http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Midsomer Murders - professional cycling en Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:27:38 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=3#post-383245 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:27:16 +0000 gembo 383245@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Rosie, no spoilers but your first guess is certainly one of the permutations. THe others being Michael on his own and Brigham on his own [Brigham also builds the off ramp of an Evil Kneival stunt jump or maybe a skateboard ramp. Anyway Michael stops him before he tries his stunt. </p> <p>I haven’t seen the remake or maybe watched a bit of it but II do love the original Whisky Galore with a young Ronald Corbett. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=3#post-383244 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:10:48 +0000 Rosie 383244@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also in the remake of Whisky Galore bicycles figure quite often - naturally in the 1940s in the islands - but they are also used to good effect to thwart pursuing authorities. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=3#post-383243 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:09:38 +0000 Rosie 383243@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo - aah I've only seen the first 3 episodes of this. I shall try and guess the riders of the tandem (in order of likelihood).</p> <p>Michael and Kacey<br /> Michael and Roy<br /> Michael and Bev<br /> Michael and Gordon, the greasy ponytailed manager<br /> Bev and Clive </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=3#post-383210 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:52:56 +0000 gembo 383210@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tandem features in episodes 4,5 and 6 of Small Prophets. The new Mackenzie Crook Sitcom on the iPlayer </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=3#post-381919 Sat, 08 Nov 2025 22:57:18 +0000 Rosie 381919@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Now have watched the first 2 episodes of Down the Cemetery Road which is shaping up very well. A lot of cycling, though of course it is Oxford - also at night Ruth Wilson is cycling without lights. Emma Thompson looks amazing with spiky grey hair and a leather coat. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=3#post-381827 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:52:46 +0000 Rosie 381827@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo I took out a subscription to watch the Emma Thomson/Ruth Wilson thing, Down the Cemetery Road, also the latest Slow Horses. Short cycling bit when the violent coke-head Shirley is tailing Roddy Ho and his girlfriend - she knocks a guy off his bicycle, steals the bicycle and goes at a great clip - but it's not clear whether she does catch up with the awful Roddy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-381810 Sun, 02 Nov 2025 22:21:34 +0000 gembo 381810@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Another Mick Heron show on Apple with Emma Thomson as a private investigator. Teams up with Ruth Wilson who cycles round Oxford in first two episodes to good effect. No helmet. Nice bike garage in her drive. Think it might then shift to Bristol as I think filmed mainly there. But on Apple TV so no viewers. [as above]update Oxford looking hillier than usual as filmed in Bristol but pretending it is in Oxford. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-377200 Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:27:27 +0000 gembo 377200@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The latest series of Showtrial on the iplayer has a climate protestor knocked off his bike and killed by an off duty police officer. THere will be twists. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-377084 Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:27:58 +0000 Rosie 377084@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Gembo - thanks. I'm not adding to Slow Horses, but introducing Masters of the Air, also on Apple TV. I've only seen 2 episodes so far. It's set in 1943 with an American bomber force based in East Anglia. So there are masses of shots of flying fortresses in close formation among the clouds, and those were the state of the art machines of their day.</p> <p>Anyway, the Major turns up with some bicycles in his jeep and says that's how they get round the airfield, because it's so big. Even the Commanding Officer cycles to his HQ. The ground crew mechanic uses a bicycle with a trailer to carry his gear. And they have bicycle races through the mess hall, with plenty of pile ups. </p> <p>It's on the same lines as Band of Brothers, and pretty good, but not as engaging as BoB. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-377079 Sun, 27 Oct 2024 13:20:21 +0000 gembo 377079@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Rosie I just used Google as you were wanting to add to Min cycling in Slow Horses. How’d that work out for him? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-373776 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 23:31:09 +0000 the canuck 373776@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hush with the season 2 spoilers, I'm still in awe of Season 1's Desk 2's skirt, which really should have had it's own credits.</p> <p>But now that I know there are books... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-373775 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 22:48:20 +0000 Rosie 373775@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>More cycle chases. In the film Deep Water. Ben Affleck gets about on a mountain bike and chases a chap in a car through forest trails. The car is an ordinary car, not a four-wheel drive, so has a lot of trouble on the rough tracks, while Ben Affleck can take all sorts of short cuts on his bike straight through the trees and scrub and over rough terrain.