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Early Doors, bargain, buy it.
If you're near a HMV this weekend you'd do worse than to pop in and get the DVD of the second series of Early Doors.
You can get both series for a fiver each, but the second series is by far the better of the two.
Following the lives of a group of drinkers in The Grapes, a pub in a northern town, written by Craig Cash and Phil Mealy, it's a snapshot of pub life, made all the more nostalgic with it being pre-smoking ban.
It's funny and tender, just about every line is a laugh or feed line. Highlights include the scabrous answers to a pub quiz, two stoned bobbies and a chat about the circus.
It'll even make you re-evaluate Robbie Williams Angels. It did me, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
It's Brilliant.
Buy it.
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Fabulous comedy
Heartwarming and very funny. They're also on Amazon at £5 each (or £9.97 for the 2 series box set).
Agreed
....and a great theme tune from Roddy Frame
Now I need to see if I can get it on Region 1 DVD (living in the US at the moment)...unlikely
Crackin'
Forgive the egg-sucking advice, David, you've tried scouring that internet thing for a code which will uncrack your player?
Dur
"Uncrack". Dear me, I need a bank holiday weekend. What's that you say?
But good advice
Many DVD players can be made to play any region by pressing the Set Up button and entering a 4 digit code. try googling the word 'hack' and the make and model of your player.
Crime won't
crack itself
Early Doors
I suppose Strange Days is ok.
If you're...
...going to be facetious you can a expect detention.
Strange Days is most certainly not ok.
Well...
I seem to remember it's better than their first album. I've been spending a bit of time in Starbucks in Muswell Hill recently, and some member of staff has decided to play some Doors greatest hits album on permanent rotation. I was shocked how awful so much of it was: music that takes itself waaaaaay too seriously. I slightly warmed to the concise nature of a song like People Are Strange. But that's it.
I can find a Hold Steady link in anything...
...but I do like what Craig Finn had to say about The Doors, since I feel precisely the same:
Anyway, back on topic: I've had Early Doors recommended to me by lots of people, but I can't stand Craig Cash. I can't even (whisper it) stand The Royle Family. I know, that's a national heresy on a par with kicking Sir Terry Wogan in the balls, but it's true. It makes me edgy.
You're middle-class
You wouldn't understand
Ha.
Have an up. Although I can't imagine where you got that impression...
early doors
Craig Cash wonderful observations and Early Doors supposedly set in my home town of Stockport. Can't wait for his next project and he has also mused about a series three just to wrap things up. Fingers crossed.
Stockport
Didn't know it was set there but I always felt it could have been filmed in one of that mass of grotty Robinson's pubs along the A6. Their survival remains a mystery.
Wonderful comedy, great script and some of the acting (particularly John Henshaw as the landlord) is outstanding. Never understood why it's been largely ignored by comparison with the overpraised Royle Family.
Grotty Robinsons pubs..
...how dare you Sir.
I love Robinsons beer. And Pubs. Though not so much.
Agree
For me, Early Doors is much, much better than The Royle Family.
"Do you like circuses, Ken?"
"Blooody 'ell"
To The Regiment - I wish I was there!
Brilliant brilliant comedy. Though I often suspect that I'm turning into Tommy.
Co-incidence?
Hasn't the Grapes just closed down?
Temporary traffic lights!
A wonderful series, both funny and heartbreaking.
First I've heard of a potential 3rd series - I do hope so bingham.