😂 I notice you’ve cropped the audience score!

What did Derry Girls get on that?

I’m surprised nobody has tried to adapt his somewhat smuttier novel, My Uncle Oswald, which was a big hit when it was inadvertently placed in my school library.

Given that I haven’t seen it, you may well be right about Big Boys, but your opinion on Derry Girls doesn’t fill me with confidence. Anyway, we clearly aren’t going to agree on Derry Girls, and everybody’s entitled to their opinion and all that. We’ll have to agree to disagree.

JFC - how can you lump Derry Girls in with that lot?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/07/kirstie-alley-was-celebrated-not-because-she-was-flawless-but-because-her-flaws-were-so-visible

Oh how wrong you are my friend - there have not been a dozen shows in the UK as good as Derry Girls in the last 30 years. Even Scorsese’s a fan.

I have to admit to having a lump in my throat in the Good Place scene where Michael is behind the bar and runs through Sam’s little routines.

Never seen the Santa Clause, you are absolutely right about the Polar Express, but Home Alone is the most underrated horror film of the early 90s.

No - at times towards the end they had her saying and doing stuff that was Woody-level stupid which was a betrayal of who she was when she first appeared.

She maybe did what, Murray?

It would be far worse to have (rightly) pointed out Alley’s dubious views and statements over the years, and then give her a glowing obituary that fails to mention any of it.

Until they started to make her really stupid.  But the episode with Marcia Cross as her sister is one of my all-time favourites.

No Derry Girls?  Catch onto yourselves.

I always credit the Brer Rabbit books for developing my reading.  There were a load of them in my English primary school class when I was about 7, and my teacher was happy for me to read ahead.

Crazy is not the same thing as stupid.

The Final Attraction

But they’re not Welsh.

No, that was Anthony Hopkins.

Yeah, that really does put into perspective Stevie Nicks’s irritation with having to hear “shacking up’s all you wanna do” every night.