The Trip to Italy

Tribute · 04/04/14 - 12:27

Starts tonight at 10pm on BBC Two.

Worth starting a new thread (with a title which hasn't judged the quality of the show from the trailer) to discuss the series and what people want from it.

Will you be happy for it to follow closely to the style of the first series or would you prefer them to take it in a different direction?

[Deleted User] · 04/04/14 - 14:10

There's no different direction to take it really. It'll be the same, and I'll decide after the first episode whether or not what they have to say to each other is going to be worth tuning in for. I don't really care where they do it, I don't watch it for the scenery or the food.

Shrike · 04/04/14 - 14:25

Big-Arn wrote: »

There's no different direction to take it really. It'll be the same, and I'll decide after the first episode whether or not what they have to say to each other is going to be worth tuning in for. I don't really care where they do it, I don't watch it for the scenery or the food.

Seeing places in the Lakes and North Yorkshire I've visited was part of the pleasure for me. I've only been to Italy once so thats not going to be a pull this time:(

Joni M · 04/04/14 - 14:27

Thanks for this thread

Yep, will be watching, I love them together.

La Rhumba · 04/04/14 - 14:49

Big-Arn wrote: »

There's no different direction to take it really. It'll be the same, and I'll decide after the first episode whether or not what they have to say to each other is going to be worth tuning in for. I don't really care where they do it, I don't watch it for the scenery or the food.

I certainly thought the beautiful Lakes scenery, and their impressions of the places they visited last time, was an appealing part of the first series. And seeing what they chose from the Menu. Definitely!

Will be watching tonight, as I think they make a good pairing - the tension aswell as the laughs.

Tribute · 04/04/14 - 22:34

What were people's opinions? I enjoyed it, though felt that it was a little more bit and miss than I remembered.

Jefferson · 04/04/14 - 22:39

Thought it had a better script than the first series - much more effort put in. But then my attention wandered a bit - could be just me with a lowered attention span these days.

[Deleted User] · 04/04/14 - 22:47

Jefferson wrote: »

Thought it had a better script than the first series - much more effort put in. But then my attention wandered a bit - could be just me with a lowered attention span these days.

There's very little-to-no-script because it's improvised - they just set up a few cameras and let Steve and Rob do their thing. That's why there's no writing credit. Improv is also a trademark of Michael Winterbottom - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935863/bio#trademark
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740047/trivia

Torch81 · 04/04/14 - 23:02

Even though they are both incredibly smug and so far up their own arses that they could possibly perform their own colonoscopy's, I enjoyed this. Like them or loathe them as individuals (and I don't particularly care for either in many ways), I'd still, in terms of 'televisual entertainment' rather watch two genuinely talented people like this produce a programme like we saw rather than watch mind numbingly superficial crap of a not dissimilar nature like Joey Essex, Mark Wright or Tom Daley. It was almost like watching a reality show with brains and for me, nothing wrong with that.

KMKYWAP · 04/04/14 - 23:04

Loved Coogan's Morrissey.

KMKYWAP · 04/04/14 - 23:19

Episode 2 preview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av1kCIdz0wk

[Deleted User] · 04/04/14 - 23:42

KMKYWAP wrote: »

Episode 2 preview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av1kCIdz0wk

Glad to see the Michael Caine impressions back on track after the slight dip in quality of them in tonight's episode.

ffa1 · 05/04/14 - 00:25

Bit disappointing. I was actually more interested in the food at some points and got annoyed at Brydon for playing with his pasta instead of eating it!

AA2009 · 05/04/14 - 01:48

Didn't we all make enough jokes about Bane's voice two years ago when the film was new.

Jefferson · 05/04/14 - 05:42

surfking wrote: »

There's very little-to-no-script because it's improvised - they just set up a few cameras and let Steve and Rob do their thing. That's why there's no writing credit. Improv is also a trademark of Michael Winterbottom - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935863/bio#trademark
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740047/trivia

I could believe that about the first one but this one seemed far more premeditated. Not that I'm complaining. Quality is key.

lundavra · 05/04/14 - 09:23

Tribute wrote: »

What were people's opinions? I enjoyed it, though felt that it was a little more bit and miss than I remembered.

I gave up well before half-way into the programme, thought I should watch a bit though I was not optimistic.

No fan of either actor and not a believer in the concept that an unfunny joke is funnier if done in a poor impersonation of someone else.

charliesays · 05/04/14 - 10:14

Loved the first episode. Two gentlemen who find it effortless to be hilarious.

[Deleted User] · 05/04/14 - 10:21

lundavra wrote: »

I gave up well before half-way into the programme, thought I should watch a bit though I was not optimistic.

No fan of either actor and not a believer in the concept that an unfunny joke is funnier if done in a poor impersonation of someone else.

So you don't like either of the ONLY two people in it, but watched it anyway? Well good on you for trying, not surprised you didn't like it though. Your personal opinion won't affect my enjoyment, but good on you again for trying it.

[Deleted User] · 05/04/14 - 10:26

Big-Arn wrote: »

So you don't like either of the ONLY two people in it, but watched it anyway? Well good on you for trying, not surprised you didn't like it though. Your personal opinion won't affect my enjoyment, but good on you again for trying it.

Haha great comment

Good on the lad for giving it a go hey? I like Coogan but not Brydon. Well that's how I went into it anyway, but actually I came round to Brydon and thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing.

derek500 · 05/04/14 - 10:30

surfking wrote: »

There's very little-to-no-script because it's improvised - they just set up a few cameras and let Steve and Rob do their thing. That's why there's no writing credit. Improv is also a trademark of Michael Winterbottom - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935863/bio#trademark
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740047/trivia

ffa1 wrote: »

Bit disappointing. I was actually more interested in the food at some points and got annoyed at Brydon for playing with his pasta instead of eating it!

It's shot on one camera so each scene is done three times from different angles, so can't eat too much.

baggiovalderram · 05/04/14 - 12:30

charliesays wrote: »

Loved the first episode. Two gentlemen who find it effortless to be hilarious.

I really enjoyed this...had some laugh out loud moments which I was not expecting...

Virgil Tracy · 05/04/14 - 12:50

was rather disappointed tbh . the michael caine stuff just seems too familiar , and the only new one - Tom Hardy they didn't even bother trying to do .

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La Rhumba · 05/04/14 - 13:19

Very entertaining. Good Food, not much drinking this time - is Coogan really on the wagon or is it for the Health & Safety aspect with the driving? - and wonderful scenery. I just wish I could partake meself!

I loved the scene when they were discussing how young women look through them now as they're too old to fancy, and just smile at them like a benevolent uncle.

I don't think they're any more self-obsessed than most people in Showbiz, and can have a good laugh at themselves, and make an entertaining programme at the same time.

TRIPS · 05/04/14 - 13:31

charliesays wrote: »

Loved the first episode. Two gentlemen who find it effortless to be hilarious.

I agree.
Superb show, they bounce off each other so well. don't think it's smugness at all, they are like 2 m8s having a subtle laugh together , bit like Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

TheGrumpWizard · 05/04/14 - 13:53

Just more of the same. So much so it dragged in parts. Generally an ok half hour of tv though but nothing more.

The Wulfrunian · 05/04/14 - 15:21

Mo Farah's legs and the Bale/Hardy phone conversation were just superb.

I can't believe some have a go at their impressions. Coogan in particular puts to shame those who do it as their day job.

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