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The Green Wing

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  • 10-08-2005 12:40pm
    #1
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    does anyone watch this masterpiece of a comedy?

    and more importantly has anyone seen the episode with 'Guy-Ball'


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    OFDM
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    It's very hit and miss. I think every scene with Guy Secretan is brilliant. Great character with great acting.

    But every scene he's not in is a rubbish tbh. It's written by the same people who did Smack the Pony, which was total crap.

    Guy Secretan is the saviour of the show. I hope it gets a second series just to see more of that character.


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    pickarooney
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    when it was good, it was very, very good, and when it was bad it was horrid

    I love Tasmin Grieg, but I wish that unfunny blonde chick was banned from TV forever.


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    Robbo
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    A second series was comissioned and I think I read somewhere that it'll be shown in the Autumn.


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    Nimrod's Son
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    I'm a bit of a fan of the Green Wing I must say. I think it's got a bit of a 'You either love it or hate it' air about it and I'd be inclined to plump for the former. I agree that Stephen Mangan steals the show but Mark Heap's and Karl Theobald's characters always raise a chortle from me as well. It's very surreal but the camera work and script are very clever and subtle and I think it works nicely.


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    neGev
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    Indeed! I got fairly into this when it was on Channel 4 originally.
    I'd really love to see a second series, if only to show what happens following the ending of the first series.
    What a cliff-hanger! Literally!


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    #7
    Nimrod's Son
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    The ending to the first series was rather warped and sick! As far as I know, a second series is en route.


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    lordgoat
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    excellent to find some more green wingers, anyone for game of guy ball? Sticklers are of course random


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    Maynooth
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    Is that the one that's the from the same makers of Smack the Pony?


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    #10
    FX Meister
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    It seems to me to be a poor copy of Scrubs.


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    pickarooney
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    Yeah, yeah that's it, because they're in a hospital. How did we miss that.


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    FX Meister
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    Ok, so you don't know much about comedic styles and you can't see any connection between the premise of either show. I guess you like Jo Brand aswell?


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    OFDM
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    FX Meister wrote:
    It seems to me to be a poor copy of Scrubs.
    Scrubs was an improved version of 1984 hospital comedy E/R, not to be confused with ER, both of which starred George Clooney.


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    pickarooney
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    FX Meister wrote:
    Ok, so you don't know much about comedic styles and you can't see any connection between the premise of either show. I guess you like Jo Brand aswell?

    The premise is that they're both set in a hospital and they're designed to be funny. I see the connection.
    I don't however see the connection between the quirky, yet believable antics of a group of warm-hearted professional carers who both learn and teach us something new, on a moral, human and medical base as they grow with every passing show and the edgy, surreal goings-on amongst a bunch of borderline psychotics on a fast road to self-destruction, with not so much as a passing interest in either medicine or their patients (whom we never see) in a loosely hospital-themed hour-long, one-season, shock-laugh-fest.

    Perhaps it has something to do with overweight comediennes talking about periods?

    I rather like both shows, it's just that they're not very similar.


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    #15
    FX Meister
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    Talk to the hand cause the face aint listening.


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    #16
    BopNiblets
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    *bump*
    Is anyone watching season 2 of this? It's awesome. :D

    Sue White is bloody mental.

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    Oral Slang
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    The new series is absolutely hilarious..
    Just can't get over the quality of it, every episode I'm doubled over.


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    BMH
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    I bought season 1 on DVD and I'm in the midle of an episode now.

    Season 1>Season 2 so far, though I missed the first few episodes.

    Excellent show, with a surprisinly small fanbase.


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    #19
    SprostonGreen
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    Brilliant series, loving it.


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    #20
    BopNiblets
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    Apparently they might not make a 3rd series, read it on Wikipedias Green Wing page. :(


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    #21
    Nimrod's Son
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    Thrilled that the second series is as good as the first one. I'm furiously crossing my fingers that there'll be a third (though not for the sake of it but because there's still enough comedy and Sue White madness left in it to warrant another one!).


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    BMH
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    Well, that's the end of the 2nd series. I doubt they'd completely end the series like that to be honest.


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    #23
    BopNiblets
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    I think they're wrapping it up with a Christmas special, says TV.com anyway.

    *checks watch*... Nope, might have to wait a bit longer... :p

    That scheduling is pretty weird alright, but then again, it's a weird show... "Circle of Life" anyone? Hahaha.


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