what would it be like?
I've got all of This Life 1 & 2 on DVD courtesy of flatmate and not sure whether I will watch it again because it feels like it was on TV last week. But yeah, if there was to be one set now, what do you think it would have in it? For example, instead of listening to Portishead, what would they listen to?
burial
with the pot of coke on the coffee table this time round though. This whole sniffing in the toilet at inns of court was so 70s in the 90s
was it?!
I love the little details so much. Anna or Milly saying to Miles: 'You know you can get a suit from Marks & Spencers that costs a third of that Paul Smith one and looks JUST as good?' FLASH FORWARD to the high street democratising fashion.
I wonder what the Anna character would look like, if it was cast now.
but yeah, Burial
and coke on the coffee-table
maybe they would go to a boutique festival instead of to a club
I lived with laywers
interestingly they all had a night in for that 'special'...interesting 'cos they were a wee bit too young the first time round.
They were boring.
Younger labour activists on the weekends, then smash wine bottles in regents park at night.
Give up in trying to do anything in the uk.
Move to dubai.
I think they can only afford 'this life' style lifestyle at 23 in Dubai
don't most people have the occasional night in for superfluous drug taking?
'This Life' set in Dubai would be pretty boring. You cannot live the complex! It would be like JG Ballard's 'High Rise' with everyone going mental in the hi-tech gyms and rooftop parking facilities.
leave, not live
judging by how they drive
more like crash.
Maybe my view of layers are skewed because most of them are SOAS grads and thought they'd be bringing down war criminals instead of reading through contracts for rich Indians in Dubai.
lawyers*
oh
by the 'special' mean the 'this life ' special last year i think..
everyone was talking about 'memories'?
I was thinking,'you were like 10..wtf?'
ha ha
What a Chris Morris moment.
I can imagine Noel Edmonds getting asked to campaign against 'the special'.
Kids, stop taking 'the special'.
The special was fucking shit.
I'm gonna call it that from now on
thanks.
There should be standards however.
A dictionary, updated every month.
We have urban dictionary of course..but it should be edited by experts in everything narcotic.
Someone asked me for 'food'!1 I told him there was bread and cheese in the fridge..
i'm out of touch it seems
according to Barbera ellen
when she trashed it every week.
we need 30 something critics like her to accompany any new series.
Egg would be booted out the door by Milly if he tried that shit nowadays.
really?
I missed that. I'm not a fan of Barbara Ellen. Can't dislike her, but she just seems to go on about how crazy she is all the time, like just-all-over-the-place.
Well, I mean, we need 20 something critics surely so they can attest to the veracity of the lifestyles depicted on screen?
Egg wasn't so bad, but yeah, not sure a woman like Milly would have really put up with it. Did you believe in them as a couple?
Egg was badly written
it was like the writer, whats her name based it on her kid brother instead of someone she may have been in a relationship with...re..the way Milly dealt with him.
The Annas of the world will never die.
20 year olds still want to believe what they see on screen...there's still hope.
When you pass 30 you what's possible and what isnt't.
I am not 30, so I don't.
But Barbera Ellen is hot
I was a bit in love with Egg
but then after the reunion, I stopped. He danced to the Stereophonics while cooking. Oh dear.
Milly was completely unlikeable which is rare. And yes, it was great that Anna was the most human, despite being a 'siren' of sorts.
Yeah, Barbara might be hott, but her journalism is shit. Oh, Ariel Levy <3
I used to like her music reviews
when broadsheet opinion actually was in touch with music at the time.
Levy, I think she's fighting a losing battle re: the face of modern feminism
Egg was sweet
My mate was like an evil version of him...still boyish and charming..but got away with murder and he knew it..
Full of vacuous, boring
numpties like the original?
Didn’t they make a ‘This Life for the 00s’?
And wasn’t it called Attachments?
The dotcom boom – those were the days…
It'd be a constant loop
of Standing In The Way Of Control blaring for the duration of each episode, and they'd all work as 'executive head-hunters' or something equally odious. And they'd all drive new Mini Coopers with personalised tags on the back of them saying stuff like The Shoreditch Shadow.
I hate This Life.
Fuck those cunts.
Maybe a modern version would be about making an "I'm leaving" thread on a message board.
CREDIT CRUNCH
It wouldn't have
the unbearable shower of odious cunts from the first version, actually it probably would.
Did anyone see the update? Possibly the most embarrassing piece of television made.
Ok this is a bit weird
And I probably shouldn't admit to it. But i kind of had a weird crush on Milly's boss. A little bit. Maybe.
Oooh Milly and Dilly and Johnny and Jaffy and Eggy
FUCK this programme!
*cryyyy*
They did THIS LIFE +10
written by good ol amy
Ricky Gervais used to advise on the music they listened to in the two series of this life.
So if he did that now he'd make them listen to Coldplay. Great