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"Bonekickers" Reviewed.

TedShatner10

TedShatner10

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From a few years back there was a legendarily terrible show known as Bonekickers, a show that was amazingly made by the same production company that made two other hit fantasy shows, Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, a shoddy show that was an odd mix of Indian Jones crossed with the bland tone and production values of Holby City. Its stories were soiled by patronising, lead handed Political Correctness, but also had offensive comic relief in the form of that tubby middle aged archaeologists who got drunk and sexually harassed pretty ladies.

Here's an interesting review of episode one for this pile of shite, just one episode that essentially killed the show in a few minutes flat (with modern Crusader knights, second degree murder, comical decapitation, and the burning down of property or/and priceless artifacts). And the rest of the first and only season's reviews here. Robin Hood was kinda blah and somewhat tragic, Survivors got boring, Torchwood and Merlin had severe growing pains, Primeval is formulaic, NuWho's hit 'n miss nature attracts nitpicky twits, however none of those shows COMBINED match the aggressive badness that is Bonekickers...
 
I have heard about this show:) Got it in my Amazon wishlist, actually. I cant really comment if its good or bad, since I have not seen it yet:D Though, Julie Graham alone might be reason enough to watch this..
 
I watched the entire thing when it was on. I don't remember much about it if I'm honest, but I remember thinking it wasn't quite as terrible as people made out. But it had promise that they did nothing with.
 
It made my head hurt trying to follow the plot, i heard later on that the stories for the show were written by the same people who wrote the clues for the game show 3.2.1. LOL
 
I was at the preview screening for Bonekickers. My main memory was the way every critic in the audience went very very quiet when Gugu started singing Jersualem, as we all knew that if one person giggled, the entire audience would be off, and wouldn't stop for hours. Then we all had to interview the cast, with everyone trying to keep a straight face and not ask 'Have you sacked your agent yet?'
 
Gugu Mbatha-Raw was the acctress's name (also in Doctor Who as Tish, and now in teh States doing something I've forgotten). Her character was the student who ratehr improbably turned out to be Julie Graham's half-sister.
 
It grew on me after awhile and I thought the episode with WWI tank wasn't bad, but the final episode...oh, that was a ridiculous mess! There's a fairly funny series of reviews of the show on Youtube...the guy gets hilariously angry are the show.
 
^Here's the YouTube reviews you're talking about.

A bit slow on the uptake aren't we, Jono? They're the same set of appropirately hilarious reviews that I've already linked in my first post.

How the hell did you watch this POS show all the way through? I seen the first one and knew the show was pretty much doomed already, the one about Iraq to see if there was any improvement (a resounding 'NO' from me), and the terminal episode where the show collapsed on itself. One of the best unintended comedies in many years.
 
TedShatner10 said:
^Here's the YouTube reviews you're talking about.

A bit slow on the uptake aren't we, Jono? They're the same set of appropirately hilarious reviews that I've already linked in my first post.
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I'll admit I didn't click the links, I thought from the truncated link showed on my browser they were to written reviews.

How the hell did you watch this POS show all the way through? I seen the first one and knew the show was pretty much doomed already, the one about Iraq to see if there was any improvement (a resounding 'NO' from me), and the terminal episode where the show collapsed on itself. One of the best unintended comedies in many years.
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I sat down, switched the TV on at a certain time on a certain day and the magic of television beamed the images to my house.

I started to watch it because Adrian Lester was in the show and I kept watching to see where the show went, plus since it was only 6 episodes long it wasn't much of a commitement.
 
Deckerd said:
Why are you getting so worked up about it now?
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I can't really get worked up about it now, Shitkickers crashed 'n burned a few years ago already, but I'm dreading it'll gain a growing cult following in the next five to fifteen years due to its unintentional levels of comedy and fascinating ineptness in terms of acting, writing, plotting, production values and directing: it's the UK cult television equivalent of that Dungeons & Dragons film and The Room.

Jono said:
I'll admit I didn't click the links, I thought from the truncated link showed on my browser they were to written reviews.
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OK, an easy enough mistake to make and I've provided the YouTube links if my other links didn't work, so no worries.

I started to watch it because Adrian Lester was in the show and I kept watching to see where the show went, plus since it was only 6 episodes long it wasn't much of a commitement.
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But brave to do so none the less: its ratings fell dramatically from 7 million to 4 million within only four weeks (but it perked up again for the final episode).
 
^The fuck does it matter if it gets following "cult" or not? It's not like they're gonna suddenly commission more of it, and if they do you don't have to watch it.
 
Even on it's first run I avoided half of its episodes anyway, but a show that creatively divided by zero may attract interesting and be an ironic cult classic for years to come.
 
And it matters to you why? If other people enjoy it, even ironically, you don't have to watch it or talk about it yourself.
 
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