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Hate to jump on this with more bad news but John Bradbury, drummer to The Specials, has just died.

I like her too. This episode finally gives her some emotional depth, which is good. The big thing this show does is show multiple reactions to trauma, and I think that, less overtly, the show does this with Robyn, but without coding the character as immediately sympathetic.

HOT TAKES CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS!

The version of 'Lost in the Flood' from the Hammersmith show is just incredible.

In the keynote he delivered at SXSW a few years ago he actually mentioned that, saying about how he was influenced by all the music around him and how he lifted stuff he liked (I think he then plays the intros of Badlands and Misunderstood to make the point)

First performed in that way by Pete Seeger, wasn't it? Still great choice.

I love "Modern Vampires of the City" and got into an argument the only time I stepped near Reddit, as someone was dismissing it as 'Jesus rock' and I stepped in because it is a wonderfully personal album that explores faith, but this guy just couldn't like something with religious stuff in it which is a pretty crazy

Funnily enough, the Kitty arc for me reaffirmed that the show was still able to pull off great moments like series 1. She really grew on me and the last couple of episodes with her are some of the best the show has done. The only problem really was that the second half of the series felt a bit aimless in comparison.

I think mine was a quote from the show on a Hannibal review, so I'd add "Funny/awesome line quoted from the episode that is being reviewed" to that list.

Yup - "Gracepoint" which was truly inessential, being an almost shot-for-shot remake of the original

The issue with Luther was that it was billed as a big one-off special (which leads to expectations of being special in some way) and it was just a decent average episode of Luther.

I only saw as far as half way through, but I kept wishing that the series was just David Duchovny being a slightly out of touch but open-minded cop in 60s San Francisco. The Manson stuff alternated between boring and overly gross.

I haven't seen it, but I guess it gets points for at least being an attempt to tell a new story instead of an excruciatingly extended epilogue to a great first series like Broadchurch was.

You guys do know that in the UK 'trump' has meant 'fart' for a long time, right?

Well, the actual answer would be The Crystals' version from A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, but as that's not an option I have to throw my santa hat in the ring for Bruce.

Yeah - I think it come out of the second-wave gender essentialism. TERFs are the rearguard of an increasingly outdated form of feminism.

Or "Ska-ry Bathroom Rhetoric" as it is a ska band…

We got married in a fever…

Yeah, we do - probably in a lot of cases due to various immigrant communities (I have Irish Catholic on one side of my family and Maltese Catholic on the other)

Yeah - the main part of the episode, the Golden Cleric and 'Father Unctious''s burglary attempt get a bit boring (especially the 10th time around) but there are some all-time great jokes in it, and the lingerie department (I hear it is the largest in Ireland) is one of the best sequences in the show.