Programmes that have aged poorly and programmes that have aged well?

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What programmes that you loved have surprised you on rewatching?

I've just finished the first series of This Life and was surprised at how well it has aged for the most part (but so much smoking!). It was refreshing to see people with imperfect teeth and pubic hair and wobbly bums living in a grotty house share past their early 20s. I'm re-living my youth with the music too.

But Coupling! Oof! I remember it being really good but some clips I've seen (like making sex videos without consent and the way women are talked about) demonstrate exactly why I've never seen any re-runs.

A film which is now kind of contemporary again and is still good is The Dish

Although Andrew Lincoln's delivery of "It's not funny, actually, it's art" will never not be hilarious.

also Bill Nighy and Gregor Fisher

Used to love both as a kid Alfs rants and his wife's put downs was far too young to understand the racial content of either programme.
Looking at it now through adult eyes it was bad particularly love thy neighbour.

I loved it!

I wanted to.

Love the Carry On films.

There’s a second series coming out. Maybe you could try again? It really was good.

I indrstand that "Till Death Us" was supposed to portray Alf in a bad light, similar to Les Patterson, but too many people agreed with him

But the point was it wasn't realistic. I don't think I wanted to become an alcoholic or thought drink driving was okay because of them. It was meant to be outrageous and ridiculous.

A few years ago, I watched She-Ra with my son and it was brilliant. It had a plot that carried on through the series so you needed to have watched them all to understand what was happening.

only if they learn to use language more creatively

The point was that Mr Bean was an idiot (and an alien) who ended up in situations embarrassing to him like losing his swimming shorts when diving and accidently flashing a load of girls. He also ends up in a toilet with a man when trying to retrieve his credit card that the guy mistakenly puts in his back pocket. You're meant to laugh at his misfortune.

Edit: I'd also forgotten he headbutts the queen by accident!

Like Ab Fab these aren't people to emulate but to be laughed at.

Ugh I always hated Mr Bean

@Octoberfestre Love Actually: have a read of this.

https://www.jezebel.com/i-rewatched-love-actually-and-am-here-to-ruin-it-for-al-1485136388

Laugh out loud funny.

Paul Eddington was an absolutely wonderful, sympathetic comedic actor, sadly taken far too soon: he was outstanding.

Lindy West!

She's back in the news in the US (and expect the graun to start running articles on her very soon) because, for all her feminist no nonsense on Love Actually she's ended up in a Throuple with a shit who duped her into it as a sort of reparation for slavery (yes. Really).

She's essentially the woke Liz Jones now

Patricia Routledge was a multi-talented performer: a complete class act. She and Lansbury - icons both.

I love that PR had the guts to call time on “KUA” because she felt some of the ideas for the scenes were becoming repetitive and maybe because she didn’t want to get typecast. She was just brilliant, basically married to the craft and it showed in the most wonderful way possible.

I’ve watched two films this afternoon. They are so light hearted and I still find them very funny even though I’ve seen most of them several times.

Carry On Girls is the greatest feminist action film of all time

YABU.

This thread should be moved to Telly Addicts

I enjoyed Butterflies when it was originally broadcast in the late 70s but have seen it since and been appalled.

She can't get a job because "her husband doesn't want her to." He's a nice-enough vague sort of bloke - would he even notice if she got a job? He certainly doesn't notice anything else.

But she decides she can't work. She'll be a housewife: "reluctantly." She has a cleaner. She can't cook. She is bored stiff. Erm . . . why not LEARN to cook?

I thought she was pathetic, drifting around vaguely doing nothing and leading on an equally pathetic man.

There was a scene when Elkie Brooks ' "Lilac Wine," was on the radio. Ria exclaimed: "Pull yourself together, you stupid cow!" to much hilarity.

My irony-meter nearly exploded - it in exactly what I had thought watching every single episode of Butterflies.

yeah, back in the 90s I watched one episode of Butterflies because H had said it was really good

Decided I was bored with people who thought "can't be arsed to find out what to do with food, EVEN though it's the only thing I have to do to stop myself dying of boredom" was funny. And what the hell made her think latching onto a slightly different man would improve things?

I think Richard Curits is a brilliant screenwriter, with a great imagination of what will be popular; but a major weakness is that he works alone, as well as his default attitude towards women. I don't think he's a deliberate misogynist, but just generally quite clueless and dismissive when it comes to women.

I can't help thinking that, if he worked in collaboration with others, including female ones - all having an equal say in everything - his films would be so much better, and much less problematic.

This is my understanding too. Apparently it used to drive Warren Mitchell mad when people used to agree with Alf. The whole premise of the show was to challenge his world view not endorse it.