Death to 2020: Netflix announces new Wipe-style show - Page 2

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VMPhil 28 December 2020 10:07pm

Brekkie posted:

Antiviral Wipe getting a repeat now on BBC2 which is probably a better use of your time.

I see Charlie’s recorded a new intro to the repeat.

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Jeffmister 29 December 2020 12:30am

He also did a new closer as well

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Richard 29 December 2020 6:50pm

gottago posted:

I'm trying to watch this now and it's awful. Weirdly it feels like all the elements are there but something is so off. It might be as simple as the voiceover not being right for the script, if it was Charlie doing it in the same style as Screenwipe that might have helped.

It reminds me of A Touch of Cloth which I loathed and was packed with lame jokes but there were a lot of fans of it and there seems to be a lot of love for this online outside of the professional reviews.

I couldn’t disagree more. I really like Screenwipe and quite like Black Mirror (some of them are excellent, some I’m not that fussed about) but I though this Netflix show was excellent. I particularly like Samuel L Jackson and Lisa Kudrow, but Hugh Grant’s David Starkey-esque performance was superb.

Much of it was predictable but I didn’t see that as a problem. I didn’t find Tracey Ullman’s Queen that funny, but overall I liked it.

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Charlie Wells Moderator 29 December 2020 9:45pm

Richard posted:

gottago posted:

I'm trying to watch this now and it's awful. Weirdly it feels like all the elements are there but something is so off. It might be as simple as the voiceover not being right for the script, if it was Charlie doing it in the same style as Screenwipe that might have helped.

It reminds me of A Touch of Cloth which I loathed and was packed with lame jokes but there were a lot of fans of it and there seems to be a lot of love for this online outside of the professional reviews.

I couldn’t disagree more. I really like Screenwipe and quite like Black Mirror (some of them are excellent, some I’m not that fussed about) but I though this Netflix show was excellent. I particularly like Samuel L Jackson and Lisa Kudrow, but Hugh Grant’s David Starkey-esque performance was superb.

Much of it was predictable but I didn’t see that as a problem. I didn’t find Tracey Ullman’s Queen that funny, but overall I liked it.

I think if you're expecting it to be the same as Screenwipe then you may be disappointed. However watching it last night the wife found it funny, and overall I enjoyed it.