TV shows

[tigertim]

Trying “The English game” about soccer in England circa 1870s. Ep 1 was ok but ep 2 was more about workers condition/pay where they seem to focus on a manufactured drama than the game.

 

[Tigers of Old]

I'm currently watching The Test on Amazon Prime.
I've fallen out of love with cricket in the past couple of years but am really enjoying this doco series.
Great insight behind the scenes into the Australian Cricket team post the ball tampering episode.

Would love a Richmond version much like Konrad's book where they follow the team for the season.

 

[eddazol]

Second season just landed. About to start watching.

The series was great - well worth a a watch

 

[Baloo]

The Test is great. I is in Hospital a couple of weeks ago and managed to binge watch it in one sitting. Great series and a lot more admiration for Langer,

 

[tommystigers]

The series was great - well worth a a watch

Binged it over the weekend. Can really relate to the season ticket holders.

 

[eddazol]

Binged it over the weekend. Can really relate to the season ticket holders.

good work - it is good to see the sunderland fans when they got to away games

 

[tigertim]

I was surprised how empty the stands were for Championship games. I guess as they were Sunderland games and they weren’t doing too well doesn’t help.

 

[AngryAnt]

Second season just landed. About to start watching.

Just watched season 2! Still good, different set of characters, still heartbreaking but in a different way...

 

[AngryAnt]

Just watched Devs - very good up to date - Nick Offerman as the obsessed tech entrepreneur, Sonoya Mizuna as the young developer trying to solve the mystery of ... well I won't tell you. It's by Alex Garland who did Ex Machina and Annihilation - and this has similar themes of tech/AI/quantum computing/philosophy/end of the world-iness. Will the secret Devs team make something that will change the world and maybe even causality?

Creepy head of security guy is awesome, in a Mike from Breaking Bad kind of way except more evil.

Amazing sets and locations in Silicon Valley/San Fran.



Some of the acting is a bit flat (particularly Mizuno) and it's a bit slow, but I'm loving it.

 

[AngryAnt]

Great episode of Better Call Saul this week - tense, tight and scary. This one was directed by Vince Gilligan, the creative force behind the show and of course Breaking Bad, the first episode he's directed this season.

 

[tigertim]

So I binged 2 seasons of Sunderland til I die, excellent viewing.

 

[Harry]

Got through all 3 seasons of Ozark since the lockdown. Seasons 2 and 3 were a bit disappointing tbh.

 

[scottyturnerscurse]

So I binged 2 seasons of Sunderland til I die, excellent viewing.

I have no interest in the sport but this is one of the best sport doco series of all time.

 

[jb03]

I thought it was very good but the one weakness was not enough of the inside the dressing room stuff which is what people really enjoy an insight into. I wonder if the players were onboard with the project.

The Test documentary is a better show I think, it gives a really good feel of what it is actually like to be in the Australian dressing room.

The first manager allowed it, but when he was let go the second manager banned the cameras from inside the dressing room.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Agree that the first two episodes were excellent.
Hard to compare eras but if I was picking teams in the playground, Jordan would be first pick every lunchtime.

 

[tigertim]

The first two episodes of The Last Dance dropped on Netflix this evening.

Just warming up but it is absolutely compelling viewing. Will be one of the great sports documentaries.

Not sure age has been all that kind to the Goat though, never seen eyeballs that colour. Turns out massive cigars aren't good for your health.

Yeah, his eyes look sore but you can see whatever it it is forming back when he was younger.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Re his eyes it's just melanin.

 

[spook]

Agree that the first two episodes were excellent.
Hard to compare eras but if I was picking teams in the playground, Jordan would be first pick every lunchtime.

Without a shadow of a doubt. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

Two eps into Sunderland and hooked. Football and its import to struggletowns - universal.

 

[jb03]

Without a shadow of a doubt. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

Two eps into Sunderland and hooked. Football and its import to struggletowns - universal.

I've watched all of STID and the thing that struck me is how few hangers-on there are. That is, the multitude of people in the AFL in tracksuits holding iPads and clipboards but no one really knows what they do. Training sessions look like the players and a couple of coaches and no one else.

 

[Ridley]

From my experience in pro soccer and footy, you can't really compare them.

Firstly there's a lot less players in a soccer squad and they don't really have the development aspect that AFL teams do.

Secondly, due to the heavy schedules soccer really doesn't train more than having a kick around. Every session is more or less what we would call a Captain's run.

Lastly, the intensity of coaching is much less in soccer. It's more about individual brilliance, almost an individual game within a team. I'm definitely biased because I don't like soccer and still don't fully understand it, but in my experience AFL clubs do more coaching in a week than pro soccer does in a season.

From my limited perspective that seems a pretty fair observation. It would also explain why in AFL the position is called a "coach" and in soccer it's called a "manager".