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idk if you're alive utopia fandom but i found this pic that i made back in fucking 2015😭
#utopia is the most brilliant and most underrated show of all time you can't change my mind#i watched utopia for 4 fucking times dear god#and i'll rewatch it😡again😡more than 7 years later#wilson wilson#nah billion years passed and i still love my pirate man#aye aye captain#utopia 2013#utopia bbc#utopia c4#utopia show#utopia#utopia uk#utopia tv#utopia series#yes i'll try all of these hasthags
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Utopia, Season 2 Episode 3
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#being human#being human uk#being human bbc#in the flesh#in the flesh bbc#utopia#misfits#misfits uk#utopia uk
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Some Utopia artworks
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Just a heads up to anyone thinking of getting prime video to watch THE HOUR, UTOPIA or MODERN LOVE.....be careful. These shows actually belong to subsidiaries: you don't get them free with your subscription 😡 you have to pay EXTRA to get them or subscribe to mgm or paramount or something 🤷♀️. 🖕🖕🖕that. Talk about a damn rip-off.
As GREAT as each of these shows are, I'm not paying a monthly subscription to NOT be able to access them. 🖕🖕🖕prime AND amazon.
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Song Review: James Taylor - “Come on Brother” (BBC “In Concert,” Nov. 13, 1971)
Sporting a sparkly, blue jacket; rocking an electric axe; and singing call-and-response style with Carole King and Abigale Haness, James Taylor mixed the funk with the folk on the Nov. 13, 1971, BBC “In Concert” program.
Just re-released on restored footage from the vault, it’s blue-eyed soul - with drugs.
King and Haness: Who is a walking man?
JT: I am
K&H: What does a walking man do?
JT: He walks
It’s mostly a vamp; a plea to get on up and help me to find this groove, driven by Ralph Schuckett and Danny Kortchmar, on keys and guitar, respectively, and the in-pocket rhythm section of Russ Kunkel and Leland Sklar.
This is the kind of self-deprecating humor that’s served Taylor well on stage for more than 50 years, coupled with the kind of music he only rarely employs. Too bad, ’cause that walking man can strut - albeit a bit awkwardly.
Grade card: James Taylor - “Come on Brother” (BBC “In Concert,” 11/13/71) - A
10/27/22
#Youtube#james taylor#carole king#abigale haness#ralph schuckett#todd rundgren’s utopia#danny kortchmar#russ kunkel#leland sklar#bbc in concert
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Listen to the sixth episode of ’60 Minutes or less’, the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast – featuring Steve Davis of The Utopia Strong!
Words: Andy Hughes
Finally – a world class athlete on ’60 Minutes or less’, the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast! For our sixth episode, we welcome royalty – the only guest thus far with an OBE, former world number one in snooker, Steve Davis.
Amassing 71 major titles over his playing career, Davis remains one of the world’s best-known snooker players. Not content with such a…
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#60 Minutes or less#Birthday cake for breakfast#International Treasure#Kavus Torabi#Lamp Of Glory#Marc Riley#Michael York#Rocket Recordings#Steve Davis#The BBC Sessions#The Tower Is Locked#The Utopia Strong#Weather All
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@1995lahaine tagged me to post 8 shows to get to know me 🤔 I'm only going to do shows that have ended which I think are worth revisiting. tagging @akajustmerry @anthonysperkins @summoneryuna @sonyarebecchi @toraks @a24thegreenknight @holly-mckenzie
Utopia (2013-2014) created by dennis kelly. beauty is terror we quiver before it etc etc oh this show is so violent and beautiful and so deeply human I explode every time I think about it. you know cristobal tapia de veer from the white lotus soundtrack but that is Nothing compared to the work he did on this.
Bojack Horseman (2014-2020). as someone who loves movies this show is truly the best meta fiction out there about Hollywood that isn't afraid to throw punches. hilarious and brutal. the animation format and animal absurdity allows them to tell real unrestrained narratives that I don't think live action could ever achieve. Raphael bob-waksberg will never get his foot off my neck
The Bisexual (2018) despite the title I genuinely think desiree akhavan made the greatest lesbian story of all time with this. short, sweet, and soul crushing precarious fleabag type miniseries. also she's sooooo hot oh my GOD
Mr. Robot (2015-2019) it's a shame people forgot about this show towards the end and stopped watching because it is truly theeee speculative epic of all time speaking to issues of capitalism and identity and rebellion. between this and the lazarus project it's like a spiritual sequel to Utopia in the way it explores how much of yourself you have to sacrifice to escape from All This. probably got my favourite needle drops of all time.
