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Tim Walker
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July 4, 2009, 5:56 AM GMT
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Yes, well some of us wish people like the Beeb would take a few more calculated risks like this, in both comedy and drama. When it puts its money and exceptionally talented production teams behind a show like this it really shows on screen.
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July 4, 2009, 1:38 PM GMT
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Quote: zooo @ July 3 2009, 7:46 PM BST
Lifted? They did it expressly as an homage, and go on about it all the time!
You're not 'catching them out' by knowing this stuff, you're understanding their influences, which is what they WANT you to do. 
Oh I know and I do enjoy it - it's great when you can enjoy a programe and get something extra from it like that too. But phrases, lines, speech patterns, a prop or a name or a location... all well and good and fun to spot. But this murder was a bit much and maybe a bit lazy.
I don't think it worked because too much was lifted. Lots of this show has a realistic edge and you can believe the characters and what they do, but the victim here would never have put herself in that situation with those two 'beauticians'. Therefore, to me, it seemed like it shouldn't be there and they'd distorted the plot just so they could shoe-horn in their version of one of their favourite bits from an old film.
Film references should be a happy coincidence, not clumsily engineered. Like Chloe and Radcliffe in the League - just like the ghosts in The Shining and it seemed absolutely right - they were creepy twin girls in a weird house so it was a natural that they should be the way they were.
He'll never sell any icecream going at that speed...
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July 4, 2009, 2:47 PM GMT
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Well to be honest, I haven't noticed myself noticing any homages so far in Psychoville, so I should think most people won't be aware of any clumsiness as you put it.
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July 4, 2009, 3:41 PM GMT
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Quote: zooo @ July 3 2009, 7:46 PM BST
You're not 'catching them out' by knowing this stuff, you're understanding their influences, which is what they WANT you to do.
Then I epic fail.
Quote: Maurice Minor @ July 4 2009, 10:38 AM BST
Lots of this show has a realistic edge and you can believe the characters
 Where do you live? Just so, y'know, I can avoid there at all costs...
Quote: Maurice Minor @ July 4 2009, 10:38 AM BST
Film references should be a happy coincidence, not clumsily engineered.
Quick! Someone call Simon Pegg!
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July 4, 2009, 3:49 PM GMT
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Quote: Aaron @ July 4 2009, 12:41 PM BST
Then I epic fail.
I only get them in the League (most of them) after watching with the commentaries.
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July 5, 2009, 10:40 PM GMT
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Quote: Maurice Minor @ July 4 2009, 10:38 AM BST
Film references should be a happy coincidence, not clumsily engineered.
Anyone see Flight of the Conchords the other night?
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July 5, 2009, 10:44 PM GMT
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Quote: shaggy292 @ July 5 2009, 7:40 PM BST
Anyone see Flight of the Conchords the other night?
"Forget it Brian...it's NewZealandtown"
Yes, I liked that bit.
Quote: Maurice Minor @ July 4 2009, 10:38 AM BST
Film references should be a happy coincidence, not clumsily engineered.
'Should' doesn't come into it; it's whatever works.
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July 6, 2009, 2:13 AM GMT
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Just watching episode two for the first time and thought I'd look on eBay.
Apologies if this has already been posted.
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July 6, 2009, 2:23 AM GMT
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This post is off-topic.
Quote: Aaron @ July 4 2009, 12:41 PM BST
Quick! Someone call Simon Pegg!
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July 9, 2009, 10:33 PM GMT
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Reminder: don't miss tonight's special 'no cuts' episode whatever you do. Totally unique in modern comedy terms I think, and very ambitious.
They're also doing a great job with the online extras. The websites are really funny and add to the back stories. Here's the latest two to go online:
http://www.bestmurders.co.uk/site.html
http://www.murderandchips.co.uk/
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July 9, 2009, 10:34 PM GMT
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Did anyone have a go at the stitch up a friend extra on the website? I did one ages ago and it never got sent on to the person I was setting up.
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July 9, 2009, 11:59 PM GMT
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Some of the extra content the guys have produced is better than the show proper. I laughed out loud to some of the stuff on David's website: http://www.bestmurders.co.uk/
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July 10, 2009, 1:41 AM GMT
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Reece, Steve, I know at least one of you will be reading this: Please give David and Maureen their own spinoff series!
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July 10, 2009, 1:42 AM GMT
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Quote: Aaron @ July 9 2009, 10:41 PM BST
Reece, Steve, I know at least one of you will be reading this
Really.  Hello 
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July 10, 2009, 2:10 AM GMT
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I don't normally even consciously acknowledge these things - perhaps it stuck out to me after the excellent design of the previous episodes - but I noticed tonight that although the furnishings were very cosy, homely type, it was all very spaced out, more like a modern warehouse-conversion apartment. Seemed to be a vast expanse behind and to the sides of the sofa, which was unused.
zooo suggested perhaps it was purposeful to appear more like a set on-stage. Which, the more I think about it, would make sense, a kind of multi-layered self-referential thing what with it having no cuts and suchforth?
Just an observation anyway...
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