The same goes for Copycat Killer, I enjoyed it but it wasn't as good as I expected and it didn't need 10 episodes.

Rolf Harris Hiding In Plain Sight on ITVX. I didn't realise that he was currently on bail after more aligations earlier this year. It makes me wonder just how many more he abused who haven't come forward.

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Interesting list! 

S1 is a series that I recognise as brilliant, but which doesn't hit my personal aesthetic preferences enough for me to love the way others do. Rose, for instance, is a gorgeously-written introduction to the show, but the council-estate realism vibe just doesn't jive with me in "Doctor Who" the way that the heightened escapism of the Moffat era did. Is that partly because, no matter how amazing RTD is at capturing voices/people (and he is amazing), he's still a university-educated middle-class bloke who insisted on wearing leather jackets? I'm not sure.  Oh, well, the series is brilliant. It's the only NuWho series in which every episode is needed; every single one sets up something for the finale:

Rose: Introduces our main players.
The End of the World: Introduces the Time War.
The Unquiet Dead: Introduces "Bad Wolf".
The End of the World / WW3: Introduces Mickey and Jackie (fully).
Dalek: Introduces Adam. No, I'm kidding, introduces the Daleks.
The Long Game: Introduces Satelite Five.
Father's Day: Introduces Pete's death and it's effect on Jackie. 
The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances: Introduces Captain Jack.
Boom Town: Introduces "the heart of the TARDIS".
Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways: Pays it ALL off! Brilliant!

I understand why it's some people favourite, even though - through no fault of it's own - it can never be mine. 

Regarding Christmas Specials, my rule has always been that if it contains the exact same "TARDIS team" as the series preceding/succeeding it, then that's where it belongs. If not, to limbo it goes. So The Christmas Invasion is the launch of S2, for me. The Runaway Bride and Voyage of the Damned are in limbo, while things like A Christmas Carol, Last Christmas, and Twice Upon a Time are the Christmas bow on their respective series.

I like Boom Town, but again, for those personal aesthetic reasons, I can't say it's a favourite. I get what you mean about the mundanity, but I prefer Moffat's conception that the Doctor can't have a day off, literally cannot, like he's more a symbol brought to life in a story than a real person. It's like how you never see Columbo on a day off. In some sense, Columbo isn't meant to be  a real person. He's like a ghost, or an avatar, or a symbol, perpetually solving rich people's crimes for infinity, existing in his narrative mode forever. I think the Doctor is the same! I like that. More fairytale. We're all stories in the end...

But, anyway, here's a quote from RTD from the S1 script-book which I think you'll appreciate:

"We had tuppence for this episode. We'd just done World War Two and and we had the final battle of the Time War to come; money had to be saved somewhere. I looked back at the stock material - yes, there's Cardiff Bay outside my window, a location wanting and deserving to be used. Yes, there's a Slitheen costume, and a fully rendered CGI model of it in the files. Yes, there's a wonderful TARDIS crew, all under contract, and yes, there's Annette Badland. Who needs laser-beams, when her and Chris can act together? During rehearsals for Episodes IV & V, Chris had gone for a costume fitting and I'd stood-in for him; I had faced Margarete Slitheen and my God, she was terrifying. More than terrifying; she was real. Right there and then, I resolved to bring Annette back. 

When I handed Boom Town in, Phil Collinson phoned me up: 

"I thought you said this was cheap!"

"It is"

"There's an earthquake! In Cardiff!!"

This script is also paving the way for the big finale. Jack's now established as a fine member of the crew: a strategist and a fighter ready for the Daleks to come. I knew that the TARDIS would need a force-field in Episode XIII, so I laid down the extrapolator. And I wanted a Doctor who, for a brief time, was happy. 

Out of all that comes an episode which is pure atmosphere and dialogue. It exists on a charm; "When the wind's in the right direction", says the Doctor, as though summoning a spell. And while I love spaceships and monsters and intergalactic wars, the simplicity of this episode makes it, just sometimes, when the wind's in the right direction, my favourite."

Turn of the tide

A Portugese Snatch meets Zero Zero Zero series. Francesco Acquaroli as Monti 😍, nothing better than an old man diving for cocaine in a tight wetsuit 😂😂

I finally managed to watch another three episodes of this last night. My WiFi has been playing up over the past week due to the weather. I've still got one more episode to watch though 

The Glory which I started watching on Netflix last night.

I'm halfway through watching this and it's a lot better than I thought it would be.  

The new episodes of It's Always Sunny which were great. To be fair most of the time if someone asked me what was literally the last thing I watched it would be that show as I watch it constantly on repeat.

Last movie was the new Avatar which I was surprised by how much I liked. It's very basic and predictable and the characters feel tropey but it's easy to get lost in that world if you want to and visually it's a real treat. It also had the added bonus of not feeling at all like a Marvel film which most big budget films do nowdays and I'm just so utterly beyond sick of that tone by this point it was nice to watch an action/adventure film with a different feel. It felt old fashioned in a way despite the modern visuals which was nice, if it wasn't for how good it was visually you wouldn't know the film was made in a post-Marvel era. It wasn't amazing or anything, i wouldn't go telling people to watch it but I was expecting it to be rubbish but I was pleasantly surprised.

I finished watching The Glory last night and it was good better than I thought it would be. However, I don't think that it really needed 16 episodes 10 would've been enough.

I started watching Litvinenko on ITVX, it'll soon be 20 years since all that happened. I remember it all in the news at the time.
David Tennant plays the part really well.