The Hour (2011-2012) can you believe the bbc cancelled a show about a bbc show trying to be cancelled? between this and the newsreader yeah I'm obsessed with dramas about people who don't get to tell the truth
Les Revenants (2012-2015) are you sure. are you sure you're not a ghost?
Cowboy Bebop (1998) of course.
Westworld (2016-2022) I hate this show so fucking much there's so many things wrong with it that get my blood boiling but it's also one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. the only thing that makes me feel human is the way I'm treated. I choose to see the beauty. motion picture soundtrack. ramin djawadi is everything to me.
these are my mains but I also highly recommend (other than the obvious succ/yj/iwtv/etc) :
WE ARE LADY PARTS
SORT OF
Mythic Quest
Black Sails
The Third Day
The Lazarus Project
The Newsreader
The Great
Glitch 2015
Better Call Saul
Rutherford Falls
Ghosts BBC
Luther
The Thick of It
Brave New World 2020
Moriarty the Patriot
Elementary
Miss Sherlock
Tuca & Bertie
Some Girls 2012
Misfits
Community
Mad Men
True Blood
Lost
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thanks for tagging me @crowleyanthonys!
Rules: List 8 tv shows for your followers to get to know you!
Doctor Who
Good Omens
Black Sails
The Witcher
Shadow and Bone
BBC Merlin
Utopia
Black Books
tagging @saryasy @unusualshrimp @five-potatoes-high @wackylittlegal @deardiary17 @flamesandpages @sherl-grey @nerdie-faerie @babinicz @thorinsbeard
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As a fan of ghosts bbc who has never watched the American version but has heard that’s it’s not nearly as good, here’s my ideal list of characters. Because really, American history is so bonkers, how do you not make it incredibly entertaining? Just the premises of the time era/
Character 1: Native American, 1200’s/BEFORE Christopher Columbus
I don’t know what area of America the reboot takes place, but in my ideal version, it’s in upstate New York for reasons I’ll elaborate on later. Bc of that, the character is form the Iroquois Confederacy- I think maybe part of the Oneida tribe? (Also for reasons I’ll explain later). Either way, they’re not quite like Robin as they’re not the “appear stupid but smart” type of character, a bit more like Humphrey I think.
Character 2: a Viking
I just think it’d be neat. I don’t know nearly as much about the Vikings as other characters, but that way we’d get a bit of variety. Maybe a bit more like Robin, but mainly a side character that appears every once in a while, like how Humphrey does.
Character 3: pilgrim/puritan
Ideally mid-1600s, so before revolutionary war but at height of witch burning frenzy. Could be similar to Mary, but I’m thinking more so in uptight, rule-following in the beginning, but secretly far more adventurous than most (more similar to Fanny maybe).
Character 4: utopia member
I’m not a huge fan of the revolutionary era, I’m afraid, so no revolutionary characters. However, I absolutely adore the antebellum era as a time to study because it was so wild, so a character from that time! We have a relatively normal, nice ghost, except they were part of a utopia cult- bonus points if it’s the Oneida community or the shakers.
Character 5: almost a flapper from the 20’s.
This is our almost-kitty! She’s the younger sister of a flapper, loved music, and had obviously family issues- maybe also communist to deal with Red Scare #1? Would be interesting.
Character 6: man of the house in the 50’s.
This is the alternate version of the Captain. He’s a WW2 vet who came back to the US, died in 53 and is very, very gay. probably a government person who had to go through the lavender scare as well? (The captain’s my favorite I had to make sure they did him respect)
Character 7: Reagan fan
In honor of Julian the Tory, we have a Reaganite as well. NOT like Julian in any other respect simply bc I think that fits better for the next character- mostly a Traditional Family person who appears very kind but can be CRUEL- think your republican aunt. She’s a 45 year old who has some Very Pointed Opinions about trickle-down economics, but still died early into reagan’s reign.
