I saw it yesterday, it's pretty undercooked. It has that kind of lightly preachy thing you get in Apatow-influenced movies where characters (especially Rogen) just sort of *tell* you a bunch of stuff that the director/writer thinks (e.g. "everyone should hold a gun at least once in their life" in Superbad), rather…

I'm just replaying the phrase "I don't love the doccie" over and over in my head in a South African accent and it's making me really happy.

agreed the falsetto chorus is amazing, the jazz trumpet reminds me of the theme to Homeland as well - I cannot imagine a worse piece of music than this

Yep agree, in fact to return to the subject of the article (well, sort of) that is a show that started to feel like chore for me, I didn't get through the series after racing through Life On Mars. That's a good example actually, it's like they surprised themselves with how good an essentially quite risky show like…

Totally agree, I'm a big fan of the BBC (which is just as well as I have to pay £10 a month for it). I really enjoyed Life on Mars and also Spooks (retitled M15 in the US). There is a certain BBC-specific quality that often creeps in to their shows, though - "English cheese" is a pretty good description, also a…

This quality is common to a lot of BBC shows.

I kind of had this in reverse - the first Minutemen song I downloaded (off Soulseek I think) was labelled #1 Hit Song, but was actually sections of three other songs off Double Nickels cut haphazardly into one track. I took this to be some kind of genius meta-commentary on commercialism or musicianship or something…