Derek - C4 10pm

She is quite cute actually, will be interesting to see how she scrubs up on the red carpet showing off wome cleavage and caked in make up.

irrelevant

Rob, i think she would surprise you in the bedroom, no plain jane by any means and probably uses shipping rope and snokker balls as anal love beads

She is a stand up comedian it seems, cant find anything on google images where she has made anything approaching "an effort" alas.

I did actually lol at the seaweed chucking bit.

This thread has deteriorated rapidly.

She doesn't need to make an effort if she force feeds you viagra while you're chained to a radiator

as usual

Yes, the seaweed bit was funny, especially Kev's white skidders

"I did actually lol at the seaweed chucking bit."

Were they the only staff there looking after the old folks?

That would never have happened in real life.

Very enjoyable episode tho'

until the last bit - apparantly ?

Yeah the whole thing is b.llox makybe diva.  Need loads of qualified nurses yet the insinuation tonight was that hannah herself didnt even have any qualifications.

"until the last bit - apparantly ?"

I'm over the shock now.

ok rob. presumably if its all boll*cks you wont be watching it again - and therefore we will all be spared you spouting boll8cks about it afterwards.

MD - that was the whole point.

It is reasonably enjoyable viewing facts, so i will watch the whole series, but it is bllox.  Like your gonna let those three loons take a dozen or so olduns to the beach with no qualified nurses present.

"MD - that was the whole point."

I know, Facts. It just makes me shudder coming from a woman.

are you so anal about everything in life in general ?

^ to rob

MD
I feel the same whoever says it - its such a powerful word to use !

"Like your gonna let those three loons take a dozen or so olduns to the beach with no qualified nurses present."

Yes, Rob. The CQC would have a field day with that lot.

Rob

You are wrong.

"I feel the same whoever says it - its such a powerful word to use !"

I've actually become more accustomed to it since joining this forum

lovely program

Facts
20 Feb 13 22:48   
are you so anal about everything in life in general ?

Yes, he is.

Another great episode ..loved the seaweed chucking and kevs painting exploits and as for the last segment...well..you were warned at the start .Only programme i watch on the tele these days apart from the sport.

Bump

cheers forgot about this

Can't get into it this week.

first time I've watched this - mediocre atm

Emden - go to 4OD and watch it from the first episode then make your mind up.

^ exactly

Emden - go to 4OD and watch it from the first episode then make your mind up.

ok mate will give it a go on 4OD

It isnt brilliant,but it grows on you.  Some good characters.  It has a point, not brilliantly made, but it still has a point.

Is it a nursing home or a residentialhome?

Duran Duran - good stuff

I could get into rap

Didn't seem so good this week but only half watching to be honest. Busy catching up on the Cheltenham forum.

The making of Derek coming up next.

Missed the first 15 minutes but 2nd half wasn't great. OK the show is Derek but it all seemed about Ricky Gervais this week.

Will watch the first 15mins on C4+1. Strange way to watch a show but I think I'll watch the whole lot again at some point.

Don't think the making of Derek was all that good, tho' wasn't really listening.

Tonight's was the best one yet, imo.

I might give it another go on 4od then. My mind's on other things tonight.

Just watched last nights episode on catch up ...not many programs leave me with tears of laughter running down my face..very funny and very sensitive at the same time.Anybody out there that has yet to embrace this series do yourselves a favour and watch..you won't regret it.

anybody got a wart on their kn0b then.

see, told you

i really like the series . also just found out theres a one-off episode of the office next month.the office revisited

Imminent.

Predictions?

Karl smacks kevin.  Hannah doesnt marry her boyf cos she is married to her job? or perhaps does.  Derek finds a bird.  The home gets closed down by the nasty party?

Gervais just put this b.llox about derek's dad in so he can do some w@nky "proper acting". He is not doing a very good job of it either, load of b.llox.

Love Ricky.

Love the way he just laughs

at the absurdity of life.

Funniest thing on youtube got to be

'Extras Out-takes series 2 part2'
.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvKhm2LIhDk

I've tried to get into this but it just doesn't do it for me. Anyway, Bitchin' Kitchen is on Food Network so no contest.

Oh this is cr@p, kevin is ridiculous, derek is poorly acted, the pathos is less subtle than an eastenders storyline.  Roobish.

Hannah did look very nice in her funeral outfit.

Anyone who didn't cry at this episode is heartless. And I feel sorry for them. This obviously includes you rob.

Haven't watched the show much but thought it was a good last episode. I'm sure the series will be repeated at some point to see it all.

Superb television. This could have been car crash TV but Gervais nailed it. Not a dry eye in our house. Hope he gets some awards for this.

bellfunk

Agreed. Everyone hopes there will be someone to look after them.

Cheers Facts, I thought Kev's description of himself at the end could describe so many of us on here, if we were honest with ourselves

You've got to feel sorry for poor Rob Dylan. Calls it wrong all through the series, puts up a string of obvious and obviously shiit predictions tonight, then tries to redeem himself with his "dad comes along so Gervais can do the proper acting bolllox".

Then in a twist which must have had the poor fella crying into his cocoa the most unlikely, most stupid, almost most irrelevant character in the whole series who everyone thinks is there to play the fool totally turns it on its head and shows us once again what a class series this one has been and why when viewed in totality the narrative arc was inspired.

Sometimes Gervais leaves me cold but the boy done good there.

And indeed it was Kev to whom I was referring.

Yeah the guy who said he failed because he never tried certainy hit a nerve.