Character 8: stockbroker from 2000’s
This is Julian. He died right before the stock market crash out of humiliation from a sex scandal, of course, while residing in his families’ upstate house. Why, you may ask? Well, because it’s funny.
Anyways, I have no idea if this matches any of the ghosts CBS characters, but I think this would be an ideal American Cast. Feel free to add anything if you disagree/have ideas.
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last time i watched utopia was 8 yrs ago i think but sometimes. sometimes this final scene slips through my mind and i feel weak in my knees and i want to fall on the floor cover my head in hands and start howling like a wounded animal
#ur local nerd became the world's horror not in a fking darth vader style but in a completely horrific real way#wilson wilson save me......... save me people who're becoming horrible under the unavoidable circumstances.......#save me people who has choice yet they choose the worst option.........#save me people who kill their old identity but the new one is terrifying.......... save me wilson wilson awful pirate man#adeel akhtar my dear my beloved adeel akhtar....... u're always will be the n1 to me....... u played this role so brilliantly........#sorry fot bitching but american remake of utopia is embarassing (says the girl who hasn't watched it but istg they killed the vibe)#utopia bbc ure unique and unforgettable and u chaged my lil teenage girl brain at so many levels#sorry for posting bout niche show 1.5 people watched. but my love for this fucked up show is eternal#utopia
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'I'm just a wounded lil baby bird, who surely wouldn't cause any harm. Just a sad vagabond, look at me struggle to open my bag'
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#in bh he plays rook#in utopia hes a sleeper agent#in in the flesh he's a scientist doing fucked up experiments#weird niche character he plays#being human#being human uk#being human bbc#in the flesh#in the flesh bbc#utopia
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I had this draft for the 8 shows to get to know me meme that no one tagged me in, but then @batri-jopa tagged me for this other meme, so I'm doiing them as a mash-up.
10 comfort shows -
- that tell you more than you wanted to know about me. reasons below the cut, but the tl;dr is:
The Terror
Garrow's Law
Ripper Street
The X Files
Utopia
Interview with the Vampire
(BBC) Ghosts
Futurama
Avatar: the Last Airbender
Detectorists
Honourable mentions: Andor (will probably make the list once season 2 is out, but my trust of Disney Star Wars is *so* thin, I can't commit until then, no matter how excellent season 1 is); The Great (it's so good. The script is still one of the most astonishing works of art I have ever encountered. But comfort TV? hell no.); see also, Bojack Horseman (objectively great. Not comfort TV); Grease Monkeys (I've got to get hold of season 2, but I'm really fond of its coarseness, wish-fulfilment and sureallism).
Tagging 10 people if they wanna join in, but others feel free to say I tagged you! @stripedroseandsketchpads, @notfromcold, @notabuddhist, @donnaimmaculata, @erinaceina, @boogerwookiesugarcookie, @elwenyere, @kheldara, @bellaroles, @jimtheviking
List 10 comfort shows and then tag 10 people
The Terror: Like Ripper Street below, I feel this show deep in my bones and think I must be actually insane when I try to explain to people what I like about it (watching it literally made my husband's depression worse so I'm not allowed to talk about it. Jk. Sort of. About the last bit anyway). The sheer ridiculousness of that era of exploration has been a firm fave for years and I love how the show weaves horror and hubris together, how it's not a straightforward 'natives get vengeance on colonisers' story, but the colonisers ruin it for everyone, poison life for Silna, too (all without any threat of sexual violence towards her CAN YOU BELIEVE IT). I love all the attempts to impose 'civilisation' on the life the men try to live as they come to realise how doomed they are, how key the trappings of their life become - objects as tethers and talismans. I love how utterly futile it all is. How much they all care, and the audience cares despite that. Self-destruction and salvation all jumbled up together. Two full crews go into the ice and die. The end. They do everything they can not to die and it happens anyway, it's the ultimate 'the love was there and it didn't change anything'. And no one learns anything. Perfect TV.
