Is no one else watching the latest series?
I am and it's delightful.
Except for the bloody [spoiler]magpies[/spoiler].
Saving the third series for a nice long Christmas binge. Despite real-life detectorists being my sworn enemies, the first season is probably my favourite sitcom of the last 20 years, the second season almost as good. Even the Christmas special was good, and that's a rare trick indeed!
Turns out this is going to be the last series for Detectorists.
Quote from: von Boom on 09 December, 2017, 06:18:07 PM
Turns out this is going to be the last series for Detectorists.
It always was...
Quote from: von Boom on 09 December, 2017, 06:18:07 PM
Turns out this is going to be the last series for Detectorists.
I thought it was actually supposed to end after Series 2 and the Xmas one-off, so the third series was a lovely surprise, even if it wasn't quite as good as the previous two.
A brilliant programme, gentle, funny, clever and nice. Loved it.
Watched Season Three last week, after re-watching the first two. Loved it.
I've never watched it, but given the glowing reports above will give the first series a bash! :thumbsup:
Definitely worth a go - the phrase "gentle comedy" is usually a TV euphemism for "not funny" but this is warm touching and beautifully observed. Toby Jones is outstanding
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 January, 2018, 02:19:30 PM
Definitely worth a go - the phrase "gentle comedy" is usually a TV euphemism for "not funny" but this is warm touching and beautifully observed. Toby Jones is outstanding
Everyone in it is pretty awesome, but Jones is the standout; Lance is just a great character and Jones plays the role beautifully and naturally.
And yeah, "gentle" is often bandied around as a negative, and it has been cruelly described as "Last Of The Summer Wine for Millennials", but they're just mean people, and not every comedy needs tragedy, snark or bitterness.
It's true that it isn't exactly a gag-a-minute like Father Ted or whatever, but it's just great and I don't like anyone who disagrees.
Quote from: manwithnoname on 17 January, 2018, 02:25:31 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 January, 2018, 02:19:30 PM
Definitely worth a go - the phrase "gentle comedy" is usually a TV euphemism for "not funny" but this is warm touching and beautifully observed. Toby Jones is outstanding
Everyone in it is pretty awesome, but Jones is the standout; Lance is just a great character and Jones plays the role beautifully and naturally.
And yeah, "gentle" is often bandied around as a negative, and it has been cruelly described as "Last Of The Summer Wine for Millennials", but they're just mean people, and not every comedy needs tragedy, snark or bitterness.
It's true that it isn't exactly a gag-a-minute like Father Ted or whatever, but it's just great and I don't like anyone who disagrees.
That sounds so like my favourite: 'Early Doors' a great gentle comedy.
Quote from: Proudhuff on 17 January, 2018, 03:14:44 PM
Quote from: manwithnoname on 17 January, 2018, 02:25:31 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 January, 2018, 02:19:30 PM
Definitely worth a go - the phrase "gentle comedy" is usually a TV euphemism for "not funny" but this is warm touching and beautifully observed. Toby Jones is outstanding
Everyone in it is pretty awesome, but Jones is the standout; Lance is just a great character and Jones plays the role beautifully and naturally.
And yeah, "gentle" is often bandied around as a negative, and it has been cruelly described as "Last Of The Summer Wine for Millennials", but they're just mean people, and not every comedy needs tragedy, snark or bitterness.
It's true that it isn't exactly a gag-a-minute like Father Ted or whatever, but it's just great and I don't like anyone who disagrees.
That sounds so like my favourite: 'Early Doors' a great gentle comedy.
Ah, yes. I enjoyed that too. Although Detectorists makes Early Doors look like "It's Only Sunny In Philadelphia"
By way of explanation, the major protaganists in "Detectorists" are a rival metal-detecting duo, and the vicious interchanges are mainly about the what name they use for their detecting club, the quality of their equipment, which pub they drink in and who has the rights to detect in which field ("This is
our permission!")
It's like a bucolic version of The Wire sometimes
Quote from: Proudhuff on 17 January, 2018, 03:14:44 PM
Quote from: manwithnoname on 17 January, 2018, 02:25:31 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 January, 2018, 02:19:30 PM
Definitely worth a go - the phrase "gentle comedy" is usually a TV euphemism for "not funny" but this is warm touching and beautifully observed. Toby Jones is outstanding
Everyone in it is pretty awesome, but Jones is the standout; Lance is just a great character and Jones plays the role beautifully and naturally.
And yeah, "gentle" is often bandied around as a negative, and it has been cruelly described as "Last Of The Summer Wine for Millennials", but they're just mean people, and not every comedy needs tragedy, snark or bitterness.
It's true that it isn't exactly a gag-a-minute like Father Ted or whatever, but it's just great and I don't like anyone who disagrees.
That sounds so like my favourite: 'Early Doors' a great gentle comedy.
"crime won't crack itself!" :lol:
"Potentially."
Sublime. Definitely worth watching, Huffy.
One of the best shows on British television in recent years.
Soft spoiler: [spoiler]There's a moment towards the end of series 2 where Sophie Thompson's character's back story is revealed, and it's all done with silence and facial acting, and it's just breath-taking[/spoiler].
Doh! bbc iplayer only got the latest series on....
Quote from: Proudhuff on 20 January, 2018, 12:51:59 PM
Doh! bbc iplayer only got the latest series on....
Netflix have the first two, if you have access to that.
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 January, 2018, 02:43:45 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 20 January, 2018, 12:51:59 PM
Doh! bbc iplayer only got the latest series on....
Netflix have the first two, if you have access to that.
Cheersma dear!
will dig it up ;)
This is one of those series I will have to physically own. Can't rely on streaming services for something this good.
:lol:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-42887063 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-42887063)
Quote from: Dandontdare on 31 January, 2018, 04:02:42 PM
:lol:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-42887063 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-42887063)
They'd still be worth a fair piece on ebay I bet.
Well, I'm late to the party as usual, not really having given much thought to a sitcom about two men walking round fields. But I've just watched the whole thing in the space of a week, and feck me, what a joy to behold this show is. I was kind of mentally labelling it as 'not really laugh-out-loud funny' till I found myself laughing out loud numerous times. And also finding tears streaming down my face with some of the more emotionally moving sections.
You'd be hard pressed to get a better final episode too - everyone gets a nice ending without any kind of oversentimentality, and the very last scene is somehow very ironic and very uplifting at the same time. (And the revelation of the theme song's last verse - I hadn't noticed that the singer had been summarising the story all along. Wonderful.)
Dang it. I saw this thread highlighted and thought someone was posting about a new series. Way to get my hopes up and then dash them to nought all in the same half a minute, Internet! >:(
Although, it does remind me to give it a re-watch soon - so at least there's that...
Sorry. On the other hand, I really, really don't think there should be another series. That way Life on the Road, the US Office, and all the Friday Rogue stories after The War Machine lie.
You're absolutely right, of course. If there was another series, though, or a special, I'd simply have to watch it...
I've got this thread to thank for switching me onto this, so thank you all! Have been a bit evangelical about it since, I rewatch is in order, and I'll add the box set to my 'wish list' just in case it disappears from streaming.