</p> <p>Also guy in car uses his mobile phone while driving. </p> <p>SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!</p> <p>Great moral this - though Ben Affleck plays a sadistic psychopath, it's the mobile-phone using driver who cops it. Also he tries to run down Ben Affleck. A well-deserved end. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-373774 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 22:42:27 +0000 Rosie 373774@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Re Slow Horses - the cycling Agent Min is having an affair with the drop-dead gorgeous Louisa.</p> <p>Later she gets off with a cycling financier - though he rather goes off her when she destroys a car with a crowbar.</p> <p>A good moral though to straight chaps - cycle in London and you'll pull a drop-dead gorgeous MI5 agent. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-373340 Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:13:01 +0000 gembo 373340@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Rosie I have seen it and read the books. No one else has Apple?</p> <p>Took Mrs Garto to Spa Hotel in Blythswood Sq for our wedding anniversary. The spa is deep underground. Good spec, funny wee cubbie hole you swim into and is all twinkly stars and powerful water spouts. Also a trepidation which is a cold room with heated loungers, surprisingly good. A steam room, a salt room (joke) and a room with a wee lump of snow. As well as pool and two saunas. I said to anyone who would listen This is very like Murder At the end of the world. Which is like a knives out thing with underground hotel in Iceland. Clever twist but too many episodes. No one had seen it.</p> <p>Slow Horses doesn’t have enough episodes. </p> <p>We used to have a Min here in the early days of fun and frolics. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-373335 Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:07:01 +0000 Rosie 373335@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I took a temporary sub with Apple so as to watch it. </p> <p>The cast is great, the characters vivid, and the dialogue written in that rather baroque way as in Succession - that is with a kind of poetry of insult. </p> <p>Samuel West plays the horrible home secretary. Samuel West on Twitter is a lovely bloke who tweets about bird-watching (ha ha). </p> <p>I won't give spoilers about what happens to an agent who chases Russian baddies on a bicycle. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-373333 Sun, 11 Feb 2024 19:32:45 +0000 gembo 373333@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Such a shame this show is on Apple as hardly anyone has seen it and is best thing on telly. Gary Oldman is great and rest of the cast also fab. I know the plots from the novels but that is ok. The Boris Johnson character that Mick Heron warned about actually came true. Frightening. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-373332 Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:22:43 +0000 Rosie 373332@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Urban car chases are favourite scenes in movies/the telly, with much stunt driving, squealing turns and knocking over fruit vendors’ stalls. </p> <p>I have always wanted to see a car chasing a bicycle through city streets – the cycle being able to dive down alleys, being carried up steps, through supermarkets etc.</p> <p>I’ve been watching Slow Horses and Series 2, Episode 2.<br /> The Russian baddies get into a black cab (London of course). Min, one of the agents, gets on his bicycle and chases them across the city, darting through alleys, bollarded routes, up steps, through a graveyard over a pavement between annoyed pedestrians. Also quite a bit on London’s dedicated cycle lanes. </p> <p>As the Russians baddies are very ruthless, this may not end well for Agent Min. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-364351 Sat, 22 Oct 2022 22:55:13 +0000 chdot 364351@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah yes, JB as role model -</p> <p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52446979833_a433f664a6_c.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-364350 Sat, 22 Oct 2022 21:37:13 +0000 Rosie 364350@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am watching No Time to Die. 20 minutes in.</p> <p>1. There are terrible setts in this Italian town. No wonder nobody is cycling. Mind you, J Bond is going up steps on a motorbike so presumably could manage them.<br /> 2. J Bond is answering a mobile phone while driving very fast. It's not even his mobile phone. </p> <p>He is not a good role model for responsible travel. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-358779 Mon, 28 Feb 2022 21:59:04 +0000 Rosie 358779@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I saw a picture of President Zelenskyy on a bicycle. They're actually from the opening sequence of the satirical comedy, Servant of the People, which launched his political career. It's on Youtube with English subtitles. Pres Z appears in the opening sequence on a bicycle - a history teacher from a modest background who accidentally finds himself President of Ukraine, and how the political class try to manipulate him. It is clever and funny satire on the the operations of democratic politics and the power of social media with some good gags so you can enjoy it without knowing anything of Ukrainian politics. </p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ-3YwVQV0M" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ-3YwVQV0M</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-357669 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 01:25:11 +0000 Yodhrin 357669@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo The topical aspect is largely the problem. The novel's version of Lisa and Lou are much closer to peers, Lisa having had some successes already in her years-long career trying to make it in an LA that is presented as just generally twisted and cynical. He's a minor character who she sleeps with off her own initiative and then discards when he won't give her an Assistant Director job she wants, then he gets unceremoniously killed by Boro's minions at Lisa's behest - Boro doesn't have any secret agenda in the book either. Lisa embraces the occult horror goings on because she's like everyone else in the novel's LA; messed up and out for themselves.