Garrow's Law: Sometimes I do want my historical drama to be wish fulfillment actually, and this is the actual og fave. No, most of the cases weren't actually Garrow's, yes, it's a fluffy liberal take on things that played out in a more complex way, but the cast is so good, and Garrow is such a likeable guy, but then you see his flaws emerge in such a gentle way through the four series, and it really does case-of-the-week with characterisation so well, and it's got that amazing British TV character actor cast where there's always someone in the background you know, and the building romance between Garrow and Sarah, and the real repercussions of it for her are handled so sensitively, augh the culmination of the series with their own personal legal cases is so good.
Ripper Street: in my head this show was so much more than the sum of its parts. Season 1 was on the surface a fun BBC historical romp. Season 2 I had to watch through gritted teeth because Susan's situation quicked me out too much, among other reasons. Season 3 leaned into the more sinister side of the protagonist and came through as something weirder and darker, a vein which ran through Seasons 4 and 5, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I live for my alternative reading of the migration stories and nightmarish flipsides of people that we get running through the background of seasons [3/]4/5, but uh. the show's tumblr fandom is not a place for me. Reid is actually monstrous, and I like him despite/because of that. Oh man, I have so many feelings about this show, and I'd love to do a rewatch and blog about all my crazy theories but I'd probably have to go into witness protection afterwards. But rest assured, it isn't a show about the Ripper, and it's all the better for that. It does class and trauma so well, it also captures all the optimistic curiosity and the utter hypocrisy and hubris of the Victorian era so well.
The X Files: I mean, it's a formative influence, innit. Seasons 1 and 3 are the best, a lot of the 'classic' favourites are episodes I actually really disliked, even though the early seasons are the best a lot of my favourite episodes are from later...the beauty of TXF is that there's so much of it you can hold contradictory opinions about what makes it good, though, and my theory is that it's at its best when it's early and still being allowed to take its course, where even the mytharc hasn't tied itself in knots yet so every episode is of a higher standard, and then later, when the actors have wrested control of their characters from CC enough to play them like they want, but the good episodes are really just MotW ones because the mytharc has vanished up it's own fundament and I've lost track of whose turn it is to have a near-death season arc. Not technically the TV series, but still, Fight the Future is just so much of its time, watching it is like having a warm bubble bath in childhood nostalgia. Even the later series have things to recommend them - I always enjoy Doggett much more than I'm expecting to, and it's about bloody time Scully got a decent female friend in the form of Reyes...I haven't watched seasons 10 onwards though, I don't feel I'm missing much. Five fave episodes: 1.13 Beyond the Sea, 3.4 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, 5.4 Detour, 7.17 all things, 6.19 The Unnatural.
Utopia: Tragically incomplete at 2 seasons, but what a pair of seasons they are. Brutal and uncompromising, horrible and compelling, but also frequently hilarious and full of the warmest, most fascinating characters who are all on a journey to Getting Much Worse. It's not something I've been able to watch since the pandemic *weak laugh* but I know when I do go back to it it will remain painfully prescient and uncomfortable. The longing for a 'balancing' and a righting of a historic wrong that drives it, and the desperate failures between people who are really just searching for love and don't know how to give/receive it...ugh so good.
Interview with the Vampire: Just rewatched season 1 and I'm just. No notes, five stars. The way Louis think he's a narrator in control, the way Daniel knows such a thing isn't possible, the way Louis does let himself get drawn on things, the way Armand sees the danger in this but it's not in his control any longer. Memory is a monster. The Odyssey of recollection. Fucking won my heart with those lines alone.
(BBC) Ghosts: Ok, I will say that I think the last season was actually a bit weak. They were in a hurry to finish, and they got away with wringing the feels from the important bits (The Captain's death was perfect and I will say this over and over again), but it felt like it was in a rush to come up with scenarios that would force admissions like The Captain's, whereas the show is at its best meandering around in a buffonish way that suddenly results in a Big Oof moment. Robin's arc in season 4 was a great example of this, as was Mary's. But basically it's still simply perfect comfort TV: silly but not malicious, unfair but kind to its characters. I'm going to miss them all so much, but I'm also going to rewatch so much.
Futurama: bit basic maybe, but I have watched it so often and I can watch any episode (ok, except for Jurassic Bark) again and again and again. I don't think I've binged any TV show so often with so many different people. Not sure how I feel about the immanent revival, but this has always been my favourite Matt Groening product, so fingers crossed.