Eeternaloptimist


Absolutely spot on. Gervais is a very clever man.

Rob Dylan isn't.

I'm late commenting on tonight's episode because I've been on the phone for an hour talking about it to my sister whose been a carer all her life. We both loved it - what a great way to end the series, very moving. I haven't always liked Gervais but he's done a great job on this occasion - brilliant.

Rob D - feel sorry for you mate. Can't understand why you watch it. You've already made your mind up that it's rubbish so do something else.

I'm late commenting on tonight's episode because I've been on the phone for an hour talking about it to my sister whose been a carer all her life. We both loved it - what a great way to end the series, very moving. I haven't always liked Gervais but he's done a great job on this occasion - brilliant.

Rob D - feel sorry for you mate. Can't understand why you watch it. You've already made your mind up that it's rubbish so do something else.

rob dylan wac.



watched 6 episodes because he didnt like it, wac.

Mrs SF came up here crying her eyes out after this programme. She lost her 90+ year old nan about 4 months ago, it must have touched a nerve. 

Liked what I saw. Will catch up when 8 out of 10 cats is over!

It will be repeated and it will win awards but they might hold off until the Box Set and XMas special has been thrashed to death

Just watched the last three back-to-back. Jumble Sale was class - KP with his 'its shitt' and the frog being brought back...yes obvious but made me cry with laughter...then the vulture daughter and 'does it fit? yes, good now feck off' was hitting a real nerve if anyone has had relations in a home...Duran Duran just class and last nights was wonderful.

If you sit there analysing it its crap. The acting is poor, KP is himself, Kevin ludicrous and Hannah the only 'real' character. But I just watch it, it makes me laugh and think in some places and nod my head in agreement and enjoy it.

Caitlin Moran may not agree but for me its like a monkey riding on a pig

Extras is being repeated on Dave, Friday 10pm

Oh and I must be a heartless barsteward because I never shed a tear watching Derek

I am actually a complete heartless one, but hey ho. Each to their own.

Last nights episode chocked me up don't mind admitting.Thoroughly enjoyed each and every episode although in general i think there was more sadness than laughter .Hats off to all the actors in this brilliant series..Ricky Gervais is a genius.

*..oops meant choked

That guy who played a complete dicck all season and then suddenly became reflective, morose and choked up brought a lump to this old hackneyed throat.

If my valuable insights continue to be ridiculed I may just be tempted to take my well considered and often witty comments elsewhere.  Have any of you even considered that prospect?  Doesnt bear thinking about imo.

Agreed, Rob.

Mrs JOCI Club and I did a bit of blubbering together when watching it tonight!

rob dylan

You lost any credibility you may have had in your argument when you suggested there would have been nurses everywhere in a residential care home. Stupid comment from an ill informed person who clearly simply has a Gervaise objection and cannot analyse objectively as a result.

I like gervaise and have the office box set, so that doesnt stand up to scrutiny EO.  If that is a nursing home, as opposed to a residential home, then surely it would have a number of carers (ok not nurses) as well as a sister in charge of the ward on at all times.  I fail to see how they could take a dozen or so people to the seaside for the day with the handyman, derek and the local p1sspot as the responsible people. 

I found the series ok, just could have been better.  Certainly enjoyable in parts hence I kept watching.  And Ricky did go a bit over the top in that last episode, good luck to you if you got all teary eyed, I found it excruciatingly unsubtle. (The final episode).  Seaweed throwing was my personal highlight.

delighted we got that cleared up, i was really worried, ysdc.

rob

My point is that it was clearly explained that it was a residential care home and not a nursing home so pretty much everything was explainable given a degree of comedic latitude but your own explanations were spectacularly wrong in any event except on one minor point. Obviously the piss can wouldn't have been swigging Special Brew whilst the inspector was there but the point remains in any case that you have excoriated an observational comedy largely on the back of a lack of authenticity which you have called wrong.

By the way Star Wars wasn't real either.

rob dylan loves Fawlty Towers though, as if a real hotel would be run like that.

A documentary crew films the activities of the workers in a nursing home. Derek, a 49 year old worker who loves his job and the people he cares for, introduces the crew to some of the workers and residents

From wiki.  Says it is a nursing home.

get-a-life man, before you are in one,hth

rob

They are wrong. Trust me. I was a nurse and worked in nursing homes for some years. It's easy to see why lay people might have difficulty telling the difference but that is simply confusion. There are enough clues in the show including the big sign in front of the building which describes it as a residential care home.

rob doesn't see the obvious imo

All comes from Gervais' Bowie obsession.

Thinly veiled homage to Bowie's brother, in Gervais' mind, in the vain hope Bowie will like him for it.

All subconscious of course.

There was a Christmas Special of this last night.

I have recorded it and will watch it tomorrow

MD, all I'll say is you're in for a treat, it was excellent.

Thanks, Alpha!

i enjoyed it

Me too

It's funny. Good old fashioned humour.

It has an underlying uplifting and sweet theme which was nice to see.

I thought it was a good ending

I turned it off after five minutes, thought it was terrible again..  Hope it improved cos I might give it another go later.  Pathos is ok, but there was none of that in fawlty towers. Virtually none in dad's army, and very little in ofah.  Was over emotional pap for the first five minutes.

Alright i am watching this now. 
Why is she talking to the vicar, about her wedding, at the care home?  Why is Derek there at the meeting too?

No this is absolute trash.  Dont care how good the ending is, it is fkin awful and I ain't finishing it.