:cry:

 

Quite honestly one of THE finest shows to come out of the UK. So pure, so real and just absolutely HILARIOUS. I still use quotes from this on a daily basis with friends, and I'd happily sit and watch each series so many times over on Netflix when I'm bored. :lol:

 

The Christmas Special gives me hope that there could be scope for more episodes to come (or even just an odd special here and there), because the magic most definitely was not lost all these years later.

Gavin and Stacey has provided me with so many moments! I was a dead ringer for James Corden at the time and so every night out I got random people wanting photos with me and when I lived in Cardiff, I walked into a pub once and this girl just walked right up to me and snogged me before I could even speak to her! And of course it was a big thing when I started teaching and the kids loved it.

 

Spending the latter half of the 00s in mid to South Wales made me appreciate it all the more.

Golden Balls!!! Watched some of them on Challenge, certainly an interesting concept for a game show but also very of its time I think (I actually thought it was from the 90s oops). The Weakest Link has to be one of the best executed game show concepts though, wish it was still on :(

If you weren't watching E4 during the 00s what even were you doing with your life honestly?

 

degenerate moment:

it's interesting that I wasn't watching anime during the 00s at all and yet nearly every anime I watch that was made in the 00s gives me this beautiful feeling of nostalgia for some long-lost time of quiet yet advanced modern life, many are among my faves. Haruhi, Death Note, Toradora, Clannad, Higurashi (though the story is set in the 80s the music for this is perfect 00s nostalgia and there's a remake supposedly coming soon that I'm hyped for) if I were to generalise these all seem very artistically minded compared to some of the more direct storytelling of particularly the early 2010s in that field, though that might be more arty works standing the test of time better.

 

Actually that's sort of common to all shows but animated or live-action, the slow advance of smartphones and messaging systems and internet dominance just make current shows feel inherently different to shows in the 2000s, at least those set in the time they were filmed at. Certain shows buck the trend, I'd say in many ways Orange Is The New Black was the Lost of the 2010s in how it interwove flashbacks and the current isolated situation, and that never used much modern tech, but yeah, them damn phones.

I hope Footballers' Wives will feature. Top trash tv. :wub:

I just watched all of Lost recently, I'm not sure how I managed to avoid it at the time, but the first few seasons were pretty excellent with such brilliant character development and mystery, it really did constantly unravel and never stop being fascinating. Unfortunately, the ending was ultimately a bit of an anti-climax, it's easy to see how he wrote himself into a corner with this. Still, certainly glad I did watch it given it's such an iconic show!

90s as well but omg THE NOSTALGIA: