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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jun 12, 2023 15:57:53 GMT
I think my favourite gentle tv show is The Detectorists. We've just finished watching all three seasons. An absolute delight of a show. I remember seeing people talking about it, but no one (at least that I read) mentioned the premise. It was always more along the lines of "Oh I like The Detectorists" and then a reply of "Oh me too!". I suppose the good thing about streaming is you can discover these gems at any time. I'm not even sure why we started watching it - I suppose I'd seen the title enough times that I was curious - but I had no idea it would be as sweet and funny as it was.
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Post by tory on Jun 13, 2023 10:59:55 GMT
The Detectorists is essentially Last of the Summer Wine revamped.
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Post by rayge on Jun 13, 2023 12:38:05 GMT
The Detectorists is essentially Last of the Summer Wine revamped. I know what you mean, but I think the differences are stronger than the similarities. The protagonists of TD have wives and/or families, and each series has an overall story arc, while every episode of LotSW was essentially self-contained; there was also very little physical comedy in TD and always a set piece usually involving Compo, in LotSW, no catch-phrases at all in the former and a mass of them - virtually ever character had one, or a comic tic, that was involved in every episode. And while they could both be said to be essentially character comedies, the characters are essentially caricatures in LotSW, much more nuanced in TD. This all sounds as if I'm dissing LotSW, but I'm really not. Sure, it outstayed its welcome - at nearly 300 episodes over 37 years, how could it not? - but some of the early ( 70s, early 80s) episodes were brilliant. Roy Clarke is extraordinarily prolific (I'm a particulr fan of his 1970s series Rosie, about a Yorkshire cop), and was still pumping out sitcoms in his 90th year.
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