Saxondale 2nd series
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spartacus mills
let's wee on each other
Hollis said:I thought tonight's was good.. though I must agree it reminds me abit of Going Straight..
Btw.. soundtrack provided by Jethro Tull "Acres Wild" off the classic 'Heavy Horses' album.
Tonights episode was the best of this series but I think the first series was much better.
Btw.. the opening and closing themes (the latter is drowned out by bbc voiceover twattery) are by Focus.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Took me a while to realise it was Steve Coogan tooslowth said:The emo-haired squatter in tonights episode made me think of Firky for some reason.(never met him btw and no offence intended).Was probably reminded of Urban 75 subconsciously after the pikey argument on Hells Kitchen just before.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Another great episode. 'Horrible anus' brilliant. 
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
madzone said:
This just reminded me of a classic Charlie Brooker cuss, when writing about a particularly Joey-heavy episode of Friends - "more violent mugging than Central Park"
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
django said:
yeah that bit was v.good
As were the scenes with his neighbour.
found the emo-squatter very badly unfunny so the episode gets 7/10 fo' me
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Good!
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I don't agree with that assessment
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
madzone said:So overacting to the point of unrealisticness
As I've said before, it's a comedy, not a dramatization. English comedy is famous for its grotesques going back to Shakespeare and beyond.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Yes! Your point?wishface said:
How the hell can you declare that absolutly no one in the world pulls daft faces when the talk, or at the end of sentences. I have met plenty of people who do a similar thing to what Saxondale does during conversations. My boss at work for example. He also does this thing were at the end of a sentence, when hes coming to his last two or three words, he'll close his eyes but yet blink really really fast, but with his eyes shut
Man, my boss is quite strange thinking about it
Man, my boss is quite strange thinking about it
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
quite!
madzone
Physically unfavourable
Onslow said:How the hell can you declare that absolutly no one in the world pulls daft faces when the talk, or at the end of sentences. I have met plenty of people who do a similar thing to what Saxondale does during conversations. My boss at work for example. He also does this thing were at the end of a sentence, when hes coming to his last two or three words, he'll close his eyes but yet blink really really fast, but with his eyes shut
Your boss overacts?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
People have idiosyncratic mannerisms that can be amusing, like Saxondale's.
madzone
Physically unfavourable
Orang Utan said:
Fair enough but you all seem to be missing the point I'm making. As an actor he has a choice and a responsibility to act in a convincing way - whatever part or genre he's playing. In this instance the director has failed to notice that every now and then Coogan goes into overdrive on the mugging and that it's actually distracting from the dialogue, the character and everything else that they are trying to offer the viewer.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Only to you. I think he's pretty convincing and he's done a good job of investing some humanity into his character - a wise choice as otherwise he'd been monstrous
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