Avatar: the Last Airbender: without getting into like...fandom discourse, man, this is a really perfect show. No need to say 'ooh it gets good after--!', it's just good from the beginning. A really well fleshed-out world, great characters who grow through the series, enough self awareness that the 'clip-show' episode Ember Island Players actually builds on the characterisation and addresses ambiguities in its own plots. A show that sticks to its principles and doesn't fudge the ending and also consistently looks gorgeous.
Detectorists: I had to put it on because no other show has literally made me fall off my chair laughing. Are the main characters useless? Yes. Is it often perplexing that the women in their lives spend any time with them? Yes. But that's forgiveable, because it's ultimately so kind to its beleagured characters and things work out despite their stupid decisions. Also it just captures rural English eccentricity so well. They're all such freaks (affectionate).
#comfort tv#look of course about half of these are bbc shows#of course that's comfort tv!#*ok not bbc but uk terrestrial tv anyway#memes#tv#ughhh i wanna rewatch so many of these but not until the house move...
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8 TV Shows to Get to Know Me
Not in any order other than when I thought of them. Tagged by @batmantaking-hobbits2gallifrey
1. North and South - BBC Miniseries I kid you not I’m probably approaching the 50th time watching this. My mom and I always watched it if one of us were sick and in the last few years my youngest sister has joined us in the tradition.
2. Star Wars the Clone Wars The show of my childhood. We watched this RELIGIOUSLY and I still hold it as some of my favorite Star Wars content.
3. Phineas and Ferb The other show of my childhood. I think this one shaped my sense of humor. Every joke is just spot on.
4. The Good Place I don’t watch much modern television but this show surprised me. So much heart and so much humor.
5. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood The story of all stories in my heart. Hilariously enough I’ve never actually finished it. Every time I get to the final arc I get impatient and go read the ending cause I can read faster than the show goes 😂.
6. Emma - BBC Miniseries I love Pride and Prejudice but Emma is my Austen story. It’s messy and people are so flawed but without being as strongly satirical as they are in P&P.
7. Star Trek: The Next Generation This is the Star Trek show that makes me most proud of humanity. I deeply, deeply love how determined it is in its dedication toward a better world, a happier ending. It asks questions regarding personhood, communication, racism, and always the answer gives me hope for my species.
8. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine And this is the Star Trek that embraces the messy and dark side of any civilization. Garak and his lies, the tensions between Bajorans and Cardassians, Sisco and his sometimes… unique solutions - everything in a way rejects the utopia of Next Generation and tells a damn good story.
@ihaveonlymydreams I know you don’t watch much tv but I’m sure you have anime. @soldier-poet-king anything I should be watching?
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Song Review: James Taylor - “The Promised Land” (BBC In Concert, Nov. 13, 1971)
It seems weird, but James Taylor’s been singing Chuck Berry nearly as long as he’s been singing.
In 1971, while appearing on the BBC’s “In Concert” program, Taylor and a band that included Carole King, Abigale Haness, Russ Kunkel, Leland Sklar, Danny Kortchmar and Ralph Schuckett among others, closed the gig with “The Promised Land.” King and Haness sing a line, Taylor has a brief mic malfunction and despite the abundance of talent on stage, this cover, just out as part of Taylor’s ongoing series of vault releases, is kind of cheesy.
It doesn’t particularly rock. It doesn’t really roll. It just unfolds uncomfortably.
What he is able to do now with self-deprecation and humility, Taylor hadn’t quite mastered in ’71. This “Promised Land” is, therefore, more curiosity than foundational. It’s something for fans to gawk at once or twice - dig the clothes - but not need to revisit with any regularity.
Taylor streamed the entire program in 2021; you can read Sound Bites’ coverage here.
Grade card: James Taylor - “Promised Land” (BBC In Concert - 11/13/71) - C+
12/26/22
#Youtube#james taylor#chuck berry#the promised land#bbc in concert#carole king#abigale haness#danny kortchmar#leland sklar#russ kunkel#the immediate family#ralph schuckett#todd rundgren’s utopia#jo mama
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