Fauda
 

Anyone watch this? It's a series on Israeli undercover police team. It's good, and fucking depressing. I don't know who the good and the bad guys are.

Happy Valley

Anyone watch this? It's so good. Northern English police series..Brutal.

nah. but i need something good to watch. the terror blows. will check out.

i love cops, ya know?

who doesn't love the police, really?

This is a good series.

now watching season 2.

Didn't expect there to be a second season, it was such an 'ending'. So good. I cried.

cun't imagine anyone to be honest?

IS THAT A QUESTION

It's ok to cry.

downloading the first episode of happy valley. it better be good.

If you like depressing you're in for a treat.

I hang out here, don't I?

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damn you were right it is good.

cool. have you seen it beyond the first episode?

i also saw mitnattsol, a Finnish detective, which was pretty good

seen the first two. am hooked. what a dark series. katherine is so badass. her poor little grandson. :( and that weakling who sets up the kidnapping. christ. i don't even want to think about the girl and the rapist. this stuff is heavy. really good characters, great story lines.

yes, heavy indeed, and it gets worse.

For anyone interested in another dark crime series I would highly recommend Ozark which is available for free on netflix or your favorite torrent site. Season 2 was released yesterday so I'm excited.

no shit. this is hard to watch.

I watched the first two series of Happy Valley a couple of years ago and then couldn't take the bleakness anymore.

I think I tried to watch Fauda but it all seemed too hard, or something.

its good you didn't watch beyond the second episode. everything goes to shit. fucking awful.

can't say I didn't warn ye

it's that typical northern England bleakness, love it. I'm kind of an Anglophile, been to the mother country countless times, but I need to explore the north a bit more.

now halfway season two.

yeah i'm an anglophile too tbh. my idea of heaven involves hanging out in 221B Baker Street, drinking whiskey and soda, and eating Spotted Dick..

York (the town) is uber senescent.

on the opposite side of the road on 221b Baker Street there is a memorabilia store with a Queen poster signed by all four members

i vaguely recall some store like that. i thought it was a beatles store tho. who knows it's been a while and i might have mixed it up with somewhere else.

london is so cool. one night i got stoned and walked by the parliament and big ben, down to the tower of london (such an awesome fortress: it has a water gate!!!) across london bridge and then i saw a replica of the golden hind. all on one walk. oh god i felt like ram getting a text from one of his prospective mates. :)

it was a Beatles store!

We were there just a couple of weeks ago and I convinced the kids to walk down to Big Ben from Hyde Park, past Buckingham Palace, and my 13 year old was like "Wow, it (Buckingham Palace) is like smaller than I thought it would be." I guess he'd seen the Louvre just a few days before, and he saw the Forbidden City last year, and next to them it does seem....kinda small.

Anyway, we pushed on to Big Ben and when we arrived it was covered in scaffolding. Not a good day lol

I wish I could visit France. I would see Alcest and die of happiness.

We just did 3 nights in Paris. I was hoping to fit in Marseilles...but we just couldn't :( we ate snails though, and had Berthillon gelato on Ile Saint Louis looking out over the Seine and it was pretty lovely.

The 9 year old's favourite attraction in Paris was a man sitting on the bank of the Seine playing his flute to a bunch of swans, who gathered around him. Notre Dame = alright. Man playing flute to swans = AMAZING

Our hotel was in a super shitty area and the streets were covered with piss and vomit though. And I was bitten by an insect. I screamed when I saw it, and my husband squashed it with a book and it burst and lots of blood came out. I don't know what it was. :/ It's nice to see the 'real' side of a city....I guess...

Still never been to Paris, even though it's like two hours from here. French friends informed me that it reeks of piss everywhere in Paris, though

yeah i think i'd go for the countryside or strasbourg or something

your younger son sounds cool vixnix. :beatup:

I want to retract my previous statement about wanting to eat Spotted Dick. What I meant to say was Spotted Dog.

You see in the Aubrey Maturin Series Jack is always having Spotted Dog (a pudding I believe) served up for his banquets with the officers. Spotted Dick, on the other hand, was one of his sailors who had a very pimply face.

I want to eat pudding, not penis, spotted or clean. I swear.

Yeah the fact that Paris needs public urinals to persuade Parisian men to stop pissing on the ground kinda grosses me out. I had just finished stepping over the vomit and piss on the street one morning when I read an email from my Dad about how he doesn't want to visit Paris because of the public urinals and I was like huh, well, it can only improve this situation though.

It was better over by Bois de Boulogne....I think probably in any city if you move out from the centre a little, it all gets a bit nicer. And certainly on the Ile Saint Louis and Ile de la Cite it was very clean. I think we were just in a shitty area, in this sort of no man's land between the 6th & 7th, not really anywhere.

I speak such shitty and limited French I just felt so ashamed of myself the whole time I was there, too. We went to a chain restaurant close to our hotel, because we have kids and we don't like to disturb people at nice restaurants, and I asked (en Francais, certainement) whether the maitre d' spoke English and he said huffily

"A little", so I asked in English for a table of four, and he asked where we were from. I said "New Zealand" and he considered that for a moment and then said "Ok. You can stay."