the bit of it I have watched so far.

[Hermit]

I think I'm getting the hang of Civilisation now. The story so far:

Episode 1: The Dark Age. Christianity Civilisation is brought to the brink of extinction.
Episode 2: The Gothic Period. Christianity Civilisation recovers by building a cathedral at Chartres.
Episode 3: The Renaissance. Christians Bankers of Florence become filthy rich and commission many paintings featuring their ugly noses.

The narrator's favourite modus operandi is to gaze at a painting, sculpture, church or panoramic view of an ancient city for a second or two, and then slowly turns to face the camera as if it had somehow interrupted his reverie and remembers that he must unfortunately explain something to the unwashed masses. He does that at least once every ten minutes.

If it wasn't for the sumptuously displayed works of art - often scanned across in exquisite detail - I would have given up on the series by now. Instead, stand by for further developments.

[pErvinalia]

I prefer Civilization, the game.