</p> <p>The show's creators decided that wasn't quite kosher in Current Year, so Lisa is turned into a wide-eyed newbie and Lou into a power-abusing predator so that her actions can be presented as straightforward - and so at least somewhat justified - revenge. For my money it just takes a really interesting if someone cynical story and makes it pretty generic fare for modern television, postmodern critiques of power imbalance are dime-a-dozen these days. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-357664 Tue, 21 Dec 2021 21:47:14 +0000 Rosie 357664@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A Street Cat Named Bob - available on Youtube for free with Indonesian subtitles.</p> <p>The recovering junkie sells the Big Issue and the Big Issue people get him a bike for £10. This he pedals around London with Bob the ginger cat in the basket. </p> <p>It's a sweet, feelgood film. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-355812 Sun, 17 Oct 2021 19:28:20 +0000 gembo 355812@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@yodhrin, the female lead is hardly a good person? If the eye ball thing is not fake? I am only at the dog food episode, I have to watch it in small doses when Mrs Garto is in the bath.</p> <p>Adding the Weinstein bit is at least topical.?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-355810 Sun, 17 Oct 2021 18:47:02 +0000 Yodhrin 355810@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Eh, the main problem with Cherry is they made it a grrl-power revenge fantasy, where in the novel everyone is a petty despicable monster even the protagonist. Can't have that these days though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-355809 Sun, 17 Oct 2021 18:37:13 +0000 gembo 355809@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@rosie, yes I think great but Mrs Garto not a fan. See also Brand New Cherry Flavor on Netflix though that does involve the female lead puking up white kittens to pay Christine keener for a curse she has put on the Harvey Weinstein character so I accept that one is not for everyone. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-355808 Sun, 17 Oct 2021 18:34:32 +0000 Rosie 355808@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The violence is against most people so far. The political atmosphere, of gross antisemitism, is horrific. The posh women are on drugs and the poor women are on the game. </p> <p>It's not good propaganda for marriage. No spouses seem to even like each other. </p> <p>I like the women's fashions of that time - the tight, short jackets and jabots, which are very becoming. Women had dropped the billowy Victorianism and were dressing more like men.</p> <p>Also the early technology, of novelty telephones and primitive finger-printing. Excellent acting and it looks great. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-355804 Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:18:33 +0000 gembo 355804@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had high hopes for Paris 1900 but has been vetoed on the usual grounds of Violenece Against Women quite Ripper Streetish?</p> <p>Midnight Diner has a great woman character who cycles up a very steep Tokyo hill and gets a chapeau from three wee boys. She is on a push bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-355803 Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:12:48 +0000 Rosie 355803@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Next installment of bicycles in popular culture.</p> <p>Paris Police, 1900 – which is very good, about Paris at the time of the Dreyfus case.</p> <p>Episode 3<br /> 36.59<br /> The elderly Police Chief wearing a tie, shirt and waistcoat is in his elegant drawing room fitting a chain and bracket onto a bicycle. He is setting up a special unit of police in Paris to patrol on bicyclettes. Bicycles are fast, cheap and friendly, and citizens won’t be scared of police riding them. (When I was in Paris I saw police belting around on roller skates). </p> <p>43:45 The woman lawyer (who can’t practise, being a woman) is charging round Paris on a bicycle, the police inspector after her. The streets are cobbled and covered with horse dung so hazardous and unpleasant. The lawyer very nippy, inspector falls off. The same problem of carting your bicycles up tenement stairs in Paris 1900 as in Edinburgh 2021. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-350653 Thu, 13 May 2021 08:10:04 +0000 wingpig 350653@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In one of the early episodes of Borgen there was a cyclist in the background wearing a full costume and helmet but they looked slightly as if they were perhaps a courier or pretending to be one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19360&page=2#post-350650 Wed, 12 May 2021 23:14:32 +0000 Wout Van Aerthur Seat 350650@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I also thought it notable in the Killing how nobody bothers locking their bikes up. One can only dream of such a society. </p>