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Midsomer Murders - professional cycling
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Posted 4 years ago #
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Hey, you said the theme tune gets your wick, but you're up to date with the latest installments.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Yes Rosie as I live with an archer’s fan. We even have an archer;s calendar for chrissakes
Posted 4 years ago # -
Further observations of the Bicycle in Popular Culture.
At the moment I'm watching Motherland and The Killing. Both good in their different ways.
Motherland - the wanker Kevin (stay-home dad) shows his complete wankerness by turning up to the school gate on the bicycle whereas the mothers all drive. Much of the comedy is about the school run. In British programmes cycling is seen as eccentricity and a bit comic- like Brian in New Tricks. Donning a cycle helmet before pedalling off is meant to be a funny quirk.
The Killing - Danish - though as police drama people belt around in cars some of the characters cycle without this being a demonstration of their eccentricity - it's their way of getting about.
Also in The Killing - Sarah Lund wears a white jersey which stays immaculate though she does poke about in dirty, bloodstained cellars.
Posted 3 years ago # -
It's funny how many bikes are back ground dressing even in very serious characters. I'm sure I've seen a bike in Gibbs' house in NCIS for example. Though of course you'd never see them riding it.
Posted 3 years ago # -
@ Rosie
Bit harsh on Kev
In the funnier show Starstruck which has 5 good episodes and one filler. The filler episode 5 the hero cycles around delivering her pals flowers on a bicycle. Not sure if supposed to be eccentric or not. I do recommend Starstruck on the iplayer
Posted 3 years ago # -
I also thought it notable in the Killing how nobody bothers locking their bikes up. One can only dream of such a society.
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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.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Next installment of bicycles in popular culture.
Paris Police, 1900 – which is very good, about Paris at the time of the Dreyfus case.
Episode 3
36.59
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).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.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I had high hopes for Paris 1900 but has been vetoed on the usual grounds of Violenece Against Women quite Ripper Streetish?
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.
Posted 3 years ago # -
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.
It's not good propaganda for marriage. No spouses seem to even like each other.
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.
Also the early technology, of novelty telephones and primitive finger-printing. Excellent acting and it looks great.
Posted 3 years ago # -
@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.
Posted 3 years ago # -
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.
Posted 3 years ago # -
@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.
Adding the Weinstein bit is at least topical.??
Posted 3 years ago # -
A Street Cat Named Bob - available on Youtube for free with Indonesian subtitles.
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.
It's a sweet, feelgood film.
Posted 2 years ago # -
@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.
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.
Posted 2 years ago # -
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.
Posted 2 years ago # -
I am watching No Time to Die. 20 minutes in.
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.
2. J Bond is answering a mobile phone while driving very fast. It's not even his mobile phone.He is not a good role model for responsible travel.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Ah yes, JB as role model -
Posted 2 years ago # -
Urban car chases are favourite scenes in movies/the telly, with much stunt driving, squealing turns and knocking over fruit vendors’ stalls.
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.
I’ve been watching Slow Horses and Series 2, Episode 2.
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.As the Russians baddies are very ruthless, this may not end well for Agent Min.
Posted 9 months ago # -
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.
Posted 9 months ago # -
I took a temporary sub with Apple so as to watch it.
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.
Samuel West plays the horrible home secretary. Samuel West on Twitter is a lovely bloke who tweets about bird-watching (ha ha).
I won't give spoilers about what happens to an agent who chases Russian baddies on a bicycle.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Rosie I have seen it and read the books. No one else has Apple?
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.
Slow Horses doesn’t have enough episodes.
We used to have a Min here in the early days of fun and frolics.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Re Slow Horses - the cycling Agent Min is having an affair with the drop-dead gorgeous Louisa.
Later she gets off with a cycling financier - though he rather goes off her when she destroys a car with a crowbar.
A good moral though to straight chaps - cycle in London and you'll pull a drop-dead gorgeous MI5 agent.
Posted 8 months ago # -
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.
Also guy in car uses his mobile phone while driving.
SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!
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.
Posted 8 months ago # -
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.
But now that I know there are books...
Posted 8 months ago # -
@Rosie I just used Google as you were wanting to add to Min cycling in Slow Horses. How’d that work out for him?
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
@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.
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.
It's on the same lines as Band of Brothers, and pretty good, but not as engaging as BoB.
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
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.
Posted 2 weeks ago #
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