Recommend a TV series and/or Documentary

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johnboy
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/N1Aiq6GqrpE

perkunos

Exactly everything by Jonathan Meades is excellent. Mostly architectural criticism, and I don't always agree with his tastes or views. Meades is idiosyncratic in his opinions. He likes Brutalism and Le Corbusier and claimes to hate epic totalitarian Commie and Nazi architecture ... though he also manages to do multi-hour docus on these subjects without actually sneering at them very much. Meades is always informative and with a fine wit; he's even careful and tasteful in his choice of music to go with his documentaries (Boards of Canada is a favorite).
A good place to start for his more humorous stuff is this one; "On the Brandwagon" -first part below. If you don't enjoy his withering social commentary, you have no mirth in your blood. Watch all 5 parts. I can watch it over and over again and find new amusing details.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/A8MEm3eVPNU

Thoughts
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This is an episode from a Dutch series, Van de Schoonheid en de Troost, of interviews with intellectuals. Some people here are familiar with Roger Scruton, but if you do not know him then watching this at the start may give you the impression he is pretentious, some rich 'toff' who is merely rationalising all his social customs, but the first spark of brilliance in this video is about 5 minutes in when he starts talking beside his horse and you realise he is in fact a brilliant mind. Properly trained in philosophy and thinking, and a modern example of a genuine polymath, he has been one of the few intellectual forces for conservatism that can argue against the academic left properly. Enjoy
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/xoybTk6TEX4

perkunos
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perkunos
I am struggling to figure out if there is a tone of distaste in your post, as if to imply the Fulfords aren't based...I surely hope not! If you liked that they (the Fulford family) done another series with BBC called Life is Toff.
Here is the first episode.
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Niccolo and Donkey
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Niccolo and Donkey I rather enjoyed it, and if you only watch their speeches then it only takes 55 minutes. I enjoyed Boris' speech and found myself agreeing with him more, his rhetorical skill is to be admired, although I am quite a Hellenophile so perhaps that swayed me.
perkunos

This is one of my favorite 1-episode documentaries of all time. It has everything; excellent 80s music, NATO idiocy, near-nuclear war prevented by some poor Rooskie schmuck, spies, crazy politicians and cool missiles. I've probably recommended it in 8 other threads, and will probably do so again: Able Archer.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ciy5R-tLiE

Good one for Thoughts I think.