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Finally completed the 8th and final episode of "Fool me Once" with the anticipated (after reviews on here) highly underwhelming conclusion. Just in time to return for the next (Wed over here) very watchable episode of Criminal Record that seems to be a very good series to follow. Our Friday local CBC Radio movie/TV show reviewer referenced this series as an example of how to do a detective show properly, compared to the latest, rather plodding, Jodie Foster starring True Detective series set in the far North, that she was actually reporting on.
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Just had a quick look for criminal record
It's either the most woke tv ever made or fantastic tv depending on the review
Something for everyone then
 
Paris sights the stupid way - Notre Dame -closed for renovation from the fire and from what we saw no way will Macron’s promise of it being reopened this year be kept. To be fair we did know it was closed to visitors. The Louvre - closed, plus unlike any of the other of the worlds great public galleries you have to book to gain entry. Sacre Couer - got there saw the views which is the best bit but weren’t impressed by the building itself and didn’t bother to go in. Pompidou Centre - closed due to strike.

All by foot, over 20km in the day. We know Paris well now.

Rewarded with mussels, steak and prawns plus a mountain of chocolate mousse hurled onto your plate with a ladle from a massive pot of the stuff at the outstanding Provençal bistrot Chez Janou in the Marais area. Very highly recommended, can’t book online need to phone or visit and you have to book - packed out. Great food, great staff, great atmosphere. About €60 a head including house wine, great value too. Also 80 different types of pastis if you can tolerate it - not for me after overindulgence as a youngster. Same with tequila.

Taking the metro today.
 
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sb_73 said:
Paris sights the stupid way - Notre Dame -closed for renovation from the fire and from what we saw no way will Macron’s promise of it being reopened this year be kept. To be fair we did know it was closed to visitors. The Louvre - closed, plus unlike any of the other of the worlds great public galleries you have to book to gain entry. Sacre Couer - got there saw the views which is the best bit but weren’t impressed by the building itself and didn’t bother to go in. Pompidou Centre - closed due to strike.

All by foot, over 20km in the day. We know Paris well now.

Rewarded with mussels, steak and prawns plus a mountain of chocolate mousse hurled onto your plate with a ladle from a massive pot of the stuff at the outstanding Provençal bistrot Chez Janou in the Marais area. Very highly recommended, can’t book online need to phone or visit and you have to book - packed out. Great food, great staff, great atmosphere. About €60 a head including house wine, great value too. Also 80 different types of pastis if you can tolerate it - not for me after overindulgence as a youngster. Same with tequila.

Taking the metro today.
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Ooh la la <laugh>
 
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Kilburn said:
Finally completed the 8th and final episode of "Fool me Once" with the anticipated (after reviews on here) highly underwhelming conclusion. Just in time to return for the next (Wed over here) very watchable episode of Criminal Record that seems to be a very good series to follow. Our Friday local CBC Radio movie/TV show reviewer referenced this series as an example of how to do a detective show properly, compared to the latest, rather plodding, Jodie Foster starring True Detective series set in the far North, that she was actually reporting on.
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Yeah, didn’t want to spoil the “Fool Me Once” anticlimax for you. Was all a bit crap after all that, wasn’t it? I like the actor that played the copper, though… likeable character actor.
 
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I think that there maybe too many forums to watch this sort of thing, all desperate to get a new mini series out and hope to sell across the pond, therefore watering down talented writers, directors and actors, they are all becoming much or a muchness, a little predictable and a bit ****
 
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Preview. Paris Olympics.

I know the London version looked like it was a bit of a shambles until it actually happened, but I get the sense that the Parisians are not bothered at all with their effort. There is zero branding/publicity around the city except for a bit on the town hall. Every major station and many of the big sights are in the midst of huge renovations, but none of them badged as linked to the Olympics and frankly most look like they won’t be finished for years, let alone by July. Plus, of course, the city is filthy as it always has been, and French bureaucracy achieving new levels of fussiness (2 empty pockets security scans to climb up the Eiffel Tower, book a ticket in advance to go to a gallery but still wait outside for 30 minutes to get in due to designed in bottle neck etc). I think this Olympics will be a pretty low key event with lots of complaints, like there were over the Champions League final and bits of the rugby World Cup.

I do like Paris, especially the Marais district and its superb eating/drinking opportunities. But with every new French city I visit, Paris drops one down the favourites list, currently topped by Bordeaux.
 
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Yeah, didn’t want to spoil the “Fool Me Once” anticlimax for you. Was all a bit crap after all that, wasn’t it? I like the actor that played the copper, though… likeable character actor.
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Yes, not the best, some people might say, "that's 8 hours of my life that I'll never get back", but hell, we're retired! Now we are enjoying "Criminal Record".
 
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Just had a quick look for criminal record
It's either the most woke tv ever made or fantastic tv depending on the review
Something for everyone then
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Well, we bare both really enjoying this series, recommended by the reviewer of the latest "True Detective" series with Jodie Foster (the Brits know how to do this stuff better). As for "Woke TV", at 70 I'm told that I have a tendency to sometimes doze off during shows, so "woke" would be good for her.
 
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Caught the latest episode of "True Detective" with Jodie Foster, in the "land of the midnight sun", or not Dec 21st (would drive me nuts mentally), again rather mundane and plodding.
 
Saw Jonathan Pie at Hammersmith this evening. Audience full of slightly effeminate, middle-aged, comfortably well-off leftie types whooping & clapping at every hate-filled rant at the Tories, the Royal Family and Trump. It was like being surrounded by hundreds of Stroller clones.

Pie was mildly amusing, occasionally funny, but the mob lapped it up like he was the funniest man on the planet. He isn’t.
 
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Saw Jonathan Pie at Hammersmith this evening. Audience full of slightly effeminate, middle-aged, comfortably well-off leftie types whooping & clapping at every hate-filled rant at the Tories, the Royal Family and Trump. It was like being surrounded by hundreds of Stroller clones.

Pie was mildly amusing, occasionally funny, but the mob lapped it up like he was the funniest man on the planet. He isn’t.
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Ooh, you bitch!

What on earth made you go? You should have been at a Kemi Badenoch rally.
 
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Stroller said:
Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets are doing a UK tour this Summer. I've just got tickets for the Albert Hall gig and can't wait.

Glasgow on 21st June, @Steelmonkey . It's the closest you're going to get to actually seeing the Floyd.
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is it closer than seeing roger waters live
mrs kiwi loves the floyd so was dragged up to auckland to see him
 
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