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What have you watched on TV?

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Just finished a re-run of the last season of Game of Thrones. Just as good, if not better than first time around.
 
John Bishop's Australia.
I didn't think I would like Bish much or find his stories interesting, I was very wrong. He comes across very well and is an interesting reporter of modern Ozzie and it's culture.
 
Happened upon Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets whilst channel-hopping the other night….wish I hadn’t. Visually good but the acting and dialogue both as bad as it gets.
 
pottster said:
Starting watching but found it too depressing, and your right put me off going inside!
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I'd stick with it. As others have said, it's an excellent drama. There are some minor inaccuracies, particularly with what happens to the PO at the end and the fact that Stephen Graham's character does absolutely EVERYTHING in the prison, but pretty much accurate in other ways - the "napalm" (boiling water and sugar), the pool balls, the battling for hierarchy, and having cons with some of the most serious crimes on orderly duties.

Sean Bean's characterisation is, I guess, how most of us would feel - disgust, bewilderment etc. Tremendous acting from both him and Stephen Graham.

Kev was prepared to be very critical, but he was sucked into it too.
 
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OldBlueLady said:
I'd stick with it. As others have said, it's an excellent drama.
and the fact that Stephen Graham's character does absolutely EVERYTHING in the prison, but pretty much accurate in other ways - the "napalm" (boiling water and sugar), the pool balls, the battling for hierarchy, and having cons with some of the most serious crimes on orderly duties.

Sean Bean's characterisation is, I guess, how most of us would feel - disgust, bewilderment etc. Tremendous acting from both him and Stephen Graham.

Kev was prepared to be very critical, but he was sucked into it too.
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I was wondering about Stephen Graham’s character’s fate at the end?

Given the respect he had and length of service how would he have been dealt with in real life? I still feel he was the real victim in this whole series.

Would he have been shown leniency?
 
Floval Flyer said:
I was wondering about Stephen Graham’s character’s fate at the end?

Given the respect he had and length of service how would he have been dealt with in real life? I still feel he was the real victim in this whole series.

Would he have been shown leniency?
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No, I don't think so. Kev predicted his sentence correctly - he'd never have been put in the prison where he'd worked though, not even while waiting for sentencing.
 
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Floval Flyer said:
I was wondering about Stephen Graham’s character’s fate at the end?

Given the respect he had and length of service how would he have been dealt with in real life? I still feel he was the real victim in this whole series.

Would he have been shown leniency?
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OldBlueLady said:
No, I don't think so. Kev predicted his sentence correctly - he'd never have been put in the prison where he'd worked though, not even while waiting for sentencing.
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Good job nobody is going to watch the third episode on Sunday then!
 
RHB said:
Good job nobody is going to watch the third episode on Sunday then!
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Yeah, sorry, I started off being good in my original post and not giving anything away - I'll go back and try and add a spoiler! Has that worked?

Floval Flyer said:
I was wondering about Stephen Graham’s character’s fate at the end?

Given the respect he had and length of service how would he have been dealt with in real life? I still feel he was the real victim in this whole series.

Would he have been shown leniency?
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Checked on this again, and Kev said that the kid was the problem, he'd have been ghosted around plenty of prisons to try and keep the hands off him. There's no way the drug boss's reach would have been across the whole prison network. Also, knowing he'd been attacked, his dad would have been kept a very close eye on, so no going into cells on arrival and closing the day, for instance.

He had another screw bringing in firearms while he was at Pentonville, imagine that!
 
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